organization · University of Cambridge/ None
| Jaan Tallinn | $1,179,227 | 36% | 9 |
| Future of Life Institute | $1,000,000 | 31% | 1 |
| FTX Future Fund | $540,000 | 17% | 2 |
| Coefficient Giving | $250,000 | 8% | 1 |
| Foresight Institute | $150,000 | 5% | 1 |
| UK AI Security Institute | $129,800 | 4% | 1 |
| Centre for the Study of Existential Risk | $1,983,079 | 61% | 10 |
| Gabriel Recchia | $380,000 | 12% | 1 |
| Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative | $356,148 | 11% | 1 |
| David Krueger | $250,000 | 8% | 1 |
| Lovkush Agarwal | $150,000 | 5% | 1 |
| Brian Sheil | $129,800 | 4% | 1 |
| Date ↓ | Funder | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2022 | Long-Term Future Fund | EA Funds | $5,000 | Local groups | ea_funds | Reconstruction attacks in federated learning |
| Date ↓ | Funder | Recipient | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2025 | UK AI Security Institute | Brian Sheil | Anglia Ruskin University, University of Cambridge | ~$129,800* | AI safety | uk_aisi | Guiding the boots on the ground: Advancing ethically informed socio-technical safety of AI systems in the public sector — led by Brian Sheil, Jennifer Schooling, Maya Indira Ganesh. Seed grant of up to £200,000. — Systemic Safety Grants (Phase 1) |
| Mar 2025 | Foresight Institute | Lovkush Agarwal | University of Cambridge | ~$150,000† | Security, Strategy & forecasting | foresight | Automating AI Safety Research Workflows — automating parts of the AI safety research pipeline. Focus area: Automating research and forecasting. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Mar 2025. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
| Oct 20, 2023 | Jaan Tallinn | Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative | Survival and Flourishing Fund, University of Cambridge | $356,148 | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | jaan_online | General support for the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative |
| Aug 24, 2022 | Jaan Tallinn | Centre for the Study of Existential Risk | Solenum Foundation, University of Cambridge | $123,700 | Other | jaan_online | Solenum — CSER donation |
| 2022 | Future of Life Institute | Centre for the Study of Existential Risk | University of Cambridge | $1,000,000 | Biosecurity | fli | Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER): funded director position and research on catastrophic risks including climate, pandemics, and AI. — 2022 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) |
| 2022 | FTX Future Fund | Gabriel Recchia | University of Cambridge | $380,000 | AI safety | ftx_future_fund | We recommended a grant to support research on how to fine-tune GPT-3 models to identify flaws in other fine-tuned language models' arguments for the correctness of their outputs, and to test whether these help nonexpert humans successfully judge such arguments. — Artificial Intelligence |
| 2022 | FTX Future Fund | Centre for the Study of Existential Risk | University of Cambridge | $160,000 | Other existential risk | ftx_future_fund | We recommended a grant to Cecil Abungu, Visiting Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and Research Affiliate at the Legal Priorities Project, to support the writing and publication of a book on longtermist currents in historical African thought. |
| Aug 2, 2021 | Jaan Tallinn | Centre for the Study of Existential Risk | Solenum Foundation, University of Cambridge | $137,500 | Other | jaan_online | Solenum — CSER donation |
| Apr 2021 | Coefficient Giving | David Krueger | University of Cambridge | $250,000 | Technical AI safety research | coefficient_giving | Machine Learning Research (David Krueger) |
| Aug 31, 2020 | Jaan Tallinn | Centre for the Study of Existential Risk | Solenum Foundation, University of Cambridge | $128,464 | Other | jaan_online | Solenum — CSER donation |
| Oct 15, 2019 | Jaan Tallinn | Centre for the Study of Existential Risk | Solenum Foundation, University of Cambridge | $127,700 | Other | jaan_online | Solenum — CSER donation |
| Aug 29, 2018 | Jaan Tallinn | Centre for the Study of Existential Risk | Solenum Foundation, University of Cambridge | $133,500 | Other | jaan_online | Solenum — CSER donation |
| Aug 12, 2015 | Jaan Tallinn | Centre for the Study of Existential Risk | Solenum Foundation, University of Cambridge | $42,720 | Other | jaan_online | CSER donation according to the donation agreement of august 15 2013 |
| Aug 15, 2014 | Jaan Tallinn | Centre for the Study of Existential Risk | Solenum Foundation, University of Cambridge | $42,720 | Other | jaan_online | CSER donation according to the donation agreement of august 15 2013 |
| Aug 19, 2013 | Jaan Tallinn | Centre for the Study of Existential Risk | University of Cambridge | $86,775 | Other | jaan_online | CSER donation according to the donation agreement of august 15 2013 |
* 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.
| Date ↓ | Funder | Recipient | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2024 | Jaan Tallinn | AI: Futures and Responsibility Programme | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $280,000 | Domestic policy | sff | General support of AI: Futures and Responsibility Programme |