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Florian Dietz

organization

AI safety metaTechnical AI safety researchOther

Received
$204,200
from 6 funders
Grants
7
Funders
6
Years active
2025–26

Grants over time

$0$100K$200K$300K20252026

Biggest funders

Foresight Institute$150,00073%1
Anton Makiievskyi$50,00024%1
Marius Hobbhahn$2,0001%1
BlueDot Impact$1,2001%1
Austin Chen$1,0000%1

Grants received

DateFunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Aug 2, 2026Anton Makiievskyigrantmaking.ai, Manifund$50,000InterpretabilitymanifundGetting Split-Personality Training ready for deployment
Aug 2026BlueDot Impact$1,200OtherbluedotTesting alignment faking as a defense against model poisoning
Jul 17, 2026Foresight Institute~$150,000*Epistemic infrastructureforesightEpistemic Memory for AI Reasoning Agents An AI reasoning agent is only as trustworthy as the memories it draws on. Florian Dietz is building an epistemic memory system for AI agents that tags every memory with its source and confidence, lets the agent trace where a claim came from and question it, and automatically swaps out unused memories while preserving the ones that matter. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort
Apr 2026Foresight InstituteOthergrantmaking_aiI received a seed grant from Foresight Institute. The seed has so far supported completing Phase 1 (prototype). This application seeks the follow-on funding needed to execute Phases 2–4 at realistic scale and speed. See details below.
Jul 21, 2025Coefficient GivingOthergrantmaking_aiCoefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) funded the original research that resulted in the ICML paper with $175,000.
May 16, 2025Austin ChenManifund$1,000Alignment methodsmanifundSplit Personality Training
May 16, 2025Marius HobbhahnManifund$2,000Alignment methodsmanifundSplit Personality Training

* Estimated typical grant size; Foresight Institute did not report grant-level amounts.