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| AI safety | $51,715,000 | 72% | 99 |
| Technical AI safety research | $19,750,000 | 27% | 49 |
| AI governance, policy, and advocacy | $240,000 | 0% | 2 |
| AI safety adjacent | $185,000 | 0% | 1 |
| LawZero | $5,000,000 | 7% | 1 |
| Dawn Song | $1,770,000 | 2% | 2 |
| Philip Torr | $1,400,000 | 2% | 1 |
| Alán Aspuru-Guzik | $1,400,000 | 2% | 1 |
| Surya Ganguli | $1,400,000 | 2% | 1 |
| Sheila McIlraith | $1,400,000 | 2% | 1 |
| Shirley Ho | $1,400,000 | 2% | 1 |
| Luke Zettlemoyer | $1,400,000 | 2% | 1 |
| Date ↓ | Recipient | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2026 | Janeth Valdivia | Apart Research | — | Other | grantmaking_ai | This funding supported the operational and catering expenses for two regional hubs in Mexico during the execution of the Global South Hackathon. Specifically, materials, and meals for 91 participants, 5 mentors, 5 organizers, 6 volunteers ensuring a seamless collaborative environment for participants. |
| 2026 | METR | — | Evals | org_reported | Listed as a supporter in METR’s August 2026 funding update; amount not disclosed. | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Adam Gleave | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; FAR.AI. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. (Also holds a separate Science of Trustworthy AI award.) — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Martin Schrimpf | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; EPFL. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Zongyi Li | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; NYU. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Melanie Weber | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; Harvard University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Lindsey Raymond | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; MIT. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Surbhi Goel | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; University of Pennsylvania. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Philip Torr | ~$1,400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2025 cohort; University of Oxford. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Miles Cranmer | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; University of Cambridge. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Alán Aspuru-Guzik | ~$1,400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2025 cohort; University of Toronto. Fourth cohort of 28 fellows sharing $18M+ over three years; per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Surya Ganguli | ~$1,400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2025 cohort; Stanford University. Cohort of 28 sharing $18M+; per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Hannah Kerner | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; Arizona State University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Peichen Zhong | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; National University of Singapore. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Tess Smidt | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; MIT. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Krishna Pillutla | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; IIT Madras. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Christian Schroeder de Witt | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; University of Oxford. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Sheila McIlraith | ~$1,400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2025 cohort; University of Toronto. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Tri Dao | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; Princeton University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Ellen Zhong | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; Princeton University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Shirley Ho | ~$1,400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2025 cohort; Flatiron Institute & NYU. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Luke Zettlemoyer | ~$1,400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2025 cohort; University of Washington. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Antoine Bosselut | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; EPFL. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Michael Albergo | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; Harvard University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Charlotte Bunne | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; EPFL. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | David Ifeoluwa Adelani | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; Mila Quebec AI Institute. Three-year award; per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Weiyan Shi | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; Northeastern University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Brian Hie | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; Stanford University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Natasha Jaques | ~$400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort; University of Washington. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Dawn Song | ~$1,400,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2025 cohort; UC Berkeley. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2025 cohort) | |
| Jun 3, 2025 | LawZero | ~$5,000,000† | Technical AI safety research | org_reported | Launch funding for LawZero | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Zhiqiang Lin | ~$370,000* | Evals, Security | schmidt_sciences | Project: Evaluating and Defending Multimodal Computer-Use Agents under Adversarial Attacks with a Realistic Online Environment. PI identified by Caroline. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Sanjeev Arora | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Tests of Compositional Generalization as an 'Upper Bound' on AI Safety Risks. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards totaling $10M+; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap ~$500K). — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Florian Tramèr | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | ETH Zurich. Project: Formalizing Prompt Injection Defenses. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Zhijing Jin | ~$370,000* | Interpretability | schmidt_sciences | Project: Mechanistic Interpretability to Detect Test Set Contamination. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards totaling $10M+; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Evan Miyazono and Alexandre Rademaker | ~$370,000* | Foundations | schmidt_sciences | Atlas Computing. Project: Formal Verification of Software. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Ziang Xiao | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Johns Hopkins University. Project: BenchCraft: An AI-powered Toolkit to Create Valid and Efficient Benchmarks with Measurement Theory and Human-AI Collaboration. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Diyi Yang | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Quantifying and Mitigating Privacy Risks in Multi-Agent Systems. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Mykel Kochenderfer | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Stanford University. Project: Adaptive Stress Testing for Automated Unsupervised Large Language Model Testing and Failure Classification. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Daniel Kang | ~$370,000* | Evals, Security, AI × cyber | schmidt_sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Project: Benchmarks for AI Agents and Cybersecurity. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Aditi Raghunathan | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Multi-Agent AI Safety via Dynamic Games. PI identified by Caroline. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Yarin Gal | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Tracing and Eliminating Harmful Capabilities Across Model Generations. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Anna Leshinskaya | ~$370,000* | Interpretability | schmidt_sciences | Project: Mechanistic Cognitive Alignment for Morally Guided Decision-Making. PI name rendered ambiguously on page; verify before ingest. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. PI identified by Caroline. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Bo Li | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Project: Multiagent-Based T&E Environment Construction. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Shlomo Zilberstein | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Unlocking Multi-Agent System Safety with Dynamic Islands of Trust. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards totaling $10M+; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Zico Kolter | ~$370,000* | Security | schmidt_sciences | Carnegie Mellon University. Project: Understanding the Mechanism of Adversarial Transfer Across AI Models. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Karthik Narasimhan | ~$370,000* | Security | schmidt_sciences | Project: Robustness and Controllability of Language Model-Based Agents Built for Automating Tasks in Software Engineering. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | David Krueger | ~$370,000* | Evals | schmidt_sciences | Project: What Counts as Contamination? How Generalization Could Confound Evaluation. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Dawn Song | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Exploring AI Safety in Free-Form, Evolutionary Multi-Agent Systems. PI initial only on page; verify before ingest. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. PI identified by Caroline. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Nicolas Flammarion | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Robust LLM-based Scoring of Agent Alignment. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards totaling $10M+; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Maarten Sap | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: OpenAgentSafety: Measuring and Mitigating Safety Harms of LLM-based AI Agent Interactions. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Adam Gleave | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | FAR.AI. Project: Deception & Misinformation: Elicitation and Testing. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards totaling $10M+; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Sharon Li | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: A Conformal Safety Assurance Framework for Large Language Models. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Yoshua Bengio | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Mila — Quebec AI Institute. Project: LLM-Derived Guardrail for Frontier Models as a Step Towards a Cautious Scientist AI. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards totaling $10M+; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Arvind Narayanan | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research, Legal | schmidt_sciences | Princeton University. Project: Five Nines of Reliability for AI Agents. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Tatsunori Hashimoto | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: A Meta-analysis Approach to Understanding LM Capabilities. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards totaling $10M+; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Sanmi Koyejo | ~$370,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Beyond Simple Scaling: A Multi-Dimensional Family of Scaling Laws for Interventions in Pre-Training and Model Safety Optimization. One of 27 AI Safety Science awards; per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — AI Safety Science (Feb 2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Anqi Liu and Benjamin Van Durme | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Safely Confident Reasoning — inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). PIs per Caroline. — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Ellie Pavlick | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Fundamental Limitations of the Test Time Compute Paradigm. Inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Daphne Ippolito and Florian Tramer | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Improving the Legibility of Inference-Time Reasoning for Scalable Oversight — inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). PIs per Caroline. — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Sebastian Elbaum, Lu Feng, and Zsolt Kira | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | INSPECT: Inference-time Safety for Physically Embodied Chain-of-Thought in Robotics — inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). PIs per Caroline. — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Epoch AI | — | Strategy & forecasting | org_reported | FrontierMath: Open Problems pilot, December 2025 | |
| 2025 | Sachin Kumar and Chan Young Park | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Reasoning Up the Instruction Ladder: Inference-Time Deliberation for Safer AI — inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). PIs per Caroline. — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick and Loris D'Antoni | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | A Dual-Framework for Grounding AI Reasoning: Measuring Faithfulness via Code Execution and Debugging — inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). PIs per Caroline. — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Sijia Liu, Zhangyang (Atlas) Wang, and Huan Zhang | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Toward Safe Reasoning: Test-Time Unlearning of Sensitive Knowledge Beyond Final Answers — inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). PIs per Caroline. — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Maksym Andriushchenko, Francesco Croce, and Nicolas Flammarion | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Faithfulness and Safety of Latent Chain-of-Thought Reasoning — inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). PIs per Caroline. — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Andrew Ilyas and Vasilis Syrgkanis | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Quantifying, Attributing, and Improving Faithfulness in Chains of Thought — inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). PIs per Caroline. — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Jonas Geiping | — | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Listed in Schmidt Sciences awardee directory under Science of Trustworthy AI; specific project/round not shown (possibly co-PI or inference-time cohort PI). — Science of Trustworthy AI | |
| 2025 | Thomas Costello | — | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Listed in Schmidt Sciences awardee directory under Science of Trustworthy AI; specific project/round not shown (possibly co-PI or inference-time cohort PI). — Science of Trustworthy AI | |
| 2025 | Sharon Li | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Reasoning with Foresight: Safe Inference via Q-Value Guided Decoding. Inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). Note: second Schmidt Sciences trustworthy-AI award to this PI. — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Emma Brunskill and Chelsea Finn | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Enhancing Alignment through Interaction and Rich Forms of Feedback — inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). PIs per Caroline. — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Adam Block and Steven Wu | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Preventing Reward Hacking at Inference-Time with Reinforcement Learning — inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). PIs per Caroline. — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Adam Gleave, Chris Cundy, and Kellin Pelrine | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Emerging Risks from Inference-Time Compute — inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). PIs per Caroline. — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Thilo Hagendorff | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Investigating Hawthorne Effects in Large Reasoning Models. Inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Sergey Levine | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Safety in RL-Enabled Goal-Directed Agents. Inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Hal Daumé III | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Causally Grounded Inference-Time Intervention for Robust Model Alignment. Inference-time compute safety cohort (RFP capped awards at $500K, 12-18 month projects, deadline 2025-04-30); per-project amount undisclosed. — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Owain Evans | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Generalization and Hidden Tendencies in LLMs. Inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Center for AI Safety, Inc. | $250,000 | Technical AI safety research | org_reported | This project is supported by Schmidt Sciences...$250,000 in prizes | |
| 2025 | Graham Neubig | — | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Listed in Schmidt Sciences awardee directory under Science of Trustworthy AI; specific project/round not shown (possibly co-PI or inference-time cohort PI). — Science of Trustworthy AI | |
| 2025 | Neev Parikh | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Will Chain-of-Thought Monitoring Significantly Improve Safety? Inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Aylin Caliskan | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Large Language Model Safety in Inference-Time Motivated Reasoning. Inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Dan Hendrycks | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Utility Engineering and Moral Scaffolding for Safer Reasoning Models. Inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| 2025 | Shi Feng | ~$250,000* | Technical AI safety research | schmidt_sciences | Project: Evaluating Preparedness via Model Organism Spectrum. Inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Michael Wooldridge | ~$1,200,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2024 cohort; University of Oxford. Cohort of 25 sharing $12M; per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | David Autor | ~$1,200,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2024 cohort; MIT. Third cohort of 25 fellows sharing $12M; per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Tim Dettmers | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; Carnegie Mellon University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Florian Shkurti | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; University of Toronto. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Roger Grosse | ~$1,200,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2024 cohort; University of Toronto. Cohort of 25 sharing $12M; per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Raphaël Millière | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; University of Oxford. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Bijun Tang | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; Nanyang Technological University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Anjalie Field | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; Johns Hopkins University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | David Rolnick | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; Mila Quebec AI Institute. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Antonio Orvieto | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Parthe Pandit | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Sarah Dean | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; Cornell University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Yoon Kim | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; MIT. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Yuanyuan Shi | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; UC San Diego. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Ellen Vitercik | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; Stanford University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Carla Gomes | ~$1,200,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2024 cohort; Cornell University. Cohort of 25 sharing $12M; per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Simon Du | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; University of Washington. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Eric Wong | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; University of Pennsylvania. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Sara Beery | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; MIT. Cohort of 25 sharing $12M; per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Aviral Kumar | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; Carnegie Mellon University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Yejin Choi | ~$1,200,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2024 cohort; Stanford University. Cohort of 25 sharing $12M; per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Pang Wei Koh | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; University of Washington. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Marzyeh Ghassemi | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; MIT. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Gabriele Farina | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; MIT. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Dec 2024 | Chaowei Xiao | ~$300,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort; University of Wisconsin-Madison. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2024 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Himabindu Lakkaraju | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; Harvard University. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Priya Donti | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; MIT. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Kai Wang | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; Georgia Institute of Technology. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Nika Haghtalab | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; UC Berkeley. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Nicolas Papernot | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; University of Toronto. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Gege Wen | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; Imperial College London. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Linda Eggert | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; University of Oxford. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Jeffrey Ding | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; George Washington University. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Dan Hendrycks | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; Center for AI Safety. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; University of Cambridge. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Emma Pierson | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; Cornell Tech. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Haifeng Xu | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; University of Chicago. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Atoosa Kasirzadeh | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; Carnegie Mellon University. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Aditya Grover | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; UCLA. Up to $300,000 over two years (cohort of 19 sharing up to $5.5M); exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Chelsea Finn | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; Stanford University. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Amanda Coston | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; UC Berkeley. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Danish Pruthi | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; Indian Institute of Science. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Daniel Rock | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; University of Pennsylvania. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Jacob Steinhardt | ~$290,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; UC Berkeley. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| 2024 | Center for Security and Emerging Technology | ~$55,000‡ | Domestic policy | org_reported | Listed in CSET’s 2024 annual report donor tiers. | |
| Oct 2023 | Kelly Chibale | ~$1,000,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2023 cohort; University of Cape Town. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Oct 2023 | Gillian Hadfield | ~$1,000,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2023 cohort; Johns Hopkins University (University of Toronto at time of award). Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Oct 2023 | Stephanie Dinkins | ~$1,000,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2023 cohort; Stony Brook University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Oct 2023 | Tobias Rees | ~$1,000,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2023 cohort; Limn. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Oct 2023 | Anima Anandkumar | ~$1,000,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2023 cohort; Caltech. Second senior cohort announced October 2023 (then under Schmidt Futures). Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Oct 2023 | Fei-Fei Li | ~$1,000,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2023 cohort; Stanford University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| Oct 2023 | Josh Tenenbaum | ~$1,000,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2023 cohort; MIT. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2023 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Elizaveta Semenova | ~$267,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort; Imperial College London. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Adji Bousso Dieng | ~$267,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort; Princeton University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Erik Brynjolfsson | ~$1,000,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2022 (inaugural) cohort; Stanford University. Multi-year award; per-fellow amount undisclosed. AI2050 is a $125M five-year commitment by Eric and Wendy Schmidt. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Bryan Wilder | ~$267,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort; Carnegie Mellon University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Huan Zhang | ~$267,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Percy Liang | ~$1,000,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2022 (inaugural) cohort; Stanford University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Aditi Raghunathan | ~$267,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort; Carnegie Mellon University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Baobao Zhang | ~$267,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort; Syracuse University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Sina Fazelpour | ~$267,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort; Northeastern University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Jennifer Ngadiuba | ~$267,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Connor Coley | ~$267,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort; MIT. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Stuart Russell | ~$1,000,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2022 (inaugural) cohort; UC Berkeley. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Qian Yang | ~$267,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort; Cornell University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | John Tasioulas | ~$1,000,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2022 (inaugural) cohort; University of Oxford. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Karina Vold | ~$267,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort; University of Toronto. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Daniela Rus | ~$1,000,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Senior Fellow, 2022 (inaugural) cohort; MIT. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Senior Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | John Zerilli | ~$267,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort; King's College London. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Sam Kriegman | ~$267,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort; Northwestern University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Dylan Hadfield-Menell | ~$267,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort; MIT. Per-fellow amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort) | |
| 2022 | Gissella Bejarano | ~$267,000* | AI safety | schmidt_sciences | AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2022 (inaugural) cohort; Marist University. Per-fellow amount undisclosed (program cap ~$300K over two years). — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2022 cohort) |
* Estimated from Schmidt Sciences' reporting of total given out in the funding round; grant-level amounts were not provided.
† LawZero launched in June 2025 naming the Future of Life Institute, Coefficient Giving (then Open Philanthropy) and Schmidt Sciences among its backers without a split; $15m of its roughly $30m of launch funding is attributed here, divided evenly between the three. Jaan Tallinn's share is recorded as his grant to Safe AI for Humanity via Mila, and the remainder arrived through Mila, which incubated LawZero.
‡ The source reports this donation in the $15,000–$199,999 tier; recorded at the geometric mean.