organization
| UK AI Security Institute | $1,308,800 | 84% | 3 |
| Foresight Institute | $250,000 | 16% | 2 |
| Kai Sandbrink | $589,500 | 38% | 1 |
| Andrew Saxe | $589,500 | 38% | 1 |
| PK Douglas | $150,000 | 10% | 1 |
| Shoaib Ehsan | $129,800 | 8% | 1 |
| Bradley Love | $100,000 | 6% | 1 |
| Date ↓ | Funder | Recipient | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 2026 | UK AI Security Institute | Kai Sandbrink | University College London, University of Oxford | ~$589,500* | Technical AI safety research | uk_aisi | Alignment Training Dynamics — led by Kai Sandbrink. — Alignment Project |
| Feb 19, 2026 | UK AI Security Institute | Andrew Saxe | University College London | ~$589,500* | Technical AI safety research | uk_aisi | Theoretical Model Organisms of Misalignment: Learning Dynamics of Misalignment and Theory-Grounded Mitigation — led by Andrew Saxe. — Alignment Project |
| Apr 3, 2025 | UK AI Security Institute | Shoaib Ehsan | Queensland University of Technology, University College London, University of Southampton | ~$129,800† | AI safety | uk_aisi | PRIV-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 2025 | Foresight Institute | PK Douglas | University College London | ~$150,000‡ | Interpretability, Security | foresight | Computing 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 2024 | Foresight Institute | Bradley Love | University College London | ~$100,000§ | Security | foresight | NeuroTrust: 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.