“I am interested in AI Safety.”In their own words: people.eecs.berkeley.edu
Machine learning researcher interested in AI safety; executive director of the Center for AI Safety and an advisor to xAI and Scale AI.
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Received $677k from 5 funders
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Checked 25 Oct 2026
Money flows
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Funded by
- AI2050$290k
- Science of Trustworthy AI$250k
- Foresight Institute: Funding$55k
- Long-Term Future Fund$55k
- Manifund$27k
All grants
10 grants totalling $677k, newest first.
2026 1 grant · $55k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | Foresight Institute: Funding | ~$55k | Listed as previously funded on the AI for Science & Safety Nodes page. Affiliation: Center for AI Safety. Project details and grant date not published; first listed by Mar 2026. — AI for Science & Safety Nodes — listed a source |
2025 3 grants · $250k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Jul 2025 | Manifund | $10 | Research Staff for AI Safety Research Projects source |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Manifund | $50 | Research Staff for AI Safety Research Projects source |
| 2025 | Science of Trustworthy AI | ~$250k | Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Compute (2025 cohort): Project: Utility Engineering and Moral Scaffolding for Safer Reasoning Models. Inference-time compute safety cohort; per-project amount undisclosed (RFP cap $500K). — Science of Trustworthy AI — Inference-Time Comp source |
2024 5 grants · $317k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Aug 2024 | Manifund | $150 | Research Staff for AI Safety Research Projects source |
| 25 Jun 2024 | Manifund | $1k | Research Staff for AI Safety Research Projects source |
| 15 Jun 2024 | Manifund | $25k | Research Staff for AI Safety Research Projects source |
| 15 Jun 2024 | Manifund | $500 | Research Staff for AI Safety Research Projects source |
| 4 Mar 2024 | AI2050 | ~$290k | AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort): AI2050 Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort; Center for AI Safety. Up to $300,000 over two years; exact amount undisclosed. — AI2050 (Early Career Fellow, 2023 cohort) source |
2020 1 grant · $55k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2020 | Long-Term Future Fund | $55k | April 2020 payout report (paid 15 Apr 2020): Benchmark for testing NLP models on human values [report rows sum to $552,900 vs the stated $488,350 total] source |