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Mila

organization · Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms

Technical AI safety researchAI safety adjacentAI governance, policy, and advocacyOther existential riskOther

Received
$7,869,143
from 4 funders
Grants
12
Funders
4
Years active
2017–25

Grants over time

$0$1.0M$2.0M$3.0M201720182019202020212022202320242025

Biggest funders

Coefficient Giving$7,385,73194%8
Future of Life Institute$469,7626%2
Effective Altruism Grants$7,6500%1
Blake Borgeson$6,0000%1

Grants received

DateFunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Sep 2025Coefficient Giving$195,800Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingOff-target Effects of Fine-tuning in LLMs (Aly Kassem and Golnoosh Farnadi)
Jul 2025Coefficient Giving$310,000Interpretabilitycoefficient_givingMechanistic Interpretability Research (Danilo Bzdok)
Jun 2025Coefficient Giving$320,000AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingAI Safety and Governance Fellowship
Jun 2025Coefficient Giving$1,872,000Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingAI Safety Projects
Dec 2024Future of Life InstituteSurvival and Flourishing Fund$23,000Other existential risksffGeneral support
Dec 2024Blake BorgesonSurvival and Flourishing Fund$6,000Other existential risksffGeneral support
May 2024Coefficient Giving$2,000,000Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingAI Safety Research
2024Future of Life Institute$446,762EconomicsfliSimulations testing defenses against AI-powered discourse manipulation. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants
May 2023Coefficient Giving$50,000Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingWorkshop on Human-Level AI
Nov 2021Coefficient Giving$237,931Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingResearch Project on Artificial Intelligence
Sep 29, 2017Effective Altruism Grants$7,650Othervipul_donationsInitial research in Machine Learning undertaken at Mila (then known as the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms) and publication of these results. See http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1fc/effective_altruism_grants_project_update/ for more context about the grant program.
Jul 2017Coefficient Giving$2,400,000Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingAI Safety Research

Grants via 2 · ~$4,129,800 · $2,064,900 average

DateFunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Apr 3, 2025UK AI Security InstituteMichael BronsteinUniversity of Oxford, Mila, McGill University~$129,800*AI safetyuk_aisiTowards Trustworthy AI Agents for Information Veracity — led by Michael Bronstein, Reihaneh Rabbany, Shenyang Huang. Seed grant of up to £200,000. — Systemic Safety Grants (Phase 1)
2024Jaan TallinnSafe AI for HumanitySurvival and Flourishing Fund, Mila$4,000,000Research infrastructuresffGeneral support of Safe AI for Humanity, a portion of which may be allocated for related overhead costs.

* UK AISI awarded grants of up to 200k GBP for this round, so estimating each of them at 100k.