| Apr 2026 | Katherine (Katie) Dammer | EA Funds | $10,000 | Training pipelines | ea_funds | PhD tutition funding |
| Jan 2026 | Simon Grimm | EA Funds | $30,000 | Career transitions | ea_funds | Stipend to support career exploration (10 weeks+) and a writing project on AI & Germany/Europe |
| Jan 2026 | Coleman Snell | EA Funds | $23,920 | AI safety fieldbuilding | ea_funds | 6 months of research assistance & miscellaneous admin help provided to Sean O hEigeartaigh, of between 20 - 32 h/week |
| Jan 2026 | Lida Safety Research | EA Funds | $121,388 | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | ea_funds | A wargame simulation to analyze AI policies intended to prevent catastrophes, for education and statistical research |
| Jan 2026 | Lise du Buisson | EA Funds | $8,023 | AI safety fieldbuilding | ea_funds | 6th (last) month of active grant with ID: a3rRl000000yduXIAQ (from my grantee portal) |
| Jan 2026 | DNAIS | EA Funds | $95,205 | Local groups | ea_funds | Funding for Dutch AI Safety Network |
| Oct 2025 | Horizon Omega | EA Funds | $30,100 | Local groups | ea_funds | 12 months of Montréal AI safety fieldbuilding and EA meetups |
| Oct 2025 | Iliad | EA Funds | $56,000 | Foundations | ea_funds | "Agent Foundations 2026 at CMU" will be a small, 5-day conference on agent foundations research |
| Oct 2025 | Suzy Shepherd | EA Funds | $6,466 | Advocacy | ea_funds | Top-up funding for making a short fiction film on AI x-risk |
| Oct 2025 | Yixiong Hao | EA Funds | $20,000 | Local groups | ea_funds | 1-year stipend for leading the AI Safety Initiative at Georgia Tech (15-20 hours/week) |
| Jul 2025 | Robert Miles | EA Funds | $150,000 | Advocacy | ea_funds | 1-year funding to produce monthly videos on AI safety and alignment, hiring regular contractors to help expedite thing |
| Jul 2025 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $100,000 | Control | ea_funds | Investigating steganographic reasoning in LLM agents via AutoGen-style paraphrased communication benchmarks |
| Apr 2025 | SecureBio | EA Funds | $7,118 | Biosecurity | ea_funds | Ten field-building events for global catastrophic risks in the greater Boston area for Spring/Summer 2025 |
| Apr 2025 | Dhruvin Patel | EA Funds | $1,000 | Events | ea_funds | Top-up: Travel funding to attend the workshop on biosecurity and AI safety in the UK |
| Apr 2025 | Liam Patell | EA Funds | $45,000 | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | ea_funds | 3-month stipend to do independent AI governance research |
| Apr 2025 | Epistea, z.s | EA Funds | $115,000 | Events | ea_funds | Organizing the fifth Human-Aligned AI Summer School (HAAISS), a 4-day conference in Prague for 120 participants |
| Apr 2025 | Lise du Buisson | EA Funds | $38,758 | Career transitions | ea_funds | 5-month stipend for career transition, independent research, and public outreach in AI safety and its impact on us |
| Apr 2025 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $10,000 | Training pipelines | ea_funds | Top up funding on biodefense PhD tuition |
| Apr 2025 | Hebrew Universty | EA Funds | $5,200 | Alignment methods | ea_funds | 6-month research extending the landmark Betley et al. emergent misalignment paper through fine-tuning experiments on bas |
| Apr 2025 | Aryeh Brill | EA Funds | $150,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | Stipend and expenses for independent AI alignment research on scaling laws and interpretability |
| Jan 2025 | Macrostrategy Research Initiative | EA Funds | $150,000 | Other existential risk | ea_funds | One year of operating expenses for a nonprofit that facilitates and amplifies Nick Bostrom's work |
| Jan 2025 | Aysja Johnson | EA Funds | $100,000 | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | ea_funds | 1.5 year stipend for thorough investigation and analysis of AI lab scaling policies |
| Jan 2025 | Suzy Shepherd | EA Funds | $25,000 | Advocacy | ea_funds | Develop a short fiction film at a top film school, to spread accurate and emotive understanding of AI x-risk |
| Jan 2025 | For Collaborative Work with AI:FAR | EA Funds | $16,698 | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | ea_funds | 5-months funding for RA work with Sean Ó hÉigeartaigh on AI Governance research assistance / AI:FAR admin assistance |
| Jan 2025 | Mordechai Rorvig | EA Funds | $50,000 | Advocacy | ea_funds | 6-months of part-time stipend to launch a new science journalism outlet focused on AI Safety |
| Jan 2025 | Nicky Case | EA Funds | $80,000 | Advocacy | ea_funds | 1-year stipend to make accessible-yet-rigorous explainers on AI Alignment/Security, in the form of games/videos/articles |
| Oct 2024 | Formation Research | EA Funds | $10,000 | Other existential risk | ea_funds | 12-month salary to set up a new org doing research and creating interventions to minimise lock-in risk |
| Oct 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $30,500 | Career transitions | ea_funds | 6 months continuation of AI safety research I did this past summer to help my career transition |
| Oct 2024 | Michel Justen | EA Funds | $5,000 | Advocacy | ea_funds | Create an animated video essay explaining how AI could accelerate AI R&D and its implications for AI governance |
| Oct 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $2,562 | Training pipelines | ea_funds | MATS Extension - SF Office Cost and Conference Travel |
| Oct 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $20,000 | Training pipelines | ea_funds | Upskilling for AI safety research |
| Oct 2024 | Caleb Rak | EA Funds | $20,700 | Foundations | ea_funds | A 4-5 day workshop for agent foundations researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in March, 2025 |
| Jul 2024 | Stanford University | EA Funds | $22,325 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 4-month stipend to bring to completion a mechanistic interpretability research project on how neural networks perform co |
| Jul 2024 | Jose Groh | EA Funds | $85,000 | Career transitions | ea_funds | 6-month career transition and independent research in AI safety and risk mitigation |
| Jul 2024 | Julian Guidote | EA Funds | $7,200 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | 9-week stipend for two part-time researchers to write and publish a policy proposal: Mandatory AI Safety ‘Red Bonds’ |
| Jul 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $50,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | 1-year spending for my theoretical AI interp. research, and a supporting group for AI independent reseachers in EU |
| Jul 2024 | Vasil Georgiev | EA Funds | $30,000 | Control | ea_funds | 4-month salary to continue work on AI Control as a MATS extension |
| Jul 2024 | Vojtech Kovarik | EA Funds | $49,333 | Alignment methods | ea_funds | 8 months stipend during job transition, to finish current projects (AI Goodharting, coop. AI) and find suitable next topic |
| Jul 2024 | Tyler Tracy | EA Funds | $30,000 | Control | ea_funds | 4-month stipend to continue work on AI Control as a MATS extension |
| Jul 2024 | Santeri Tani | EA Funds | $73,333 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | 11 months stipend for 1.5 FTEs and funding for other costs for an AI Safety field-building organization TUTKE in Finland |
| Jul 2024 | Michael Pearce, Alice Riggs, Thomas Dooms | EA Funds | $80,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | Developing weight-based decomposition methods for interpretability - MATS extension, 6 months stipend for 2 people |
| Jul 2024 | Keith Wynroe | EA Funds | $37,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 6-month salary and compute budget for continuing work on mechanistic interpretability for attention layers |
| Jul 2024 | Einar Urdshals | EA Funds | $50,000 | Training pipelines | ea_funds | Mentored independent research and upskilling to transition from theoretical physics PhD to AI safety |
| Jul 2024 | Dhruvin Patel | EA Funds | $1,800 | Events | ea_funds | Travel Funding Request for Early-Career Researcher to Attend Workshop on Biosecurity and AI Safety |
| Jul 2024 | David Abecassis | EA Funds | $40,000 | Control | ea_funds | Develop proposals for off-switch designs for AI, including policy games, that have been rigorously evaluated for their effectiveness, technical feasibility and political viability |
| Jul 2024 | Logan Smith | EA Funds | $40,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 6 month stipend for SAE-circuits |
| Jul 2024 | The AI Governance Archive (TAIGA) | EA Funds | $125,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | A private online platform for research-sharing amongst the AI governance community |
| Jul 2024 | Rauno Arike, Elizabeth Donoway | EA Funds | $60,000 | Control | ea_funds | 4-month stipend and expenses to create a benchmark for evaluating goal-directedness in language models |
| Jul 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $15,800 | Events | ea_funds | 4-month stipend for working on a mainline AI scenario and funding to attend defense conferences |
| Jul 2024 | Jannik Brinkmann | EA Funds | $10,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 4-month part-time salary to work on interpretability projects with David Bau and Logan Riggs |
| Jul 2024 | Claire Short | EA Funds | $80,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | Stipend and expenses to run the second Athena mentorship program for gender-minority researchers in technical AI alignment |
| Jul 2024 | Nikola Moore | EA Funds | $5,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | 9-month programme to help language and cognition scientists repurpose their existing skills for long-termist research |
| Jul 2024 | David Williams-King | EA Funds | $27,000 | Advocacy | ea_funds | 9 months support for an in-depth YouTube channel about AI safety and how AI will impact us all |
| Jul 2024 | Philip Trippenbach | EA Funds | $5,720 | Advocacy | ea_funds | Two workshops on strategic communications around AI safety, focused on the AI safety community |
| Jul 2024 | Wilson Wu | EA Funds | $20,000 | Foundations | ea_funds | Researching neural net generalization on algorithmic tasks, upskilling in math relevant to singular learning theory |
| Jul 2024 | Neil Crawford | EA Funds | $16,337 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | 7-month stipend for organising AI Alignment Irvine (AIAI) |
| Jul 2024 | Krzysztof Gwiazda | EA Funds | $5,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 2 month funding to get into mechanistic interpretability and to do 2-3 projects, than learn briefly related fields |
| Jul 2024 | Kai Fronsdal | EA Funds | $27,000 | Control | ea_funds | 4-month grant to conduct deceptive alignment evaluation research and explore control and mitigation strategies |
| Jul 2024 | Cody Rushing | EA Funds | $30,000 | Control | ea_funds | 4-month stipend to continue work on AI Control as a MATS extension |
| Jul 2024 | Constantin Weisser | EA Funds | $80,000 | Evals | ea_funds | 3-month stipend for MATS extension establishing a benchmark for LLMs’ tendency to influence human preferences |
| Jul 2024 | Andis Draguns | EA Funds | $40,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 4-month salary for finding and characterising provably hard cases for mechanistic anomaly detection |
| Jul 2024 | Javier Ferrando Monsonís and Oscar Balcells Obeso | EA Funds | $60,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 4-months stipend to apply mechanistic interpretability to a real-world application, hallucinations |
| Jul 2024 | Axel Højmark | EA Funds | $70,000 | Strategy & forecasting | ea_funds | 4-month stipend: Research on agent scaling laws—relationships between training compute and agent capabilities of LLMs |
| Jul 2024 | Alex Cloud, Jacob Goldman-Wetzler, Evžen Wybitul, Joseph Miller | EA Funds | $160,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 6-month stipends to develop and apply a novel method for localizing information and computation in neural networks |
| Jul 2024 | Adelin Kassler | EA Funds | $40,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | Developing noise-injection methods to reveal and reduce deceptive behaviors in language models prior to deployment |
| Jul 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $31,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 3-month funding to work on unlearning with sparse autoencoders |
| Jul 2024 | Eric Easley | EA Funds | $40,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | 6-month stipend to remove conditional bad behaviors from LLMs via a learned latent space intervention |
| Jul 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $40,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | Robust unlearning evaluation and interpretability - MATS extension, 6 months |
| Jul 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $37,872 | Legal | ea_funds | Tuition support for law school to work on AI policy |
| Apr 2024 | Horizon Events | EA Funds | $6,000 | Foundations | ea_funds | Monthly seminar series on Guaranteed Safe AI, from July to December 2024 |
| Apr 2024 | Yashvardhan Sharma | EA Funds | $6,000 | Technical governance | ea_funds | 12-week part-time stipend to research specialized AI hardware requirements for large AI training, with IAPS mentor Asher Brass |
| Apr 2024 | Geneva Centre for Security Policy | EA Funds | $120,000 | Training pipelines | ea_funds | A fellowship for 3 fellows in synthetic biology, artificial intelligence and neurotechnology to bridge policy and tech |
| Apr 2024 | Bryce Meyer | EA Funds | $90,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | Year-long stipend to work as the primary maintainer of TransformerLens, and implement large changes to the code base. |
| Apr 2024 | Alex Infanger | EA Funds | $30,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 6-month stipend to work on AI alignment research (automated redteaming, interpretability) |
| Apr 2024 | Thomas Kwa | EA Funds | $60,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 6-month stipend to continue research on benchmarks for interpretability and on characterizing Goodhart's Law |
| Apr 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $83,333 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | 8 months stipend for AI security projects and to explore setting up an organization |
| Apr 2024 | Aishwarya Saxena | EA Funds | $77,544 | Legal | ea_funds | 6-month stipend to work on a research project on AI Liability Insurance as an additional lever for AI Safety |
| Apr 2024 | Codruta Lugoj | EA Funds | $23,360 | Control | ea_funds | 5-month salary to continue work on evaluating agent self-improvement capabilities |
| Apr 2024 | Aryeh Brill | EA Funds | $45,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | 12-month support for independent AI alignment research |
| Apr 2024 | José Villalobos Ruiz | EA Funds | $33,700 | International governance | ea_funds | 6-month salary to finish writing a book on international AI governance and three other smaller AI governance projects |
| Apr 2024 | Luise Woehlke | EA Funds | $6,230 | Domestic policy | ea_funds | 8-week stipend for a research project supervised by John Halstead, PhD, on US regulatory decision-making and Frontier AI |
| Apr 2024 | Daniel Filan | EA Funds | $44,802 | Epistemic infrastructure | ea_funds | This grant will support Daniel Filan in producing 18 episodes of AXRP, the AI X-risk Research Podcast. The podcast aims to increase in-depth understanding of potential risks from artificial intelligence. |
| Apr 2024 | Sahil Kulshrestha | EA Funds | $30,000 | Foundations | ea_funds | Development of mathematical language for highly adaptive entities (having stable commitments, not stable mechanisms) |
| Apr 2024 | Arun Jose | EA Funds | $70,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 1-year stipend for independent research primarily on high-level interpretability |
| Apr 2024 | Tilman Räuker | EA Funds | $13,000 | Control | ea_funds | 4 weeks expenses for FAR Labs Residency for research group focusing on goal-directedness in transformer models |
| Apr 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $20,000 | Biosecurity | ea_funds | 1 semester of funds for PhD program in biodefense |
| Apr 2024 | Andrew Zeng | EA Funds | $12,000 | International governance | ea_funds | 3-month stipend to support research on the state of AI safety in China and implications for AI existential risk |
| Apr 2024 | Simon Lermen | EA Funds | $36,000 | Security | ea_funds | 6-month stipend on evaluating robustness of AI agents safety guardrails and for running an AI spear-phishing study |
| Apr 2024 | Coleman Snell | EA Funds | $31,650 | Strategy & forecasting | ea_funds | Funding for 6-Month AI strategy/policy research stay at CSER with Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh & Matthew Gentzel |
| Apr 2024 | Mikhail Baranchuk | EA Funds | $12,600 | Security | ea_funds | 3-month stipend and cloud credits to research AI collusion mitigation strategies and develop secure steganography |
| Apr 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $12,233 | Domestic policy | ea_funds | 6-month stipend for an unpaid internship on AI policy at the Ministry of Economic Development in Italy to contribute to AI safety |
| Apr 2024 | Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse | EA Funds | $10,120 | Advocacy | ea_funds | 4-month stipend for a career transition period to explore roles in AI safety communications |
| Apr 2024 | Dioptra (informal research group working on evals) | EA Funds | $9,072 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | Retroactive funding for GameBench paper |
| Apr 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $2,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | Funding for EAG-related travel and career planning. |
| Apr 2024 | Morgan Simpson | EA Funds | $11,244 | Career transitions | ea_funds | 12 week 0.6FT upskilling stipend for technical governance research management |
| Apr 2024 | Satvik Golechha | EA Funds | $30,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 6-month stipend to work on safe and robust reasoning via mechanistically interpreting representations |
| Apr 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $16,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | 6-month salary top-up for an internship at the CNAS Technology and National Security Program, helping to formulate policy recommendations to mitigate national security risks from AI and other emerging technologies. |
| Apr 2024 | Matt MacDermott | EA Funds | $10,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | 6 month AI alignment internship stipend top-up |
| Apr 2024 | Sumeet Motwani | EA Funds | $1,875 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | Grant to attend ICLR 2024 for an accepted alignment related paper as an undergraduate student |
| Apr 2024 | Nicky Pochinkov | EA Funds | $80,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 12 month stipend and expenses to research in AI Safety (Unlearning; Modularity; Probing Long-term behaviour) |
| Apr 2024 | University of Texas at Austin | EA Funds | $50,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | 3–6 months stipend for first full year as a research professor of CS at UT Austin, researching technical AI alignment |
| Apr 2024 | Kunvar Thaman | EA Funds | $2,500 | Evals | ea_funds | Seeking funds to present “Benchmark Inflation” at ICML 2024, my paper on making AI progress measures more accurate |
| Apr 2024 | Hannah Erleabch | EA Funds | $20,000 | Research hubs | ea_funds | 3-month stipend to continue working on goal misgeneralisation project for ICLR deadline, plus travel funding |
| Apr 2024 | Glauber De Bona | EA Funds | $40,000 | Career transitions | ea_funds | 6-months stipend for transitioning to independent research on AI Safety |
| Apr 2024 | Gideon Futerman | EA Funds | $5,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | Spend 3 months (part time) assessing plausible pathways to slowing AI |
| Apr 2024 | Brian Tan | EA Funds | $86,400 | Interpretability | ea_funds | ~4 FTE for 9 months to fund WhiteBox Research, mainly for the 2nd cohort of our AI Interpretability Fellowship in Manila |
| Apr 2024 | Brian Tan | EA Funds | $10,120 | Interpretability | ea_funds | $10,120 for most of the ops expenses of the research phase (June-Sep 2024) of WhiteBox’s AI Interpretability Fellowship |
| Apr 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $4,200 | Biosecurity | ea_funds | 1.5-week salary to travel for bioinformatics work |
| Jan 2024 | Lukas Fluri | EA Funds | $37,120 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 6-month stipend to do an unpaid internship focused on using theory/interpretability to increase the safety of AI systems |
| Jan 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $25,000 | Alignment methods, Career transitions, Economics | ea_funds | 4-month salary to continue collaborations, conduct research, upskill, and network in the field of AI alignment |
| Jan 2024 | Timaeus | EA Funds | $100,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | Salary Top-Up for Timaeus' Employees & Contractors |
| Jan 2024 | Iván Arcuschin Moreno | EA Funds | $67,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 4-month stipend for MATS extension on mechanistic interpretability benchmark + 2-month stipend for career switch |
| Jan 2024 | Epistea, z.s | EA Funds | $160,000 | Training pipelines | ea_funds | Organizing the fourth Human-Aligned AI Summer School (HAAISS), a 4-day conference in Prague/Vienna for 130 participants |
| Jan 2024 | Sviatoslav Chalnev | EA Funds | $40,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 6-month stipend to continue independent interpretability research |
| Jan 2024 | Lucy Farnik | EA Funds | $41,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | Exploring the feasibility of circuit-style analysis on the level of SAE features (MATS extension) |
| Jan 2024 | Decode Research | EA Funds | $275,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 1 year of stipend + compute + contracts for an AI interpretability research platform for LLMs |
| Jan 2024 | Aengus Lynch | EA Funds | $52,119 | Security | ea_funds | 6 months of funding for MATS 5.0 extension, with projects on latent adversarial training and persona explainability |
| Jan 2024 | Alfie Lamerton | EA Funds | $6,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | 1 month long literature review on in-context learning and its relevance to AI alignment |
| Jan 2024 | Niels uit de Bos | EA Funds | $62,000 | Evals | ea_funds | 4-month salary and office for MATS 5.0 extension on adversarial circuit evaluation + 2-month runway for career switch |
| Jan 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $3,000 | Global health and development | ea_funds | Travel expenses to present at the Global Health Security Conference |
| Jan 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $44,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | Six months of upskilling and research in ML interpretability |
| Jan 2024 | Michael Parker | EA Funds | $50,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | Catalog the history of U.S. high-consequence pathogen regulations, evaluate their performance, and chart a way forward |
| Jan 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $9,675 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | Living cost top off while working on long-term relevant research at DC think tank |
| Jan 2024 | Felix Hofstätter | EA Funds | $38,688 | Training pipelines | ea_funds | 6-month stipend for conducting AI-safety research during the MATS 5.0 extension program and beyond |
| Jan 2024 | Dioptra (informal research group working on evals) | EA Funds | $32,000 | Evals | ea_funds | This grant will support Josh Clymer and collaborators with summer stipends + research budget to execute technical safety standards projects. |
| Jan 2024 | Egg Syntax (legal: Jesse Davis) | EA Funds | $55,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | Research on how much language models can infer about their current user, and interpretability work on such inferences |
| Jan 2024 | Aidan Ewart | EA Funds | $23,100 | Security | ea_funds | Four months of funding for a MATS 5.0 extension, working on improving methods in latent adversarial training |
| Jan 2024 | Joe Kwon | EA Funds | $40,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | 6-month stipend to work on an ML safety project, with the aim of joining a ML safety team full-time after |
| Jan 2024 | Tristan Williams | EA Funds | $2,000 | Other existential risk | ea_funds | This grant will support Tristan with funding to attend EAG and to apply for grad school, aiming for an impactful policy role targeting x-risk reduction. |
| Jan 2024 | Garrett Baker | EA Funds | $17,500 | Foundations | ea_funds | MATS 3-month stipend to use singular learning theory to explain & control the development of values in ML systems |
| Jan 2024 | Roman Soletskyi | EA Funds | $35,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 6-month salary to verify neural network scalably for RL and produce a human to super-human scalable oversight benchmark |
| Jan 2024 | Hayden Peacock | EA Funds | $5,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | 2 Months of living expenses while I try to establish a broad-spectrum antiviral research organization |
| Jan 2024 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | EA Funds | $50,000 | Alignment methods | ea_funds | Data collection for a new paradigm for AI alignment based on downstream outcomes and human flourishing |
| Jan 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $127,000 | AI × bio | ea_funds | 1 year stipend for policy and technical work on biosecurity |
| Jan 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $9,250 | Other | ea_funds | Funds for early-career expenses and travel to visit research mentors over the end of the semester and the summer 2024 |
| Jan 2024 | Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse | EA Funds | $5,000 | Advocacy | ea_funds | A podcast mainly themed around AI x-risk, aimed at a non-technical audience |
| Jan 2024 | Andrew Gritsevskiy | EA Funds | $50,336 | Security | ea_funds | 4-month stipend for 3 people to create demonstrations of provably undetectable backdoors |
| Jan 2024 | Thomas Costello | EA Funds | $115,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | Experimentally testing generative AI's ability to persuade humans about hazardous topics |
| Jan 2024 | Sara Price | EA Funds | $55,000 | Control | ea_funds | 6-month stipend to continue independent AI alignment research from MATS 5.0 on situational awareness and deception |
| Jan 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $27,720 | Training pipelines | ea_funds | Research stipend to continue MATS 5.0 project on language models’ internal representations of uncertainty |
| Jan 2024 | Lewis Hammond | EA Funds | $86,600 | Alignment methods | ea_funds | Compute costs for experiments to evaluate different scalable oversight protocols |
| Jan 2024 | Orpheus Lummis | EA Funds | $10,000 | Events | ea_funds | Virtual AI Safety Unconference 2024 is a collaborative online event by and for researchers of AI safety |
| Jan 2024 | Cindy Wu | EA Funds | $40,000 | Training pipelines | ea_funds | 6-month stipend to work on techical alignment research as part of MATS 5.0 extension program |
| Jan 2024 | Theodore Chapman | EA Funds | $55,660 | Evals | ea_funds | 6-month researcher stipend to explore the effect of chat fine-tuning on LLM capability elicitation |
| Jan 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $3,821 | Global health and development | ea_funds | Travel Support to present biosecurity policy research at the Global Health Security Conference |
| Jan 2024 | Dillon Bowen | EA Funds | $30,000 | Career transitions | ea_funds | 6-month salary to transition to a career in AI safety while working on AI safety projects |
| Jan 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $2,200 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | 1 month room and flight to visit MIT FutureTech |
| Jan 2024 | David Udell | EA Funds | $10,500 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 7 months of coworking-space funding continuation, during interpretability research project |
| Jan 2024 | AI Safety Australia & New Zealand | EA Funds | $77,000 | Local groups | ea_funds | This grant will support Yanni Kyriacos (through Good Ancestors Project) with one year of costs for AI Safety movement building work in Australasia. |
| Jan 2024 | Aleksandar Makelov | EA Funds | $22,500 | Training pipelines | ea_funds | 3-month stipend during post-SERI MATS alignment job search and wrapping up paper w/ mentor |
| Jan 2024 | Oscar Balcells Obeso | EA Funds | $40,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 4-month stipend to research the mechanisms of refusal in chat LLMs |
| Jan 2024 | Alex Altair | EA Funds | $60,000 | Foundations, Local groups | ea_funds | 6-month stipend for a small group of collaborators to continue research on the Agent Structure Problem |
| Jan 2024 | Teun van der Weij | EA Funds | $30,087 | Control | ea_funds | 4-month expenses for AI safety research on personas and sandbagging during the MATS 5.0 extension program |
| Jan 2024 | Aaquib Syed | EA Funds | $30,000 | Evals | ea_funds | 4-month stipend to study refusals and jailbreaks in chat LLMs under Neel Nanda as part of the MATS 5.0 extension program |
| Jan 2024 | Abhay Sheshadri | EA Funds | $15,075 | Training pipelines | ea_funds | 1-month full-time + 3 months part-time salary to work on two research projects during the MATS 5.0 extension program |
| Jan 2024 | Logan Smith | EA Funds | $40,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 6-month stipend for Sparse Autoencoder Mech Interp projects |
| Jan 2024 | Sumeet Motwani | EA Funds | $19,000 | Evals | ea_funds | 1-month pt. stipend for 4 MATS scholars working on autonomous web-browsing LLM agents that can hire humans + safety evals |
| Jan 2024 | Arjun Panickssery | EA Funds | $34,100 | Training pipelines | ea_funds | 4 months of stipend for MATS extension work in London studying the safety implications of LLM self-recognition |
| Jan 2024 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $37,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 1.5 years’ salary and compute to research consequences of deep learning theory for mechanistic interpretability |
| Jan 2024 | Danielle Ensign | EA Funds | $60,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 4-6 month salary to do circuit-based mech interp on Mamba, as part of the MATS extension program |
| Jan 2024 | Hannah Erlebach | EA Funds | $25,216 | Career transitions | ea_funds | 4-month stipend to continue AI safety projects |
| Jan 2024 | Yoav Tzfati | EA Funds | $62,150 | Evals | ea_funds | Meta level adversarial evaluation of debate (scalable oversight technique) on simple math problems (MATS 5.0 project) |
| Jan 2024 | Sienka Dounia | EA Funds | $8,500 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | 3 months relocation from Chad to London to work on Eliciting Latent Knowledge with Jake Mendel from Apollo Research |
| Oct 2023 | Rafael Andersson Lipcsey | EA Funds | $7,000 | International governance, Career transitions, Economics | ea_funds | 4-month stipend for upskilling within the field of economic governance of AI |
| Oct 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $15,000 | Career transitions | ea_funds | Three-month salary to continue work on AI safety research and look for further funding opportunities |
| Oct 2023 | Samotsvety Forecasting | EA Funds | $6,000 | Other | ea_funds | General support for a forecasting team |
| Oct 2023 | Marcus Williams | EA Funds | $42,000 | Alignment methods | ea_funds | 6-month 1 FTE funding to train Multi-Objective RLAIF models and compare their safety performance to standard RLAIF |
| Oct 2023 | Apart Research | EA Funds | $272,800 | Training pipelines, Org incubation & ops | ea_funds | 6 months of funding (salaries & ops costs) for AI Safety talent incubation through research sprints and fellowships |
| Oct 2023 | Chris Lakin | EA Funds | $5,000 | Events | ea_funds | A small, short workshop focused on coordinating/planning/applying «boundaries» idea to safety |
| Oct 2023 | Philip Quirke | EA Funds | $61,000 | Alignment methods, Career transitions | ea_funds | Six month study grant to speed up my career pivot into AI safety and alignment research, with specific deliverables |
| Oct 2023 | Existential Risk Observatory | EA Funds | $24,339 | Events | ea_funds | Organize AI xrisk events with experts (e.g. Stuart Russell), politicians, and journalists to influence policymaking |
| Oct 2023 | Felix Binder | EA Funds | $2,000 | Security | ea_funds | Compute for experiment about how steganography in large language models might arise as a result of benign optimization |
| Oct 2023 | Alignment Ecosystem Development | EA Funds | $99,330 | Career transitions | ea_funds | 1-year stipend to continue building and maintaining key digital infrastructure for the AI safety ecosystem |
| Oct 2023 | Catalyze Impact | EA Funds | $122,507 | Org incubation & ops | ea_funds | 6-month incubation program for technical AI safety research organizations |
| Oct 2023 | Nora Ammann | EA Funds | $102,500 | Training pipelines, Local groups | ea_funds | 1 year funding for PIBBSS (incl. several programs, e.g. fellowship 2024, affiliate program, reading group) |
| Oct 2023 | Chris Lakin | EA Funds | $4,500 | Epistemic infrastructure | ea_funds | Funding for having written AI safety distillation posts on the topic of membranes/boundaries |
| Jul 2023 | MentaLeap | EA Funds | $40,000 | AI × cyber, Economics | ea_funds | In MentaLeap, cybersecurity experts, AI researchers, and neuroscientists collaborate to reverse-engineer neural networks |
| Jul 2023 | David Udell | EA Funds | $80,000 | Alignment methods, Career transitions | ea_funds | One year stipend and compute budget, for full-time technical AI alignment research |
| Jul 2023 | Ross Nordby | EA Funds | $40,000 | Technical AI safety research | ea_funds | Part-time salary for independent AI safety research |
| Jul 2023 | Thomas Kwa | EA Funds | $95,000 | Interpretability, Alignment methods, Career transitions | ea_funds | 6-month salary for independent alignment research in interpretability or control |
| Jul 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $48,423 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 4-month salary and expenses to research an approach to identify feature directions in neural networks |
| Jul 2023 | Aidan Ewart | EA Funds | $7,700 | Interpretability, Alignment methods, Career transitions | ea_funds | 6-month salary for part-time independent research on LM interpretability for AI alignment |
| Jul 2023 | Nathaniel Sharadin | EA Funds | $33,000 | Events | ea_funds | Undergrad buyout to teach AI safety in Hong Kong’s new MA program on AI; China-West AI Safety workshop |
| Jul 2023 | Arran McCutcheon | EA Funds | $6,000 | International governance, Career transitions | ea_funds | 3-month part-time salary in order to work on AI governance projects and activities |
| Jul 2023 | Brian Tan | EA Funds | $61,460 | Interpretability, Training pipelines | ea_funds | WhiteBox Research: 1.9 FTE for 9 months to pilot a training program in Manila focused on Mechanistic Interpretability |
| Jul 2023 | John Wentworth | EA Funds | $200,000 | Foundations | ea_funds | 1-year stipend to continue research on agency, focused on natural abstraction |
| Jul 2023 | Shashwat Goel | EA Funds | $12,000 | Training pipelines | ea_funds | SERI MATS 3-month extension to study knowledge removal in Language Models |
| Jul 2023 | Logan Smith | EA Funds | $40,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 6 month salary for further pursuing sparse autoencoders for automatic feature finding |
| Jul 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $27,450 | Org incubation & ops, AI welfare | ea_funds | 6m of research in nascent areas of EA/longtermism (e.g. digital sentience) with the aim of founding a new org or company |
| Jul 2023 | Thomas Kwa | EA Funds | $29,760 | Foundations | ea_funds | Retroactive grant to study Goodhart effects on heavy-tailed distributions |
| Jul 2023 | Robert Miles | EA Funds | $121,575 | Alignment methods, Advocacy, Local groups, Career transitions | ea_funds | 1yr stipend to make videos and podcasts about AI Safety/Alignment, and build a community to help new people get involved |
| Jul 2023 | Riya Sharma | EA Funds | $1,700 | Other | ea_funds | Funding to attend BWC meeting to discuss transparency with country representatives & work on research project |
| Jul 2023 | Imperial College London | EA Funds | $5,090 | Biosecurity | ea_funds | Funds to support travel for research with the Nucleic Acid Observatory relating to biosecurity and GCBRs |
| Jul 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $52,200 | Foundations, Training pipelines | ea_funds | 6 months MATS extension to work on a paper on (dis)empowerment. |
| Jul 2023 | Bilal Chughtai | EA Funds | $41,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | 6 month salary to work on mech interp research with mentorship from Prof David Bau |
| Jul 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $30,000 | Career transitions, Strategy & forecasting, Economics | ea_funds | 5-month stipend to create a research agenda and conduct research using the IO literature in economics for AI strategy |
| Jul 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $20,000 | Career transitions | ea_funds | General support for an AI safety researcher in a transitionary phase for 3-5 months |
| Jul 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $7,400 | Interpretability, Training pipelines | ea_funds | 4-month salary for remote part-time mechanistic interpretability research under Neel Nanda extending SERI MATS research |
| Jul 2023 | P.H.I | EA Funds | $42,000 | Alignment methods, Evals | ea_funds | 6 to 12 month fundings to continue working on model psychology and evaluation |
| Jul 2023 | Neel Nanda | | $52,000 | Interpretability | vipul_donations | The grants database gives the following intended use of funds: "6 months of funding for Arthur Conmy to work with me (Neel Nanda) on mechanistic interpretability research" |
| Jul 2023 | Hoagy Cunningham | EA Funds | $35,300 | Training pipelines | ea_funds | 6 month SERI MATS London extension phase for continuing and scaling up the sparse coding project |
| Jul 2023 | Alexander Mann | EA Funds | $36,000 | Other | ea_funds | A megaproject proposal: Building a longtermist industrial conglomerate aligned via a reputation based economy |
| Jul 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $40,680 | International governance, Local groups | ea_funds | 9-month university tuition support for technical AI safety research focused on empowering AI governance interventions |
| Jul 2023 | Keith Wynroe | EA Funds | $21,989 | Interpretability, Training pipelines | ea_funds | 5-month funding to continue upskilling in mechanistic interpretability post-SERI MATs, and to continue open projects |
| Jul 2023 | Ann-Kathrin Dombrowski | EA Funds | $27,260 | Training pipelines | ea_funds | 3-months salary for SERI MATS extention to work on internal concept extraction |
| Apr 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $63,242 | Interpretability, Alignment methods, Career transitions | ea_funds | 6-month grant to pivot into AI alignment research. Goals include upskilling in linear algebra and probability theory, independent mechanistic interpretability research and working on AI Safety Camp research project "Understanding Search in Transformers." |
| Apr 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $17,000 | Other | ea_funds | 1 year salary to outline vulnerabilities, propose solution, get buy-in for the security of benchtop DNA synthesis |
| Apr 2023 | Sviatoslav Chalnev | EA Funds | $35,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | This grant is funding for a 6-month stipend for Sviatoslav Chalnev to work on independent interpretability research, specifically mechanistic interpretability and open-source tooling for interpretability research. |
| Apr 2023 | Harrison Gietz | EA Funds | $10,750 | Career transitions | ea_funds | 4-month fund for full time AI safety technical and/or governance research |
| Apr 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $48,000 | Interpretability, Alignment methods, Career transitions | ea_funds | 6-month stipend for up-skilling in technical AI alignment & doing independent interpretability research |
| Apr 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $40,000 | Career transitions | ea_funds | This grant provides a 6 month stipend at £30k to transition into technical AI safety research. |
| Apr 2023 | Francis Rhys Ward | EA Funds | $8,000 | Events | ea_funds | Funding for (academic/technical) AI safety community events in London |
| Apr 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $115,000 | Research infrastructure | ea_funds | Funding towards the Computer Science Master's program at NYU to pursue technical AI safety research. |
| Apr 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $14,000 | Local groups, EA infrastructure | ea_funds | 4-month career transition grant to upskill in organisation-building and community-building. Harry is the Logistics Co-Lead at SPARC this summer and has been accepted into Tee Barnett's Coaching Program. |
| Apr 2023 | Kristy Loke | EA Funds | $10,000 | Other | ea_funds | 6 month project - pending description |
| Apr 2023 | Alexander Turner | EA Funds | $30,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | This grant provides 5 months of funding for office space for collaboration on interpretability/model-steering alignment research |
| Apr 2023 | Matthias Dellago | EA Funds | $25,491 | Interpretability, Alignment methods, Career transitions | ea_funds | Stipend for a master’s thesis and paper on technical alignment research: mechanistic interpretability of attention |
| Apr 2023 | Bryce Meyer | EA Funds | $50,000 | Interpretability, Career transitions | ea_funds | 6-month salary to build & enhance open-source mechanistic interpretability tooling for AI safety researchers |
| Apr 2023 | Benjamin Stewart | EA Funds | $3,138 | Local groups, Biosecurity | ea_funds | 3-month (+buffer to prepare project reports) part-time salary to upskill in biosecurity research and prioritisation. Courses include Infectious Disease Modelling by Imperial College London. Projects include UChicago's Market Shaping Accelerator challenge. |
| Apr 2023 | Jacques Thibodeau | EA Funds | $27,108 | Alignment methods, Career transitions | ea_funds | 12-month salary to continue working tools for accelerating alignment and the Supervising AIs Improving AIs agenda |
| Apr 2023 | Viktor Rehnberg | EA Funds | $19,248 | Other | ea_funds | This grant will support Viktor Rehnberg's project identifying key steps in reducing risks from learned optimisation and working towards solutions that seem the most important. Viktor will start working on this project as part of the SERI MATS program. |
| Apr 2023 | Roman Leventov | EA Funds | $6,500 | Corporate governance, Career transitions | ea_funds | 6-month salary to continue developing as an AI safety researcher. Goals include writing a review paper about goal misgeneralisation from the perspective of Active Inference and pursue collaborative projects on collective decision-making systems. |
| Apr 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $60,000 | Advocacy | ea_funds | Videos explaining developments within AI and their impact on society |
| Apr 2023 | Simon Lermen | EA Funds | $13,000 | Alignment methods, Control, Career transitions | ea_funds | 3-month salary + compute expenses to study and publish on shutdown evasion in LLMs and to use LLMs as tools for alignment |
| Apr 2023 | Cindy Wu | EA Funds | $5,000 | Career transitions | ea_funds | This grant provides a stipend for Cindy Wu to spend 4 months working on AI safety research. |
| Apr 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $4,344 | Career transitions | ea_funds | Stipend for 4-month placement at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. |
| Apr 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $1,000 | Other | ea_funds | Small grant to spend on productivity/research related things |
| Apr 2023 | Artem Karpov | EA Funds | $1,739 | Global health and development | ea_funds | 6-month support for self study and development in ML and AI Safety. Goals include producing an academic paper while working on the "Inducing Human-Like Biases in Moral Reasoning LMs" project run by AI Safety Camp. |
| Apr 2023 | Cole Wyeth | EA Funds | $50,000 | Foundations | ea_funds | Studying extensions of the AIXI model to reflective agents to understand the behavior of self modifying A.G.I |
| Apr 2023 | Amritanshu Prasad | EA Funds | $8,000 | Alignment methods, Career transitions | ea_funds | 6-month Scholarship to support Amritanshu Prasad's upskilling in technical AI alignment. Amritanshu will study the AGI Safety Fundamentals Alignment Curriculum and create an accessible and informative summary of the curriculum. |
| Apr 2023 | Scott Viteri | EA Funds | $10,000 | Training pipelines | ea_funds | 1 year PhD funding and compute funding to research a novel method for training prosociality into large language models |
| Apr 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $48,000 | Control | ea_funds | 6-month salary for study of mesa-optimisation and deception in order to advance our understanding of how transformers solve algorithmic tasks and provide a concrete example of mechanistic interpretability for deception. |
| Apr 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $7,700 | International governance | ea_funds | 3-month unpaid AI Governance internship to build career capital at the Millennium Project, a global futurist think tank |
| Apr 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $9,887 | Other | ea_funds | 1 year of funding to help cover expenses of transferring to a MSc, studying Mathematics with a minor in Informatics. |
| Apr 2023 | Christopher Mathwin | EA Funds | $28,000 | Interpretability, Career transitions | ea_funds | 6-month salary for an AISC project and continuing independent mechanistic interpretability projects |
| Apr 2023 | Joshua Clymer | EA Funds | $1,500 | Evals | ea_funds | I'm writing a research paper that introduces an instruction-following generalization benchmark and I need compute funds |
| Apr 2023 | Alexander Turner | EA Funds | $40,000 | Interpretability | ea_funds | Conference publication of interpretability and LM-steering results |
| Apr 2023 | Codruta Lugoj | EA Funds | $7,200 | Alignment methods, Career transitions | ea_funds | 4-month wage for alignment upskilling: gain research eng skills (projects) + understand current alignment agendas |
| Apr 2023 | Logan Strohl | EA Funds | $80,000 | EA infrastructure | ea_funds | 1 year stipend to develop materials demonstrating an investigative procedure for advancing the art of rationality |
| Apr 2023 | Carson Ezell | EA Funds | $8,673 | International governance, Career transitions, Strategy & forecasting | ea_funds | This grant provides a 3-month part-time stipend for Carson Ezell to conduct 2 research projects related to AI governance and strategy. |
| Apr 2023 | Vaidehi Agarwalla | EA Funds | $10,500 | Other | ea_funds | $10,500 in funding to run a trial of a longtermist mentorship program similar to Magnify Mentoring but unrestricted |
| Apr 2023 | Yuxiao Li | EA Funds | $45,000 | Interpretability, Career transitions | ea_funds | This grant is funding a $35,000 stipend plus $10,000 in compute costs for Yuxiao Li's independent inference-based AI interpretability research. |
| Apr 2023 | Morgan Simpson | EA Funds | $31,600 | International governance, Career transitions | ea_funds | 6-month salary to produce 2 AI governance white papers and a series of case studies, with additional research costs |
| Apr 2023 | Bart Bussmann | EA Funds | $8,800 | Alignment methods, Career transitions | ea_funds | 2-month salary to test suitability for technical AI alignment research and identify a research direction |
| Apr 2023 | Unknown Recipients | EA Funds | $8,000 | Technical governance | ea_funds | Two months' salary to work on hardware-related AI governance, including limiting the actors who can create dangerous AI |
| Apr 2023 | Nathaniel Monson | EA Funds | $70,000 | Interpretability, Alignment methods | ea_funds | This grant is for Nathaniel Monson to spend 6 months studying to transition to AI alignment research, with a focus on methods for mechanistic interpretability and resolving polysemanticity. |
| Apr 2023 | Kurt Brown | EA Funds | $15,000 | Corporate governance | ea_funds | 4 weeks dev time to make a cryptographic tool enabling anonymous whistleblowers to prove their credentials |
| Apr 2023 | Akbir Khan | EA Funds | $55,000 | Alignment methods | ea_funds | This grant provides funding for a project that explores debate as a tool that can verify the output of agents which have more domain knowledge than their human counterparts. |
| Apr 2023 | ACX Atlanta | EA Funds | $5,000 | Events | ea_funds | One year funding of ACX meetup in Atlanta Georgia |
| Apr 2023 | Guillaume Corlouer | EA Funds | $6,636 | Interpretability | ea_funds | Funding to do research on understanding search in transformers at the AI safety camp during 14 weeks |