Trace

University College London

organization

Total routed
$1,558,800
Grants
5
Average size
$311,760
Years active
2024–26

Grants over time

$0$500K$1.0M$1.5M202420252026

Biggest funders

UK AI Security Institute$1,308,80084%3
Foresight Institute$250,00016%2

Biggest recipients

Kai Sandbrink$589,50038%1
Andrew Saxe$589,50038%1
PK Douglas$150,00010%1
Shoaib Ehsan$129,8008%1
Bradley Love$100,0006%1

Grants via

DateFunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security InstituteKai SandbrinkUniversity of Oxford, University College London~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisiAlignment Training Dynamics — led by Kai Sandbrink. — Alignment Project
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security InstituteAndrew SaxeUniversity College London~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisiTheoretical Model Organisms of Misalignment: Learning Dynamics of Misalignment and Theory-Grounded Mitigation — led by Andrew Saxe. — Alignment Project
Apr 3, 2025UK AI Security InstituteShoaib EhsanUniversity of Southampton, Queensland University of Technology, University College London~$129,800AI safetyuk_aisiPRIV-LOC: Assessing and Mitigating Privacy Risks of Vision-Language Models in Image-based Geolocation Systems — led by Shoaib Ehsan, Jack Stilgoe, Michael Milford. Seed grant of up to £200,000. — Systemic Safety Grants (Phase 1)
Mar 2025Foresight InstitutePK DouglasUniversity College London~$150,000Interpretability, SecurityforesightComputing with Canonical Microcircuits: A WBE Approach to the Alignment Problem. Focus area: Neurotech/WBE. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Mar 2025. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent)
Dec 2024Foresight InstituteBradley LoveUniversity College London~$100,000§SecurityforesightNeuroTrust: Leveraging LLMs to Identify Reliable Science for Safe NeuroTech Development. Focus area: Neurotech. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Dec 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent)

* UK AISI reported a total of 27m GBP over 60 projects, so estimating each of them at the average grant size.

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

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

§ Foresight Institute planned to give $2.5-3.2m over 26 grants in 2023 and 2024; estimating each at roughly the average grant size.