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Received
$1,042,515,198
from 14 funders
Grants
355
Funders
14
Years active
2018–26

Grants over time

$0$200M$400M$600M201820192020202120222023202420252026

Biggest funders

Longview Philanthropy$414,828,44340%27
Coefficient Giving$178,861,13417%2
Future of Life Institute$123,205,11212%4
Macroscopic Ventures$113,000,00011%24
FTX Future Fund$88,095,4568%4
AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund$42,750,7684%4
OpenAI Foundation$40,500,0004%1
Lightcone Foundation$20,750,0002%3

Grants received

DateFunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Aug 2026BlueDot Impact$2,150ControlbluedotXLab Tracks: online curricula on technical AI safety fields for post-fundamentals learners. Currently developing a track on AI control.
Aug 2026BlueDot Impact$100EvalsbluedotReplicating code for ‘Mind the Gap: Evaluating Model- and Agentic-Level Vulnerabilities in LLMs with Action Graphs’ paper and extending the AgentSeer framework for evaluating safety of agentic LLMs.
Aug 2026BlueDot Impact$650AI safetybluedotAfter working as a research assistant, I am now dedicating my time to organizing NTU AI Safety, building the AI safety community through education, outreach, and collaboration.
Aug 2026BlueDot Impact$500AI safetybluedotParameter-efficient machine unlearning for multimodal diffusion language models, using LoRA to selectively remove learned knowledge while preserving retained capabilities.
Aug 2026BlueDot Impact$3,000AI safetybluedotBehavioral Self-Consistency in Language Models
Jul 2026BlueDot Impact$450OtherbluedotI'm an Anthropic Fellow working on introspection/consistency training in the hope that this will make models' verbalization more faithful.
Jul 2026BlueDot Impact$700AI safetybluedotLeading EA at Penn and preparing to re-found Penn's AI safety group, while building my own AI safety knowledge.
Jul 2026BlueDot Impact$12,000AI governance, policy, and advocacy, AI safety fieldbuildingbluedotI'm pivoting to AI governance from a decade in global climate policy. I'm working on acquiring context, getting known in the field, and pilot fieldbuilding in middle power countries.
Jul 2026BlueDot Impact$1,000EvalsbluedotI am evaluating the construct validity of AI safety evaluation frameworks of general purpose chatbots in mental health contexts. Focusing particularly on suicidal indicators in mental health dialogues
Jul 2026BlueDot Impact$3,500OtherbluedotTwo-week Berkeley visit to attend Iliad 2026, meet colleagues, refine high-level research agenda and risk models.
Jul 2026BlueDot Impact$100OtherbluedotI am part of the Technical Project Sprint, and want to pursue this research direction in AI Control: Are architecturally decorrelated monitors robust to adaptive attackers?
Jul 2026BlueDot Impact$500OtherbluedotReproducing the SDF portion of Believe It or Not (https://github.com/safety-research/believe-it-or-not) with synthetic facts chosen to explore the effects of continual learning on alignment.
Jul 2026BlueDot Impact$400EvalsbluedotMy project is about replicating and extending "AnthroBench", a library for generating, rating, and analyzing dialogues to evaluate anthropomorphic behaviors in LLMs.
Jul 2026BlueDot Impact$4,950Control, Evals, AI governance, policy, and advocacybluedotTechnical AI governance research at GovAI, currently assessing best practices for how frontier AI companies report model evaluations and emergency shutdown mechanisms for AI agents.
Jul 2026BlueDot Impact$3,000Events, Strategy & forecastingbluedotBringing professional-grade threat modeling into AI safety. Building a foundational methodology doc, running workshops for orgs in the field, and creating the threat model landscape piece by piece.
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$4,000AI safetybluedotI am presenting my AI safety papers to ICML 2026
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$2,000OtherbluedotPresenting my accepted archival paper at the ICML 2026 EMM-QA Workshop on evaluating multimodal foundation models and improving the reliability of AI evaluation.
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$150Technical AI safety researchbluedotReplicating and extending the Alignment Faking in LLMs paper to more recent models
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$100OtherbluedotEvaluating whether machine unlearning methods genuinely erase knowledge or merely hide it behind refusal behaviour that can be reversed (additional).
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$2,300OtherbluedotI'm an Oxford maths undergrad working on agentic attack control and AI security. I previously was a research contractor at Redwood Research, where I worked on attack selection in control evaluations.
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$3,050Technical AI safety research, EventsbluedotPresenting alignment research at an ICML workshop, and visiting ICML to gain experience and connections if I choose to found my own org.
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$200Alignment methods, Controlbluedotprogram: ARBOx4 in Oxford to build skills required for career in AI safety research. Project: exploring debate-based AI control protocols
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$500Evals, Training pipelinesbluedotRunning mechinterp experiments and agent evals on ICL-induced emergent misalignment. This is my project for the ARENA-based TARA program (https://taraprogram.org/).
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$1,500OtherbluedotTech Thesis Ideathon - a day of research-crafting workshops for 30-40 women researchers and aspiring researchers in AI/AIS, organised in partnership with Lumina House.
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$200InterpretabilitybluedotMechanistic Interpretability in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$1,800AI safetybluedotHelping draft and implement Vietnam's AI Law, Southeast Asia's first binding AI law, from inside the science ministry, and getting senior officials to take catastrophic AI risk seriously.
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$750Technical AI safety researchbluedotOrganizing NTU AI Safety in Taiwan, and attending ICML 2026 & WiML (Seoul, July 6–11) to present a research poster, connect with AI safety researchers, and bring insights back to grow our community.
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$2,400Technical AI safety researchbluedotReplicating and extending the Alignment Faking in LLMs paper to more recent Claude model(s) using more ambiguous user prompts
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$5,050AI governance, policy, and advocacy, Training pipelinesbluedotAI Safety Policy Summer Fellowship and HKS Summer Program at Harvard
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$200SecuritybluedotInvestigate if the past-tense jailbreak vulnerability in refusal-trained LLMs generalizes across languages with diverse grammatical structures.
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$1,300InterpretabilitybluedotUnderstanding learned representations and failure modes in deep neural networks, with a focus on interpretability and generalization
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$68OtherbluedotTicket for NZ AIS conference
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$3,000OtherbluedotI worked on making fine-tuning more robust in continual training scenarios. Now I am more interested in working on Activation Oracles, Model Personas, and Safety Pretraining.
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$3,000OtherbluedotAttending TAIGR@ICML2026. I co-authored two accepted papers there: one on systems-theoretic risk-analysis of loss of control; another on compute monitoring in datacentres via network analysis.
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$5,000OtherbluedotI'm currently doing work for the New Zealand Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on AIxBio risks. I also work in biotechnology policy at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$117Local groupsbluedotTesting whether LLMs caused semantic diversity to decline in animal welfare discourse on Reddit, using regression discontinuity around ChatGPT's launch in November 2022.
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$1,875AI governance, policy, and advocacy, EventsbluedotPresenting accepted research on AI incident monitoring and risk measurement at the ICML 2026 Technical AI Governance Workshop in Seoul, Korea.
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$5,000Other existential riskbluedot10-week internship researching the AI/bio/nuclear risk sections of Brookings policy book
Jun 2026BlueDot Impact$350OtherbluedotValidating Natural Language Autoencoders using constructed-ground-truth model organisms to test whether NLAs detect hidden safety-relevant cognition.
May 2026BlueDot Impact$5,400OtherbluedotStudying technical indicators of model introspection, networking in the space of machine self-awareness and model welfare
May 2026BlueDot Impact$1,352OtherbluedotTravel for to attend 2026 Cooperative AI Summer School
May 2026BlueDot Impact$250AI safetybluedotReplicating the findings of "Learning a Generative Meta-Model of LLM Activations", Luo et. al, and trying to add conditioning to the GLP for giving the model better context of the manifold.
May 2026BlueDot Impact$100OtherbluedotTesting whether evaluation awareness emerges before instrumental convergence in RLVR-trained models, using OLMo 3 7B thinking traces and InstrumentalEval across 14 training checkpoints
May 2026BlueDot Impact$500OtherbluedotTesting mode capabilities against cyber ranges with defensive tooling
May 2026BlueDot Impact$1,200Local groupsbluedotOrganising an AI safety comms meetup (pre-EAG London)
May 2026BlueDot Impact$6,000OtherbluedotBlueDot co-branded social to close the Trustworthy AI for Good Workshop at ICML2026 in Seoul
May 2026BlueDot Impact$7,085Training pipelinesbluedotI am running SRIE, a mentored-research programme for Cambridge Mathematics Undergraduate students to explore research problems in industry, including AI Safety.
May 2026BlueDot Impact$1,300OtherbluedotTravel Support for Trip to Boston
May 2026BlueDot Impact$75OtherbluedotEvaluating whether machine unlearning methods genuinely erase knowledge or merely hide it behind refusal behaviour that can be reversed.
May 2026BlueDot Impact$3,000OtherbluedotDesigning a pragmatic classification framework for AI incident monitoring, in collaboration with Arcadia Impact
May 2026BlueDot Impact$3,700AI safetybluedotTravel to WAIC 2026 Shanghai to learn substantially about non-elite Chinese AI sentiments, outputting analytical memo and macrostrategy report for Western AI safety community.
May 2026BlueDot Impact$1,750Evals, EventsbluedotI am hoping to attend Effective Altruism Global’s London conference from May 29-31. There, I plan to explore career opportunities in AI safety and evaluate my potential contributions to the space.
Apr 2026BlueDot Impact$500OtherbluedotAgentic misalignment in sub-frontier models.
Apr 2026BlueDot Impact$150Technical AI safety researchbluedotTechnical AI safety project cohort
Apr 2026BlueDot Impact$400OtherbluedotAttending the inaugural EAGxDC Conference from May 1-3, 2026
Apr 2026BlueDot Impact$200OtherbluedotAlignment Faking Replication and Ablations
Apr 2026BlueDot Impact$300AI safetybluedotDoes cultural framing affect AI safety boundaries?
Apr 2026BlueDot Impact$100OtherbluedotI am working on studying the effects of compression techniques (quantization, pruning, SVD) on unlearning.
Feb 2026BlueDot Impact$100OtherbluedotReimplementation & extending linear probes for high stakes detection
2026Longview Philanthropy~$24,400,000*Other existential riskfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — other existential risk
2026AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund~$22,251,572AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
2026Longview Philanthropy~$200,000,000AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
2026Macroscopic Ventures~$49,000,000§AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
2026Macroscopic Ventures~$10,500,000§Otherfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — other causes
2026Longview Philanthropy~$25,000,000*Biosecurityfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — biosecurity
2026Coefficient Giving~$111,139,370AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
2026Macroscopic Ventures~$10,500,000§Animal welfarefund_estimatesAggregate estimate — animal welfare
Dec 3, 2025OpenAI Foundation$40,500,000Otheropenai_foundation$40.5m in unrestricted grants split across the 208 nonprofits listed on this page; the Foundation published the pooled total only. Those 208 are recorded individually with undisclosed amounts. — People-First AI Fund
Jul 2025Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$100,000Controlea_fundsInvestigating steganographic reasoning in LLM agents via AutoGen-style paraphrased communication benchmarks
Jun 2025BlueDot Impact$1,000OtherbluedotContent Creation Equipment funding
Apr 2025Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$10,000Training pipelinesea_fundsTop up funding on biodefense PhD tuition
Mar 31, 2025Jaan TallinnSlimrock Holdings$800,000Otherjaan_onlineUndisclosed
2025Macroscopic Ventures~$4,500,000*Animal welfarefund_estimatesAggregate estimate — animal welfare
2025Longview Philanthropy~$60,000,000*AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
2025Macroscopic Ventures~$18,000,000*AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
2025Longview Philanthropy~$7,500,000*Biosecurityfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — biosecurity
2025AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund~$13,515,196*AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
2025Macroscopic Ventures~$4,500,000*Otherfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — other causes
Jan 2025EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$90,860EA infrastructureea_funds6-month expenses for a fellowship helping professionals transition into high-impact causes
2025Longview Philanthropy~$2,100,000*Other existential riskfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — other existential risk
2025Coefficient Giving~$67,721,764*AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
Dec 31, 2024Jaan TallinnSlimrock Holdings$1,300,000Otherjaan_onlineUndisclosed
Oct 2024Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$15,348Animal welfareea_funds4 month salary to conduct research, create resources, and build skills relating to the aquatic animal stunning systems
Oct 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$30,500Career transitionsea_funds6 months continuation of AI safety research I did this past summer to help my career transition
Oct 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$2,562Training pipelinesea_fundsMATS Extension - SF Office Cost and Conference Travel
Oct 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$20,000Training pipelinesea_fundsUpskilling for AI safety research
Jul 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$50,000Technical AI safety researchea_funds1-year spending for my theoretical AI interp. research, and a supporting group for AI independent reseachers in EU
Jul 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$15,800Eventsea_funds4-month stipend for working on a mainline AI scenario and funding to attend defense conferences
Jul 2024Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$108,000Animal welfareea_fundsCreation of local bad-cop “groups” in Asia to drive corporate compliance of 2025 cage-free commitments
Jul 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$31,000Interpretabilityea_funds3-month funding to work on unlearning with sparse autoencoders
Jul 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$40,000Interpretabilityea_fundsRobust unlearning evaluation and interpretability - MATS extension, 6 months
Jul 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$37,872Legalea_fundsTuition support for law school to work on AI policy
Apr 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$83,333Technical AI safety researchea_funds8 months stipend for AI security projects and to explore setting up an organization
Apr 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$20,000Biosecurityea_funds1 semester of funds for PhD program in biodefense
Apr 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$12,233Domestic policyea_funds6-month stipend for an unpaid internship on AI policy at the Ministry of Economic Development in Italy to contribute to AI safety
Apr 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$2,000Technical AI safety researchea_fundsFunding for EAG-related travel and career planning.
Apr 2024EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$85,099Otherea_funds10 month salary for EA Hungary staff and conditional funding for AIS Hungary staff
Apr 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$16,000Technical AI safety researchea_funds6-month salary top-up for an internship at the CNAS Technology and National Security Program, helping to formulate policy recommendations to mitigate national security risks from AI and other emerging technologies.
Apr 2024Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$4,980Animal welfareea_fundsOne year of funding for an undergraduate animal welfare club working to increase awareness of farmed animal welfare amongst the student population
Apr 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$4,200Biosecurityea_funds1.5-week salary to travel for bioinformatics work
Feb 2024OpenAI~$10,000,000*AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
2024Lightcone FoundationSilicon Valley Community Foundation$8,500,000Otherlightcone_990Granted to a donor-advised fund at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation; onward recipients not itemized — Form 990 (2024)
Jan 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$25,000Alignment methods, Career transitions, Economicsea_funds4-month salary to continue collaborations, conduct research, upskill, and network in the field of AI alignment
Jan 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$3,000Global health and developmentea_fundsTravel expenses to present at the Global Health Security Conference
2024Longview Philanthropy~$14,828,157*AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
Jan 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$44,000Interpretabilityea_fundsSix months of upskilling and research in ML interpretability
Jan 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$9,675Technical AI safety researchea_fundsLiving cost top off while working on long-term relevant research at DC think tank
2024Longview Philanthropy~$6,000,000*Biosecurityfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — biosecurity
2024Macroscopic Ventures~$1,500,000*Otherfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — other causes
Jan 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$127,000AI × bioea_funds1 year stipend for policy and technical work on biosecurity
Jan 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$9,250Otherea_fundsFunds for early-career expenses and travel to visit research mentors over the end of the semester and the summer 2024
2024Longview Philanthropy~$4,907,286*Other existential riskfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — other existential risk
Jan 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$27,720Training pipelinesea_fundsResearch stipend to continue MATS 5.0 project on language models’ internal representations of uncertainty
2024AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund~$4,984,000*AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
Jan 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$3,821Global health and developmentea_fundsTravel Support to present biosecurity policy research at the Global Health Security Conference
Jan 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$2,200Technical AI safety researchea_funds1 month room and flight to visit MIT FutureTech
2024Macroscopic Ventures~$1,500,000*Animal welfarefund_estimatesAggregate estimate — animal welfare
2024Macroscopic Ventures~$2,000,000*AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
Jan 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$37,000Interpretabilityea_funds1.5 years’ salary and compute to research consequences of deep learning theory for mechanistic interpretability
2024Future of Life InstituteSilicon Valley Community Foundation$2,470,096AI safety, Other existential riskfli_990Granted to a donor-advised fund at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation — support sponsored projects encode, tarbell, the elders, the collective intelligence project, and university research into the consequences of nuclear war — Form 990 (2024)
Jan 2024Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$10,000Animal welfareea_fundsSupport for a project that uses animal rights photography and videography to expose all animal cruelty
Dec 31, 2023Jaan TallinnSlimrock Holdings$500,000Otherjaan_onlineUndisclosed
Oct 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$15,000Career transitionsea_fundsThree-month salary to continue work on AI safety research and look for further funding opportunities
Oct 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$32,413Local groups, EA infrastructureea_funds6 month salary for 2.65 FTE staff of a national group
Jul 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$16,627Career transitions, EA infrastructureea_fundsA small version of MLAB in Oxford for promising existing AI safety researchers wanting to upskill in ML
Jul 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$48,423Interpretabilityea_funds4-month salary and expenses to research an approach to identify feature directions in neural networks
Jul 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$8,000EA infrastructureea_fundsworkforce diversification to retain talent outside the US
Jul 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$27,450Org incubation & ops, AI welfareea_funds6m of research in nascent areas of EA/longtermism (e.g. digital sentience) with the aim of founding a new org or company
Jul 2023Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$5,000Animal welfareea_funds"Animal Liberation" by Peter Singer into Thai to promote animal welfare awareness and ethical considerations in Thailand
Jul 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$52,200Foundations, Training pipelinesea_funds6 months MATS extension to work on a paper on (dis)empowerment.
Jul 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$30,000Career transitions, Strategy & forecasting, Economicsea_funds5-month stipend to create a research agenda and conduct research using the IO literature in economics for AI strategy
Jul 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$20,000Career transitionsea_fundsGeneral support for an AI safety researcher in a transitionary phase for 3-5 months
Jul 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$7,400Interpretability, Training pipelinesea_funds4-month salary for remote part-time mechanistic interpretability research under Neel Nanda extending SERI MATS research
Jul 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$93,955EA infrastructureea_fundsSix months of support for High Impact Defense ("HI-DEF")
Jul 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$15,962Biosecurity, EA infrastructureea_funds3 months pay for career pivot - time to focus on founding a new org or taking an effective job working in biosecurity
Jul 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$40,680International governance, Local groupsea_funds9-month university tuition support for technical AI safety research focused on empowering AI governance interventions
Jul 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$46,000EA infrastructureea_funds3 months salary and costs for skilling up and exploring new projects (e.g. exploring setting up a new meta org)
Apr 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$63,242Interpretability, Alignment methods, Career transitionsea_funds6-month grant to pivot into AI alignment research. Goals include upskilling in linear algebra and probability theory, independent mechanistic interpretability research and working on AI Safety Camp research project "Understanding Search in Transformers."
Apr 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$17,000Otherea_funds1 year salary to outline vulnerabilities, propose solution, get buy-in for the security of benchtop DNA synthesis
Apr 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$48,000Interpretability, Alignment methods, Career transitionsea_funds6-month stipend for up-skilling in technical AI alignment & doing independent interpretability research
Apr 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$40,000Career transitionsea_fundsThis grant provides a 6 month stipend at £30k to transition into technical AI safety research.
Apr 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$115,000Research infrastructureea_fundsFunding towards the Computer Science Master's program at NYU to pursue technical AI safety research.
Apr 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$14,000Local groups, EA infrastructureea_funds4-month career transition grant to upskill in organisation-building and community-building. Harry is the Logistics Co-Lead at SPARC this summer and has been accepted into Tee Barnett's Coaching Program.
Apr 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$37,490EA infrastructureea_fundsThis grant provides funding for Effective Altruism Movement Building Japan. This grant is made up of a $13,180 stipend for 15hrs/week for 6 months.
Apr 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$60,000Advocacyea_fundsVideos explaining developments within AI and their impact on society
Apr 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$12,076EA infrastructureea_fundsFunding a 6-month 0.25 FTE stipend for an Operations Associate and expenses to maintain & grow the EA Opportunity Board. The EA Opportunity Board is helping aspiring effective altruists skill-build and find impactful positions.
Apr 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$4,344Career transitionsea_fundsStipend for 4-month placement at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Apr 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$1,000Otherea_fundsSmall grant to spend on productivity/research related things
Apr 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$79,500Local groupsea_fundsFunding for a 1-year running and scaling of EA Serbia. We expect impact on AIS and Biosecurity and other causes
Apr 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$15,500Training pipelinesea_funds6-month salary to support transition from PhD to more impactful career
Apr 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$48,000Controlea_funds6-month salary for study of mesa-optimisation and deception in order to advance our understanding of how transformers solve algorithmic tasks and provide a concrete example of mechanistic interpretability for deception.
Apr 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$7,700International governanceea_funds3-month unpaid AI Governance internship to build career capital at the Millennium Project, a global futurist think tank
Apr 2023Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$60,000Animal welfareea_funds12-month grant to support a policy advocacy organization dedicated to banning the use of live baitfish
Apr 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$9,887Otherea_funds1 year of funding to help cover expenses of transferring to a MSc, studying Mathematics with a minor in Informatics.
Apr 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$34,300EA infrastructure, Global health and developmentea_funds12-month salary for 1 FTE staff from to support EAs via Effective Altruism Anywhere and professional development
Apr 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$925EA infrastructureea_fundsAssist the The 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Apr 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$8,000Technical governanceea_fundsTwo months' salary to work on hardware-related AI governance, including limiting the actors who can create dangerous AI
Jan 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$5,300Training pipelinesea_funds3-months stipend for upskilling in ML to transition from mathematics (at PhD level) to AI safety work. During the grant period, project goals include replicating an interpretability paper with longer term goals of publishing project write-ups.
Jan 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$12,000Domestic policyea_funds2-months support for working on a research project with RAND aiming to comprehensively map the authorities the US government has to govern technology development.
Jan 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$19,530Training pipelinesea_funds3-month grant to investigate AI talent pipelines and related career pathways that maximise lifelong impact on existential risk reduction.
2023AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund~$2,000,000*AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
Jan 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$5,000Training pipelinesea_funds6 month salary top-up and research expenses for finishing a PhD on aligning language models
2023Macroscopic Ventures~$1,200,000*Animal welfarefund_estimatesAggregate estimate — animal welfare
Jan 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$50,000EA infrastructureea_funds6-month salary to write a critical review of Effective Altruism on various aspects of the movement, its institutions and leaders. The goal of the critical review is to encourage discussion that helps identify ways that EA can improve.
Jan 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$65,500Training pipelinesea_funds12 month salary for 1.15 FTE+costs for upskilling & piloting India’s 1st AIS Intro-fellowships (1 virtual+ 1 on-campus)
Jan 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$5,000Eventsea_fundsRetrospective travel funding for two instructors and some attendees for a 5-day writing workshop organised by Flourish: the Student Journal for Positive Impact.
Jan 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$1,200Technical governanceea_funds40 hours of research stipend for researchers to finish a paper on governing AI via compute
Jan 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$14,488Training pipelinesea_funds6-month salary and a course funding to upskill before proceeding into an AI safety-related role
Jan 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$14,019Technical AI safety researchea_funds3 month salary for independent research into and articles on large language models, agent foundations, and AI alignment
2023Longview Philanthropy~$10,570,000*AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
2023Longview Philanthropy~$5,270,000*Biosecurityfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — biosecurity
2023Lightcone FoundationSilicon Valley Community Foundation$2,250,000Otherlightcone_990Granted to a donor-advised fund at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation; onward recipients not itemized — Form 990 (2023)
Jan 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$9,900Career transitionsea_funds3-month support during career transition to explore project-based longtermist work (in AI and bio in particular, writing up key learnings )
2023Longview Philanthropy~$5,428,000*Other existential riskfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — other existential risk
Jan 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$30,000Local groupsea_funds12-month salary for a full-time national coordinator of EA Brazil to support community growth and coordinate projects
Jan 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$26,800Domestic policyea_funds3-4 month salary to help setup a new division at a US think tank doing AI governance research
Jan 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$2,000Career transitionsea_fundsHelp with OSCP cybersecurity training+certification
Jan 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$9,800Training pipelinesea_fundsPreparation for starting biosecurity grad school
Jan 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$18,000Training pipelinesea_fundsSupport for independent projects & upskilling for AI safety work
2023Macroscopic Ventures~$1,600,000*AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
Jan 2023Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$10,000EA infrastructureea_fundsBudget for a national EA group to fund outstanding local or high-context grant opportunities which are urgent and/or low cost but high EV
2023Macroscopic Ventures~$1,200,000*Otherfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — other causes
Dec 31, 2022Jaan TallinnSlimrock Holdings$1,100,000Otherjaan_onlineUndisclosed
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$5,550AI × cyberea_fundsFunds to attend cybersecurity conferences - defcon.org and blackhat.com
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$80,000Technical AI safety researchea_fundsSupport for a prospective alignment researcher with a strong math background, attempting to pivot from a dataeng/finance job
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$30,000AI safety fieldbuildingea_fundsRetrospective support for Alexis Carlier's career transition including but not limited to exploring helping set up an x-risk research institute and working on a research project on AI ethics boards with the Centre for Governance of AI.
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$4,528Career transitionsea_fundsGrant to help cover mental health related expenses for PhD student pursuing research areas that intersect economics and EA
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$7,000Career transitionsea_funds3-4 month stipend for AI safety upskilling and research
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$10,135Animal welfareea_fundsTravel grant for in-person (re)connection with EA community, and to share findings and methods from Asia FAW research.
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$15,000AI safety fieldbuildingea_fundsLiving cost top off while working on long-term relevant research at DC think tank
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$8,720Career transitionsea_funds3.5 months of tools for ML engineering skill-up
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$13,500EA infrastructureea_funds4-month European EA internship and self-development grant
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$11,560Domestic policyea_fundsTwo month salary and bridge funding to complete an AI governance report and produce a related article
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$24,056EA infrastructureea_fundsFunding for a nine month research fellowship to explore the role of cultural influences on attitudes to nuclear weapons
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$48,000Interpretabilityea_funds6 month salary for SERI MATS scholar to continue working on Alignment and ML Interpretability
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$7,645Alignment methodsea_funds12-month salary to research assumptions underlying most existing work on AI alignment and AI forecasting
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$15,320Career transitionsea_funds2-month research stipend to build skills, and broaden action space for EA related projects to undertake in gap year
Oct 2022Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$40,000Animal welfareea_funds6-month salary to support video creation on EA and the welfare of farmed and wild animals targeting a Chinese audience
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$28,160Technical AI safety researchea_fundsFunding for MSc Thesis at NYU on Language Models Safety
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$2,732Career transitionsea_fundsFunding to take an online course on public policy from LSE to help me transition from Machine Learning to AI-Governance
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$50,000Biosecurityea_funds6 month salary and minor project expenses for career exploration, focused on biosecurity projects
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$233,300Career transitionsea_fundsImpactful Government Careers - 2 years salary costs for career advising and community building for UK civil servants
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$50,000Evalsea_fundsSetting up experiments with LLM to examine Strategic Instrumental Behavior in real-life setting
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$1,100Career transitionsea_fundsMultiple ML projects (mostly to build up skills for AI safety PhD)
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$3,000EA infrastructureea_funds6-month salary to set up longtermism community building work in China
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$33,000Training pipelinesea_fundsSupport for upskilling in technical AI Safety Research to contribute to the field through an engineering or research role
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$8,333Career transitionsea_fundsTwo months of independent study in alignment to start my career as an alignment researcher
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$24,000Local groupsea_funds12-month salary and operational funds to do city EA group community organizing
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$3,690Local groupsea_fundsInternship to contribute to a European EA group, write about Community Building Strategies, and develop AI Governance Fellowship
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$75,346AI safety fieldbuildingea_fundsA twelve month salary to pursue independent writing on the sociology and philosophy of longtermist effective altruism
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$15,137Local groupsea_funds2 month self-study grant for November and December 2022 for EA Oxford and EA MIT community builder
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$7,500Securityea_fundsFall semester stipend to work on AI Safety research, in particular adversarial robustness, monitoring, and trojaning
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$3,800EA infrastructureea_fundsFunding to stay in SF for 3 weeks (after EAG SF) to research starting an EA student consultancy
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$3,000Other existential riskea_fundsResearch project on strategies to mitigate x-risk in Party Politics
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$25,000Biosecurityea_funds3-month funding to explore GCBR-focused biosecurity projects after having finished my virology PhD
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$35,000Technical AI safety researchea_funds8-month salary to do research in AI safety
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$14,416Otherea_fundsDedicating 1-2 days per week over 1 year to running multiple rationalist communities
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$3,600Training pipelinesea_fundsIndependent upskilling in AGI Safety
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$50,847EA infrastructureea_fundsFunds to hire a PA for Peter Wildeford
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$5,300EA infrastructureea_funds3 months of financial support to help me recover from a health crisis and return to my career in an EA-related position
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$2,600Career transitionsea_fundsProfessional development funding to network and meet professionals working in alternative protein companies, AI safety, and computational biology and purchase a new laptop for ML/AI/Computational Neuroscience studies and research
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$9,750Training pipelinesea_funds3-month salary for part-time upskilling in technical AI safety
Oct 2022Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$132,000Animal welfareea_fundsAnnual expenditure for a college food literacy program and related events on Animal Welfare advocacy and Alt. Protein
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$30,000Career transitionsea_fundsAI master's thesis and exploring longtermism in London, 5-month living expenses, flight, productivity tools
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$12,225Epistemic infrastructureea_fundsPublication and dissemination of EA-aligned research on qualitative methods, research utilisation and work in Asia
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$96,000Advocacyea_funds14-month salary and research costs for 3 research reports on best risk communication practices for longtermist orgs
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$3,690Local groupsea_funds3-month internship to assist European EA group and gain experience to set up a the first EA group in a different European country + self-development
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$9,500Otherea_fundsCommunity building and exploration in the information security field.
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$11,500AI governance, policy, and advocacyea_funds4 months salary to upskill in technical safety, ML, and AI chip supply chains before participating in an AI governance program
Jul 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$43,600Interpretabilityea_funds7-month salary to do independent AI Safety research on interpretability and upskill in ML engineering
Jul 2022Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$46,000Animal welfareea_fundsPT salary for building FAW/AP research organisation and supporting FAW/AP research and community building in Asia
Jul 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$12,500EA infrastructureea_fundsSupport for outreach & community work an EA group to be paid in 2 instalments conditional on progress
Jul 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$6,384Alignment methodsea_fundsSupport to investigate setting up Alignment Australasia to engage in movement building activities
Jul 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$45,719EA infrastructureea_fundsCommunity building for a city EA group
Jul 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$13,190EA infrastructureea_funds6-week salary for developing and publishing critiques of the EA community
Jul 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$12,600Otherea_funds3-month funding to do an internship with the Charter Cities Institute’s
Jul 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$6,390Local groupsea_fundsSupport for university EA/Alt Protein Project community building and up-skilling on technical AI safety
Jul 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$33,000Technical AI safety researchea_fundsSupport to work on a safe exploration project with an AI research organization
Jul 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$5,000Alignment methodsea_fundsSupport for travel and equipment expenses for EA work on AI alignment
Jul 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$4,000Local groupsea_fundsFunding a 4-day visit to the Sculpting Evolution group
Jul 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$30,000Training pipelinesea_fundsPhD/salary top-up
Jul 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$5,000EA infrastructureea_fundsSupport to work on a YouTube+Twitch channel that educates people on the ideas of effective altruism
Jul 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$5,250International governanceea_fundsSupport for research on international standards for AI
Jul 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$1,905Research infrastructureea_fundsSupport for equipment for AI Safety and Metascience research
Jul 2022Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$63,000Animal welfareea_fundsLaunching the first Aquatic Animal Welfare Movement in Hong Kong by collaborating with key stakeholders including the public and industry
Jul 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$63,259Interpretabilityea_fundsDoing a PhD in Safe and Trusted AI with a focus on inductive biases towards the interpretability of neural networks
Jul 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$20,000Foundationsea_fundsSupport to explore the concept of normative risk and its potential practical consequences
Jul 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$4,000Local groupsea_fundsSupport for courses and research on AI
Jul 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$55,000Research infrastructureea_fundsIndependent alignment research at the intersection of computational cognitive neuroscience and AGI safety
Jul 2022Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$15,000Animal welfareea_funds12-month salary and fees to develop social media to raise the awareness of farm animal welfare and law in mainland China

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* Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2026; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total. Non-AI giving is split evenly between biosecurity and other existential risk.

Estimated total given out by the AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund in 2026; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2026; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

§ Estimated total given out by Macroscopic Ventures in 2026; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total. Split 70% AI safety / 15% animal welfare / 15% other.

Estimated total given to AI safety by Coefficient Giving in 2026 so far; AI-safety grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* Estimated total given out by Macroscopic Ventures in 2025; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total. Split 70% AI safety / 15% animal welfare / 15% other.

* Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2025; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2025; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total. Non-AI giving is split evenly between biosecurity and other existential risk.

* Estimated total given out by the AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund in 2025; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* Estimated total given to AI safety by Coefficient Giving in 2025; AI-safety grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* OpenAI announced $10m of Superalignment Fast Grants in February 2024; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2024; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2024; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total. Non-AI giving is split evenly between biosecurity and other existential risk.

* Estimated total given out by Macroscopic Ventures in 2024; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total. Split 70% AI safety / 15% animal welfare / 15% other.

* Estimated total given out by the AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund in 2024; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* Estimated total given out by the AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund in 2023; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* Estimated total given out by Macroscopic Ventures in 2023; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total. Split 70% AI safety / 15% animal welfare / 15% other.

* Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2023; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2023; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total. Non-AI giving is split evenly between biosecurity and other existential risk.

* The FTX Future Fund reported $68,523,406 awarded for EA infrastructure; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2022; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2022; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total. Non-AI giving is split evenly between biosecurity and other existential risk.

* Estimated total given out by Macroscopic Ventures in 2022; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total. Split 70% AI safety / 15% animal welfare / 15% other.

* The FTX Future Fund reported $62,916,978 awarded for AI safety; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* The FTX Future Fund reported $40,804,111 awarded for biosecurity; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* The FTX Future Fund reported $56,625,305 awarded for other causes; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* Future of Life Institute's Form 990 reports $372,863,899 of grants paid in 2022; grants itemized in this database are subtracted from the total.

* Estimated total given out by Macroscopic Ventures in 2021; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total. Split 70% AI safety / 15% animal welfare / 15% other.

* Future of Life Institute's Form 990 reports $13,521,246 of grants paid in 2021; grants itemized in this database are subtracted from the total.

* Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2021; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total. Non-AI giving is split evenly between biosecurity and other existential risk.

* Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2021; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* Estimated total given out by Macroscopic Ventures in 2020; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total. Split 70% AI safety / 15% animal welfare / 15% other.

* Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2020; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total. Non-AI giving is split evenly between biosecurity and other existential risk.

* Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2020; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2019; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total. Non-AI giving is split evenly between biosecurity and other existential risk.

* Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2019; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* Estimated total given out by Macroscopic Ventures in 2019; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total. Split 70% AI safety / 15% animal welfare / 15% other.

* Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2018; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

* Estimated total given out by Longview Philanthropy in 2018; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total. Non-AI giving is split evenly between biosecurity and other existential risk.