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John Kearney

individual

Technical AI safety research

Received
$150,000
from 1 funders
Grants
1
Funders
1
Years active
2026

Grants over time

$0$50K$100K$150K$200K2026

Biggest funders

Foresight Institute$150,000100%1

Grants received

Date ↓FunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Sep 23, 2026Foresight Institute~$150,000*Evals, SecurityforesightAdversarial Auditing of AI Safety Evaluation Infrastructure AI safety evaluations are treated as tools that work, not as systems that can be broken. John Kearney of Authensor, Inc is stress-testing that assumption: what began as 47 vulnerabilities in 10 evaluation frameworks is now a standing audit, with 33 fixes in production code at 18 organizations, SWE-bench’s grading pipeline and the UK AI Security Institute’s core… — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — 2026 cohort

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