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Technical AI safety researchAI safety metaOther
| Schmidt Sciences | $370,000 | 57% | 1 |
| Coefficient Giving | $130,000 | 20% | 1 |
| Foresight Institute | $100,000 | 16% | 1 |
| Jaan Tallinn | $44,000 | 7% | 1 |
| Date ↓ | Funder | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 2025 | Schmidt Sciences | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | ETH Zurich. Project: Formalizing Prompt Injection Defenses. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Sep 30, 2024 | Jaan Tallinn | Lightspeed Grants, ETH Zürich | $44,000 | Other | jaan_online | Florian.tramer@inf.ethz.ch |
| Sep 2024 | Coefficient Giving | ETH Zürich | $130,000 | Security | coefficient_giving | LLM Adversarial Attacks Benchmark (Florian Tramér) |
| May 2024 | Foresight Institute | ETH Zürich | ~$100,000† | Security, Strategy & forecasting | foresight | AI Safety Research — formalizing threat models for using cryptography to secure AI applications. Focus area: Security/Cryptography. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by May 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
* Estimated from Schmidt Sciences' reporting of total given out in the funding round; grant-level amounts were not provided.
† Foresight Institute planned to give $2.5-3.2m over 26 grants in 2023 and 2024; estimating each at roughly the average grant size.