Trace

Vincent Weisser

individual

Total granted
$12,725
Grants
32
Average size
$398
Coverage
100%
itemized by recipient
Years active
2023–25

Grants over time

$0$3K$5K$8K$10K202320242025

Biggest cause areas

Technical AI safety research$7,67060%15
AI safety fieldbuilding$1,69313%5
AI safety meta$1,52712%3
Other$1,46512%6
AI governance, policy, and advocacy$2502%2
AI safety adjacent$1201%1

Biggest recipients

Cadenza Labs$2,71021%1
Timaeus$1,70013%2
MATS Research$1,0008%1
AI Safety Research Organization Incubator$9778%1
Berkeley Genomics Project$6005%1
Lucy Farnik$5905%1
Epoch AI$4504%1
Agustín Martinez Suñé$4504%1

Grants made

Date ↓RecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Apr 1, 2025LuthienManifund$400OthermanifundLuthien
Mar 16, 2025Epoch AIManifund$450Strategy & forecastingmanifundInvestigating and informing the public about the trajectory of AI
Mar 16, 2025Berkeley Genomics ProjectManifund$600Othermanifundhuman intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project
Mar 16, 2025Scott ViteriManifund$100OthermanifundAttention-Guided-RL for Human-Like LMs
Mar 16, 2025Agustín Martinez SuñéManifund$450FoundationsmanifundSafePlanBench: evaluating a Guaranteed Safe AI Approach for LLM-based Agents
Jan 30, 2025MATS ResearchManifund$1,000Training pipelinesmanifundMATS Program
Jan 30, 2025EffiSciencesManifund$100Training pipelines, BiosecuritymanifundBiosecurity bootcamp by EffiSciences
Jan 30, 2025TimaeusManifund$200InterpretabilitymanifundNext Steps in Developmental Interpretability
Jan 30, 2025Lightcone InfrastructureManifund$100Epistemic infrastructuremanifundLightcone Infrastructure
Jan 30, 2025Oliver KlingefjordManifund$215OthermanifundAI-Driven Market Alternatives for a post-AGI world
Jan 30, 2025AI Safety CampManifund$200Eventsmanifund10th edition of AI Safety Camp
Feb 20, 2024Michaël Rubens TrazziManifund$50AdvocacymanifundMaking 52 AI Alignment Video Explainers and Podcasts
Jan 17, 2024AI Safety Research Organization IncubatorManifund$977Org incubation & opsmanifundAI Safety Research Organization Incubator - Pilot Program
Dec 5, 2023Robert KrzyzanowskiManifund$150ControlmanifundScaling Training Process Transparency
Nov 30, 2023Cadenza LabsManifund$2,710InterpretabilitymanifundCadenza Labs: AI Safety research group working on own interpretability agenda
Nov 30, 2023Lawrence ChanManifund$200Alignment methodsmanifundExploring novel research directions in prosaic AI alignment
Oct 5, 2023Robert LongManifund$120AI welfaremanifundEmpirical research into AI consciousness and moral patienthood
Oct 1, 2023Apart ResearchManifund$350EventsmanifundRun five international hackathons on AI safety research
Oct 1, 2023Rubi HudsonManifund$200Alignment methodsmanifundAvoiding Incentives for Performative Prediction in AI
Sep 19, 2023Lucy FarnikManifund$590InterpretabilitymanifundDiscovering latent goals (mechanistic interpretability PhD salary)
Sep 19, 2023Lisa ThiergartManifund$150InterpretabilitymanifundActivation vector steering with BCI
Sep 19, 2023WhiteBox ResearchManifund$420InterpretabilitymanifundWhiteBox Research: Training Exclusively for Mechanistic Interpretability
Sep 19, 2023Matthew Cameron Farrugia-RobertsManifund$120FoundationsmanifundIntroductory resources for Singular Learning Theory
Sep 19, 2023Holly ElmoreManifund$200AdvocacymanifundHolly Elmore organizing people for a frontier AI moratorium
Sep 19, 2023Aaron SilverbookManifund$50OthermanifundRecreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor
Sep 12, 2023Alexander BistagneManifund$70Technical AI safety researchmanifundAlignment Is Hard
Sep 2, 2023Apollo ResearchManifund$410InterpretabilitymanifundApollo Research: Scale up interpretability & behavioral model evals research
Sep 2, 2023Miti SaksenaManifund$100OthermanifundOptimizing clinical Metagenomics and Far-UVC implementation.
Sep 2, 2023Ethan Josean PerezManifund$100Alignment methodsmanifundCompute and other expenses for LLM alignment research
Aug 16, 2023TimaeusManifund$1,500InterpretabilitymanifundScoping Developmental Interpretability
Aug 1, 2023Joseph BloomManifund$400InterpretabilitymanifundJoseph Bloom - Independent AI Safety Research
Jul 6, 2023Rachel FreedmanManifund$43Training pipelinesmanifundMedical Expenses for CHAI PhD Student