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Gunnar Zarncke

organization

AI governance, policy, and advocacyTechnical AI safety research

Received
$166,600
from 2 funders
Grants
2
Funders
2
Years active
2022–26

Grants over time

$0$50K$100K$150K$200K20222023202420252026

Biggest funders

Foresight Institute$150,00090%1
Long-Term Future Fund$16,60010%1

Grants received

DateFunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
May 12, 2026Foresight Institute~$150,000*AI governance, policy, and advocacyforesightUnsupervised 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
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$16,600Foundationsea_fundsOne year grant for a project to reverse-engineer human social instincts by implementing Steven Byrnes' brain-like AGI

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