Private research university in Ithaca, New York; AI safety grants here include Lionel Levine's mathematical research on evaluating the constitutions that shape frontier language models' values.
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10 grants totalling $5.5M, newest first.
2026 1 grant · $1.5M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | Coefficient Giving | $1.5M | 18-month grant for AI safety research: mathematical tools for evaluating the model 'constitution' that shapes a frontier LLM's values (scoring constitution adherence, verifying which constitution a model was trained on, value change under recursive self-improvement); announced 5 source |
2025 1 grant · $170k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $170k | SFF-2025: General support of Angelina Wang’s Responsible AI Lab source |
2023 3 grants · $1.5M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2023 | Coefficient Giving | $395k | Project on improving AI systems' responses — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source |
| Feb 2023 | Navigating Transformative AI | $343k | Cornell University — AI Safety Research — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $342,645 to Cornell University to support Professor Lionel Levine’s research related to AI alignment and safety. This falls within our focus area of potential... [Navigating Transformative AI; Coef source |
| 2023 | MacArthur Foundation | $750k | AI, Policy, and Practice Initiative (AIPP): research community, social impacts of AI, policy translation (3 years) — MacArthur Technology in the Public Interest, grantee page source |
2022 1 grant · $603k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2022 | Coefficient Giving | $603k | Project on improving AI systems' responses — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2021–Jun 2022 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source |
2020 2 grants · $775k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | MacArthur Foundation | $750k | Initiative on AI, Policy and Practice: interdisciplinary research on social/ethical dimensions of AI (3 years 6 months) — MacArthur Technology in the Public Interest, grantee page source |
| 2020 | MacArthur Foundation | $25k | AI Policy and Practice Initiative: governing high-stakes algorithms (kidney allocation case) (8 months) — MacArthur Technology in the Public Interest, grantee page source |
2017 2 grants · $920k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | MacArthur Foundation | $900k | Initiative on AI in the Social Interest: AI and fairness, equality, dignity, privacy (3 years 2 months) — MacArthur Technology in the Public Interest, grantee page source |
| 2017 | MacArthur Foundation | $20k | Conference on legal/policy implications of ML and AI, Feb 2018 (5 months) — MacArthur Technology in the Public Interest, grantee page source |