| Jul 17, 2026 | Souti Chattopadhyay | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Scalable Formally-Verified Code Generation: Self-Improving Defenses Against Vulnerability Propagation in AI The future of science increasingly runs on AI-generated code executed with minimal human oversight, risking the spread of vulnerabilities at unprecedented scale. Souti Chattopadhyay from the University of Southern California is building a system that compiles protective constraints into formal automata and… — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Sudo ML | | ~$150,000* | Technical AI safety research | foresight | Project Sovereign We create Secure, Open, and Verifiable silicon. Users can independently verify chips run as intended—no backdoors, no blind trust in manufacturers or cloud providers. Our chips reduce trust assumptions in AI health systems, safety research, BCIs, and critical infrastructure. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Jessica Pu Wang | | ~$150,000* | Training pipelines, Local groups, Org incubation & ops | foresight | Fellowship for Safe AI Germany Before 2026, Germany lacked a dedicated home for AI safety talent and research. Jessica Pu Wang founded Safe AI Germany (SAIGE), which has been running a three-month online incubator, and plans to establish a residential Berlin fellowship to further demonstrate the feasibility of SAIGE as a national AI safety organisation for Germany, building the talent capacity and institutional… — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Amirali Aghazadeh | | ~$150,000* | Security, AI × bio | foresight | Adversarially Robust Safeguards for Generative Protein Design AI can now design proteins that preserve the dangerous function of known toxins while looking nothing like them in sequence – and today’s biosecurity screening largely checks sequence similarity. Amirali Aghazadeh from Georgia Tech is developing more robust screening that flags risky designs by their structural and functional similarity, not sequence… — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Florian Dietz | | ~$150,000* | Epistemic infrastructure | foresight | Epistemic 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 |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Jesse Posner | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Vora Aegis If someone controls your personal AI, they can control you. Jesse Posner from Vora is building Aegis: a provably secure and loyal AI guardian for every person, one that manages and protects the digital life of the individual it’s dedicated to. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Joel Shor | | ~$150,000* | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | foresight | Hallucination-free generative AI for FDA regulatory documents FDA submissions are required from the earliest stages of developing therapeutics, diagnostics, and devices – and they can demand hundreds of thousands of dollars, six months, and teams of experienced writers. Joel Shor from Nomos AI is building hallucination-free generative AI that helps junior scientists produce better regulatory documents at a… — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Yue Zhao | | ~$150,000* | Evals, Security | foresight | Audit-to-Patch Pipelines for Secure LLM Agent Systems AI agents can fail in repeatable, high-impact ways that only surface after deployment. Yue Zhao from USC’s FORTIS Lab is building an audit-to-patch pipeline that detects and audits security risks in LLM agent code and configuration, then proposes safe, reviewable patches with automated checks – stopping safety failures before they ship and reducing regressions… — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Quintus Kilbourn | | ~$150,000* | Technical AI safety research | foresight | Project Sovereign We create Secure, Open, and Verifiable silicon. Users can independently verify chips run as intended—no backdoors, no blind trust in manufacturers or cloud providers. Our chips reduce trust assumptions in AI health systems, safety research, BCIs, and critical infrastructure. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Adrien Doerig | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Brain-Aligned Generative Models Generative AI has advanced rapidly, yet generative processes in the brain remain a blind spot for neuroscience. Adrien Doerig from Freie Universität Berlin is building brain-aligned generative models that bring neuroscience and machine learning together – a path toward AI that is both more interpretable and more efficient. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Shirin Vafaei | | ~$150,000* | Technical AI safety research | foresight | Geometric Brain-Inspired AI: Leveraging Hyperbolic Neural Codes for Next-Generation BCIs Neural and artificial systems organize information hierarchically, but current brain-AI alignment ignores this structure. Extending our work showing brain-aligned AI improves decoding, we develop models in non-Euclidean spaces that better capture hierarchical relationships in both systems to advance brain-computer interfaces… — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Elisa Kallioniemi | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving AI for Closed-Loop Human–AI Neuro-Co-Adaptation We are building an AI system that learns from brain activity during noninvasive brain stimulation, allowing people and machines to interact safely while keeping personal data private. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Stephen Goldstein | | ~$150,000* | AI governance, policy, and advocacy, Strategy & forecasting | foresight | EvoVir: EvoVir: AI-Powered Forecasting for Pandemic Early Warning We’re building AI/ML pandemic early warning technology. EvoVir will identify threats and produce forecasts within 24 hours of detecting a novel virus, compared to the current lag time of ~30 days. Governments, NGOs, and pharma/biotech will be empowered to make rapid decisions about resource allocation and countermeasure manufacturing. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Mehmet Gunal | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | AI-Enhanced Fast Optical Signal (FOS) Neurotechnology for Non-invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces Build a non-invasive brain interface that measures neural activity in milliseconds with millimetric precision and uses AI to map where and when neurons fire. The goal is to create safer, more interpretable links between human brains and machines. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Alexander LeNail | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Deep Learning for Neuronal Rejuvenation: Decoding the Transcriptomic Logic of Cellular Resilience Parkinson’s strikes when aging brain cells lose their ability to repair themselves. We are training AI models to analyze massive datasets of cell images and gene activity. Our goal is to predict precise gene combinations that “reset” a neuron’s biological clock to a youthful, resilient state without causing damage,… — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Naomi Brockwell | | ~$150,000* | Technical AI safety research | foresight | Automated Identity Compartmentalization as an AI Safety Primitive Surveillance is the alignment failure that makes all other AI failures permanent. AI-powered surveillance scales by aggregating identities. Naomi Brockwell from the Ludlow Institute is building an open-source, local AI agent that prevents AI-driven surveillance by automating identity compartmentalization and reducing the construction of identity… — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Meenakshi Khosla | | ~$150,000* | Evals | foresight | Optimal Transport for Comparative Analysis of Neural Representations I will develop novel tools to compare internal representations in AI systems and human brains at the level of individual units, spatial organization, and processing hierarchies, and to identify which stimuli evoke shared versus divergent representations – enabling fine-grained, interpretable benchmarks of internal alignment beyond output behavior. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | John Liagouris | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Secure collaborative dataset generation for privacy-preserving AI We propose to design and build the first-ever decentralized platform that enables the creation of training datasets in a privacy-preserving manner to power the next generation of domain-specific AI models. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Aurélien Nicolas | | ~$150,000* | Security | foresight | An Identity Platform for the Agentic Age This project aims to design and prototype an identity system and novel cryptographic technologies for a multi-agent world, addressing core challenges in AI agentic security, fine-grained authorization and accountability, secure data access, and data protection in multi-agent communication. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Ozzie Gooen | | ~$150,000* | Alignment methods, Evals, Epistemic infrastructure | foresight | LLM Evaluation of Longtermist Strategy & Prioritization Documents Ozzie Gooen leads the Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute, where he’s building tools to improve how the AI safety community prioritizes research. His main current project, LongtermWiki, is a structured knowledge base that maps organizations, debates, and track records across the field. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Georg Lange | | ~$150,000* | Interpretability | foresight | Agentic Mechanistic Interpretability: Dictionary Learning and Automated Circuit Tracing I’m developing AI agents that accelerate mechanistic interpretability by doing circuit tracing the way a human researcher would: forming hypotheses about features and circuits in LLMs, testing them with causal interventions, and iterating toward faithful, readable explanations. The core technical goal is to use these agents to… — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Gunnar Zarncke | | ~$150,000* | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | foresight | Unsupervised Agent Discovery Develop a method that finds agents directly inside complex systems without assuming them in advance. This lets us see what parts of a system are actually acting, what they want, and how they influence each other, so we can steer or incentivise AI systems and give regulators tools to detect agentic entities independent of their designers words. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Leo McKee-Reid | | ~$150,000* | Evals | foresight | Neolithic AI safety research is bottlenecked by how long evaluations take to run. Leo McKee-Reid from Neolithic is building infrastructure to automate AI safety research: including a platform for rapidly developing and iterating on dangerous capabilities evaluations. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Fazl Barez | | ~$150,000* | Interpretability, Evals | foresight | An Automated Interpretability-Driven System for Model Auditing and Control We will build an agentic interpretability system in which experts converse with an agent to check what internal computations led to a model’s answer, and which fixes model errors with minimal side effects. This will allow non-AI experts in safety-critical domains to contribute to AI alignment through their area of expertise. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Routstr | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Routstr – Decentralized access to AI We are building a way for people to build and use AI applications without relying on a single company or authority, so access cannot be shut down and users keep control over their data. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Samuel Nellessen | | ~$150,000* | Security | foresight | Slingshot: Automated Multi-Turn Jailbreaking for Agentic AI I show that safety locks on AIs are easy to break. I built a small AI that teaches itself to trick bigger AIs into performing dangerous actions (not just writing text). This proves that while companies might stop AIs from saying harmful things, they fail to stop them from doing harmful things. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Paul Schneider | | ~$150,000* | Local groups, Events | foresight | Shoulders – an AI Workspace for Researchers I am building an AI-native document editor for researchers. It is a tool for thought, aiming to help researchers do better science, not just produce more. I would also like to host monthly AI for science workshops at the Berlin node to contribute to building a community of practice. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Mayank Varia | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Secure collaborative dataset generation for privacy-preserving AI We propose to design and build the first-ever decentralized platform that enables the creation of training datasets in a privacy-preserving manner to power the next generation of domain-specific AI models. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Shouqiao Wang | | ~$150,000* | Security, Legal | foresight | Security and Reliability for Open Agent Systems Open agent systems are becoming increasingly capable, but their reliability under real-world interaction remains poorly understood. As agents interact with tools, shared interfaces, and other autonomous agents in open environments, failures can emerge through adversarial inputs, unsafe tool use, protocol manipulation, and unreliable counterparties. Shouqiao Wang… — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Ninon Lizé Masclef | | ~$150,000* | Evals | foresight | Neuro-Alignment Gauge: A benchmark for cognitively grounded, interpretable brain-decoding foundation models We are building the Neuro-Alignment Gauge to verify AI safety. By training a multimodal brain-decoding foundation model as biological ground truth, we use neural representation geometry to measure the ‘cognitive distance’ between AI and human imagination. This creates a rigorous safety testbed for… — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Jaime Raldua Veuthey | | ~$150,000* | Security, Training pipelines, Epistemic infrastructure | foresight | Apart Fellowship 6-8 week intensive, in-person research fellowship. Selected researchers work full-time on security-relevant AI safety projects with expert remote mentorship, producing publishable research. Apart provides research infrastructure and research managers; Possible Areas: AI & Security, Cooperative AI, AI for Science & Epistemics — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Lisa Thiergart | | ~$150,000* | Security, Technical governance | foresight | Security Level 5 Task Force We write standards, create PoCs and advise AI labs to increase the probability that frontier AI labs are protected against nation state attacks by 2028. This is critical to avoid unintended proliferation of unsafe models to malicious state and non-state actors, and to contain LoC risks to buy time to develop technical alignment solutions. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 12, 2026 | Georgios Kaissis | | ~$150,000* | Evals, Security | foresight | Causal Circuit Audits for Multimodal Medical Foundation Models Create open-source methods to find and remove the exact internal cues that make image+text medical models rely on shortcuts or memorized data, improving robustness and privacy without retraining the whole model. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort |
| May 2026 | Pascal Berrang | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Zeroth Research. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by May 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Apr 2026 | Florian Dietz | | — | Other | grantmaking_ai | I 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. |
| Mar 2026 | Nima Asghari | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Y Cluster. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Ariel Procaccia | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Harvard University. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Kathleen Finlinson | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Independent. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Richard Csaky | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Independent. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Christian Schroeder de Witt | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: University of Oxford. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Richie Kohman | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Eon Systems. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Patrick Seebold | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: North Carolina State University. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Eva Dyer | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Joshua Johnson | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: The ATLAS Institute (later listed as University of Colorado Boulder). Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Andrew Payne | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: E11 Bio. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Luca Arnaboldi | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: IdePHICS (later listed as Zeroth Research). Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Blake Richards | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Mila. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Furkan Aydin | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: mithrilAI Corp.. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Dan Hendrycks | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Center for AI Safety. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Herbie Bradley | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: University of Cambridge. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Shucong Li | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Rob Sison | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: UNSW Sydney. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Talmo Pereira | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Sobia Hamid | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: University of Cambridge. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Chiara Herzog | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: King's College London. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Gernot Heiser | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: UNSW Sydney. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Mar 2026 | Michael Shadpour | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Jan 2026 | Simon Dürr | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Institute of Life Sciences. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Jan 2026 (likely funded 2025). — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Jan 2026 | Richard Mallah | | ~$150,000* | Technical AI safety research | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Center for AI Risk Management & Alignment. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Jan 2026 (likely funded 2025). — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Jan 2026 | Aran Nayebi | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Jan 2026 (likely funded 2025). — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Jan 2026 | Nathan Cheng | | ~$150,000* | Training pipelines | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Vitalism Foundation / Longevity Biotech Fellowship. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Jan 2026 (likely funded 2025). — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Jan 2026 | Joshua McMenemy | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: East America Science. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Jan 2026 (likely funded 2025). — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Jan 2026 | Amelia Weaver | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: East America Science. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Jan 2026 (likely funded 2025). — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Jan 2026 | Elizabeth Williams | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: East America Science. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Jan 2026 (likely funded 2025). — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Jan 2026 | Kris Kowal | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Decentralized Cooperation Foundation (DCF). Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Jan 2026 (likely funded 2025). — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Jan 2026 | Sumaya Nur Adan | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: University of Oxford. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Jan 2026 (likely funded 2025). — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Jan 2026 | Zhonghao He | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: University of Cambridge. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Jan 2026 (likely funded 2025). — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Jan 2026 | Yevgeniy Vorobeychik | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Washington University in St. Louis. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Jan 2026 (likely funded 2025). — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Jan 2026 | Dawn Song | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: University of California. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Jan 2026 (likely funded 2025). — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Jan 2026 | Philip Shiu | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Eon Systems PBC. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Jan 2026 (likely funded 2025). — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Jan 2026 | Mark Hamalainen | | ~$150,000* | Training pipelines | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Vitalism Foundation / Longevity Biotech Fellowship. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Jan 2026 (likely funded 2025). — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Jan 2026 | Tianyi Alex Qiu | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Peking University (later listed as Oxford HAI / Stanford CS). Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Jan 2026 (likely funded 2025). — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Jan 2026 | Adam Binksmith | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: AI Digest (Sage). Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Jan 2026 (likely funded 2025). — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Jan 2026 | Mark Miller | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Agoric. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Jan 2026 (likely funded 2025). — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Nov 2025 | Manuel Collado | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed under 'Funded before current program' on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: CNB-CSIC, CIMUS-USC. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Nov 2025. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Nov 2025 | Brent James Fielden | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed under 'Funded before current program' on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Biomolecular Nanotechnology Lab. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Nov 2025. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Nov 2025 | Dylan Yeo | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed under 'Funded before current program' on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: BioWeave. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Nov 2025. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Nov 2025 | Sean Simonini | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed under 'Funded before current program' on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: University of Massachusetts Lowell / Harvard University. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Nov 2025. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Nov 2025 | Dean Thomas | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed under 'Funded before current program' on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: The Cronin Group, University of Glasgow. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Nov 2025. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| Nov 2025 | Liam McNamara | | ~$150,000* | AI safety | foresight | Listed under 'Funded before current program' on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Nov 2025. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed as previously funded |
| May 2025 | Benjamin Wilson (Metaculus) | | ~$150,000* | Security, Strategy & forecasting | foresight | SCRY-AI — open-source AI-powered forecasting bot and research tools to enhance forecasting accuracy and volume. Focus area: Automating research and forecasting. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by May 2025. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| May 2025 | Uwe Kortshagen | University of Minnesota | ~$150,000* | Security, Strategy & forecasting | foresight | In vivo optical clearing of the mammalian brain via highly biocompatible silicon nanoparticles — toward imaging entire mammalian brains for AI safety. Focus area: Automating research and forecasting (listed section) / Neurotech. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by May 2025. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Mar 2025 | Maximillian Schons (Eon Systems) | | ~$150,000* | Security | foresight | Brain Emulation Review and Roadmap — comprehensive report on brain emulation at human scale (with Isaak Freeman). Focus area: Neurotech/WBE. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Mar 2025. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Mar 2025 | Kola Ayonrinde (MATS) | | ~$150,000* | Security, Training pipelines | foresight | Active Inference Multi-Agent Interactions — Active Inference models of multi-agent bounded-rational systems. Focus area: Safe Multipolar/Multi-Agent AI. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Mar 2025. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Mar 2025 | Lovkush Agarwal | University of Cambridge | ~$150,000* | Security, Strategy & forecasting | foresight | Automating AI Safety Research Workflows — automating parts of the AI safety research pipeline. Focus area: Automating research and forecasting. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Mar 2025. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Mar 2025 | Isaak Freeman | | ~$150,000* | Security | foresight | Brain Emulation Review and Roadmap — comprehensive report on brain emulation at human scale (with Maximillian Schons). Focus area: Neurotech/WBE. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Mar 2025. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Mar 2025 | PK Douglas | University College London | ~$150,000* | Interpretability, Security | foresight | Computing with Canonical Microcircuits: A WBE Approach to the Alignment Problem. Focus area: Neurotech/WBE. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Mar 2025. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Mar 2025 | Tom Burns | | ~$150,000* | Security | foresight | Scoping Brain-Computer Interfaces for AI Safety — review and roadmap of BCIs for real-time human oversight and AI alignment. Focus area: Neurotech/WBE. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Mar 2025. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Dec 2024 | Bradley Love | University College London | ~$100,000† | Security | foresight | NeuroTrust: Leveraging LLMs to Identify Reliable Science for Safe NeuroTech Development. Focus area: Neurotech. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Dec 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Sep 2024 | The Society Library | | ~$100,000† | Security | foresight | Scoping / Mapping Neurotech Approaches to AI Safety. Focus area: Neurotech/WBE. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Sep 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Sep 2024 | Chandler Smith | Cooperative AI Foundation | ~$100,000† | Control, Security | foresight | An exploration into multi-agent security, steganography, and AI control. Focus area: Safe Multipolar/Multi-Agent AI. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Sep 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Sep 2024 | MATS Research | | $70,000 | Training pipelines | foresight | ML Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS) Program. Focus area: Safe Multipolar/Multi-Agent AI. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Sep 2024. Amount per MATS transparency page ($70,000 paid June 2024). — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Sep 2024 | Harriet Farlow (Mileva Security Labs) | | ~$100,000† | Security | foresight | Likelihood Analysis in AI Security. Focus area: Security/Cryptography. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Sep 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Sep 2024 | Catalin Mitelut (Netholabs) | | ~$100,000† | Security | foresight | Functional (lofi) whole-brain-emulation in the mouse — Turing test for cloning of biological organisms using high-precision multi-modal behavior modeling. Focus area: Neurotech/WBE. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Sep 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Sep 2024 | Leonardo Christov-Moore (Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies) | | ~$100,000† | Security | foresight | Homeostasis and Extinction in Multiagent Reinforcement Learning. Focus area: Safe Multipolar/Multi-Agent AI. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Sep 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Sep 2024 | Abhinav Singh | University of Oxford | ~$100,000† | Security | foresight | AI SecureOps: GenAI and LLM Security Training for Enterprises — CTF-style professional GenAI security training. Focus area: Security/Cryptography. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Sep 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Sep 2024 | Ed Boyden (MIT) | | ~$100,000† | Security | foresight | To simulate a first complete brain in C. elegans — Complete Neuronal Input-Output Functions Project (with Konrad Kording). Focus area: Neurotech/WBE. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Sep 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Sep 2024 | Jonas Emanuel Müller (Convergence Analysis) | | ~$100,000† | Security | foresight | Exploring AI Scenarios via the Intelligence Rising Web Application. Focus area: Safe Multipolar/Multi-Agent AI. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Sep 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Sep 2024 | Konrad Kording | University of Pennsylvania | ~$100,000† | Security | foresight | To simulate a first complete brain in C. elegans — Complete Neuronal Input-Output Functions Project (with Ed Boyden). Focus area: Neurotech/WBE. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Sep 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| May 2024 | Adam Gleave | | ~$100,000† | Security | foresight | A Science of AI Robustness / Does Robustness Improve with Scale?. Focus area: Security/Cryptography. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by May 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| May 2024 | David Bloomin (MettaAi) | | ~$100,000† | Security | foresight | Open-Ended Learning in Socially Complex Multi-Agent Environments. Focus area: Safe Multipolar/Multi-Agent AI. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by May 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| May 2024 | Roman Bauer | University of Surrey | ~$100,000† | Security | foresight | Computational Modeling of Neural Development — WBE via simulating brain development from a single precursor cell. Focus area: Neurotech/WBE. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by May 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| May 2024 | Nora Ammann | | ~$100,000† | Security, Training pipelines | foresight | PIBBSS Fellowship Program (2024). Focus area: Safe Multipolar/Multi-Agent AI. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by May 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| May 2024 | OpenMined | | ~$100,000† | Technical AI safety research | foresight | PySyft — supporting technical partnership with the UK AI Safety Institute on privacy-preserving AI safety research infrastructure. Focus area: Security/Cryptography. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by May 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| May 2024 | Apart Research | | ~$100,000† | Evals, Security, AI × cyber | foresight | Systematic Evaluation of Offensive Cyber Capabilities of Large Language Models — automated CTF-based evaluation. Focus area: Security/Cryptography. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by May 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| May 2024 | Toby D. Pilditch | University of Oxford | ~$100,000† | Security | foresight | Cutting Through the Complexity of Multi-agent AI Scenarios — multi-agent computational model simulating multipolar and game-theoretic AI scenarios. Focus area: Safe Multipolar/Multi-Agent AI. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by May 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| May 2024 | Florian Tramèr | 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) |
| Feb 2024 | Chris Lakin | | ~$100,000† | Security, Events | foresight | Conceptual Boundaries Workshop — workshop on applying 'boundaries' to AI safety. Focus area: Security/Cryptography. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Feb 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Feb 2024 | Logan Thrasher Collins | Washington University in St. Louis | ~$100,000† | Security | foresight | Expansion X-ray Microscopy — novel expansion x-ray microtomography method toward human brain connectomics. Focus area: Neurotech/WBE. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Feb 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Feb 2024 | Marc Carauleanu (AE Studio) | | ~$100,000† | Security | foresight | Self-Other Overlap via Fine-Tuning — testing self-other overlap as a scalable method to reduce deception in RL agents and LLMs (initially listed as 'AE Studios'). Focus area: Neurotech. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Feb 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Nov 2023 | Roland Pihlakas | | ~$100,000† | Evals, Security | foresight | Aintelope — biologically inspired multi-objective multi-agent AI safety benchmarking. Focus area: Safe Multipolar/Multi-Agent AI. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Nov 2023. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Nov 2023 | Joel Pyykkö | | ~$100,000† | Evals, Security | foresight | Aintelope — biologically inspired multi-objective multi-agent AI safety benchmarking. Focus area: Safe Multipolar/Multi-Agent AI. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Nov 2023. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Nov 2023 | Anita Fowler | | ~$100,000† | Security | foresight | WBE Roadmap & AI Considerations. Focus area: Neurotech/WBE. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Nov 2023. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Nov 2023 | Keenan Pepper (AE Studio) | | ~$100,000† | Security, Foundations | foresight | Embedded Agency Playgrounds — studying embedded agency in safe, mathematically simple sandbox environments. Focus area: Safe Multipolar/Multi-Agent AI. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Nov 2023. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |