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Center for AI Safety, Inc.

organization · Center for AI Safety (CAIS)

Technical AI safety researchAI safety fieldbuildingAI governance, policy, and advocacy

Received
$18,134,788
from 7 funders
Grants
20
Funders
7
Years active
2022–26

Grants over time

$0$2.5M$5.0M$7.5M$10M20222023202420252026

Biggest funders

Coefficient Giving$12,485,28869%4
Jaan Tallinn$4,016,00022%9
UK AI Security Institute$589,5003%1
Future of Life Institute$543,0003%3
Dan Hendrycks$250,0001%1
Schmidt Sciences$250,0001%1
Blake Borgeson$1,0000%1

Grants received

DateFunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security Institute~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisiSteering Models Towards Safer Reasoning — led by Austin Meek. — Alignment Project
Sep 2025Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$289,000Technical AI safety researchsffGeneral support
Feb 12, 2025Dan HendrycksManifund$250,000AdvocacymanifundAI Safety & Society
2025Schmidt Sciences$250,000Technical AI safety researchorg_reportedThis project is supported by Schmidt Sciences...$250,000 in prizes
Dec 13, 2024Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Com$300,000Technical AI safety researchjaan_onlineTo support research and analysis of relevance to the Bureau of Industry and Security
Dec 2024Blake BorgesonSurvival and Flourishing Fund$1,000Technical AI safety researchsffGeneral support
Dec 2024Future of Life InstituteSurvival and Flourishing Fund$21,000Technical AI safety researchsffGeneral support
Oct 30, 2024Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$1,146,000Technical AI safety researchsffGeneral support
Jul 24, 2024Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$10,000Technical AI safety researchjaan_onlineFor general operating support
Jul 15, 2024Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$40,000Technical AI safety researchjaan_onlineFor general operating support
2024Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$300,000Technical AI safety researchsffTo support research and analysis of relevance to the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).
2024Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$1,000,000Technical AI safety researchsffGeneral support
2024Future of Life Institute$500,000Technical AI safety researchfliDeveloping tamper-resistant safeguards for open-weight language models. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants
Oct 26, 2023Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$909,000Technical AI safety researchsffGeneral Support
Oct 2023Coefficient Giving$1,866,559Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingGeneral Support (Exit Grant)
Apr 28, 2023Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$22,000Technical AI safety researchsffGeneral Support of Center for AI Safety
Apr 2023Coefficient Giving$4,025,729Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingGeneral Support
Feb 2023Coefficient Giving$1,433,000Training pipelinescoefficient_givingPhilosophy Fellowship and NeurIPS Prizes
2023Future of Life Institute$22,000AI governance, policy, and advocacyfliGeneral support for equipping leaders with tools to manage AI risk. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants)
Nov 2022Coefficient Giving$5,160,000Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingGeneral Support

* UK AISI reported a total of 27m GBP over 60 projects, so estimating each of them at the average grant size.