“I made all final decisions and you shouldn't blame these people if I got something wrong.”In its own words: astralcodexten.com
Grant rounds run by Scott Alexander of the Astral Codex Ten blog, funding a broad mix of projects including some AI safety and AI policy work; Manifund handled funds and disbursement for the 2025 round.
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Scott Alexander runs occasional grant rounds through Astral Codex Ten for a broad mix of projects. Area reviewers advise him and he makes the final decisions. In the 2021 round, AI and EA-community applications were passed to the Long-Term Future Fund.
Says it gives about $1.6M a year (2021)
Typical grant $32k ($25k–$59k)
Itemised here $391k in 11 grants
Money flows
Where its money came from and where it went. Pick years and what to show; hover a box or ribbon for details, click one to focus it, click the background to see everything.
How to apply
- Applications
- Closed
Probably late 2026 or early 2027 (per the 2025 results post) - Who can apply
- Individuals, New organisations, Organisations, For-profits
Biggest recipients
- Good Ancestors Policy (Individual #3883)$65k
- Good Ancestors Policy$65k
- Apart Research$59k
- Individual #4439$50k
- Individual #3769$40k
- Tarbell Center for AI Journalism (Cillian Crosson, Tarbell Voices)$32k
All grants
11 grants totalling $391k, newest first. Recipients link to their own pages; people who received grants without a public profile are shown by number.
2025 7 grants · $195k
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Dec 2025 | Centre for Future Generations | $30k | Transformative AI scenarios for EU policymakers source |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Individual #4439 | $50k | Disentangling Political Bias from Epistemic Integrity in AI Systems |
| 11 Nov 2025 | Good Ancestors Policy | $65k | Good Ancestors (Australia) source |
| 11 Nov 2025 | Individual #3787 | $25k | Automated forecasting [forecasting; counted for now] |
| 6 Nov 2025 | Individual #4764 | $15k | Train LLMs in honest introspection |
| 6 Nov 2025 | Individual #6547 | $5k | "Sweeten" training corpora with stories of nice AI |
| 4 Nov 2025 | Individual #8101 | $5k | Normie-friendly prediction market interfaces [forecasting; counted for now] |
2024 4 grants · $196k
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Mar 2024 | Individual #3769 | $40k | Seed fund for boundaries-based empirical AI safety projects after workshop. |
| 13 Feb 2024 | Apart Research | $59k | Apart incubates and facilitates hundreds of AI safety researchers around the globe. source |
| 10 Feb 2024 | Good Ancestors Policy (Individual #3883) | $65k | ACX Grants 2024: policy advocacy in Australia source |
| 10 Feb 2024 | Tarbell Center for AI Journalism (Cillian Crosson, Tarbell Voices) | $32k | ACX Grants 2024: funding early-career journalists covering AI (Tarbell Voices) source |