“Our goal is to address worst-case risks from the development and deployment of advanced AI.”In its own words: longtermrisk.org
A London-based research charity working on s-risks (risks of astronomical suffering) from advanced AI, including cooperation and conflict between AI systems. Its CLR Fund pools donations and makes rolling grants to people and projects on these risks. It began as a project of the Swiss Effective Altruism Foundation and became an independent UK charity in late 2021.
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The CLR Fund grants to people and institutions doing research relevant to s-risks (worst-case suffering risks from advanced AI), on a rolling basis rather than in rounds. A simple majority of its fund managers decides each grant.
Typical grant $8k ($2k–$35k)
On applying “Decisions are made by a simple majority of the fund managers.” longtermrisk.org
Itemised here $1.5M in 37 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
- Open
- Who can apply
- Academics, Individuals, Organisations
Rolling applications via the form on the grantmaking page: https://longtermrisk.org/grantmaking/
Biggest recipients
- University of Michigan$251k
- Individual #6061$145k
- Individual #1758$111k
- Individual #2829$103k
- Individual #8437$100k
- Individual #2999$83k
Money from
- Jaan Tallinn 2022$200k
Gifts and pooled money between funders, as recorded on the site.
All grants
37 grants totalling $1.5M, newest first. Recipients link to their own pages; people who received grants without a public profile are shown by number.
2026 2 grants · $7k
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Mar 2026 | Individual #3882 | $2k | Funding for research building on Daniel Kokotajlo’s work on acausal trade |
| 13 Feb 2026 | Individual #4691 | $5k | Funding for research modeling the conditions required for specific harmful scenarios |
2025 1 grant · $1k
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Oct 2025 | Individual #4974 | $1k | Funding for research on the causes of, and mitigations for, emergent misalignment |
2024 9 grants · $168k
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Dec 2024 | Individual #3653 | $23k | Pursuing their final year of a PhD working on the moral psychology of animals and digital minds. |
| 19 Dec 2024 | Anonymous Recipient | $25k | Tuition fees and living costs for a high-impact university course. source |
| 23 Oct 2024 | Individual #6281 | $13k | Pursuing a DPhil in Engineering Science, focusing on machine learning and multi-agent safety |
| 10 Sep 2024 | Individual #5101 | $3k | Conducting research into the cheating problem in safe Pareto improvements |
| 12 Aug 2024 | Individual #3842 | $50k | Funding covering tuition fees and living expenses for MSc in the Philosophy of Science at the LSE |
| 12 Jul 2024 | Individual #8299 | $3k | Funding for a collaborative project with CLR staff before joining as a Fellow |
| 1 Jul 2024 | Individual #2829 | $12k | Funding for a joint project conducting model punitive evals |
| 22 May 2024 | Individual #7940 | $4k | Funding for a collaborative project with CLR staff before joining as a Fellow |
| 17 Jan 2024 | Anonymous Recipient | $36k | Tuition fees for university course source |
2023 5 grants · $99k
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Oct 2023 | Individual #2907 | $9k | Funding for independent research, culminating in a write-up “Infra-bayesian Agents Play Population Games for Fabulous Prizes” |
| 29 Sep 2023 | Individual #9526 | $15k | Teaching buy-out to enable research on safe Pareto improvements enabled by cryptographic commitment |
| 1 Sep 2023 | Individual #1661 | $39k | Funding for MPhil in the Ethics of AI, Data, and Algorithms at the University of Cambridge |
| 15 May 2023 | Individual #3842 | $4k | Funding for independent research on dynamic choice under unawareness, and counterfactual desirability and updatelessness (£3,000; Trace conversion) |
| 10 Jan 2023 | Individual #1758 | $32k | Funding to conduct research on the proposal “Linking Current Multiagent AI research to S-risk scenarios” (£26,000; Trace conversion) |
2022 6 grants · $178k
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Aug 2022 | Individual #3764 | $53k | Funding for a year-long research project on short AI timelines (£43,000; Trace conversion) |
| 3 Aug 2022 | Individual #1214 | $5k | Funding for living expenses while working on clarifying her possible career paths |
| 29 Jul 2022 | Individual #2829 | $85k | Scholarship for completing a computer science conversion Masters |
| 23 Jun 2022 | Individual #4201 | $12k | Funding for a three-months research project on summarizing Vanessa Kosoy’s Infrabayesianism. (£9,600; Trace conversion) |
| 17 Jun 2022 | Individual #5785 | $11k | Funding for a three-months research project on simplicity bias in neural nets (£9,060; Trace conversion) |
| 7 Jun 2022 | Individual #3583 | $11k | Funding for a two-months research project on the implications of normative uncertainty for whether to prioritize s-risks (£9,060; Trace conversion) |
2021 6 grants · $524k
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Oct 2021 | University of Michigan | $251k | research into empirical game-theoretic analysis under Michael Wellman source |
| 25 Aug 2021 | Individual #8437 | $100k | Scholarship for graduate studies in computer science |
| 12 Aug 2021 | Anonymous grant recipient | $7k | Stipend for career reflection source |
| 22 Jul 2021 | Individual #1758 | $78k | Research connecting multi-agent AI safety work to existential catastrophe scenarios |
| 22 Jul 2021 | Individual #2829 | $6k | Stipend for travel to Beijing |
| 28 May 2021 | Individual #2205 | $81k | Research on what it means for agents to cooperate |
2020 3 grants · $278k
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Aug 2020 | Individual #2999 | $83k | Scholarship for graduate studies in statistics (with a focus on MARL) |
| 29 Jun 2020 | Individual #6061 | $145k | Scholarship for graduate studies in computer science |
| 13 Jan 2020 | Individual #5450 | $50k | Research on multi-agent models of mind |
2019 4 grants · $179k
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Dec 2019 | Modeling Cooperation | $20k | Modeling cooperation source |
| 8 Oct 2019 | Arif Ahmed | $82k | Teaching buy-out for academic research on decision theory source |
| 8 Oct 2019 | Individual #2473 | $65k | Scholarship for a graduate student for a transition into an AI governance career |
| 6 Sep 2019 | Jaime Sevilla | $12k | Independent research source |
2018 1 grant · $27k
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Nov 2018 | Daniel Kokotajlo | $27k | Teaching buy-out source |