Center for AI Safety↗

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Organisation·Founded 2022·San Francisco, USA
“Our mission is to reduce societal-scale risks from artificial intelligence”In its own words: safe.ai
Alignment researchField-building

San Francisco nonprofit that does AI safety research, builds the AI safety research field, and promotes safety standards to reduce societal-scale risks from AI.

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Received $18M from 6 funders

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Led by Dan Hendrycks (Executive & Research Director)Checked 25 Oct 2026

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17 grants totalling $18M, newest first.

2026 2 grants · $725k
DateFunderAmountPurpose
30 Sep 2026Survival and Flourishing Fund$135kSFF-2026 Main Round: General support (base amount; the $357,000 conditional matching pledge is a separate row) source
19 Feb 2026The Alignment Project~$590kAlignment Project round 1 (lead: Meek, Austin): Steering Models Towards Safer Reasoning. Amount undisclosed; awards £50k–£1M from a £27m pool across 60 announced projects. source
2025 2 grants · $539k
DateFunderAmountPurpose
Sep 2025Survival and Flourishing Fund$289kSFF-2025: General support source
12 Feb 2025Manifund$250kAI Safety & Society source
2024 6 grants · $3M
DateFunderAmountPurpose
13 Dec 2024Survival and Flourishing Fund$300kInitiative Committee 2024: To support research and analysis of relevance to the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). (paid by Jaan Tallinn 2024-12-13) source
Dec 2024Survival and Flourishing Fund$21kSFF-2024-FlexHEGs: General support source
Dec 2024Survival and Flourishing Fund$1kSFF-2024-FlexHEGs: General support source
30 Oct 2024Survival and Flourishing Fund$1.1MSFF-2024: General support — Jaan Tallinn payments per jaan.online: $1,096,000 on 2024-11-21 (Center for Artificial Intelligence Safety, via FP-US) source
2024Survival and Flourishing Fund$1MInitiative Committee 2024: General support source
2024Future of Life Institute$500kDeveloping tamper-resistant safeguards for open-weight language models. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants source
2023 5 grants · $8.3M
DateFunderAmountPurpose
Oct 2023Navigating Transformative AI$1.9MCenter for AI Safety — Exit Grant (October 2023) — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,866,559 to the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) for general support. CAIS works on research, field-building, and advocacy to reduce existential risks from... [Navigating Transformative AI; C source
Apr 2023Navigating Transformative AI$4MCenter for AI Safety — General Support (2023) — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $4,025,729 to the Center for AI Safety for general support. The Center for AI Safety works on research, field-building, and advocacy to reduce existential... [Navigating Transformative AI; Co source
Feb 2023Navigating Transformative AI$1.4MGrant "to support the CAIS Philosophy Fellowship, which is a research fellowship that will support philosophers researching topics related to AI safety. This grant also supported a workshop on adversarial robustness, as well as prizes.... From Vipul Naik's donations database (via source
2023Survival and Flourishing Fund$909kSFF-2023-H2: General support source
2023Future of Life Institute$22kGeneral support for AI safety work and education for policymakers and business leaders — 2023 Grants source
2022 2 grants · $5.2M
DateFunderAmountPurpose
Nov 2022Navigating Transformative AI$5.2MGrant "for general support. The Center for AI Safety does technical research and field-building aimed at reducing catastrophic and existential risks from artificial intelligence.". From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source
Apr 2022FTX Future Fund$40kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Two competitions for public materials on AI x-risk source