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Center on Long-Term Risk

longtermrisk.org · organization · EAF Fund (until 2020), Effective Altruism Foundation Fund (until 2020)

AI safety adjacentOther

Received
$3,136,627
from 3 funders
Grants
7
Funders
3
Years active
2021–26

Grants over time

$0$500K$1.0M$1.5M202120222023202420252026
Jaan TallinnDustin Moskovitz

Biggest funders

Jaan Tallinn$2,981,62795%5
Dustin Moskovitz$155,0005%1

Biggest recipients

University of Michigan$251,06015%1
Johannes Treutlein$144,5799%1
Samuel Martin$110,5097%2
Timothy Chan$103,0406%3
Caspar Oesterheld$100,0006%1
Anthony DiGiovanni$83,3435%1
Arif Ahmed$81,5035%1
Nisan Stiennon$81,0005%1

Grants received

Date ↓FunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Sep 2026Dustin MoskovitzSurvival and Flourishing Fund$155,000S-risksffGeneral support
Sep 2026Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$207,000S-risksffGeneral support
Sep 2025Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$200,000OthersffGeneral support
May 23, 2023Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Projects$29,627Otherjaan_onlineGeneral support for Center on Long-Term Risk
Apr 28, 2023Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$1,327,000S-risksffGeneral Support
Nov 20, 2021Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$1,218,000S-risksffGeneral Support of Center on Long-Term Risk
—Macroscopic Ventures—S-riskmacroscopicResearch on ensuring emerging technologies such as AI do not cause suffering on an unprecedented scale — S-risk research

Grants made 46 · $1,633,688 · $35,515 average · 96% coverage

Date ↓RecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Mar 30, 2026Tim Parker$1,572S-riskclr_fundFunding for research building on Daniel Kokotajlo’s work on acausal trade
Feb 13, 2026Matt Hampton$5,000S-riskclr_fundFunding for research modeling the conditions required for specific harmful scenarios
Oct 21, 2025Anders Cairns Woodruff$1,300S-riskclr_fundFunding for research on the causes of, and mitigations for, emergent misalignment
Dec 20, 2024Ali Ladak$23,004S-riskclr_fundPursuing their final year of a PhD working on the moral psychology of animals and digital minds.
Dec 19, 2024Anonymous Recipient$25,000S-riskclr_fundTuition fees and living costs for a high-impact university course.
Oct 23, 2024Julia Karbing$13,234S-riskclr_fundPursuing a DPhil in Engineering Science, focusing on machine learning and multi-agent safety
Sep 10, 2024Sung En Chiang$2,556S-riskclr_fundConducting research into the cheating problem in safe Pareto improvements
Aug 12, 2024Sylvester Kollin$50,072S-riskclr_fundFunding covering tuition fees and living expenses for MSc in the Philosophy of Science at the LSE
Jul 24, 2024Hein de Haan$2,705S-riskclr_fundFunding for independent research on “Timeless Sentientism”
Jul 12, 2024Dylan Xu$3,000S-riskclr_fundFunding for a collaborative project with CLR staff before joining as a Fellow
Jul 1, 2024Timothy Chan$11,502Evalsclr_fundFunding for a joint project conducting model punitive evals
May 22, 2024Niels Warncke$4,090S-riskclr_fundFunding for a collaborative project with CLR staff before joining as a Fellow
Jan 17, 2024Anonymous Recipient$35,911S-riskclr_fundTuition fees for university course
Oct 17, 2023Paul Rapoport$9,000S-riskclr_fundFunding for independent research, culminating in a write-up “Infra-bayesian Agents Play Population Games for Fabulous Prizes”
Sep 29, 2023Nathaniel Sauerberg$15,277S-riskclr_fundTeaching buy-out to enable research on safe Pareto improvements enabled by cryptographic commitment
Sep 1, 2023Eleos Citrini$38,511S-riskclr_fundFunding for MPhil in the Ethics of AI, Data, and Algorithms at the University of Cambridge
May 15, 2023Sylvester Kollin$3,732S-riskclr_fundFunding for independent research on dynamic choice under unawareness, and counterfactual desirability and updatelessness
Jan 10, 2023Samuel Martin$32,344S-riskclr_fundFunding to conduct research on the proposal “Linking Current Multiagent AI research to S-risk scenarios”
Nov 17, 2022Asher Soryl$7,000S-riskclr_fundResearch funding for a project on the ethics of panspermia, among others
Nov 17, 2022Gary O'Brien$9,896Animal welfareclr_fundTeaching buy-out during the last year of their PhD to research (long-term) wild animal suffering
Aug 4, 2022Bogdan-Ionut Cirstea$53,191S-riskclr_fundFunding for a year-long research project on short AI timelines
Aug 3, 2022Miranda Zhang$4,900S-riskclr_fundFunding for living expenses while working on clarifying her possible career paths
Jul 29, 2022Timothy Chan$85,144S-riskclr_fundScholarship for completing a computer science conversion Masters
Jun 23, 2022Lukas Holter Melgaard$11,875S-riskclr_fundFunding for a three-months research project on summarizing Vanessa Kosoy’s Infrabayesianism.
Jun 17, 2022Nandi Schoots$11,207S-riskclr_fundFunding for a three-months research project on simplicity bias in neural nets
Jun 7, 2022Anton L.$11,207S-riskclr_fundFunding for a two-months research project on the implications of normative uncertainty for whether to prioritize s-risks
Dec 23, 2021Winston Oswald-Drummond$7,000S-riskclr_fundStipend to pay college consultant costs
Oct 14, 2021University of Michigan$251,060AI safetyclr_fundresearch into empirical game-theoretic analysis under Michael Wellman
Aug 25, 2021Caspar Oesterheld$100,000S-riskclr_fundScholarship for graduate studies in computer science
Aug 12, 2021Anonymous grant recipient$7,200S-riskclr_fundStipend for career reflection
Jul 22, 2021Samuel Martin$78,165AI safetyclr_fundResearch connecting multi-agent AI safety work to existential catastrophe scenarios
Jul 22, 2021Timothy Chan$6,393S-riskclr_fundStipend for travel to Beijing
May 28, 2021Nisan Stiennon$81,000S-riskclr_fundResearch on what it means for agents to cooperate
Aug 20, 2020Anthony DiGiovanni$83,343S-riskclr_fundScholarship for graduate studies in statistics (with a focus on MARL)
Aug 7, 2020Animal Ethics$47,409Animal welfareclr_fundMainstreaming work on wild animal suffering
Aug 7, 2020Rory Svarc$28,528S-riskclr_fundScholarship for graduate studies in economics
Jun 29, 2020Johannes Treutlein$144,579S-riskclr_fundScholarship for graduate studies in computer science
Jan 13, 2020Kaj Sotala$50,083S-riskclr_fundResearch on multi-agent models of mind
Dec 2019Modeling Cooperation$20,000S-riskclr_fundModeling cooperation
Oct 8, 2019Tobias Pulver$65,397AI governance, policy, and advocacy, AI safety fieldbuildingclr_fundScholarship for a graduate student for a transition into an AI governance career
Oct 8, 2019Arif Ahmed$81,503S-riskclr_fundTeaching buy-out for academic research on decision theory
Sep 9, 2019Riley Harris$5,000S-riskclr_fundFinding a high-priority topic for an economics PhD
Sep 6, 2019Wild Animal Initiative$39,200Animal welfareclr_fundResearch on wild-animal welfare intervention design and policy with a long-termist perspective
Sep 6, 2019Jaime Sevilla$12,147S-riskclr_fundIndependent research
Nov 27, 2018Daniel Kokotajlo$27,450S-riskclr_fundTeaching buy-out
Sep 18, 2018Rethink Priorities$26,000Animal welfareclr_fundSurveys on descriptive ethics and attitudes towards wild-animal suffering