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Coefficient Giving fund for cross-cutting global catastrophic risk work outside its dedicated AI and biosecurity funds: academic research and fellowships, field-building and community support (including effective altruism networks), and careers in GCR. It reports 250+ grants and $400M+ given.
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Coefficient Giving fund for cross-cutting work on global catastrophic risks outside its dedicated AI and biosecurity funds: academic research and fellowships, field-building and EA community support, and career transitions. It funds through its own programs, such as career development and programs-and-events funding, and rarely funds unsolicited proposals.
Typical grant $327k ($91k–$1.3M)
On applying “we rarely fund unsolicited proposals” coefficientgiving.org
Itemised here $119M in 105 grants
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Led by Eli Rose (Program Director)Checked 29 Oct 2026
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105 grants totalling $119M, newest first. Recipients link to their own pages; people who received grants without a public profile are shown by number.
2026 5 grants · $5.1M
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | Zurich AI Safety | $195k | General Support source |
| Feb 2026 | Principles of Intelligence | $916k | AI Safety Summer Fellowship source |
| Feb 2026 | Iliad | $263k | AI Alignment Research Program source |
| Jan 2026 | Pivotal Research | $2.5M | AI Safety Fellowships source |
| Jan 2026 | London Initiative for Safe AI | $1.3M | General Support source |
2025 24 grants · $57M
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | Impact Academy | $775k | AI Safety Headhunting and Career Support source |
| Nov 2025 | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative | $105k | Machine Learning and AI Safety Bootcamp source |
| Oct 2025 | Arcadia Impact | $7.2M | AI Safety Community Building source |
| Oct 2025 | AI Safety Australia & New Zealand | $240k | AI Safety Community Building source |
| Oct 2025 | Athena | $64k | AI Safety Mentorship for Women and Gender Minorities source |
| Sep 2025 | Institute for Law & AI | $379k | AI Safety Community Building source |
| Sep 2025 | Effective Altruism Switzerland | $31k | Zurich AI Safety Day (Conference) source |
| Sep 2025 | AI Safety Hungary | $21k | AI Safety Community Building source |
| Aug 2025 | MATS Research | $15M | AI Safety Fellowship Extensions source |
| Aug 2025 | Kairos | $1.4M | Pathfinder Fellowship and Group Support source |
| Jul 2025 | Valencia Polytechnic University | $351k | AI Evaluation Course source |
| Jun 2025 | Mila | $320k | AI Safety and Governance Fellowship source |
| Jun 2025 | Successif | $227k | AI Safety Management Consulting source |
| May 2025 | MATS Research | $27M | AI Safety Fellowships source |
| May 2025 | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative | $140k | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — Conference on Artificial General Intelligence — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $140,000 to the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative to support a conference run by members of the AI Safety Student Team, in collaboration with Harva source |
| May 2025 | Existential Risk Laboratory | ~$122k | Existential Risk Laboratory Fellowship Program [AI-safety share est. 50% of $244,728 (range 35–65%): XLab's fellowship 'focuses on AI strategy, security, and governance, and nuclear weapon security', with AI and nuclear its two primary risk areas; about 36 of the 57 fellows liste source |
| May 2025 | AI Safety South Africa | $120k | General Support source |
| Apr 2025 | Non-Trivial | ~$92k | Non-Trivial — Exit Grant [AI-safety share est. 10% of $916,374 (range 5–25%): Non-Trivial is for young people 'solving the world's most pressing problems' across many areas, and 3 of the 31 example fellow projects on its homepage are tagged Artificial Intelligence; no split of fe source |
| Mar 2025 | Epistea | $327k | Epistea — AI Safety Conference — Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $326,630 to Epistea to support the 2025 ILIAD Odyssey, a conference focused on theoretical alignment research and scientific foundations for AI... [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building; Coef source |
| Mar 2025 | Institute for Security and Technology | $241k | Institute for Security and Technology — AI Chip Export Control Initiative — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $240,597 to the Institute for Security and Technology to support research and workshops on AI chip export control enforcement. This work, led by Individual #9788.. source |
| Mar 2025 | SecureBio | $19k | SecureBio — AI Biological Capabilities Dashboard — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $18,550 to SecureBio to support the creation of an online dashboard tracking frontier AI models’ performance on biology-related evaluations. SecureBio hopes... [Global Catastrophic Risks; source |
| Jan 2025 | Timaeus Research | ~$1.6M | Timaeus — Operating Expenses [AI-safety share est. 100% of $1,557,000 (range 90–100%): the grant text says Timaeus 'seeks to use singular learning theory to better understand how training data and algorithmic...' choices shape AI models, which is AI-safety research throughout.] source |
| Jan 2025 | ML4Good | $1.1M | ML4Good — AI Safety Bootcamps — Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling £824,000 (approximately $1,095,293 at the time of conversion) to ML4Good to support in-person AI safety bootcamps intended to help early-career... [Global Catastrophic Risks; Coefficient Giving gran source |
| Jan 2025 | Tlön | ~$229k | Tlön — Translation Work [AI-safety share est. 35% of $653,072 (range 20–60%): the grant text names three areas, 'content on AI safety, global catastrophic risks, and effective altruism'; with no split published, AI safety is taken as about a third.] source |
2024 21 grants · $16M
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2024 | University of Texas at Austin | $885k | University of Texas at Austin — AI Safety Research — Open Philanthropy recommended a gift of $885,000 over two years to the University of Texas at Austin to support AI safety research and field-building, led by Christian Tarsney and Brad Knox. This... [Global Catastrophic Risks; source |
| Dec 2024 | Future Impact Group | ~$142k | Future Impact Group — Research Mentorship Program [AI-safety share est. 65% of $219,133 (range 50–85%): the grant text says the mentorship programme covers 'topics in AI safety, AI policy, and other areas', so two of the three named areas are AI; no split is given.] source |
| Nov 2024 | Pivotal Research | ~$736k | Pivotal Research — Research Fellowships [AI-safety share est. 85% of $866,446 (range 65–100%): Pivotal says its Frontier Biodefense Fellowship is 'our first dedicated biosecurity programme, alongside our existing AI safety fellowship', and 34 of the 35 outputs on its research pag source |
| Nov 2024 | Global Challenges Project | ~$322k | Global Challenges Project — General Support (November 2024) [AI-safety share est. 65% of $496,000 (range 50–85%): the grant supports 'student workshops on AI safety and biosecurity', and GCP describes its workshops as 'on the risks from advanced AI', with biosecurity one of sever source |
| Nov 2024 | FABRIC | ~$116k | FABRIC — General Support (2024) [AI-safety share est. 20% of $582,000 (range 10–35%): of FABRIC's camps (ESPR, PAIR, ASPR, WARP) only PAIR is about AI, 'a ten-day workshop on how minds work, both human and artificial', which covers 'some of the ethical and safety aspects' of AI; source |
| Oct 2024 | Arcadia Impact | $1.6M | Arcadia Impact — EA and AI Group Support in London — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £1,256,600 (approximately $1,635,580 at the time of conversion) to Arcadia Impact to support the LEAH office space, effective altruism groups in London, and... [Global Catastrophic Risks source |
| Sep 2024 | Meridian | ~$574k | Meridian — Operating Costs [AI-safety share est. 60% of $957,080 (range 40–80%): Meridian calls itself 'The launch-platform and home for AI safety research' and a hub 'focused on AI safety, biosecurity, frontier-risk policy, and institutional design'; two of its three field hubs source |
| Aug 2024 | BlueDot Impact | ~$1.7M | BlueDot Impact — General Support (2024) [AI-safety share est. 70% of $2,468,511 (range 50–90%): BlueDot says it runs 'Free courses in AI safety, AI governance and biosecurity'; two of its three course areas are AI.] source |
| Jun 2024 | Consultants for Impact | ~$489k | Consultants for Impact — General Support [AI-safety share est. 35% of $1,397,395 (range 20–50%): Consultants for Impact names three pressing problems it steers consultants to, 'poverty, pandemics, risks from AI', and its directory lists consultants interested in 'artificial intel source |
| Jun 2024 | Consultants for Impact | ~$111k | Consultants for Impact — Career Transition Fellowship [AI-safety share est. 35% of $318,000 (range 20–50%): Consultants for Impact names three pressing problems it steers consultants to, 'poverty, pandemics, risks from AI'; no split of advising or placements by area is published. source |
| May 2024 | Obelus | ~$113k | Obelus — Asterisk [AI-safety share est. 10% of $1,134,769 (range 5–25%): Asterisk is a general-interest quarterly; 1 of its first 8 issues (2022–24) is AI-themed (issue 3, 'AI', July 2023), and issues 4 and 7 carry one AI article each; no budget split by topic is published.] source |
| May 2024 | Effective Altruism Germany | ~$54k | Effective Altruism Germany — ML4Good Bootcamp (2024) [AI-safety share est. 95% of $57,000 (range 85–100%): the grant pays for ML4Good, whose site says 'We train motivated people to contribute to AI Safety' and names no other cause area; the rest of the range allows for general ma source |
| Apr 2024 | University of Chicago | ~$151k | University of Chicago — Existential Risk Laboratory Fellowship Program (2024) [AI-safety share est. 50% of $301,800 (range 35–65%): XLab's fellowship 'focuses on AI strategy, security, and governance, and nuclear weapon security', with AI and nuclear its two primary risk areas; a source |
| Mar 2024 | Successif | ~$1M | Successif — Career Advising (2024) [AI-safety share est. 90% of $1,149,000 (range 75–100%): Successif's own site offers to help people 'Build an impactful career in AI risk reduction' and gives 'Direct introductions to AI risk organizations'.] source |
| Mar 2024 | Pivotal Research | ~$336k | Pivotal Research — Summer Research Fellowship (2024) [AI-safety share est. 85% of $395,608 (range 65–100%): Pivotal says its biodefense fellowship is 'our first dedicated biosecurity programme, alongside our existing AI safety fellowship', and its 2023–24 research outputs are all source |
| Mar 2024 | Global Challenges Project | ~$287k | Global Challenges Project — General Support (March 2024) [AI-safety share est. 65% of $441,000 (range 50–85%): the grant supports 'student workshops on reducing risks from AI and biotechnology', and GCP describes its workshops as 'on the risks from advanced AI', with biosecurity source |
| Feb 2024 | Pattern Labs | ~$6.1M | Pattern Labs — Technological Risk Mitigation [AI-safety share est. 90% of $6,799,999 (range 75–100%): the grant funds software and analysis on the security risks of advanced technologies, and Pattern Labs (now Irregular) describes itself as 'the first frontier security lab with t source |
| Feb 2024 | Rational Animations | ~$1M | Rational Animations — Video Animation Costs (2024) [AI-safety share est. 70% of $1,495,355 (range 50–90%): the grant pays for 'YouTube videos about AI...' and the channel says it is 'particularly focused on AI Safety and AI Alignment' among other rationality and altruism topics.] source |
| Feb 2024 | FABRIC | ~$287k | General Support [AI-safety share est. 20% of $1,436,000 (range 10–35%): of FABRIC's camps (ESPR, PAIR, ASPR, WARP) only PAIR is about AI, 'a ten-day workshop on how minds work, both human and artificial', which covers 'some of the ethical and safety aspects' of AI; ESPR and the o source |
| Jan 2024 | FABRIC | ~$100k | FABRIC — Rationality Camp Programs [AI-safety share est. 20% of $500,000 (range 10–35%): of FABRIC's camps (ESPR, PAIR, ASPR, WARP) only PAIR is about AI, 'a ten-day workshop on how minds work, both human and artificial', which covers 'some of the ethical and safety aspects' of A source |
| Jan 2024 | OPTIC Forecasting | $39k | Forecasting Competitions source |
2023 36 grants · $16M
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2023 | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative | $612k | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — General Support for MIT AI Alignment — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $612,470 to the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative to support operating costs and office space for MIT AI Alignment (MAIA), which brings together MIT... [Glo source |
| Dec 2023 | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative | $67k | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — AI Research and Governance Workshop (December 2023) — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $66,950 to the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative to support a multi-day workshop for AI university group organizers. This follows our August source |
| Nov 2023 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | $2.6M | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — MATS (November 2023) — Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $2,641,368 to the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative to support its collaboration with AI Safety Support on the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars... [Global Catastrophic source |
| Nov 2023 | AI Safety Support | $733k | AI Safety Support — MATS Program (November 2023) — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $732,631 to AI Safety Support to support its collaboration with the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative on the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS) Winter... [Global Catastrophic Risks C source |
| Nov 2023 | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative | $550k | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — Harvard AI Safety Team — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $550,000 to the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative to fund a project facilitating AI safety education and outreach activities for Harvard students. This... [Global Catastr source |
| Nov 2023 | Arcadia Impact | ~$203k | Arcadia Impact — University Group Support [AI-safety share est. 50% of $405,254 (range 30–70%): the grant text says it supports 'effective altruism and AI safety groups' at London universities, so the AI safety groups are taken as about half; no split by group is given.] source |
| Nov 2023 | Stanford Existential Risks Initiative | ~$158k | Stanford Existential Risks Initiative – General Support [AI-safety share est. 25% of $630,000 (range 15–40%): SERI 'focuses its transdisciplinary efforts on five interconnected domains', one of them Advanced Artificial Intelligence (the others pandemics, nuclear, autonomous weapo source |
| Nov 2023 | Dandelion Labs | $105k | Dandelion Labs — Machine Learning and AI Safety Bootcamps — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £82,300 ($104,803 at the time of conversion) to Dandelion Labs to support two bootcamps being run by ML4Good UK, which are focused on machine learning and AI... [Global Catastroph source |
| Oct 2023 | Lightcone Infrastructure | ~$1.8M | Lightcone Infrastructure — General Support (2023) [AI-safety share est. 60% of $2,960,000 (range 40–80%): $2,590,000 of the grant supports LessWrong; Lightcone calls itself 'the primary infrastructure provider for the rationality and AI safety communities' and says 'the single bi source |
| Oct 2023 | Global Priorities Institute | ~$462k | Global Priorities Institute — General Support (October 2023) [AI-safety share est. 15% of $3,078,461 (range 5–25%): GPI researched global priorities broadly (ethics of the long-term future, existential risk, animal welfare, philanthropy, and AI risks); 4 of the 23 GPI working pap source |
| Oct 2023 | Non-Trivial | ~$126k | Non-Trivial — Fellowship Program (October 2023) [AI-safety share est. 10% of $1,264,691 (range 5–25%): Non-Trivial is for young people 'solving the world's most pressing problems' across many areas, and 3 of the 31 example fellow projects on its homepage are tagged Artificial Int source |
| Sep 2023 | Training for Good | ~$799k | Training for Good — Operating Costs and Tarbell Fellowship [AI-safety share est. 80% of $999,000 (range 60–95%): the grant funds the Tarbell Fellowship for journalists 'covering emerging technologies', and Tarbell says 'We only support fellows interested in covering artificial in source |
| Sep 2023 | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative | $152k | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — HAIST Office Space — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $151,678 to the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative to lease office space for HAIST, a project that facilitates AI safety education and outreach activities... [Global Catastrop source |
| Aug 2023 | Individual #3345 | $390k | Individual #3345 — ITAM AI Futures Fellowship — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $390,155 to Individual #3345 to support a global research program focused on catastrophic risks from artificial intelligence. The program will be hosted by... [Global Catastrophic Risks Capac |
| Aug 2023 | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative | $38k | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — AI Research and Governance Workshop (August 2023) — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $38,220 to the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative to support a multi-day workshop for AI university group organizers. This falls within our focu source |
| Jul 2023 | BlueDot Impact | ~$1.1M | BlueDot Impact — General Support (July 2023) [AI-safety share est. 70% of $1,542,364 (range 50–90%): BlueDot's own history says it launched with an AI safety course in 2022 and in 2023 'Expanded to AI governance and biosecurity'; two of its three course areas are AI.] source |
| Jul 2023 | Effisciences | ~$123k | EffiSciences — Existential Risk Programs (2023) [AI-safety share est. 60% of $205,000 (range 35–80%): the grant funds student programmes on existential risk 'such as AI alignment'; EffiSciences' June 2023 post says it focuses on 'AI Safety, biorisks, and climate change' and repor source |
| Jun 2023 | Constellation | ~$2.4M | Constellation — Coworking Space [AI-safety share est. 80% of $3,000,000 (range 60–95%): the grant supports a Berkeley office used by people from about 20 organisations, and Constellation describes itself as enabling 'people tackling the most important problems in AI safety & secu source |
| Jun 2023 | BlueDot Impact | ~$272k | BlueDot Impact — General Support (2023) [AI-safety share est. 70% of $388,890 (range 50–90%): BlueDot's own history says it launched with an AI safety course in 2022 and in 2023 'Expanded to AI governance and biosecurity'; two of its three course areas are AI.] source |
| Jun 2023 | Effective Altruism Germany | ~$38k | Effective Altruism Germany — ML4Good Bootcamp [AI-safety share est. 95% of $40,377 (range 85–100%): the grant pays for ML4Good, whose site says 'We train motivated people to contribute to AI Safety' and names no other cause area; the rest of the range allows for general machine-l source |
| May 2023 | Rational Animations | ~$700k | Rational Animations — Video Animation Costs (2023) [AI-safety share est. 70% of $1,000,000 (range 50–90%): the grant pays for 'YouTube videos about AI and AI risk, as well as other topics relating to rationality', and the channel says it is 'particularly focused on AI Safety and source |
| May 2023 | Pivotal Research | ~$172k | Swiss Existential Risk Initiative — Summer Research Fellowship [AI-safety share est. 60% of $286,500 (range 35–85%): 34 of the 35 fellow outputs on Pivotal's research page are AI safety or governance, and its only 2023-dated output is AI governance; the 2023 fellowship ran under source |
| May 2023 | Consultants for Impact | ~$133k | Effective Altruism Consulting Network — General Support (2023) [AI-safety share est. 35% of $380,000 (range 20–50%): Consultants for Impact (formerly EACN) names three pressing problems it steers consultants to, 'poverty, pandemics, risks from AI'; no split of advising or placeme source |
| May 2023 | Non-Trivial | ~$32k | Non-Trivial — Fellowship Program (May 2023) [AI-safety share est. 10% of $315,894 (range 5–25%): Non-Trivial is for young people 'solving the world's most pressing problems' across many areas, and 3 of the 31 example fellow projects on its homepage are tagged Artificial Intellige source |
| Apr 2023 | Atlas Fellowship | ~$700k | Atlas Fellowship — General Support (2023) [AI-safety share est. 35% of $2,000,000 (range 20–50%): Atlas names four global challenges it applies its tools to (global poverty, existential risks, risks from advanced AI, economic institutions), and staff 'hope to empower fellows who source |
| Mar 2023 | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative | $388k | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — AI Safety Field-Building — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $387,741 to the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative (CBAI) to support its work on outreach and educational programs related to AI safety, including support... [Global Cat source |
| Mar 2023 | Principles of Intelligent Behavior in Biological and Social Systems | $239k | PIBBSS — AI Safety Summer Fellowship (2023) — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $239,000 to Principles of Intelligent Behavior in Biological and Social Systems (PIBBSS) to support a summer research fellowship for academics. Fellows will... [Global Catastrophic Risks Capaci source |
| Mar 2023 | Cambridge Effective Altruism | $25k | Cambridge Effective Altruism — AI Safety Labs — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £21,200 (approximately $25,239 at the time of conversion) to Cambridge Effective Altruism to support Cambridge AI Safety Labs, a multi-week program in... [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity B source |
| Feb 2023 | Global Priorities Institute | ~$376k | Global Priorities Institute — General Support (2023) [AI-safety share est. 15% of $2,506,291 (range 5–25%): GPI researched global priorities broadly (ethics of the long-term future, existential risk, animal welfare, philanthropy, and AI risks); 4 of the 23 GPI working papers date source |
| Feb 2023 | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative | $144k | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — MIT Office Space — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $143,751 to the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative to rent office space for MIT AI Alignment, a student group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology... [Global Catastrophi source |
| Feb 2023 | University of Pavia | $23k | University of Pavia — Law, Ethics, and AI Course Development — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of €22,000 (approximately $23,245 at the time of conversion) to the University of Pavia to support Professor Federico Faroldi’s development of a course titled... [Global Catastrop source |
| Feb 2023 | Arb Research | ~$5k | Arb Research — Staff Support [AI-safety share est. 20% of $25,000 (range 10–40%): Arb is a general research consultancy ('forecasting, machine learning, theory, and policy'); 3 of the 16 projects dated 2022–23 on its public past-work list are about AI safety (Samotsvety AI-risk f source |
| Jan 2023 | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative | $285k | Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — Machine Learning Bootcamps — Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $284,629 to the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative to support bootcamp programs in Berkeley and Cambridge, MA. These bootcamps will teach machine... [Global C source |
| Jan 2023 | Lausanne AI Alignment | $21k | Lausanne AI Alignment — AI Alignment Bootcamp — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $21,092 to Lausanne AI Alignment, via Effective Altruism Geneva, to support its work running a 10-day bootcamp where participants will learn skills related to... [Global Catastrophic Risks Ca source |
| Jan 2023 | Individual #8440 | $17k | Individual #8440 — AI Safety Retreat — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $16,587 to Individual #8440 to support a retreat where economics PhD students will work on a research agenda for mechanism design for AI safety. This falls... [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Build |
| Jan 2023 | Effisciences | ~$6k | EffiSciences — Existential Risk Programs [AI-safety share est. 60% of $9,600 (range 35–80%): the grant funds student programmes on existential risk 'such as AI'; EffiSciences' June 2023 post says it focuses on 'AI Safety, biorisks, and climate change' and reports results only for source |
2022 9 grants · $5.9M
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2022 | Atlas Fellowship | ~$630k | Atlas Fellowship — General Support [AI-safety share est. 35% of $1,800,000 (range 20–50%): Atlas names four global challenges it applies its tools to (global poverty, existential risks, risks from advanced AI, economic institutions), and staff 'hope to empower fellows who are esp source |
| Dec 2022 | Latecomer Institute | ~$12k | Latecomer Institute — Longtermist Magazine [AI-safety share est. 5% of $234,000 (range 0–10%): of the 15 pieces in the magazine's archive, none has AI in its title and one (an interview on the future of intelligence) touches it; the editors' letters mention superintelligence.] source |
| Sep 2022 | Lightcone Infrastructure | ~$2.7M | Lightcone Infrastructure – General Support [AI-safety share est. 60% of $4,500,000 (range 40–80%): Lightcone calls itself 'the primary infrastructure provider for the rationality and AI safety communities' and says 'the single biggest topic on LessWrong is artificial intelligence source |
| Aug 2022 | Global Priorities Institute | ~$230k | Global Priorities Institute — General Support (2022) [AI-safety share est. 10% of $2,296,001 (range 0–20%): a two-year grant to GPI, which researched global priorities broadly; none of the 4 GPI working papers dated 2023 on its own publications list is about AI, and 4 of the 19 d source |
| Jul 2022 | Non-Trivial | ~$101k | Non-Trivial Pursuits — General Support [AI-safety share est. 10% of $1,005,000 (range 5–25%): Non-Trivial is for young people 'solving the world's most pressing problems' across many areas, and 3 of the 31 example fellow projects on its homepage are tagged Artificial Intelligence source |
| Jul 2022 | Future Forum Foundation | ~$65k | Future Forum Foundation — Future Forum [AI-safety share est. 10% of $654,500 (range 3–20%): the 2022 conference's example day lists AI as one of five working-group tracks ('AI, Space, Biotech, Policy, others'), none of its three titled talks is about AI, and 2 of its 12 named spe source |
| Jul 2022 | University of Washington | $16k | University of Washington — Philosophy of AI Course Development — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $15,524 to the University of Washington to support Individual #9087's work to develop a course on the philosophy of AI. We sought applications for this funding to... [Global source |
| Jun 2022 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | $400k | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI Summer Fellowships (2022) — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $400,000 to the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI) to support their collaboration with the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative (SERI) on SERI’s... [Global C source |
| Mar 2022 | Atlas Fellowship | ~$1.8M | Atlas Fellowship — Scholarships and Summer Program for Students [AI-safety share est. 35% of $5,000,000 (range 20–50%): Atlas names four global challenges it applies its tools to (global poverty, existential risks, risks from advanced AI, economic institutions), its 2022 programm source |
2021 6 grants · $4.2M
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2021 | Future of Humanity Institute | $400k | Future of Humanity Institute — Administrative and Operational Support — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $400,000 to the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), via Effective Ventures Foundation UK, to support their administrative and operational expenses. FHI is a... [Global source |
| Nov 2021 | Rational Animations | ~$200k | Rational Animations — Video Animation Costs (2021) [AI-safety share est. 70% of $285,000 (range 50–90%): the grants pay for videos 'about AI and AI risk, as well as other topics relating to rationality', and the channel says it is 'particularly focused on AI Safety and AI Alignme source |
| Oct 2021 | Bit by Bit Coding | ~$200k | Bit by Bit Coding — High School Courses on Neural Networks [AI-safety share est. 80% of $250,275 (range 60–95%): the grant text says the courses teach neural networks 'within the framework of AI safety'; the rest allows for general machine-learning teaching.] source |
| Aug 2021 | Future of Humanity Institute | $30k | Future of Humanity Institute — Economist Survey — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $30,000 to the Future of Humanity Institute to support work on an expert survey asking economists to predict the likelihood that global economic growth will... [Global Catastrophic Risks; C source |
| May 2021 | LessWrong | ~$276k | LessWrong — General Support (2021) [AI-safety share est. 60% of $460,000 (range 40–80%): LessWrong says it has 'a strong interest in AI and specifically causing powerful AI systems to be safe and beneficial', and its team says 'the single biggest topic on LessWrong is artificial source |
| Apr 2021 | Future of Humanity Institute | $3.1M | Future of Humanity Institute — Research Scholars Programs (2021) — Grant Investigator: Committee for Effective Altruism Support This page was reviewed but not written by members of the committee. The Future of Humanity staff also reviewed this page prior to... [Global Catastrophi source |
2020 3 grants · $2.7M
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Future of Humanity Institute | $1.6M | Future of Humanity Institute — Research Scholars Programme — Grant Investigator: Committee for Effective Altruism Support This page was reviewed but not written by members of the committee. The Future of Humanity staff also reviewed this page prior to... [Global Catastrophic Risk source |
| Apr 2020 | LessWrong | ~$180k | LessWrong — General Support [AI-safety share est. 60% of $300,000 (range 40–80%): LessWrong says it has 'a strong interest in AI and specifically causing powerful AI systems to be safe and beneficial', and its team says 'the single biggest topic on LessWrong is artificial intelli source |
| Feb 2020 | Future of Humanity Institute | $939k | Future of Humanity Institute — New DPhil Positions — Grant investigator: Committee for Effective Altruism Support This page was reviewed but not written by members of the committee. Future of Humanity Institute staff also reviewed this page prior to... [Global Catastrophic Risks source |
2018 1 grant · $12M
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2018 | Future of Humanity Institute | $12M | Grant to support work on risks from advanced artificial intelligence, biosecurity and pandemic preparedness, and macrostrategy. The grant page says: "The largest pieces of the omnibus award package will allow FHI to recruit and hire for.... From Vipul Naik's donations database (v source |