{"1day-sooner":{"aliases":["1DaySooner"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://www.1daysooner.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.1daysooner.org","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/df67b6d3d116bc6624534d85604407e0.jpg","name":"1Day Sooner","quote":"leads campaigns in science, policy, and ethics to stop the world's most harmful infectious diseases","quoteUrl":"https://www.1daysooner.org","sources":["https://www.1daysooner.org","https://www.1daysooner.org/about"],"summary":"Advocacy nonprofit for participants in infectious-disease trials, especially human challenge studies; pandemic preparedness.","tags":["Biosecurity","Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The site describes infectious-disease campaigns with no AI work, and the grant was for pandemic preparedness advocacy, so notAI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.1daysooner.org"}},"80-000-hours":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://80000hours.org/support-us/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://80000hours.org/","summary":"https://80000hours.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2011","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://80000hours.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["people"]},"kind":"org","location":"England and Wales","logoAsset":"/_blob/aa682066525af32088eb4bd7df4a72e9.jpg","name":"80,000 Hours","quote":"our mission is to help people find jobs focused on making AI go well","quoteUrl":"https://80000hours.org/","sources":["https://80000hours.org","https://80000hours.org/"],"summary":"Nonprofit providing career research, guides, a podcast, job board and one-to-one advising, currently especially focused on helping people positively shape the trajectory of AI.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"UK company limited by guarantee","xrTier":{"T1":0.1,"T2":0.35,"T3":0.3,"notAI":0.25},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The advising page says it is most helpful for people working on pressing problems, especially AI risk, but still advises across causes; the 2024 grant is tiered as a mostly AI-safety and AI-governance pipeline plus a non-AI share (tags roughly reproduce this mix; the page is current, not the 2024 version)."},"aarhus-university":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1928","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://au.dk","kind":"university","location":"Aarhus, Denmark","logoAsset":"/_blob/6c922a5c67c84554a319cc18f0265bf4.jpg","name":"Aarhus University","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://au.dk","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarhus_University","https://aias.au.dk/events/workshop-animal-welfare-and-breeding"],"summary":"Public research university in Aarhus, Denmark. Funding went to a workshop series on animal welfare in animal breeding, backed by Coefficient Giving's Farm Animal Welfare Program.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is workshops on selective breeding for animal welfare, not AI-related, so probably wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarhus_University"}},"aaron-mueller":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://aaronmueller.github.io","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Aaron Mueller","quote":"I am interested in evaluating and improving the robustness and efficiency of language models.","quoteUrl":"https://aaronmueller.github.io","sources":["https://aaronmueller.github.io"],"summary":"Assistant professor of computer science at Boston University, working on interpretability, robustness and sample efficiency in language models.","tags":["Academic","Interpretability"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. His BU profile describes NLP interpretability and control of language models with no stated safety or takeover aim, and the grant title (non-human-like features in LLMs) fits interpretability, so the default is T3.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://aaronmueller.github.io"}},"individual-3031":{"name":"Individual #3031","kind":"person","anonId":"3031"},"individual-8284":{"name":"Individual #8284","kind":"person","anonId":"8284"},"individual-2844":{"name":"Individual #2844","kind":"person","anonId":"2844"},"abram-demski":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.matsprogram.org/mentor/demski","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Abram Demski","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.matsprogram.org/mentor/demski"],"summary":"Research scientist at AFFINE working on agent foundations and theoretical alignment; co-author of Embedded Agency.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Known agent-foundations researcher (ex-MIRI); 'Understanding Trust' is a theory project in that line, so T1 by the agent foundations rule.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.matsprogram.org/mentor/demski"}},"aclu-foundation":{"name":"ACLU Foundation","aliases":["American Civil Liberties Union Foundation","ACLU"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://www.aclu.org/","donate":"https://action.aclu.org/give/now","location":"New York, USA","founded":"1920","summary":"US civil liberties organisation; its Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project litigates and lobbies on surveillance and AI, such as AI-driven police stops. AI is a small part of its overall work.","quote":"Americans should not have to choose between using new technologies and protecting their civil liberties.","quoteUrl":"https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology","people":[{"name":"Anthony Romero","role":"Chief Executive Officer"},{"name":"Deborah Archer","role":"President"}],"tags":["Governance & policy"],"sources":["https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology","https://www.aclu.org/about","https://www.aclu.org/about/officers-board-directors","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/american-civil-liberties-union-foundation-1173/"],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.aclu.org/about/officers-board-directors","summary":"https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology","quote":"https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology"},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The counted MacArthur grants paid for civil-liberties work on AI and new technologies, with no catastrophic-risk framing, so Adjacent (aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology)."},"aclu-of-illinois":{"name":"ACLU of Illinois (Roger Baldwin Foundation)","aliases":["ACLU of Illinois","Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU","Roger Baldwin Foundation"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://www.aclu-il.org/","donate":"https://www.aclu-il.org/donate-0/","location":"Illinois, USA","founded":"1926","summary":"The Illinois affiliate of the ACLU (the Roger Baldwin Foundation is its tax-deductible arm); its Privacy, Technology and Surveillance project covers biometrics, automated decision tools and generative AI. Most of its work is not about AI.","quote":"Defending the civil rights and civil liberties of all Illinoisans","quoteUrl":"https://www.aclu-il.org/","tags":["Governance & policy"],"sources":["https://www.aclu-il.org/","https://www.aclu-il.org/about-us/","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/roger-baldwin-foundation-of-aclu-530/"],"fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.aclu-il.org/about-us/","quote":"https://www.aclu-il.org/"},"infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-08","notFound":["people"]},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"notAI":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant paid for a privacy, technology and surveillance project covering biometrics and automated tools as well as generative AI, none of it x-risk-aimed, so Adjacent with a notAI share for the non-AI surveillance work; the split is a guess (macfound.org grantee page)."},"acm-facct":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page; sponsored by ACM","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://facctconference.org/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/f529f168c85c4cd95f72cb4a907313ee.png","name":"ACM FAccT","quote":"A computer science conference with a cross-disciplinary focus that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.","quoteUrl":"https://facctconference.org/","sources":["https://facctconference.org/"],"summary":"Annual ACM conference on fairness, accountability and transparency in socio-technical systems, bringing together researchers and practitioners across disciplines.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. FAccT is the fairness, accountability and transparency conference, AI and society work not aimed at x-risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://facctconference.org/"}},"act-write-here":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-11-07","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Act Write Here","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://manifund.org/projects/building-an-infrastructure-to-create-high-impact-narratives"],"summary":"Recipient of a $250,000 AISTOF grant (December 2025) for the Manifund project \"Building an Infrastructure to Create High-Impact Narratives\", which aims at \"a scalable on-ramp for writers and actors to engage with impact issues through cause-area storytelling competitions and creative collaborations\". Not otherwise identified from public sources.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"comms":1},"xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T2":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Three searches found no web presence for Act Write Here, so the first-pass guess stands: from the grant purpose and an AI-safety-only funder, probably narrative/comms infrastructure about AI risk; tagged comms with framing unverified, and the tier leans T2 above the comms/none default because of the funder.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://manifund.org/projects/building-an-infrastructure-to-create-high-impact-narratives"}},"action-fund-on-emerging-technology-and-risk-after":{"aliases":["AFTER (Individual #8169)","AFTER","Action Fund on Emerging Technology and Risk"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Action Fund on Emerging Technology and Risk (AFTER)","people":[],"quoteUrl":"https://www.cnas.org/people/jared-brown","sources":["https://www.cnas.org/people/jared-brown"],"status":"active","summary":"A policy advocacy group, led by Individual #8169, that works to improve technology policy, especially on AI systems, by reducing their societal risks through advocacy with US and international policymakers.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cnas.org/people/jared-brown"}},"ada-lovelace-institute":{"name":"Ada Lovelace Institute","aliases":["Ada Lovelace Institute (Nuffield Foundation)"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/","location":"London, UK","founded":"2018","fiscalSponsor":"Nuffield Foundation","summary":"Independent research institute, set up by the Nuffield Foundation, on data and AI governance: regulation, law and policy, and public participation in the UK, EU and internationally.","quote":"We are an independent research institute with a mission to ensure that data and AI work for people and society.","quoteUrl":"https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/about/","people":[{"name":"Gaia Marcus","role":"Director"},{"name":"Dame Julie Maxton","role":"Chair of Board"}],"tags":["Governance & policy"],"sources":["https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/","https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/about/","https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/about/our-people/","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/nuffield-foundation-10116292"],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/about/our-people/","summary":"https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/about/","quote":"https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/about/"},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Data and AI governance research aimed at AI working for people and society, with no loss-of-control or catastrophic-risk focus on its about pages, so Adjacent (adalovelaceinstitute.org/about)."},"adam-binksmith":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://theaidigest.org/about","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Adam Binksmith","quote":"I'm building tools to make sense of the future at Sage.","quoteUrl":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/adam-binksmith","sources":["https://theaidigest.org/about","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/adam-binksmith"],"summary":"Director of AI Digest, a project of the charity Sage that builds tools to help people understand AI progress and its future.","tags":["Forecasting","Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. AI Digest (Sage) makes explainers and demos of AI capabilities (e.g. AI Village) to inform people about AI progress and risk; comms partly aimed at x-risk but mostly general awareness.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://theaidigest.org/about"}},"adam-block-and-steven-wu":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.ee.columbia.edu/content/adam-b-block","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Adam Block and Steven Wu","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.ee.columbia.edu/content/adam-b-block","https://datascience.columbia.edu/people/adam-block","https://www.schmidtsciences.org/safetyscience/"],"summary":"Columbia assistant professor of computer science Adam Block, who designs provably efficient algorithms for sequential decision-making, with a special focus on language modelling applications.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose and Block's ICLR 2026 talk on reward hacking in best-of-N inference-time alignment, which frames it as over-optimisation to flawed reward models without an x-risk aim, so it is unframed prosaic alignment (T3).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.ee.columbia.edu/content/adam-b-block"}},"adam-gleave":{"aliases":["Adam Gleave, Individual #2594, and Kellin Pelrine"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.far.ai/author/adam-gleave","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Adam Gleave","quote":"His research focuses on making advanced AI systems verifiably safe","quoteUrl":"https://www.far.ai/author/adam-gleave","sources":["https://www.far.ai/author/adam-gleave"],"summary":"Co-founder and CEO of FAR.AI, working on AI robustness, deception and safety research.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.178,"T3":0.768,"T4":0.054},"xrTierNote":"Draft. FAR.AI's research page lists red-teaming, robustness and a Deception agenda (deception probes, sandbagging audits), so the empirical-safety-org-with-deception-motivation 80/20 rule applies.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.far.ai/author/adam-gleave"}},"individual-7961":{"name":"Individual #7961","kind":"person","anonId":"7961"},"adam-kochanski":{"aliases":["San Jose State University (Adam Kochanski)"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://sjsu.edu/experts/faculty-listing/adam-kochanski.php","summary":"https://sjsu.edu/experts/faculty-listing/adam-kochanski.php"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://sjsu.edu/experts/faculty-listing/adam-kochanski.php","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Adam Kochanski","quote":"His research focuses on forecasting fire danger, fire propagation, and smoke dispersion.","quoteUrl":"https://sjsu.edu/experts/faculty-listing/adam-kochanski.php","sources":["https://sjsu.edu/experts/faculty-listing/adam-kochanski.php"],"summary":"Associate professor of meteorology and climate science at San José State University, working on forecasting fire danger, fire propagation and smoke dispersion.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"adam-oberman":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://mila.quebec/en/directory/adam-m-oberman","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Adam Oberman","quote":"My research revolves around the application of advanced mathematical techniques to the field of deep learning.","quoteUrl":"https://mila.quebec/en/directory/adam-m-oberman","sources":["https://mila.quebec/en/directory/adam-m-oberman"],"summary":"Full Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill and associate academic member of Mila, working on deep learning theory and AI safety.","tags":["Alignment research","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Latent adversarial training is robustness work whose origin post is motivated by deceptive models; Oberman's LawZero page says the 2025 Open Phil grant was for transitioning to AI safety, so robustness with a stated safety aim (T3 80 / T2 20).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://mila.quebec/en/directory/adam-m-oberman"}},"adam-shai":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Not applicable","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.matsprogram.org/stream/shai-10","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Adam Shai","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.matsprogram.org/stream/shai-10","https://www.simplexaisafety.com/"],"summary":"Research lead and co-founder at Simplex, an AI safety research organisation working on a science of representations in AI systems.","tags":["Alignment research","Interpretability"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.8,"T3":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Known work applies computational mechanics to what transformers learn (belief-state geometry), which the rule puts at T1; some share is ordinary interp.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.matsprogram.org/stream/shai-10"}},"adam-shimi":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/jfq2BH5kfQqu2vYv3/we-are-conjecture-a-new-alignment-research-startup","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Adam Shimi","quote":"Epistemologist specialized in the difficulties of alignment and how to solve AI X-Risks.","quoteUrl":"https://www.lesswrong.com/users/adamshimi","sources":["https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/jfq2BH5kfQqu2vYv3/we-are-conjecture-a-new-alignment-research-startup","https://www.lesswrong.com/users/adamshimi","https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/jfq2BH5kfQqu2vYv3/we-are-conjecture-a-new-alignment-research-startup"],"summary":"Epistemologist and AI alignment researcher specialising in the difficulties of alignment; joined Conjecture as early staff after working as an independent researcher.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.6,"T2":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Independent conceptual alignment research (deconfusion, epistemology of alignment) in 2021; agent-foundations-style work aimed at the hard parts.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.lesswrong.com/users/adamshimi"}},"adapt-research":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://adaptresearchwriting.com/about/","location":"https://adaptresearchwriting.com/contact/","summary":"https://adaptresearchwriting.com/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2015","foundedUrl":"https://adaptresearchwriting.com/about/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://adaptresearchwriting.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["people"]},"kind":"company","location":"Reefton, New Zealand","logoAsset":"/_blob/a975beedbb9274f0ef6faea3f01b28c0.jpg","name":"Adapt Research","quote":"Adapt Research performs independent and bespoke research, delivering high-quality evidence to inform strategic questions about health, technology and global catastrophic risk.","quoteUrl":"https://adaptresearchwriting.com/","sources":["https://adaptresearchwriting.com/","https://adaptresearchwriting.com/contact/","https://adaptresearchwriting.com/about/"],"summary":"Independent research company (Adapt Research Ltd) doing evidence-based work across public health, technology and policy on resilience to global catastrophic risks such as nuclear risk and extreme pandemics.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Nuclear winter / extreme pandemic resilience plan; not AI-related, likely wrongly counted."},"individual-8242":{"name":"Individual #8242","kind":"person","anonId":"8242"},"aditi-raghunathan":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aditirag/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Aditi Raghunathan","quote":"I aim to advance our scientific understanding of frontier models by uncovering why they fail and how to build systems that remain reliable under pressure.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aditirag/","sources":["https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aditirag/"],"summary":"Assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, studying why frontier models fail and how to build reliable systems, including evaluations for agent safety and jailbreak defences.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.15,"T3":0.85},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Her own pages describe reliability, robustness, unlearning and jailbreak-resistance work with no mention of catastrophic or takeover risk, so prosaic ML safety (T3) with some general LLM-science work (Adjacent).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aditirag/"}},"aditya-grover":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fieldSources":{"homepage":"https://aditya-grover.github.io/","quote":"https://aditya-grover.github.io/","summary":"https://aditya-grover.github.io/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://aditya-grover.github.io/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Aditya Grover","quote":"we develop AI systems that can interact and reason with limited supervision","quoteUrl":"https://aditya-grover.github.io/","sources":["https://samueli.ucla.edu/ucla-computer-science-professor-named-ai2050-fellow/","https://aditya-grover.github.io/"],"summary":"Assistant professor of computer science at UCLA and co-founder and CTO of Inception, working on generative models, reinforcement learning and AI for scientific discovery.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"aditya-nair":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/aditya-nair/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["quote"]},"kind":"person","location":"","name":"Aditya Nair","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/aditya-nair/"],"summary":"Nanyang Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and AI at Nanyang Technological University and 2026 AI2050 Early Career Fellow, building AI to find the brain mechanisms behind emotion.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/aditya-nair/"}},"adji-bousso-dieng":{"aliases":["Adji Bousso Dieng, Princeton University"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual academic","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adji_Bousso_Dieng","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Adji Bousso Dieng","quote":"We work at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the natural sciences.","quoteUrl":"https://vertaix.princeton.edu/","sources":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adji_Bousso_Dieng","https://vertaix.princeton.edu/"],"summary":"Princeton University computer scientist who leads the Vertaix research lab, working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the natural sciences.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.8,"T3":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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ARIA Safeguarded AI contract (21 months, 2025). Adjoint Labs isn't on ARIA's TA1.1 funded-projects or creators pages, so it is probably a tooling, TA2 or TA3 contractor rather than a theory team; tiered mostly as tooling (T3) under the ARIA rule, with small T1 and Adjacent hedges.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16505720"}},"adrian-weller":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/adrian/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Adrian Weller","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/adrian/"],"summary":"Director of Research in machine learning at the University of Cambridge and at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence; trustworthy and safe AI.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Aether's own posts describe LLM-agent safety work on chain-of-thought monitorability, LLM monitors detecting sabotage, hidden reasoning and 'model organisms of LLM misalignment'; this is control and monitoring (T3) with a misalignment/deception motivation, though no explicit takeover language, so the 80/20 mix stands."},"affine-agent-foundations-field-network":{"aliases":["AFFINE","Agent Foundations Field Network (AFFINE)","Agent Foundations Field Network (AFFINE) [Technical Research]","Agent Foundations Field Network (AFFINE) [Algorithm Design]"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"Site has a 'Support AFFINE' contact page but no public donation page found","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.affine.org/team/","summary":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gbExicZvKtHBboLR6/applications-open-winter-2027-affine-alignment-seminar-due"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.affine.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Prague area, Czechia","logoAsset":"/_blob/8902eb57c12330240c4c04548b9b640d.jpg","name":"AFFINE (Agent Foundations Field Network)","people":[{"name":"Individual #5357","role":"Founder"},{"name":"Noa Hölzer","role":"Director"}],"quote":"The AFFINE Seminar is a month-long residency to work on ambitious holistic alignment theory","quoteUrl":"https://www.affine.org/","sources":["https://www.affine.org","https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gbExicZvKtHBboLR6/applications-open-winter-2027-affine-alignment-seminar-due","https://www.affine.org/team/"],"summary":"Runs month-long residency seminars on foundational, holistic AI alignment theory and agent foundations, aiming to build up the field.","tags":["Alignment research","Education & training","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.8,"T2":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Agent foundations field-building network (event prep), a pipeline tiered by who it serves, mostly agent foundations researchers."},"agentdojo":{"aliases":["AgentDojo (Edoardo Debenedetti et al.)"],"checked":"2026-11-07","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2406.13352"},"homepage":"https://github.com/ethz-spylab/agentdojo","kind":"programme","name":"AgentDojo","quote":"we introduce AgentDojo, an evaluation framework for agents that execute tools over untrusted data.","quoteUrl":"https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2406.13352","sources":["https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2406.13352","https://github.com/ethz-spylab/agentdojo"],"summary":"Open evaluation framework from ETH Zurich's SPY Lab for testing prompt-injection attacks and defences on tool-using AI agents.","tags":["Evaluations","AI control & security"]},"agi-inherent-non-safety":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"Players Philanthropy Fund","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"programme","location":"","name":"AGI Inherent Non-Safety","people":[],"quoteUrl":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2024/recommendations","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2024/recommendations"],"status":"active","summary":"Project that received a $135,000 general-support recommendation in the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2024 Freedom Track, via Players Philanthropy Fund; not identified further.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.5,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Known contest on goal misgeneralization and the shutdown/corrigibility problem, which engage the hard parts.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/JNtGxrusJRpx53Q8L/"}},"ai-alignment-foundation":{"aliases":["AI Alignment Foundation (AIAF)","AIAF"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.aialignmentfoundation.org/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.aialignmentfoundation.org/about/team","summary":"https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aiaf"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.aialignmentfoundation.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Marina del Rey, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/bdf7aca016acf9e2f188f05bc0af625c.png","name":"AI Alignment Foundation","people":[{"name":"Judd Rosenblatt","role":"President (also founder and CEO of AE Studio)"},{"name":"Diogo de Lucena","role":"Chief Scientist"}],"quote":"Accelerating high-impact AI alignment research","quoteUrl":"https://www.aialignmentfoundation.org","sources":["https://www.aialignmentfoundation.org","https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aiaf","https://www.aialignmentfoundation.org/about/team"],"summary":"Nonprofit incubated by AE Studio that advances neglected research directions in AI alignment, giving researchers engineering teams, compute and infrastructure.","tags":["Alignment research","Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Funds alignment researchers with engineering teams and compute, and briefs government; it cites AI systems that deceive evaluators and resist shutdown. 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The site describes ALIGN as a Japanese network for AI alignment research, community building and outreach that warns of AI becoming uncontrollable; hub/pipeline work with a stated loss-of-control aim, kept at T3 60 / T2 40 (tag defaults give ~T3 56 / T2 28 / T1 16, but nothing shown engages the hard parts enough for a T1 share).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.aialign.net/en"}},"ai-and-society-ethics-safety-and-trustworthiness-in-intelligent-agents":{"aliases":["2018 AAAI Spring Symposium on AI and Society: Ethics, Safety and Trustworthiness in Intelligent Agents","AAAI 2018 Spring Symposium on AI and Society"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","foundedUrl":"https://aaai.org/?p=41096","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://sites.google.com/site/aiandsocietyss18","kind":"event","location":"Stanford, United States","name":"AI and Society: Ethics, Safety and Trustworthiness in Intelligent Agents","outputs":[{"label":"AAAI 2018 Spring Symposium Series listing","type":"other","url":"https://aaai.org/?p=41096"},{"label":"2018 AAAI Spring Symposium Series technical report","type":"reports","url":"https://aaai.org/proceeding/01-spring-2018"},{"label":"Reports on the 2018 AAAI Spring Symposium Series (AI Magazine)","type":"reports","url":"https://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2824"}],"parentOrg":"Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)","people":[{"name":"K. 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Democratic-AI work is relevant to AI but not aimed at extinction risk, so it sits outside the tiers (Adjacent). Source: https://ai-democracy.org/"},"ai-disaster-prevention-lab":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"Multipolai","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"AI Disaster Prevention Lab","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":[],"status":"unknown","summary":"Project that received an SFF speculation grant for general support, with Multipolai as the receiving charity.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. No public page found for the AI Disaster Prevention Lab or the receiving charity Multipolai (searches returned only unrelated natural-disaster AI labs), so the first-pass guess from the name and SFF speculation-grant context is kept."},"ai-for-the-people":{"name":"AI for the People","aliases":["AI For the People","AFP"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://aiforthepeopleus.org/","summary":"US nonprofit working on racial justice and AI: public education on algorithmic bias, policy advice and, since 2025, shareholder advocacy at large AI developers.","tags":["Governance & policy","Communications"],"sources":["https://aiforthepeopleus.org/","https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/23/mutale-nkondes-nonprofit-is-working-to-make-ai-less-biased/","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/ai-for-the-people-10115248/"],"fieldSources":{"summary":"https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/23/mutale-nkondes-nonprofit-is-working-to-make-ai-less-biased/"},"infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-08","notFound":["quote","people","location"],"why":"Own site returns an empty page to automated readers; summary from one web search."},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The MacArthur grant paid for a landscape analysis on race, technology and social justice; the organisation works on algorithmic bias, not catastrophic risk, so Adjacent (macfound.org grantee page)."},"ai-forensics":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://aiforensics.org/about","summary":"https://aiforensics.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2021","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://aiforensics.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/cc2c2a77b126c9a86911d864cf898515.jpg","name":"AI Forensics","people":[{"name":"Marc Faddoul","role":"Director, co-founder"},{"name":"Claudio Agosti","role":"Co-founder"},{"name":"Salvatore Romano","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"AI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms.","quoteUrl":"https://aiforensics.org/","sources":["https://aiforensics.org/","https://ngi.eu/news/2024/09/03/digital-detectives-ai-forensics-quest-for-algorithmic-accountability/","https://aiforensics.org/about"],"summary":"European nonprofit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms, holding major technology platforms accountable through independent technical investigations and its own data-collection tools.","tags":["Evaluations","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":""},"ai-futures-and-responsibility-programme":{"aliases":["For Collaborative Work with AI:FAR","AI:FAR"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.ai-far.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","quote"]},"kind":"org","location":"Cambridge, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/706ad3d49b6dd0741ddd69b7a5a99911.png","name":"AI: Futures and Responsibility Programme","people":[{"name":"Sean Ó hÉigeartaigh","role":"supervising researcher on the funded RA work (per grant purpose)"}],"quote":"We aim to shape the long-term impacts of AI in ways that are safe and beneficial for humanity","quoteUrl":"https://www.ai-far.org","sources":["https://www.ai-far.org"],"status":"unknown","summary":"University of Cambridge programme, a collaboration between the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, studying and shaping long-term impacts of AI.","tags":["Governance & policy","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.506,"T2":0.494},"xrTierNote":"Draft. AI:FAR's own page aims at AI developments with extreme or long-lasting impacts and lists misuse risk scenarios and UK/EU/UN governance advice, but does not mention loss of control or superintelligence, so it is half catastrophic-risk policy (T2) and half general AI governance/ethics (Adjacent).","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.ai-far.org","summary":"https://www.ai-far.org"}},"ai-futures-project":{"aliases":["Artificial Intelligence Forecasting Inc","AI Futures Project Inc"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.every.org/ai-futures-project","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.aifutures.org/about","summary":"https://www.aifutures.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"https://manifund.org/projects/ai-forecasting-and-policy-research-by-the-ai-2027-team","fundraiserDate":"2025-05","fundraiserTitle":"AI forecasting and policy research by the AI 2027 team","homepage":"https://www.aifutures.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/d380c49e86d140a7092c776f330420bb.jpg","name":"AI Futures Project","people":[{"name":"Daniel Kokotajlo","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Individual #4144","role":"Managing Director"}],"quote":"We are a small research group forecasting the future of AI, funded by charitable donations and grants.","quoteUrl":"https://www.aifutures.org/","sources":["https://www.aifutures.org/about","https://manifund.org/projects/ai-forecasting-and-policy-research-by-the-ai-2027-team","https://www.aifutures.org/"],"summary":"Nonprofit research group, led by Daniel Kokotajlo, that forecasts AI progress and its impacts; authors of the AI 2027 scenario.","tags":["Forecasting","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T1":0.5,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Writes scenario forecasts of AI progress and policy recommendations, including compute governance. The compute-governance and policy work buys time (T1, half); the forecasting aims at takeover risk without its own plan for the hard parts (T2, half). Source: https://www.aifutures.org/about"},"ai-impacts":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://aiimpacts.org/donate/","donateNote":"Donations made via MIRI and flagged for AI Impacts","fieldSources":{"people":"https://aiimpacts.org/about/","summary":"https://aiimpacts.org/about/","fiscalSponsor":"https://aiimpacts.org/donate/"},"fiscalSponsor":"Machine Intelligence Research Institute","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://aiimpacts.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/2e47f83c1f88fc4c575f080c686ec4ca.png","name":"AI Impacts","people":[{"name":"Katja Grace","role":"Co-founder and Lead Researcher"}],"quote":"AI Impacts aims to improve our understanding of the likely impacts of human-level artificial intelligence.","quoteUrl":"https://aiimpacts.org/about/","sources":["https://aiimpacts.org/","https://aiimpacts.org/donate/","https://aiimpacts.org/about/"],"summary":"Research project led by Katja Grace, based at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, that studies the likely impacts of human-level AI, including the recurring Expert Survey on Progress in AI.","tags":["Forecasting","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Researches the future of AI through expert surveys and reports, including work arguing that AI is an extinction risk. It aims squarely at takeover risk, and its evidence supports the case for caution and slowing down, which buys time (T1). Source: https://aiimpacts.org/"},"ai-lab-watch":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"Lightcone Infrastructure","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ailabwatch.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/1353d2332390bf6d20643a8f43debd68.jpg","name":"AI Lab Watch","quote":"I track what AI companies are doing in terms of safety.","quoteUrl":"https://ailabwatch.org/","sources":["https://ailabwatch.org/","https://www.ailabwatch.org/about","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2025/recommendations"],"status":"closed","statusNote":"Site says it stopped being maintained in September 2025.","summary":"Project by Zach Stein-Perlman that evaluated frontier AI companies on safety with a scorecard, with a blog; no longer maintained since September 2025.","tags":["Evaluations","Governance & policy","Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.7,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The site scores AI labs on risk assessment, scheming prevention and misuse, and the author says he is motivated by existential catastrophe. It is lab-accountability work rather than buying time, so it stays mostly T2. The site says it stopped being maintained in September 2025.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.ailabwatch.org/about"}},"ai-now-institute":{"name":"AI Now Institute","aliases":["AI Now"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://ainowinstitute.org/","donate":"https://ainowinstitute.org/donate","founded":"2017","summary":"Independent research and policy institute on AI in the public interest, working on accountability, concentrated corporate power, labour, biometrics and AI in safety-critical and national-security settings; started at New York University.","quote":"We are an independent research institute equipping the field with expert analysis to challenge and reimagine the current trajectory of AI.","quoteUrl":"https://ainowinstitute.org/about","people":[{"name":"Amba Kak","role":"Co-Executive Director"},{"name":"Sarah Myers West","role":"Co-Executive Director"},{"name":"Lucy Suchman","role":"Board President"}],"tags":["Governance & policy"],"sources":["https://ainowinstitute.org/","https://ainowinstitute.org/about","https://ainowinstitute.org/research-areas","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/ai-now-institute-10708229/"],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://ainowinstitute.org/about","summary":"https://ainowinstitute.org/research-areas","quote":"https://ainowinstitute.org/about"},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. AI accountability and corporate-power research with no catastrophic or loss-of-control framing on its about or research-areas pages, so Adjacent (ainowinstitute.org/research-areas)."},"ai-objectives-institute":{"aliases":["AOI"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.every.org/ai-objectives-institute?code=f8acaa4f#/donate","donateNote":"Via every.org","fieldSources":{"people":"https://ai.objectives.institute/team","summary":"https://ai.objectives.institute/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ai.objectives.institute/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/55aa7dbdd2bdf3302bfacabf8772b432.jpg","name":"AI Objectives Institute","people":[{"name":"Brittney Gallagher","role":"Co-founder & Board Chair"},{"name":"Değer Turan","role":"President"}],"quote":"the Institute is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core","quoteUrl":"https://ai.objectives.institute/","sources":["https://ai.objectives.institute/","https://ai.objectives.institute/team"],"summary":"Nonprofit research and development lab founded by the late Peter Eckersley, working so people can thrive alongside highly capable AI, with research on AI-assisted governance, transformative-AI economics and human disempowerment and structural risks.","tags":["Governance & policy","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"A non-profit lab working to steer AI, markets and institutions toward human interests, mostly through AI-and-society and collective-deliberation tools. That is relevant to AI but not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent). Source: https://ai.objectives.institute/"},"ai-plans-com":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ai-plans.com","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/a37cc4c93f2bc8749ecf04bc753167b2.png","name":"AI-Plans.com","quote":"Leading research and events in AI alignment and safety","quoteUrl":"https://ai-plans.com","sources":["https://ai-plans.com","https://manifund.org/projects/ai-planscom"],"summary":"Open platform, created by Kabir Kumar, for posting and peer-reviewing AI alignment plans, which also runs expert-judged Critique-a-Thon events.","tags":["Alignment research","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.6,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Known work: AI-Plans.com collects and critiques alignment plans and runs critique-a-thons, aimed at x-risk but without a strong theory of change.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://manifund.org/projects/ai-planscom"}},"ai-policy-hub":{"aliases":["University of California, Berkeley (AI Policy Hub)","UC Berkeley AI Policy Hub"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://cltc.berkeley.edu/give-to-cltc/","donateNote":"Giving goes to CLTC (parent centre)","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://cltc.berkeley.edu/program/ai-policy-hub/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","foundedUrl":"https://cltc.berkeley.edu/2026/03/02/uc-berkeleys-ai-policy-hub-celebrates-a-new-generation-of-leaders/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-03","basis":"18 fellows in total across three cohorts of six (2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25), per CLTC article; excludes director and 9 faculty advisors","range":"","url":"https://cltc.berkeley.edu/2026/03/02/uc-berkeleys-ai-policy-hub-celebrates-a-new-generation-of-leaders/","value":18},"homepage":"https://cltc.berkeley.edu/ai-policy-hub/","kind":"programme","location":"Berkeley, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/be0a6eb7aaff87fc5fb219cc728c7200.jpg","name":"AI Policy Hub","outputs":[{"label":"CLTC research library","type":"reports","url":"https://cltc.berkeley.edu/research/research-library/"},{"label":"CLTC events","type":"events","url":"https://cltc.berkeley.edu/events"}],"parentOrg":"center-for-long-term-cybersecurity","people":[{"name":"Nada Madkour","role":"Director"}],"quote":"Advancing interdisciplinary research to anticipate and address AI policy opportunities","quoteUrl":"https://cltc.berkeley.edu/ai-policy-hub/","sources":["https://cltc.berkeley.edu/ai-policy-hub/","https://cltc.berkeley.edu/2026/03/02/uc-berkeleys-ai-policy-hub-celebrates-a-new-generation-of-leaders/","https://cltc.berkeley.edu/program/ai-policy-hub/"],"status":"unknown","statusNote":"Three fellowship cohorts ran 2022-2025; a March 2026 CLTC article mentions no fourth cohort and says CLTC is packaging programme materials for other institutions to replicate. Page still describes the Hub as an active platform.","summary":"A UC Berkeley programme at CLTC's AI Security Initiative that supports interdisciplinary research and fellowships turning technical insight into AI policy.","tags":["Governance & policy","Education & training","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T1":0.05,"T2":0.25,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Most dollars are probably the 2021 CHAI grant; CHAI's about page frames its work as a control problem with irreversible outcomes, but its recent papers (RLHF, reward models, assistive robustness) are prosaic, as is the Levine/Dragan robotics misspecification grant, plus a small AI Policy Hub share."},"ai-policy-institute":{"aliases":["AIPI"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://theaipi.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://theaipi.org/about/","summary":"https://theaipi.org/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://theaipi.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/2b6afe7de4fee4bed421b1b402975f94.jpg","name":"AI Policy Institute","people":[{"name":"Daniel Colson","role":"Founder and Executive Director"}],"quote":"an independent research organization dedicated to advancing public understanding of the trajectory, capabilities, and implications of the most powerful current and future AI systems","quoteUrl":"https://theaipi.org/about/","sources":["https://theaipi.org/","https://theaipi.org/about/"],"summary":"Organisation running public opinion polling of US voters and research on advanced AI, and providing analysis to policymakers and media.","tags":["Governance & policy","Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Runs public-opinion polling and research on the most serious risks from advanced AI, including extinction, to inform lawmakers and the press. Building public support for regulating advanced AI buys time (T1). Source: https://theaipi.org/"},"ai-public-feedback-workshop":{"aliases":["UC Berkeley [AI & Public Feedback Workshop]"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"The Regents of the University of California","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"event","location":"Berkeley, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/f9be435acee1396f545f7cf67492dc54.jpg","name":"AI & Public Feedback Workshop","parentOrg":"university-of-california-berkeley","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"],"status":"unknown","summary":"Workshop on AI and public feedback at UC Berkeley; recipient of a $15,000 SFF-2026 general-support recommendation, received by the Regents of the University of California. Not identified further.","tags":["Governance & policy","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, a workshop on public feedback for AI, which falls under democratic AI / AI and society (rule).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"}},"ai-risk-mitigation-fund":{"aliases":["ARM Fund"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.every.org/ai-risk-mitigation-fund","donateNote":"Via Every.org, passing to Effective Ventures Foundation USA","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.airiskfund.com/","summary":"https://airiskfund.com"},"fiscalSponsor":"Effective Ventures Foundation","founded":"2023","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://airiskfund.com","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["location","people"]},"kind":"fund","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/a9d7d572d33d602c5ad2ea848f952f4a.svg","name":"AI Risk Mitigation Fund","quote":"aiming to reduce catastrophic risks from advanced AI through grants","quoteUrl":"https://www.airiskfund.com/","sources":["https://airiskfund.com","https://www.every.org/ai-risk-mitigation-fund","https://www.airiskfund.com/"],"summary":"Non-profit fund, spun out of the Long-Term Future Fund, that makes grants for technical AI safety research, policy work and training programmes for new researchers.","tags":["Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T1":0.1,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The fund's site says it aims to reduce catastrophic risks from advanced AI by funding technical research, policy and researcher training; its example grants (interpretability, shard theory, debate, an alignment lab's compute, GovAI surveys) are mostly x-risk-motivated prosaic safety, so tiered by the intermediary rule as T3/T2 with small T1 and Adjacent shares.","funderId":"ai-risk-mitigation-fund"},"ai-safety-aachen":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://aisafetyaachen.org/","summary":"https://aisafetyaachen.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"http://aisafetyaachen.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"Aachen, Germany","logoAsset":"/_blob/478d512752c9baec8374bedc8cfa70d4.png","name":"AI Safety Aachen","quote":"We are committed to reduce catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems","quoteUrl":"https://aisafetyaachen.org/","sources":["https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/ai-safety-aachen/","https://aisafetyaachen.org/"],"summary":"Student-led group in Aachen that helps students and academics learn about AI risks and build skills to reduce them.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":""},"ai-safety-aarhus":{"aliases":["AI Safety Aarhus (Individual #3236)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"Aarhus, Denmark","name":"AI Safety Aarhus","people":[{"name":"Individual #3236","role":"organiser (named in grant record)"}],"quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.lesswrong.com/events/cMiD6fXP3xYjmc3kC/danish-ai-safety-conference","https://aisafetyconference.dk/"],"status":"unknown","summary":"A local AI safety community group in Aarhus, Denmark, that received a small direct donation from Jaan Tallinn.","tags":["Field-building","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.6,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Probably a 2016 local AI safety group, which at that time was mostly x-risk motivated; tiered by guess at who it served."},"ai-safety-and-governance-fund":{"aliases":["AISGF"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://aisgf.us/fundraising","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://aisgf.us","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/ee9706fcf8ba5c3796b1fea313638b22.png","name":"AI Safety and Governance Fund","quote":"Our mission is ensuring AI development is safe, secure, aligned with human values—and doesn't kill everyone.","quoteUrl":"https://aisgf.us/","sources":["https://aisgf.us","https://manifund.org/AISGF"],"summary":"Nonprofit that educates the general public about AI risk, including testing and spreading messages to reduce existential risk from AI.","tags":["Advocacy","Communications"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(4) — not tax-deductible","xrTier":{"T1":0.6,"T2":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is testing and spreading messages to reduce AI x-risk; probably the comms org that argues the hard parts and for slowing down, so mostly T1 under the comms rule.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://manifund.org/AISGF"}},"ai-safety-argentina":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Not accepting donations","fieldSources":{"people":"https://scholarship.aisafety.ar/team/","quote":"https://scholarship.aisafety.ar/","summary":"https://scholarship.aisafety.ar/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://scholarship.aisafety.ar/","kind":"org","location":"Buenos Aires, Argentina","logoAsset":"/_blob/8d3a04c0790db98195b916af52cd6bc2.jpg","name":"AI Safety Argentina","people":[{"name":"Individual #8205","role":"Co-organizer"},{"name":"Individual #2209","role":"Co-organizer"}],"quote":"Investigación en AI Safety, hecha en Argentina.","quoteUrl":"https://scholarship.aisafety.ar/","sources":["https://manifund.org/projects/help-the-argentinian-ai-safety-community-grow","https://www.goodventures.org/?p=5256","https://scholarship.aisafety.ar/team/","https://scholarship.aisafety.ar/"],"summary":"Runs AISAR, a scholarship programme in Argentina that supports six-month AI safety research projects with mentorship; it was started by BAISH, an Argentinian AI safety community founded in 2024.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.1,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant probably funds the AISAR scholarship programme, an in-person technical AI safety fellowship mentored by ICC/Exactas-UBA academics, run by a hub whose Manifund page states an extinction-risk aim; the T1 share is kept below the stated-pipeline default because the mentors are mostly mainstream CS academics, which suggests prosaic projects."},"ai-safety-asia":{"aliases":["AISA"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.aisafety.asia/who-we-are","summary":"https://www.aisafety.asia/who-we-are"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.aisafety.asia","kind":"org","location":"Manila, Philippines","logoAsset":"/_blob/be9ed48ba46cd441f7c886b2ed5a9870.png","name":"AI Safety Asia","people":[{"name":"Edward Tsoi","role":"CEO"}],"quoteUrl":"https://www.aisafety.asia/who-we-are","sources":["https://www.aisafety.asia","https://www.aisafety.asia/who-we-are"],"summary":"Non-profit that partners with multilateral platforms and national institutions to strengthen AI governance in Asia, through convening, research, policy and capacity-building work.","tags":["Governance & policy","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.678,"T2":0.322},"xrTierNote":"Draft. AI Safety Asia's convening page frames the work as crisis diplomacy for cross-border AI incidents and does not mention loss of control, takeover or superintelligence, though it builds on the AI Red Lines agenda; probably mostly general governance capacity-building.","quote":"We convene governments, civil society, industry, and academia to ensure AI governance reflects diverse voices."},"ai-safety-australia-new-zealand":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.goodancestors.org.au/donate-card","donateNote":"Via Good Ancestors, which houses AIS ANZ","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.aisafetyanz.com.au/about","summary":"https://www.aisafetyanz.com.au/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.aisafetyanz.com.au/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Australia and New Zealand","logoAsset":"/_blob/52c31be7498124690279cc7b65faa25c.jpg","name":"AI Safety Australia & New Zealand","people":[{"name":"Michael Kerrison","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"Building an influential local community to mitigate catastrophic AI risks","quoteUrl":"https://www.aisafetyanz.com.au/","sources":["https://www.aisafetyanz.com.au/","https://www.aisafetyanz.com.au/about"],"summary":"Community-building group for AI safety in Australia and New Zealand, housed within Good Ancestors.","tags":["Field-building","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.2,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Its homepage states a mission to mitigate catastrophic AI risks, and it runs careers advising, meetups, a Sydney hub and the TARA alignment course, so the stated-framing pipeline/hub default applies."},"ai-safety-barcelona":{"aliases":["AI Safety BCN"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.aisafetybcn.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","foundedUrl":"https://www.aisafetybcn.org/about","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 9 names on /about (3 co-founders, 5 team, 1 advisor); all volunteers/organisers","range":"","url":"https://www.aisafetybcn.org/about","value":9},"homepage":"https://www.aisafetybcn.org/","kind":"org","location":"Barcelona, Spain","logoAsset":"/_blob/45aba7f72982a231e5c463b6d2aa7c17.jpg","name":"AI Safety Barcelona","outputs":[{"label":"Events","type":"events","url":"https://www.aisafetybcn.org/events"},{"label":"Luma calendar","type":"events","url":"https://luma.com/ai-safety-bcn"},{"label":"Substack","type":"substack","url":"https://aisafetybcn.substack.com/"}],"people":[{"name":"Chengheng Li","role":"co-founder"},{"name":"Martín Soto","role":"co-founder"},{"name":"Individual #1639","role":"co-founder"},{"name":"Marcel Mir","role":"advisor"}],"quote":"A community in Barcelona working on making advanced AI safe.","quoteUrl":"https://www.aisafetybcn.org/about","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-safety-barcelona/","x":""},"sources":["https://www.aisafetybcn.org/","https://www.aisafetybcn.org/about"],"status":"active","summary":"A community in Barcelona working on making advanced AI safe, meeting at the city's universities since 2024 and running workshops, hackathons and open events.","tags":["Field-building","Community & infrastructure","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, events for AI Safety Barcelona, a local community group; tiered by a rough guess at who it serves."},"ai-safety-camp":{"aliases":["AI Safety Camp (AISC)","AISC","AI Safety Camp (Individual #7668)","AI Safety Camp Toronto","AISC Toronto","AI Safety Camp #5"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"No donation link on homepage","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.aisafety.camp/","kind":"org","location":"Remote","logoAsset":"/_blob/232a025f37ec1ceae953214d444d4e85.jpg","name":"AI Safety Camp","quote":"AI Safety Camp is about ensuring future AIs are either reasonably safe or not built at all.","quoteUrl":"https://www.aisafety.camp/","sources":["https://www.aisafety.camp/"],"status":"unknown","summary":"Runs a recurring three-month online research programme in which teams led by project leads work on AI safety projects; the 12th edition runs from January to April 2027.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.298,"T2":0.251,"T3":0.451},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The site frames the mission as AI being safe or not built at all. Of the 27 AISC10 projects, about 8 are stop/pause, compute-governance, agent-foundations or uncontainability work (T1). Mech interp, jailbreak and eval projects make up most of the rest (T3), plus speculative aligned-helper-AI projects (T2).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.aisafety.camp/"}},"ai-safety-communications-centre":{"aliases":["AISCC"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"Effective Ventures Foundation","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://aiscc.org/","kind":"programme","location":"","name":"AI Safety Communications Centre","parentOrg":"effective-ventures-foundation","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://openphilanthropy.org/?p=16473"],"summary":"Project providing the AI safety community with communications support and connecting journalists to AI safety experts and resources; funded through a grant to the Effective Ventures Foundation.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T2":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the Open Philanthropy grant page only (a project fiscally sponsored by Effective Ventures that does comms support and connects journalists with experts); I found no pages of its own, so it is probably x-risk-community comms with a stated framing.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://openphilanthropy.org/?p=16473"}},"ai-safety-hong-kong":{"aliases":["AISHK"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Not accepting donations","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.hkaisafetyhub.org/team","quote":"https://www.hkaisafetyhub.org/research","summary":"https://manifund.org/projects/ai-safety-hong-kong-aishk"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.hkaisafetyhub.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Hong Kong","logoAsset":"/_blob/d8e778922733bc638d5828a85d220b74.png","name":"AI Safety Hong Kong","people":[{"name":"Kenneth Chan","role":"Director"},{"name":"Abeer Sharma","role":"Director"}],"quote":"we conduct and publish original research and writings","quoteUrl":"https://www.hkaisafetyhub.org/research","sources":["https://manifund.org/projects/ai-safety-hong-kong-aishk","https://www.hkaisafetyhub.org/team","https://www.hkaisafetyhub.org/research"],"summary":"Field-building organisation in Hong Kong running AI safety webinars and aiming to build a local hub.","tags":["Field-building","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.2,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The Manifund page describes AISHK as a fieldbuilding group (webinars, reading groups, student societies, planned fellowships and a 2027 conference) that explicitly targets catastrophic and existential risk, so the stated-framing hub/pipeline default applies."},"ai-safety-hungary":{"aliases":["AIS Hungary"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.aishungary.com/about/team","summary":"https://lesswrong.com/posts/j4qWrxvchk7QxYqEK/ais-hungary-is-hiring-a-part-time-technical-lead-deadline"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.aishungary.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Budapest, Hungary","logoAsset":"/_blob/a289758d2b91741537c730cbd1b4c491.jpg","name":"AI Safety Hungary","people":[{"name":"Gergő Gáspár","role":"Founder and Director"}],"quote":"Our organization empowers students and researchers to contribute to the field of AI safety.","quoteUrl":"https://www.aishungary.com/","sources":["https://www.aishungary.com/","https://lesswrong.com/posts/j4qWrxvchk7QxYqEK/ais-hungary-is-hiring-a-part-time-technical-lead-deadline","https://www.aishungary.com/about/team"],"summary":"Budapest-based group building AI safety governance and technical talent through career advice, courses and community events.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.2,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purposes, national AI safety community building; tiered by the pipeline default pending data on who it serves."},"ai-safety-info":{"aliases":["AISafety Info","Stampy's AI Safety Info"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.every.org/stampy","donateNote":"Via Ashgro","fieldSources":{"people":"https://aisafety.info/","quote":"https://aisafety.info/questions/NLZQ/What-is-this-site-about","summary":"https://aisafety.info/"},"fiscalSponsor":"Ashgro","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://aisafety.info","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/634634b37e8df21793554292596109fc.png","name":"AI Safety Info","people":[{"name":"Rob Miles","role":"Founder"}],"quote":"This site aims to inform people about the risk of human extinction due to AI","quoteUrl":"https://aisafety.info/questions/NLZQ/What-is-this-site-about","sources":["https://aisafety.info","https://aisafety.info/","https://aisafety.info/questions/NLZQ/What-is-this-site-about"],"summary":"Project (Stampy's AI Safety Info) maintaining an FAQ and chatbot explaining AI safety, founded by Rob Miles and run by volunteers.","tags":["Education & training","Communications"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) (via fiscal sponsor)","xrTier":{"T1":0.7,"T2":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The site, founded by Rob Miles, is an explainer arguing smarter-than-human AI could cause extinction, with articles on goal-pursuit and AI winning conflicts, so the comms rule gives mostly T1."},"ai-safety-los-angeles-aisla":{"aliases":["AI Safety Los Angeles","AISLA"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://aisafetyla.com/","kind":"org","location":"Los Angeles, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/8c645ad7c7f1b83b56ab8deb965056f9.jpg","name":"AI Safety Los Angeles (AISLA)","quote":"Join AI Safety Los Angeles for biweekly paper discussions and community meetups","quoteUrl":"https://aisafetyla.com/","sources":["https://aisafetyla.com/","https://manifund.org/projects/ai-safety-los-angeles-aisla"],"summary":"Local AI safety community in Los Angeles, open to anyone interested in technical and policy aspects of safe AI, hosting biweekly paper discussions and meetups.","tags":["Field-building","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Local AI safety group with no stated purpose beyond its name; tiered by the pipeline default.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://aisafetyla.com/"}},"ai-safety-nepal":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.aisafetynepal.org/about","quote":"https://www.aisafetynepal.org/about","summary":"https://manifund.org/projects/ai-safety-nepal"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.aisafetynepal.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Nepal","logoAsset":"/_blob/55f2bed13b9a87162fb1d2867773f335.png","name":"AI Safety Nepal","people":[{"name":"Individual #6389","role":"Founder, Executive Lead"}],"quote":"Build local capacity in AI safety and governance.","quoteUrl":"https://www.aisafetynepal.org/about","sources":["https://manifund.org/projects/ai-safety-nepal","https://www.aisafetynepal.org/about"],"summary":"Runs an in-person AI safety fellowship in Nepal using the AI Safety Atlas curriculum, followed by mentorship and compute support for top projects, to build local AI safety talent.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Local AI safety group with no stated purpose; tiered by the pipeline default as a guess at who it serves."},"ai-safety-south-africa":{"aliases":["AI Safety Cape Town"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.every.org/ai-safety-south-africa","donateNote":"Via fiscal sponsor Ashgro","fiscalSponsor":"Ashgro","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://aisafetysa.com","kind":"org","location":"Cape Town, South Africa","logoAsset":"/_blob/1a429d01383e8ffc7514496d6bdae035.jpg","name":"AI Safety South Africa","quote":"AI Safety South Africa (AISSA) is a national network of talent and professionals dedicated to steering technological progress to be differentially beneficial.","quoteUrl":"https://aisafetysa.com/","sources":["https://aisafetysa.com","https://www.every.org/ai-safety-south-africa"],"summary":"Capacity-building organisation developing talent in Southern Africa for AI risk preparedness, with members mainly in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria; it is rebranding as the Cape Institute for Safe AI.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.168,"T2":0.168,"T3":0.665},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The funded work is probably HumanAgencyBench (Sturgeon et al., AI Safety Cape Town/Apart), an LLM benchmark of how assistants support user agency, framed with loss-of-control and disempowerment concerns but measuring mostly user-level behaviours, so it is mainly T3 safety evals with T2 and Adjacent shares.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://aisafetysa.com"}},"ai-safety-support":{"aliases":["AISS","AI Safety Support Ltd.","AISS Inc"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2020","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.aisafetysupport.org","kind":"org","location":"Sydney, Australia","name":"AI Safety Support","quote":"a community-building project working to reduce the likelihood of existential risk from artificial intelligence","quoteUrl":"https://www.aisafetysupport.org","sources":["https://www.aisafetysupport.org","https://www.aisafetysupport.org/about"],"summary":"Australian charity, founded in 2020 by Individual #5158 and Individual #1052, that aims to reduce catastrophic AI risk by supporting people working on AI safety, including through fiscal sponsorship and stewardship of the Alignment Slack.","tags":["Field-building","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"Australian registered charity (ACNC)","xrTier":{"T1":0.1,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.6,"T4":0.1},"xrTierNote":"AI Safety Support describes itself as a community-building project to reduce existential risk from AI. Most of its counted money passed through it to run the MATS research-training programme (and ARENA and the Astra Fellowship), so it is tiered like MATS: mostly prosaic safety research training (T3), with shares aimed at takeover risk (T2, T1) and a small capabilities share (T4). Source: https://www.aisafetysupport.org","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.aisafetysupport.org/about"}},"ai-safety-tactical-opportunities-fund":{"aliases":["Vanguard Charitable (AISTOF)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No separate public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://manifund.org/JueYan","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location","people","quote"]},"kind":"fund","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/f81bb5fcea0e939ed9d37ac232ab83f4.png","name":"AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund","quote":"AISTOF is a pooled multi-donor charitable fund seeking to reduce the probability and severity of catastrophic risks associated with the development of advanced AI systems","quoteUrl":"https://manifund.org/JueYan","sources":["https://manifund.org/JueYan"],"summary":"Pooled multi-donor charitable fund making fast grants on AI catastrophic risk in governance, technical alignment and evaluations.","tags":["Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T1":0.15,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.45},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Same fund as the Vanguard Charitable (AISTOF) entry; aligned to that research call, which weighted the grants listed on its Manifund page (mostly technical alignment, evals and formal certification) under a stated catastrophic-risk aim.","funderId":"ai-safety-tactical-opportunities-fund","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://manifund.org/JueYan"}},"ai-safety-unconference":{"aliases":["AI Safety Unconference (Individual #6275 and Vaughn DiMarco)","AI Safety Unconference @ NeurIPS"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","foundedUrl":"https://manifund.org/projects/horizon-events-2025","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://horizonomega.org","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/89bdc733649cd00eb09aeb08bca1fc29.jpg","name":"AI Safety Unconference","outputs":[{"label":"AI Safety Unconference NeurIPS 2022 post","type":"eaforum","url":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Z9Mprytde6BbkQcq2/ai-safety-unconference-neurips-2022"},{"label":"AI Safety Unconference NeurIPS 2022 post","type":"lesswrong","url":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QKdcHjoAfPJrZuFJk"}],"parentOrg":"horizon-omega","people":[{"name":"Individual #6275","role":"organiser"},{"name":"Vaughn DiMarco","role":"co-organiser (2018, per LTFF report)"}],"quoteUrl":"https://horizonomega.substack.com/p/virtual-ai-safety-unconference-2024","sources":["https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/payouts/november-2018-long-term-future-fund-grants","https://manifund.org/projects/horizon-events-2025","https://horizonomega.org"],"status":"active","statusNote":"Ran at NeurIPS 2018, 2019 and 2022; now listed as a Horizon Omega project, with a 2025 successor planned per Manifund.","summary":"Unconference on AI alignment held alongside NeurIPS in 2018, 2019 and 2022, first organised by Individual #6275 and Vaughn DiMarco; now part of Horizon Events, run by the Canadian nonprofit Horizon Omega.","tags":["Field-building","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.4,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, an AI alignment unconference at NeurIPS 2018 aimed at ML researchers; field-building event whose attendees mostly do prosaic safety, with some x-risk-motivated work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://manifund.org/projects/horizon-events-2025","quote":"https://horizonomega.substack.com/p/virtual-ai-safety-unconference-2024"},"quote":"The purpose is to reduce AI risk through facilitation of progress in AI safety R&D, by offering a high quality research event."},"ai-security-forum":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://hcb.hackclub.com/donations/start/ai-security-forum","donateNote":"Via fiscal sponsor Hack Club","fiscalSponsor":"Hack Club","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://aisecurity.forum","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/5a668953582d7425a2a5beef7ee2a879.jpg","name":"AI Security Forum","quote":"We bring together experts in AI, cybersecurity, and policy to secure powerful AI models—preventing catastrophes while accelerating scientific and economic progress.","quoteUrl":"https://aisecurity.forum/about","sources":["https://aisecurity.forum/about","https://aisecurity.forum"],"summary":"Recurring forum events, held in cities including Washington DC, Las Vegas and Tel Aviv, that bring together experts in AI, cybersecurity and policy to secure powerful AI models.","tags":["AI control & security","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) (via fiscal sponsor)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T2":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The forum's pages frame it as accelerating AI security, explicitly including securing AGI model weights, and FAR.AI's Paris write-up covers weight theft and loss of control (T2 by the weight-security policy rule); I keep a 0.3 Adjacent share, below the stated-framing default of T2 1.0, for general cyber and military-AI sessions.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://aisecurity.forum/about"}},"ai-standards-lab":{"aliases":["AI Standards Lab & Holtman Systems Research"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://aistandardslab.org/team/","summary":"https://www.aistandardslab.org"},"fiscalSponsor":"Players Philanthropy Fund","founded":"2024","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.aistandardslab.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/d7d9a0f10928bcfa9b69064be3a2e110.jpg","name":"AI Standards Lab","people":[{"name":"Koen Holtman","role":"Co-Lead / Co-Founder"},{"name":"Ze Shen Chin","role":"Co-Lead"}],"quote":"AI Standards Lab is an independent non-profit dedicated to accelerating the development of AI safety standards.","quoteUrl":"https://aistandardslab.org/about/","sources":["https://www.aistandardslab.org","https://www.aistandardslab.org/about/","https://aistandardslab.org/team/"],"summary":"Nonprofit that works to speed up the writing of AI safety standards, publishing research and consultation responses, including feedback on the EU AI Act.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) via fiscal sponsor","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T1":0.188,"T2":0.412},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The about page names existential risks and loss-of-control best practices for frontier models, but recent outputs listed on the homepage are mostly general EU AI Act work (RCT guidelines for AI evaluation, benchmark quality scorecard, high-risk classification feedback, incident governance), so the Adjacent share goes up; Holtman corrigibility share kept from the SFF grant purpose.","uncertain":"Founded: its about page says it was founded in November 2023 and incorporated as a US non-profit in April 2024; the profile's 2024 is the incorporation year."},"ai-verification-and-evaluation-research-institute-averi":{"aliases":["AVERI"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.averi.org/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.averi.org/team","summary":"https://milesbrundage.substack.com/p/the-launch-of-averi"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2025","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://averi.org/","kind":"org","location":"USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/0add108073500ddcc1ab7c34481d854c.jpg","name":"AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute (AVERI)","people":[{"name":"Miles Brundage","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"Making frontier AI auditing effective and universal","quoteUrl":"https://averi.org/","sources":["https://averi.org/","https://milesbrundage.substack.com/p/the-launch-of-averi","https://www.averi.org/team"],"summary":"US nonprofit think tank, co-founded by Miles Brundage, researching and piloting independent third-party audits of frontier AI safety and security claims.","tags":["Evaluations","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.15,"T2":0.25,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"A US think tank, led by Miles Brundage, working to make independent third-party audits of frontier AI 'effective and universal'. Auditing and evaluation is mostly safety work that could cut either way (T3); its auditing paper also covers deception and loss of control, so a share aims at takeover risk without a plan for the hardest parts (T2), and some general AI assurance work is not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent). 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Whistleblower support for AI lab insiders; maintainer's answer 27 Oct: T1."},"aidan-gomez":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://aidangomez.ca/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Aidan Gomez","quote":"I cofounded Cohere to give language to technology.","quoteUrl":"https://aidangomez.ca/","sources":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidan_Gomez","https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/open-phil-ai-fellowship-2019-class"],"summary":"Co-founder and CEO of Cohere and co-author of the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer architecture; received an Open Phil AI Fellowship during his Oxford PhD.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T4":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Phil AI Fellow 2019-22; Transformer co-author and Cohere co-founder, work is mainly capabilities.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://aidangomez.ca/","summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidan_Gomez"}},"individual-1573":{"name":"Individual #1573","kind":"person","anonId":"1573"},"aies-conference":{"aliases":["AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics and Society (AIES 2020)","AIES","AIES 2022 organizers (AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics and Society)","AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society","2018 conference on AI, Ethics, and Society","Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","foundedUrl":"https://www.aies-conference.com/2018/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.aies-conference.com/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/74571ca05b9704240ab1e70ddc68170e.jpg","name":"AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics and Society (AIES)","outputs":[{"label":"Past conferences archive (2018-2025)","type":"events","url":"https://www.aies-conference.com/"},{"label":"AIES proceedings (AAAI OJS, 2025)","type":"publications","url":"https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIES/issue/view/677"},{"label":"AIES 2020 proceedings (ACM DL)","type":"publications","url":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3375627"},{"label":"AIES 2018 proceedings (ACM DL)","type":"publications","url":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3278721"}],"parentOrg":"Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and ACM","people":[{"name":"Virginia Dignum","role":"Conference co-chair, AIES 2026 (Umeå University)"},{"name":"Petter Ericson","role":"Conference co-chair, AIES 2026 (Umeå University)"}],"quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.aies-conference.com/","https://www.aies-conference.com/2018/","https://www.aies-conference.com/2026/organizing-committee/"],"status":"active","statusNote":"Ninth edition held 12-14 October 2026 in Malmö, Sweden; the venue changes each year (2018: New Orleans).","summary":"Academic conference on AI, ethics and society organised by AAAI and ACM, held since 2018; the ninth edition took place in Malmö, Sweden, in October 2026.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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From the grant purpose, this paid for a tuberculosis diagnostic test, not AI work; it may be wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.einsteinmed.edu/about/"}},"albion-east":{"aliases":["Albion East Ltd"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.albioneast.com/","kind":"org","location":"United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/538de691385fc7c29872193d6b4136b5.png","name":"Albion East","people":[{"name":"Individual #1919","role":"Principal"},{"name":"Individual #9822","role":"Partner"}],"quote":"We are an international advisory group with expertise in East Asia dedicated to empowering philanthropic organisations, vulnerable communities, and initiatives that support a fair, safe and equitable world.","quoteUrl":"https://www.albioneast.com/","sources":["https://www.albioneast.com/","https://www.albioneast.com/our-pledge"],"status":"active","summary":"UK-registered advisory consultancy with East Asia expertise, whose team comes from the British and US diplomatic services, advising philanthropies on aid advocacy and giving; its principal founded the AI Diplomatic Engagement Network.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"untiered":1},"xrTierNote":"Not tiered: what its grants paid for is not confirmed. 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From the grant purpose, open-source AI tools for institutional decision-making, which is AI-relevant but not aimed at x-risk."},"algorithmic-justice-league":{"name":"Algorithmic Justice League","aliases":["AJL"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://www.ajl.org/","donate":"https://secure.actblue.com/donate/algorithmic-justice-league","summary":"Combines art and research to document and campaign against AI harms and bias, such as facial recognition in airports and policing.","quote":"The Algorithmic Justice League is an organization that combines art and research to illuminate the social implications and harms of artificial intelligence.","quoteUrl":"https://www.ajl.org/about","people":[{"name":"Joy Buolamwini","role":"Founder and President"},{"name":"Rebekah Tweed","role":"Managing Director"}],"tags":["Governance & policy","Communications"],"sources":["https://www.ajl.org/","https://www.ajl.org/about","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/allied-media-projects-10114418"],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.ajl.org/about","summary":"https://www.ajl.org/","quote":"https://www.ajl.org/about"},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Campaigns on present-day AI bias and discrimination, not catastrophic or takeover risk, so Adjacent (ajl.org/about)."},"algorithmic-research-group":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://algorithmicresearchgroup.com/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/22dafb5620391e06d3afafe7e837586f.png","name":"Algorithmic Research Group","quote":"We are a research organization building open benchmarks, datasets, and infrastructure.","quoteUrl":"https://algorithmicresearchgroup.com/","sources":["https://algorithmicresearchgroup.com/","https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.22553"],"summary":"Research group building open benchmarks and datasets to measure language-model capabilities, including the ML Research Benchmark for AI agents doing ML research.","tags":["Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.3,"T4":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Philanthropy's grant page says the money funds evaluations of how well LLM agents can speed up AI R&D, under an RFP in its potential-risks-from-AI area, but the funded ML Research Benchmark paper (Kenney) frames this only as capability measurement, so mostly T4 under the agent-benchmark rule, with a T3 share for the funder's implied risk-monitoring reason.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://algorithmicresearchgroup.com/"}},"individual-6550":{"name":"Individual #6550","kind":"person","anonId":"6550"},"alibaba-group":{"aliases":[],"capabilitiesNote":"Develops the Qwen family of large language and multimodal models and sells AI cloud compute through Alibaba Cloud.","checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"capabilitiesNote":"https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/about-alibaba","founded":"https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/about-alibaba","homepage":"https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/","logoUrl":"https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/","people":"https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/about-alibaba","quote":"https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/about-alibaba","summary":"https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/about-alibaba"},"founded":"1999","foundedUrl":"https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/about-alibaba","homepage":"https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"company","name":"Alibaba Group","people":[{"name":"Jack Ma","role":"Founder"},{"name":"Joe Tsai","role":"Chairman"},{"name":"Eddie Wu","role":"Director and CEO"}],"quote":"To make it easy to do business anywhere","quoteUrl":"https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/about-alibaba","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/","https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/about-alibaba"],"summary":"Alibaba Group is a Chinese technology company focused on AI, cloud and commerce, running online marketplaces and Alibaba Cloud.","tags":[]},"aligned-ai":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://buildaligned.ai/about-us","people":"https://buildaligned.ai/about-us","quote":"https://buildaligned.ai/","summary":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZCDRstWGT93NRs9hy/we-re-aligned-ai-ama"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","foundedUrl":"https://buildaligned.ai/about-us","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://buildaligned.ai/","kind":"org","location":"Oxford, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/c11b31c1d2cfef7f722b8f1e3e8dd715.png","name":"Aligned AI","people":[{"name":"Rebecca Gorman","role":"Founder, Chief Technologist and CEO"},{"name":"Stuart Armstrong","role":"Co-founder & Chief Mathematician"}],"quote":"We are an artificial intelligence research lab putting humanity in the driver's seat.","quoteUrl":"https://buildaligned.ai/","sources":["https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZCDRstWGT93NRs9hy/we-re-aligned-ai-ama","https://enspire.ox.ac.uk/article/stuart-armstrong-co-founder-of-aligned-ai","https://buildaligned.ai/about-us","https://buildaligned.ai/"],"summary":"Oxford-based startup doing applied AI alignment research, co-founded in 2022 by Rebecca Gorman and Stuart Armstrong.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"For-profit"},"alignment-of-complex-systems-research-group":{"aliases":["ACS","Alignment of Complex Systems Research Group (ACS)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://acsresearch.org/","kind":"org","location":"Prague, Czech Republic","logoAsset":"/_blob/dff3fa0c392bf106cec455dde9917ead.jpg","name":"Alignment of Complex Systems Research Group","quote":"studying questions about multi-agent systems composed of humans and advanced AI systems","quoteUrl":"https://acsresearch.org/about","sources":["https://acsresearch.org/","https://acsresearch.org/about","https://acsresearch.org/team","https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/H5iGhDhQBtoDpCBZ2/announcing-the-alignment-of-complex-systems-research-group","https://acsresearch.org/research"],"summary":"Interdisciplinary research group at the Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University, Prague, studying multi-agent systems of humans and advanced AI, including gradual disempowerment risks; its programme is also supported by Epistea.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Studies gradual disempowerment (the systemic existential risk of humans losing influence as AI advances), hierarchical agency and LLM psychology. Disempowerment counts as x-risk, and its theory of agency engages the hard parts (T1). Source: https://acsresearch.org/research","people":[{"name":"Jan Kulveit","role":"Principal Investigator"}],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://acsresearch.org/team","location":"https://acsresearch.org/team","summary":"https://acsresearch.org/about"}},"alignment-research-center":{"aliases":["ARC","ARC Theory"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.alignment.org/donate/","donateNote":"Via every.org","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.alignment.org/team/","summary":"https://www.alignment.org/","filings":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/863605182","registration":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/863605182"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2021","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://alignment.org","kind":"org","location":"United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/2d147cbe58bf0153f881f47f18ebd066.png","name":"Alignment Research Center","people":[{"name":"Paul Christiano","role":"Executive Director and President"}],"quote":"developing a theoretical foundation for mechanistic explanations of neural network behavior","quoteUrl":"https://alignment.org","sources":["https://alignment.org","https://www.alignment.org/donate/","https://www.every.org/alignment","https://www.alignment.org/team/","https://www.alignment.org/"],"summary":"Nonprofit doing theoretical alignment research, currently developing a theoretical foundation for mechanistic explanations of neural network behaviour. Its former evaluations team spun out as METR.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Develops a theoretical foundation for mechanistic explanations of neural network behaviour, aimed at aligning systems that may deceive humans and surpass human abilities. Alignment theory of what networks compute engages the hard parts (T1). 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The FLI summary frames the programme around AGI risks up to extinction, with workstreams on China policy, government-firm relations, verifying AI agreements and strategic AI properties, so mostly x-risk governance (T2), a T1 share for verification/compute-style governance and some general policy.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.allandafoe.com/","summary":"https://www.allandafoe.com/"}},"allelon":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"Ashgro, Inc.","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Allelon","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations","https://allelon.ai","http://www.allelon.org/","https://www.ashgro.org/"],"status":"unknown","summary":"Recipient of a $49,000 SFF-2026 recommendation for general support, received through Ashgro, Inc.; not identified further.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"untiered":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. I don't recognise Allelon and the purpose is just general support, though the Ashgro fiscal sponsor suggests an AI safety project.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"}},"allen-discovery-center-tufts":{"aliases":["Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://allencenter.tufts.edu/our-team/","quote":"https://allencenter.tufts.edu/our-research/","summary":"https://allencenter.tufts.edu/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://allencenter.tufts.edu/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Medford, Massachusetts, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/5580570530f281518097d93618bc8e27.jpg","name":"Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University","people":[{"name":"Michael Levin","role":"Principal Investigator"},{"name":"Robert M. 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The Open Philanthropy-funded BaRDa paper by Allen Institute for AI (AI2, probably the 'AI Squared' recipient) builds a belief/reasoning dataset framed around verifying LM truthfulness and honesty, with no takeover framing; partly a reasoning benchmark.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://allenai.org/about"}},"individual-1333":{"name":"Individual #1333","kind":"person","anonId":"1333"},"alliance-to-feed-the-earth-in-disasters-allfed":{"aliases":["ALLFED","Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/charities/allfed","donateNote":"Via Giving What We Can, linked from their site","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://allfed.info/","kind":"org","location":"Lafayette, Colorado, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/9542ba776fece84633f45a83e7a7f26c.jpg","name":"Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED)","quote":"We study how catastrophic events could disrupt global food systems","quoteUrl":"https://allfed.info/","sources":["https://allfed.info/"],"summary":"Identifies resilient food solutions and works with governments and other decision-makers to build food-system resilience to catastrophes such as pandemics, climate shocks and nuclear winter.","tags":["Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3); UK registered charity","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. ALLFED's homepage describes food-system resilience to catastrophes and does not mention AI, and both grants fund nuclear-winter food planning, so not AI work and possibly wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://allfed.info/"}},"individual-3326":{"name":"Individual #3326","kind":"person","anonId":"3326"},"allison-koenecke":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/allison-koenecke/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["quote"]},"kind":"person","location":"","name":"Allison Koenecke","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/allison-koenecke/","https://bowers.cornell.edu/people/allison-koenecke"],"summary":"Assistant professor of information science at Cornell University researching algorithmic fairness, including benchmarking speech-recognition services across accents; AI2050 Early Career Fellow (2026).","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/allison-koenecke/"}},"alondra-nelson":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.ias.edu/scholars/alondra-nelson","kind":"person","location":"Princeton, USA","name":"Alondra Nelson","quoteUrl":"https://www.ias.edu/scholars/alondra-nelson","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","https://www.ias.edu/scholars/alondra-nelson","https://www.ias.edu/sss/faculty/nelson"],"summary":"Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study; studies science, technology and society, including how AI systems shape everyday life. AI2050 Senior Fellow (2026).","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.ias.edu/sss/faculty/nelson"}},"alphabet":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"homepage":"https://abc.xyz/","logoUrl":"https://abc.xyz/","quote":"https://abc.xyz/","summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc."},"homepage":"https://abc.xyz/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["capabilitiesNote","founded","location","people","summary"]},"kind":"company","name":"Alphabet","quote":"Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one","quoteUrl":"https://abc.xyz/","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://abc.xyz/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc."],"tags":[],"summary":"American multinational technology holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California; parent of Google and Google DeepMind."},"alter":{"aliases":["ALTER (Agent Foundations research with Vanessa Kosoy)","Association for Long Term Existence and Resilience","Association for Long Term Existence and Resilience (ALTER)","Association for Long-Term Existence and Resilience"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://alter.org.il","kind":"org","location":"Israel","logoAsset":"/_blob/69c951f1feb814a4bfb8e8a2fa37a275.jpg","name":"ALTER","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://alter.org.il"],"summary":"Israeli nonprofit association doing academic research and outreach to improve the near and distant future, working with researchers and decision-makers on risk-reduction policy; a member of the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Consortium.","tags":["Governance & policy","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.4,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.1,"notAI":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The EA Forum ALTER page says the Future Fund gave $320,000 (ops, policy, conferences; most later returned), leaving about $200k for the regrant hiring a mathematician on Kosoy's learning-theoretic agenda (T1); the ops/policy grant split between AI-safety academic outreach and biorisk policy.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://alter.org.il"}},"individual-14735":{"name":"Individual #14735","kind":"person","anonId":"14735"},"amanda-coston":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://statistics.berkeley.edu/about/news/new-faculty-amanda-coston-assistant-professor","summary":"https://statistics.berkeley.edu/node/8661"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://statistics.berkeley.edu/node/8661","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Amanda Coston","quote":"making algorithmic decision-making more reliable and equitable using causal inference and machine learning techniques","quoteUrl":"https://statistics.berkeley.edu/about/news/new-faculty-amanda-coston-assistant-professor","sources":["https://statistics.berkeley.edu/node/8661","https://statistics.berkeley.edu/about/news/new-faculty-amanda-coston-assistant-professor"],"summary":"Assistant professor of statistics at UC Berkeley working on the validity, reliability and fairness of data-driven algorithms in high-stakes uses such as healthcare, criminal justice and lending.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"individual-3195":{"name":"Individual #3195","kind":"person","anonId":"3195"},"amazon":{"aliases":[],"capabilitiesNote":"Sells AI cloud compute through AWS and designs its own AI chips (Trainium, Graviton).","checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"capabilitiesNote":"https://www.aboutamazon.com/","homepage":"https://www.aboutamazon.com/","logoUrl":"https://www.aboutamazon.com/","people":"https://www.aboutamazon.com/about-us/shareholder-letters","quote":"https://www.aboutamazon.com/about-us","summary":"https://www.aboutamazon.com/about-us"},"homepage":"https://www.aboutamazon.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"company","name":"Amazon","people":[{"name":"Andy Jassy","role":"CEO"},{"name":"Jeff Bezos","role":"Founder"}],"quote":"Amazon’s mission is to make customers’ lives better and easier every day","quoteUrl":"https://www.aboutamazon.com/about-us","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://www.aboutamazon.com/","https://www.aboutamazon.com/about-us","https://www.aboutamazon.com/about-us/shareholder-letters"],"summary":"Amazon runs online retail, AWS cloud computing, streaming, devices, advertising and AI services.","tags":[]},"ambitious-impact-charity-entrepreneurship":{"aliases":["Ambitious Impact","Charity Entrepreneurship"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Donation page not verified","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.ambitiousimpact.com/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/0329eb7229bb9b85e102168f25279274.jpg","name":"Ambitious Impact (Charity Entrepreneurship)","quote":"We back ambitious people to launch charities that change millions of lives","quoteUrl":"https://www.ambitiousimpact.com/","sources":["https://www.ambitiousimpact.com/","https://www.ambitiousimpact.com/about"],"summary":"Charity incubator, legally named Charity Entrepreneurship, that trains founders and backs them with seed grants and mentorship to launch new charities.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Charity Entrepreneurship incubates mostly global-health and animal-welfare charities, so stipends are probably not AI and likely wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.ambitiousimpact.com/"}},"individual-5666":{"name":"Individual #5666","kind":"person","anonId":"5666"},"american-enterprise-institute":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Donate via the AEI website","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.aei.org","kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/d842af03e9deb42f7306bfb5477ecdb7.jpg","name":"American Enterprise Institute","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.aei.org","https://www.aei.org/about/","https://www.aei.org/"],"summary":"Public policy think tank based in Washington, DC, whose policy areas include technology, science and energy.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. AEI's recent AI pieces cover regulation, competition, the EU AI Act and 'AI as normal technology', with no loss-of-control or superintelligence framing in the titles; I couldn't find the grant page, so this is general AI policy, Adjacent.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.aei.org/about/"}},"american-university":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1893","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.american.edu/","kind":"university","location":"Washington, D.C., USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/61d56a4ac2664e5feacdb680a017697b.jpg","name":"American University","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.american.edu/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_University"],"summary":"Private research university in Washington, D.C.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_University"}},"americans-for-responsible-innovation":{"aliases":["ARI"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Support page at ari.us/support-us (not verified as donation form)","fieldSources":{"people":"https://ari.us/team/","summary":"https://ari.us/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2023","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ari.us/","kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/a003300ab5bb512a97becad4e2c9a3cd.jpg","name":"Americans for Responsible Innovation","people":[{"name":"Brad Carson","role":"Co-Founder & President"},{"name":"Individual #7303","role":"Co-Founder & Executive Director"}],"quote":"a nonprofit organization dedicated to policy advocacy in the public interest","quoteUrl":"https://ari.us/about/","sources":["https://ari.us/about/","https://ari.us/","https://ari.us/team/"],"summary":"Washington, DC advocacy nonprofit pushing for proactive US government AI governance that addresses public safety, national security and emerging risks.","tags":["Advocacy","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(4) — not tax-deductible","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T1":0.15,"T2":0.25},"xrTierNote":"Most of ARI's research is general AI policy (jobs, children and chatbots, data-centre energy, state-law preemption, autonomous weapons, critical infrastructure), so the largest share is Adjacent. Its chip export-control advocacy is framed mainly as keeping advanced AI from China. A smaller part addresses frontier risk: a federal framework covering misalignment and loss of control with emergency halt powers (T1), plus frontier transparency rankings and gene-synthesis screening (T2). Source: https://ari.us/ research list."},"amirali-aghazadeh":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://people.research.gatech.edu/amirali-aghazadeh","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Amirali Aghazadeh","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://people.research.gatech.edu/amirali-aghazadeh"],"summary":"Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech; works on machine learning for protein and small-molecule design.","tags":["Academic","Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the Foresight 2026 grant purpose, adversarially robust safeguards for generative protein design against toxin misuse; technical misuse safeguards, biosecurity-oriented rather than takeover.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://people.research.gatech.edu/amirali-aghazadeh"}},"amodo-design":{"aliases":["Amodo Design Ltd."],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://amododesign.com/","summary":"https://amododesign.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://amododesign.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","people"]},"kind":"company","location":"UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/1ab3f7f3a333c548ecc8d6d58f49b829.jpg","name":"Amodo Design","quote":"Building the 21st century's most important hardware","quoteUrl":"https://amododesign.com/","sources":["https://amododesign.com/","https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13884325"],"summary":"UK hardware design company that works on AI security and verification hardware, among other projects.","tags":["AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"An engineering firm whose AI-security team builds hardware for securing advanced AI systems. Hardware for securing AI chips and systems is hardware-enabled governance, which buys time (T1). Source: https://amododesign.com/"},"individual-4551":{"name":"Individual #4551","kind":"person","anonId":"4551"},"amplify":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.amplifyreason.com/about","people":"https://www.amplifyreason.com/about","summary":"https://manifund.org/projects/runway-till-january-amplifys-funding-ask-to-market-ea--ai-safety"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","foundedUrl":"https://www.amplifyreason.com/about","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://amplifyreason.com","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/91d90c12fa0e71ea5396ccf540a29f7a.jpg","name":"Amplify","people":[{"name":"Gergő Gáspár","role":"CEO & Founder"},{"name":"Milán Alexy","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"We use the heart and head to make results focused marketing campaigns, for organisations in the Effective Altruism & AI Safety ecosystem.","quoteUrl":"https://amplifyreason.com/","sources":["https://manifund.org/projects/runway-till-january-amplifys-funding-ask-to-market-ea--ai-safety","https://amplifyreason.com","https://www.amplifyreason.com/about"],"summary":"EA-aligned digital marketing agency providing subsidised or pro bono marketing to effective altruism and AI safety field-building organisations.","tags":["Communications","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.3,"T3":0.3,"notAI":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, marketing for EA and AI safety outreach, so part of the money is general EA meta (flagged notAI) and part AI safety pipeline."},"amplifying-ai-safety":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Amplifying AI Safety","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.longtermwiki.com/grants/MkkBHePG2x","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations"],"summary":"Recipient of a $30,000 SFF-2025 recommendation from Jaan Tallinn for general support, received through Epistea, z.s.; not identified further.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T2":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Guessing from the name that this is AI safety comms/amplification; no purpose beyond general support.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations"}},"anca-dragan":{"aliases":["Anca Dragan, UC Berkeley"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~anca/","kind":"person","location":"Berkeley, USA","name":"Anca Dragan","quote":"ensuring Gemini models are and will be aligned with human goals and values, including avoiding present-day harms and catastrophic risks","quoteUrl":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~anca/","sources":["https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~anca/"],"summary":"Associate Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley (on leave) who heads AI safety and alignment at Google DeepMind; works on human-AI interaction and learning from human feedback.","tags":["Alignment research","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T2":0.25,"T3":0.55},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Her Open Phil grants funded InterACT lab work 'enabling AI agents to work with, around, and in support of people' and a 4-year AI safety project with Sergey Levine; that is CHAI-adjacent reward-learning and human-robot-interaction research, aimed at misspecification but largely at robotics scale; her later DeepMind AGI-safety leadership was not paid for by these grants; seen: three Open Phil grant pages.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~anca/"}},"anders-sandberg":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aefVOM4AAAAJ&hl=ca&oi=ao","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Anders Sandberg","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/anders-sandberg-9215ab145/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Sandberg","https://mimircenter.org/team"],"summary":"Researcher at the Mimir Center for Long Term Futures Research (Institute for Futures Studies), formerly at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute; works on existential risk and future technologies.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. No page describing this 2024 meeting could be fetched (EA Funds search returned nothing; longtermwiki is robots-blocked), so the tier still rests on the truncated grant purpose about cross-field insight communication, which does not mention AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://mimircenter.org/team"}},"andre-platzer":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-11-07","kind":"person","name":"Andre Platzer","sources":[],"summary":"Individual grantee.","tags":["Alignment research"]},"andrea-bajcsy":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/andrea-bajcsy/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["quote"]},"kind":"person","location":"","name":"Andrea Bajcsy","quote":"My research interests lie in the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and AI safety.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~abajcsy/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~abajcsy/","https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/andrea-bajcsy/"],"summary":"Assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute and 2026 AI2050 Early Career Fellow; works at the intersection of robotics, machine learning and AI safety.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~abajcsy/","summary":"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~abajcsy/"}},"andrew-critch":{"aliases":["Dr. Andrew Critch at CHAI, UC Berkeley"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://acritch.com/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Andrew Critch","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://maisi.org/"],"summary":"Mathematician and AI safety researcher; executive director of the Mathematical AI Safety Institute, part-time at Berkeley's CHAI, and co-founder of the Survival and Flourishing Fund.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.4,"T2":0.4,"T3":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Critch's ARCHES work at CHAI is explicitly about preventing human extinction from prepotent and multipolar AI (FLI interview), a takeover-risk aim whose multi-agent/delegation plan is partly hard-parts theory (T1) and partly less direct (T2).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://maisi.org/"}},"individual-1717":{"name":"Individual #1717","kind":"person","anonId":"1717"},"andrew-ilyas-and-vasilis-syrgkanis":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Andrew Ilyas and Vasilis Syrgkanis","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":[],"summary":"Individual grantee.","tags":["Interpretability","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"control":0.4,"interpretability":0.6},"xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose (quantifying, attributing and improving CoT faithfulness); the PIs' pages describe reliable-ML and econometrics/ML-theory work with no stated x-risk aim, so it is unframed prosaic interpretability (T3)."},"andrew-ilyas":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://andrewilyas.com/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Andrew Ilyas","quote":"My research interests center around uncovering general principles that describe and predict the behavior of large-scale ML systems.","quoteUrl":"https://andrewilyas.com/","sources":["https://andrewilyas.com/"],"summary":"Assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University studying general principles that describe and predict the behaviour of large-scale machine learning systems, including data attribution.","tags":["Academic","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. His homepage describes general principles of large-scale ML behavior (data attribution, metagradients, privacy auditing), with no x-risk framing; the covert malicious fine-tuning study is misuse-focused prosaic safety, so T3 with an Adjacent share for the fellowship-funded PhD work stays.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://andrewilyas.com/"}},"andrew-payne":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.e11.bio/andrew-payne","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Andrew Payne","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.e11.bio/andrew-payne"],"summary":"Co-founder and CEO of E11 Bio, a nonprofit focused research organisation developing technology to map brain circuits at the scale of mammalian brains.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.75,"T4":0.25},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Foresight AI for Science & Safety Nodes grant, project not published; E11 Bio does expansion-microscopy connectomics, neurotech framed by Foresight as a safety path, not AI safety work itself. Adjusted: Foresight neurotech/WBE framed as AI safety: T1 75 / T4 25 (maintainer, 27 Oct).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.e11.bio/andrew-payne"}},"andrew-perrault":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://engineering.osu.edu/news/2021/11/meet-our-newest-faculty-cohort","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Andrew Perrault","quote":"My research focuses on reinforcement learning and optimization and their application to scientific and engineering problems.","quoteUrl":"https://aperrault.github.io","sources":["https://engineering.osu.edu/news/2021/11/meet-our-newest-faculty-cohort","https://aperrault.github.io"],"summary":"Assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Ohio State University; researches reinforcement learning and optimisation and their application to scientific and engineering problems.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose: academic study measuring LLM values, prosaic alignment/evals work.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://aperrault.github.io","summary":"https://aperrault.github.io"}},"andrew-reddie":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://reddie.berkeley.edu/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Andrew Reddie","quote":"Broadly, I study the intersection of technology, politics, and security.","quoteUrl":"https://reddie.berkeley.edu/","sources":["https://reddie.berkeley.edu/"],"summary":"Associate Research Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley's Goldman School and founder of the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab; works on security and emerging technology.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, an AI red-teaming bootcamp run by a Berkeley security-policy academic, probably oriented to misuse and national security more than takeover.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://reddie.berkeley.edu/","summary":"https://reddie.berkeley.edu/"}},"individual-8739":{"name":"Individual #8739","kind":"person","anonId":"8739"},"individual-3345":{"name":"Individual #3345","kind":"person","anonId":"3345"},"angelina-wang":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/angelina-wang/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Angelina Wang","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/angelina-wang/"],"summary":"Assistant professor of information science at Cornell Tech and 2026 AI2050 Early Career Fellow; researches responsible AI, including fairness, evaluation and societal impacts.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Her Cornell Tech page describes her work as responsible AI: societal impacts, AI evaluation and fairness. It does not mention catastrophic or existential risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/angelina-wang/"}},"anima-anandkumar":{"aliases":["Animashree Anandkumar"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://neuroscience.caltech.edu/people/anima-anandkumar","summary":"https://neuroscience.caltech.edu/people/anima-anandkumar"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://neuroscience.caltech.edu/people/anima-anandkumar","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Anima Anandkumar","quote":"She invented Neural Operators for learning multiscale phenomena that frequently occur in nature","quoteUrl":"https://neuroscience.caltech.edu/people/anima-anandkumar","sources":["https://neuroscience.caltech.edu/people/anima-anandkumar"],"summary":"Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech; AI for science, including neural operators for physical systems.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"animal-advocacy-careers":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://animaladvocacycareers.org/support-animal-advocacy/funding/donate/","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.animaladvocacycareers.org/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/51e4c93d1f2fb3b4ed236e8bfea5d707.jpg","name":"Animal Advocacy Careers","quote":"Animal Advocacy Careers (AAC) directs animal advocates to opportunities to achieve the highest impact possible through their careers.","quoteUrl":"https://www.animaladvocacycareers.org/","sources":["https://www.animaladvocacycareers.org/"],"summary":"Career-support nonprofit for the animal advocacy movement offering an online course, one-to-one career advice and a job board. Not an AI-safety organisation.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Phil describes Animal Advocacy Careers as farm animal welfare advocacy, so its policy fellowship is not AI work and is probably counted by mistake.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.animaladvocacycareers.org/"}},"animal-ethics":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://www.animal-ethics.org/support-us/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.animal-ethics.org/about-us/","summary":"https://www.animal-ethics.org/about-us/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.animal-ethics.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/b361f4b3ee43167eecfce6a9c879fab9.jpg","name":"Animal Ethics","people":[{"name":"Oscar Horta","role":"Co-founder and Academic Advisor"}],"quote":"Animal Ethics provides information and resources about the reasons to respect all animals","quoteUrl":"https://www.animal-ethics.org/index.php","sources":["https://www.animal-ethics.org/index.php","https://www.animal-ethics.org/?p=27641","https://www.animal-ethics.org/about-us/"],"summary":"Organisation promoting respect for nonhuman animals through outreach, research and education, including work on helping animals living in the wild.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)"},"individual-74480":{"name":"Individual #74480","kind":"person","anonId":"74480"},"anjalie-field":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual academic","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://anjalief.github.io/","summary":"https://www.cs.jhu.edu/faculty/anjalie-field/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://anjalief.github.io","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Anjalie Field","quote":"My research focuses on the ethics and social science aspects of natural language processing","quoteUrl":"https://anjalief.github.io/","sources":["https://anjalief.github.io","https://anjalief.github.io/","https://www.cs.jhu.edu/faculty/anjalie-field/"],"summary":"Assistant professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University researching the ethics and social-science aspects of natural language processing.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"anna-ivanova":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.language-intelligence-thought.net","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Anna Ivanova","quote":"I am interested in the relationship between language, intelligence, and human thought.","quoteUrl":"https://psychology.gatech.edu/node/9450","sources":["https://psychology.gatech.edu/node/9450","https://www.language-intelligence-thought.net"],"summary":"Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech studying language, cognition and large language models using neuroimaging and computational modelling.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, probes trained on misaligned models is interpretability/monitoring work; her Georgia Tech pages describe cognitive-science study of LLMs with no stated x-risk aim, so T3.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://psychology.gatech.edu/node/9450","summary":"https://psychology.gatech.edu/node/9450"}},"anna-leshinskaya":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.annaleshinskaya.com","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Anna Leshinskaya","quote":"My specific research interests are in learning, semantic memory, and most recently, leveraging insights from cognitive science to measure cognitive and moral alignment between humans and large language models.","quoteUrl":"https://www.annaleshinskaya.com","sources":["https://www.annaleshinskaya.com"],"summary":"Assistant professor of cognitive sciences at UC Irvine and affiliated researcher with the AI Objectives Institute, applying cognitive science to measuring cognitive and moral alignment between humans and large language models.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Her UCI profile frames the project as mechanistic interpretability of moral values in LLMs (e.g. 'Virtue semantics' paper), with no mention of AI safety or takeover risk, so half prosaic interp and half moral-cognition science.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.annaleshinskaya.com","quote":"https://www.annaleshinskaya.com"}},"anna-salamon":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://futureoflife.org/ai-researcher-profile/ai-researcher-anna-salamon/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Anna Salamon","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://futureoflife.org/ai-researcher-profile/ai-researcher-anna-salamon/","https://rationality.org/about/team","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Applied_Rationality"],"summary":"Co-founder and president of the Center for Applied Rationality.","tags":["Education & training","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T1":0.2,"T2":0.5,"T3":0.1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 2015 FLI grant to CFAR for rationality training for AI researchers; tiered by who CFAR served then, largely MIRI-adjacent x-risk researchers (pipeline rule).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://rationality.org/about/team"}},"anqi-liu-and-benjamin-van-durme":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Anqi Liu and Benjamin Van Durme","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://anqiliu-ai.github.io/","https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~vandurme/"],"summary":"Johns Hopkins University computer scientists Anqi Liu, an assistant professor working on machine learning for trustworthy AI, and Benjamin Van Durme, a professor whose work focuses on finding and reasoning over information in documents and images.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"robustness":0.4,"safety-critical-ml":0.2,"technical-safety-unspecified":0.4},"xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Liu's Schmidt Sciences profile describes reliable ML under distribution shift, honest uncertainty and preference alignment with a safety interest but no takeover framing; the calibrated-reasoning project fits prosaic T3 with an Adjacent share for general reliability.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://anqiliu-ai.github.io/"}},"anqi-liu":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://anqiliu-ai.github.io","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Anqi Liu","quote":"My research interest lies in machine learning for trustworthy AI.","quoteUrl":"https://anqiliu-ai.github.io","sources":["https://anqiliu-ai.github.io"],"summary":"Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University; works on machine learning for trustworthy, human-compatible AI, including robustness under distribution shift and uncertainty estimation.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Her JHU faculty page lists distributionally robust learning, distribution shift, safe exploration and fair ML; she is listed on FLI's site with an existential-safety statement, but that statement only talks about robustness and human values, so the course buyout is tiered as prosaic robustness work (T3) with a fairness share (Adjacent).","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://anqiliu-ai.github.io","summary":"https://anqiliu-ai.github.io"}},"individual-2725":{"name":"Individual #2725","kind":"person","anonId":"2725"},"anthony-aguirre":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-11-07","kind":"person","name":"Anthony Aguirre","sources":[],"summary":"Individual grantee.","tags":["Alignment research"]},"individual-2999":{"name":"Individual #2999","kind":"person","anonId":"2999"},"individual-6306":{"name":"Individual #6306","kind":"person","anonId":"6306"},"anthropic":{"aliases":[],"capabilitiesNote":"Builds frontier large language models (the Claude family).","checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"capabilitiesNote":"https://www.anthropic.com/","homepage":"https://www.anthropic.com/","logoUrl":"https://www.anthropic.com/","quote":"https://www.anthropic.com/","summary":"https://www.anthropic.com/"},"homepage":"https://www.anthropic.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location","people"]},"kind":"company","name":"Anthropic","quote":"AI research and products that put safety at the frontier.","quoteUrl":"https://www.anthropic.com/","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://www.anthropic.com/"],"summary":"Anthropic is an AI safety and research company and public benefit corporation that builds the Claude family of AI models.","tags":[],"funderId":"anthropic","donorId":"anthropic"},"antientropy":{"aliases":["Anti Entropy"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.antientropy.org/donate","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.antientropy.org","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/e3c9d4c0a1061f61da2dbbb66b1ce00c.png","name":"AntiEntropy","quote":"The mission of Anti Entropy is for impactful organizations to have strong and functional operations","quoteUrl":"https://www.antientropy.org","sources":["https://www.antientropy.org"],"summary":"Organisation that helps impact-focused nonprofits build strong operations, through consulting and by giving nonprofits a temporary home under its 501(c)(3) via its SparkWell programme.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T2":0.1,"notAI":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The accelerator is probably SparkWell, Anti Entropy's multi-cause incubator and fiscal sponsor; per the announcement, one of its six first projects is AI (AI Safety Brazil, government capacity on AI safety and governance) and the rest are philanthropy, health, animal welfare and a hub, so it is dollar-weighted mostly notAI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.antientropy.org"}},"antoine-bosselut":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"homepage":"https://people.epfl.ch/antoine.bosselut?lang=en","quote":"https://people.epfl.ch/antoine.bosselut?lang=en","summary":"https://people.epfl.ch/antoine.bosselut?lang=en"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://people.epfl.ch/antoine.bosselut?lang=en","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Antoine Bosselut","quote":"systems that can model, represent, and reason about human and world knowledge","quoteUrl":"https://people.epfl.ch/antoine.bosselut?lang=en","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","https://people.epfl.ch/antoine.bosselut?lang=en"],"summary":"Assistant professor at EPFL who leads its Natural Language Processing Lab, working on systems that model and reason about human and world knowledge; 2025 AI2050 Early Career Fellow.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"anton-howes":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.thersa.org/people/anton-howes/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Anton Howes","quote":"Anton is the RSA's Historian in Residence.","quoteUrl":"https://www.thersa.org/people/anton-howes/","sources":["https://www.thersa.org/people/anton-howes/","https://antonhowes.com/"],"summary":"Historian of innovation and the Industrial Revolution; historian in residence at the Royal Society of Arts. 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Economics of transformative AI research and course; economics rule gives Adjacent.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.korinek.com"}},"antonio-orvieto":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://institute-tue.ellis.eu/news/first-principal-investigators-join-the-ellis-institute","summary":"https://institute-tue.ellis.eu/news/first-principal-investigators-join-the-ellis-institute"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://institute-tue.ellis.eu/news/first-principal-investigators-join-the-ellis-institute","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Antonio Orvieto","quote":"His research focuses on the intersection between mathematical optimization and large-scale machine learning.","quoteUrl":"https://institute-tue.ellis.eu/news/first-principal-investigators-join-the-ellis-institute","sources":["https://institute-tue.ellis.eu/news/first-principal-investigators-join-the-ellis-institute"],"summary":"Principal investigator at the ELLIS Institute Tübingen (Deep Models and Optimization group) working on optimization and large-scale machine learning.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"anudeep-das-gurjot-singh-and-pract-chantasantitam":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-11-07","kind":"person","name":"Anudeep Das, Gurjot Singh, and Pract Chantasantitam","sources":[],"summary":"Individual grantee.","tags":["Education & training"]},"anysphere":{"aliases":["Cursor"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://cursor.com/","summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anysphere"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cursor.com","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["people"]},"kind":"company","location":"San Francisco, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/95cc7cf0960bcf88e048436245ca121e.jpg","name":"Anysphere","quote":"Cursor is your coding agent for building ambitious software.","quoteUrl":"https://cursor.com/","sources":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anysphere","https://cursor.com","https://cursor.com/"],"summary":"US software company, doing business as Cursor, that develops the Cursor AI coding agent and software development environment; not an AI safety organisation.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"For-profit"},"apart-research":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.apartresearch.com/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/b1d209742929a44fd562854e5c677af7.jpg","name":"Apart Research","quote":"Apart Research advances AI safety through rapid research, rigorous evaluations, and programs that bring new talent into the field.","quoteUrl":"https://www.apartresearch.com/","sources":["https://www.apartresearch.com/","https://www.apartresearch.com/about"],"summary":"AI safety organisation that runs research sprints (hackathons) and fellowships to bring new researchers into the field, and evaluates frontier models, e.g. for manipulation risks.","tags":["Field-building","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.15,"T2":0.1,"T3":0.75},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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From the grant purpose, a report on security clearances is general national-security talent policy.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.arlis.umd.edu/about"}},"aran-nayebi":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://anayebi.github.io/","kind":"person","location":"Pittsburgh, USA","name":"Aran Nayebi","quote":"My lab, the NeuroAgents lab, works at the intersection of neuroscience & AI to reverse-engineer animal intelligence and build the next generation of autonomous agents, safely and responsibly.","quoteUrl":"https://anayebi.github.io/","sources":["https://anayebi.github.io/","https://www.cmu.edu/ni/people/faculty/aran-nayebi"],"summary":"Assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department and core faculty of its Neuroscience Institute, working at the intersection of neuroscience and AI.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Foresight AI for Science & Safety Nodes grant, project not published; his known work is NeuroAI with explicit alignment/safety motivation, so safety-motivated academic default with a NeuroAI Adjacent share.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://anayebi.github.io/"}},"arb-research":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Consultancy; no public donation page","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://arbresearch.com/","summary":"https://arbresearch.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://arbresearch.com","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/3b9723abc60fb2fd3fdf7650722d6add.jpg","name":"Arb Research","quote":"We do original research, evidence gathering, and large-ish data pipelines.","quoteUrl":"https://arbresearch.com/","sources":["https://arbresearch.com","https://arbresearch.com/"],"summary":"Research bureau doing consulting and original research on forecasting, machine learning and policy, including the Shallow Review of Technical AI Safety.","tags":["Alignment research","Forecasting"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purposes, an AI governance retreat and the Shallow Review of AI Safety, field-mapping work tiered as a mix of the agendas it covers."},"arcadia-impact":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.arcadiaimpact.org/","kind":"org","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/1c636c148b873afdce4b11c73fbd2516.jpg","name":"Arcadia Impact","quote":"We are a charity enabling work to tackle the most pressing global issues, focussed on reducing risks posed by advanced AI.","quoteUrl":"https://www.arcadiaimpact.org/about","sources":["https://www.arcadiaimpact.org/","https://www.arcadiaimpact.org/about"],"summary":"Charity registered in England and Wales working to reduce risks from advanced AI, running LASR Labs, the AI Governance Taskforce and an alignment research team collaborating with the UK AI Security Institute.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"UK registered charity","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.05,"T1":0.05,"T2":0.25,"T3":0.5,"notAI":0.15},"xrTierNote":"London charity (a company from 2022, a charity since Feb 2025) running AI safety talent and research programmes. Its LASR Labs research programme states a loss-of-control aim but does mostly hands-on safety experiments on today's models, such as probing how models could hide messages or deceive (T3, half); its AI governance work aims at catastrophic risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2, a quarter); a small share is work that tackles the hard parts or isn't aimed at x-risk (T1 and Adjacent, 5% each); and its London student and professional support (now Impact First) covers other causes too (not AI, 15%). 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Philosopher known for evidential decision theory; CLR-funded decision theory research is agent-foundations-relevant but his work is general philosophy, so half T1 (agent foundations rule) and half Adjacent.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arif_Ahmed_(philosopher)"}},"arizona-state-university":{"aliases":["ASU"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1885","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.asu.edu/","kind":"university","location":"Tempe, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/4038b7e2073f0d192db777ce1b225232.jpg","name":"Arizona State University","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_State_University","https://www.openphilanthropy.org/?p=18754"],"summary":"Public research university in Tempe, Arizona; an Open Philanthropy grant funded research on adversarial robustness in machine learning led by Chaowei Xiao, who has since moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Philanthropy grant page says it funded Chaowei Xiao's adversarial robustness research (funds later moved with him to UW-Madison); prosaic robustness with no stated takeover aim, so T3.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.openphilanthropy.org/?p=18754"}},"ark-philanthropy":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"Forward Global","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.arkphilanthropy.org","kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, USA and London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/3009b837fd3bd20ac0c214ce299bcc56.jpg","name":"Ark Philanthropy","quote":"We are a philanthropic institution that partners with ambitious funders to solve the most important problems of our time.","quoteUrl":"https://www.arkphilanthropy.org","sources":["https://www.arkphilanthropy.org"],"summary":"Philanthropic institution combining advisory, grantmaking and incubation: it advises funders and incubates and manages multi-donor funds, with navigating transformative AI among its cause areas.","tags":["Grantmaking","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"Fiscally sponsored project of a US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"notAI":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The Meta Charity Funders write-up describes a strategic advisory nonprofit for UHNW donors and names no cause area, so it is treated as multi-cause EA meta (notAI), with a small T2 share in case some advised giving goes to AI risk.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.arkphilanthropy.org","summary":"https://www.arkphilanthropy.org"}},"arkose":{"aliases":["AI Safety Community Building Hub","AI Safety Field Building Hub","AISFB Hub","Arkose Inc"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"Closed; site said it was funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://victoriabrook.github.io/arkose/"},"fiscalSponsor":"players-philanthropy-fund","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2025","basis":"counted 3 people on archived /about page (Executive Director, Operations Lead, Advisor/Founder); excludes listed external experts and advisors","range":"","url":"https://victoriabrook.github.io/arkose/about","value":3},"homepage":"https://arkose.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/ed454c7c48b53ab85f8db06dece1c907.jpg","name":"Arkose","outputs":[{"label":"Arkose on EA Forum","type":"eaforum","url":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/arkose"},{"label":"AI Safety Papers list","type":"papers","url":"https://victoriabrook.github.io/arkose/aisafety"},{"label":"Opportunities","type":"other","url":"https://victoriabrook.github.io/arkose/opportunities"},{"label":"Connections","type":"other","url":"https://victoriabrook.github.io/arkose/connections"}],"people":[{"name":"Victoria Brook","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Maris Sala","role":"Operations Lead"},{"name":"Vael Gates","role":"Founder (later Advisor; President as of Aug 2024)"}],"quote":"Arkose is a nonprofit with the mission of improving the safety of advanced AI systems to reduce potential large-scale risks.","quoteUrl":"https://victoriabrook.github.io/arkose/","sources":["https://arkose.org","https://arkose.org/","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/6aqicAJtdsXgCGaAj/arkose-organizational-updates-and-ways-to-get-involved","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations","https://victoriabrook.github.io/arkose/","https://victoriabrook.github.io/arkose/about","https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3MzGJqjLFkmxphGri/retrospective-on-the-ai-safety-field-building-hub-2","https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tD4bNRzHXa2Th7yPs/announcing-the-ai-safety-field-building-hub-a-new-effort-to"],"status":"closed","statusNote":"Closed June 2025; site kept as an archive (arkose.org now redirects to victoriabrook.github.io/arkose/).","summary":"A nonprofit working to improve the safety of advanced AI systems by engaging experts on AI risk arguments and providing resources for stakeholders.","tags":["Field-building","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.121,"T2":0.321,"T3":0.558},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Arkose ran one-on-one calls (311 between Dec 2023 and Jun 2025) to move mid-career ML professionals into technical AI safety, with calls introducing existential and catastrophic AI risk; outcomes are not public, so the pipeline estimate is kept."},"arms-control-association":{"aliases":["Arms Control Association (EIN 23-7124588)"],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"logoUrl":"https://www.armscontrol.org/","quote":"https://www.armscontrol.org/","summary":"https://www.armscontrol.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1971","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.armscontrol.org/","kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, United States","name":"Arms Control Association","people":[{"name":"Daryl G. 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From the grant purpose, adds advanced AI/AGI risks to an arms-control negotiator curriculum, so partly aimed at AGI risk but probably framed through general arms control and security.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/research-initiatives/negotiation-task-force/arms-control-negotiation-academy"}},"individual-5099":{"name":"Individual #5099","kind":"person","anonId":"5099"},"arvind-narayanan":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Arvind Narayanan","quote":"I study AI and its societal impact.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/","sources":["https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/","https://www.schmidtsciences.org/safetyscience/"],"summary":"Professor of Computer Science at Princeton and Director of its Center for Information Technology Policy, studying AI and its societal impact and leading work on the science of AI agent evaluation.","tags":["Academic","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"A Princeton computer scientist whose \"AI as normal technology\" framework is offered as the alternative to the view of AI as impending superintelligence. Openly sceptical researchers are relevant to AI but not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent). 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Ashgro is a fiscal sponsor only for AI safety projects, so it is tiered by what it hosts: about a fifth of its grant dollars are ARIA Safeguarded AI theory work (T1 under the decided ARIA rule), about half are Mathematics for Safe AI grants (split between T1 and T3), and the rest go to unnamed AI safety projects (probably T3 or T2). 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The MacArthur grant paid for media events on AI and national security.","quote":"Aspen Digital convenes thinkers and doers to make sense of how our world is changing in the age of AI.","quoteUrl":"https://aspendigital.org/","people":[{"name":"Konstanze Frischen","role":"Executive Director (acting), Aspen Digital"}],"tags":["Governance & policy"],"sources":["https://aspendigital.org/","https://www.aspendigital.org/team/","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/aspen-institute-2128/"],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.aspendigital.org/team/","summary":"https://aspendigital.org/","quote":"https://aspendigital.org/"},"infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-08","notFound":["location","founded"],"why":"aspeninstitute.org refuses automated readers; Aspen Digital's own site used."},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant paid for media events on AI and national security, and Aspen Digital's AI work is about news, opportunity and cybersecurity rather than loss of control, so Adjacent (aspendigital.org; macfound.org grantee page)."},"asterisk-magazine":{"aliases":["Obelus"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Published by Obelus, Inc.","fieldSources":{"people":"https://asteriskmag.com/about","quote":"https://asteriskmag.com/about","summary":"https://asteriskmag.com/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://asteriskmag.com","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"San Francisco Bay Area, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/2f070d6a03f81554167d59d2acc6b2a7.jpg","name":"Asterisk Magazine","people":[{"name":"Clara Collier","role":"Editor in Chief"},{"name":"Nadia Asparouhova","role":"Publisher"}],"quote":"Asterisk is the little magazine of the San Francisco Bay Area","quoteUrl":"https://asteriskmag.com/about","sources":["https://asteriskmag.com/about"],"summary":"Magazine with four themed print issues a year and a blog, Dagger, covering science, emerging technologies, economics, politics, culture and global health; published by the nonprofit Obelus, Inc.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. AI blogging fellowship from a magazine covering AI broadly, with substantial x-risk-aware writers but no explicit takeover focus."},"athena":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://manifund.org/projects/athena-20","donateNote":"Via Manifund project page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.researchathena.org","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/a3c4033adc85e3bd350310217e72ab66.jpg","name":"Athena","quote":"A ten-week remote mentorship program for women in technical AI alignment research","quoteUrl":"https://www.researchathena.org","sources":["https://www.researchathena.org","https://manifund.org/projects/athena-20"],"summary":"Ten-week remote mentorship programme for women in technical AI alignment research, with an in-person retreat.","tags":["Education & training","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.3,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Mentorship pipeline for women entering alignment research with mentors such as Evan Hubinger and Ryan Kidd; tiered by likely alumni destinations (mostly prosaic safety), per the pipeline rule.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.researchathena.org"}},"atlas-computing":{"aliases":["Evan Miyazono and Alexandre Rademaker","Atlas Computing Institute"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"Convergent Research","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://atlascomputing.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location","people","quote"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/bc55a4c17c08d8c81cb7ce607438ec1a.png","name":"Atlas Computing","quote":"Turning orphaned risks from AI into de-risked, fundable interventions","quoteUrl":"https://atlascomputing.org/","sources":["https://atlascomputing.org/","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations","https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/dKD47KMqvYAB7Zkmv/announcing-atlas-computing"],"summary":"Nonprofit working to turn neglected AI risks into fundable interventions, including formal-methods and specification-based AI oversight; its work now continues as Atlas Ignota, housed under Convergent Research.","tags":["AI control & security","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T2":0.266,"T3":0.734},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Worked on formal specifications and provable-safety designs for overseeing AI, with its launch post citing the aim of preventing risks from AGI. Applying formal methods is prosaic safety that could cut either way (T3, about three quarters), with a share for work aimed at takeover risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2). 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The AI2050 page says the funded project tackles value alignment of LLMs through philosophy, systems theory and game theory, with no x-risk wording; her separate accumulative-x-risk work earns a small T2 share.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://knightcolumbia.org/bios/view/atoosa-kasirzadeh"}},"augur":{"aliases":["Augur LLC"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/0b8d9559922f4ecc6119a5ed10c95b26.png","name":"Augur","quote":"Augur will explore how different parts of the frontier supply chain could evolve over time","quoteUrl":"https://augurai.net/updates/uncertainty-opportunity","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations","https://swooped.co/job-postings/researcher-contractor-remote-augur-c10fb","https://viaappia.substack.com/p/uncertainty-and-opportunity","https://viaappia.substack.com/about","https://augurai.net/updates/uncertainty-opportunity"],"status":"active","statusNote":"Was hiring a remote US contract researcher (posting dated 2026-07-20).","summary":"AI research consultancy studying frontier AI supply chains (minerals, chips, datacenters, labs, capital) for government and industry stakeholders.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T1":0.25,"T2":0.25},"xrTierNote":"Draft. A launch post calls Augur a non-ideological 'AI research consultancy' covering frontier AI supply chains, strategic AI use-cases and control and ownership of AI assets, and a job ad describes mapping chip, fab, datacenter and lab supply chains; neither states a takeover-risk aim, though the work could inform compute governance (buys time).","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://augurai.net/updates/uncertainty-opportunity","summary":"https://swooped.co/job-postings/researcher-contractor-remote-augur-c10fb"}},"individual-4148":{"name":"Individual #4148","kind":"person","anonId":"4148"},"australian-ai-safety-institute-in-house":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.industry.gov.au/","kind":"government","location":"Canberra, Australia","logoAsset":"/_blob/383711ebf2d0da165b0b69d4132c3592.svg","name":"Australian AI Safety Institute (in-house)","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.industry.gov.au/","https://cm.twobirds.com/en/insights/2025/australia/australian-government-to-establish-ai-safety-institute"],"summary":"In-house work of Australia's AI Safety Institute, a government technical and coordination hub that monitors and tests emerging AI technologies and their risks and publishes research on them.","tags":["Governance & policy","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://cm.twobirds.com/en/insights/2025/australia/australian-government-to-establish-ai-safety-institute"}},"australian-responsible-autonomous-agents-collective-araac":{"aliases":["Australian Responsible Autonomous Agents Group","ARAAC"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://araac.au/","summary":"https://araac.au/"},"fiscalSponsor":"Federation University Australia","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 10 current people on araac.au (2 research leaders, 5 researchers, 3 students); excludes 5 past members","range":"","url":"https://araac.au/#researchers","value":10},"homepage":"https://araac.au/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Ballarat, Australia","logoAsset":"/_blob/cd35f049169aaac20940ef008357e32a.jpg","name":"Australian Responsible Autonomous Agents Collective (ARAAC)","outputs":[{"label":"Projects","type":"other","url":"https://araac.au/#projects"},{"label":"News","type":"blog","url":"https://araac.au/#news"}],"parentOrg":"Federation University Australia","people":[{"name":"Peter Vamplew","role":"co-founder and co-leader (Federation University Australia)"},{"name":"Richard Dazeley","role":"research leader (Deakin University)"}],"quote":"Pursuing excellence in responsible, aligned, and explainable artificial intelligence","quoteUrl":"https://araac.au/","sources":["https://federation.edu.au/institutes-and-schools/iiss/staff-profiles/staff-profiles/peter-vamplew","https://araac.au/"],"status":"active","summary":"Cross-institutional group of AI researchers from Federation University Australia, Deakin University and the University of NSW working on responsible, aligned and explainable AI, including multi-objective reinforcement learning and AI safety.","tags":["Alignment research","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Probably the Federation University group (e.g. Peter Vamplew) working on multi-objective RL for safe and aligned agents; this is safety-motivated academic prosaic work."},"authensor":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"location":"https://www.authensor.com/about","people":"https://www.authensor.com/about","summary":"https://www.authensor.com/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://authensor.com","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"company","location":"San Francisco, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/519d69013ed0e05827175abb371d3716.png","name":"Authensor","people":[{"name":"Individual #8511","role":"Founder"}],"quote":"We audit the instruments the AI industry measures itself with, and attest the ones that survive.","quoteUrl":"https://authensor.com/","sources":["https://authensor.com","https://www.authensor.com/about"],"summary":"Security research firm that audits the tools AI developers use to evaluate their systems, such as benchmarks, judges and scoring pipelines, and publishes open-source scanners.","tags":["Evaluations","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T3":0.9},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Its listed open-source project is a policy-enforcement gateway for agent tool calls and it says it audits AI safety eval infrastructure; prosaic agent-safety and eval-infrastructure work with no stated takeover aim, so mostly T3 per the eval-infrastructure/control defaults."},"authorbot":{"aliases":["AuthorBot, Inc."],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"AuthorBot","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"],"status":"unknown","summary":"Recipient of a $27,000 SFF-2026 recommendation, received by AuthorBot, Inc., for general support of depicting aligned AI through books; not identified further.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose it writes books depicting aligned AI, which is comms loosely related to AI risk without evidence it explains the hard parts or argues for slowing down.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"}},"autonomous-mobile-robotics-laboratory-amrl":{"aliases":["University of Texas at Austin (Joydeep Biswas)","AMRL"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://amrl.cs.utexas.edu/","summary":"https://amrl.cs.utexas.edu/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 13 current members on /people.html (1 faculty, 1 research engineer, 1 postdoc, 8 PhD, 2 undergrads); excludes 23 alumni","range":"","url":"https://amrl.cs.utexas.edu/people.html","value":13},"homepage":"https://amrl.cs.utexas.edu/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Austin, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/36490352e65283b8d6badd74bf57a4da.jpg","name":"Autonomous Mobile Robotics Laboratory (AMRL)","outputs":[{"label":"AMRL publications","type":"publications","url":"https://amrl.cs.utexas.edu/publications.html"},{"label":"Research","type":"other","url":"https://amrl.cs.utexas.edu/research.html"}],"parentOrg":"university-of-texas-at-austin","people":[{"name":"Joydeep Biswas","role":"PI / lab director (professor)"}],"quote":"to continually make robots more autonomous, accurate, robust, and efficient","quoteUrl":"https://amrl.cs.utexas.edu/","sources":["https://amrl.cs.utexas.edu/","https://amrl.cs.utexas.edu/people.html"],"status":"active","summary":"A robotics lab led by Joydeep Biswas, spanning UT Austin Computer Science and UMass Amherst, that works on making mobile robots more autonomous, robust and efficient in real-world environments, including learning behaviours from human interaction.","tags":["Alignment research","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purposes only: an Open Phil AI safety research gift and QA-model feedback work are prosaic T3, and the NSF specification-refinement award is closer to Adjacent. I couldn't confirm the PIs of the $885k gift."},"avecris":{"aliases":["AVECRIS Pte. 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From the grant purpose, this is adversarial-robustness training for reasoning models. Raghunathan has an earlier Open Phil grant for adversarial-examples work, which supports a prosaic-robustness reading. No page for this grant was found, and RL-for-reasoning work probably has some capability spillover.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://aviralkumar2907.github.io/"}},"aviral-kumar":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://csd.cmu.edu/people/faculty/aviral-kumar","summary":"https://aviralkumar2907.github.io/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://csd.cmu.edu/people/faculty/aviral-kumar","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Aviral Kumar","quote":"research focuses on reinforcement learning and decision-making","quoteUrl":"https://csd.cmu.edu/people/faculty/aviral-kumar","sources":["https://csd.cmu.edu/people/faculty/aviral-kumar","https://aviralkumar2907.github.io/"],"summary":"Assistant professor in the Computer Science and Machine Learning departments at Carnegie Mellon University, working on reinforcement learning, from core algorithms to scaling it to foundation models and real robots.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"individual-1522":{"name":"Individual #1522","kind":"person","anonId":"1522"},"axrp-the-ai-x-risk-research-podcast":{"aliases":["AI X-risk Research Podcast","AXRP"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://axrp.net/supporting-the-podcast/","donateNote":"Support page linked from the site","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2020","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://axrp.net/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/f5bdc63443295b0e679d4550a6095e77.jpg","name":"AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast","quote":"On this podcast, I (Daniel Filan) have conversations with researchers about their research.","quoteUrl":"https://axrp.net/","sources":["https://axrp.net/about/","https://axrp.net/"],"summary":"Podcast hosted by Daniel Filan featuring interviews with researchers about AI existential risk and technical AI safety research, with transcripts published online.","tags":["Communications","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.3,"T2":0.4,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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From the grant purpose, an Argentinian AI safety community/hub; tiered by the pipeline default pending data on who it serves."},"individual-5377":{"name":"Individual #5377","kind":"person","anonId":"5377"},"balsa-research":{"aliases":["Balsa Policy Institute","Balsa Policy Institute Inc."],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.balsaresearch.com/donate","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"https://thezvi.substack.com/p/keeping-up-against-the-joneses-balsas","fundraiserDate":"2025-12","fundraiserTitle":"Keeping Up Against the Joneses: Balsa's 2025 Fundraiser","homepage":"https://www.balsaresearch.com/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/410c293abfd6ffffe53757aedf35d2aa.jpg","name":"Balsa Research","quote":"Building the evidence base for policy changes that benefits all Americans","quoteUrl":"https://www.balsaresearch.com/","sources":["https://www.balsaresearch.com/","https://www.balsaresearch.com/about"],"summary":"US policy research nonprofit led by chief executive Zvi Mowshowitz that funds academic studies and drafts reform legislation, currently on maritime policy such as the Jones Act; not primarily an AI-safety organisation.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"notAI":0.9},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Balsa (Zvi Mowshowitz) works on US policy such as the Jones Act and NEPA, mostly not AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.balsaresearch.com/"}},"barfusslab":{"aliases":["Wolfram Barfuss, University of Bonn","Barfuss Lab","Wolfram Barfuss's group at the University of Bonn"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://barfusslab.github.io/mission.html"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"","basis":"the team page lists no names in fetched content (likely JS-rendered)","range":"","url":"https://barfusslab.github.io/team.html","value":null},"homepage":"https://barfusslab.github.io/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Bonn, Germany","logoAsset":"/_blob/8af025bf1e734648f9f0d06784bf36b1.jpg","name":"BarfussLab","outputs":[{"label":"Publications (Barfuss homepage)","type":"publications","url":"https://wbarfuss.github.io/index.html#Publications"},{"label":"Wolfram Barfuss on Google Scholar","type":"scholar","url":"https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZAqFy78AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao"},{"label":"Cooperative AI seminar: Collective Cooperative Intelligence","type":"other","url":"https://www.cooperativeai.com/seminars/collective-cooperative-intelligence"}],"parentOrg":"University of Bonn (Center for Development Research, ZEF; TRA Sustainable Futures)","people":[{"name":"Wolfram Barfuss","role":"PI; Junior Professor, Argelander chair, TRA Sustainable Futures, University of Bonn (ZEF)"}],"quote":"Collective learning for a sustainable future","quoteUrl":"https://barfusslab.github.io/","sources":["https://www.zef.de/about-zef/zef-faculty/wolfram-barfuss","https://wbarfuss.github.io/","https://barfusslab.github.io/","https://barfusslab.github.io/team.html","https://barfusslab.github.io/mission.html"],"status":"active","summary":"A research group led by Wolfram Barfuss that models how large collectives of learning agents can act together, to find leverage points for sustainability transitions.","tags":["Alignment research","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Known work: collective learning dynamics and cooperation in multi-agent systems (Cooperative AI grant), not aimed at takeover risk."},"individual-9920":{"name":"Individual #9920","kind":"person","anonId":"9920"},"basil-halperin-zachary-mazlish-and-trevor-chow":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-11-07","kind":"person","name":"Basil Halperin, Individual #2053 and Individual #7312","sources":[],"summary":"Individual grantee.","tags":["Alignment research"]},"basis-research-institute":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Donation link on site; tax status not confirmed","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.basis.ai/about/","location":"https://www.basis.ai/about/","people":"https://www.basis.ai/about/","summary":"https://www.basis.ai/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","foundedUrl":"https://www.basis.ai/about/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.basis.ai","kind":"org","location":"New York City, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/d9ebf6a094231ffc9e01ab7d718c9eb4.png","name":"Basis Research Institute","people":[{"name":"Zenna Tavares","role":"Co-founder and Director"},{"name":"Eli Bingham","role":"Co-founder and Director"},{"name":"Emily Mackevicius","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"Basis has two goals: (1) advance basic scientific research in artificial intelligence and (2) help solve society’s intractable problems.","quoteUrl":"https://www.basis.ai/about/","sources":["https://www.basis.ai","https://www.basis.ai/about/"],"summary":"Nonprofit applied research institute that builds open-source software, with two goals: to understand and build intelligence, and to advance society's ability to solve intractable problems.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T3":0.2,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Basis's site describes building a 'universal reasoning engine' and AI-for-science/world-model work (Autumn, MetaCOG, AutumnBench) with one 'NeuroAI for AI Safety' roadmap post and no x-risk framing, so mostly Adjacent with some capability and prosaic-safety share."},"bear-f-braumoeller":{"aliases":["Bear F. Braumoeller, Ohio State University"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"person","location":"Columbus, USA","name":"Bear F. Braumoeller","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://polisci.osu.edu/honoring-bear-braumoeller"],"summary":"Ohio State University political scientist who held the Baronov and Timashev Chair in Data Analytics and founded and directed the MESO (Modeling Emergent Social Order) Research Lab; died in May 2023.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Ohio State's article describes the MESO Lab as studying international order and conflict, with no mention of AI; the funded work is not AI-related.","uncertain":"His Ohio State profile page is gone (404, 4 Nov 2026); the department's memorial page confirms he died on 3 May 2023. Its former sentence 'Professor Braumoeller's research is in the areas of international security and computational social science.' is now unsourced.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://polisci.osu.edu/honoring-bear-braumoeller"}},"bedrock":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Fee-based service; no public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Bedrock","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Si2sX8ryE67avxxCd/meta-charity-funders-third-round-retrospective"],"summary":"Impact management organisation for high-impact philanthropy, offering donors tailored giving strategies and operational support for a fee. Funded by Meta Charity Funders in 2024.","tags":["Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. MCF's retrospective describes Bedrock as a fee-based impact-management/philanthropy-advisory firm for wealthy donors with no stated cause focus, so general EA meta and probably wrongly counted as AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Si2sX8ryE67avxxCd/meta-charity-funders-third-round-retrospective"}},"bei-jiang-s-group-at-university-of-alberta":{"aliases":["Amii / University of Alberta (Bei Jiang)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 19 current supervisees on Students page (7 postdocs, 10 PhD, 2 MSc) plus PI; former students excluded","range":"","url":"https://sites.ualberta.ca/~bei1/Students.html","value":20},"homepage":"https://sites.ualberta.ca/~bei1/index.html","kind":"lab","location":"Edmonton, Canada","logoAsset":"/_blob/6a937f65ffe146bb2321925c77c0fe33.png","name":"Bei Jiang's group at University of Alberta","outputs":[{"label":"Publications","type":"publications","url":"https://sites.ualberta.ca/~bei1/Publication.html"},{"label":"Bei Jiang Google Scholar","type":"scholar","url":"https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=MfOZ8G0AAAAJ&hl=en"}],"parentOrg":"university-of-alberta","people":[{"name":"Bei Jiang","role":"PI; Associate Professor; Amii Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair"}],"quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://cifar.ca/cifarnews/2026/02/19/cifar-commits-1m-to-global-ai-safety-initiative/","https://sites.ualberta.ca/~bei1","https://www.amii.ca/people/bei-jiang","https://sites.ualberta.ca/~bei1/Students.html"],"status":"active","summary":"Statistics research group of Bei Jiang, Associate Professor at the University of Alberta and Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair, working on a unified statistical framework for quantifying rare-event risks in language models.","tags":["Evaluations","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Lightcone Foundation, which the Future of Life Institute set up and funded ($50M in 2022, $6.5M in 2023), reports grants to it of $1,765,000 (2023), for charitable work in support of the Future of Life Foundation, and $125,000 (2024).","tags":[],"uncertain":"Known only from Lightcone Foundation's Form 990 Schedule I lines as recorded by Trace; the schedule loads by script on ProPublica and could not be read directly. Its relation to the Future of Life Foundation is unconfirmed.","filings":[{"contributions":1865000,"form":"990","periodEnd":"2023-12","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/884400777.json","year":2023}],"registration":{"id":"88-4400777","register":"IRS (via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/884400777"}},"individual-5362":{"name":"Individual #5362","kind":"person","anonId":"5362"},"benjamin-bergen":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual academic","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://pages.ucsd.edu/~bkbergen/","kind":"person","location":"San Diego, USA","name":"Benjamin Bergen","quote":"How do humans and language models compute meanings of words and sentences?","quoteUrl":"https://pages.ucsd.edu/~bkbergen/","sources":["https://pages.ucsd.edu/~bkbergen/"],"summary":"Professor of cognitive science at UC San Diego who studies language and cognition, including how humans and language models process language.","tags":["Academic","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.4,"T4":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant page describes research on LLM persuasiveness (swaying people, negotiating for hidden goals) under only the funder's programme label, so the misuse-capability eval rule gives T4 0.6 / T3 0.4.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://pages.ucsd.edu/~bkbergen/"}},"benjamin-recht-s-group-at-uc-berkeley":{"aliases":["University of California, Berkeley (Benjamin Recht)","Recht group"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted the PI plus 4 current graduate students on group.html; 30 alumni not counted","range":"","url":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/group.html","value":5},"homepage":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/","kind":"lab","location":"Berkeley, CA, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/ceb9b26915f9f2486113734b04b621fa.jpg","name":"Benjamin Recht's group at UC Berkeley","outputs":[{"label":"Publications","type":"publications","url":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/publications.html"},{"label":"arg min (Recht's blog)","type":"substack","url":"https://www.argmin.net/"},{"label":"Books","type":"other","url":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/books.html"}],"parentOrg":"university-of-california-berkeley","people":[{"name":"Benjamin Recht","role":"PI, Professor of EECS"}],"quote":"Working my way through the history, foundations, and validity of decision making by people and machines.","quoteUrl":"https://www.argmin.net/about","sources":["https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/","https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/group.html","https://www.argmin.net/","https://www.argmin.net/about"],"status":"active","summary":"Research group of Benjamin Recht, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, who works on the history, foundations and validity of decision-making by people and machines.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/","quote":"https://www.argmin.net/about"}},"benjamin-rubinstein":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"person","location":"Melbourne, Australia","name":"Benjamin Rubinstein","quote":"I research AI safety, spanning the security and privacy of AI","quoteUrl":"https://www.bipr.net/","sources":["https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/2015-grant-program/","https://www.bipr.net/"],"summary":"Professor in AI at the University of Melbourne's School of Computing and Information Systems and Deputy Dean (Research) of its engineering and IT faculty, researching AI safety, including the security and privacy of AI.","tags":["Academic","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is security evaluation of ML systems; known adversarial-ML security work is prosaic and not aimed at x-risk.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.bipr.net/","summary":"https://www.bipr.net/"}},"beri-all-collaboration":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://existence.org/collaborations-ucp","kind":"programme","location":"Amherst, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/56c2dc0ff34e8ed8dc24b57da6f2cea1.png","name":"BERI-ALL Collaboration","parentOrg":"berkeley-existential-risk-initiative","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://existence.org/collaborations-ucp","https://all.cs.umass.edu"],"summary":"BERI collaboration supporting the Autonomous Learning Laboratory at UMass Amherst, an AI-safety and reinforcement-learning research group.","tags":["Alignment research","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Probably BERI's collaboration with UMass Amherst's Autonomous Learning Lab (safe/Seldonian RL), prosaic safety work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://existence.org/collaborations-ucp"}},"beri-chai-collaboration":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://existence.org/","kind":"programme","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/56c2dc0ff34e8ed8dc24b57da6f2cea1.png","name":"BERI-CHAI Collaboration","parentOrg":"berkeley-existential-risk-initiative","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h2-recommendations.html","https://existence.org/collaborations"],"summary":"Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative collaboration with UC Berkeley's Center for Human-Compatible AI, through which BERI funds activities that are hard to fund through university mechanisms and provides services its researchers need.","tags":["Alignment research","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T2":0.4,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. According to the Open Philanthropy grant page, BERI-CHAI pays support staff and engineers for CHAI, whose about page frames its work as the problem of controlling machines more capable than humans; Russell's agenda gets T2 and much of the student work is prosaic (T3).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://existence.org/collaborations"}},"beri-cltc-collaboration":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Donations go via BERI; see its website","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://existence.org","kind":"org","location":"Berkeley, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/56c2dc0ff34e8ed8dc24b57da6f2cea1.png","name":"BERI-CLTC Collaboration","quote":"This grant will support the ongoing work by Dr. Anthony Barrett and the team at CLTC on developing AI standards","quoteUrl":"https://www.existence.org/blog/2023-06-29-cltc-to-main-collab","sources":["https://www.longtermwiki.com/grants/GtBbu57kog","https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/berkeley-existential-risk-initiative-core-support-and-chai-collaboration","https://www.existence.org/blog/2023-06-29-cltc-to-main-collab"],"summary":"Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative collaboration with UC Berkeley's Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, supporting Anthony Barrett and the CLTC team's work on AI risk-management standards for increasingly general-purpose AI.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T1":0.1,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. BERI staff work inside CLTC's AI Security Initiative on frontier-AI risk-management standards and intolerable-risk thresholds. The program page says nothing about loss of control or existential risk, so this is mostly misuse/catastrophic-risk standards (T2) plus general AI security policy (Adjacent).","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.existence.org/blog/2023-06-29-cltc-to-main-collab","summary":"https://www.existence.org/blog/2023-06-29-cltc-to-main-collab"}},"beri-cser-collaboration":{"aliases":["BERI (CSER)"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://existence.org/collaborations","kind":"programme","location":"Cambridge, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/56c2dc0ff34e8ed8dc24b57da6f2cea1.png","name":"BERI-CSER Collaboration","parentOrg":"berkeley-existential-risk-initiative","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://existence.org/collaborations","https://existence.org/collaborations-ucp"],"summary":"Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, through which BERI funds activities that are hard to fund through university mechanisms and provides services its researchers need.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://existence.org/collaborations"}},"beri-dmip-collaboration":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://existence.org/collaborations","kind":"programme","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/56c2dc0ff34e8ed8dc24b57da6f2cea1.png","name":"BERI-DMIP Collaboration","parentOrg":"berkeley-existential-risk-initiative","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://existence.org/collaborations","https://existence.org/collaborations-ucp"],"summary":"Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative collaboration with the Data, Machines, Intelligence & People group at the University of Valencia, one of BERI's university collaborations.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://existence.org/collaborations-ucp"}},"beri-seri-collaboration":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://existence.org/","kind":"programme","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/56c2dc0ff34e8ed8dc24b57da6f2cea1.png","name":"BERI-SERI Collaboration","parentOrg":"berkeley-existential-risk-initiative","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h1-recommendations.html","https://existence.org/collaborations","https://existence.org/collaborations-ucp"],"summary":"Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative collaboration with the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative at Stanford University, through which BERI funds activities that are hard to fund through university mechanisms and provides services its researchers need.","tags":["Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://existence.org/collaborations"}},"beri-srl-collaboration":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"location":"https://saferobotics.princeton.edu/research","people":"https://saferobotics.princeton.edu/people","quote":"https://saferobotics.princeton.edu/","summary":"https://saferobotics.princeton.edu/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://saferobotics.princeton.edu/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"programme","location":"Princeton, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/6ce9573c8c4037e4bfa38fb9dce3a210.jpg","name":"BERI-SRL Collaboration","parentOrg":"berkeley-existential-risk-initiative","people":[{"name":"Jaime Fernández Fisac","role":"Principal Investigator"}],"quote":"Making robots and AI safe around people.","quoteUrl":"https://saferobotics.princeton.edu/","sources":["https://saferobotics.princeton.edu/","https://saferobotics.princeton.edu/research","https://saferobotics.princeton.edu/people"],"summary":"BERI's collaboration with Princeton's Safe Robotics Lab (Jaime Fernández Fisac), supporting work on safety guarantees for robots and AI systems.","tags":["Alignment research","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.3,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Probably BERI's collaboration with the Safe Robotics Lab at Princeton, a safety-motivated academic group doing largely prosaic work."},"berkeley-center-for-responsible-decentralized-intelligence":{"aliases":["berkeley center for responsible, decentralized intelligence","Berkeley RDI","Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://give.berkeley.edu/fund/FN3393000","donateNote":"Via UC Berkeley giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://rdi.berkeley.edu","kind":"university","location":"Berkeley, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/6613837a00d5dfafd65e787f7ec3f450.png","name":"UC Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence","quote":"At Berkeley RDI, we push the boundaries of AI research while ensuring these powerful technologies remain safe, robust, and beneficial to our society.","quoteUrl":"https://rdi.berkeley.edu","sources":["https://rdi.berkeley.edu","https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/song.html"],"summary":"Multidisciplinary UC Berkeley centre advancing the science, technology and education of AI and agentic AI, with research aimed at keeping powerful AI safe, robust and beneficial; co-directed by Dawn Song.","tags":["Academic","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is AI safety competition prizes at Berkeley RDI, probably prosaic safety/security challenges.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://rdi.berkeley.edu"}},"berkeley-existential-risk-initiative":{"aliases":["BERI","Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI)","BERI (XES)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.existence.org/donations","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2017","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://existence.org/","kind":"org","location":"Remote","logoAsset":"/_blob/56c2dc0ff34e8ed8dc24b57da6f2cea1.png","name":"Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative","people":[{"name":"Elizabeth Cooper","role":"Executive Director (since Nov 2024)"},{"name":"Andrew Critch","role":"Board Chair, President (FY2024 990)"}],"quote":"BERI is an independent 501(c)(3) public charity with a mission to improve human civilization's long-term prospects for survival and flourishing.","quoteUrl":"https://existence.org/","socials":{"linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/18976465/"},"sources":["https://existence.org/","https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/814820272","https://existence.org/team","https://existence.org/collaborations"],"status":"active","summary":"Public charity providing operations support (financial management, HR, grant administration, compliance) to university research groups and fiscally sponsored projects, with a focus on existential risk reduction and AI safety.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.05,"T1":0.1,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.5,"notAI":0.05},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Intermediary that runs operations for university groups and projects, tiered by who it serves. Its collaborations page lists mostly AI safety groups (CHAI, InterACT, KASL, MATS, Princeton Safe Robotics), whose work is mainly safety research that could cut either way (T3, half) or aims at takeover risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2, three-tenths), with a share for work on the hard parts (T1, one-tenth); general x-risk and policy groups (CSER, SERI, CLTC, Oxford China Policy Lab) make up the rest (Adjacent 5%, notAI 5%). 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Gary McGraw's ML security taxonomy of known attacks; general ML security, not x-risk aimed."},"bertha-von-suttner-studienwerk":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2021","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.suttner-studienwerk.de/","kind":"org","location":"Germany","logoAsset":"/_blob/135b0de1048fafd3a6440234006b2245.jpg","name":"Bertha von Suttner-Studienwerk","quote":"Wir wollen außergewöhnliche junge Menschen fördern, die sich für den Humanismus engagieren.","quoteUrl":"https://www.suttner-studienwerk.de/","sources":["https://humanismus.de/en/partner/bertha-von-suttner-studienwerk/","https://www.suttner-studienwerk.de/"],"summary":"German scholarship foundation (Begabtenförderwerk) supporting students who identify with a humanistic worldview. 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Alarcón's published work (Ottawa Heart Institute) is riboflavin-treated PVC that kills microbes and viruses under blue light, a biosecurity/materials project with no AI component."},"biomedical-advancement-and-research-institute":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Biomedical Advancement and Research Institute","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":[],"summary":"","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"unknown":1}},"bit-by-bit-coding":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://bitbybitcoding.org/aboutus","people":"https://bitbybitcoding.org/aboutus","summary":"https://bitbybitcoding.org/aboutus"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","foundedUrl":"https://bitbybitcoding.org/aboutus","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://bitbybitcoding.org/","kind":"org","location":"Portland, Oregon, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/247c201206e28b718a82346ecafaee36.png","name":"Bit by Bit Coding","people":[{"name":"Sydney Von Arx","role":"Co-founder"},{"name":"Selena Zhang","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"Our mission is to equip the next generation with the tools of technology, thought, and leadership to improve the world, bit by bit.","quoteUrl":"https://bitbybitcoding.org/aboutus","sources":["https://bitbybitcoding.org/aboutus","https://bitbybitcoding.substack.com/p/bit-by-bit-coding-summer-2021-donation","https://www.openphilanthropy.org/?p=9704"],"summary":"Portland nonprofit running low-cost coding and leadership programmes for young people, especially girls; funded to run high-school neural network courses framed around AI safety.","tags":["Education & training"],"taxStatus":""},"black-in-ai-safety-and-ethics-base":{"aliases":["BASE Research","Black in AI Safety and Ethics (BASE) (via Elliot (Li) Bearden)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.baseresearch.org/donate","donateNote":"Fiscally sponsored by Community Initiatives","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.baseresearch.org/team","summary":"https://www.baseresearch.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"Community Initiatives","founded":"2025","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.baseresearch.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/8adaa1750ae83a6f2f7886a2564e6132.png","name":"Black in AI Safety and Ethics (BASE)","people":[{"name":"Individual #6618","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"BASE Research Fellowship is building a global pipeline of Black talent in AI alignment, governance, security, and responsible AI.","quoteUrl":"https://www.baseresearch.org/","sources":["https://baseresearch.org","https://manifund.org/projects/base-technical-ai-safety-training-initiative","https://www.baseresearch.org/team","https://www.baseresearch.org/"],"summary":"AI safety research and training initiative building pathways for Black researchers, including technical AI safety training based on the ARENA curriculum.","tags":["Education & training","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Probably a training initiative spanning technical AI safety and AI ethics; tiered by who it serves, which is a guess from the name and purpose."},"black-in-ai":{"name":"Black in AI","aliases":[],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://blackinai.org/","donate":"https://blackinai.org/support-our-mission","founded":"2017","summary":"Membership organisation that runs community, education and career programmes, workshops and policy initiatives to broaden who builds and governs AI. Not the same organisation as Black in AI Safety and Ethics.","quote":"We aim to shift the power dynamic across the AI Ecosystem to broaden the range of voices contributing to the development, deployment, and regulation of AI technology.","quoteUrl":"https://blackinai.org/","people":[{"name":"Gelyn C. 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A diversity and community pipeline for AI researchers in general, not aimed at AI safety or x-risk, so Adjacent (blackinai.org/about)."},"blake-richards":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.mcgill.ca/neuro/blake-richards-phd","kind":"person","location":"Montreal, Canada","name":"Blake Richards","quote":"Richards' research is at the intersection of neuroscience and AI.","quoteUrl":"https://www.mcgill.ca/neuro/blake-richards-phd","sources":["https://www.mcgill.ca/neuro/blake-richards-phd"],"summary":"Associate professor at McGill (School of Computer Science and Montreal Neurological Institute) and Mila core faculty, studying principles of intelligence in brains and AI.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. He has publicly argued that AGI is incoherent and that he is skeptical of AI x-risk, so Adjacent by the x-risk-sceptic rule; the Foresight project isn't published.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.mcgill.ca/neuro/blake-richards-phd"}},"bluedot-impact":{"aliases":["BlueDot"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://bluedot.org/","kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, USA / London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/dfef543918d0ce17468646af7eeb3c9d.svg","name":"BlueDot Impact","quote":"We help people build careers and organizations that positively impact the trajectory of AI - through our courses, career support, events, and startup programs.","quoteUrl":"https://bluedot.org/","sources":["https://bluedot.org/"],"summary":"Runs free online courses, in-person programmes, weekly events and grants to help people move into full-time work on AI safety and biosecurity.","tags":["Education & training","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.25,"T1":0.05,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.45,"T4":0.05},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Runs free online courses (AGI strategy, frontier AI governance, technical AI safety, biosecurity), in-person programmes and career grants, framed around catastrophic outcomes from AI but not superintelligence or takeover. Tiered by who it serves: most graduates go into safety work that could cut either way (T3, 45%) or governance aimed at large-scale risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2, 20%); the rest of its courses and support are not aimed at AI x-risk (Adjacent, 25%), with small shares for work on the hard parts (T1, 5%) and capabilities work (T4, 5%). 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Blueprint Biosecurity's own about page describes pandemic preparedness work (PPE, far-UVC), and none of the three grants is AI work, so this is notAI and probably counted by mistake.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://blueprintbiosecurity.org","summary":"https://blueprintbiosecurity.org"}},"blueprint-for-free-speech":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/about-us/team","people":"https://www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/about-us/team","quote":"https://www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/","summary":"https://www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2014","foundedUrl":"https://www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/about-us/team","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://blueprintforfreespeech.net","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/696d83ca69baa9fdd4a5183ad0a808ae.jpg","name":"Blueprint for Free Speech","people":[{"name":"Suelette Dreyfus","role":"Founder and Executive Director"}],"quote":"works internationally to promote the right to freedom of expression","quoteUrl":"https://www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/","sources":["https://blueprintforfreespeech.net","https://www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/about-us/team","https://www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/","https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/multistakeholder-engagement-for-safe-and-prosperous-ai/"],"summary":"International nonprofit defending freedom of expression and whistleblowers; funded for work with trade unions on AI worker protections.","tags":["Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The METSA project page describes workplace AI harms (algorithmic management, recruitment screening) and union involvement in AI decisions, with no mention of catastrophic or takeover risk, so AI and society is Adjacent."},"bo-li":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://aisecure.github.io/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Bo Li","quote":"My research focuses on AI security, trustworthy machine learning, and alignment, with an emphasis on robustness, security, privacy, alignment, generalization, and their interconnections.","quoteUrl":"https://aisecure.github.io/","sources":["https://aisecure.github.io/"],"summary":"Associate professor of computer science researching AI security, trustworthy machine learning and alignment.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. UIUC news says the grant builds a red-teaming virtual environment to evaluate AI systems and agents and study what model access evaluations need; safety evals with no stated takeover framing, so T3.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://aisecure.github.io/","summary":"https://aisecure.github.io/"}},"individual-3764":{"name":"Individual #3764","kind":"person","anonId":"3764"},"individual-7280":{"name":"Individual #7280","kind":"person","anonId":"7280"},"bradley-love":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://bradlove.org","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Bradley Love","quote":"After embarking on the BrainGPT project, I became very interesting in extending modern AI techniques, such as large language models, to build systems that can accelerate scientific discovery.","quoteUrl":"https://bradlove.org/","sources":["https://bradlove.org"],"summary":"Cognitive scientist and computational neuroscientist whose lab studies human learning and decision-making; works on using large language models to accelerate scientific discovery.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.8,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose and known BrainGPT work, LLMs that predict and assess neuroscience findings are AI-for-science, not x-risk work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://bradlove.org"}},"brennan-center-for-justice":{"name":"Brennan Center for Justice","aliases":["Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law","Brennan Center"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://www.brennancenter.org/","donate":"https://secure.brennancenter.org/secure/donate-brennan-center-justice","location":"New York and Washington DC, USA","founded":"1995","summary":"US democracy and justice institute; its Liberty and National Security programme works on safeguards for government use of AI, and it studies AI and election disinformation. AI is one topic among several.","quote":"The Brennan Center for Justice strengthens American democracy through research, advocacy, and public education.","quoteUrl":"https://www.brennancenter.org/","people":[{"name":"Michael Waldman","role":"President and CEO"}],"tags":["Governance & policy"],"sources":["https://www.brennancenter.org/","https://www.brennancenter.org/about/leadership","https://www.brennancenter.org/about/programs","https://www.brennancenter.org/about/history","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/brennan-center-for-justice-44759/"],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.brennancenter.org/about/leadership","summary":"https://www.brennancenter.org/about/programs","quote":"https://www.brennancenter.org/"},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant paid for work on limits to government use of AI, a civil-liberties framing with no loss-of-control content, so Adjacent (brennancenter.org/about/programs)."},"individual-8514":{"name":"Individual #8514","kind":"person","anonId":"8514"},"brian-christian":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.brianchristian.org","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Brian Christian","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.brianchristian.org","https://www.brianchristian.org/the-alignment-problem/"],"summary":"Author and research fellow at UC Berkeley's Center for Human-Compatible AI; wrote a book on AI alignment and human values.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Phil's grant page frames the DPhil as human-preference research to inform aligning AI with human values, and CHAI's profile mentions no existential-risk framing; combined with promoting The Alignment Problem (mostly prosaic alignment, some long-term framing), the first-pass mix holds.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.brianchristian.org"}},"brian-hie":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"homepage":"https://brianhie.com/","quote":"https://brianhie.com/","summary":"https://brianhie.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://brianhie.com/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Brian Hie","quote":"we conduct research at the intersection of biology and AI","quoteUrl":"https://brianhie.com/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","https://brianhie.com/"],"summary":"Assistant professor of chemical engineering at Stanford and Arc Institute investigator, researching at the intersection of biology and AI; a 2025 AI2050 Early Career Fellow.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"individual-8027":{"name":"Individual #8027","kind":"person","anonId":"8027"},"individual-6108":{"name":"Individual #6108","kind":"person","anonId":"6108"},"brian-ziebart":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cs.uic.edu/profiles/brian-ziebart/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Brian Ziebart","quote":"I am primarily interested in machine learning and its applications to problems in robotics, assistive technologies, and human-computer interaction.","quoteUrl":"https://cs.uic.edu/profiles/brian-ziebart/","sources":["https://cs.uic.edu/profiles/brian-ziebart/"],"summary":"Professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Chicago; machine learning, adversarial prediction and inverse optimal control.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose: safer inductive learning (robust/adversarial learning), prosaic academic safety work from the 2015 FLI round.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://cs.uic.edu/profiles/brian-ziebart/","summary":"https://cs.uic.edu/profiles/brian-ziebart/"}},"brianna-rosen-and-ciaran-martin":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/people/brianna-rosen","kind":"person","location":"Oxford, United Kingdom","name":"Brianna Rosen and Ciaran Martin","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/news/new-programme-help-governments-navigate-cyber-and-emerging-technologies"],"summary":"Co-directors of the Oxford Programme for Cyber and Technology Policy at the Blavatnik School; Martin founded the UK National Cyber Security Centre.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T2":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Philanthropy's grant page says the project is about securing advanced AI systems against cyber theft, which is weight-security policy (T2 under the brief's policy rule); the programme's pages give no takeover or catastrophe framing and partly cover general government cyber policy, so I kept a 0.4 Adjacent share. That is a deliberate step above the tag default (misuse-policy, no framing, which gives T2 0.5 / Adjacent 0.5), because the funded work is specifically about weight theft.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/news/new-programme-help-governments-navigate-cyber-and-emerging-technologies"}},"broadcom":{"aliases":[],"capabilitiesNote":"Makes semiconductors (chips) and infrastructure software.","checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"capabilitiesNote":"https://www.broadcom.com/","homepage":"https://www.broadcom.com/","logoUrl":"https://www.broadcom.com/","summary":"https://www.broadcom.com/"},"homepage":"https://www.broadcom.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location","people","quote"]},"kind":"company","name":"Broadcom","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://www.broadcom.com/"],"summary":"Broadcom makes semiconductors and infrastructure software for large enterprises.","tags":[]},"brookings-institution":{"aliases":["Brookings Institution (Brookings-Hoover)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.brookings.edu/support-brookings/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.brookings.edu/about-us/leadership/","summary":"https://www.brookings.edu/about-us/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.brookings.edu","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/2f75c3d0c39329f71f6fd4ddb2d7c1c4.png","name":"Brookings Institution","people":[{"name":"Cecilia Elena Rouse","role":"President"},{"name":"Glenn Hutchins","role":"Co-Chair of the Board"},{"name":"Suzanne Nora Johnson","role":"Co-Chair of the Board"}],"quote":"Brookings equips decisionmakers with nonpartisan research and policy strategies to create a more prosperous and secure country and world.","quoteUrl":"https://www.brookings.edu/about-us/","sources":["https://www.brookings.edu/about-us/","https://www.brookings.edu/about-us/leadership/","https://www.brookings.edu/articles/from-geneva-ai-security-and-us-china-dialogue/"],"summary":"Nonprofit organisation conducting nonpartisan policy research; co-leads a long-running Track II dialogue with Tsinghua University on AI and national security.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purposes: AI expert fellowships and a US-China AI/national-security dialogue, general national-security policy rather than takeover risk (policy rule)."},"brussels-agi-collective":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page identified","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://luma.com/agicollective","kind":"org","location":"Brussels, Belgium","logoAsset":"/_blob/5ff060bd325a3d99d1278d05bc3f2e58.jpg","name":"Brussels AGI Collective","quote":"Exploring what advanced AI means for Europe's future","quoteUrl":"https://luma.com/agicollective","sources":["https://luma.com/agicollective","https://luma.com/7pjip3wl"],"summary":"Brussels community of policy experts, researchers and civil-society members holding events on what advanced AI means for Europe's future.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T2":0.4,"T3":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Speaker series on advanced AI and European preparedness per the grant purpose; speakers and x-risk emphasis unknown.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://luma.com/7pjip3wl"}},"individual-4775":{"name":"Individual #4775","kind":"person","anonId":"4775"},"buddhism-ai-initiative":{"aliases":["Mindstream Project","Mindstream Project Ltd.","Engaged Buddhists for Responsible AI Initiative","Engaged Buddhists for Responsible AI"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 4 co-founders on /about page (EA Forum launch post in Aug 2025 named 5 leads, incl. 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Grant purpose is engaging Buddhist communities on responsible AI, AI and society work not aimed at x-risk. Adjusted: FLI AGI-race RFP grant reading as general AI ethics: Adjacent 70 / T1 15 / T2 15 (coordinator consistency default, pending the maintainer).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.engagedbuddhists.ai/about"}},"bulletin-of-the-atomic-scientists":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://thebulletin.org/about-us/","people":"https://thebulletin.org/about-us/science-and-security-board/","quote":"https://thebulletin.org/about-us/","summary":"https://thebulletin.org/about-us/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1945","foundedUrl":"https://thebulletin.org/about-us/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://thebulletin.org","kind":"org","location":"Chicago, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/39be2f4f5d3ef7f116f1a3a0edd0bf2f.jpg","name":"Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists","people":[{"name":"Alexandra Bell","role":"President and CEO"},{"name":"Jerry Brown","role":"Executive Chair"},{"name":"David C. 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FLI's grant page puts its grant at $315,975 of the $320,975 total, for journalism on AI developers' power and influence (no takeover framing, so Adjacent); the roughly $5k Founders Pledge BWC reporting grant is not AI, so the mix is dollar-weighted."},"bureau-of-investigative-journalism":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/support-us","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/about-us","people":"https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/about-us/our-people","quote":"https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/about-us","summary":"https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2010","foundedUrl":"https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/about-us","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com","kind":"org","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/9de05a3104e1925bdab018ca30b151f2.jpg","name":"Bureau of Investigative Journalism","people":[{"name":"Franz Wild","role":"CEO and editor-in-chief"},{"name":"Isabel Hilton","role":"Board co-chair"}],"quote":"an independent, not-for-profit organisation that holds power to account","quoteUrl":"https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/about-us","sources":["https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com","https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/about-us","https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/about-us/our-people","https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/2025-grants/"],"summary":"London-based independent investigative journalism outlet; funded for investigations into AI.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.8,"T2":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. FLI's grant page describes reporting on Big Tech-government ties, ethical risks and systemic AI threats aimed at regulation, with no mention of superintelligence, loss of control or extinction."},"byron-wallace":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.byronwallace.com/","kind":"person","location":"Boston, USA","name":"Byron Wallace","quote":"I work on natural language processing and machine learning, with applications in healthcare and other high-stakes domains.","quoteUrl":"https://www.byronwallace.com/","sources":["https://www.byronwallace.com/","https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/people/byron-wallace/"],"summary":"Professor at Northeastern University's Khoury College working on natural language processing and machine learning for healthcare, with a focus on model interpretability and evaluation.","tags":["Interpretability","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. His ICML 2025 talk and faculty page frame interpretability as a healthcare tool against bias and spurious correlations, with no takeover or alignment framing, so mostly AI-in-health work using interp methods.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.byronwallace.com/"}},"bytedance":{"aliases":[],"capabilitiesNote":"Builds AI products such as the Doubao assistant and sells cloud and AI services through Volcano Engine.","checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"capabilitiesNote":"https://www.bytedance.com/about","founded":"https://www.bytedance.com/about","homepage":"https://www.bytedance.com/","people":"https://www.bytedance.com/about","quote":"https://www.bytedance.com/","summary":"https://www.bytedance.com/about"},"founded":"2012","foundedUrl":"https://www.bytedance.com/about","homepage":"https://www.bytedance.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["location","logo"]},"kind":"company","name":"ByteDance","people":[{"name":"Rubo Liang","role":"Co-founder, Chairman and CEO"},{"name":"Yiming Zhang","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"ByteDance develops products and services that empower people and organizations to create, connect, and discover.","quoteUrl":"https://www.bytedance.com/","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://www.bytedance.com/","https://www.bytedance.com/about"],"summary":"ByteDance is a technology company behind TikTok, Douyin, Toutiao, Lark and the Doubao AI assistant.","tags":[]},"cadenza-labs":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://cadenzalabs.org/about/","quote":"https://cadenzalabs.org/","summary":"https://cadenzalabs.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cadenzalabs.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/f43681cd5f42fad2d5e2ad6eaf68f298.jpg","name":"Cadenza Labs","people":[{"name":"Individual #8630","role":"Co-Director"},{"name":"Kieron Kretschmar","role":"Co-Director"}],"quote":"We aim to reduce catastrophic risk from AI by publishing research and open tools","quoteUrl":"https://cadenzalabs.org/","sources":["https://cadenzalabs.org","https://manifund.org/projects/cadenza-labs-ai-safety-research-group-working-on-own-interpretability-agenda","https://cadenzalabs.org/about/","https://cadenzalabs.org/"],"summary":"Research group aiming to reduce catastrophic risk from AI by publishing research and open tools for detecting dishonesty in AI models.","tags":["Interpretability","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The site says it builds lie detectors for AI dishonesty to reduce catastrophic risk (Liars' Bench is its benchmark output), so the deception-motivated empirical safety rule applies."},"caf-america":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://cafamerica.org/give-now/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://cafamerica.org/","summary":"https://www.cafamerica.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cafamerica.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"Alexandria, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/caec13a6bdd5a0d01fe72872607c9ad5.png","name":"CAF America","quote":"helps donors create a lasting, philanthropic impact and support the causes they care about","quoteUrl":"https://cafamerica.org/","sources":["https://www.cafamerica.org/","https://cafamerica.org/"],"summary":"US 501(c)(3) organisation that helps corporations, foundations and individuals give to charities worldwide.","tags":["Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose (FLI via CAF America as pass-through) is university research on the consequences of nuclear war, matching FLI's nuclear-war-impacts grants programme; not AI, so likely wrongly counted."},"cais-philosophy-fellowship":{"aliases":["Safety Philosophers Program"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Program concluded","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.safe.ai/philosophy-fellowship","kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/3a03abf200b7e0484267777b271589ad.jpg","name":"CAIS Philosophy Fellowship","quote":"Our team of philosophers critique and build on the existing conceptual AI safety literature, producing new conceptual frameworks to guide technical research.","quoteUrl":"https://www.safe.ai/philosophy-fellowship","sources":["https://www.safe.ai/philosophy-fellowship"],"summary":"Center for AI Safety research fellowship that in 2023 brought philosophers, from PhD students to professors, into conceptual research on AI safety.","tags":["Field-building","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T1":0.2,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Probably the CAIS Philosophy Fellowship: its page explicitly asks how advanced AI could pose existential risk, and fellows' papers include corrigibility/shutdown work (The Shutdown Problem, Shutdown-Seeking AI, Instrumental Convergence?), which engages hard parts, alongside AI-ethics and AI-welfare papers (Adjacent); there's almost no prosaic ML.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.safe.ai/philosophy-fellowship"}},"california-institute-of-technology":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.caltech.edu/","kind":"university","location":"Pasadena, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/9cd4981bb5c71730cb04ba8047d4afcd.jpg","name":"California Institute of Technology","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.caltech.edu/","https://www.frontiermodelforum.org/updates/announcement-of-new-ai-safety-fund-grantees/","https://www.caltech.edu/about"],"summary":"Private science and engineering institute in Pasadena, California; funded by the Frontier Model Forum's AI Safety Fund for AI-driven detection of protein mimetic biothreats with BioSentinel.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"notAI":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The FMF announcement gives only the title (AI-driven biothreat detection under the AISF biosecurity RFP), so this is biosecurity using AI as a tool; no project page was found to move it.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.frontiermodelforum.org/updates/announcement-of-new-ai-safety-fund-grantees/"}},"calmatters-and-the-markup":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://give.calmatters.org/campaign/564470/donate?c_src=website&c_src2=footer","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://calmatters.org/about/","quote":"https://calmatters.org/about/","summary":"https://calmatters.org/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2014","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://calmatters.org","kind":"org","location":"Sacramento, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/6de2ad51a939396baff0ab4a2b40b32e.jpg","name":"CalMatters and The Markup","people":[{"name":"Hema Sareen Mohan","role":"Board Chair"},{"name":"Simone Coxe","role":"Co-Founder, Chair Emeritus"},{"name":"Chris Boskin","role":"Co-Founder"},{"name":"Dave Lesher","role":"Co-Founder"}],"quote":"to empower people to engage on key issues, hold the powerful accountable","quoteUrl":"https://calmatters.org/about/","sources":["https://calmatters.org/about/","https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/mitigate-ai-driven-power-concentration/"],"summary":"Nonprofit California newsroom that acquired the tech-accountability newsroom The Markup in 2024; funded to map AI power concentration and lobbying.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. FLI's grant page describes investigative journalism and lobbying-tracking datasets on who controls AI, with no mention of superintelligence or loss of control, so Adjacent."},"cambridge-boston-alignment-initiative":{"aliases":["Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative (CBAI)","CBAI"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cbai.ai/","kind":"org","location":"Cambridge, MA, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/479a7a5a2569509504271fefeab17adf.jpg","name":"Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative","quote":"CBAI's mission is to advance research and education directed towards ensuring that society navigates a safe and beneficial transition to advanced AI systems.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cbai.ai/","sources":["https://www.cbai.ai/"],"summary":"Cambridge, Massachusetts nonprofit, founded in 2022 to reduce risks from advanced AI, that runs AI safety education programmes and research fellowships and conducts and supports alignment research.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.15,"T1":0.05,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.5,"T4":0.1},"xrTierNote":"CBAI runs AI safety education programmes, bootcamps and fellowships in Cambridge, MA, and fiscally sponsors the MIT and Harvard student AI safety groups that most of its grants fund. It aims at a safe transition to advanced AI but its site doesn't name superintelligence or extinction risk, so it is tiered like other research-training pipelines: mostly prosaic safety (T3), with shares aimed at takeover risk (T2, T1), some non-x-risk AI work (Adjacent) and a small capabilities share (T4). 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Existential-risk summer fellowship (with non-AI tracks) and an AI Safety Labs program; pipeline tiered by probable participant work."},"cambridge-in-america":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.cantab.org/give","donateNote":"Gifts go to the University of Cambridge","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.cantab.org/about/our-staff","summary":"https://www.cantab.org/node/4541782"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cantab.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"New York, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/01bc0ba773de115af4aae34b4a62f5b8.jpg","name":"Cambridge in America","people":[{"name":"Gabrielle Bennett","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"Cambridge in America facilitates philanthropic gifts that help Cambridge achieve and maintain excellence in teaching and research within its unique learning environment, while ensuring access to the most able students.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cantab.org/about/mission-and-history","sources":["https://www.cantab.org/","https://www.cantab.org/about/our-staff","https://www.cantab.org/node/4541782"],"summary":"US 501(c)(3) nonprofit, founded in 2000, that raises philanthropic support for the University of Cambridge and its colleges from alumni and friends in the US.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.55,"T4":0.45},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Pass-through for two Cambridge grants: the Open Phil page says the $517,693 data science grant builds a benchmark of LLM-agent performance, which is T4 by rule since it states no safety reason beyond the focus area, and the remaining ~$628k is chain-of-thought faithfulness, which is prosaic safety (T3)."},"cameron-domenico-kirk-giannini":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/people/associate-graduate-faculty/associate-graduate-faculty-profile/1445-kirk-giannini-cameron-domenico","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini","sources":["https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/people/associate-graduate-faculty/associate-graduate-faculty-profile/1445-kirk-giannini-cameron-domenico","https://safe.ai/2023-fellows/cameron-kirk-giannini"],"summary":"Associate Professor of philosophy at Rutgers University–Newark working on the philosophy of artificial intelligence; as a Center for AI Safety fellow he worked on AI wellbeing and the safety of agent architectures.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Philosopher who writes on AI existential risk; the grant purpose is a takeoff-speeds paper, which is x-risk strategy that sits close to forecasting.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/people/associate-graduate-faculty/associate-graduate-faculty-profile/1445-kirk-giannini-cameron-domenico"}},"canadian-ai-safety-institute-incl-cifar-grants":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/canadian-artificial-intelligence-safety-institute","kind":"government","location":"Ottawa, Canada","logoAsset":"/_blob/97f2ac19fc0c66cf82cdf121ff4b6bfa.png","name":"Canadian AI Safety Institute (incl. 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From the grant purpose (automating expert assessment of LLMs for national-security threats), this is probably misuse-capability evaluation, so the decided misuse-evals rule gives T4 60 / T3 40; the recipient appears to be a small Maryland IT consultancy acting as a vehicle for the project lead, and no project page or link to regulation was found.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.capitaltg.com/"}},"carla-gomes":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.cs.cornell.edu/gomes/","summary":"https://www.cs.cornell.edu/gomes/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cs.cornell.edu/gomes/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Carla Gomes","quote":"My research area is Artificial Intelligence with a focus on","quoteUrl":"https://www.cs.cornell.edu/gomes/","sources":["https://www.cs.cornell.edu/gomes/","https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellows/"],"summary":"Computer science professor at Cornell University and director of its Institute for Computational Sustainability; AI2050 Senior Fellow.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"individual-3741":{"name":"Individual #3741","kind":"person","anonId":"3741"},"carnegie-endowment-for-international-peace":{"aliases":["Carnegie Endowment"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://donate.carnegieendowment.org/support","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://carnegieendowment.org/senior-leadership","summary":"https://carnegieendowment.org/programs/technology-and-international-affairs"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1910","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://carnegieendowment.org/","kind":"org","location":"Washington DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/96e37c217c9e1b421d108c06ea690b29.jpg","name":"Carnegie Endowment for International Peace","people":[{"name":"Avril Haines","role":"President"},{"name":"Jane D. 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In a sample of its AI work from 2023-25, the China AI policy and US-China competition analysis is not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent, 45%); work on frontier AI risk, such as 'if-then' safety commitments for labs, China's views on AI safety and international risk assessments, aims at catastrophic AI risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2, 40%), with a smaller part that supports slowing down or coordinating on dangerous AI (T1, 15%). Its nuclear-war grants are not AI and are left out. 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Dollar-weighted from the grant rows: $1M (SFF 2023) is for FOCAL, a decided T1 call (XR-TIERS §5); $673k is adversarial-robustness research (Raghunathan; 2021 robustness grant), prosaic T3.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/68752402cd25ead7e36d7373/699c54b61461caad7130683c_f3052ca4341dfc41646ed7155aaee5fd_The%20Alignment%20Project%202026%20-%20Grants%20%281%29.pdf"}},"carnegie-tsinghua-center-for-global-policy":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2010","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://carnegieendowment.org/china","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["people","quote"]},"kind":"org","location":"Beijing, China","logoAsset":"/_blob/c8a75e61acf265a88525a842e905b22a.png","name":"Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy","parentOrg":"carnegie-endowment-for-international-peace","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.founderspledge.com/research/carnegie-tsinghua","https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2010/04/carnegie-endowment-launches-the-carnegie-tsinghua-center-for-global-policy-in-beijing"],"summary":"Beijing-based policy centre founded in 2010 by the Carnegie Endowment with Tsinghua University, which hosted US-China Track 1.5 and Track II dialogues and research on Chinese foreign policy; current status unclear.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.founderspledge.com/research/carnegie-tsinghua"}},"individual-6214":{"name":"Individual #6214","kind":"person","anonId":"6214"},"individual-8437":{"name":"Individual #8437","kind":"person","anonId":"8437"},"cassandra-research":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Cassandra Research","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":[],"summary":"","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"unknown":1}},"individual-8920":{"name":"Individual #8920","kind":"person","anonId":"8920"},"catalyze-impact-ai-safety-research-organization-incubator":{"aliases":["AI Safety Research Organization Incubator","Catalyze Impact"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://catalyze-impact.org/about/","people":"https://catalyze-impact.org/about/","summary":"https://www.catalyze-impact.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2023","foundedUrl":"https://catalyze-impact.org/about/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.catalyze-impact.org/","kind":"org","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/a2356ad690ff864c7d8c82f23676c1fe.jpg","name":"Catalyze Impact (AI Safety Research Organization Incubator)","people":[{"name":"Individual #4298","role":"Co-founder & CEO"},{"name":"Hugo Walrand","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"We help you start a company or nonprofit that makes AI safe and secure.","quoteUrl":"https://www.catalyze-impact.org/","sources":["https://manifund.org/projects/ai-safety-research-organization-incubator---pilot-program","https://www.catalyze-impact.org/","https://catalyze-impact.org/about/"],"summary":"Incubator that helps experienced founders start companies and nonprofits working to make AI safe and secure, with funding, expert advice and funder introductions; it ran its first pilot programme in London.","tags":["Field-building"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T1":0.1,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Incubator for technical AI safety research orgs (grant purpose); tiered by the orgs it incubates, which are probably mostly prosaic empirical safety."},"cavendish-labs":{"aliases":["Cavendish Labs Co."],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cavendishlabs.org/","kind":"org","location":"Cavendish, Vermont, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/29e09399a1f64912715a4ce165610dde.jpg","name":"Cavendish Labs","quote":"We're founding a research community in Cavendish, Vermont that's focused primarily on AI safety and pandemic prevention, although we’re interested in all avenues of effective research.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cavendishlabs.org/","sources":["https://www.cavendishlabs.org/","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xBeqaWEJfWZv8ALWn/announcing-cavendish-labs"],"summary":"Nonprofit research organisation building a research community in Cavendish, Vermont, focused mainly on AI safety and pandemic prevention.","tags":["Alignment research","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. A small Vermont AI safety research community doing probably empirical work (evals/robustness); tiered with the default for x-risk-motivated empirical safety orgs.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cavendishlabs.org/"}},"cea-community-health-and-special-projects":{"aliases":["CEA Community Health and Special Projects team"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"Team within the Centre for Effective Altruism","fieldSources":{"location":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/community-health/team","people":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/community-health/team","quote":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/what-is-cea","summary":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/what-is-cea"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Oxford, United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/ae58b99570ba051f292b7a80f5270cc7.png","name":"CEA Community Health and Special Projects","people":[{"name":"Julia Wise","role":"Community Health Lead"}],"quote":"We support community members and prevent problems","quoteUrl":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/what-is-cea","sources":["https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/cea-community-health-and-special-projects-team","https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/contact","https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/community-health/team","https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/what-is-cea"],"summary":"Team within the Centre for Effective Altruism that supports members of the effective altruism community and works to prevent problems that could hinder its impact.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":""},"cea-events-team":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"location":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/contact","quote":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/what-is-cea","summary":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/what-is-cea"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"Oxford, United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/0a060876d6001b4e8510cbef7759278b.jpg","name":"CEA Events team","quote":"We run conferences promoting the ideas of effective altruism.","quoteUrl":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/what-is-cea","sources":["https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org","https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/contact","https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/what-is-cea"],"summary":"Events team of the Centre for Effective Altruism, which runs effective altruism conferences.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) (CEA Inc.)"},"cea-online-team":{"aliases":["CEA Online team"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/","kind":"programme","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/c2feb8ddd54124078aa150bfa028e5be.jpg","name":"CEA Online Team","parentOrg":"centre-for-effective-altruism","quote":"We build and moderate an online Forum about effective altruism.","quoteUrl":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/what-is-cea","sources":["https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4wNDqRPJWhoe8SnoG/cea-is-fundraising-and-funding-constrained","https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/what-is-cea"],"summary":"Centre for Effective Altruism team that runs the EA Forum, effectivealtruism.org and the EA Newsletter.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Communications"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/what-is-cea","summary":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4wNDqRPJWhoe8SnoG/cea-is-fundraising-and-funding-constrained"}},"individual-3389":{"name":"Individual #3389","kind":"person","anonId":"3389"},"individual-9482":{"name":"Individual #9482","kind":"person","anonId":"9482"},"cegia":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-11-07","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"CEGIA","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/navigating-transformative-ai/"],"summary":"Not identified from public sources. Coefficient Giving lists a $680,400 grant to CEGIA (January 2026) for \"AI Governance Work\" under its Navigating Transformative AI fund.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"general-ai-policy":1},"xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T2":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Couldn't identify the organisation; searches gave nothing, and cegia.org is an offline Spanish-language automation company that is probably unrelated, so the guess from the grant purpose ('AI Governance Work') stands.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/navigating-transformative-ai/"}},"center-for-a-new-american-security":{"aliases":["Center for a New American Security (CNAS)","CNAS"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.cnas.org/support-cnas","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2007","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cnas.org/","kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/aa8c42289732df59c5d763047d53b824.jpg","name":"Center for a New American Security","quote":"The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is an independent, bipartisan, nonprofit organization that develops strong, pragmatic, and principled national security and defense policies.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cnas.org/mission","sources":["https://www.cnas.org/","https://www.cnas.org/mission","https://www.cnas.org/ai-security"],"summary":"Independent, bipartisan national-security research and policy institution in Washington whose AI Security and Stability project researches AI policy, compute governance and military AI.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T1":0.2,"T2":0.35,"T3":0.05},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Its funded AI Security and Stability programme covers catastrophic misuse, loss of control and compute governance (e.g. Secure, Governable Chips; AI bio risks): the misuse work aims at large-scale risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2, 35%) and the chip-governance and loss-of-control work buys time or engages the hard parts (T1, 20%). Much of its AI output is military AI, chip supply and US-China competition framed as national security, some urging US superiority (Promethean Rivalry), which is not aimed at x-risk (Adjacent, 40%); a little is general safety work (T3, 5%). 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It has run out of funding and stopped most operations, keeping only a policy advocacy network and a legislative review service.","tags":["Governance & policy","Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(4) — not tax-deductible","xrTier":{"T1":0.6,"T2":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. CAIP's own writing names misaligned superintelligence, intelligence explosions and escape from human control as its concerns, and pushes mandatory audits, the power to block deployment and government capacity to pause (time-buying), though in practice its work was incremental congressional advocacy.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.centeraipolicy.org/"}},"center-for-ai-risk-management-alignment-carma":{"aliases":["CARMA"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://carma.org/our-team","quote":"https://carma.org/","summary":"https://carma.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://carma.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Calabasas, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/fc8781dbe337590652367dded1921c1f.jpg","name":"Center for AI Risk Management & Alignment (CARMA)","people":[{"name":"Richard Mallah","role":"Founder and Executive Director"}],"quote":"To lower the risks to humanity and the biosphere from transformative AI","quoteUrl":"https://carma.org/","sources":["https://carma.org/","https://www.longtermwiki.com/wiki/carma","https://carma.org/our-team"],"summary":"Research and policy think tank, founded and led by Richard Mallah, combining risk management, policy research and technical safety work to lower the risks to humanity from transformative AI.","tags":["Governance & policy","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) (via fiscal sponsor)","xrTier":{"T2":1},"xrTierNote":"A think tank combining AI risk management, policy research and technical safety work, aiming to keep transformative AI controllable and aligned. It aims at loss-of-control risk, but without a theory of change that engages the hard parts or buys time (T2). Source: https://carma.org/"},"center-for-ai-safety-action-fund":{"aliases":["CAIS Action Fund","CAIS AF","Center for AI Safety Action Fund, Inc."],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://action.safe.ai/donate","donateNote":"Contributions not tax-deductible","fieldSources":{"people":"https://action.safe.ai/team","summary":"https://action.safe.ai/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://action.safe.ai/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/02675fe6661b6e76595c2cdac93b3e07.jpg","name":"Center for AI Safety Action Fund","people":[{"name":"Varun Krovi","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"The Center for AI Safety Action Fund (CAIS AF) is a nonpartisan advocacy organization dedicated to advancing public policies that maintain U.S. leadership in AI and protect against AI-related national security threats.","quoteUrl":"https://action.safe.ai/","sources":["https://action.safe.ai/","https://action.safe.ai/team"],"summary":"Nonpartisan US 501(c)(4) advocacy organisation, the Center for AI Safety's action fund, pushing for public policies that keep US leadership in AI and protect against AI-related national security threats.","tags":["Advocacy","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(4) — not tax-deductible","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T1":0.2,"T2":0.6},"xrTierNote":"The Center for AI Safety's advocacy arm works on US state and federal AI policy against 'global-scale risks' (it co-sponsored California's SB 1047). Most of this is legislation on catastrophic misuse and loss of control, aimed at the risk without a plan for the hardest parts (T2), with a share for compute and chip governance that buys time (T1) and some general AI policy (Adjacent). 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The advocacy and superintelligence strategy work buys time (T1, half); the research and field-building is takeover-aimed but mostly prosaic (T2, half). Source: https://safe.ai/","fieldSources":{"people":"https://safe.ai/about","summary":"https://safe.ai/","filings":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/881751310","registration":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/881751310"},"filings":[{"contributions":6658500,"form":"990","periodEnd":"2022-12","revenue":6660060,"url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/881751310.json","year":2022},{"contributions":15594432,"form":"990","periodEnd":"2023-12","revenue":16089191,"url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/881751310","year":2023},{"contributions":9596669,"form":"990","periodEnd":"2024-12","revenue":10235085,"url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/881751310","year":2024}],"registration":{"id":"88-1751310","register":"IRS (via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/881751310"}},"center-for-applied-rationality":{"aliases":["Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR)","CFAR"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://rationality.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://rationality.org/about/staff","summary":"https://rationality.org/","filings":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/453100226","registration":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/453100226","reportedFinances":"https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2019/cfar-financial-overview"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2012","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://rationality.org/","kind":"org","location":"San Francisco Bay Area, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/c14081bf993903d6690d6e6d92d90f32.jpg","name":"Center for Applied Rationality","people":[{"name":"Anna Salamon","role":"President & Cofounder; Board Chair"}],"quote":"CFAR is a Center for Applied Rationality — a nonprofit organization focused on creating a space in which to explore and practice better ways of thinking.","quoteUrl":"https://rationality.org/","sources":["https://rationality.org/","https://rationality.org/about/staff","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YXSnEX9RfzqD9ezNx/lightcone-infrastructure-is-looking-for-funding","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/38YW2PePzaHrQpLQK/the-lesswrong-team-is-now-lightcone-infrastructure-come-work"],"summary":"Nonprofit that ran about 60 immersive rationality workshops from 2012 to early 2020 and has since resumed running workshops. It was the fiscal sponsor of the LessWrong team, which became Lightcone Infrastructure.","tags":["Education & training","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T1":0.3,"T2":0.5,"T3":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purposes the money mostly paid the LessWrong/Lightcone team that CFAR fiscally sponsored; Lightcone's site frames its work around surviving the century and lists AI 2027 among its projects, and LessWrong hosts takeover-risk and agent-foundations discussion, plus one agent-foundations grant (T1); CFAR's own homepage doesn't mention AI risk.","filings":[{"contributions":346064,"form":"990","periodEnd":"2013-12","revenue":560681,"url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/453100226.json","year":2013},{"contributions":857842,"form":"990","periodEnd":"2014-12","revenue":942162,"url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/453100226.json","year":2014},{"contributions":661491,"form":"990","periodEnd":"2015-12","revenue":905671,"url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/453100226.json","year":2015},{"contributions":1724513,"form":"990","periodEnd":"2016-12","revenue":1979112,"url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/453100226.json","year":2016},{"contributions":1792753,"form":"990","periodEnd":"2017-12","revenue":2106184,"url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/453100226.json","year":2017},{"contributions":3718665,"form":"990","periodEnd":"2018-12","revenue":3858875,"url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/453100226.json","year":2018},{"contributions":1396587,"form":"990","periodEnd":"2019-12","revenue":1566753,"url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/453100226.json","year":2019},{"contributions":1619181,"form":"990","periodEnd":"2020-12","revenue":2323476,"url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/453100226.json","year":2020},{"contributions":4364119,"form":"990","periodEnd":"2021-12","revenue":4525208,"url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/453100226.json","year":2021},{"contributions":11146169,"form":"990","periodEnd":"2022-12","revenue":11648954,"url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/453100226.json","year":2022},{"contributions":8486796,"form":"990","periodEnd":"2023-12","revenue":9087409,"url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/453100226.json","year":2023}],"registration":{"id":"45-3100226","register":"IRS (via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/453100226"},"reportedFinances":[{"approx":true,"expenses":2600000,"expensesByCategory":{"AI safety workshops":190000,"Mainline workshops":null,"Office rent":null,"Operating expenses":170000,"Research & training":null,"Salaries and benefits":720000,"Special programs":null,"Venue":1000000},"income":2200000,"incomeBySource":{"Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative":1100000,"Individual contributions":null,"Long-Term Future Fund":170000,"Open Philanthropy Project":500000,"Workshops":270000},"note":"Chart values as labelled (null = slice shown without a label). BERI's $1.1M matches Jaan Tallinn's $800,000 (Jan 2018) and $300,000 (Jul 2018) gifts via BERI in the grant lists; Open Philanthropy's $500,000 is half of its $1M two-year 2018 grant; LTFF's $170,000 is its Aug 2018 grant ($174,021). Excludes LessWrong, SPARC and ESPR, which are legally housed in CFAR but separately funded, so CFAR's Form 990 figures are higher.","url":"https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2019/cfar-financial-overview","venueExpenses":{"Building improvements":140000,"Down payment":730000,"Mortgage":45000,"Purchasing fees and taxes, contractors, utilities, insurance, transportation, food":null},"year":2018},{"approx":true,"expenses":1400000,"expensesByCategory":{"AI safety workshops":200000,"Mainline workshops":110000,"Office rent":110000,"Operating expenses":235000,"Research & training":90000,"Salaries and benefits":525000,"Special programs":null,"Venue":190000},"income":1500000,"incomeBySource":{"Anonymous charitable fund":150000,"Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative":300000,"Long-Term Future Fund":150000,"Miscellaneous":null,"Miscellaneous grants":null,"Open Philanthropy Project":500000,"Survival and Flourishing Fund":110000,"Workshops":230000},"note":"Chart values as labelled. Grants were 84% of income, workshops 16%. The anonymous fund's $150,000 filled LTFF's second $150,000 recommendation. At 1 Dec 2019: cash $650,000, expected grants $575,000, about $215,000 due from MIRI as reimbursement for AIRCS and MSFP (the AI safety workshops); spending about $115,000 a month. Excludes LessWrong, SPARC and ESPR.","partialYear":"income to 1 Dec 2019, expenses to 1 Nov 2019","url":"https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2019/cfar-financial-overview","year":2019}]},"center-for-collective-intelligence-design":{"aliases":["Centre for Collective Intelligence Design"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Part of Nesta; no donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.nesta.org.uk/centre-for-collective-intelligence/","quote":"https://www.nesta.org.uk/centre-for-collective-intelligence/","summary":"https://www.nesta.org.uk/project/centre-collective-intelligence-design/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.nesta.org.uk/project/centre-collective-intelligence-design/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/cba0e4fd0255f010dd469fdd2f360d02.jpg","name":"Center for Collective Intelligence Design","people":[{"name":"Kathy Peach","role":"Director"}],"quote":"The Centre for Collective Intelligence helps organisations deliver high-quality public engagement","quoteUrl":"https://www.nesta.org.uk/centre-for-collective-intelligence/","sources":["https://www.nesta.org.uk/project/centre-collective-intelligence-design/","https://www.nesta.org.uk/centre-for-collective-intelligence/"],"summary":"Nesta centre that designs digital tools and deliberative engagements to scale public engagement, including work giving the public a voice on how AI is used in public services.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"UK registered charity (Nesta)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.8,"T2":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The FLI grant page lists this power-concentration grant (PI Kathy Peach) with 'No details available'. Nesta's pages frame AI concentration as an AI-and-society and participatory-AI issue rather than a takeover risk. The work is probably mostly Adjacent, with a small T2 share for FLI's power-concentration programme framing."},"center-for-communicable-disease-dynamics-harvard":{"aliases":["CCDD"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://hsph.harvard.edu/research/communicable-disease-ccdd/","kind":"university","location":"Boston, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/ec4fd9ed47b28674505df2ac1cbcf312.jpg","name":"Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://hsph.harvard.edu/research/communicable-disease-ccdd/"],"summary":"Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health centre developing modelling and statistical methods for infectious disease epidemiology, advising policymakers and training researchers.","tags":["Academic","Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":"Private university (Harvard)","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Infectious disease research centre salary support; biosecurity, not AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://hsph.harvard.edu/research/communicable-disease-ccdd/"}},"center-for-democracy-and-technology":{"aliases":["Center for Democracy and Technology","Center for Democracy & Technology (AI Governance Lab)","CDT"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/0db37c9b580bfea99ed5bad323fc5ace.png","name":"Center for Democracy & Technology","quote":"CDT’s AI Governance Lab develops and promotes adoption of robust, technically-informed solutions for the effective regulation and governance of AI systems.","quoteUrl":"https://cdt.org/cdt-ai-governance-lab/","sources":["https://cdt.org/cdt-ai-governance-lab/","https://cdt.org/about/"],"summary":"Nonpartisan nonprofit advancing civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age; its AI Governance Lab develops technically informed approaches to the regulation and governance of AI systems.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The funded CDT/MIT CSAIL study measured how benign fine-tuning erodes model safety guardrails (prosaic safety eval), with harms framed as near-term misuse (self-harm, misdiagnosis, child exploitation) and no x-risk aim on the press page.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://cdt.org/cdt-ai-governance-lab/"}},"center-for-human-compatible-ai-chai":{"aliases":["CHAI","Center for Human-Compatible AI","UC Berkeley (Center for Human-Compatible AI)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://humancompatible.ai/donate/","donateNote":"Gifts go via UC Berkeley","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://humancompatible.ai","kind":"university","location":"Berkeley, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/6f4ae77143847d7301ab38fbcaa7f577.jpg","name":"Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI)","quote":"CHAI is a research lab devoted to re-founding AI on provably beneficial principles.","quoteUrl":"https://humancompatible.ai","sources":["https://humancompatible.ai","https://humancompatible.ai/about/","https://humancompatible.ai/people/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Human-Compatible_Artificial_Intelligence"],"summary":"Multi-institution research group based at UC Berkeley, founded by Stuart Russell, working on the theory, practice and policy of AI that is provably beneficial to humans.","tags":["Alignment research","Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"T1":0.3,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"A Berkeley lab working to re-found AI on provably beneficial principles. Its mix: theory of beneficial AI that engages the hard parts (T1, 30%), takeover-aimed work with a shakier plan (T2, 30%), and prosaic ML safety by its wider group that could cut either way (T3, 40%). Source: https://humancompatible.ai","people":[{"name":"Mark Nitzberg","role":"Executive Director"}],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://humancompatible.ai/people/","summary":"https://humancompatible.ai/about/"}},"center-for-humane-technology":{"aliases":["Center for Humane Technology (CHT)","CHT"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://www.humanetech.com/donate","donateNote":"page says donations are tax-deductible; Federal Tax ID 82-3492182","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","foundedUrl":"https://www.humanetech.com/who-we-are","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 11 staff on /team-board (excluding the 6-member board)","range":"","url":"https://www.humanetech.com/team-board","value":11},"homepage":"https://www.humanetech.com/","kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/d8e08b943be39d524fc1f9d9ae280696.jpg","name":"Center for Humane Technology","outputs":[{"label":"Your Undivided Attention","type":"podcast","url":"https://www.humanetech.com/podcast"},{"label":"Substack newsletter","type":"substack","url":"https://www.humanetech.com/substack"},{"label":"YouTube","type":"youtube","url":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFECM-p3CF81Tp_l2sJsiyg"}],"people":[{"name":"Tristan Harris","role":"Co-Founder & President"},{"name":"Aza Raskin","role":"Co-Founder"},{"name":"Randima Fernando","role":"Co-Founder"},{"name":"Julie Johnston","role":"Chief of Staff"}],"quote":"We leverage our credibility and understanding of frontier AI to drive mass public education, deliver targeted briefings to decision-makers, and facilitate private cross-sector coordination.","quoteUrl":"https://www.humanetech.com/","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-center-for-humane-technology","x":"https://x.com/HumaneTech_"},"sources":["https://www.humanetech.com/","https://www.humanetech.com/who-we-are","https://www.humanetech.com/team-board","https://www.humanetech.com/donate"],"status":"active","summary":"Nonprofit founded in 2018 that exposes the negative effects of persuasive technology and social media, and now applies the same analysis to generative AI.","tags":["Advocacy","Communications","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US tax-deductible nonprofit (EIN 82-3492182)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.8,"T2":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Center for Humane Technology: its pages cover technology harms and the 'AI race' with no mention of superintelligence, loss of control or extinction, so mostly Adjacent with a T2 share for race framing. Two spellings of the same org; both aligned to the research batch 069 call.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.humanetech.com/who-we-are"}},"center-for-innovative-governance-research":{"aliases":["Center for Innovative Governance Research (Charter Cities Institute)","Charter Cities Institute"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://chartercitiesinstitute.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location","people","quote"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/e71e7c13363d8c741ab2e0f4c8958ae2.png","name":"Center for Innovative Governance Research","quote":"The Charter Cities Institute is a nonprofit dedicated to creating the ecosystem for charter cities","quoteUrl":"https://chartercitiesinstitute.org/","sources":["https://www.guidestar.org/profile/82-3264419","https://chartercitiesinstitute.org/"],"summary":"US 501(c)(3) nonprofit doing business as the Charter Cities Institute, which works to create the ecosystem for charter cities with better governance, aiming to lift people out of poverty.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.guidestar.org/profile/82-3264419"}},"center-for-international-security-and-cooperation":{"aliases":["CISAC","Stanford CISAC","Stanford University CISAC"],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/about-cisac","summary":"https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/about-cisac"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1983","foundedUrl":"https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/about-cisac","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/","kind":"lab","location":"Stanford, CA, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/e39a92b9fd07478a043e0280cbf85829.jpg","name":"Center for International Security and Cooperation","parentOrg":"stanford-university","people":[{"name":"James Fearon","role":"Co-director"},{"name":"Harold Trinkunas","role":"Deputy Director"}],"quote":"The Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) is Stanford University’s hub for researchers tackling some of the world's most pressing security and international cooperation issues.","quoteUrl":"https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/","sources":["https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/","https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/about-cisac"],"summary":"Stanford University research centre, part of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, working on international security issues including nuclear weapons, biosecurity and emerging technologies.","tags":["Governance & policy","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.75,"T2":0.25},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The larger grant ($365k) funds research into hypothetical AI and strategic-stability scenarios (national-security framing, Adjacent); the smaller 2020 grant explores AI accident risk under technology competition (T2); the mix is weighted by dollars."},"center-for-long-term-cybersecurity":{"aliases":["CLTC","UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://cltc.berkeley.edu/give-to-cltc/","donateNote":"Via UC Berkeley","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2015","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cltc.berkeley.edu","kind":"university","location":"Berkeley, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/d0aea4f5d9d064162a3a53c45b22afad.jpg","name":"Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity","quote":"CLTC is a premier hub for research and collaboration on public-interest cyber and AI security.","quoteUrl":"https://cltc.berkeley.edu","sources":["https://cltc.berkeley.edu","https://cltc.berkeley.edu/about-us/"],"summary":"UC Berkeley research centre on cyber and AI security; its AI Security Initiative develops AI risk-management frameworks and standards guidance.","tags":["Governance & policy","AI control & security","Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T2":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The AI Security Initiative page lists risk-management standards profiles for general-purpose and agentic AI and intolerable-risk thresholds for frontier AI, aimed at severe harms but not framed explicitly around takeover; the rest of CLTC is broader cybersecurity work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://cltc.berkeley.edu/about-us/"}},"center-for-nonproliferation-studies":{"aliases":["CNS","james martin center for nonproliferation studies","James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (Middlebury)","Middlebury Institute of International Studies (CNS)"],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"https://nonproliferation.org/donate/","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.nonproliferation.org/","kind":"org","location":"Monterey, US","logoAsset":"/_blob/b3d4f9423cada19e289b3584ab2f3832.jpg","name":"Center for Nonproliferation Studies","parentOrg":"Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (Middlebury College)","people":[{"name":"William C. Potter","role":"Director (founder)"}],"quote":"CNS strives to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by training the next generation of nonproliferation specialists and disseminating timely information and analysis.","quoteUrl":"https://www.nonproliferation.org/about/","sources":["https://www.nonproliferation.org/about/"],"summary":"Nongovernmental research and training centre at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, working to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction.","tags":["Governance & policy","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"notAI":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Founders Pledge's grantee page shows a nuclear war-termination, hotlines and dead-hand project in which 'advanced AI agents and AI-enabled negotiations' is one strand, so most of it is nuclear rather than AI work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.nonproliferation.org/about/"}},"center-for-open-science":{"aliases":["COS"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.cos.io/support-cos","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.cos.io/about/team","quote":"https://www.cos.io/about","summary":"https://www.cos.io/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2013","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cos.io/","kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/61c549e209630929d8acba622424e72b.jpg","name":"Center for Open Science","people":[{"name":"Brian Nosek","role":"Co-founder and Executive Director"}],"quote":"Our mission is to increase openness, integrity, and trustworthiness of research.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cos.io/about","sources":["https://www.cos.io/about","https://www.cos.io/about/team","https://www.cos.io/blog/from-open-science-to-ai-benchmarking-llms-on-reproducibility-robustness-and-replication"],"summary":"Nonprofit working to increase the openness, integrity and trustworthiness of research, known for the Open Science Framework; it is building benchmarks to test whether LLM-based systems can evaluate and replicate research.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.2,"T4":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The Open Philanthropy grant page says the grant funds a benchmark of how well LLMs evaluate, replicate and conduct scientific research, from an RFP on benchmarking LLM agents; COS frames it as testing whether AI science is trustworthy, not as takeover risk, so the agent-capability benchmark rule (T4) applies, with a small T3 share for the failure-mode and responsible-deployment framing."},"center-for-responsible-innovation":{"aliases":["CRI"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.centerforresponsibleinnovation.us/","summary":"https://ari.us/?p=2134"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://centerforresponsibleinnovation.us/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/ad08980d947fecdc87aa0085374bc29e.jpg","name":"Center for Responsible Innovation","quote":"aims to improve the quality of the AI policy conversation","quoteUrl":"https://www.centerforresponsibleinnovation.us/","sources":["https://centerforresponsibleinnovation.us/","https://ari.us/","https://www.centerforresponsibleinnovation.us/","https://ari.us/?p=2134"],"summary":"US 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the sister organisation of the lobbying group Americans for Responsible Innovation, that aims to improve the quality of the AI policy conversation by developing policy ideas and educating US policymakers.","tags":["Governance & policy","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.55,"T1":0.1,"T2":0.35},"xrTierNote":"Its research reports, on the site it shares with its sister group ARI, are mostly about general AI policy (children's chatbot safety, jobs, surveillance, state-law preemption, data-centre energy, military AI, some US-China competition framing), so the largest share is Adjacent. A smaller set covers frontier-AI governance and transparency, funding for the AI Safety Institute and NIST, and early warning of AI automating AI research, which gives T2 and some T1. Source: https://www.centerforresponsibleinnovation.us/ and ari.us research pages."},"center-for-security-and-emerging-technology":{"aliases":["Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)","CSET","Georgetown University (CSET)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://cset.georgetown.edu/donate/","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2019","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cset.georgetown.edu/","kind":"university","location":"Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/0a6c6949dc80efbdce7eb7fc98fa7b33.jpg","name":"Center for Security and Emerging Technology","quote":"CSET conducts in-depth research on the world’s most critical technological developments.","quoteUrl":"https://cset.georgetown.edu/about-us/","sources":["https://cset.georgetown.edu/about-us/"],"summary":"Policy research centre at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service analysing the security implications of AI, advanced computing and biotechnology.","tags":["Governance & policy","Academic"],"taxStatus":"Part of Georgetown University","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.8,"T2":0.1,"T3":0.1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. A sample of 13 CSET publications (2019-2026) is mostly about competition with China, AI talent, chip supply chains and military AI, framed as national security rather than extinction risk (Adjacent, four-fifths). A few pieces on frontier-AI risk management and AI-enabled cyber attacks aim at large-scale risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2, one-tenth), and its red-teaming work is ordinary safety work that could cut either way (T3, one-tenth). Source: https://cset.georgetown.edu/about-us/","people":[{"name":"Helen Toner","role":"Executive Director"}],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://cset.georgetown.edu/team/","summary":"https://cset.georgetown.edu/about-us/"}},"center-for-space-governance":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://governance.space","kind":"org","location":"New York and San Francisco, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/7c7ecbc0547c1948fc465ab2ff8b5354.jpg","name":"Center for Space Governance","quote":"The Center for Space Governance is a research institute dedicated to exploring current, emerging, and future issues in space policy.","quoteUrl":"https://spacegovernance.substack.com/about","sources":["https://spacegovernance.substack.com/about","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5HEFJKHGpcT49RK6y/announcing-the-center-for-space-governance","https://governance.space"],"summary":"Research institute exploring current, emerging and future issues in space governance and the space economy.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Space governance research agenda and setup, not AI-related; may be wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://governance.space"}},"center-for-technological-responsibility-reimagination-and-redesign-cntr":{"aliases":["Brown University AI Governance Lab","CNTR","Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://cntr.brown.edu/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 22 leadership, core collaborators and community contributors on /people; another 82 students and affiliates and 28 alumni are listed","range":"","url":"https://cntr.brown.edu/people","value":22},"homepage":"https://cntr.brown.edu/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Providence, RI, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/88c8113a5c0c0e670e7027cf275305e8.jpg","name":"Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign (CNTR)","outputs":[{"label":"CNTR projects","type":"other","url":"https://cntr.brown.edu/projects"},{"label":"CNTR events","type":"events","url":"https://cntr.brown.edu/events"}],"parentOrg":"Data Science Institute, Brown University","people":[{"name":"Suresh Venkatasubramanian","role":"Director"},{"name":"Meredith Mendola","role":"Program Manager"},{"name":"Tomo Lazovich","role":"Assistant Professor of the Practice, AI Governance and Policy; CNTR AISLE Policy Director"}],"quote":"We reimagine how to design, build and govern technology in ways that put people first.","quoteUrl":"https://cntr.brown.edu/","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations","https://cs.brown.edu/people/faculty/suresh/","https://cntr.brown.edu/","https://cntr.brown.edu/about","https://cntr.brown.edu/people","https://cntr.brown.edu/projects","https://dsi.brown.edu/news/2026-05-04/faces-dsi-tomo-lazovich"],"status":"unknown","statusNote":"No unit named 'AI Governance Lab' appears on any Brown page fetched; the grant may fund CNTR's AI governance work (e.g. its Legislation Lab / AISLE).","summary":"A centre in Brown University's Data Science Institute that works on how to design, build and govern technology so it puts people first.","tags":["Governance & policy","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.9,"T2":0.1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. I couldn't confirm which Brown group the grant funded. The AI governance work I found at Brown (CNTR, the AI Legislation Lab, the PANDORA Lab) covers fairness, state AI bills and algorithmic accountability, and none of it mentions catastrophic or loss-of-control risk. That points to Adjacent, with a small T2 share left for SFF's x-risk-focused selection."},"center-on-long-term-risk-clr":{"aliases":["Center on Long-Term Risk","CLR"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://longtermrisk.org/donate","donateNote":"Via Giving What We Can","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://longtermrisk.org/team/","people":"https://longtermrisk.org/team/","quote":"https://longtermrisk.org/","summary":"https://longtermrisk.org/about-us/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2013","foundedUrl":"https://longtermrisk.org/team/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://longtermrisk.org","kind":"org","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/b99d57a683bc404d2f5869c8e9ef0cfc.svg","name":"Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR)","people":[{"name":"Tristan Cook","role":"Managing Director"}],"quote":"Our goal is to address worst-case risks from the development and deployment of advanced AI.","quoteUrl":"https://longtermrisk.org/","sources":["https://longtermrisk.org/donate","https://longtermrisk.org/team/","https://longtermrisk.org/","https://longtermrisk.org/about-us/"],"summary":"Research group focused on reducing risks of astronomical suffering from advanced AI, including cooperation failures and conflict between AI systems.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"UK registered charity (1195079)","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Works on worst-case risks from advanced AI: how malicious traits such as spite emerge in language models, and preventing catastrophic conflict between AI systems. It aims at catastrophic AI failure and studies those failure modes directly (T1). Source: https://longtermrisk.org"},"centre-for-ai-security-and-access-casa":{"aliases":["CASA","Centre for AI Security and Access (Joanna Wiaterek, Individual #5371)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.every.org/centre-for-ai-security-and-access","donateNote":"Hosted by Rethink Priorities","fiscalSponsor":"Rethink Priorities","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://centreforaisecurityandaccess.substack.com/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/c42c0e7285205a22845445da5d792d3e.jpg","name":"Centre for AI Security and Access (CASA)","quote":"At CASA, we work to ensure that the benefits of AI technology can be widely and equitably distributed without compromising essential security considerations that protect individuals, communities, and nations from potential harm.","quoteUrl":"https://www.every.org/centre-for-ai-security-and-access","sources":["https://www.every.org/centre-for-ai-security-and-access"],"summary":"AI governance project aiming to spread AI's benefits widely, including to Global Majority stakeholders, without compromising security. Hosted at Rethink Priorities.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) via Rethink Priorities","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.794,"T2":0.196,"T3":0.01},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Its every.org page (hosted at Rethink Priorities) describes equitable, Global Majority access to AI balanced against security, with no mention of superintelligence, loss of control or catastrophic risk; mostly Adjacent, with a small T2 share because it probably has some security/misuse focus.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.every.org/centre-for-ai-security-and-access","summary":"https://www.every.org/centre-for-ai-security-and-access"}},"centre-for-effective-altruism":{"aliases":["CEA","Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) [AI Events Team]","Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA)","Centre for Effective Altruism,Effective Ventures Foundation USA","Centre for Effective Altruism USA"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/donate","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2012","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/","kind":"org","location":"Oxford, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/ae58b99570ba051f292b7a80f5270cc7.png","name":"Centre for Effective Altruism","quote":"The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) is an organisation working to promote the principles of effective altruism and support and grow the effective altruism community.","quoteUrl":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/","sources":["https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/"],"summary":"Supports the effective altruism community through EA Global conferences, student and city groups, the EA Forum and community health work.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3); UK company limited by guarantee","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.008,"T1":0.337,"T2":0.252,"T3":0.404},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Phil's page puts $250,000 of the ~$300.5k on a one-year office for the Harvard AI Safety Team, whose site frames its work as research on catastrophic risks from advanced AI (hub, stated framing: T3 .5/T2 .3/T1 .2), and the remaining ~$50k (inferred from the total) on a compute governance workshop (T1).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/"}},"centre-for-enabling-ea-learning-research-ceealar":{"aliases":["CEEALAR","Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research","EA Hotel","CEEALAR (formerly EA Hotel)","Centre for Enabling EA Learning and Research"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://www.ceealar.org/donate","donateNote":"US tax-deductible gifts via Players Philanthropy Fund","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.ceealar.org/learn-more/our-team","summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Enabling_EA_Learning_%26_Research"},"fiscalSponsor":"Players Philanthropy Fund (US donations)","founded":"2018","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.ceealar.org","kind":"org","location":"Blackpool, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/10e2ec93cc1bb3f357e820e4ad26985a.jpg","name":"Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research (CEEALAR)","people":[{"name":"Greg Colbourn","role":"Founder"}],"quote":"Inspired by the Chelsea Hotel, Greg Colbourn acquired The Athena Hotel in 2018 to support EA individuals and new effective altruist non-profits in their learning and research.","quoteUrl":"https://www.ceealar.org/","sources":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Enabling_EA_Learning_%26_Research","https://www.ceealar.org/donate","https://www.ceealar.org/learn-more/our-team","https://www.ceealar.org/"],"summary":"Blackpool-based charity (formerly the EA Hotel) giving grantees free or subsidised accommodation, meals and stipends so they can study or work on effective altruism and AI safety projects.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"UK registered charity (CIO 1189768)","xrTier":{"T2":0.35,"T3":0.35,"notAI":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The homepage presents CEEALAR as a general EA residency where AI alignment is one area among several. Its 2024 update says it would direct outreach and programming toward AI Safety. No resident-share figures are published, so the mix is an estimate."},"centre-for-exploratory-altruism-research":{"aliases":["CEARCH"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://exploratory-altruism.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://exploratory-altruism.org/about/","summary":"https://exploratory-altruism.org/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"Players Philanthropy Fund","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://exploratory-altruism.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/80aacd4855b886cd4cab983b02944741.jpg","name":"Centre for Exploratory Altruism Research","people":[{"name":"Joel Tan","role":"Founder & Managing Director"}],"quote":"CEARCH is a research, grantmaking & philanthropic advisory organization.","quoteUrl":"https://exploratory-altruism.org/","sources":["https://exploratory-altruism.org/","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/centre-for-exploratory-altruism-research","https://exploratory-altruism.org/about/"],"summary":"Cause-prioritisation research, grantmaking and philanthropic advisory organisation incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship in 2022.","tags":["Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":""},"centre-for-future-generations":{"aliases":["CFG","Stichting Centre for Future Generations","International Center for Future Generations","ICFG"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fieldSources":{"people":"https://cfg.eu/about-us/","summary":"https://cfg.eu/about-us/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","foundedUrl":"https://cfg.eu/about","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cfg.eu","kind":"org","location":"Brussels, Belgium","logoAsset":"/_blob/7740cc4c091335bd0f49fb7cef731a4d.jpg","name":"Centre for Future Generations","outputs":[{"label":"CFG publications","type":"publications","url":"https://cfg.eu/publications/"},{"label":"Subscribe","type":"newsletter","url":"https://cfg.eu/subscribe/"},{"label":"Biotech programme","type":"other","url":"https://cfg.eu/program/biotech/"}],"people":[{"name":"Steven Schuurman","role":"Co-founder & Chairman of the Board"},{"name":"Laurens de Groot","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"independent think-and-do tank with a mission to help policymakers anticipate and govern rapid technological change","quoteUrl":"https://cfg.eu","socials":{"bluesky":"https://bsky.app/profile/cfg-thinktank.bsky.social","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/centre-for-future-generations/","x":"https://x.com/CFG_ThinkTank"},"sources":["https://cfg.eu","https://cfg.eu/about-us/"],"status":"renamed","statusNote":"Former name International Center for Future Generations (ICFG); icfg.eu now redirects to cfg.eu. Rename date not confirmed.","summary":"Brussels-based independent think-and-do tank helping policymakers anticipate and govern rapid technological change, including advanced AI.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.042,"T2":0.042,"notAI":0.916},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant purpose names risks of an area of biological science research, which matches ICFG's separate Biotechnology programme rather than its Advanced AI programme, so this grant is biosecurity (notAI)."},"centre-for-international-governance-innovation":{"aliases":["CIGI"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cigionline.org/","kind":"org","location":"Waterloo, Canada","logoAsset":"/_blob/de1dbda3293945362bb7701c3b2807c0.jpg","name":"Centre for International Governance Innovation","quote":"independent, non-partisan think tank whose peer-reviewed research, foresight and trusted analysis influence policy makers","quoteUrl":"https://www.cigionline.org/about/","sources":["https://www.cigionline.org/about/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_International_Governance_Innovation"],"summary":"Canadian think tank researching governance of data and transformative technologies including AI.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T1":0.2,"T2":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The programme page says it works on an international treaty or framework convention for advanced AI, and it names uncontrollable autonomous AI as a risk alongside misuse; that is x-risk governance with a treaty plan (mostly T2), with some general-governance content.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_International_Governance_Innovation"}},"centre-for-long-term-resilience":{"aliases":["Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR)","CLTR","Centre for Long-Term Resilience (Alpenglow Group Limited)","Alpenglow Group (now Centre for Long-Term Resilience)","Centre for Long-Term Resilience / Alpenglow","Alpenglow Group","The Centre for Long-Term Resilience","Alpenglow Group Limited"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://www.longtermresilience.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.longtermresilience.org/","kind":"org","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/59aa6fed926384ea92c02ab7e9c0faae.jpg","name":"Centre for Long-Term Resilience","quote":"Our mission is to transform global resilience to extreme risks","quoteUrl":"https://www.longtermresilience.org/","sources":["https://www.longtermresilience.org/","https://www.longtermresilience.org/support-us/"],"status":"active","summary":"Independent London think tank helping governments and other institutions build resilience to extreme risks, focusing on AI risk, biological risk and government risk management.","tags":["Governance & policy","Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":"UK non-profit company (Alpenglow Group Limited)","xrTier":{"T2":1},"xrTierNote":"A think tank advising the UK and other governments on extreme risks, including AI loss-of-control incidents, misuse and biosecurity. Policy aimed mostly at loss of control and catastrophic misuse is aimed at takeover risk, but doesn't itself buy time (T2). Source: https://www.longtermresilience.org/","people":[{"name":"Angus Mercer","role":"Founder & Chief Executive"},{"name":"Hamish Hobbs","role":"Director of AI Policy"}],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.longtermresilience.org/the-team/","summary":"https://www.longtermresilience.org/"}},"centre-for-the-governance-of-ai":{"aliases":["Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)","Centre for the Governance of AI, Inc.","GovAI","New Governance of AI nonprofit (GovAI)","Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI), Future of Humanity Institute"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://www.every.org/govai#/donate","donateNote":"Via Every.org","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.governance.ai/people","summary":"https://www.governance.ai/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.governance.ai/","kind":"org","location":"London, UK / Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/e6f229d1f848e602097f16e969cb486d.jpg","name":"Centre for the Governance of AI","people":[{"name":"Ben Garfinkel","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"We help decision-makers navigate the transition to a world with advanced AI, by producing rigorous research and fostering talent.","quoteUrl":"https://www.governance.ai/","sources":["https://www.governance.ai/","https://www.governance.ai/people"],"summary":"AI governance research organisation producing policy research and running fellowships to build talent in AI governance; has a UK subsidiary.","tags":["Governance & policy","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T1":0.15,"T2":0.85},"xrTierNote":"Researches how to govern the transition to advanced AI, including an intelligence explosion and the oversight and control problems it brings. Governance aimed at catastrophic risk is T2 (85%); its compute-governance work buys time (T1, 15%). Source: https://www.governance.ai/"},"centre-for-the-study-of-existential-risk":{"aliases":["University of Cambridge (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk)","CSER","Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2012","foundedUrl":"https://www.cser.ac.uk/about-us/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 18 under 'Full-time Staff' on /team page; plus 26 research affiliates, 16 advisory board, 29 alumni listed separately","range":"","url":"https://www.cser.ac.uk/team/","value":18},"homepage":"https://www.cser.ac.uk/","kind":"org","location":"Cambridge, United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/69f51d930bbfa9a0547d52a65c685e58.jpg","name":"Centre for the Study of Existential Risk","outputs":[{"label":"CSER resources / publications","type":"publications","url":"https://www.cser.ac.uk/resources/"}],"parentOrg":"University of Cambridge","people":[{"name":"Matthew Connelly","role":"Director"},{"name":"Jessica Bland","role":"Deputy Director"},{"name":"Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh","role":"Programme Director, AI: Futures and Responsibility (former Executive Director)"},{"name":"Martin Rees","role":"Co-founder"},{"name":"Jaan Tallinn","role":"Co-founder"},{"name":"Huw Price","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"We aim to reduce the risk of human extinction or civilizational collapse.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cser.ac.uk/about-us/","sources":["https://www.cser.ac.uk/about-us/","https://www.cser.ac.uk/team/","https://www.cser.ac.uk/resources/"],"status":"active","summary":"Interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Cambridge studying and working to reduce risks of human extinction or civilisational collapse, including risks from artificial intelligence.","tags":["Governance & policy","Alignment research","Biosecurity","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.25,"T2":0.25,"notAI":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. FLI's grant page describes CSER as studying existential risks generally, naming climate, volcanic, nuclear and pandemic work, and mentions AI only once ('AI/AGI finally arriving on the political agenda'), so the general-support grant is split between non-AI x-risk work and AI work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cser.ac.uk/about-us/"}},"cesia":{"aliases":["Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA","Centre pour la Sécurité de l’IA (CeSIA)","CeSIA (via Amaury de la Vaissière (ARS))","French Center for AI Safety (CeSIA)","Centre pour la Sécurité de l’IA","Center for AI Security","French Center for AI Safety"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://cesia.org/en/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://cesia.org/en/about/","summary":"https://cesia.org/en/"},"fiscalSponsor":"EffiSciences (receiving charity for the SFF speculation grant)","founded":"2024","foundedUrl":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rCLs56wfissFheLap/announcing-cesia-the-french-center-for-ai-safety","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cesia.org/en/","kind":"org","location":"Paris, France","logoAsset":"/_blob/c08db3b45b4fb8d017648f5310bc328f.jpg","name":"CeSIA","people":[{"name":"Charbel-Raphaël Ségerie","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"Our mission is to prevent and mitigate major AI risks by informing policymakers, raising public awareness, and conducting policy research.","quoteUrl":"https://cesia.org/en/","sources":["https://cesia.org/en/","https://cesia.org/en/about/"],"status":"active","summary":"French independent centre of expertise and think tank working on AI safety through research, education and public policy.","tags":["Governance & policy","Education & training","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"French nonprofit association (loi 1901)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.131,"T1":0.164,"T2":0.536,"T3":0.169},"xrTierNote":"Draft. CeSIA's site describes a think tank that does EU AI Act and French policy advising, EC manipulation evals and the AI Red Lines call it co-runs, whose page cites loss of control and self-replication. The tags give mostly T2. I added a T1 share above the tag defaults because the red lines (e.g. banning self-replication) work partly as slowdown. The ML4Good share is from memory, not verified."},"cfactual":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2023","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/848f7cb3f669c537e25ed4ba28f4c247.png","name":"cFactual","quote":"cFactual is a new, EA-aligned strategy consultancy with the purpose of maximising its counterfactual impact.","quoteUrl":"https://beta.effectivealtruism.org/posts/a65aZvDAcPTkkjWHT/introducing-cfactual-a-new-ea-aligned-consultancy-1","sources":["https://beta.effectivealtruism.org/posts/a65aZvDAcPTkkjWHT/introducing-cfactual-a-new-ea-aligned-consultancy-1"],"summary":"EA-aligned strategy consultancy founded by former BCG consultants that advises high-impact organisations and runs a fellowship for strategy professionals.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","uncertain":"Its website (cfactual.com) returned 404 on 4 Nov 2026 and no replacement was found, so whether cFactual still operates is unconfirmed; the description rests on its 2023 launch post.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://beta.effectivealtruism.org/posts/a65aZvDAcPTkkjWHT/introducing-cfactual-a-new-ea-aligned-consultancy-1"}},"individual-4848":{"name":"Individual #4848","kind":"person","anonId":"4848"},"individual-6541":{"name":"Individual #6541","kind":"person","anonId":"6541"},"chao-chen":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://bmi.stonybrookmedicine.edu/people/chao_chen","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Chao Chen","quote":"I develop robust and trustworthy learning methods for modern biomedical data and beyond.","quoteUrl":"https://chaochen.github.io/","sources":["https://chaochen.github.io/","https://ai.stonybrook.edu/people/faculty/ChaoChen","https://www.stonybrook.edu/ams/faculty/faculty-profiles/jiawei-zhou.html"],"summary":"Associate professor of biomedical informatics at Stony Brook University developing robust and trustworthy machine learning methods, with work on biomedical data and topological data analysis.","tags":["Academic","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Chen's homepage describes robust and trustworthy ML (backdoor and adversarial attacks, uncertainty) with no x-risk framing, so robust detection of unsafe LLM behaviour is prosaic ML safety (T3).","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://chaochen.github.io/","summary":"https://chaochen.github.io/"}},"chaowei-xiao":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ai.jhu.edu/people/faculty/chaowei-xiao","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Chaowei Xiao","quote":"Our mission is to develop robust and secure AI systems that can be trusted across various application domains.","quoteUrl":"https://safo-lab.github.io/about","sources":["https://ai.jhu.edu/people/faculty/chaowei-xiao","https://safo-lab.github.io/about"],"summary":"Assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University whose SaFo Lab works on trustworthy and secure large language model systems, including multimodal ones.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The AI2050 page describes automated red-teaming tools, harm evaluation and securing AI systems, with no takeover or catastrophe framing, so prosaic ML safety (T3).","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://safo-lab.github.io/about","summary":"https://safo-lab.github.io/about"}},"charbel-raphael-segerie":{"aliases":["Charbel-Raphaël Segerie"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"http://crsegerie.com/","kind":"person","location":"Paris, France","name":"Charbel-Raphael Segerie","quote":"I was the initiator and co-lead of the Global Call for AI Red Lines, an international campaign calling for governance mechanisms to prevent catastrophic risks from artificial intelligence.","quoteUrl":"http://crsegerie.com/","sources":["http://crsegerie.com/","https://oecd.ai/en/community/charbel-raphael-segerie"],"summary":"Executive director and co-founder of CeSIA (Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA) in Paris, working on AI safety education and policy; scientific director and co-author of the AI Safety Atlas textbook.","tags":["Education & training","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.2,"T2":0.6,"T3":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. AI Safety Textbook (probably the AI Safety Atlas from CeSIA) explains superintelligence risk to newcomers, comms aimed at x-risk that partly covers the hard parts.","fieldSources":{"summary":"http://crsegerie.com/"}},"charity-navigator":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://give.charitynavigator.org/campaign/713794/donate","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.charitynavigator.org","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/77b732b9678f9386dae2ce63b10ed9a6.jpg","name":"Charity Navigator","quote":"Our mission is to make impactful giving easier for all","quoteUrl":"https://www.charitynavigator.org/about-us/","sources":["https://www.charitynavigator.org/about-us/"],"summary":"Charity evaluator that rates charities and gives donors free data, tools and resources to guide their giving decisions.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, amplifying a list of high-impact charities on Charity Navigator is general EA meta, not AI-related; flag as possibly wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.charitynavigator.org/about-us/"}},"individual-5410":{"name":"Individual #5410","kind":"person","anonId":"5410"},"charlotte-bunne":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"homepage":"https://aimm.epfl.ch/","quote":"https://aimm.epfl.ch/","summary":"https://aimm.epfl.ch/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://aimm.epfl.ch/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Charlotte Bunne","quote":"Our research develops AI methods to model human biology across molecules, cells, tissues, and patients","quoteUrl":"https://aimm.epfl.ch/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","https://aimm.epfl.ch/"],"summary":"Assistant professor at EPFL leading the Artificial Intelligence in Molecular Medicine group, which develops AI methods to model human biology; 2025 AI2050 Early Career Fellow.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"chatham-house":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"See the institute's support page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.chathamhouse.org/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/9763e6fe2adeb0d6ae3f77f4b5b60f82.jpg","name":"Chatham House","quote":"Our mission is to help governments and societies build a sustainable, secure, prosperous and just world.","quoteUrl":"https://www.chathamhouse.org/","sources":["https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House","https://www.chathamhouse.org/"],"summary":"British think tank based in London, also known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs, offering independent analysis and dialogue to help governments and societies.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"notAI":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose: general UK policy convening across AI, pandemics, defence and great-power tech. Chatham House's AI events frame AI as geopolitics and a tech race, not takeover risk. The 2022 grant record couldn't be fetched.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.chathamhouse.org/","summary":"https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us"}},"chelsea-finn":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://profiles.stanford.edu/chelsea-finn","summary":"https://profiles.stanford.edu/chelsea-finn"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://profiles.stanford.edu/chelsea-finn","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Chelsea Finn","quote":"enable robots and other agents to develop broadly intelligent behavior","quoteUrl":"https://profiles.stanford.edu/chelsea-finn","sources":["https://profiles.stanford.edu/chelsea-finn"],"summary":"Stanford University faculty member working on robot learning, meta-learning and reinforcement learning.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"chenhao-tan-university-of-chicago":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://chenhaot.com","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Chenhao Tan, University of Chicago","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://chenhaot.com"],"summary":"Associate professor of computer science and data science at the University of Chicago and director of the Chicago Human+AI lab, working on human-centred AI and LLM interpretability.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant paid for a researcher to orient a human-centred NLP lab toward AI safety, and his profile lists AI alignment as a focus area, but nothing he publishes states a takeover aim, so this is prosaic safety (T3) plus general human-AI work (Adjacent).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://chenhaot.com"}},"individual-5860":{"name":"Individual #5860","kind":"person","anonId":"5860"},"individual-6680":{"name":"Individual #6680","kind":"person","anonId":"6680"},"chinatalk":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.chinatalk.media/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/7663d4fab08c5b5a53c74f0d124f576a.jpg","name":"ChinaTalk","quote":"a hybrid think tank and media outlet with deep expertise on China and emerging technology","quoteUrl":"https://www.chinatalk.media/about","sources":["https://www.chinatalk.media/about","https://manifund.org/projects/support-for-deep-coverage-of-china-and-ai"],"summary":"Hybrid think tank and media outlet with a newsletter and podcast on China and emerging technology, covering technology, US policy and war; founded and edited by Jordan Schneider.","tags":["Communications","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"A newsletter and podcast covering technology, China, US policy and war. 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The NSF SLES award (UCLA with UIUC) is described as algorithms to assess AI program safety, and the Coefficient Giving grant funds an interpretability workshop under Cho-Jui Hsieh, whose own page describes robustness and efficiency ML; both are prosaic safety work, so T3."},"individual-3769":{"name":"Individual #3769","kind":"person","anonId":"3769"},"chris-maddison":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/chris-maddison/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["quote"]},"kind":"person","location":"","name":"Chris Maddison","quote":"I want to understand how the statistical structure of real-world data influences the emergence of capabilities in AIs as they train on vast, heterogeneous datasets.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~cmaddis/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~cmaddis/","https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/chris-maddison/"],"summary":"Assistant professor at the University of Toronto and CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute, studying how data shapes the emergence of AI capabilities; 2026 AI2050 Early Career Fellow.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~cmaddis/","summary":"https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~cmaddis/"}},"individual-8683":{"name":"Individual #8683","kind":"person","anonId":"8683"},"individual-7968":{"name":"Individual #7968","kind":"person","anonId":"7968"},"christian-schroeder-de-witt":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://wittlab.ai/","kind":"person","location":"Oxford, UK","name":"Christian Schroeder de Witt","quote":"Our working hypothesis is that security will become a fundamental bottleneck to the construction and deployment of superintelligent systems.","quoteUrl":"https://wittlab.ai/","sources":["https://wittlab.ai/"],"summary":"Associate professor at the University of Oxford leading Witt Lab, which studies multi-agent security, including collusion and steganography among language-model agents; incoming associate professor at UCL.","tags":["Academic","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T1":0.35,"T2":0.15,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Open Phil AI Fellowship PhD scholarship; known work is data-centric ML and efficiency benchmarks (e.g. DAWNBench), mainly capabilities/efficiency.","uncertain":"Unsourced since 4 Nov 2026: the CES speaker page it rested on is gone and no own page was found, so the summary's roles (Coactive AI, MLCommons) are unconfirmed here.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.ces.tech/speakers/cody-coleman/"}},"cognition-robotics-and-learning-coral-lab":{"aliases":["Tim Oates, University of Maryland, Baltimore County","CoRaL Lab","CORAL lab at UMBC"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"","basis":"the homepage names only the director","range":"","url":"https://coral-lab.umbc.edu/","value":null},"homepage":"https://coral-lab.umbc.edu/","kind":"lab","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/78a633c1ad614232147e5b3aff6046b4.png","name":"Cognition, Robotics, and Learning (CORAL) Lab","parentOrg":"University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering","people":[{"name":"Tim Oates","role":"Director / PI; Professor of CSEE, UMBC (Oros Family Professor of Computer Science and Technology)"}],"quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://coral-lab.umbc.edu/","https://news.cs.umbc.edu/?p=12195"],"status":"unknown","statusNote":"The lab site is up; a coral_current mailing list was active in 2021. 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From the grant purpose this is an ARIA \"Mathematics for Safe AI\" opportunity seed (a broad call covering verified software, theories of AI training and representations, and education), not Safeguarded AI TA1; no public page for Coherence Research Limited or its project was found, so a call-level default mix.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC855928/officers"}},"individual-9204":{"name":"Individual #9204","kind":"person","anonId":"9204"},"individual-2716":{"name":"Individual #2716","kind":"person","anonId":"2716"},"colin-kahl":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://profiles.stanford.edu/colin-kahl","kind":"person","location":"Stanford, USA","name":"Colin Kahl","sources":["https://profiles.stanford.edu/colin-kahl"],"summary":"Director of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and faculty director of CISAC's Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance; former US Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.","tags":["Governance & policy","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T2":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant listing (via longtermwiki summary) says it funds Stanford Cyber Policy Center research on whether international safety and security standards for advanced AI are feasible; national-security framed with some catastrophic-risk content, no takeover framing found.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://profiles.stanford.edu/colin-kahl"}},"colin-raffel":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Academic researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://colinraffel.com","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Colin Raffel","quote":"My lab works on decentralizing, democratizing, and de-risking large-scale AI.","quoteUrl":"https://colinraffel.com","sources":["https://colinraffel.com"],"summary":"Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and Associate Research Director at the Vector Institute; researches decentralising, democratising and de-risking large-scale AI.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant is an alignment methods review by Colin Raffel, an ML academic known mainly for T5 and collaborative/open model development rather than x-risk work (academic rule).","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://colinraffel.com","summary":"https://colinraffel.com"}},"collective-intelligence-project":{"aliases":["CIP","The Collective Intelligence Project"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.cip.org/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.cip.org/team","summary":"https://www.cip.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cip.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/bfec2d7f03e339d12494a0c5e42be18e.jpg","name":"Collective Intelligence Project","people":[{"name":"Divya Siddarth","role":"Co-Founder & Executive Director"},{"name":"Joal Stein","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Saffron Huang","role":"Co-Founder & Board Director (Secretary)"},{"name":"Austin Wu","role":"Board Director (Interim President of Board)"}],"quote":"Steering transformative AI towards better outcomes.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cip.org/","sources":["https://www.cip.org/","https://www.cip.org/donate","https://www.cip.org/team"],"summary":"Nonprofit working on democratic input into AI, including public deliberation (Global Dialogues, Alignment Assemblies) and community-built evaluations (Weval).","tags":["Governance & policy","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Runs democratic-input projects on AI, including community-built evaluations (Weval), Global Dialogues, Community Models and Alignment Assemblies. This democratic, AI-and-society work is not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent). Source: https://www.cip.org/"},"individual-3164":{"name":"Individual #3164","kind":"person","anonId":"3164"},"individual-9245":{"name":"Individual #9245","kind":"person","anonId":"9245"},"columbia-university":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.columbia.edu/","kind":"university","location":"New York, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/a81e6ce540e6e754234c280fb59d9b46.png","name":"Columbia University","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.columbia.edu/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University","https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2022/461/008/2022-461008520-202341359349105939-F.pdf"],"summary":"Private Ivy League research university in New York City; Good Ventures Foundation funded a project there on AI language generation.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Couldn't identify the PI or project for the 2022 'AI language generation project'; Open Phil's 2022 alignment RFP did fund Columbia's David Blei under 'truthful and honest AI', so it's probably an NLP truthfulness or alignment project, but that isn't confirmed.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University"}},"common-grounds-ai":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://commongrounds.ai","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/0023db8742674716562b31b6dd0a8eb2.jpg","name":"Common Grounds AI","quote":"Virtual worlds for bridging AI and humanity through play","quoteUrl":"https://commongrounds.ai","sources":["https://commongrounds.ai","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"],"summary":"Project building virtual worlds for bridging AI and humanity through play; its SFF-2026 general-support grant went via the Active Inference Institute.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.2,"untiered":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. commongrounds.ai describes play-based virtual worlds bridging AI and humanity, with no safety or x-risk language; probably the SFF grantee but the link to the Active Inference Institute sponsorship is unconfirmed.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://commongrounds.ai"}},"common-sense-media":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/about-us/our-mission","summary":"https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/multistakeholder-engagement-for-safe-and-prosperous-ai/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2003","foundedUrl":"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/about-us/our-mission","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.commonsensemedia.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["location","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/06969cf14c03270f27ec20cc50d5043f.jpg","name":"Common Sense Media","quote":"protects and prepares kids in the digital era, leading the way to a healthier childhood","quoteUrl":"https://www.commonsensemedia.org","sources":["https://www.commonsensemedia.org","https://www.commonsensemedia.org/about-us/our-mission","https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/multistakeholder-engagement-for-safe-and-prosperous-ai/"],"summary":"Nonprofit offering age-based media ratings and parenting advice; funded for a parent-focused AI safety project on children's AI use, safety resources and AI safety advocacy.","tags":["Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Its own pages focus on child safety ratings and parent-facing resources for AI products, and its leadership contrasts this with institutes focused on existential risk."},"community-coordination-for-consultations":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"programme","location":"","name":"Community Coordination for Consultations","people":[],"quote":"mobilise the European effective altruism and adjacent communities to influence government consultations","quoteUrl":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EvQsZdxv5undmAMGx/what-meta-charity-funders-funded-in-spring-2025-fourth-round","sources":["https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EvQsZdxv5undmAMGx/what-meta-charity-funders-funded-in-spring-2025-fourth-round","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/dRhxspr4SNTz4AEKp/help-increase-the-effectiveness-of-uk-aid"],"status":"active","summary":"Project mobilising European effective-altruism and adjacent communities to make evidence-based submissions to government consultations, through in-person and online workshops and expert-sourced submission guides.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.17,"T2":0.17,"notAI":0.66},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Per Meta Charity Funders' Spring 2025 writeup, the project runs workshops to help European EA communities submit to government consultations across AI safety, foreign aid and animal welfare, so about a third is AI (standards/regulation with a stated safety aim, T2/Adjacent) and two thirds notAI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EvQsZdxv5undmAMGx/what-meta-charity-funders-funded-in-spring-2025-fourth-round"}},"compassion-aligned-machine-learning":{"aliases":["CaML","Compassion Aligned Machine Learning (CaML)","Compassion in Machine Learning (CaML)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.compassionml.com/support.html","donateNote":"No online donation page yet; contact them for details","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.compassionml.com/team","summary":"https://www.compassionml.com"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"https://manifund.org/projects/caml---agi-alignment-to-nonhumans-1nu9bv7z5i2","fundraiserDate":"2025-11","fundraiserTitle":"CaML - AGI alignment to nonhumans","homepage":"https://www.compassionml.com","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"California, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/676b8e646a8e382157e70ecabbeef616.jpg","name":"Compassion Aligned Machine Learning","people":[{"name":"Individual #5414","role":"Co-founder, Executive Director"},{"name":"Individual #3808","role":"Co-founder, Head of Evaluations & Data"}],"quote":"Helping shape how advanced AI treats all sentient beings","quoteUrl":"https://www.compassionml.com","sources":["https://www.compassionml.com","https://www.compassionml.com/team"],"summary":"California nonprofit researching how to align advanced AI with the well-being of all sentient beings.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Researches how to align advanced AI with the well-being of all sentient beings, including benchmarks of how models treat animals and digital minds and training data to shape model values. This welfare-focused work is not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent). Source: https://www.compassionml.com"},"conception-biosciences":{"aliases":["Conception"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.conception.bio/","quote":"https://www.conception.bio/","summary":"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/15/1184298351/conception-human-eggs-ivg-ivf-infertility"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://conception.bio/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"company","location":"Berkeley, California, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/e3dce29082a6d9d77be5f7e7b5379538.png","name":"Conception Biosciences","people":[{"name":"Matt Krisiloff","role":"CEO"}],"quote":"Conception combines stem cell biology and engineering to create new possibilities for having children.","quoteUrl":"https://www.conception.bio/","sources":["https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/15/1184298351/conception-human-eggs-ivg-ivf-infertility","https://www.conception.bio/"],"summary":"Berkeley biotech startup developing in vitro gametogenesis, aiming to grow human eggs from stem cells.","tags":[],"taxStatus":""},"concordia-university":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1974","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.concordia.ca/","kind":"university","location":"Montreal, Canada","logoAsset":"/_blob/6143f94f6f51aa311b104a465c36eef5.jpg","name":"Concordia University","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.concordia.ca/","https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/funding-for-ai-alignment-projects-working-with-deep-learning-systems","https://www.concordia.ca/about.html"],"summary":"University in Montreal; Open Philanthropy funded Individual #3051 there through its funding for AI alignment projects working with deep learning systems.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, adversarial attacks on interpretability methods: prosaic interp/robustness research (default T3).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/funding-for-ai-alignment-projects-working-with-deep-learning-systems"}},"condor-camp":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://condor.camp/team","quote":"https://condor.camp/","summary":"https://condor.camp/"},"fiscalSponsor":"Rethink Priorities","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://condor.camp/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"programme","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/268c4d6cec23d0f1ac1fb628f993313e.png","name":"Condor Camp","people":[{"name":"Carmen Medina","role":"Director"},{"name":"Renan Araujo","role":"Advisor & Cofounder"},{"name":"Adriana Araúzo","role":"Affiliate & Cofounder"}],"quote":"Caminhos para mudar o futuro da humanidade","quoteUrl":"https://condor.camp/","sources":["https://condor.camp/","https://theorg.com/org/condor-camp","https://condor.camp/team"],"summary":"Annual immersion programme for talented Brazilian university students, focused on AI safety and governance; fiscally sponsored by Rethink Priorities.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":""},"confido-institute":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://confido.institute/about.html","location":"https://confido.institute/contact.html","people":"https://confido.institute/about.html","quote":"https://confido.institute/","summary":"https://confido.institute"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","foundedUrl":"https://confido.institute/about.html","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://confido.institute","kind":"org","location":"Prague, Czech Republic","logoAsset":"/_blob/4160d7c491c7574ffcbf795c3bad8d0b.jpg","name":"Confido Institute","people":[{"name":"Blanka Havlíčková","role":"Director"}],"quote":"We help collectives harness the power of uncertainty","quoteUrl":"https://confido.institute/","sources":["https://confido.institute","https://confido.institute/contact.html","https://confido.institute/about.html","https://confido.institute/"],"summary":"Non-profit offering free forecasting and uncertainty-estimation tools and workshops.","tags":["Forecasting"],"taxStatus":"Non-profit (Czech z.ú.)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Forecasting and uncertainty-communication app (grant purpose); forecasting rule gives Adjacent."},"confirm-labs":{"aliases":["Confirm Solutions"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://confirmlabs.org/","summary":"https://confirmlabs.org"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://confirmlabs.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location","logo"]},"kind":"org","location":"","name":"Confirm Labs","people":[{"name":"Individual #5676","role":"Runs the research group"},{"name":"Individual #2418","role":"Runs the research group"}],"quote":"We believe AI inspection of AI internals could become a useful component of AI interpretability and oversight.","quoteUrl":"https://confirmlabs.org/","sources":["https://confirmlabs.org","https://github.com/Confirm-Solutions","https://www.longtermwiki.com/things/rIyhNROFYV","https://confirmlabs.org/"],"status":"renamed","statusNote":"Formerly Confirm Solutions (statistical tools for clinical-trial regulation); moved into AI safety research as Confirm Labs in April 2023.","summary":"AI safety research group run by Individual #5676 and Individual #2418 working on adversarial attacks for red-teaming and interpretability; formerly built statistical software to speed FDA processes.","tags":["Alignment research","Interpretability","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":""},"conflict-superintelligence-institute":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (berkeley-existential-risk-initiative)","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Conflict Superintelligence Institute","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"],"status":"unknown","summary":"Recipient of a $225,000 SFF-2026 general-support recommendation, made via the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative; not identified further.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. No public pages found for this org in three searches, so the first-pass mix stands: from the name and the SFF Freedom and Fairness track it is probably about AI conflict and power concentration around superintelligence, not alignment.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"}},"conjecture":{"aliases":["Conjecture Ltd","Individual #6868, Andrea Miotti, Katrina Joslin (Conjecture)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.conjecture.dev/about","people":"https://www.conjecture.dev/about","summary":"https://www.conjecture.dev"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","foundedUrl":"https://www.conjecture.dev/about","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.conjecture.dev","kind":"company","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/d40b1e7dfc95e74587bb4f3f581ca920.jpg","name":"Conjecture","people":[{"name":"Connor Leahy","role":"Co-founder"},{"name":"Sid Black","role":"Co-founder"},{"name":"Gabriel Alfour","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"Building a new AI architecture to ensure the controllable, safe development of advanced AI technology.","quoteUrl":"https://www.conjecture.dev/","sources":["https://www.conjecture.dev","https://www.conjecture.dev/about"],"summary":"London-based AI safety company developing Cognitive Emulation, an approach to building AI systems that follow human-like reasoning.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Develops Cognitive Emulation, an AI architecture meant to solve the control problem by building systems that follow auditable, human-like reasoning. It aims at takeover risk and works on the hard parts (T1). Source: https://www.conjecture.dev/about"},"individual-4646":{"name":"Individual #4646","kind":"person","anonId":"4646"},"individual-1436":{"name":"Individual #1436","kind":"person","anonId":"1436"},"consequence-foundries":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Consequence Foundries","parentOrg":"Convergence Analysis (receiving charity)","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2022-h1-recommendations.html"],"summary":"Project that received a $168,000 general-support recommendation from Jaan Tallinn in SFF-2022-H1, with Convergence Analysis as receiving charity; not identified further.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"unknown":1},"fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2022-h1-recommendations.html"}},"individual-5499":{"name":"Individual #5499","kind":"person","anonId":"5499"},"constellation":{"aliases":["Constellation Institute"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://constellation.org/about","summary":"https://www.constellation.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.constellation.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Berkeley, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/7185e388c8fe8f901b9251fd71d73f66.jpg","name":"Constellation","people":[{"name":"Nicole Ross","role":"Interim CEO"}],"quote":"Constellation enables people tackling the most important problems in AI safety & security","quoteUrl":"https://www.constellation.org/","sources":["https://www.constellation.org/","https://constellation.org/about"],"summary":"Independent AI safety research center in Berkeley hosting researchers and organisations, and running fellowships, residencies and events.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.05,"T1":0.1,"T2":0.25,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Runs an AI safety research centre in Berkeley that hosts researchers and organisations, plus the Astra and Visiting fellowships and the Founders and Generator residencies; its about page names loss of control to AI as a core risk. Tiered by who it serves (no tenant list is published): mostly empirical safety researchers whose work could cut either way (T3, three-fifths), with shares for takeover-aimed work without a plan for the hard parts (T2, a quarter), work on the hard parts (T1, one-tenth) and work not aimed at x-risk (Adjacent, one-twentieth). Source: https://constellation.org/about"},"constructive-dialogue-institute":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://constructivedialogue.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://constructivedialogue.org/about/","people":"https://constructivedialogue.org/about/advisory-councils/","summary":"https://constructivedialogue.org/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2017","foundedUrl":"https://constructivedialogue.org/about/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://constructivedialogue.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/e046d2c92f79e13b4ca19bf36a15c974.jpg","name":"Constructive Dialogue Institute","people":[{"name":"Individual #1011","role":"Co-Founder & Executive Director"},{"name":"Jonathan Haidt","role":"Co-Founder"},{"name":"Tamar Remz","role":"Chair, Board of Directors"}],"quote":"Research-backed, proven effective programs to foster a culture of inquiry, dialogue, and free expression.","quoteUrl":"https://constructivedialogue.org/","sources":["https://constructivedialogue.org/","https://constructivedialogue.org/about/","https://constructivedialogue.org/about/advisory-councils/"],"summary":"Nonprofit building educational tools grounded in behavioural science that teach students and educators to engage constructively across differences.","tags":["Education & training"],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)"},"consultants-for-impact":{"aliases":["Effective Altruism Consulting Network","EA Consulting Network","CFI"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://www.consultantsforimpact.org/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.consultantsforimpact.org/about","summary":"https://www.consultantsforimpact.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2019","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.consultantsforimpact.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/26ff574e3e4272549979d18e9faaf170.jpg","name":"Consultants for Impact","people":[{"name":"Sarah Pomeranz","role":"Founder and CEO"},{"name":"Joe Maddens","role":"Managing Director"}],"quote":"We support and connect consultants who are passionate about improving the world.","quoteUrl":"https://www.consultantsforimpact.org/about","sources":["https://www.consultantsforimpact.org/","https://www.consultantsforimpact.org/about"],"summary":"Network and career-support programme helping management consultants find high-impact careers and transition into impactful work.","tags":["Field-building","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"Fiscally sponsored project of Rethink Priorities"},"convergence-analysis":{"aliases":["Convergence: Project AI Clarity","Convergence: AI Clarity","Research on AI & International Relations","Convergence: AI Governance Recommendations"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://www.convergenceanalysis.org/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.convergenceanalysis.org/team","summary":"https://www.convergenceanalysis.org"},"fiscalSponsor":"Convergence Analysis","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.convergenceanalysis.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/0b35f0c9a91429c35a3c796cb7a4cd85.jpg","name":"Convergence Analysis","parentOrg":"convergence-analysis","people":[{"name":"David Kristoffersson","role":"CEO"},{"name":"Individual #6986","role":"Chairman"}],"quote":"Designing a safe and flourishing future for humanity in a world with transformative AI","quoteUrl":"https://www.convergenceanalysis.org","sources":["https://www.convergenceanalysis.org","https://www.convergenceanalysis.org/team"],"status":"unknown","summary":"Nonprofit doing scenario and governance research and advocacy on AI risk.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.372,"T1":0.124,"T2":0.504},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The site says it works to mitigate AI existential risk (scenario and governance research, including a US-China ASI treaty framework that buys time), but it also does workforce/education policy and the FLI grant is power concentration (Adjacent); the 2021 grant was general existential-risk strategy research, mostly AI."},"convergent-research":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2021","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.convergentresearch.org/","kind":"org","location":"Cambridge, MA, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/3a5442f2976a6a4298dcf8fb8dff423d.jpg","name":"Convergent Research","people":[{"name":"Adam Marblestone","role":"CEO & Co-Founder (moving to a strategic advisory role on 1 Dec 2026)"},{"name":"Anastasia Gamick","role":"President & Co-Founder"},{"name":"Tom Kalil","role":"Chair"}],"quote":"to bring together founders and funders to design, launch and operate Focused Research Organizations (FROs)","quoteUrl":"https://www.convergentresearch.org/about","socials":{"bluesky":"https://bsky.app/profile/convergentresearch.bsky.social","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/convergent-research/","x":"https://x.com/Convergent_FROs"},"sources":["https://www.convergentresearch.org/about","https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/883013217","https://www.convergentresearch.org/"],"status":"active","summary":"Nonprofit founded in 2021 that launches and supports Focused Research Organizations, which build new fundamental capabilities to remove bottlenecks to breakthrough technology.","tags":["AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) public charity","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Nonprofit that sets up and runs Focused Research Organizations (FROs), including the Lean FRO, which builds general tools for mathematically proving that software is correct, with no stated aim at AI risk. That kind of verification tooling is safety work that could cut either way (T3). Which project its 2026 grant funds is not stated publicly. Source: https://www.convergentresearch.org/about","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.convergentresearch.org/team","summary":"https://www.convergentresearch.org/about"}},"cooperative-ai-foundation":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.cooperativeai.com/post/the-cooperative-ai-foundation-appoints-brigit-goebelbecker-as-new-ceo","quote":"https://www.cooperativeai.com/post/audrey-tang-taiwans-cyber-ambassador-1st-digital-minister-joins-caif-board-of-trustees","summary":"https://www.cooperativeai.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2021","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cooperativeai.com/","kind":"org","location":"UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/95953e126f70abefba79bd59686fe676.svg","name":"Cooperative AI Foundation","people":[{"name":"Brigit Goebelbecker","role":"Chief Executive Officer (from October 2026)"},{"name":"Lewis Hammond","role":"Research Director"},{"name":"Gillian Hadfield","role":"Chair of the Board of Trustees"}],"quote":"building AI systems that can improve our collective ability to overcome cooperative challenges","quoteUrl":"https://www.cooperativeai.com/post/audrey-tang-taiwans-cyber-ambassador-1st-digital-minister-joins-caif-board-of-trustees","sources":["https://www.cooperativeai.com/","https://www.cooperativeai.com/post/audrey-tang-taiwans-cyber-ambassador-1st-digital-minister-joins-caif-board-of-trustees"],"summary":"UK charity that funds and promotes research on cooperative AI, including multi-agent risks from advanced AI, through grants, fellowships and seminars.","tags":["Alignment research","Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"UK registered charity","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Funds and promotes research on cooperation among AI systems and between AI and humans, through grants, a PhD fellowship and reports such as 'Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI'. Its work on failures among interacting advanced AI agents aims at takeover risk and works on the hard parts (T1). Source: https://www.cooperativeai.com/","funderId":"cooperative-ai-foundation"},"cooperative-ai-research-fellowship":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.cai-research-fellowship.com/","summary":"https://www.cai-research-fellowship.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cai-research-fellowship.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"Cape Town, South Africa","logoAsset":"/_blob/b76020a111558f76a1ed6c67d7b6c177.jpg","name":"Cooperative AI Research Fellowship","quote":"developing core topics in cooperative AI, with world-class mentorship","quoteUrl":"https://www.cai-research-fellowship.com/","sources":["https://www.cai-research-fellowship.com/","https://manifund.org/projects/fund-a-fellow-for-the-cooperative-ai-research-fellowship-"],"summary":"Research fellowship on cooperative AI, multi-agent systems and AI safety, run by AI Safety South Africa in Cape Town with oversight from the Cooperative AI Foundation.","tags":["Education & training","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Fellowship in cooperative/multi-agent AI; probably mixes multi-agent safety with general cooperation research, tiered as a pipeline guess."},"coordinal-research":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://coordinal.org/","summary":"https://coordinal.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"https://manifund.org/projects/coordinal-research-accelerating-the-research-of-safely-deploying-ai-systems","fundraiserDate":"2025-04","fundraiserTitle":"Coordinal Research: Accelerating the research of safely deploying AI systems","homepage":"https://coordinal.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location","people"]},"kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/3427654c4b5aa4ef98d1c661b18f8cdb.jpg","name":"Coordinal Research","quote":"Automating research now, for a post-scarcity future tomorrow.","quoteUrl":"https://coordinal.org/","sources":["https://manifund.org/projects/coordinal-research-accelerating-the-research-of-safely-deploying-ai-systems","https://coordinal.org/"],"summary":"Company, formerly Lyra Research, that set out to build an automated AI safety research platform; it wound down after about 18 months and is now in hibernation.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"T3":0.75,"T4":0.25},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Built a multi-agent automated research platform for alignment experiments, a short-timelines bet that doesn't mention takeover or superintelligence (framing none, so no T2 share); the T4 share is deliberate because, per the postmortem, its work mostly raised agent scores on METR's RE-Bench ML-research benchmark."},"coral-computational-rational-agents-laboratory":{"aliases":["CORAL Research","ALTER (Affiliate Learning-Theoretic Employment and Resources) Project","ALTER Project","Affiliate Learning Theoretic Employment and Resources","CORAL","Computational Rational Agents Laboratory","Learning Theoretic Employment and Resources Project","Computational Rational Agents Laboratory (CORAL)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://www.every.org/coral-research","donateNote":"Donate page links to an Every.org page; tax details are not stated","fiscalSponsor":"ashgro","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 3 people on /our-team page","range":"","url":"https://coral-research.org/our-team/","value":3},"homepage":"https://coral-research.org/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/bc223fca55201078e656202b4a98de66.jpg","name":"CORAL (Computational Rational Agents Laboratory)","outputs":[{"label":"CORAL research page","type":"publications","url":"https://coral-research.org/research/"},{"label":"Infra-Bayesianism sequence","type":"alignmentforum","url":"https://www.alignmentforum.org/s/CmrW8fCmSLK7E25sa"},{"label":"The Learning-Theoretic Agenda: Status 2023","type":"alignmentforum","url":"https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/ZwshvqiqCvXPsZEct/the-learning-theoretic-agenda-status-2023"},{"label":"Kosoy MATS lectures (playlist)","type":"youtube","url":"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsJ9q3OrsguSWfFd1gO1OY64eKahKMFc2"}],"people":[{"name":"Vanessa Kosoy","role":"Research Lead"},{"name":"Alex Appel","role":"researcher"},{"name":"Vinayak Pathak","role":"researcher"}],"quote":"CORAL is working to develop a mathematical theory of agents to provide the framework for a rigorous and scalable solution to the AI alignment problem.","quoteUrl":"https://coral-research.org/","sources":["https://coral-research.org/","https://coral-research.org/donate/","https://coral-research.org/mission/","https://coral-research.org/our-team/","https://coral-research.org/research/","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/dcTnpX2AHXvYXg6wg/closed-hiring-a-mathematician-to-work-on-the-learning","https://manifund.org/projects/mathematical-theory-of-bounded-learning-agents","https://www.ashgro.org/","https://www.every.org/alter"],"status":"active","summary":"Agent foundations research group pursuing the learning-theoretic agenda to understand computationally bounded agents and build mathematical tools for AI alignment; a fiscally sponsored project of Ashgro.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. CORAL (Computational Rational Agents Laboratory, Vanessa Kosoy's group) says it studies agent foundations to mathematically align AI objectives, and its 2026 sequence frames this as ASI alignment; agent foundations is T1 by rule.","uncertain":"Vanessa Kosoy's 'Research Lead' title came from her MATS mentor page, which is gone (404, 4 Nov 2026); CORAL's team page lists no titles, so the title is now unsourced.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://coral-research.org/"}},"coreweave":{"aliases":[],"capabilitiesNote":"Sells GPU cloud compute for AI training and inference.","checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"capabilitiesNote":"https://www.coreweave.com/","founded":"https://www.coreweave.com/about-us","homepage":"https://www.coreweave.com/","location":"https://www.coreweave.com/about-us","logoUrl":"https://www.coreweave.com/about-us","people":"https://www.coreweave.com/about-us","quote":"https://www.coreweave.com/","summary":"https://www.coreweave.com/"},"founded":"2017","foundedUrl":"https://www.coreweave.com/about-us","homepage":"https://www.coreweave.com/","kind":"company","location":"Livingston, United States","name":"CoreWeave","people":[{"name":"Mike Intrator","role":"CEO and Co-founder"},{"name":"Brian Venturo","role":"Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder"},{"name":"Brannin McBee","role":"Chief Development Officer and Co-founder"},{"name":"Peter Salanki","role":"CTO and Co-founder"}],"quote":"The AI cloud purpose-built for training and serving models at scale","quoteUrl":"https://www.coreweave.com/","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://www.coreweave.com/","https://www.coreweave.com/about-us"],"summary":"CoreWeave runs a GPU cloud built for training and serving AI models at scale, used by frontier AI labs.","tags":[]},"cornell-language-interaction-and-learning-lil-lab":{"aliases":["Cornell University [LIL Lab]","LIL Lab","LIL lab"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026","basis":"counted PI plus 7 lab members (4 PhD, 2 postdocs, 1 undergraduate) on PI homepage","range":"","url":"https://yoavartzi.com/","value":8},"homepage":"https://lil.nlp.cornell.edu/","kind":"lab","location":"New York, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/4e8803ecdc9dee7ddd0fee6a33102be1.jpg","name":"Cornell Language, Interaction, and Learning (LIL) Lab","outputs":[{"label":"lil-lab on GitHub","type":"github","url":"https://github.com/lil-lab"},{"label":"Yoav Artzi publications","type":"publications","url":"https://yoavartzi.com/pubs"},{"label":"Yoav Artzi (Google Scholar)","type":"scholar","url":"https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XuQW7ogAAAAJ"}],"parentOrg":"cornell-university","people":[{"name":"Yoav Artzi","role":"PI, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Cornell Tech"}],"quote":"","quoteUrl":"https://lil.nlp.cornell.edu/","socials":{"bluesky":"https://bsky.app/profile/yoavartzi.com","linkedin":"","x":"https://x.com/yoavartzi"},"sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations","https://lil.nlp.cornell.edu/","https://github.com/lil-lab","https://yoavartzi.com/"],"status":"active","summary":"Natural-language processing lab in New York, part of the Cornell NLP Group; SFF recommended $460,000 for its general support in 2026.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.2,"T4":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Artzi's faculty page describes NLP/interactive-learning research with no safety or alignment framing, and the LIL lab page gives no research description; the SFF general-support rationale isn't public, so the first-pass mix stands.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://lil.nlp.cornell.edu/"}},"cornell-university":{"aliases":["Cornell University (Lionel Levine)"],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cornell.edu","kind":"university","location":"Ithaca, NY, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/f511ba93d86e7bdd5af7174038018c80.jpg","name":"Cornell University","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.cornell.edu","https://as.cornell.edu/news/cornell-mathematicians-win-grants-ensure-ai-safety-research-integrity"],"summary":"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.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.142,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.558},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant funds Lionel Levine's alignment research, which he frames around building superintelligence carefully: one strand tests whether models keep to their stated principles (routine evaluation, T3), another studies how an AI's values drift as it improves itself (a hard part, giving T1 and T2 shares). Seen: the Open Philanthropy grant page and Cornell's news story on the grant.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://as.cornell.edu/news/cornell-mathematicians-win-grants-ensure-ai-safety-research-integrity"}},"council-on-foreign-relations":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.cfr.org/support-cfr","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1921","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cfr.org","kind":"org","location":"New York, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/b641788e6b87234fbac803c06aefa521.jpg","name":"Council on Foreign Relations","quote":"CFR is a nonpartisan, independent national membership organization, think tank, educator, and publisher","quoteUrl":"https://www.cfr.org/about","sources":["https://www.cfr.org/about"],"summary":"Independent, nonpartisan US membership organisation, think tank and publisher on foreign policy.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"notAI":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, research on how emerging conventional capabilities affect nuclear escalation is nuclear security, with AI at most one of the capabilities considered; flag as possibly wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cfr.org/about"}},"council-on-strategic-risks":{"aliases":["CSR"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/about/","summary":"https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2017","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/","kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/1ad166794ec50e059f8c3d94fbf73ba2.jpg","name":"Council on Strategic Risks","people":[{"name":"Mallory Stewart","role":"Chief Executive Officer"},{"name":"Francesco Femia","role":"Co-Founder & Research Director"},{"name":"Caitlin Werrell","role":"Co-Founder"},{"name":"Sherri Goodman","role":"Board Chair"}],"quote":"devoted to anticipating, analyzing and addressing core systemic risks to security in the 21st century","quoteUrl":"https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/about/","sources":["https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/","https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/about/"],"summary":"Nonpartisan security policy institute covering nuclear weapons, biosecurity and climate security; runs biosecurity and nuclear-risk fellowships.","tags":["Biosecurity","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.15,"notAI":0.85},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Kept: CSR's homepage lists climate security, strategic weapons (nuclear) and biosecurity institutes; its only AI work is a Converging Risks Lab fellowship on AI and national security (Adjacent), and the counted grants are mostly nuclear and bio."},"creed-space":{"aliases":["EthicsNet Creed.Space","Creed.Space"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://creed.space","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/d2ca520d88e5e298790bee121d23670b.jpg","name":"Creed Space","parentOrg":"ethicsnet","quote":"Public-good infrastructure for practical AI safety and accountability.","quoteUrl":"https://creed.space","sources":["https://creed.space","https://www.su.org/resources/a-new-moral-compass-for-ai-nell-watsons-team-unveils-breakthrough-in-personalized-ai-alignment"],"summary":"Nonprofit project of EthicsNet building open tools for value-aligned AI, including user-written constitutions and a guardian that checks AI outputs against policies.","tags":["AI control & security","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Creed.Space (run by the EthicsNet nonprofit) builds open tools that check AI outputs and agent actions against user-written constitutions; neither fetched page mentions superintelligence, takeover or catastrophic risk, so it is mostly AI governance/ethics tooling with a prosaic-safety share.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://creed.space"}},"cross-compass-co-ltd":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.cross-compass.com/company","people":"https://www.cross-compass.com/company","quote":"https://www.cross-compass.com/company","summary":"https://www.cross-compass.com/company"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2015","foundedUrl":"https://www.cross-compass.com/company","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cross-compass.com","kind":"company","location":"Japan","logoAsset":"/_blob/8bf27276514600a788fb4df97d286b06.jpg","name":"Cross Compass Co., Ltd","people":[{"name":"鈴木 克信","role":"代表取締役社長 (President & CEO)"}],"quote":"AI Closer to You","quoteUrl":"https://www.cross-compass.com/company","sources":["https://cross-compass.com","https://www.cross-compass.com/company","https://aria.org.uk/media/0usfmzui/aria-end-of-q2-fy25-26.pdf"],"summary":"Japanese AI company, founded in 2015, that develops AI for manufacturing such as automated visual inspection; ARIA funded it under its Mathematics for Safe AI opportunity space.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T1":0.2,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. \"Mathematics for Safe AI\" is ARIA's broader opportunity-seed call (which excludes core Safeguarded AI projects), not TA1; the funded project is not public and Cross Compass's site describes manufacturing-inspection AI with no safety work, so probably applied verification/maths work (T3) with an Adjacent share."},"crusoe":{"aliases":[],"capabilitiesNote":"Builds AI data centers and sells GPU cloud compute (NVIDIA and AMD).","checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"capabilitiesNote":"https://www.crusoe.ai/cloud","founded":"https://www.crusoe.ai/about/company","homepage":"https://www.crusoe.ai/","logoUrl":"https://www.crusoe.ai/about/company","people":"https://www.crusoe.ai/about/leadership","quote":"https://www.crusoe.ai/","summary":"https://www.crusoe.ai/"},"founded":"2018","foundedUrl":"https://www.crusoe.ai/about/company","homepage":"https://www.crusoe.ai/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"company","name":"Crusoe","people":[{"name":"Chase Lochmiller","role":"Co-founder, CEO and Chairman"},{"name":"Cully Cavness","role":"Co-founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer"}],"quote":"The AI factory company","quoteUrl":"https://www.crusoe.ai/","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://www.crusoe.ai/","https://www.crusoe.ai/about/company","https://www.crusoe.ai/about/leadership","https://www.crusoe.ai/cloud"],"summary":"Crusoe builds AI data centers and runs a GPU cloud, taking an energy-first approach to powering them.","tags":[]},"csis":{"aliases":["Center for Strategic and International Studies","Center for Strategic and International Studies (AI Governance Project)","CSIS AI Governance Project"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"No donate link found on About page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1962","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.csis.org/","kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/fcc3439a80c2c41f9797a4d2d79ed0be.png","name":"CSIS","quote":"a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization","quoteUrl":"https://www.csis.org/about","sources":["https://www.csis.org/about","https://www.csis.org/programs/wadhwani-ai-center"],"status":"active","summary":"Washington, DC think tank that conducts policy research on international security, technology and economics, including AI and national security.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T2":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The CSIS programme pages frame the work as governance, geopolitics and national security, with no stated catastrophic-risk aim, so it is mostly Adjacent; the T2 share is kept above the tag default (Adjacent 0.9) because recent outputs cover frontier risk topics such as AI agent containment failures and SFF chose to fund it.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.csis.org/about"}},"cslib":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cslib.io","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/3ec4293eec294d30bf70c86eb5b3d0f5.jpg","name":"CSLib","quote":"An open-source library of reusable components for proving theorems in computer science","quoteUrl":"https://cslib.io","sources":["https://cslib.io","https://arxiv.org/html/2602.04846v1"],"summary":"Open-source Lean library for formal reasoning about computer science and writing formally verified code, aiming to be for computer science what Mathlib is for mathematics.","tags":["AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Open-source Lean library for proving theorems in computer science and writing machine-checked code, with 'a foundation for trustworthy AI' among its aims. This general verification tooling is safety work that could cut either way (T3). 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Probably anti-AGI advocacy/comms arguing against building superintelligence, which counts as slowdown advocacy (T1) with a T2 share for less substantive messaging."},"individual-1520":{"name":"Individual #1520","kind":"person","anonId":"1520"},"dan-hendrycks":{"aliases":["Daniel Hendrycks"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://safe.ai/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Dan Hendrycks","sources":["https://safe.ai/","https://www.schmidtsciences.org/safetyscience/","https://www.danhendrycks.com/","https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hendrycks/"],"summary":"Machine learning researcher interested in AI safety; executive director of the Center for AI Safety and an advisor to xAI and Scale AI.","tags":["Alignment research","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.3,"T3":0.55,"T4":0.15},"xrTierNote":"Draft. His grants (Open Phil AI Fellowship 2020, AI2050 2023 for decomposing models to make them controllable and honest) paid for x-risk-motivated but mostly prosaic robustness, benchmark and representation-engineering work; benchmarks from the funded period (MMLU, MATH) are widely used to drive capabilities; seen: Open Phil 2020 fellowship page, AI2050 profile, Schmidt bio.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hendrycks/","summary":"https://www.danhendrycks.com/"},"quote":"I am interested in AI Safety.","quoteUrl":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hendrycks/"},"daniel-brown-university-of-utah":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://users.cs.utah.edu/~dsbrown/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Daniel Brown, University of Utah","quote":"My research focuses on robot learning under uncertainty, reward inference from human input, and AI safety.","quoteUrl":"https://users.cs.utah.edu/~dsbrown/","sources":["https://users.cs.utah.edu/~dsbrown/"],"summary":"Assistant professor at the University of Utah (Robotics Center, School of Computing); works on robot learning, reward inference and AI safety.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. His homepage names AI safety alongside robot learning and reward inference but states no takeover or x-risk aim, and the grant funds value-alignment verification, so value-alignment/reward-modelling with framing none gives T3.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://users.cs.utah.edu/~dsbrown/","summary":"https://users.cs.utah.edu/~dsbrown/"}},"individual-3182":{"name":"Individual #3182","kind":"person","anonId":"3182"},"daniel-filan":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Via Patreon for AXRP","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://axrp.net/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Daniel Filan","quote":"On this podcast, I (Daniel Filan) have conversations with researchers about their papers.","quoteUrl":"https://axrp.net/about/","sources":["https://axrp.net/about/"],"summary":"Host of AXRP, the AI X-risk Research Podcast, which interviews researchers about papers on reducing existential risk from AI; also hosts The Filan Cabinet.","tags":["Communications","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.3,"T2":0.5,"T3":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. AXRP, the AI X-risk Research Podcast; comms aimed at x-risk covering a range of agendas, some engaging the hard parts and some prosaic.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://axrp.net/about/","summary":"https://axrp.net/about/"}},"daniel-fried":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/daniel-fried/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Daniel Fried","quote":"I'm interested in how people and AI agents communicate and collaborate.","quoteUrl":"https://dpfried.github.io/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","https://dpfried.github.io/","https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/daniel-fried/"],"summary":"Assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute; studies language-model agents, human–AI interaction and multi-agent dynamics. 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FLI grant page describes ethics and harmful-side-effect avoidance for planning agents, prosaic value-alignment work with an AI-ethics slant and no stated x-risk aim.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/weld/"}},"individual-4249":{"name":"Individual #4249","kind":"person","anonId":"4249"},"danish-pruthi":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/grantee/danish-pruthi/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["quote"]},"kind":"person","location":"","name":"Danish Pruthi","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/grantee/danish-pruthi/"],"summary":"Indian Institute of Science assistant professor working on natural language processing and inclusive, well-evaluated AI models.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/grantee/danish-pruthi/"}},"daphne-ippolito-and-florian-tramer":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Daphne Ippolito and Individual #1779","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://daphnei.com/","https://floriantramer.com/"],"summary":"Two academic researchers: Daphne Ippolito, assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University working on text generation with neural language models, and Florian Tramèr, assistant professor at ETH Zürich studying the adversarial behaviour of large language models.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"scalable-oversight":1},"xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Its known LTFF grants are dated Jan and Apr 2024.","summary":"Informal research group led by Individual #2654 that LTFF funded for technical AI safety standards projects and evals work, including the GameBench strategic-reasoning benchmark.","tags":["Evaluations","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.5,"T4":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Josh Clymer's technical safety standards work (safety cases, takeover-motivated) gets the empirical-safety default, while the GameBench agent benchmark is a capability benchmark (T4).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/api/grants"}},"distributed-ai-research-institute":{"name":"Distributed AI Research Institute","aliases":["DAIR","DAIR Institute","The Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://www.dair-institute.org/","location":"Oakland, CA, USA","fiscalSponsor":"Code for Science & Society (2023 grant)","summary":"Community-rooted research on the harms of AI systems, with data tools, language-technology projects and work on alternative technology futures; openly critical of the AGI agenda.","quote":"The Distributed AI Research Institute is an independent organization conducting community-rooted research.","quoteUrl":"https://www.dair-institute.org/","tags":["Governance & policy"],"sources":["https://www.dair-institute.org/","https://www.dair-institute.org/projects/","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/the-distributed-artificial-intelligence-research-institute-10115902/"],"fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.dair-institute.org/projects/","quote":"https://www.dair-institute.org/"},"infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-08","notFound":["people","founded"],"why":"About page returned 404; no leaders named on the pages read."},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Works on present-day AI harms and is openly sceptical of the AGI and x-risk framing (its 'TESCREAL Bundle' project), so Adjacent under the x-risk-sceptic rule (dair-institute.org/projects/)."},"diyi-yang":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cs.stanford.edu/~diyiy/","kind":"person","location":"Stanford, USA","name":"Diyi Yang","quote":"My research goal is to design human-centered AI systems that are not only technically capable, but also meaningfully connected to how people think, interact, and collaborate.","quoteUrl":"https://cs.stanford.edu/~diyiy/","sources":["https://cs.stanford.edu/~diyiy/","https://www.schmidtsciences.org/safetyscience/"],"summary":"Assistant professor of computer science at Stanford working on socially aware NLP, large language models and human-AI interaction.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Her homepage describes socially aware, human-centred NLP with no mention of safety or x-risk, and her fetched multi-agent risk paper (with Yanzhe Zhang) is on privacy attacks/defences for LLM agents, so most of the work reads as privacy/AI-and-society (Adjacent) with some prosaic agent-safety content (T3).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://cs.stanford.edu/~diyiy/"}},"individual-2467":{"name":"Individual #2467","kind":"person","anonId":"2467"},"dongyeop-kang":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://dykang.github.io","kind":"person","location":"Minneapolis, United States","name":"Dongyeop Kang","quote":"I build human-centric language technologies—AI as thinking partners for experts.","quoteUrl":"https://dykang.github.io","sources":["https://dykang.github.io"],"summary":"Assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Minnesota working on human-centered AI and natural language processing.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T4":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, a legal-task automation benchmark mainly measures capability, so the benchmark rule gives T4.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://dykang.github.io","summary":"https://dykang.github.io"}},"dorsa-sadigh":{"aliases":["Tobias Gerstenberg and Dorsa Sadigh, Stanford University"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://dorsa.fyi","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Dorsa Sadigh","quote":"Specifically, my group is interested in developing robot learning algorithms that learn from humans and adapt to them.","quoteUrl":"https://dorsa.fyi","sources":["https://dorsa.fyi"],"summary":"Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University working at the intersection of robotics and machine learning, on robot learning algorithms that learn from and adapt to humans.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. CAIF grant page describes human-interpretable computational models of helping/hindering judgments among agents, an interdisciplinary psychology/CS project with no x-risk framing.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://dorsa.fyi","summary":"https://dorsa.fyi"}},"dovetail":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://dovetailresearch.org/","summary":"https://dovetailresearch.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"Anti Entropy","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://dovetailresearch.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/aff782b1a6ca772e3d61d2a66ca1fb5a.jpg","name":"Dovetail","quote":"help humanity safely navigate the creation of powerful AI systems","quoteUrl":"https://dovetailresearch.org/","sources":["https://dovetailresearch.org/","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"],"summary":"Research group doing foundational mathematics research on the nature of AI agents, to help humanity safely navigate the creation of powerful AI systems.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Does foundational mathematical research on what AI agents are, to help humanity get through the creation of powerful AI safely. 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General EA group organiser stipend per the grant purpose; not AI-specific.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/y5vrPL4XRkmEhet5F/ea-nigeria-reflecting-on-2023-and-looking-ahead-to-2024-1","summary":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/y5vrPL4XRkmEhet5F/ea-nigeria-reflecting-on-2023-and-looking-ahead-to-2024-1"}},"ea-philippines":{"aliases":["Effective Altruism Philippines"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/groups/E4Bc5DfRihpoBKhc5","kind":"org","location":"Philippines","logoAsset":"/_blob/5d1bab8c1f48a5f45e5faded33e3f549.jpg","name":"EA Philippines","quote":"Our vision is to create a thriving community of Filipinos who use evidence, reason, and compassion to maximize their social impact with their careers and resources.","quoteUrl":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/groups/E4Bc5DfRihpoBKhc5","sources":["https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LoH8iix8AJKGS4zvM/ea-philippines-progress-report-briefer-april-2024-march-2025","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/groups/E4Bc5DfRihpoBKhc5"],"summary":"Effective altruism community group in the Philippines running an introductory fellowship, events and a mini library of foundational EA texts.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. General EA community building, not AI-specific (flag notAI, may be wrongly counted).","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/groups/E4Bc5DfRihpoBKhc5","summary":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LoH8iix8AJKGS4zvM/ea-philippines-progress-report-briefer-april-2024-march-2025"}},"earth-law-center":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://www.earthlawcenter.org/donate-to-elc","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.earthlawcenter.org/our-mission","people":"https://www.earthlawcenter.org/our-team","quote":"https://www.earthlawcenter.org/our-mission","summary":"https://www.earthlawcenter.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2008","foundedUrl":"https://www.earthlawcenter.org/our-mission","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.earthlawcenter.org/","kind":"org","location":"Durango, CO, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/08bb98bc116d74cb219f9c59e3d6279d.jpg","name":"Earth Law Center","people":[{"name":"Grant Wilson","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"to advance ecocentric laws, policies, and governance for the well-being of the Earth community","quoteUrl":"https://www.earthlawcenter.org/our-mission","sources":["https://www.earthlawcenter.org/","https://www.earthlawcenter.org/our-mission","https://www.earthlawcenter.org/our-team"],"summary":"Nonprofit advancing rights of nature and earth law, working to give legal rights to ecosystems such as rivers, forests and oceans.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)"},"earth-species-project":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://earthspecies.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://earthspecies.org/about-us/","quote":"https://earthspecies.org/","summary":"https://earthspecies.org/about-us/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.earthspecies.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/ffc59484d8a322b54dffcbf51a7571a1.jpg","name":"Earth Species Project","people":[{"name":"Steven VanRoekel","role":"Chief Executive Officer"},{"name":"Aza Raskin","role":"Co-Founder and Chief Explorer"}],"quote":"We decode animal communication with advanced AI to illuminate the diverse intelligences on earth.","quoteUrl":"https://earthspecies.org/","sources":["https://www.earthspecies.org","https://www.earthspecies.org/donate","https://earthspecies.org/about-us/","https://earthspecies.org/"],"summary":"Nonprofit using machine learning to study and decode animal communication, aiming to deepen understanding of other species. 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The grant is for Sacramento anti-Big-Tech-dominance campaigns (economics, competition), but the site says its California arm co-sponsored SB 53 on frontier AI labs, so a small catastrophic-risk-policy share."},"economics-of-transformative-ai":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fieldSources":{"location":"https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/research-area/economics-of-transformative-ai/","people":"https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/research-area/economics-of-transformative-ai/","quote":"https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/research-area/economics-of-transformative-ai/","summary":"https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/research-area/economics-of-transformative-ai/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/research-area/economics-of-transformative-ai","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Stanford, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/1d5d4ecd1a8a50d774a394700e71a669.png","name":"Economics of Transformative AI","people":[{"name":"Erik Brynjolfsson","role":"Director"}],"quote":"Revolutionizing economics to harness the full potential of advanced AI.","quoteUrl":"https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/research-area/economics-of-transformative-ai/","sources":["https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/research-area/economics-of-transformative-ai","https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/research-area/economics-of-transformative-ai/"],"summary":"Research area of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, whose director is Erik Brynjolfsson, studying how transformative AI could reshape the economy.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The Stanford Digital Economy Lab's Economics of Transformative AI area is economics research, and its homepage does not mention existential risk or superintelligence, so it stays Adjacent under the economics rule."},"econtai-lab":{"aliases":["Economics of Transformative AI Initiative","EconTAI"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.econtai.org/","kind":"university","location":"Charlottesville, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/c44b2efa5036605417307b6d0ac279b7.png","name":"EconTAI Lab","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://give.as.virginia.edu/node/1946"],"summary":"Research initiative at the University of Virginia, led by economist Anton Korinek, studying how the economy can prepare for AI systems that may match or exceed human-level intelligence.","tags":["Governance & policy","Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. UVA's page describes EconTAI as studying labour markets, productivity, inequality and growth under transformative AI, with no safety, control or x-risk framing, so the economics policy rule puts it in Adjacent.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://give.as.virginia.edu/node/1946"}},"ed-boyden-mit":{"aliases":["Edward Boyden"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual academic","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.media.mit.edu/people/esb.html","kind":"person","location":"Cambridge, USA","name":"Ed Boyden (MIT)","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.media.mit.edu/people/esb.html"],"summary":"MIT professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences (Media Lab, McGovern Institute) leading the Synthetic Neurobiology group, which develops tools to analyse and repair biological systems such as the brain.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.8,"T2":0.03,"T3":0.1,"notAI":0.07},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Philanthropy lists about $20M to MIT for 'AI Trends and Impacts Research' (Neil Thompson's FutureTech, which describes itself as studying computing progress and economic productivity, plus the AI Risk Repository) against $1.43M for Madry's adversarial robustness; the Tegmark (SFF) and Boyden grants are small, and Boyden's lab work is probably neurotechnology.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.media.mit.edu/people/esb.html"}},"edge-city":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Not verified","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.edgecity.live/about","quote":"https://www.edgecity.live/","summary":"https://www.edgecity.live/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.edgecity.live","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/ec59031576ecf914894ad8c31d4677c4.jpg","name":"Edge City","people":[{"name":"Janine Leger","role":"Co-founder"},{"name":"Individual #9424","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"Edge City creates environments for real-world experimentation at the frontiers of technology, science, and culture.","quoteUrl":"https://www.edgecity.live/","sources":["https://www.edgecity.live","https://www.edgecity.live/about","https://www.edgecity.live/"],"summary":"Nonprofit running month-long popup villages and funding builders in technology, science and culture.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) (Edge Institute, Inc.)"},"edward-charles-foundation":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://edwardcharlesfoundation.org/team/","summary":"https://fiscalsponsordirectory.org/?p=5092"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2008","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.edwardcharlesfoundation.org","kind":"org","location":"Beverly Hills, CA, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/b18bc2d7eb81abc060f573ebfd5c6e57.jpg","name":"Edward Charles Foundation","people":[{"name":"Kent Seton","role":"Founder & Executive Director"},{"name":"Kirk Scott","role":"Managing Director"}],"quote":"Edward Charles Foundation is the premiere outsourced back-office platform for fiscal sponsorship and donor advised funds","quoteUrl":"https://www.edwardcharlesfoundation.org","sources":["https://www.edwardcharlesfoundation.org","https://fiscalsponsordirectory.org/?p=5092","https://www.every.org/edward-charles-foundation","https://edwardcharlesfoundation.org/team/"],"summary":"Beverly Hills-based 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor and donor-advised-fund provider that hosts charitable projects for philanthropists.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3) (EIN 26-4245043)"},"effective-altruism-australia":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://effectivealtruism.org.au/donate","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.effectivealtruism.org.au","kind":"org","location":"Victoria, Australia","logoAsset":"/_blob/94ab9ed75667a910a00d84c65b63e680.jpg","name":"Effective Altruism Australia","quote":"We help thousands of Australians find the most effective ways to do good with their money and time through our independent charity recommendations, events, and free resources.","quoteUrl":"https://www.effectivealtruism.org.au","sources":["https://www.effectivealtruism.org.au"],"summary":"Australian tax-deductible charity that helps people find the most effective ways to do good with their money and time through independent charity recommendations, events and free resources.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"Australian registered charity (Deductible Gift Recipient)","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Stipend for a local EA group organizer, general EA meta.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://eachicago.substack.com/about"}},"effective-altruism-finland-ry":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/groups/bqkDoLYyykhr8gJCz","kind":"org","location":"Finland","logoAsset":"/_blob/363615cdc05fe5397bf0f77c4c620ca5.jpg","name":"Effective Altruism Finland ry","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Kq3YwsrWr5nxQfpPj/ea-finland-from-a-philosophy-discussion-club-to-a-national"],"summary":"Finnish national effective-altruism community association running local groups, events and programmes including AI-safety-related activities.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.2,"notAI":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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From the grant purpose: information-security talent development, probably partly aimed at securing frontier AI weights (T2) but largely general infosec careers."},"effective-altruism-netherlands":{"aliases":["Effectief Altruïsme Nederland","Effective Altruism Netherlands"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://effectiefaltruisme.nl/en/support-us","donateNote":"ANBI-registered public benefit organisation (Dutch tax-deductible)","fieldSources":{"people":"https://effectiefaltruisme.nl/en/about","quote":"https://effectiefaltruisme.nl/en/about","summary":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/22HhT9n2ZzCnyCmDj/ea-netherlands-2025-in-review-and-plans-for-2026"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2017","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://effectiefaltruisme.nl/en","kind":"org","location":"Amsterdam, Netherlands","logoAsset":"/_blob/f9ac1c733ab1583fbd7fb234899e98dd.jpg","name":"EA Netherlands","people":[{"name":"James Herbert","role":"Co-director"},{"name":"Ricardo van Mildert","role":"Co-director"},{"name":"Lisa Gotoh","role":"Board chair"}],"quote":"Our vision is a Netherlands where using evidence and careful reasoning to do good is mainstream.","quoteUrl":"https://effectiefaltruisme.nl/en/about","sources":["https://effectiefaltruisme.nl/en","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/22HhT9n2ZzCnyCmDj/ea-netherlands-2025-in-review-and-plans-for-2026","https://effectiefaltruisme.nl/en/about"],"summary":"National effective altruism community-building organisation in the Netherlands, supporting about 16 local groups and a co-working space in Amsterdam. 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General EA community conference per the grant purpose; not AI-specific, may be wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://effektivaltruisme.no/"}},"effective-altruism-sweden-rationality-research-project":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"Effektiv Altruism Sverige","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"programme","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/b213d61628ec14a217e7dfd736303a0c.png","name":"Effective Altruism Sweden Rationality Research Project","parentOrg":"effective-altruism-sweden","people":[],"sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations"],"status":"active","summary":"A rationality-research project run under Effective Altruism Sweden (Effektiv Altruism Sverige), funded with general support in SFF's 2023-H2 round.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations"}},"effective-altruism-sweden":{"aliases":["Effektiv Altruism Sverige","EA Sweden"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page verified","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://effektivaltruism.org/","kind":"org","location":"Sweden","logoAsset":"/_blob/b213d61628ec14a217e7dfd736303a0c.png","name":"Effective Altruism Sweden","quote":"Effektiv Altruism Sverige är en ideell förening som fokuserar på att bygga och stödja ett community som använder bevis och noggrann analys för att hitta och agera på de mest effektiva sätten att hjälpa andra.","quoteUrl":"https://effektivaltruism.org/","sources":["https://www.bolagsfakta.se/8025061261-EFFEKTIV_ALTRUISM_SVERIGE","https://effektivaltruism.org/"],"summary":"Swedish non-profit association that builds and supports an effective altruism community, with local groups, events and volunteering.","tags":["Field-building","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Grant purpose is an EA-inspired environmental community, not AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/C6es25q5WC74ZG3WG/effective-environmentalism-has-re-launched-and-we-re-looking"}},"effective-giving-ireland":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/en/effective-giving-ireland-top-recommendations","donateNote":"Donations processed via Giving What We Can","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.effectivegiving.ie","kind":"org","location":"Ireland","logoAsset":"/_blob/89af47ddfd2b6129506d6db669966106.png","name":"Effective Giving Ireland","quote":"Our mission is to support you in ensuring your donations have the greatest possible impact","quoteUrl":"https://www.effectivegiving.ie","sources":["https://www.effectivegiving.ie","https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/en/effective-giving-ireland-top-recommendations"],"summary":"Irish effective-giving organisation that advises donors on high-impact charities and offers free consultations, routing donations via partner Giving What We Can.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Effective giving promotion in Ireland is general EA meta, not AI; may be wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.effectivegiving.ie"}},"effective-ideas-blog-prize":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Not accepting donations","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://effectiveideas.org/","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Effective Ideas Blog Prize","quote":"We want to encourage a broader, public conversation around effective altruism and longtermism.","quoteUrl":"https://effectiveideas.org/","sources":["https://effectiveideas.org/"],"summary":"2022 prize programme offering up to five $100,000 awards for blogs and newsletters on effective altruism and longtermism, plus grants to young writers; backed by the FTX Future Fund and Longview.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://effectiveideas.org/","summary":"https://effectiveideas.org/"}},"effective-institutions-project":{"aliases":["Effective Institutions Project (EIP)","EIP"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://effectiveinstitutionsproject.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://effectiveinstitutionsproject.org/people/","summary":"https://effectiveinstitutionsproject.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://effectiveinstitutionsproject.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/2c25ec0d4ca76becd46588c8d202a07a.jpg","name":"Effective Institutions Project","people":[{"name":"Individual #7392","role":"CEO and founder"},{"name":"Ella McIntosh","role":"Managing Director"}],"quote":"The Effective Institutions Project helps donors be part of the solution to major global challenges.","quoteUrl":"https://effectiveinstitutionsproject.org/","sources":["https://effectiveinstitutionsproject.org/","https://effectiveinstitutionsproject.org/people/"],"summary":"Global working group developing strategies to improve institutional decision-making, with focus areas including AI governance, institutional resilience and great-power conflict.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T1":0.1,"T2":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. EIP publishes little and works mainly by advising and convening AI funders, and its visible AI outputs (an AI governance primer, a funder's guide to AI governance and strategy, a checks-and-balances RFP with the Collective Intelligence Project, funder sense-making workshops) are framed around transformative AI that could disempower or destroy humanity, misuse and power concentration but through a broad institutional-reform plan, alongside non-AI institutional-prioritisation and catastrophic-risk work; its Substack and the RFP site could not be fetched, so this rests on its publications page, Founders Pledge's write-up and the Open Philanthropy grant page."},"effective-thesis":{"aliases":["Effective Thesis Z.S."],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.effectivethesis.org/about/about","quote":"https://www.effectivethesis.org/about/about","summary":"https://www.effectivethesis.org/about/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://effectivethesis.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/d4dd4c2e7d641b98e1c2eaca316a9122.png","name":"Effective Thesis","people":[{"name":"Christine PX Tan","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Individual #19364","role":"Founder"}],"quote":"We aim to drive real progress on the world’s most pressing problems.","quoteUrl":"https://www.effectivethesis.org/about/about","sources":["https://www.effectivethesis.org/about/about"],"summary":"Organisation that helps students focus their theses and careers on the world's most pressing problems, including AI alignment, through advising, fellowships, an accelerator and courses.","tags":[],"taxStatus":""},"effective-ventures-foundation":{"aliases":["EVF","Effective Ventures Foundation USA"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Winding down / spinning out projects","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ev.org/","kind":"org","location":"Oxford, United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/c15cded61aadcf2046bd5157f4c657be.png","name":"Effective Ventures Foundation","parentOrg":"Effective Ventures (federation)","people":[{"name":"Zachary Robinson","role":"President & CEO"}],"quote":"a federation of organisations and projects working to have a large positive impact","quoteUrl":"https://www.ev.org/","sources":["https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk:443/company/07962181","https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/blog/announcement-renaming-of-legal-entity-to-effective-ventures-foundation","https://www.ev.org/","https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/471988398","https://80000hours.org/2025/05/80000-hours-completes-spin-out-from-effective-ventures/"],"status":"active","summary":"Charity in England and Wales that has been the legal parent of effective-altruism projects including the Centre for Effective Altruism and 80,000 Hours; 80,000 Hours completed its spin-out from it in 2025.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"UK registered charity","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.24,"T1":0.04,"T2":0.24,"T3":0.48},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Dollar-weighted: Owain Evans' dangerous-capability evals group ($1.17M; Truthful AI works on deception, situational awareness and emergent misalignment, so T3 80/T2 20) plus a Longview grant that OP's page titles 'AI Policy Development at the OECD' ($0.77M; probably general governance, so mostly Adjacent with a T2/T1 share).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.ev.org/"}},"effektiv-spenden":{"aliases":["UES – Gemeinnützige GmbH für effektives Spenden","effektiv-spenden.org"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://effektiv-spenden.org/spenden/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://effektiv-spenden.org/impressum/","summary":"https://www.effektiv-spenden.org/ueber-uns/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.effektiv-spenden.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Berlin, Germany","logoAsset":"/_blob/174a7faa3cb9454a7e1588eb43f415bd.png","name":"Effektiv Spenden","people":[{"name":"Anne Schulze","role":"Managing Director"},{"name":"Sebastian Schwiecker","role":"Managing Director"}],"quote":"Support the world's most effective aid organizations.","quoteUrl":"https://www.effektiv-spenden.org/en/","sources":["https://www.effektiv-spenden.org/ueber-uns/","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/zrrnK7WkopYRTyKmc/effektiv-spenden-a-meta-opportunity-in-germany-and","https://effektiv-spenden.org/impressum/","https://www.effektiv-spenden.org/"],"summary":"Donation platform for Germany, Austria and Switzerland that channels tax-deductible gifts to effective charities and funds, including for controlling AI and safeguarding the future, based on external evaluators' analyses.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"gGmbH (German nonprofit)"},"effektiver-altruismus-deutschland":{"aliases":["EA Germany","EAD","Effektiver Altruismus Deutschland e.V.","Effective Altruism Germany"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Donation page not verified","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://effektiveraltruismus.de/","kind":"org","location":"Germany","logoAsset":"/_blob/bbc251ddbbff64e97af8fe6576ae394a.png","name":"Effektiver Altruismus Deutschland","quote":"Effective Altruism Germany (EAD) is dedicated to building a diverse and resilient community of ambitious individuals in and from Germany who are committed to addressing the world's most pressing challenges through impactful action.","quoteUrl":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SdJ6sB6QxWsE8coro/ea-germany-s-strategy-for-2025","sources":["https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SdJ6sB6QxWsE8coro/ea-germany-s-strategy-for-2025"],"summary":"German national effective altruism organisation building the EA community in Germany; it provides coordination, communication and professional services, and fiscal sponsorship for local groups and individual projects.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is general support for ENAIS, a European AI safety community network, tiered as a pipeline by the people it serves.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SdJ6sB6QxWsE8coro/ea-germany-s-strategy-for-2025","summary":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SdJ6sB6QxWsE8coro/ea-germany-s-strategy-for-2025"}},"effisciences":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.effisciences.org/en/about-us","quote":"https://www.effisciences.org/en","summary":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DkDy2hvkwbQ54GM9u/introducing-effisciences-ai-safety-unit-1"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.effisciences.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"France","logoAsset":"/_blob/801f52c252fbd30ed18b9e16a26a9fcb.jpg","name":"EffiSciences","people":[{"name":"Florent Berthet","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Jonathan Claybrough","role":"President"}],"quote":"promotes mission-driven research to tackle the world's most pressing problems","quoteUrl":"https://www.effisciences.org/en","sources":["https://www.effisciences.org","https://www.ml4good.org/about","https://www.effisciences.org/en/about-us","https://www.effisciences.org/en","https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DkDy2hvkwbQ54GM9u/introducing-effisciences-ai-safety-unit-1"],"summary":"French non-profit, founded in January 2022, set up to mobilise scientific research on pressing problems including AI safety, biorisks and climate change; the first ML4Good AI safety bootcamps were held through it.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.25,"T3":0.35,"notAI":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. French field-building org whose grant purpose spans AI safety, biosecurity and climate; AI share (e.g. ML4Good-style bootcamps) probably prosaic-leaning with some takeover focus."},"individual-1421":{"name":"Individual #1421","kind":"person","anonId":"1421"},"individual-9529":{"name":"Individual #9529","kind":"person","anonId":"9529"},"individual-5903":{"name":"Individual #5903","kind":"person","anonId":"5903"},"eisenstat-research-program":{"aliases":["Eisenstat Research Directions"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"Machine Intelligence Research Institute","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"programme","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/42960c5daa51b2e17df298cdab6bab9b.jpg","name":"Eisenstat Research Program","outputs":[{"label":"SamEisenstat on LessWrong","type":"lesswrong","url":"https://www.lesswrong.com/users/sameisenstat"}],"parentOrg":"machine-intelligence-research-institute","people":[{"name":"Individual #5191","role":"researcher (presumed lead)"}],"quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations","https://www.lesswrong.com/users/sameisenstat"],"status":"unknown","summary":"Programme receiving a $500,000 SFF-2026 general-support recommendation, with the Machine Intelligence Research Institute as receiving charity; not identified further.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. MIRI's reviews credit Individual #5191 with agent-foundations results (untrollable prior, logical inductor tiling), so T1 by the agent-foundations rule; the 2026 programme's own description wasn't found.","uncertain":"Unsourced since 4 Nov 2026: Individual #5191's MIRI team page (intelligence.org/team/sam-eisenstat/) is gone and he is not on MIRI's current team page, so his MIRI role is no longer confirmed by a live page.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"}},"eko":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Donations via individual campaign pages","fieldSources":{"people":"https://eko.org/en/about","quote":"https://eko.org/en","summary":"https://eko.org/en/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://eko.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/22f54381480ff8a139ae2e5b520142ea.jpg","name":"Ekō","people":[{"name":"Emma Ruby-Sachs","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Zeina Khalil Hajj","role":"Chair of Board"}],"quote":"committed to curbing the growing power of corporations","quoteUrl":"https://eko.org/en/about","sources":["https://eko.org","https://eko.org/en/about","https://eko.org/en"],"summary":"Global community of millions that runs campaigns to curb the power of corporations and hold the world's biggest companies accountable, acting as a consumer watchdog.","tags":["Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T2":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. A general corporate-accountability movement whose current AI campaign frames frontier labs as racing to replace humanity, so mostly consumer/accountability advocacy with a share of anti-race (slowdown-leaning) campaigning; the campaign's specific demands could not be read."},"electronic-frontier-foundation":{"aliases":["EFF"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://supporters.eff.org/donate/join-eff-today","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.eff.org/press/contact","summary":"https://www.eff.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1990","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.eff.org/","kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/3ffab98764a6c028f8f79e27ca697073.jpg","name":"Electronic Frontier Foundation","people":[{"name":"Nicole Ozer","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world.","quoteUrl":"https://www.eff.org/about","sources":["https://www.eff.org/about","https://www.eff.org/press/contact"],"summary":"US nonprofit defending civil liberties in the digital world through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism and technology development.","tags":["Advocacy","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose and known work: funded Peter Eckersley's AI work at EFF (AI progress measurement, policy and safety-adjacent technical projects), mostly not aimed at takeover risk."},"eleutherai":{"aliases":["Eleuther AI","The Eleuther AI Institute","EleutherAI Institute"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2020","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.eleuther.ai/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/a49fe1226a8d713c01af4f579a1eb319.jpg","name":"EleutherAI","quote":"Research into interpretability and alignment is of utmost importance for AI governance.","quoteUrl":"https://www.eleuther.ai/about","sources":["https://www.eleuther.ai/about","https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/02/stability-ai-hugging-face-and-canva-back-new-ai-research-nonprofit"],"summary":"Nonprofit AI research lab that trains and releases open models, datasets and tools and works on interpretability and evaluations; started as a volunteer Discord collective in July 2020 and incorporated as a nonprofit research institute in early 2023.","tags":["Interpretability","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant funds Nora Belrose's interpretability work, which is usually prosaic safety (T3). She co-wrote 'AI is easy to control', arguing that the risk of AI takeover is low, and the site's rules put openly x-risk-sceptical research in Adjacent (AI-relevant but not aimed at x-risk), so most of it is Adjacent. Source: https://www.eleuther.ai/staff/","people":[{"name":"Stella Biderman","role":"Executive Director"}],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.eleuther.ai/staff/","founded":"https://www.eleuther.ai/about","quote":"https://www.eleuther.ai/about","summary":"https://www.eleuther.ai/about"}},"elisa-kallioniemi":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://people.njit.edu/profile/eak42","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Elisa Kallioniemi","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://people.njit.edu/profile/eak42"],"summary":"Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at NJIT; directs the Brain Stimulation Lab, with research interests in brain stimulation, neural engineering and neural plasticity.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T1":0.375,"T4":0.125,"notAI":0.1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the Foresight 2026 grant purpose, privacy-preserving AI for closed-loop human-AI neuro co-adaptation; neurotech/privacy, not aimed at x-risk. Adjusted: Foresight neurotech/WBE framed as AI safety: T1 75 / T4 25 (maintainer, 27 Oct).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://people.njit.edu/profile/eak42"}},"individual-30537":{"name":"Individual #30537","kind":"person","anonId":"30537"},"individual-2541":{"name":"Individual #2541","kind":"person","anonId":"2541"},"individual-4183":{"name":"Individual #4183","kind":"person","anonId":"4183"},"ellen-vitercik":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://profiles.stanford.edu/ellen-vitercik","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Ellen Vitercik","quote":"My research spans machine learning, algorithm design, and discrete and combinatorial optimization, including the interface between economics and computation.","quoteUrl":"https://vitercik.github.io/","sources":["https://profiles.stanford.edu/ellen-vitercik","https://vitercik.github.io/"],"summary":"Assistant Professor at Stanford University, jointly appointed in Management Science and Engineering and Computer Science, researching machine learning, algorithm design and discrete optimisation.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://vitercik.github.io/","summary":"https://vitercik.github.io/"}},"ellen-zhong":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"homepage":"https://ezlab.princeton.edu/","quote":"https://ezlab.princeton.edu/","summary":"https://ezlab.princeton.edu/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ezlab.princeton.edu/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Ellen Zhong","quote":"At the intersection of AI and biology, our group develops algorithms that can leverage new sources of data, especially cryo-EM imaging data","quoteUrl":"https://ezlab.princeton.edu/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","https://ezlab.princeton.edu/"],"summary":"Assistant Professor at Princeton University whose computer science lab develops AI and computational tools for the molecular sciences, such as cryo-EM reconstruction; a 2025 AI2050 Early Career Fellow.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"ellie-pavlick":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual academic","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cs.brown.edu/people/faculty/epavlick/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Ellie Pavlick","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://cs.brown.edu/people/faculty/epavlick/"],"summary":"Associate Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics at Brown University, working on natural language processing and machine learning; directs the NSF AI Research Institute on Interaction for AI Assistants.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T3":0.6,"T4":0.1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. No project page found; the funding call aims at LLM safety properties without any takeover framing, and Pavlick's known work is interpretability and cognitive science of language models, so a mostly-T3 science-of-models mix with small Adjacent and capabilities-insight shares.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://cs.brown.edu/people/faculty/epavlick/"}},"ellis-institute-tubingen":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/faculty","quote":"https://institute-tue.ellis.eu/","summary":"https://institute-tue.ellis.eu/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2023","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://institute-tue.ellis.eu/","kind":"org","location":"Tübingen, Germany","logoAsset":"/_blob/0c001f5714904aa4b24e1d9baac887cb.png","name":"ELLIS Institute Tübingen","people":[{"name":"Bernhard Schölkopf","role":"Scientific Director"},{"name":"Tobias Leismann","role":"Managing Director"}],"quote":"Our mission is to advance pioneering AI research","quoteUrl":"https://institute-tue.ellis.eu/","sources":["https://institute-tue.ellis.eu/","https://institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/faculty"],"summary":"AI research institute in Tübingen, founded in 2023 and part of the wider ELLIS initiative, with groups working on AI safety and alignment (e.g. Maksym Andriushchenko, Sahar Abdelnabi).","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"German non-profit company (gGmbH)","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The ELLIS news page says the grant funds Andriushchenko's AI safety research on alignment of autonomous LLM agents and frontier-model risk evals (JailbreakBench, AgentHarm); its pages give no takeover or deception framing, so prosaic T3."},"emergent-ventures-india":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.mercatus.org/emergent-ventures","kind":"programme","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/ca48ce834f1b9c879cbe10aa48193964.png","name":"Emergent Ventures India","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.mercatus.org/emergent-ventures"],"summary":"India-focused strand of Emergent Ventures, the Mercatus Center's low-overhead fellowship and grant programme run by Tyler Cowen.","tags":["Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.mercatus.org/emergent-ventures"}},"emma-brunskill-and-chelsea-finn":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/ebrun","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Emma Brunskill and Chelsea Finn","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/ebrun"],"summary":"Stanford computer science professors Emma Brunskill and Chelsea Finn, researching alignment through interaction and richer forms of human feedback.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.9,"T4":0.1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose (alignment via interaction and richer feedback); Finn's Schmidt page frames her work around agent capability and Brunskill's recent papers are RL/education/LLM-feedback with no stated x-risk aim, so it is unframed alignment-methods work with a small capabilities share."},"emma-pierson":{"aliases":["Emma Pierson, Cornell University","Prof. Emma Pierson"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual academic","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~emmapierson/","kind":"person","location":"Berkeley, USA","name":"Emma Pierson","quote":"We study how to create fair, reliable algorithms in healthcare and other high-stakes settings","quoteUrl":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~emmapierson/","sources":["https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~emmapierson/"],"summary":"Assistant professor of computer science at UC Berkeley (previously Cornell Tech) and part-time senior research fellow at Transluce; her lab works on fair, reliable algorithms in high-stakes settings and on LLM safety and alignment.","tags":["Evaluations","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Her profile says her ML work targets inequality and healthcare, with recent LLM work such as SAE-based hypothesis generation and a CHAI affiliation; the grant's 'frontier model behavior' study is probably prosaic behaviour analysis, not aimed at takeover risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~emmapierson/"}},"individual-9003":{"name":"Individual #9003","kind":"person","anonId":"9003"},"encode":{"aliases":["Encode AI","Encode Justice"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://encodeai.org/donation/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://encodeai.org/who-we-are/","summary":"https://encodeai.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://encodeai.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/2549a68bd7072a574c69b7302eacee05.jpg","name":"Encode","people":[{"name":"Sneha Revanur","role":"Founder & President"},{"name":"Sunny Gandhi","role":"Co-Executive Director"},{"name":"Adam Billen","role":"Co-Executive Director"}],"quote":"Encode advocates for laws, builds coalitions, and influences leaders to ensure AI is a force for good.","quoteUrl":"https://encodeai.org","sources":["https://encodeai.org","https://encodeai.org/who-we-are/"],"summary":"US advocacy group campaigning for frontier AI safety laws, including third-party audits of frontier AI companies' safety practices, and building coalitions on AI risk and governance.","tags":["Advocacy","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T1":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Advocacy group that drafts and passes AI laws, including state frontier AI safety laws, and also campaigns on deepfakes, children's harms and AI in nuclear weapons. The frontier-safety and loss-of-control advocacy buys time (T1, half); the other campaigns are not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent, half). Source: https://encodeai.org"},"eon-essay-contest":{"aliases":["Eon Essay Contest on The Precipice"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2021","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"programme","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/9db100eaf420ad0504271322602be181.jpg","name":"Eon Essay Contest","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/uDrDALDYyDyzLQjHM/eon-pivotal-essay-contest-seeking-new-administrator","https://www.openphilanthropy.org/?p=13370"],"summary":"Essay contest introducing students aged 13–24 to existential risks, in which entrants read The Precipice and respond to a related prompt; in 2024 its founder sought a new administrator to take it over.","tags":["Education & training","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/uDrDALDYyDyzLQjHM/eon-pivotal-essay-contest-seeking-new-administrator"}},"epistea":{"aliases":["Epistea, z.s"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page — contact hello@epistea.org","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2019","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://epistea.org","kind":"org","location":"Prague, Czech Republic","name":"Epistea","people":[{"name":"Irena Kotíková","role":"Project lead"},{"name":"Viktorie Havlíčková","role":"Project lead"},{"name":"Jiří Nádvorník","role":"Project lead"}],"quote":"umbrella organization for projects focused on existential security and epistemics","quoteUrl":"https://epistea.org","sources":["https://epistea.org","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/FrshKTu34cFGGsyka/announcing-a-new-organization-epistea","https://www.epistea.org/"],"status":"active","summary":"Nonprofit umbrella organisation in Prague for existential-security and epistemics projects, currently supporting the ACS alignment research group and PIBBSS, and offering fiscal sponsorship.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"Czech registered association (z.s.); US sister nonprofit Epistea US","xrTier":{"T1":0.5,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.2,"notAI":0.1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The site says Epistea is a Prague umbrella and fiscal sponsor for existential-security projects: ACS (agency and complex-systems alignment), PIBBSS, the Human-aligned AI Summer School and ILIAD (agent foundations/SLT, T1 by rule), plus past hub spaces (FixedPoint House, Prague Fall Season) with some rationality/epistemics meta.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://epistea.org"}},"epoch-ai":{"aliases":["Epoch","Rethink Priorities (Epoch)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://epoch.ai/about/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://epoch.ai/about/team","summary":"https://epoch.ai/about","registration":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/994050541","taxStatus":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/994050541"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://epoch.ai/","kind":"org","location":"Remote","logoAsset":"/_blob/b9d612c6e18e9b4798b57e1791f5f453.jpg","name":"Epoch AI","people":[{"name":"Jaime Sevilla","role":"CEO"}],"quote":"Investigating the trajectory of AI for the benefit of society","quoteUrl":"https://epoch.ai/","sources":["https://epoch.ai/about","https://epoch.ai/","https://epoch.ai/about/team"],"summary":"Research institute that collects data and publishes analysis on AI trends such as training compute, hardware, data centres and model capabilities, to help people understand what is happening in AI.","tags":["Forecasting"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) (Epoch Artificial Intelligence Inc, exempt from Sept 2024; earlier fiscally sponsored by Rethink Priorities)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.8,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Tracks compute, hardware, investment and data centres, forecasts AI's economic impacts and runs capability benchmarks such as FrontierMath. The trends and forecasting work is not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent, four-fifths); the capability benchmarks mainly advance capabilities (T4, one-fifth). Source: https://epoch.ai/about","registration":{"id":"99-4050541","register":"IRS (via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/994050541"}},"equistamp":{"aliases":["Chris Canal"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.equistamp.com/","summary":"https://www.equistamp.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.equistamp.com","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/b0491752e4e410844557528aca3b727f.png","name":"EquiStamp","people":[{"name":"Chris Canal","role":"CEO"}],"quote":"EquiStamp exists to make consequential AI claims verifiable","quoteUrl":"https://www.equistamp.com/","sources":["https://manifund.org/projects/operating-capital-for-ai-safety-evaluation-infrastructure","https://www.equistamp.com","https://www.equistamp.com/"],"status":"active","summary":"Research engineering firm that builds evaluation infrastructure for AI safety organisations such as METR and UK AISI.","tags":["Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.1,"T3":0.6,"T4":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The site says EquiStamp builds and runs evaluations, baselines and benchmarks for UK AISI, the EU AI Office, METR and Redwood; some of this measures capability (e.g. RE-Bench baselines for AI R&D) and some feeds government evaluators, so the evals mix stands."},"era":{"aliases":["ERA Fellowship","ERA Cambridge","Cambridge ERA:AI Fellowship","Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative","CERI"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://erafellowship.org/about","people":"https://erafellowship.org/about","summary":"https://erafellowship.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2021","foundedUrl":"https://erafellowship.org/about","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://erafellowship.org/","kind":"org","location":"Cambridge, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/d3d3dea5c96dde94094788a4ae81cd05.jpg","name":"ERA","people":[{"name":"Nandini Shiralkar","role":"Founder"}],"quote":"ERA accelerates talent, advances research and helps build organisations working to understand and reduce risks from increasingly capable AI systems.","quoteUrl":"https://erafellowship.org/","sources":["https://erafellowship.org/","https://erafellowship.org/about"],"summary":"Cambridge-based organisation running talent programmes, including the ERA:AI research fellowship and an AI×Bio track, for people working to understand and reduce risks from frontier AI.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T1":0.15,"T2":0.25,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"ERA runs research fellowships 'to help ensure the transition to advanced AI is safe', in three AI tracks: technical (evaluations, interpretability, control: mostly prosaic safety, T3), governance (aimed at the risk without a plan for the hardest parts, T2) and technical governance such as compute governance and chip verification (buying time, T1), plus a separate AI-and-biosecurity track (Adjacent). Source: https://erafellowship.org/about","funderId":"era-cambridge-fellowship","historyNote":"Grew out of the Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative (CERI, founded 2021), which ran a 10-week summer existential-risk research fellowship; that fellowship continues as ERA (erafellowship.org)."},"eric-darve":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://profiles.stanford.edu/eric-darve","kind":"person","location":"Stanford, USA","name":"Eric Darve","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://profiles.stanford.edu/eric-darve"],"summary":"Professor of Mechanical Engineering (courtesy Computer Science) at Stanford and Director of ICME; works on machine learning for science and engineering.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant funds LLM interpretability tooling; Darve's Stanford profile shows an ML-for-science and numerical computing academic listing LLMs but no safety or x-risk motivation, so the interp default T3 holds.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://profiles.stanford.edu/eric-darve"}},"eric-wong":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cis.upenn.edu/~exwong/about","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Eric Wong","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://cis.upenn.edu/~exwong/about"],"summary":"Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania; researches the foundations of robust, reliable systems, building on machine learning and optimisation.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The AI2050 page describes robust ML methods to prevent misuse of generative AI and support regulatory accountability, framed around privacy and misuse harms rather than takeover, so prosaic ML safety (T3).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://cis.upenn.edu/~exwong/about"}},"individual-4482":{"name":"Individual #4482","kind":"person","anonId":"4482"},"estonian-refugee-council":{"aliases":["MTÜ Eesti Pagulasabi","Eesti Pagulasabi"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://www.pagulasabi.ee/et/anneta","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.pagulasabi.ee/et","summary":"https://www.pagulasabi.ee/en"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.pagulasabi.ee/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"Tartu, Estonia","logoAsset":"/_blob/1489b90158fdb471871522efb802c711.png","name":"Estonian Refugee Council","quote":"We provide needs-based support to those most affected by crises, primarily refugees, internally displaced people, and those trapped in dangerous and hard-to-reach areas.","quoteUrl":"https://www.pagulasabi.ee/en","sources":["https://www.pagulasabi.ee/","https://www.pagulasabi.ee/en","https://www.pagulasabi.ee/et"],"summary":"Humanitarian organisation based in Tartu, Estonia, supporting people most affected by crises, primarily refugees and internally displaced people, including a response in Ukraine.","tags":[],"taxStatus":""},"eth-zurich-foundation":{"aliases":["ETH Zurich Foundation (ETH AI Center AI Fellowship Program)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://ethz-foundation.ch/en/online-giving/","donateNote":"Gifts support ETH Zurich broadly","fieldSources":{"people":"https://ethz-foundation.ch/en/foundation/","summary":"https://ethz-foundation.ch/en/foundation/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ethz-foundation.ch/en/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Zurich, Switzerland","logoAsset":"/_blob/64faedec0443143f0b594ceaf6693508.jpg","name":"ETH Zurich Foundation","people":[{"name":"Pius Baschera","role":"Chair (President)"},{"name":"Joël Mesot","role":"Vice Chair, President of ETH Zurich"},{"name":"Donald Tillman","role":"Managing Director"}],"quote":"To drive innovation through science in order to solve the greatest challenges of our time.","quoteUrl":"https://ethz-foundation.ch/en/purpose/","sources":["https://ethz-foundation.ch/en/","https://ethz-foundation.ch/en/foundation/"],"summary":"Philanthropic foundation that raises private donations to support ETH Zurich's research and education.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.7,"T4":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Two Tramèr-lab grants: the AISF data-poisoning-survives-alignment project is prosaic security (T3), and the LLM malware/surveillance capability study is a misuse-capability eval (T4 0.6 / T3 0.4 by provisional rule); the lab says it studies secure and private AI and its homepage doesn't mention takeover or x-risk."},"eth-zurich":{"aliases":["ETH Zurich"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ethz.ch","kind":"university","location":"Zürich, Switzerland","logoAsset":"/_blob/fb3cbee12e6fac9567a1d149f105bdc6.jpg","name":"ETH Zürich","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://ethz.ch","https://ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zurich/portrait.html"],"summary":"Swiss federal university for science and technology in Zurich.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"T3":0.7,"T4":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Two Tramèr-lab grants: the AISF data-poisoning-survives-alignment project is prosaic security (T3), and the LLM malware/surveillance capability study is a misuse-capability eval (T4 0.6 / T3 0.4 by provisional rule); the lab says it studies secure and private AI and its homepage doesn't mention takeover or x-risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zurich/portrait.html"}},"individual-6399":{"name":"Individual #6399","kind":"person","anonId":"6399"},"ethan-perez":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/ethan-perez","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["quote"]},"kind":"person","location":"","name":"Ethan Perez","quote":"I'm a research lead at Anthropic doing safety research on language models.","quoteUrl":"https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/ethan-perez","sources":["https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/ethan-perez"],"summary":"Research lead at Anthropic doing safety research on language models, including automated red teaming, debate and chain-of-thought faithfulness.","tags":["Alignment research","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/ethan-perez","summary":"https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/ethan-perez"}},"ethical-and-trustworthy-human-intelligent-computing-ethic-lab":{"aliases":["Ohio State University (Xueru Zhang)","ETHIC Lab","Xueru Zhang's group at The Ohio State University"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://xueruzhang.github.io/student/","summary":"https://xueruzhang.github.io/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted on lab page: PI + 8 PhD, 4 MS, 5 undergraduate students (excludes 2 PhD alumni)","range":"","url":"https://xueruzhang.github.io/student/","value":18},"homepage":"https://xueruzhang.github.io/student/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Columbus, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/176f6854b98185504a95a8394175a221.jpg","name":"Ethical and Trustworthy Human-Intelligent Computing (ETHIC) Lab","outputs":[{"label":"Publications (Xueru Zhang)","type":"publications","url":"https://xueruzhang.github.io/publication/"},{"label":"PI homepage","type":"other","url":"https://xueruzhang.github.io/"}],"parentOrg":"The Ohio State University (Department of Computer Science and Engineering)","people":[{"name":"Xueru Zhang","role":"PI, Assistant Professor of CSE"}],"quote":"Our mission is to build trustworthy human–ML ecosystems","quoteUrl":"https://xueruzhang.github.io/student/","sources":["https://xueruzhang.github.io/","https://xueruzhang.github.io/student/","https://api.nsf.gov/services/v1/awards.json?id=2416896,2416895,2415478&printFields=id,title,awardeeName,awardeeCity,piFirstName,piLastName,piEmail,estimatedTotalAmt,startDate"],"status":"active","summary":"Research group led by Assistant Professor Xueru Zhang at Ohio State's CSE department, working on theoretical and algorithmic foundations of trustworthy machine learning and on mechanisms that steer multi-agent and human-ML interactions.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. OSU's write-up of Zhang's NSF AI-safety project describes making decision systems in hiring, lending and healthcare trustworthy as people adapt. That is fairness and long-term dynamics work, with no takeover framing."},"ethicsnet":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://ethicsnet.org/","people":"https://ethicsnet.org/","summary":"https://www.ethicsnet.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"Players Philanthropy Fund","founded":"2016","foundedUrl":"https://ethicsnet.org/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.ethicsnet.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/e29128c1e996585f74413c949549c9d5.jpg","name":"EthicsNet","people":[{"name":"Nell Watson","role":"Founder, Chief Scientist & Engineer"}],"quote":"AI safety and welfare public goods for bilateral alignment","quoteUrl":"https://www.ethicsnet.org/","sources":["https://www.ethicsnet.org/","https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uEAvtbtEBdsQJMdh8/a-developmentally-situated-approach-to-teaching-normative","https://ethicsnet.org/"],"summary":"Project founded by Nell Watson building open-source tools, protocols and frameworks for AI safety and AI welfare.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"Fiscally sponsored project"},"etkili-bag-s":{"aliases":["Etkili Bağış (Turkish Effective Giving Initiative)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Donations go to recommended charities via the site","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.etkilibagis.org","kind":"org","location":"Türkiye","logoAsset":"/_blob/60b89611da27c76bf8656cbec2a31c47.jpg","name":"Etkili Bağış","quote":"Sizi, güçlü kanıtlarla desteklenen ve yaptığınız bağış başına en fazla etki sağlayan kurumlara yönlendirmek için buradayız.","quoteUrl":"https://www.etkilibagis.org","sources":["https://www.etkilibagis.org","https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge/etkili-bagis"],"summary":"Effective giving initiative in Türkiye that selects and recommends the most effective charities based on data and research, and offers a giving pledge.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, an effective giving fundraising org in Turkey, which is general EA meta and not AI-related.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.etkilibagis.org"}},"eu-ai-office-safety-unit-in-house":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/ai-office","summary":"https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/ai-office"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/ai-office","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"government","location":"Brussels, Belgium","logoAsset":"/_blob/9f478670107c031df5ecaa9eb4f14219.png","name":"EU AI Office safety unit (in-house)","quote":"The European AI Office supports the development and adoption of trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, while protecting people against risks.","quoteUrl":"https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/ai-office","sources":["https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/ai-office"],"summary":"AI Safety unit (unit A3) of the European AI Office, which was established within the European Commission and plays a key role in implementing the AI Act.","tags":["Governance & policy","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":""},"individual-3051":{"name":"Individual #3051","kind":"person","anonId":"3051"},"eugene-vinitsky":{"aliases":["Eugene Vinitsky, New York University"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://engineering.nyu.edu/eugene-vinitsky-0","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Eugene Vinitsky","quote":"My research goal is to see complex, human-like behavior emerge from unsupervised interaction between groups of learning agents with an applications focus on enabling autonomous vehicles to operate in rich scenarios.","quoteUrl":"https://engineering.nyu.edu/eugene-vinitsky-0","sources":["https://engineering.nyu.edu/eugene-vinitsky-0"],"summary":"Assistant Professor of Civil, Urban and Environmental Engineering at NYU Tandon; researches multi-agent reinforcement learning, autonomous vehicles and traffic control.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Cooperative AI Foundation grant for fast, safe adaptation to new teams; multi-agent RL coordination, prosaic and not x-risk aimed.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://engineering.nyu.edu/eugene-vinitsky-0","summary":"https://engineering.nyu.edu/eugene-vinitsky-0"}},"euraio-european-responsible-artificial-intelligence-office":{"aliases":["EURAIO (The European Responsible Artificial Intelligence Office)","EURAIO","The European Responsible Artificial Intelligence Office"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"players-philanthropy-fund","founded":"2022","foundedUrl":"https://village.ai/company/euraio","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.euraio.eu/","kind":"org","location":"Leuven, Belgium","logoAsset":"/_blob/3ce058dba965eafc626a11ccba3c2340.jpg","name":"EURAIO - European Responsible Artificial Intelligence Office","people":[{"name":"Simona Popa","role":"Global Program Coordinator"},{"name":"Amalesh Vemula","role":"Board Member"}],"quote":"Advising Companies and Organisations in Europe on how to implement AI for Good.","quoteUrl":"https://www.euraio.eu/","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/euraio","x":""},"sources":["https://village.ai/company/euraio","https://www.euraio.eu/","https://www.euraio.eu/about/","https://www.euraio.eu/team/"],"status":"unknown","statusNote":"Website online but shows no dates; its uploaded files date from 2021.","summary":"Advisory office that helps companies and organisations in Europe implement AI in legally compliant and ethically responsible ways, offering AI audits and AI risk categorisation scans.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The site describes a Leuven-based nonprofit that advises companies on legally compliant, ethical AI and EU-style responsible-AI implementation. Neither its homepage nor its directory listing mentions catastrophic, loss-of-control or superintelligence risk, so it is Adjacent (ai-ethics-society plus standards-regulation, framing none).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.euraio.eu/about/"}},"european-ai-society-fund":{"name":"European AI & Society Fund","aliases":["European AI and Society Fund","EAISF"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://europeanaifund.org/","location":"Brussels, Belgium","fiscalSponsor":"Network of European Foundations","summary":"Pooled fund of about 20 foundations, hosted by the Network of European Foundations, that grants to European civil society (human-rights, workers', racial-justice, environmental and patients' groups) working on AI in the public interest, such as the EU AI Act.","quote":"The European AI & Society Fund supports and connects people across Europe working for AI that's safe and fair for everyone.","quoteUrl":"https://europeanaifund.org/","people":[{"name":"Catherine Miller","role":"Co-Director"},{"name":"Evelyne Paradis","role":"Co-Director"}],"tags":["Governance & policy"],"sources":["https://europeanaifund.org/","https://europeanaifund.org/about/","https://europeanaifund.org/who-we-fund/","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/network-of-european-foundations-10116291/"],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://europeanaifund.org/about/","summary":"https://europeanaifund.org/who-we-fund/","quote":"https://europeanaifund.org/"},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. An intermediary tiered by what it funds: European civil-society groups on AI and rights, with no catastrophic-risk grantmaking found, so Adjacent (europeanaifund.org/who-we-fund/)."},"european-biostasis-foundation":{"aliases":["EBF"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://ebf.foundation/get-involved/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://ebf.foundation/board-of-trustees/","summary":"https://ebf.foundation/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ebf.foundation/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Rafz, Switzerland","logoAsset":"/_blob/8c930b0d52e2a95b3ff38b9cb33a5c8a.jpg","name":"European Biostasis Foundation","people":[{"name":"Emil Kendziorra","role":"Trustee, Chairman of the Board"}],"quote":"We fund, conduct and coordinate research on the preservation of biological tissue and organs, and operate infrastructure for long-term storage.","quoteUrl":"https://ebf.foundation/","sources":["https://ebf.foundation/","https://ebf.foundation/board-of-trustees/"],"summary":"Swiss nonprofit funding research into long-term preservation of biological tissue and operating biostasis storage infrastructure.","tags":[],"taxStatus":""},"european-center-for-not-for-profit-law-ecnl":{"aliases":["ECNL"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fieldSources":{"location":"https://ecnl.org/team","people":"https://ecnl.org/team","quote":"https://ecnl.org/about-us","summary":"https://ecnl.org/about-us"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ecnl.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"The Hague, Netherlands","logoAsset":"/_blob/0659398b380b7df2fef66294487b2e1d.jpg","name":"European Center for Not-For-Profit Law (ECNL)","people":[{"name":"Katerina Hadzi-Miceva Evans","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"protecting and expanding the space for civic action","quoteUrl":"https://ecnl.org/about-us","sources":["https://ecnl.org","https://ecnl.org/team","https://ecnl.org/about-us"],"summary":"Team of legal experts, analysts and activists working on the laws, policies and practices that enable civic space, including digital spaces and the effects of AI on civil society.","tags":["Governance & policy","Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"Dutch foundation (stichting)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. ECNL works on civic space and digital/human-rights aspects of AI regulation, probably AI-and-society work not aimed at x-risk."},"european-digital-rights":{"name":"European Digital Rights","aliases":["EDRi"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://edri.org/","donate":"https://edri.org/take-action/donate/","location":"Brussels, Belgium","summary":"Association of European civil and human rights organisations advocating on EU digital rules, including the AI Act, alongside surveillance, platform power and privacy.","quote":"EDRi's mission is to promote, protect and uphold civil and human rights in the digital age.","quoteUrl":"https://edri.org/about-us/who-we-are/","people":[{"name":"Amber Sinha","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Andrej Petrovski","role":"President"}],"tags":["Governance & policy"],"sources":["https://edri.org/","https://edri.org/about-us/who-we-are/","https://edri.org/about-us/our-team/","https://edri.org/about-us/board/","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/european-digital-rights-10115695/"],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://edri.org/about-us/our-team/","summary":"https://edri.org/","quote":"https://edri.org/about-us/who-we-are/"},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"notAI":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The general support grant covers AI governance alongside platform power and state surveillance; the AI part is rights-focused, not x-risk-aimed, so Adjacent, with a notAI share for the non-AI digital-rights work (split is a guess; edri.org)."},"european-leadership-network":{"aliases":["European Leadership Network (UK registered charity 1208594; Companies House 07521896)"],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"logoUrl":"https://europeanleadershipnetwork.org/","quote":"https://europeanleadershipnetwork.org/","summary":"https://europeanleadershipnetwork.org/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2011","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://europeanleadershipnetwork.org/","kind":"org","location":"London, United Kingdom","name":"European Leadership Network","people":[{"name":"Robert Ondrejcsák","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Bekki Field","role":"Deputy Executive Director"}],"quote":"Building better security for wider Europe","quoteUrl":"https://europeanleadershipnetwork.org/","sources":["https://europeanleadershipnetwork.org/","https://europeanleadershipnetwork.org/about/","https://europeanleadershipnetwork.org/about/our-people/staff/"],"status":"active","summary":"Independent, non-partisan pan-European network of past, present and future European leaders, based in London and Berlin, working on European security including nuclear disarmament, arms control and risks from new military technologies.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"global-health-other":0.25,"nuclear":0.75}},"european-summer-program-on-rationality":{"aliases":["European Summer Program on Rationality","ESPR"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://espr.camp/team","summary":"https://espr.camp/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://espr.camp/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"programme","location":"Somerset, United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/143e3955d2b7a3818b430717df4d488f.jpg","name":"European Summer Programme on Rationality","parentOrg":"fabric","people":[{"name":"Jan Kulveit","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Individual #2172","role":"ESPR camp lead"}],"quote":"an immersive workshop for mathematically talented students with a desire to understand themselves and the world","quoteUrl":"https://espr.camp/","sources":["https://espr.camp/","https://espr.camp/team"],"summary":"Free immersive summer workshop in the UK for mathematically talented teenagers on rationality, self-understanding and reasoning about the world, run by the FABRIC team.","tags":["Education & training","Field-building"],"taxStatus":""},"eva-dyer":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://nerdslab.github.io/","kind":"person","location":"Philadelphia, USA","name":"Eva Dyer","quote":"We are driven by the belief that artificial intelligence and neuroscience can inform each other, and that building scalable, interpretable models of brain activity will lead to breakthroughs in both fields.","quoteUrl":"https://nerdslab.github.io/","sources":["https://www.seas.upenn.edu/stories/eva-dyer-is-listening-to-the-brains-code-with-a-little-help-from-ai/","https://nerdslab.github.io/"],"summary":"Associate professor of Bioengineering and Computer and Information Science at Penn; her lab applies machine learning to decode neural data.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.75,"T4":0.25},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Foresight AI for Science & Safety Nodes grant, project not published; her known work is neural foundation models / NeuroAI, not aimed at x-risk. Adjusted: Foresight neurotech/WBE framed as AI safety: T1 75 / T4 25 (maintainer, 27 Oct).","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://nerdslab.github.io/","summary":"https://www.seas.upenn.edu/stories/eva-dyer-is-listening-to-the-brains-code-with-a-little-help-from-ai/"}},"evaleval-coalition":{"aliases":["EvalEval"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://evalevalai.com/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/8aa12350cb5676a3a65cd8a049fe5e3f.jpg","name":"EvalEval Coalition","quote":"We are a research community developing scientifically grounded research outputs and robust deployment infrastructure for broader impact evaluations.","quoteUrl":"https://evalevalai.com/","sources":["https://evalevalai.com/","https://huggingface.co/evaleval"],"summary":"Cross-institution research coalition, involving Hugging Face, the University of Edinburgh and EleutherAI, that studies the quality and documentation of AI evaluations.","tags":["Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. EvalEval's Hugging Face page describes evaluating evaluations (documentation standards, broader-impact coverage, the Every Eval Ever schema and Evaluation Cards) and does not mention catastrophic or existential risk, so it is half general eval infrastructure (T3) and half broader-impact/AI-and-society work (Adjacent); the proposed eval-infrastructure tag is mapped here as T3 0.8 / Adjacent 0.2.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://huggingface.co/evaleval"}},"evitable":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.every.org/evitable","donateNote":"Via fiscal sponsor Anti Entropy","fieldSources":{"people":"https://evitable.com/","quote":"https://evitable.com/about-us","summary":"https://evitable.com/about-us"},"fiscalSponsor":"Anti Entropy","founded":"2025","fundraiser":"https://manifund.org/projects/evitable-a-new-public-facing-ai-risk-nonprofit-a1ll15pvkcb","fundraiserDate":"2025-12","fundraiserTitle":"Evitable: a new public-facing AI risk non-profit","homepage":"https://evitable.com/","kind":"org","location":"Berkeley, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/620866134a0998b73fe2e8effdfa9937.jpg","name":"Evitable","people":[{"name":"David Krueger","role":"Founder"}],"quote":"informing and organizing the public around societal-scale risks and harms of AI","quoteUrl":"https://evitable.com/about-us","sources":["https://evitable.com/","https://manifund.org/projects/evitable-a-new-public-facing-ai-risk-nonprofit-a1ll15pvkcb","https://evitable.com/about-us"],"summary":"Public-facing nonprofit founded by AI professor David Krueger to inform and organize the public around societal-scale AI risks and to halt the race to superintelligence.","tags":["Advocacy","Communications"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) via fiscal sponsor","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purposes, a public-facing AI risk nonprofit advocating against superintelligence advancement and for a scaling moratorium, so pause/slowdown advocacy is T1 by rule."},"existential-risk-laboratory-xlab-university-of-chicago":{"aliases":["Existential Risk Laboratory","existential risk laboratory (xlab)","University of Chicago [Existential Risk Laboratory (XLab)]","XLab","University of Chicago (Existential Risk Laboratory)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://xrisk.uchicago.edu","kind":"university","location":"Chicago, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/62ae171dcb0a3afa2f9f5b3fc2c16918.jpg","name":"Existential Risk Laboratory (XLab), University of Chicago","quote":"understand and mitigate existential and global catastrophic risks","quoteUrl":"https://xrisk.uchicago.edu","sources":["https://xrisk.uchicago.edu"],"summary":"University of Chicago research community on existential and catastrophic risks (AI, bio, nuclear, climate), with a summer research fellowship, courses and the Second Look replication programme.","tags":["Academic","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"Private university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.4,"notAI":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. XLab's site states an existential and catastrophic risk mission across AI, biosecurity, nuclear and climate, with a fellowship in AI safety and nuclear security whose listed outputs are mostly AI governance, security and some interpretability; it never mentions superintelligence or loss of control, so I left out the T1 share that the talent-pipeline default would give.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://xrisk.uchicago.edu"}},"existential-risk-observatory":{"aliases":["Existential Risk Observatory Foundation","Stichting Existential Risk Observatory","ERO"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.existentialriskobservatory.org/","summary":"https://www.existentialriskobservatory.org/about-us/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2021","foundedUrl":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/kK9WfSr52hwqhHXHp/introducing-the-existential-risk-observatory","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 15 people with bios on homepage team section (mix of staff, board and volunteers; not split)","range":"","url":"https://www.existentialriskobservatory.org/","value":15},"homepage":"https://www.existentialriskobservatory.org/","kind":"org","location":"Amsterdam, Netherlands","logoAsset":"/_blob/8225cbe5027e15d73b0b663b6fea8fd1.jpg","name":"Existential Risk Observatory","outputs":[{"label":"ERO newsletter (Substack)","type":"newsletter","url":"https://xriskobservatory.substack.com/"},{"label":"Founder Otto Barten on EA Forum","type":"eaforum","url":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/otto"}],"people":[{"name":"Otto Barten","role":"founder / director"},{"name":"Joep Sauren","role":"treasurer"},{"name":"Ruben Dieleman","role":"campaign manager"}],"quote":"Reducing existential risk by informing the public debate","quoteUrl":"https://www.existentialriskobservatory.org/","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/71570894","x":"https://twitter.com/xrobservatory"},"sources":["https://www.existentialriskobservatory.org/","https://www.existentialriskobservatory.org/about-us/","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/kK9WfSr52hwqhHXHp/introducing-the-existential-risk-observatory","https://xriskobservatory.substack.com/","https://www.verif.com/en/company/Stichting-Existential-Risk-Observatory-68d9cc9f1299230338de5b41/"],"status":"active","statusNote":"Dutch registry (via verif.com) lists Stichting Existential Risk Observatory as active; team still listed on homepage","summary":"Amsterdam-based Dutch foundation that informs the debate on existential risks, including unaligned AI, through research, policy proposals, media work and events.","tags":["Advocacy","Communications","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"Dutch stichting (foundation); ANBI status not verified","xrTier":{"T1":0.5,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Known work: Dutch org raising public and policymaker awareness of AI existential risk and has argued for pausing/slowing AI; grant purpose is AI x-risk events, so comms rule gives a T1/T2 mix."},"expii":{"aliases":["Expii, Inc."],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.expii.com/","summary":"https://www.expii.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2014","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.expii.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/8dec4b391cafe3a36a894066ed0cb2ec.jpg","name":"Expii","people":[{"name":"Po-Shen Loh","role":"Founder"}],"quote":"Expii is the social enterprise Po-Shen Loh founded to solve society-scale problems, from education to pandemics.","quoteUrl":"https://www.expii.com/","sources":["https://www.expii.com/"],"summary":"Social enterprise founded by mathematician Po-Shen Loh to tackle society-scale problems, from online math education to pandemic tools.","tags":["Education & training"],"taxStatus":""},"fabric":{"aliases":["FABRIC Labs, z.s.","Fabric Labs, z. s."],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.fabric.camp/","people":"https://www.fabric.camp/","summary":"https://fabric.camp/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2016","foundedUrl":"https://www.fabric.camp/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://fabric.camp/","kind":"org","location":"Prague, Czech Republic","logoAsset":"/_blob/e70a218aebbacdbc7581fc3db5b989c3.png","name":"FABRIC","people":[{"name":"Jan Kulveit","role":"Founder"},{"name":"David František Wagner","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"We run free residential programs for analytical students aged 16–21 who want to understand themselves and the world.","quoteUrl":"https://fabric.camp/","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations","https://fabric.camp/","https://www.fabric.camp/"],"status":"active","statusNote":"Active; runs ESPR, PAIR, ASPR and WARP camps.","summary":"Runs free residential programmes for analytical students aged 16–21, including ESPR on applied rationality and PAIR on how human and artificial minds work; run by FABRIC Labs, z.s., a Prague non-profit.","tags":[],"taxStatus":""},"faculty-ai":{"aliases":["Faculty (AI safety research)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://faculty.ai/en-gb/company","people":"https://faculty.ai/en-gb/company","quote":"https://faculty.ai/en-gb/company","summary":"https://faculty.ai"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2014","foundedUrl":"https://faculty.ai/en-gb/company","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://faculty.ai","kind":"company","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/6aab8d8430c226a16a4bca941f32b8da.png","name":"Faculty AI","people":[{"name":"Marc Warner","role":"Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder"},{"name":"Angie Ma","role":"Co-Founder"}],"quote":"Putting AI to work for the world","quoteUrl":"https://faculty.ai/en-gb/company","sources":["https://faculty.ai","https://faculty.ai/en-gb/company"],"summary":"London-based applied AI company that partners with organisations to improve performance with AI; has also done AI safety work such as red-teaming.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.3,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The FMF AISF page gives only the title 'Automated Red-Teaming for Biosecurity Risks' (a misuse eval, so T4 0.6 / T3 0.4 by rule); the wargame is probably for the film Intelligence Rising, whose fundraiser page describes wargaming AI escalation (comms, T2/Adjacent); the dollar split is unknown, so I weighted them equally."},"fair-share-housing-center":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://secure.qgiv.com/for/fairsharehousing/","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://fairsharehousing.org/","kind":"org","location":"New Jersey, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/94e89ddd89e1d041cfdfd85ded9520ca.jpg","name":"Fair Share Housing Center","quote":"uses legal, policy, and community-building strategies to fight for housing justice in New Jersey","quoteUrl":"https://fairsharehousing.org/","sources":["https://fairsharehousing.org/"],"summary":"New Jersey nonprofit using legal, policy and community-building strategies to advocate for affordable housing and housing justice; not an AI-safety organisation.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose 'Legal Work in New Jersey' and the organisation's known focus on affordable-housing litigation, this isn't AI-related and is probably wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://fairsharehousing.org/"}},"faith-matters-foundation":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://donorbox.org/ORGANIZED-INTELLIGENCE","donateNote":"Donation page for the Organized Intelligence initiative","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://faithmatters.org","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/73b4f8dfa3fad1774c81d26bc1d2cca7.jpg","name":"Faith Matters Foundation","quote":"Organized Intelligence is a new initiative that brings together Latter-day Saint voices from across disciplines to explore the ethical, social, and religious implications of AI.","quoteUrl":"https://faithmatters.org/about","sources":["https://faithmatters.org","https://donorbox.org/ORGANIZED-INTELLIGENCE","https://faithmatters.org/about"],"summary":"Hosts podcasts and conversations about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ; runs Organized Intelligence, bringing Latter-day Saint voices together on the ethical, social and religious implications of AI.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"US nonprofit","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. FLI's grant page and the 2025 conference coverage describe Organized Intelligence as faith perspectives on the ethical, social and spiritual dimensions of AI with no superintelligence or racing framing, so the decided constituency-outreach rule gives Adjacent.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://faithmatters.org/about","summary":"https://faithmatters.org/about"}},"far-ai-integrity-team":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.every.org/far-ai-inc","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://far.ai","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/e123ae954819b74df3d5b7acaa4bff81.jpg","name":"FAR.AI Integrity Team","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://far.ai/donate/","https://www.founderspledge.com/research/frontier-ai-grantmaking"],"summary":"FAR.AI team developing evaluations of AI manipulation for the EU AI Office's consortium on manipulation.","tags":["Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T2":0.15,"T3":0.85},"xrTierNote":"Team within FAR.AI evaluating AI manipulation, including work for the EU AI Office consortium; FAR.AI's evaluations test whether models change conspiracy beliefs. It takes FAR.AI's split: mostly safety work that could cut either way (T3, about 85%), partly aimed at takeover risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2, about 15%). Source: https://far.ai/","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.founderspledge.com/research/frontier-ai-grantmaking"}},"far-ai":{"aliases":["FAR","FAR.AI","Fund for Alignment Research","FAR AI, Inc.","Fund for Alignment Research (FAR AI)","FAR Labs","Ethan Josean Perez / FAR.AI"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://far.ai/donate/","donateNote":"Via Every.org","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.far.ai/about","summary":"https://far.ai/","filings":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/920692207","registration":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/920692207"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://far.ai/","kind":"org","location":"Berkeley, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/59afc6115d09513697c748de7e9431bd.png","name":"FAR AI","people":[{"name":"Adam Gleave","role":"Co-founder & CEO"},{"name":"Karl Berzins","role":"Co-Founder and President"}],"quote":"Ensuring advanced AI is trustworthy, secure and beneficial for everyone.","quoteUrl":"https://far.ai/","sources":["https://far.ai/","https://far.ai/donate/","https://www.far.ai/about"],"summary":"AI safety nonprofit doing technical research on robustness, deception and red-teaming; also runs Alignment Workshop and AI-policy events and the FAR.Labs coworking space in Berkeley.","tags":["Alignment research","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T2":0.15,"T3":0.85},"xrTierNote":"Research nonprofit working on robustness, model evaluations and alignment topics such as deception detection and reward hacking, plus events, grantmaking and policy support. Most of it is safety work that could cut either way (T3, about 85%); the deception-focused part aims at takeover risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2, about 15%). 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Grant purposes are interpretability-driven auditing/control and unlearning evaluation; prosaic safety with stated catastrophic-risk motivation.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://fazlbarez.com","summary":"https://fazlbarez.com"}},"federation-of-american-scientists":{"aliases":["FAS"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://fas.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://fas.org/publication/gilman-louie-chair-emeritus/","quote":"https://fas.org/","summary":"https://fas.org/about-fas/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1945","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://fas.org/","kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/38a44c1e2af0225a6d556ad1c1d0c019.jpg","name":"Federation of American Scientists","people":[{"name":"Daniel Correa","role":"CEO"},{"name":"Gilman Louie","role":"Board Chair (Chair Emeritus from 1 Jan 2027)"},{"name":"Kumar Garg","role":"Interim Chair from January 2027"}],"quote":"FAS envisions a world where cutting-edge science, technology, ideas and talent are deployed to solve the biggest challenges of our time.","quoteUrl":"https://fas.org/","sources":["https://fas.org/about-fas/","https://fas.org/publication/gilman-louie-chair-emeritus/","https://fas.org/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_American_Scientists"],"summary":"Science and technology policy organisation founded in 1945 by Manhattan Project scientists; works on nuclear risk, emerging technology including AI policy, and government capacity.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T2":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. FAS's $1.5M FLI 2024 grant is AI-specific: the AI x Global Risk Nexus project on AI with nuclear C3, bio, cyber and autonomous weapons (catastrophic misuse/accident, so T2 per the policy rule, with one 'AGI and Global Risk' memo); the FTX immigration/AI-policy regrant and general AI policy work are Adjacent; no notAI share is warranted."},"fei-fei-li":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://hai.stanford.edu/people/fei-fei-li","summary":"https://hai.stanford.edu/people/fei-fei-li"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://hai.stanford.edu/people/fei-fei-li","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Fei-Fei Li","sources":["https://hai.stanford.edu/people/fei-fei-li"],"summary":"Founding Director of Stanford HAI and Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University; research includes computer vision, machine learning and cognitively inspired AI.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"individual-3530":{"name":"Individual #3530","kind":"person","anonId":"3530"},"individual-1418":{"name":"Individual #1418","kind":"person","anonId":"1418"},"fewshot":{"aliases":["Fewshot Corp"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://few.sh","kind":"company","location":"Santa Barbara, USA","name":"Fewshot","quote":"We are working in reward hacking detection and mitigation","quoteUrl":"https://few.sh","sources":["https://few.sh","https://www.vcbacked.co/company/fewshot"],"summary":"Research company studying reward hacking in reinforcement learning, including how reward visibility and RL training affect hacking behaviour, and developing guidance for test design.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. A directory profile and a co-founder profile describe a small startup (pre-seed 2025) that detects and mitigates reward hacking in RL, with a research agenda on whether RL amplifies hacking and on test design; no takeover or superintelligence framing found, so prosaic ML safety.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://few.sh"}},"finale-doshi-velez":{"aliases":["Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://finale.seas.harvard.edu","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Finale Doshi-Velez","quote":"We develop methods in reinforcement learning, interpretability, and probabilistic methods to create agents that help people both in the immediate and longer term.","quoteUrl":"https://finale.seas.harvard.edu","sources":["https://finale.seas.harvard.edu"],"summary":"Harvard computer science professor researching reinforcement learning, interpretability and probabilistic methods for human-AI decision-making.","tags":["Academic","Interpretability"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. CAIF's grant page describes MARL coalition-formation strategies and LLM case-file synthesis to support human humanitarian negotiators, with no catastrophic or x-risk framing, so it is AI-for-society work (Adjacent).","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://finale.seas.harvard.edu","summary":"https://finale.seas.harvard.edu"}},"first-proof":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fieldSources":{"people":"https://1stproof.org/","summary":"https://1stproof.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://1stproof.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/0e52551aa88ce30394d6d6e7cc08ddb6.png","name":"First Proof","people":[{"name":"Mohammed Abouzaid","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"First Proof provides independent, transparent, and rigorous engagement with the evolving capabilities of AI in research mathematics.","quoteUrl":"https://1stproof.org/","sources":["https://1stproof.org/"],"summary":"Independent foundation evaluating the capabilities of AI in research mathematics through benchmarks of research-level problems and community experiments.","tags":["Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T3":0.3,"T4":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Probably the First Proof research-level maths problem set for testing AI; if so it mainly measures capability, but SFF funding suggests a safety framing I can't confirm."},"flavio-calmon":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://seas.harvard.edu/person/flavio-calmon","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Flavio Calmon","quote":"I use information theory to characterize fundamental performance limits of machine learning systems, and then design algorithms that try to achieve these limits.","quoteUrl":"https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~flavio/","sources":["https://seas.harvard.edu/person/flavio-calmon","https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~flavio/"],"summary":"Individual #5426 Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Harvard SEAS; researches information theory, machine learning and responsible AI, including fair and private machine learning.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Calmon's group paper 'AI Alignment at Your Discretion' studies how annotators and models apply discretion when aligning to principles, with no catastrophic or superintelligence framing, so prosaic alignment research (T3).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~flavio/"}},"flexheg-prototyping-jacob-lagerros":{"aliases":["flexHEG prototyping"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"Center for Applied Rationality","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"programme","location":"","name":"flexHEG prototyping (Individual #7477)","people":[],"sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations"],"status":"active","summary":"Individual #7477's flexHEG prototyping work, supported by Jaan Tallinn through SFF's Initiative Committee 2024 with the Center for Applied Rationality as receiving charity.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose and the flexHEG technical report, this is hardware-enabled compute governance (a guarantee processor on AI accelerators that verifies compliance with rules), which the buying-time rule makes T1; CFAR was only the receiving charity.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations"}},"individual-4816":{"name":"Individual #4816","kind":"person","anonId":"4816"},"individual-1823":{"name":"Individual #1823","kind":"person","anonId":"1823"},"florian-shkurti":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual academic","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~florian/","summary":"https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~florian/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~florian/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Florian Shkurti","quote":"My research centers around robotics and spans machine learning, perception, planning and control.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~florian/","sources":["https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~florian/"],"summary":"Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto; robot learning and safety.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"florian-tramer":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://floriantramer.com/","kind":"person","location":"Zurich, Switzerland","name":"Florian Tramèr","quote":"In my current work, I study the worst-case behavior of Large Language Models from an adversarial perspective, to understand and mitigate long-term threats to the safety and privacy of users.","quoteUrl":"https://floriantramer.com/","sources":["https://floriantramer.com/","https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/"],"summary":"Assistant professor of computer science at ETH Zurich leading the SPY Lab; works on computer security, machine learning and cryptography, including the worst-case adversarial behaviour of large language models.","tags":["Academic","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. His homepage and SPY Lab page describe LLM security, privacy and adversarial worst-case behaviour (prompt injection, jailbreaks) aimed at user safety, with no mention of takeover or catastrophic risk, so prosaic ML safety.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://floriantramer.com/"}},"flourishing-future-foundation":{"aliases":["Flourishing Future Foundation (FFF)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Flourishing Future Foundation","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2025/recommendations"],"summary":"Recipient of a $300,000 SFF-2025 general-support recommendation, with a $270,000 matching pledge; not identified further.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"untiered":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. No published purpose beyond general support and I can't tell what the organisation does.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2025/recommendations"}},"flourishing-futures-fellowship":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://manifund.org/projects/flourishing-futures-fellowship","donateNote":"Via Manifund project page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://manifund.org/projects/flourishing-futures-fellowship","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","logo","people","quote"]},"kind":"org","location":"Berkeley, USA","name":"Flourishing Futures Fellowship","quote":"I plan to design and launch a flourishing futures fellowship, similar to BlueDot's AI safety fellowship but focused on making the long-term future as good as it can be.","quoteUrl":"https://manifund.org/projects/flourishing-futures-fellowship","sources":["https://manifund.org/projects/flourishing-futures-fellowship"],"summary":"Proposed 12-week fellowship, modelled on BlueDot's AI safety fellowship, training researchers on how to make the long-term future as good as it can be. Run by Individual #7246; funding sought via Manifund.","tags":["Education & training","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Fellowship recommended by AI safety regrantors (Leo Gao, Ryan Kidd), but the name suggests a focus on positive futures; guess from the name only.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://manifund.org/projects/flourishing-futures-fellowship","summary":"https://manifund.org/projects/flourishing-futures-fellowship"}},"flourishing-humanity-corporation":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://flourishinghumanitycorporation.com","kind":"company","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/9f0dbdf36824726643f920e3c4cfc80d.jpg","name":"Flourishing Humanity Corporation","quote":"We build technology for humanity","quoteUrl":"https://flourishinghumanitycorporation.com","sources":["https://flourishinghumanitycorporation.com","https://www.cbinsights.com/company/flourishing-humanity-corporation"],"summary":"Personal-development technology company building self-discovery and well-being tracking apps.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://flourishinghumanitycorporation.com"}},"fonix":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Fønix","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2023/h2/recommendations"],"summary":"Recipient of a $378,000 SFF-2023-H2 general-support recommendation, received via Effektiv Altruism Sverige; not identified further.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"unknown":1},"fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2023/h2/recommendations"}},"forecasting-research-institute":{"aliases":["FRI","Forecasting Research Institute (Tetlock team)","Ezra Karger, Individual #5138, Philip Tetlock"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"No donation link found on site","fieldSources":{"people":"https://forecastingresearch.org/about","summary":"https://forecastingresearch.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://forecastingresearch.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/e9a3df4020cfff6e67f84e166ac8f286.jpg","name":"Forecasting Research Institute","people":[{"name":"Philip Tetlock","role":"President, Chief Scientist"},{"name":"Josh Rosenberg","role":"CEO"}],"quote":"We advance the science of forecasting to improve decision-making on high-stakes issues","quoteUrl":"https://forecastingresearch.org/","sources":["https://forecastingresearch.org/","https://forecastingresearch.org/about"],"summary":"Research organisation that develops forecasting methods and runs large-scale forecasting studies on AI, biosecurity and geopolitics, including a longitudinal expert panel on AI progress and a benchmark of AI forecasting accuracy.","tags":["Forecasting"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.966,"notAI":0.034},"xrTierNote":"Runs large-scale forecasting studies on AI, biosecurity and geopolitics, such as work on the economic effects of AI, and shares the results with policymakers. Forecasting AI is not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent, nearly all); a small non-AI share is outside the count. Source: https://forecastingresearch.org/about"},"foresight-institute":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://foresight.org/engage/fundraising/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://foresight.org/about/","quote":"https://foresight.org/about/","summary":"https://foresight.org/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1986","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://foresight.org/","kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/707e850f5a4b8ba7b99a5f16e6c302a9.jpg","name":"Foresight Institute","people":[{"name":"Christine Peterson","role":"Co-founder; Interim President"},{"name":"Eric Drexler","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"We work to advance science and technology for the benefit of life","quoteUrl":"https://foresight.org/about/","sources":["https://foresight.org/about/"],"summary":"San Francisco research nonprofit founded in 1986 that funds and convenes work on secure AI, neurotechnology, longevity, nanotechnology and space through grants, fellowships, prizes and workshops.","tags":["Field-building","Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T1":0.1,"T2":0.2,"notAI":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Foresight works across secure AI, neurotechnology, longevity, nanotechnology and space. Its Existential Hope programme, which several of these grants fund, is mostly about positive visions of the AI future (Adjacent). Its AI safety grants fund neurotechnology and brain emulation, security and multi-agent work without naming superintelligence (small T1 and T2 shares). The non-AI programmes are out of counting scope (notAI). Source: https://foresight.org/about/","funderId":"foresight-institute-funding"},"forethought-foundation":{"aliases":["Forethought Foundation","FF"],"checked":"2026-11-07","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.forethought.org/","kind":"org","location":"Oxford, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/516249ef6714146966271af231a97f16.png","name":"Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/forethought-foundation","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/6JnTAifyqz245Kv7S/forethought-a-new-ai-macrostrategy-group","https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16156175"],"status":"closed","statusNote":"Wound down in 2024; the separate AI macrostrategy group Forethought (profile 'forethought') was built out of it with only legal/administrative continuity.","summary":"Global priorities research centre founded by William MacAskill in 2018 within the Centre for Effective Altruism, researching longtermism and global catastrophic risk; shut down in 2024. Distinct from Forethought Research.","tags":["Academic","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/forethought-foundation"},"successorId":"forethought"},"forethought":{"aliases":["Forethought Research"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.every.org/forethought","donateNote":"Also via Giving What We Can","fieldSources":{"location":"https://www.forethought.org/about","people":"https://www.forethought.org/about","founded":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16156175","summary":"https://www.forethought.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","fundraiser":"https://www.forethought.org/2025-fundraiser","fundraiserDate":"2025-12","fundraiserTitle":"2025 Fundraiser","homepage":"https://www.forethought.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Oxford, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/dd5d4dbc3bc411f5964daf21006a6a2f.jpg","name":"Forethought","people":[{"name":"Max Dalton","role":"Director"},{"name":"Max Daniel","role":"Chair"}],"quote":"We are a research nonprofit focused on how to navigate the transition to a world with superintelligent AI systems.","quoteUrl":"https://www.forethought.org/about","sources":["https://forethought.org/donate","https://www.forethought.org/2025-fundraiser","https://www.forethought.org/about","https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16156175","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/forethought-foundation"],"summary":"Oxford-based research nonprofit studying how to navigate the transition to a world with superintelligent AI systems. Separate from the earlier Forethought Foundation, which shut down in 2024.","tags":["Governance & policy","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"UK non-profit company (no. 16156175)","xrTier":{"T2":1},"xrTierNote":"Researches how to navigate the transition to superintelligent AI, including the intelligence explosion, controlling powerful AI, sharing its benefits and rights for digital minds. It aims at takeover risk without its own plan for the hard parts (T2). Source: https://www.forethought.org/about","predecessorId":"forethought-foundation"},"formation-research":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.formationresearch.org/about","people":"https://www.formationresearch.org/about","summary":"https://www.formationresearch.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2025","foundedUrl":"https://www.formationresearch.org/about","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.formationresearch.org/","kind":"org","location":"United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/5f6c7b68eee7970820bc3611e6bf2031.jpg","name":"Formation Research","people":[{"name":"Individual #8656","role":"Founder"}],"quote":"Formation Research aims to reduce lock-in risks by researching fundamental lock-in dynamics","quoteUrl":"https://www.formationresearch.org/","sources":["https://www.formationresearch.org/","https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TPTA9rELyhxiBK6cu/formation-research-organisation-overview","https://www.formationresearch.org/about"],"summary":"UK-based not-for-profit company researching lock-in risks from AI, such as AI-enabled dictatorships and extreme power concentration.","tags":["Alignment research","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"UK not-for-profit company (US 501(c)(3) equivalency)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. FLI's grant page describes modelling and ranking scenarios where AI makes power structures permanently fixed, plus a lock-in-risk eval benchmark; Formation calls lock-in a neglected category of AI risk and its writing includes AI-led lock-in, but the funded project doesn't mention misalignment or takeover, so power-concentration with stated framing applies."},"forum-for-climate-engineering-assessment":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://ceassessment.org/who-we-are/","people":"https://ceassessment.org/staff-category/staff/","quote":"https://ceassessment.org/who-we-are/","summary":"https://ceassessment.org/who-we-are/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2013","foundedUrl":"https://ceassessment.org/who-we-are/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ceassessment.org/","kind":"programme","location":"Washington, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/882031690b4270e8b21ac543e7175176.jpg","name":"Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment","people":[{"name":"Wil Burns","role":"Co-Executive Director"},{"name":"Simon Nicholson","role":"Co-Executive Director"}],"quote":"assess the social, ethical, political, and legal implications of emerging technologies","quoteUrl":"https://ceassessment.org/who-we-are/","sources":["https://ceassessment.org/","https://ceassessment.org/who-we-are/","https://ceassessment.org/staff-category/staff/"],"summary":"Initiative of American University's School of International Service that assesses the social, ethical, political and legal implications of climate engineering.","tags":["Governance & policy","Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"foundation-for-american-innovation":{"aliases":["FAI","Foundation for American Innovation (FAI)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.thefai.org/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.thefai.org/about-us","quote":"https://www.thefai.org/about-us","summary":"https://www.thefai.org/about-us"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2014","foundedUrl":"https://www.thefai.org/about-us","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.thefai.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["people"]},"kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/a700907e99660612a324651e1c80f4b0.png","name":"Foundation for American Innovation","quote":"The Foundation for American Innovation champions the technology, talent, and ideas essential to American prosperity, security, and flourishing.","quoteUrl":"https://www.thefai.org/about-us","sources":["https://www.thefai.org/","https://www.thefai.org/donate","https://www.thefai.org/about-us","https://openphilanthropy.org/grants/foundation-for-american-innovation-ai-safety-policy-advocacy"],"summary":"Washington, DC nonprofit technology think tank whose policy work covers frontier artificial intelligence among other areas; has received funding for policy research and advocacy intended to improve AI safety.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.35,"T1":0.1,"T2":0.35,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. FAI's AI output listed in its 2023, 2025 and 2026 quarterly updates mixes frontier-safety work (Hammond's Manhattan Project for AI Safety, testimony on monitoring frontier capabilities, the Chip Security Act on chip smuggling, pre-deployment vetting, a DNA synthesis screening letter) with China-competition, workforce and copyright pieces and with pro-acceleration, anti-regulation work (data access to accelerate American AI, the Frontier Legal Defense programme, opposing European-style and state AI rules), so the funded AI safety policy line sits alongside a substantial T4 strand."},"foundations-of-cooperative-ai-lab":{"aliases":["FOCAL","Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab (FOCAL), Carnegie Mellon University"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~focal/","kind":"university","location":"Pittsburgh, USA","name":"Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab","parentOrg":"carnegie-mellon-university","quote":"Our goal is to create foundations of game theory appropriate for advanced, autonomous AI agents – with a focus on achieving cooperation.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~focal/","sources":["https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~focal/","https://macroscopic.org/grants"],"status":"unknown","summary":"Carnegie Mellon University lab led by Vincent Conitzer whose goal is to create foundations of game theory appropriate for advanced, autonomous AI agents.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"The lab says its goal is 'foundations of game theory appropriate for advanced, autonomous AI agents': foundational theory of how advanced AI agents cooperate and make decisions. That aims at catastrophic risk from advanced AI and works on the hard theoretical problems (T1). Source: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~focal/.","people":[{"name":"Vincent Conitzer","role":"Lab lead (Professor, Carnegie Mellon University)"}],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~focal/","summary":"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~focal/"}},"founders-for-good":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ff.co/founders-for-good","kind":"programme","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/a1a6ca60ab0959988248b2f744f9cf82.png","name":"Founders for Good","people":[],"quote":"a catalyst for meaningful change","quoteUrl":"https://ff.co/founders-for-good","sources":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_Pledge","https://ff.co/founders-for-good"],"status":"active","summary":"Part of the Founders Forum Group, connecting ambitious founders with resources, mentorship and a community of like-minded innovators; Founders Pledge, which runs funds including one on AI safety, was born out of the group.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://ff.co/founders-for-good"}},"founders-pledge":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.founderspledge.com/donate","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2015","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.founderspledge.com/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/c3feaf13eaeb6e336785ce61af349c15.png","name":"Founders Pledge","quote":"We advise on, facilitate, and maximize the impact of our members’ giving.","quoteUrl":"https://www.founderspledge.com/about","sources":["https://www.founderspledge.com/about","https://www.founderspledge.com/funds/global-catastrophic-risks-fund"],"summary":"Registered charity that advises its members on high-impact giving and runs a Global Catastrophic Risks Fund covering threats such as advanced AI and engineered pandemics.","tags":["Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3); UK registered charity 1162201","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"notAI":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Meta Charity Funders' retrospective says the $400k was general support for Founders Pledge's money-moving and advising across cause areas. Only some of that money probably goes to AI risk, through its GCR Fund.","funderId":"founders-pledge","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.founderspledge.com/funds/global-catastrophic-risks-fund"}},"fp21":{"aliases":["Foreign Policy for the 21st Century"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://www.fp21.org/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.fp21.org/team","summary":"https://www.fp21.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.fp21.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/61d69ccfb82edbd4919690e47282c1d1.png","name":"fp21","people":[{"name":"Dan Spokojny","role":"CEO and Founder"}],"quote":"fp21 is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) think tank dedicated to transforming the process and institutions of American foreign policy.","quoteUrl":"https://www.fp21.org/","sources":["https://www.fp21.org/","https://www.fp21.org/team"],"summary":"Nonprofit think tank dedicated to transforming the process and institutions of American foreign policy.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)"},"francesca-rossi":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Rossi","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Francesca Rossi","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Rossi","https://research.ibm.com/people/francesca-rossi"],"summary":"AI researcher working on AI value alignment, constraint reasoning and preferences; IBM Fellow and IBM AI Ethics Global Leader, formerly a professor of computer science at the University of Padova.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The FLI grant page describes embedding ethical principles and safety constraints in human-machine collective decision systems (driving, assistive tech, health care) with no x-risk aim, so half prosaic value alignment, half AI ethics.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://research.ibm.com/people/francesca-rossi"}},"individual-7573":{"name":"Individual #7573","kind":"person","anonId":"7573"},"francis-bach":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/","kind":"person","location":"Paris, France","name":"Francis Bach","quote":"I am interested in statistical machine learning, and especially in optimization, sparse methods, kernel-based learning, neural networks, graphical models, and signal processing.","quoteUrl":"https://www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","https://www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/"],"summary":"Building an external auditing system to check whether AI agents follow safety rules, as a 2026 AI2050 Senior Fellow; a research director at Inria leading the SIERRA project-team.","tags":["Academic","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. His AI2050 project builds an external auditing system that checks whether AI agents' actions follow safety rules and flags when they can be trusted to act reliably. That is prosaic safety assurance, not aimed at takeover risk (T3), with a small share of AI work not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent). Source: https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/"}},"individual-6844":{"name":"Individual #6844","kind":"person","anonId":"6844"},"individual-4402":{"name":"Individual #4402","kind":"person","anonId":"4402"},"individual-5874":{"name":"Individual #5874","kind":"person","anonId":"5874"},"future-coalition":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://secure.actblue.com/donate/futurecoalition","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://futurecoalition.org/history/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","foundedUrl":"https://futurecoalition.org/history/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://futurecoalition.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["location","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/8cae66026772fdaef503b7b4759148ce.jpg","name":"Future Coalition","quote":"Future Coalition invests in youth-centered grassroots partners dedicated to driving transformative change in their communities","quoteUrl":"https://futurecoalition.org/what-we-do/","sources":["https://futurecoalition.org/what-we-do/","https://futurecoalition.org/history/"],"summary":"US youth-focused nonprofit network supporting youth-led grassroots organisations; received funding for advocacy toward human-centred AI.","tags":["Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T2":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Youth advocacy network; from the grant purpose the FLI grant funds advocacy for human-centred AI, probably broad AI-and-society framing with some risk messaging."},"future-forum":{"aliases":["Future Forum Foundation"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"location":"https://www.futureforum.foundation/","people":"https://www.futureforum.foundation/","quote":"https://www.futureforum.foundation/","summary":"https://www.futureforum.foundation/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://futureforum.foundation","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/7d3c65a96bf683bfc1de78f03f8f3da1.png","name":"Future Forum","people":[{"name":"Individual #7112","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"Future Forum was an experimental 300-people event in San Francisco, from August 4th-7th, 2022.","quoteUrl":"https://www.futureforum.foundation/","sources":["https://www.futureforum.foundation/"],"summary":"Experimental conference held in San Francisco on 4–7 August 2022 as a programme hosted by the non-profit Foresight Institute, with working groups on AI, space, biotech and policy.","tags":[],"taxStatus":""},"future-impact-group":{"aliases":["FIG","Oxford Future Impact Group"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://futureimpact.group/about","people":"https://futureimpact.group/meet-the-team","summary":"https://futureimpact.group/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2023","foundedUrl":"https://futureimpact.group/about","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://futureimpact.group/","kind":"org","location":"London, United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/4636e23edcaf758de7bde00c007074c4.jpg","name":"Future Impact Group","people":[{"name":"Luke Dawes","role":"Managing Director"},{"name":"Suryansh Mehta","role":"Co-founder & President"}],"quote":"We're concerned by the risks posed by transformative AI systems.","quoteUrl":"https://futureimpact.group/","sources":["https://futureimpact.group/","https://futureimpact.group/about","https://futureimpact.group/meet-the-team"],"summary":"Runs a part-time, remote-first research fellowship placing participants on projects in AI policy, philosophy for safe AI and AI sentience.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":""},"future-matters":{"aliases":["Future Matters Project gGmbH"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://future-matters.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://future-matters.org/about/","summary":"https://future-matters.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2020","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://future-matters.org","kind":"org","location":"Berlin, Germany","logoAsset":"/_blob/c24a8baf2f43fa89a43af90341a256e2.jpg","name":"Future Matters","people":[{"name":"Justus Baumann","role":"Co-Founder & Managing Director"},{"name":"Vegard Beyer","role":"Co-Founder & Director of Partnerships and Communications"}],"quote":"Building shared understanding on the risks of powerful AI systems, and helping decision-makers and stakeholders in the US and internationally engage with them effectively.","quoteUrl":"https://future-matters.org/","sources":["https://future-matters.org","https://onthinktanks.org/think-tank/future-matters/","https://future-matters.org/about/","https://future-matters.org/"],"summary":"Works on AI governance to reduce risks from powerful AI systems in the US and internationally, alongside climate protection; a Berlin-based nonprofit think tank and capacity-building hub.","tags":["Governance & policy","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"German non-profit limited liability company (gGmbH)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T1":0.1,"T2":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. A Future Matters job posting says the org exists to turn ideas for reducing catastrophic and existential risks into action and coordinates US AI advocacy groups, an AI-bio coalition and a global AI safety coalition; field coordination is a shaky-plan meta activity, so mostly T2, slightly below the tag default's T1 share because the coordinated orgs span broad AI governance."},"future-of-humanity-institute":{"aliases":["FHI","Future of Humanity Institute (FHI)","University of Oxford (Future of Humanity Institute)","Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy","Future of Humanity Institute, Research Scholars Programme","Future of Humanity Institute, Research Scholars Programme (via SFF)","Future of Humanity Institute, Research Scholars Programme (via Jaan Tallinn)","BERI (FHI)","BERI-FHI Collaboration","BERI-FHI Collaboration (via Jaan Tallinn)","BERI-FHI Collaboration (via Jed McCaleb)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"Closed in April 2024; no longer accepts donations","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2005","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/","kind":"org","location":"Oxford, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/33b0ebfc36f05813433262f092f55bc9.png","name":"Future of Humanity Institute","sources":["https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Humanity_Institute","https://openbook.fyi/org/Future%20of%20Humanity%20Institute"],"summary":"Oxford research centre studying existential risk, including advanced AI and synthetic pandemics, founded by Nick Bostrom in 2005; closed by the University of Oxford on 16 April 2024.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research","Governance & policy","Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":"Part of a public university","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Oxford research institute on existential risk, AI safety and governance, biosecurity and macrostrategy, closed in April 2024; its site no longer loads. Its work aimed at superintelligence and takeover risk and worked on the hard parts (T1).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Humanity_Institute"}},"future-of-life-institute":{"aliases":["FLI","Future of Life Institute (FLI)","Future of Life Institute Europe","FLI Europe"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://futureoflife.org/about-us/donate/","donateNote":"PayPal or cheque payable to 'Future of Life Institute'","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2014","foundedUrl":"https://futureoflife.org/about-us/finances/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 41 staff names on /about-us/our-people/ (staff sections only; 45 unique incl. board); /about-us/ says '20+' full-time staff","range":"","url":"https://futureoflife.org/about-us/our-people/","value":41},"homepage":"https://futureoflife.org/","kind":"org","location":"Campbell, California, US (primary office); also offices in Washington DC, London and Brussels","logoAsset":"/_blob/9715d20706b9e3a1e1f5cb6df6d22fc0.svg","name":"Future of Life Institute","outputs":[{"label":"Future of Life Institute Podcast","type":"podcast","url":"https://podcast.futureoflife.org/"},{"label":"FLI YouTube channel","type":"youtube","url":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-rCCy3FQ-GItDimSR9lhzw"},{"label":"FLI newsletter archive","type":"newsletter","url":"https://newsletter.futureoflife.org/"},{"label":"FLI papers and documents","type":"papers","url":"https://futureoflife.org/archive/?_content_type=document"},{"label":"FLI AI Safety Index","type":"reports","url":"https://futureoflife.org/index"},{"label":"Open letters","type":"other","url":"https://futureoflife.org/fli-open-letters/"},{"label":"EU AI Act information site (run by FLI's EU team)","type":"other","url":"https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/"}],"people":[{"name":"Anthony Aguirre","role":"President and CEO (Executive Director)"},{"name":"Max Tegmark","role":"Founder and Chair"},{"name":"Jaan Tallinn","role":"Board member; President of FLI Europe foundation"},{"name":"Victoria Krakovna","role":"Board member (co-founder)"},{"name":"Meia Chita-Tegmark","role":"Board Secretary"},{"name":"Risto Uuk","role":"Head of European Policy and Research"}],"quote":"Steering transformative technology towards benefiting life and away from extreme large-scale risks.","quoteUrl":"https://futureoflife.org/about-us/","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/future-of-life-institute/","x":"https://twitter.com/FLI_org"},"sources":["https://futureoflife.org/about-us/","https://futureoflife.org/"],"status":"active","summary":"Works to steer transformative technologies, listed as AI, biotechnology and nuclear weapons, away from extreme large-scale risks through policy advocacy, research, communications and grantmaking.","tags":["Advocacy","Governance & policy","Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Works through policy, research, outreach and grantmaking to steer AI and other technologies away from extreme large-scale risks, including campaigns on the superintelligence race and loss of control. This advocacy buys time (T1). Source: https://futureoflife.org/","funderId":"future-of-life-institute","fieldSources":{"people":"https://futureoflife.org/about-us/our-people/","location":"https://futureoflife.org/about-us/contact/","summary":"https://futureoflife.org/about-us/"}},"future-tech-insights":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Future Tech Insights","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2024/812/644/2024-812644663-202513209349301211-9.pdf"],"summary":"San Francisco nonprofit that received $100,000 from the Open Philanthropy Action Fund in 2024 for improving public understanding of AI safety; not identified further.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"comms":1},"xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T2":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Two searches found no pages for this organisation, so the first-pass tier from the grant purpose (public-understanding-of-AI-safety comms via the 501(c)(4) action fund) is kept; how far it focuses on x-risk is unknown.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2024/812/644/2024-812644663-202513209349301211-9.pdf"}},"futurehouse":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2023","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.futurehouse.org/","kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/3dbdf134ca292643354ed7d45488d65f.jpg","name":"FutureHouse","quote":"We're a non-profit building AI agents to automate research in biology and other complex sciences","quoteUrl":"https://www.futurehouse.org/","sources":["https://www.futurehouse.org/","https://www.futurehouse.org/about","https://www.frontiermodelforum.org/updates/announcement-of-new-ai-safety-fund-grantees/"],"summary":"San Francisco nonprofit building AI agents to automate research in biology and other complex sciences; received an AI Safety Fund grant for benchmarks on AI-driven experimental design.","tags":["Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T3":0.2,"T4":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. FutureHouse says it is building an AI scientist; the Coefficient grant funds LAB-Bench, which measures LM biology-research capability and whose abstract states no safety motive, so mainly T4; the small FMF AI Safety Fund grant was made in a safety program that links to biosecurity RFPs, so its share is T3 rather than Adjacent.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.futurehouse.org/about"}},"futuresearch":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://futuresearch.ai/company/","people":"https://futuresearch.ai/company/","quote":"https://futuresearch.ai/company/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2023","foundedUrl":"https://futuresearch.ai/company/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://futuresearch.ai/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/cd773ecc73143ece22e6281b7ad038b2.jpg","name":"FutureSearch","people":[{"name":"Dan Schwarz","role":"Co-founder & CEO"},{"name":"Lawrence Phillips","role":"Co-founder"}],"sources":["https://futuresearch.ai/","https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/forecasting/","https://futuresearch.ai/company/"],"summary":"Builds AI forecasting and research tools with a public track record; funded to build an LLM forecasting benchmark and automate forecasting questions.","tags":["Forecasting","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T4":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant page funds a benchmark of LLM geopolitical forecasting, and the company's site sells AI forecasting with no AI-risk framing, so forecasting is Adjacent with a capability-benchmark T4 share.","quote":"FutureSearch was founded in August 2023 by Dan Schwarz and Lawrence Phillips to build an AI that could predict the future.","quoteUrl":"https://futuresearch.ai/company/"},"fuxin-li":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~lif/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Fuxin Li","quote":"I work on computer vision and deep learning, with current emphasis on point cloud deep learning, robotic perception, 3D world models, explainable deep learning and uncertainty estimation.","quoteUrl":"https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~lif/","sources":["https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~lif/"],"summary":"Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Oregon State University working on 3D vision, explainable deep learning and uncertainty estimation.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, 2015 academic work on predicting when deep networks fail, which is prosaic reliability work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~lif/","quote":"https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~lif/"}},"individual-2207":{"name":"Individual #2207","kind":"person","anonId":"2207"},"gabriel-weil":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://law-ai.org/team/gabriel-weil-2/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Gabriel Weil","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://law-ai.org/team/gabriel-weil-2/"],"summary":"Associate Professor at Touro University Law Center and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Institute for Law & AI; researches tort and liability law for reducing AI risk.","tags":["Governance & policy","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T2":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Weil's known work is tort liability for AI, including punitive damages aimed at catastrophic and uninsurable risks; that is catastrophic-risk policy, not a loss-of-control-specific plan."},"gabriele-farina":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.eecs.mit.edu/people/gabriele-farina/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Gabriele Farina","quote":"I am interested in solid theoretical and algorithmic foundations for learning and computational decision-making under imperfect information.","quoteUrl":"https://www.mit.edu/~gfarina/about","sources":["https://www.eecs.mit.edu/people/gabriele-farina/","https://www.mit.edu/~gfarina/about"],"summary":"MIT faculty member working on computational game theory and multi-agent decision-making.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.mit.edu/~gfarina/about","quote":"https://www.mit.edu/~gfarina/about"}},"individual-3003":{"name":"Individual #3003","kind":"person","anonId":"3003"},"gagandeep-singh":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ggndpsngh.github.io/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Gagandeep Singh","quote":"Our group has a unique combination of expertise in machine learning, formal methods, mechanistic interpretability, and AI safety.","quoteUrl":"https://ggndpsngh.github.io/","sources":["https://ggndpsngh.github.io/"],"summary":"Assistant Professor at UIUC who works on trustworthy AI, including formal verification and certified training of neural networks.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose and his department profile both point to formal verification and certified robustness of neural networks, with no superintelligence framing; T3 under the verification-tooling rule.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://ggndpsngh.github.io/"}},"galois":{"aliases":["Galois, Inc."],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://galois.com/","kind":"company","location":"Portland, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/49a331cdf3c8d55fcc6d2816bcf69bf1.jpg","name":"Galois","quote":"Galois develops technology to guarantee the trustworthiness of systems where failure is unacceptable","quoteUrl":"https://galois.com/about/","sources":["https://galois.com/about/","https://aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/mathematics-for-safe-ai","https://galois.com/research/ai-ml"],"summary":"Employee-owned company developing formal methods and high-assurance software and hardware, including work on trust in the correctness and safety of critical AI/ML systems.","tags":["AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Formal-methods and high-assurance engineering company with aerospace, defence and other clients, contracted under ARIA's Mathematics for Safe AI work. This general verification tooling is safety work that could cut either way (T3). Source: https://galois.com/about/","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://galois.com/about/"}},"individual-9150":{"name":"Individual #9150","kind":"person","anonId":"9150"},"gautam-reddy":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://reddylab.physics.princeton.edu/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Gautam Reddy","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://reddylab.physics.princeton.edu/"],"summary":"Physicist at Princeton whose lab studies the physics of intelligence, including how learning works in biological and artificial systems such as in-context learning.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Princeton physicist whose lab page frames his work as understanding how living and artificial systems process information; the funded ICL work is a theory of why transformers learn in-context strategies, with no safety or x-risk framing on his pages, so mostly Adjacent learning theory with a T3 share for possible interpretability value (funder programme label alone not counted)."},"gauthier-gidel-s-group-at-universite-de-montreal":{"aliases":["Mila / Université de Montréal (Gauthier Gidel)","Gidel lab"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"PI plus 10 'Members of my Lab' on homepage (7 grad students, 1 research scientist, 1 postdoc, 1 intern); 16 alumni not counted","range":"","url":"https://gauthiergidel.github.io/","value":11},"homepage":"https://gauthiergidel.github.io/","kind":"lab","location":"Montreal, Canada","logoAsset":"/_blob/ef8c085d16d97457467d1c7c40735b03.jpg","name":"Gauthier Gidel's group at Université de Montréal","outputs":[{"label":"Gauthier Gidel (Google Scholar)","type":"scholar","url":"https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=bDrXQPUAAAAJ&hl"},{"label":"GauthierGidel","type":"github","url":"https://github.com/GauthierGidel"}],"parentOrg":"mila","people":[{"name":"Gauthier Gidel","role":"PI"}],"quote":"Adversarial Robustness of LLMs' Safety Alignment: How can we build safer LLMs and improve the evaluation of their robustness?","quoteUrl":"https://gauthiergidel.github.io/","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"https://fr.linkedin.com/in/gauthier-gidel-52ab6494","x":""},"sources":["https://cifar.ca/?p=61899","https://gauthiergidel.github.io/"],"status":"active","summary":"Research group of Gauthier Gidel (DIRO, Université de Montréal; core Mila member, Canada CIFAR AI Chair) working on optimization and machine learning, including adversarial robustness of LLM safety.","tags":["AI control & security","Evaluations","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. His homepage lists a research direction on adversarial robustness of LLM safety alignment and doesn't mention catastrophic or takeover risk, so it's prosaic ML safety.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://gauthiergidel.github.io/","quote":"https://gauthiergidel.github.io/"}},"gd-research":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"lightcone-infrastructure","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"GD Research","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations","https://gradual-disempowerment.ai/","https://acsresearch.org/"],"status":"unknown","summary":"Recipient of a $100,000 SFF-2026 general-support recommendation, received via Lightcone Infrastructure; not identified further.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T2":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Probably research on gradual disempowerment (loss of human control through incremental AI integration), a takeover-adjacent failure mode without a hard-parts or buying-time plan.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"}},"ge-effektivt":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Donations via its website (Swedish tax-reduction information on its site)","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2020","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.geeffektivt.se","kind":"org","location":"Sweden","logoAsset":"/_blob/96bcfebec5e664d2a10a0819676cb0b5.jpg","name":"Ge Effektivt","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.geeffektivt.se","https://www.geeffektivt.se/om-oss"],"summary":"Swedish effective-giving organisation that provides information on, and channels donations to, charities rated most effective by independent analyses; inspired by the effective altruism movement.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Swedish effective-giving organisation; operating budget for general effective giving, not AI-related.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.geeffektivt.se/om-oss"}},"gege-wen":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/earth-science/2024/01/30/ese-spotlight-dr-gege-wen-on-the-intersection-of-ai-and-earth-science/","summary":"https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/earth-science/2024/01/30/ese-spotlight-dr-gege-wen-on-the-intersection-of-ai-and-earth-science/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/earth-science/?p=40","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Gege Wen","quote":"I use AI to solve computational problems related to the subsurface to help accelerate the energy transition.","quoteUrl":"https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/earth-science/2024/01/30/ese-spotlight-dr-gege-wen-on-the-intersection-of-ai-and-earth-science/","sources":["https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/earth-science/?p=40","https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/earth-science/2024/01/30/ese-spotlight-dr-gege-wen-on-the-intersection-of-ai-and-earth-science/"],"summary":"Imperial College London faculty member working on AI for Earth science and energy transition.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"generation-pledge":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.generationpledge.org/","kind":"org","location":"Millburn, New Jersey, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/874c8c331c651f4da713327165cc1c49.png","name":"Generation Pledge","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/generation-pledge-gp/","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/generation-pledge"],"summary":"Nonprofit encouraging people who inherit large fortunes to pledge at least 10% of their inheritance to highly effective causes.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)"},"geneva-centre-for-security-policy":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.gcsp.ch/donate","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1995","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.gcsp.ch","kind":"org","location":"Geneva, Switzerland","logoAsset":"/_blob/f17cc7d256c1c6bf118309c95e9286ad.jpg","name":"Geneva Centre for Security Policy","quote":"The Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) is an international foundation that aims to advance global cooperation, security and peace.","quoteUrl":"https://www.gcsp.ch/about-us","sources":["https://www.gcsp.ch/about-us","https://www.gcsp.ch/donate","https://www.gcsp.ch/topics/transformative-technologies"],"summary":"Swiss-based international foundation for security policy education and dialogue; runs fellowships and courses including on emerging technologies.","tags":["Governance & policy","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.33,"notAI":0.67},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, a policy fellowship split across synthetic biology, AI and neurotechnology; the AI part is general security policy.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.gcsp.ch/about-us"}},"geodesic-research":{"aliases":["Geodesic"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://manifund.org/projects/seed-funding-for-geodesic-research","donateNote":"Manifund project; fiscally sponsored by Meridian Impact CIC","fieldSources":{"people":"https://geodesicresearch.ai/","summary":"https://www.geodesicresearch.ai/"},"fiscalSponsor":"Meridian Impact CIC","founded":"2025","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.geodesicresearch.ai/","kind":"org","location":"Cambridge, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/f936db8a839ab52ab75d6c211476b548.jpg","name":"Geodesic Research","people":[{"name":"Cameron Tice","role":"Co-Founder & Executive Director"},{"name":"Puria Radmard","role":"Co-Founder & Technical Director"}],"quote":"Geodesic Research is a UK-based technical AI safety organisation focused on compute-intensive alignment research.","quoteUrl":"https://www.geodesicresearch.ai/","sources":["https://www.geodesicresearch.ai/","https://manifund.org/projects/seed-funding-for-geodesic-research","https://geodesicresearch.ai/"],"summary":"UK technical AI safety organisation studying data-centric alignment interventions, especially alignment during pretraining.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Shapes AI models during their early training so that alignment holds through later training, including work on models absorbing misaligned behaviour from text about AI and on models gaming their training. The empirical work is safety work that could cut either way (T3, four-fifths); its focus on failures like training gaming aims at takeover risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2, one-fifth). Source: https://www.geodesicresearch.ai/"},"geoff-goodwin-university-of-pennsylvania":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://web.sas.upenn.edu/ggoodwin/","summary":"https://web.sas.upenn.edu/ggoodwin/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://web.sas.upenn.edu/ggoodwin","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Geoff Goodwin, University of Pennsylvania","quote":"I study thinking, reasoning, social cognition, and moral judgment.","quoteUrl":"https://web.sas.upenn.edu/ggoodwin/","sources":["https://web.sas.upenn.edu/ggoodwin","https://web.sas.upenn.edu/ggoodwin/"],"summary":"University of Pennsylvania psychology professor studying reasoning, social cognition and moral judgment.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"individual-3600":{"name":"Individual #3600","kind":"person","anonId":"3600"},"george-mason-university":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.gmu.edu/","kind":"university","location":"Fairfax, Virginia, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/0249cb664f1bd1849dcf47b4b686f3f1.png","name":"George Mason University","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.gmu.edu/about"],"summary":"Public research university in Fairfax, Virginia; grant supported Robin Hanson's research on future AI scenarios.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant page says the project gives a positive analysis of a gradual, multipolar AI scenario (Hanson's scenario/economics work, not aimed at takeover risk), so Adjacent per the x-risk-sceptic rule; the 'Potential Risks from Advanced AI' label alone doesn't lift it."},"george-pappas-and-hamed-hassani":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"person","location":"","name":"George Pappas and Hamed Hassani","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/navigating-transformative-ai/"],"summary":"Joint grants to University of Pennsylvania electrical and systems engineering professors George Pappas and Hamed Hassani for research on jailbreak red teaming and jailbreak detection in LLMs.","tags":["Academic","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grants fund jailbreak detection and reasoning-based red teaming; their 2025 paper 'Adversarial Reasoning at Jailbreaking Time' is a prosaic robustness/attack method framed as improving trustworthiness, with no takeover framing, so T3 by the robustness/red-teaming rule."},"georgetown-university":{"aliases":["Georgetown Universty"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1789","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.georgetown.edu/","kind":"university","location":"Washington, D.C., USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/76ad757bf8e48e6f72dadfb1eb41c310.jpg","name":"Georgetown University","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.georgetown.edu/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University","https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/georgetown-university-policy-fellowship-2022"],"summary":"Private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C.; Open Philanthropy funded it to support a fellowship related to AI and cybersecurity policy.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Phil page confirms a $239k fellowship on AI and cybersecurity policy (general security policy, Adjacent) with only the funder's programme label; the Schmidt 'AI safety design' grant could not be verified on the web and is probably prosaic (T3).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University"}},"individual-3410":{"name":"Individual #3410","kind":"person","anonId":"3410"},"georgia-tech-foundation":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Give via Georgia Tech's giving pages","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.gatech.edu","kind":"org","location":"Atlanta, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/0d0fa06531020e07ac08cbf768de7564.jpg","name":"Georgia Tech Foundation","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.gatech.edu/about","https://www.founderspledge.com/grantees/georgia-tech-foundation","https://www.gtf.gatech.edu/"],"summary":"Foundation managing gifts for Georgia Tech; a Founders Pledge grant supports Georgia Tech and the Centre for International Governance Innovation on a modelling tool and workshops on space-based interceptor risks.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose: strategic risks of space-based missile interceptors is nuclear/strategic-stability work, not AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.founderspledge.com/grantees/georgia-tech-foundation"}},"georgia-tech-research-corporation":{"aliases":["GTRC"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University research entity — give via Georgia Tech's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1937","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://gtrc.gatech.edu/","kind":"university","location":"Atlanta, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/55435e3ade0120f948ef52e24a2c6afb.jpg","name":"Georgia Tech Research Corporation","quote":"These 501(c)(3) organizations are the contracting entities and supporting organizations for research at Georgia Tech","quoteUrl":"https://gtrc.gatech.edu/about-us/","sources":["https://gtrc.gatech.edu/about-us/","https://manifund.org/projects/safeguarding-dna-synthesis-from-biological-risks-posed-by-advanced-ai"],"summary":"Nonprofit contracting and supporting entity for research at Georgia Institute of Technology; the grant concerned safeguarding DNA synthesis from AI-enabled biological risks.","tags":["Biosecurity","Academic"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T3":0.35,"T4":0.15,"notAI":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Could not retrieve either grant page (Open Philanthropy pages returned errors, DNA-synthesis grant page not found), so the first-pass split from grant purposes stands: RL from non-expert feedback is prosaic alignment with capability spillover, DNA-synthesis screening is mostly biosecurity.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://gtrc.gatech.edu/about-us/"}},"georgios-kaissis":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://hpi.de/en/research/research-groups/digital-health-human-centered-transformative-ai/","kind":"person","location":"Potsdam, Germany","name":"Georgios Kaissis","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://hpi.de/en/article/prof-kaissis-takes-on-new-role-in-digital-health/","https://foresight.org/grantees/2026-georgios-kaissis/","https://hpi.de/en/research/research-groups/digital-health-human-centered-transformative-ai/"],"summary":"Professor at the Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, leading a group on multimodal medical AI; research covers privacy, fairness and interpretability.","tags":["Interpretability","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is circuit audits removing spurious cues in medical multimodal models: interpretability applied to medical reliability/fairness, not aimed at x-risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://hpi.de/en/research/research-groups/digital-health-human-centered-transformative-ai/"}},"individual-7345":{"name":"Individual #7345","kind":"person","anonId":"7345"},"german-primate-center":{"aliases":["Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH","Deutsches Primatenzentrum","DPZ","German Primate Centre"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.dpz.eu/en/about-us","quote":"https://www.dpz.eu/en/about-us","summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Primate_Centre"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1977","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.dpz.eu/en/","kind":"org","location":"Göttingen, Germany","logoAsset":"/_blob/2ec97572bd3c720db997836eed6efab7.jpg","name":"German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research","people":[{"name":"Katharina Peters","role":"Administrative Managing Director"},{"name":"Stefan Treue","role":"Scientific Director"}],"quote":"a publicly funded, non-university research institute","quoteUrl":"https://www.dpz.eu/en/about-us","sources":["https://www.dpz.eu/en/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Primate_Centre","https://www.dpz.eu/en/about-us"],"summary":"Research and service institute in Göttingen, a member of the Leibniz Scientific Community, conducting biological and biomedical research on and with primates, with its own primate husbandry.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"Nonprofit GmbH"},"gernot-heiser":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/gernot-heiser","kind":"person","location":"Sydney, Australia","name":"Gernot Heiser","quote":"Since 2009 my work has focussed on the seL4 microkernel and trustworthy systems built on it.","quoteUrl":"https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/gernot-heiser","sources":["https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/gernot-heiser"],"summary":"Scientia Professor at UNSW who created the Trustworthy Systems group; since 2009 his work has focussed on the seL4 microkernel and trustworthy systems built on it.","tags":["AI control & security","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Foresight AI for Science & Safety Nodes grant, project not published; he leads seL4 verified-kernel work, general verification/secure-systems tooling rated T3 by rule.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/gernot-heiser","quote":"https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/gernot-heiser"}},"gillian-hadfield":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.gillianhadfield.org/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Gillian Hadfield","quote":"My research addresses fundamental questions about how to build AI systems that can operate safely, ethically, and beneficially within human normative frameworks.","quoteUrl":"https://www.gillianhadfield.org/research","sources":["https://www.gillianhadfield.org/","https://www.gillianhadfield.org/bio","https://www.gillianhadfield.org/research"],"summary":"Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance at Johns Hopkins University; works on normative competence in AI, multi-agent cooperation and regulatory markets.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T2":0.1,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Her site describes AI governance (regulatory markets, legal infrastructure) and building 'normatively competent' AI as alignment, with no superintelligence, takeover or catastrophic-risk framing, so mostly Adjacent with a prosaic-alignment T3 share.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.gillianhadfield.org/bio","quote":"https://www.gillianhadfield.org/research"}},"gimbal":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"Ashgro, Inc.","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Gimbal","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations","https://www.ashgro.org/"],"status":"unknown","summary":"Not identified from public sources. SFF's 2026 round recommends $81,000 for general support of it, received through Ashgro, Inc.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"}},"girl-security":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"logoUrl":"https://www.girlsecurity.org/","people":"https://www.girlsecurity.org/about","quote":"https://www.girlsecurity.org/","summary":"https://www.girlsecurity.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.girlsecurity.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Cohasset, Massachusetts, USA","name":"Girl Security","people":[{"name":"Lauren Bean Buitta","role":"Founder & CEO"}],"quote":"Girl Security helps girls and young women build meaningful careers and shape the future of national security through their skills, experiences, and insights.","quoteUrl":"https://www.girlsecurity.org/","sources":["https://www.girlsecurity.org/","https://macfound.org/grantee/girl-security-10115450","https://www.girlsecurity.org/about"],"status":"active","summary":"Helps girls and young women build careers in national security through mentorship and workforce development; in November 2026 it launched All Secure, a national security design lab for the AI era.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"global-health-other":0.4,"nuclear":0.6}},"giv-effektivt":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://giveffektivt.dk/giv-en-donation","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://giveffektivt.dk","kind":"org","location":"Denmark","logoAsset":"/_blob/c14343b4dc1b8df82378ee72eff35d0e.jpg","name":"Giv Effektivt","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://giveffektivt.dk","https://giveffektivt.dk/","https://giveffektivt.dk/om-os"],"summary":"Danish effective-giving service that helps donors give to recommended charities and obtain tax deductions.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The site directs donations to global health, poverty and animal welfare with no AI fund mentioned; the grants pay for donor outreach and SEO, so not AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://giveffektivt.dk/"}},"giving-multiplier":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://givingmultiplier.org/","donateNote":"Donations processed via Every.org","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2020","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://givingmultiplier.org/","kind":"org","location":"Cambridge, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/50e2f1ac2b3898d86dcc4a50a0321468.jpg","name":"Giving Multiplier","quote":"Giving Multiplier is an award-winning donation platform founded in 2020 by academic researchers at Harvard University with the mission of making charitable giving as impactful as possible.","quoteUrl":"https://givingmultiplier.org/","sources":["https://givingmultiplier.org/"],"summary":"Donation platform founded in 2020 by Harvard researchers that adds matching funds to gifts split between a donor's chosen charity and an expert-recommended high-impact charity.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Effective-giving donation-matching platform, not AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://givingmultiplier.org/"}},"giving-what-we-can":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/donate","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2009","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/f682b52367523752ad6603a64961d6de.svg","name":"Giving What We Can","quote":"Giving What We Can is a community of effective givers.","quoteUrl":"https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/","sources":["https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/","https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/about-us"],"summary":"Effective giving community that promotes pledges to donate a share of income to effective charities. 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Director Jade Edenstar Master resigned 18 May 2026.","summary":"Nonprofit research group applying category theory to AI verification, building open-source software infrastructure based on the theory of containers, including typed theorem-proving tactics.","tags":["Alignment research","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. ARIA Safeguarded AI TA1.1 theory grant (the grant purpose says TA1.1), so the decided ARIA rule makes it T1.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://glaive-research.org/"}},"glen-chou":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://glenchou.github.io","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Glen Chou","quote":"I direct the Trustworthy Robotics Lab, where we design algorithms that can enable general-purpose robots and autonomous systems to operate capably, safely, and securely with humans, while remaining resilient to real-world failures and uncertainty.","quoteUrl":"https://glenchou.github.io/","sources":["https://glenchou.github.io","https://glenchou.github.io/"],"summary":"Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech directing the Trustworthy Robotics Lab; works on safe control, learning and formal methods for autonomous systems.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Glen Chou runs Georgia Tech's Trustworthy Robotics Lab, which works on control theory and ML so that robots are safe and resilient. His pages never mention AI safety or catastrophic risk, and no grant description turned up. That makes him half Adjacent (conventional safety-critical robotics). 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The founder's EA Forum profile describes coordinating submissions to consultations on 'core EA cause areas', and the one named example is an EU biosecurity and alt-protein workshop, so AI is probably a minority share; the AI part is tiered as AI Act-type regulation with a stated x-risk aim.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.globalprg.org/whoweare","quote":"https://www.globalprg.org/whoweare"}},"global-priorities-encyclopedia":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Global Priorities Encyclopedia","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":[],"summary":"","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"ea-meta":0.7,"rationality-epistemics":0.3}},"global-priorities-institute":{"aliases":["GPI"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Closed in 2025","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/","kind":"university","location":"Oxford, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/af27a232b8bfd377eca501761259e003.jpg","name":"Global Priorities Institute","quote":"Its mission was to address deeply unresolved questions crucial for people seeking to do the most good, where good is understood in impartial terms.","quoteUrl":"https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/","sources":["https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/"],"summary":"Interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Oxford (2018–2025) that worked on philosophy, economics and psychology of global priorities, including longtermism. 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Global Shield describes itself as all-hazards GCR policy advocacy (US, Australia); its site lists AI among bio, nuclear, climate and asteroid risks, including uncontrollable superhuman AI, so AI is only a minority share.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.globalshieldpolicy.org/"}},"global-zero":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"logoUrl":"https://www.globalzero.org/","quote":"https://www.globalzero.org/about-us/index.html","summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Zero_(campaign)"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2008","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.globalzero.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["location","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"","name":"Global Zero","quote":"Global Zero is the international movement for nuclear abolition.","quoteUrl":"https://www.globalzero.org/about-us/index.html","sources":["https://www.globalzero.org/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Zero_(campaign)","https://www.globalzero.org/about-us/index.html"],"status":"closed","statusNote":"Suspended operations indefinitely at the end of 2023.","summary":"Former international campaign for the elimination of nuclear weapons, which suspended operations indefinitely at the end of 2023.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"nuclear":1}},"good-ancestors":{"aliases":["Good Ancestors Policy","The Good Ancestors Project","Good Ancestors Policy (Individual #3883)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://www.goodancestors.org.au/donate","donateNote":"Donations not tax deductible in Australia","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"https://manifund.org/projects/good-ancestor-australia-again","fundraiserDate":"2025-10","fundraiserTitle":"Good Ancestors (Australia)","homepage":"https://www.goodancestors.org.au/","kind":"org","location":"Melbourne, Australia","logoAsset":"/_blob/5ad3e80f7fdbbef069515262fd480038.jpg","name":"Good Ancestors","quote":"Good Ancestors is an Australian charity that supports Australia's leaders to be good ancestors","quoteUrl":"https://www.goodancestors.org.au/about","sources":["https://goodancestors.org.au/","https://www.goodancestors.org.au/about","https://manifund.org/projects/good-ancestor-australia-again"],"summary":"Australian policy charity researching and advocating on AI safety, pandemic prevention and catastrophic disasters, to minimise catastrophic and existential risks.","tags":["Governance & policy","Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"Australian registered charity (ACNC)","xrTier":{"T2":1},"xrTierNote":"Australian policy charity whose AI work includes a policy white paper, analysis of gaps in Australian AI law, the Australians for AI Safety coalition, election scorecards and research for the UK AI Security Institute. This risk-motivated governance aims at takeover risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2). Source: https://www.goodancestors.org.au/about","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.goodancestors.org.au/about"}},"good-forever-foundation":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"New Orleans, Louisiana, USA","name":"Good Forever Foundation","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.guidestar.org/profile/87-3744128"],"summary":"New Orleans nonprofit whose tax filings list programmes in AI safety research, biosecurity and civilisational robustness.","tags":["Alignment research","Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.guidestar.org/profile/87-3744128"}},"good-impressions":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.goodimpressionsmedia.com/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/20dd08a531c236e0ec72ae3c0c48daf1.jpg","name":"Good Impressions","quote":"Outreach for socially impactful projects","quoteUrl":"https://www.goodimpressionsmedia.com/","sources":["https://www.goodimpressionsmedia.com/","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/good-impressions"],"summary":"Outreach service running paid ads, podcast and influencer campaigns for socially impactful projects, with clients in AI safety, animal welfare and global health.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The counted grant is for digital campaigns for farm animal welfare; the org itself describes itself as a digital marketing agency for effective nonprofits, so this grant is not AI work and is probably wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.goodimpressionsmedia.com/"}},"good-judgment-inc":{"aliases":["Good Judgment Project"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"people":"https://goodjudgment.com/about/our-team/","quote":"https://goodjudgment.com/","summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Judgment_Project"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://goodjudgment.com","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/6dfcd99c38485d3acdc566681458d4be.png","name":"Good Judgment Inc.","people":[{"name":"Warren Hatch","role":"CEO"},{"name":"Philip Tetlock","role":"Co-founder"},{"name":"Barbara Mellers","role":"Co-founder"},{"name":"Terry L. 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Good Judgment Inc. describes itself as a commercial superforecasting provider with no AI risk work on its about page; the grant appears to sit under Coefficient Giving's AI for forecasting RFP, which doesn't mention AI risk, so forecasting is Adjacent by rule."},"good-science-project":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://goodscienceproject.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://goodscienceproject.org/about/","summary":"https://www.goodscienceproject.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.goodscienceproject.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/002b38274caf6dce9866484db7c53b8c.jpg","name":"Good Science Project","people":[{"name":"Stuart Buck","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"The Good Science Project mission is to improve the funding and practice of science.","quoteUrl":"https://www.goodscienceproject.org/","sources":["https://www.goodscienceproject.org/","https://goodscienceproject.org/about/"],"summary":"Independent nonprofit that promotes advocacy and communication to reshape how science is funded, evaluated and shared.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)"},"goodheart-labs":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://goodheartlabs.com/","quote":"https://goodheartlabs.com/","summary":"https://goodheartlabs.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.goodheartlabs.com","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/07ca5468d51995aca1fc85a75dc2b225.jpg","name":"Goodheart Labs","people":[{"name":"Individual #5451","role":"Director"}],"quote":"We build platforms that combine human insight, decision mechanisms and Artificial Intelligence","quoteUrl":"https://goodheartlabs.com/","sources":["https://www.goodheartlabs.com","https://goodheartlabs.com/"],"summary":"Builds AI-powered decision tools such as AI-written community notes, AI-powered polling and forecast dashboards; its research areas include improving AI discourse.","tags":["Communications","Forecasting"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The homepage describes AI-written Community Notes, forecasting dashboards and AI-for-epistemics tools, with no stated takeover aim (one team bio mentions gradual disempowerment), so it stays Adjacent under the forecasting and AI-and-society rule."},"goodly-labs":{"aliases":["The Goodly Institute","Goodly Institute"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://www.goodlylabs.org/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.goodlylabs.org/our-team","summary":"https://www.goodlylabs.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.goodlylabs.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, CA, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/89410ca85907285164bbe48d2ed480c6.jpg","name":"Goodly Labs","people":[{"name":"Nicholas Brigham Adams","role":"Co-Founder & CEO"}],"quote":"We develop collective intelligence systems for a SELF IMPROVING society.","quoteUrl":"https://www.goodlylabs.org/","sources":["https://www.goodlylabs.org/","https://causes.benevity.org/causes/840-471371655?lang=sv","https://www.goodlylabs.org/our-team"],"summary":"R&D lab and incubator building collective-intelligence systems and prosocial software to increase collective agency and revitalise democracy.","tags":[],"taxStatus":""},"google-deepmind":{"aliases":[],"capabilitiesNote":"Builds frontier AI models (Gemini, Gemma, Veo) and AI-for-science systems.","checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"capabilitiesNote":"https://deepmind.google/","founded":"https://deepmind.google/about/","homepage":"https://deepmind.google/","logoUrl":"https://deepmind.google/","people":"https://deepmind.google/about/","quote":"https://deepmind.google/about/","summary":"https://deepmind.google/about/"},"founded":"2010","foundedUrl":"https://deepmind.google/about/","homepage":"https://deepmind.google/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"company","name":"Google DeepMind","people":[{"name":"Demis Hassabis","role":"Co-founder and CEO"}],"quote":"Our mission is to build AI responsibly to benefit humanity","quoteUrl":"https://deepmind.google/about/","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://deepmind.google/","https://deepmind.google/about/"],"summary":"Google DeepMind is Google's AI lab, formed from Google Brain and DeepMind; it builds the Gemini models and science systems such as AlphaFold.","tags":[]},"governing-for-impact":{"name":"Governing for Impact","aliases":["GFI"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://www.governingforimpact.org/","fiscalSponsor":"New Venture Fund","summary":"Develops policy proposals and legal analysis for US federal executive action; the MacArthur grant paid for AI and technology policy analysis.","quote":"We develop rigorous policy proposals for executive action.","quoteUrl":"https://www.governingforimpact.org/","people":[{"name":"Rachael Klarman","role":"Executive Director"}],"tags":["Governance & policy"],"sources":["https://www.governingforimpact.org/","https://www.governingforimpact.org/about","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/new-venture-fund-43535/"],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.governingforimpact.org/about","summary":"https://www.governingforimpact.org/","quote":"https://www.governingforimpact.org/"},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant paid for AI and technology policy analysis by a federal executive-action policy shop; no AI publications or catastrophic-risk work were found on its own pages, so Adjacent (governingforimpact.org; macfound.org grantee page)."},"gradient-institute":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.gradientinstitute.org/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.gradientinstitute.org/about-us","people":"https://www.gradientinstitute.org/about-us","summary":"https://www.gradientinstitute.org/about-us"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2019","foundedUrl":"https://www.gradientinstitute.org/about-us","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.gradientinstitute.org/","kind":"org","location":"Sydney, Australia","logoAsset":"/_blob/3f15ab11fcedc0b193c0cbdbec6b0ae0.jpg","name":"Gradient Institute","people":[{"name":"Bill Simpson-Young","role":"Chief Executive"}],"quote":"Gradient Institute is an independent nonprofit research organisation helping society understand, steer and respond to AI as it transforms our world.","quoteUrl":"https://www.gradientinstitute.org/","sources":["https://www.gradientinstitute.org/","https://www.gradientinstitute.org/about-us"],"summary":"Australian independent nonprofit research organisation working on safe and responsible AI, including research, advisory work and education.","tags":["Alignment research","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"Australian registered charity (ACNC)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is the Australian AI Safety Forum, a broad convening mixing technical safety and policy with some x-risk content."},"graham-neubig":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/people/faculty/neubig-graham.html","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Graham Neubig","quoteUrl":"https://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/people/faculty/neubig-graham.html","sources":["https://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/people/faculty/neubig-graham.html"],"summary":"Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute working on natural language processing and large language models, including applications such as software development.","tags":["Academic","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.3,"T4":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Phil's grant page describes a benchmark of LLM agents doing web-based professional tasks (probably TheAgentCompany), backed only by the programme label, so T4 0.7 / T3 0.3 by the provisional call.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/people/faculty/neubig-graham.html"}},"greenearth":{"aliases":["MySky (formerly GreenEarth)"],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://mysky.social/","kind":"org","location":"Berkeley, CA, USA (inference from the 'GreenEarth UC Berkeley' listing)","name":"GreenEarth","parentOrg":"Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (fiscal sponsor)","people":[{"name":"Renee DiResta","role":"co-founder"},{"name":"Glen Weyl","role":"co-founder"},{"name":"Jonathan Stray","role":"co-founder"}],"quote":"Our goal is to make state-of-the art personalized feed technology available to everyone.","quoteUrl":"https://mysky.social/p/introducing-greenearth","sources":["https://mysky.social/","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations","https://www.existence.org/collaborations-ucp","https://mysky.social/p/introducing-greenearth"],"status":"renamed","statusNote":"Now the MySky project (fiscal sponsor BERI).","summary":"Open-source recommender infrastructure for social media feeds, aiming to make personalised feed technology available to everyone; now called MySky.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"ai-ethics-society":0.5,"ai-for-epistemics":0.5},"fieldSources":{"summary":"https://mysky.social/p/introducing-greenearth","quote":"https://mysky.social/p/introducing-greenearth"}},"groundless-alignment":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://groundless.ai/support","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"https://manifund.org/projects/groundless-alignment-india-residency-2025","fundraiserDate":"2025-09","fundraiserTitle":"Groundless Alignment India Residency 2025","homepage":"https://groundless.ai","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/baa3bb2a53c3b6b8dea5f2cf319ce33e.png","name":"Groundless Alignment","quote":"Groundless Alignment is a community where we take intelligence seriously and meet the risks via noticing opportunities that are now possible","quoteUrl":"https://groundless.ai","sources":["https://groundless.ai","https://manifund.org/projects/groundless-alignment-india-residency-2025"],"summary":"Community and project running an in-person residency for fellows working on the Live Theory alignment agenda, and building related tools.","tags":["Alignment research","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T2":0.6,"T3":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Guessing from the name and a residency funded via Richard Ngo and Epistea, probably a non-standard alignment research residency of uncertain approach.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://manifund.org/projects/groundless-alignment-india-residency-2025"}},"gryphon-scientific":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/about-deloitte/articles/press-releases/deloitte-acquires-gryphon-scientific-business-to-expand-security-science-and-public-health-capabilities.html","kind":"company","location":"","name":"Gryphon Scientific","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/about-deloitte/articles/press-releases/deloitte-acquires-gryphon-scientific-business-to-expand-security-science-and-public-health-capabilities.html","https://pandorareport.org/the-gryphon-scientific-biosecurity-collection/"],"summary":"Research and policy consultancy that worked on biosafety, biosecurity and preparedness, including the intersection of AI with biological and chemical threats; now part of Deloitte Consulting.","tags":["Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Both FTX regrants paid for biosecurity work (pathogen genome protection, virology risk-benefit analysis); Gryphon's archive describes it as a biosafety/biosecurity consultancy, so not AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://pandorareport.org/the-gryphon-scientific-biosecurity-collection/"}},"individual-5361":{"name":"Individual #5361","kind":"person","anonId":"5361"},"guide-labs":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2023","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.guidelabs.ai/","kind":"company","location":"San Francisco, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/d6d783a1b1fd3ad2c56bdd3f7851a2ce.jpg","name":"Guide Labs","quote":"We are building a new class of interpretable AI systems and foundation models that humans can reliably debug, trust, and understand.","quoteUrl":"https://www.guidelabs.ai/","sources":["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/guide-labs","https://www.guidelabs.ai/post/interpretable-intelligence/"],"summary":"Builds inherently interpretable language models (e.g. Steerling-8B) whose outputs can be traced to concepts and training data.","tags":["Interpretability"],"taxStatus":"For-profit company","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T3":0.9},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Guide Labs' own site describes building interpretable-by-design LLMs with concept-level steering, which is prosaic interpretability (T3); there is a small commercial Adjacent share, and the 2023 grant paid for error-diagnostic and model-guiding tools.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.guidelabs.ai/post/interpretable-intelligence/"}},"individual-2146":{"name":"Individual #2146","kind":"person","anonId":"2146"},"guoliang-greg-liu-virginia-tech":{"aliases":["Guoliang Liu"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://sites.google.com/view/vtLiuGroup","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Guoliang (Greg) Liu, Virginia Tech","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://sites.google.com/view/vtLiuGroup"],"summary":"Chemistry professor at Virginia Tech whose group works on polymers for energy and environmental sciences, including polymer recycling and functional carbon fibres.","tags":["Academic","Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The Liu Group site lists polymer and materials research only, with no AI work; the grant funded PPE thin films (biosecurity materials).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://sites.google.com/view/vtLiuGroup"}},"haifeng-xu":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://cs.uchicago.edu/people/haifeng-xu","summary":"https://www.haifeng-xu.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cs.uchicago.edu/people/haifeng-xu","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Haifeng Xu","quote":"He studies the economics of data and machine learning","quoteUrl":"https://cs.uchicago.edu/people/haifeng-xu","sources":["https://cs.uchicago.edu/people/haifeng-xu","https://www.haifeng-xu.com/"],"summary":"Associate professor of computer science and data science at the University of Chicago, currently on leave and working at Google on Gemini; research centres on AI agents and multi-agent systems.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"hal-daume-iii":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~hal3/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Hal Daumé III","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~hal3/"],"summary":"Volpi-Cupal Professor of computer science and language science at the University of Maryland; leads the TRAILS institute for trustworthy AI; works on NLP and machine learning.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Schmidt Sciences lists the project as causally grounded inference-time intervention for robust alignment, and his bio describes NLP that interacts naturally with people, so prosaic safety with no stated x-risk aim.","fieldSources":{"summary":"http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~hal3/"}},"hanjie-chen":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://hanjiechen.github.io/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Hanjie Chen","quote":"My research focuses on explaining, evaluating, and improving the mechanisms and capabilities of large language models","quoteUrl":"https://hanjiechen.github.io/","sources":["https://hanjiechen.github.io/"],"summary":"Assistant professor of computer science at Rice University; interpretable and trustworthy NLP, explaining and evaluating large language models.","tags":["Academic","Interpretability"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant funds empirical research on alignment faking by a Rice NLP/interpretability professor whose own pages (explainability, activation steering, efficient reasoning) state no takeover or x-risk aim, so the scheming-deception-evals default with no framing applies (T3 0.8 / T2 0.2).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://hanjiechen.github.io/","quote":"https://hanjiechen.github.io/"}},"hannah-kerner":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"homepage":"https://hannah-rae.github.io/","quote":"https://hannah-rae.github.io/","summary":"https://hannah-rae.github.io/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://hannah-rae.github.io/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Hannah Kerner","quote":"Her research focuses on advancing the foundations and applications of machine learning to foster a better future for all.","quoteUrl":"https://hannah-rae.github.io/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","https://hannah-rae.github.io/"],"summary":"Assistant professor at Arizona State University whose lab works on machine learning for remote sensing, algorithmic bias and machine learning theory; a 2025 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"individual-1188":{"name":"Individual #1188","kind":"person","anonId":"1188"},"harmony-intelligence":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"people":"https://harmonyintelligence.com/","quote":"https://harmonyintelligence.com/","summary":"https://harmonyintelligence.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://harmonyintelligence.com","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/13ad4ad416ef2f191022f43de971862b.png","name":"Harmony Intelligence","people":[{"name":"Soroush Pour","role":"Co-Founder & CEO"},{"name":"Alex Browne","role":"Co-Founder & CTO"}],"quote":"State-of-the-art AI agents that continuously pentest your app.","quoteUrl":"https://harmonyintelligence.com/","sources":["https://harmonyintelligence.com","https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PRjqTjzqwLnibxzFv/announcing-harmony-intelligence","https://harmonyintelligence.com/","https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PRjqTjzqwLnibxzFv/harmony-intelligence-is-hiring"],"summary":"AI security company building AI agents that continuously pentest apps; in 2024 it said it was focused on reducing catastrophic AI risk through evals and red-teaming.","tags":["Evaluations","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"T3":0.6,"T4":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, a benchmark of LLM autonomous money-making, a dangerous-capability eval that partly measures capability, so a T4 share per the eval rule."},"hartreeworks":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"people":"https://hartreeworks.org/","summary":"https://hartreeworks.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://hartreeworks.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/75c243b281a443e4da2d202c5cb26139.jpg","name":"HartreeWorks","people":[{"name":"Individual #8008","role":"Runs the consultancy"}],"quote":"We work with people who want to make transformative AI go well.","quoteUrl":"https://hartreeworks.org/","sources":["https://hartreeworks.org/"],"summary":"Software consultancy run by Individual #8008 that works with people aiming to make transformative AI go well.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, an educational blog on using AI, AI-relevant but not aimed at x-risk."},"harvard-belfer-center-project-on-managing-the-atom":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"logoUrl":"https://www.belfercenter.org/about-us","quote":"https://www.belfercenter.org/programs/managing-atom","summary":"https://www.belfercenter.org/programs/managing-atom"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.belfercenter.org/programs/managing-atom","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA","name":"Harvard Belfer Center (Project on Managing the Atom)","parentOrg":"Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University","people":[{"name":"Matthew Bunn","role":"Principal Investigator"},{"name":"Individual #6929","role":"Principal Investigator"},{"name":"Francesca Giovannini","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"The Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) conducts and disseminates policy-relevant research on nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, and nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.","quoteUrl":"https://www.belfercenter.org/programs/managing-atom","sources":["https://www.belfercenter.org/programs/managing-atom","https://www.belfercenter.org/about","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfer_Center_for_Science_and_International_Affairs","https://www.belfercenter.org/about-us"],"status":"active","summary":"A research project at Harvard's Belfer Center producing policy research on nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, nonproliferation and disarmament, and convening seminars, workshops and conferences.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"nuclear":1}},"hash":{"aliases":["Hash Ltd"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"people":"https://hash.ai/about","summary":"https://aria.org.uk/insights/hash-making-ai-legible-in-the-real-world"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2019","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://hash.ai/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/3360536124950875b81ecc250f2b1b1e.jpg","name":"HASH","people":[{"name":"Dei Vilkinsons","role":"Founder & CEO"},{"name":"Joel Spolsky","role":"Co-founder & Director"}],"quote":"Turn raw information into knowledge and process graphs","quoteUrl":"https://hash.ai/","sources":["https://aria.org.uk/insights/hash-making-ai-legible-in-the-real-world","https://hash.ai/","https://hash.ai/about"],"summary":"ARIA Safeguarded AI team working on interfaces that help people understand and trust mathematically grounded AI, with biopharma supply-chain uses; also builds open-source knowledge- and process-graph world models.","tags":["AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Software company building knowledge- and process-graph tools, and an ARIA Safeguarded AI team working on human interfaces to verified AI. This general verification tooling is safety work that could cut either way (T3). Source: https://hash.ai/about"},"haydn-belfield":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/haydn-belfield/","kind":"person","location":"Cambridge, UK","name":"Haydn Belfield","quoteUrl":"https://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/haydn-belfield/","sources":["https://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/haydn-belfield/"],"summary":"Academic project manager at the University of Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, working on AI governance.","tags":["Governance & policy","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T1":0.2,"T2":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purposes and known CSER/LCFI work, international institutions (IAEA/CERN for AI) for technologies with catastrophic potential, x-risk-motivated governance with some verification/slowdown relevance."},"health-progress-hub":{"aliases":["Health Progress Hub, housed within the Global Policy Research Group"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://health-progress-hub.notion.site/","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Health Progress Hub","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4GqFqhou2KynWFFcQ/launching-the-health-progress-hub-and-how-you-can-help-us"],"summary":"Volunteer-run initiative of the Global Policy Research Group (Sweden-based think tank) that directs talent, mainly from low- and middle-income countries, toward pressing global health policy issues. Not AI-safety focused.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is directing LMIC talent toward global health, not AI (flag notAI, may be wrongly counted)."},"healthcareai-uc-berkeley":{"aliases":["UC Berkeley [HealthcareAI]","HealthcareAI"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"programme","location":"Berkeley, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/f9be435acee1396f545f7cf67492dc54.jpg","name":"HealthcareAI (UC Berkeley)","parentOrg":"university-of-california-berkeley","people":[],"quoteUrl":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations"],"status":"active","summary":"Not identified from public sources. SFF's 2026 round recommends $297,000 for general support of HealthcareAI, listed under UC Berkeley and paid to the Regents of the University of California.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations"}},"healthy-impacts-organization":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2025","foundedUrl":"https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/healthy-impacts-organization,332114396/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"Berkeley, United States","name":"Healthy Impacts Organization","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/healthy-impacts-organization,332114396/"],"status":"unknown","summary":"A Berkeley, California nonprofit (EIN 33-2114396) founded in 2025 and categorised by Cause IQ as a foundation, research or public policy institute; no website or mission statement found.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"EIN 33-2114396 (exemption status not shown on Cause IQ)","xrTier":{"untiered":1},"xrTierNote":"Purpose unknown (§3); counts as Adjacent, reported separately."},"hear-this-idea":{"aliases":["Hear This Idea Regranting Program"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://hearthisidea.com/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://hearthisidea.com/","summary":"https://hearthisidea.com/episodes"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://hearthisidea.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/32e385e00f3795ba51766cd10d25e850.png","name":"Hear This Idea","people":[{"name":"Fin Moorhouse","role":"Co-host"},{"name":"Individual #7003","role":"Co-host"}],"quote":"Hear This Idea is a podcast about ideas for solving important problems, and the people trying to figure them out.","quoteUrl":"https://www.hearthisidea.com/","sources":["https://hearthisidea.com/","https://hearthisidea.com/episodes"],"summary":"Podcast hosted by Fin Moorhouse and Individual #7003 featuring interviews on ideas for solving important problems, including AI risk and biosecurity.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"notAI":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose and known output, a general EA ideas podcast with only occasional AI-risk episodes, so mostly EA meta."},"heather-roff":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://futureoflife.org/ai-researcher-profile/ai-researcher-heather-roff","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Heather Roff","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://futureoflife.org/ai-researcher-profile/ai-researcher-heather-roff"],"summary":"Researcher on lethal autonomous weapons, artificial intelligence and meaningful human control; a 2016 Future of Life Institute grant profile lists her as a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford.","tags":["Governance & policy","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose: lethal autonomous weapons and meaningful human control, AI-relevant but not aimed at x-risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://futureoflife.org/ai-researcher-profile/ai-researcher-heather-roff"}},"hebrew-university-of-jerusalem":{"aliases":["Hebrew Universty"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1918","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://en.huji.ac.il/","kind":"university","location":"Jerusalem, Israel","logoAsset":"/_blob/d74e02bd84a7b186fd15f77a5e0cef9f.png","name":"Hebrew University of Jerusalem","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://en.huji.ac.il/"],"summary":"Public research university in Jerusalem, Israel. The grant funds a six-month research project extending the emergent misalignment fine-tuning work.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose: fine-tuning experiments extending the emergent misalignment paper, prosaic empirical safety (the key is a misspelled Hebrew University)."},"helix-nano":{"aliases":["HelixNano"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.helixnano.com/","kind":"company","location":"Boston, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/521063a1c103d4a959d30251e8313215.jpg","name":"Helix Nano","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.helixnano.com/"],"summary":"Boston biotech company developing mRNA vaccines and drugs; received an equity investment (not an AI safety grant) for pan-variant Covid-19 vaccine trials.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"For-profit"},"herbert-scoville-jr-peace-fellowship":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"logoUrl":"https://scoville.org/","quote":"https://scoville.org/","summary":"https://scoville.org/our-mission/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1987","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://scoville.org/","kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, United States","name":"Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship","people":[{"name":"Paul Revsine","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"Creating the next generation of scholars, activists, and practitioners in international peace and security.","quoteUrl":"https://scoville.org/","sources":["https://scoville.org/","https://scoville.org/our-team/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Scoville_Jr._Peace_Fellowship","https://scoville.org/our-mission/"],"status":"active","summary":"Washington, DC fellowship that places recent college and graduate school alumni for six to nine months with think tanks and advocacy groups working on international peace and security.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"global-health-other":0.4,"nuclear":0.6}},"individual-8277":{"name":"Individual #8277","kind":"person","anonId":"8277"},"heron-ai-security":{"aliases":["Heron"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.heronsec.ai/about","people":"https://www.heronsec.ai/about","quote":"https://www.heronsec.ai/","summary":"https://www.heronsec.ai/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","foundedUrl":"https://www.heronsec.ai/about","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.heronsec.ai/","kind":"org","location":"Tel Aviv, Israel","logoAsset":"/_blob/8f07ac631a5748ab77a4854294e605eb.jpg","name":"Heron AI Security","people":[{"name":"Ezra Hausdorff","role":"Director"},{"name":"Individual #9660 Gershovich","role":"Co-founder (advisory board)"}],"quote":"Frontier AI is moving faster than the security around it. Heron is a not-for-profit aiming to narrow that gap by helping elite cybersecurity professionals become the people who secure the world's most advanced AI systems.","quoteUrl":"https://www.heronsec.ai/","sources":["https://www.heronsec.ai/","https://www.edtechinnovationhub.com/news/heron-opens-ai-security-research-fellowship-for-cybersecurity-professionals","https://www.heronsec.ai/about"],"summary":"Not-for-profit based in Tel Aviv, launched in December 2024, that brings experienced cybersecurity professionals into securing frontier AI systems, including through a research fellowship.","tags":["AI control & security","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T2":0.5,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Heron's site describes a nonprofit fellowship and research programme that trains senior cybersecurity professionals to secure frontier AI, and names loss of control as a key topic. It is weight/model security plus AI control work, so mostly T2 by the policy rule, with T3 for its control and containment projects and Adjacent for general AI security."},"high-impact-athletes":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Donate via the homepage","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.highimpactathletes.org/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/ca6081d09b4ba62ff61bc7e294e7800a.jpg","name":"High Impact Athletes","quote":"High Impact Athletes rallies athletes behind the most effective causes in the world.","quoteUrl":"https://www.highimpactathletes.org/","sources":["https://www.highimpactathletes.org/"],"summary":"Charity that connects athletes, sports organisations and their fans with causes in global health and poverty, animal welfare, climate, women's empowerment and mental health.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Effective-giving org steering athletes' donations mostly to global health charities; not AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.highimpactathletes.org/"}},"high-impact-medicine":{"aliases":["Hi-Med"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.every.org/high-impact-medicine?utmCampaign=donate-link#/donate/card","donateNote":"Via fiscal sponsor Players Philanthropy Fund","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.highimpactmedicine.org/our-team","summary":"https://www.highimpactmedicine.org"},"fiscalSponsor":"Players Philanthropy Fund","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.highimpactmedicine.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/907cbbae2d2458275e847da487efa8b5.jpg","name":"High Impact Medicine","people":[{"name":"Akhil Bansal","role":"Co-Founder, Governing Board Chair"}],"quote":"We provide guidance medic-to-medic, to help identify your personal pathway to impact.","quoteUrl":"https://www.highimpactmedicine.org","sources":["https://www.highimpactmedicine.org","https://www.highimpactmedicine.org/our-team"],"summary":"Guides doctors and medical students toward high-impact careers and giving, including global health and biosecurity.","tags":["Field-building","Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":"UK private limited company; US 501(c)(3) via fiscal sponsor"},"high-impact-professionals":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/charities/career-ecosystem-support","donateNote":"Via Giving What We Can","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org/about-us","quote":"https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org/about-us","summary":"https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org/about-us"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/abbfa319b24dc9f5a08d727019323644.jpg","name":"High Impact Professionals","people":[{"name":"Nina Friedrich","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Devon Fritz","role":"Co-founder"},{"name":"Federico Speziali","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"We enable experienced professionals to maximize their positive impact in the world.","quoteUrl":"https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org/about-us","sources":["https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org","https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org/about-us"],"summary":"Helps experienced professionals move into high-impact careers through a free six-week Impact Accelerator programme and a talent directory used by recruiters.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":""},"himabindu-lakkaraju":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://seas.harvard.edu/person/hima-lakkaraju","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Himabindu Lakkaraju","quote":"My research focuses on AI safety, interpretability, and reliability, with a particular emphasis on foundation models.","quoteUrl":"https://himalakkaraju.github.io/","sources":["https://seas.harvard.edu/person/hima-lakkaraju","https://himalakkaraju.github.io/"],"summary":"Assistant professor at Harvard, with appointments in the Business School and the Department of Computer Science, researching AI safety, interpretability and reliability, especially of foundation models.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://himalakkaraju.github.io/","quote":"https://himalakkaraju.github.io/"}},"hitrecord":{"aliases":["HITRECORD AI Safety Project LLC"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://hitrecord.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://hitrecord.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/c1927786708d1de698915d7310c8bbf2.jpg","name":"HITRECORD","people":[{"name":"Joseph Gordon-Levitt","role":"Founder"}],"quote":"HITRECORD is an open online community for creative collaboration","quoteUrl":"https://hitrecord.org/","sources":["https://hitrecord.org/","https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/2025-grants/","https://hitrecord.org/about"],"summary":"Online creative-collaboration community and production company founded by Joseph Gordon-Levitt; funded by FLI to produce film, TV and digital content on AI safety, ethics and risks for general audiences.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T2":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. FLI's grant page funds mainstream film/TV on 'AI safety, ethics, and risks' and AI's impact on humanity, and a 2025 release frames Gordon-Levitt's advocacy around basic safety standards and children, so the content is probably more AI-and-society than superintelligence-focused."},"individual-8843":{"name":"Individual #8843","kind":"person","anonId":"8843"},"hofvarpnir-studios":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://hofvarpnir.ai/about","summary":"https://hofvarpnir.ai/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2021","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://hofvarpnir.ai/","kind":"org","location":"California, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/972a69334d8baf34e2f9c8cb88199dc6.jpg","name":"Hofvarpnir Studios","people":[{"name":"Shauna Kravec","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Nova DasSarma","role":"Treasurer and Secretary"}],"quote":"We fund and support AI safety through grants, compute, and our own research.","quoteUrl":"https://hofvarpnir.ai/","sources":["https://hofvarpnir.ai/","https://hofvarpnir.ai/about"],"summary":"Nonprofit that runs GPU compute clusters for AI safety researchers, makes grants and does its own safety research.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Alignment research","Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3) public charity","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Per the co-founder's 80,000 Hours interview, Hofvarpnir was set up to give academic AI safety researchers GPU compute, which probably funded mostly empirical prosaic safety work; which groups actually used it (the first pass recalled CHAI) could not be confirmed."},"individual-22206":{"name":"Individual #22206","kind":"person","anonId":"22206"},"hollywood-health-society":{"aliases":["University of Southern California (Hollywood, Health & Society)","HH&S"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"","basis":"the staff page could not be fetched","range":"","url":"","value":null},"homepage":"https://hollywoodhealthandsociety.org","kind":"programme","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/360fef19dbfc5b2e5394abe1c19ca3fe.jpg","name":"Hollywood, Health & Society","outputs":[{"label":"HH&S newsletter (Spring 2025)","type":"newsletter","url":"https://hollywoodhealthandsociety.org/news-media/newsletter/spring-2025/"},{"label":"Lear Center YouTube","type":"youtube","url":"https://www.youtube.com/@LearCenter"},{"label":"Going Nuclear topic page","type":"other","url":"https://hollywoodhealthandsociety.org/going-nuclear/"}],"parentOrg":"USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center (University of Southern California; existing id university-of-southern-california)","quote":"Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S) is a program of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center that provides the entertainment industry with accurate and up-to-date information for storylines on health, safety, and security.","quoteUrl":"https://hollywoodhealthandsociety.org/about-us","socials":{"bluesky":"https://bsky.app/profile/hollywdhealth.bsky.social","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/hollywood-health-society","x":""},"sources":["https://hollywoodhealthandsociety.org/about-us","https://hollywoodhealthandsociety.org/","https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/2022-grants/"],"status":"active","summary":"USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center programme that gives the entertainment industry accurate information for storylines on health, safety and security; FLI funded its work on the risks of nuclear weapons and irresponsible AI use.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Robin Jia's homepage frames his work as understanding, auditing and governing LLMs with no takeover framing, and USC ISI's knowledge-concealment paper is prosaic deception-detection work, so T3; neurosymbolic multi-agent safety and the Hollywood, Health & Society alias are probably Adjacent.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/2022-grants/"}},"holtman-systems-research":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://holtmansystemsresearch.nl/index.php/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"AI Safety Support Ltd (receiving charity for the SFF-2023-H1 grant)","founded":"2022","foundedUrl":"https://holtmansystemsresearch.nl/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"the About page describes it as a single-person company","range":"","url":"https://holtmansystemsresearch.nl/index.php/about/","value":1},"homepage":"https://holtmansystemsresearch.nl/","kind":"org","location":"Eindhoven, Netherlands","logoAsset":"/_blob/618f9b865d8685e242e692393a792c19.png","name":"Holtman Systems Research","outputs":[{"label":"Koen Holtman on LessWrong","type":"lesswrong","url":"https://www.lesswrong.com/users/koen-holtman"},{"label":"ORCID (papers, patents, RFCs)","type":"publications","url":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9481-3915"},{"label":"Data Skeptic: AGI Can Be Safe","type":"podcast","url":"https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2023/agi-can-be-safe"}],"people":[{"name":"Koen Holtman","role":"founder"}],"quote":"The main current activity of Holtman Systems Research is to participate in the creation of formal technical standards for AI systems.","quoteUrl":"https://holtmansystemsresearch.nl/","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/koen-holtman-2312844/","x":""},"sources":["https://holtmansystemsresearch.nl/","https://holtmansystemsresearch.nl/index.php/about/","https://www.greaterwrong.com/users/koen-holtman?show=posts","https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2023/agi-can-be-safe","https://www.longtermwiki.com/grants/00TFNYWm2p"],"status":"unknown","statusNote":"The site is still up and says it 'is not looking for new customers'. I found no other sign of current activity.","summary":"A small European single-person company founded in November 2022 by Koen Holtman, an independent AI safety researcher.","tags":["Alignment research","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.32,"T1":0.35,"T2":0.33},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Koen Holtman's published corrigibility theory (2019-2021, aimed at AGI-level agents) is agent foundations (T1), but by 2023 his visible output is EU AI Act / general-purpose-AI standards work via the AI Standards Lab, framed around EU 'systemic risk' rather than takeover, so the 2023 general-support money is weighted toward standards (T2 50 / Adjacent 50 per the stated-framing default)."},"hong-shen-and-fei-fang":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/hongs/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Hong Shen and Fei Fang","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/hongs/","https://cos.cs.cmu.edu/people/faculty/fang-fei.html","https://feifang.info/"],"summary":"Carnegie Mellon researchers Hong Shen (HCII, CARE Lab) and Fei Fang (Software and Societal Systems) building a database and taxonomy of real-world LLM use cases.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The funder page says the grant builds a database and taxonomy of LLM use cases under an RFP on studying and forecasting real-world LLM impacts; the only x-risk link is the funder's programme label, so AI-and-society measurement stays Adjacent."},"hongseok-namkoong":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual academic","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://business.columbia.edu/faculty/people/hongseok-namkoong","kind":"person","location":"New York, USA","name":"Hongseok Namkoong","quote":"I work on building trustworthy AI systems that are capable of continually improving itself through interactions with the world.","quoteUrl":"https://hsnamkoong.github.io/","sources":["https://business.columbia.edu/faculty/people/hongseok-namkoong","https://hsnamkoong.github.io/bio","https://hsnamkoong.github.io/"],"summary":"Faculty member at Columbia Business School researching trustworthy AI and statistical methods for decision-making.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. His 2026 paper on rare-event estimation for LLMs frames the work around catastrophic rare outputs and safe deployment; prosaic eval method, not explicitly about takeover, so T3 with a small T2 share.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://hsnamkoong.github.io/bio"}},"horizon-institute-for-public-service":{"aliases":["Open Philanthropy Technology Policy Fellowship"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found; see its support page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://horizonpublicservice.org/about-us/","quote":"https://horizonpublicservice.org/about-us/","summary":"https://horizonpublicservice.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://horizonpublicservice.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/8ca26b199d2bcb9fa94b5b1e619e2bbe.jpg","name":"Horizon Institute for Public Service","people":[{"name":"Joan Gass","role":"Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director"},{"name":"Remco Zwetsloot","role":"Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director"}],"quote":"The Horizon Institute for Public Service is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that helps the US government navigate our era of rapid technological change by supporting the next generation of emerging technology policy talent.","quoteUrl":"https://horizonpublicservice.org/about-us/","sources":["https://horizonpublicservice.org","https://horizonpublicservice.org/about-us/"],"summary":"Non-partisan nonprofit that trains and places fully funded emerging technology fellows, including in AI, at US federal agencies, congressional offices and think tanks.","tags":["Governance & policy","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T2":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Places technology specialists in US government policy roles through a fellowship, covering AI, biotech, cyber, nuclear, space and more. The general tech-policy placements are not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent, three-fifths); the AI policy placements aim at takeover risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2, two-fifths). 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The Manifund page says the grant funds a pseudonymous researcher's CS PhD on equitable access to safe AI, plus AI risk-assessment and governance work, with no stated loss-of-control or catastrophic aim; mostly general governance, with a small T2 share for the risk-assessment work feeding UK government.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://horizonomega.org"}},"how-i-learned-to-love-shrimp":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2122817","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/b8a9f0eeeaf4d2151e16892c21b9cd32.jpg","name":"How I Learned to Love Shrimp","quote":"How I Learned To Love Shrimp is a podcast showcasing innovative and impactful ways to help animals and build the animal advocacy movement.","quoteUrl":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2122817","sources":["https://www.buzzsprout.com/2122817"],"summary":"Podcast featuring interviews with campaigners, lobbyists, scientists and other experts about ways to help animals, such as policy advocacy and alternative proteins.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is a podcast on EA animal advocacy; not AI-related, likely wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2122817","quote":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2122817"}},"hr-luna-park":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"logoUrl":"https://hrlunapark.com/","quote":"https://hrlunapark.com/","summary":"https://hrlunapark.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://hrlunapark.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","name":"HR Luna Park","people":[{"name":"Nadya Petrova","role":"Founder"}],"quote":"We hire top-level engineers for startups, hedge funds, and AI-safety labs","quoteUrl":"https://hrlunapark.com/","sources":["https://hrlunapark.com/"],"status":"active","summary":"Technical recruitment agency that places engineers with AI safety organisations such as METR and ARC Theory, as well as algorithm-intensive startups and high-frequency trading funds.","tags":["Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"talent-pipeline":1},"xrTier":{"T2":0.3,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Two searches turned up no public page for this recruiter, so the tier follows the pipeline rule applied to the grant purpose (headhunting ML engineers for AI safety organisations), which probably feeds mostly empirical safety teams."},"huan-sun-and-yu-su":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://u.osu.edu/ihudas/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Huan Sun and Yu Su","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://u.osu.edu/ihudas/people/","https://ysu1989.github.io/"],"summary":"Associate professors of computer science at Ohio State in the OSU NLP group: Huan Sun's lab works on the safety of computer-use agents, including adversarial testing, and Yu Su works on language agents.","tags":["Evaluations","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.9,"T4":0.1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. OSU says the grants fund eliciting misaligned behaviour in computer-use agents and studying reversal-curse and multi-hop-reasoning limits in transformers, which is prosaic safety and interp (T3); a small T4 share stays because the reasoning-limits work and the group's agent building lean toward capabilities.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://u.osu.edu/ihudas/people/"}},"huan-zhang-s-group-at-the-university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign":{"aliases":["University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Huan Zhang)","Huan Zhang's group at UIUC"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.huan-zhang.com/","summary":"https://www.huan-zhang.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"PI plus 14 current students (6 PhD, 8 MS) on homepage list, which the page marks as incomplete","range":"","url":"https://www.huan-zhang.com/","value":15},"homepage":"https://www.huan-zhang.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Urbana, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/c1687c958ff076e603202814d106ba4b.jpg","name":"Huan Zhang's group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign","outputs":[{"label":"Huan Zhang on Google Scholar","type":"scholar","url":"https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LTa3GzEAAAAJ"},{"label":"alpha-beta-CROWN verifier","type":"github","url":"https://github.com/huanzhang12/alpha-beta-CROWN"}],"parentOrg":"university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign","people":[{"name":"Huan Zhang","role":"PI (Assistant Professor, ECE)"}],"quote":"My research aims to build trustworthy AI systems that can be safely and reliably used in mission-critical tasks, using both formal and empirical approaches.","quoteUrl":"https://www.huan-zhang.com/","sources":["https://www.huan-zhang.com/","https://api.nsf.gov/services/v1/awards/2331967.json?printFields=id,title,awardeeName,piFirstName,piLastName,coPDPI,estimatedTotalAmt,startDate,expDate,awardeeCity"],"status":"active","summary":"Research team led by Huan Zhang at UIUC's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, building trustworthy AI, including formal verification of neural networks with the open-source alpha-beta-CROWN verifier.","tags":["AI control & security","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The university news page describes the SLES foundation-model award (PI Individual #8798) as work on hallucination, consistency and misinformation safety, with no x-risk framing, so it is prosaic T3; agent cyber-risk evals are T3 and safe GNNs probably Adjacent."},"human-aligned-ai-summer-school":{"aliases":["AI summer school (Jan Kulveit)","HAAISS"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","foundedUrl":"https://humanaligned.ai/2018/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026","basis":"counted 7 organisers (programme, project management, operations) on the 2026 edition page; volunteer/part-time organising team, not staff","range":"","url":"https://humanaligned.ai/2026/","value":7},"homepage":"https://humanaligned.ai/","kind":"programme","location":"Prague, Czechia","name":"Human-aligned AI Summer School","outputs":[{"label":"HAAISS 2025 talks playlist","type":"youtube","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp2KkB_jfw4&list=PLGWYrTt3WtDXHq4RjSIeP7ewisN8VpisB"},{"label":"2018 edition","type":"events","url":"https://humanaligned.ai/2018/"},{"label":"2026 edition","type":"events","url":"https://humanaligned.ai/2026/"}],"parentOrg":"alignment-of-complex-systems-research-group","people":[{"name":"Jan Kulveit","role":"programme (main coordinator in 2018)"},{"name":"Individual #8637","role":"programme"},{"name":"Individual #5073","role":"programme"},{"name":"Ondřej Bajgar","role":"programme"},{"name":"Anna Gavenčiak","role":"project management"}],"quote":"Four intensive days of talks, workshops, and discussions covering current questions in AI alignment research and the broader framings that shape them.","quoteUrl":"https://humanaligned.ai/2026/","sources":["https://humanaligned.ai/","https://humanaligned.ai/2026/","https://humanaligned.ai/2018/","https://humanaligned.ai/2025/"],"status":"active","statusNote":"editions in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026 (6th edition, 13-16 July 2026); now co-organised by ACS Research and the Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University. The 2018 edition was organised by CTS, the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (Charles University) and the Czech Effective Altruism Association.","summary":"Multi-day summer school in Prague with talks, workshops and discussions on AI alignment research, first held in 2018 and most recently in July 2026.","tags":["Education & training","Field-building","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.1,"T2":0.4,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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The grants paid for work on machine-learning bias and statistical help to accountability bodies, not x-risk-aimed, so Adjacent (hrdag.org; macfound.org grantee page)."},"humanagencybench":{"aliases":["Human Agency Bench","HAB"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"ashgro","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2025-09","basis":"4 authors on the arXiv paper","range":"","url":"https://arxiv.org/html/2509.08494v1","value":4},"homepage":"https://github.com/BenSturgeon/HumanAgencyBench/","kind":"programme","location":"","name":"HumanAgencyBench","outputs":[{"label":"HumanAgencyBench paper (arXiv 2509.08494)","type":"arxiv","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08494"},{"label":"Code and dataset","type":"github","url":"https://github.com/BenSturgeon/HumanAgencyBench/"},{"label":"Evaluation results dataset (Hugging Face)","type":"other","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/Experimental-Orange/HumanAgencyBench_Evaluation_Results"},{"label":"Human annotations dataset (Hugging Face)","type":"other","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/Experimental-Orange/HumanAgencyBench_Human_Annotations"}],"people":[{"name":"Individual #9382","role":"lead author / repo owner (Apart Research; AI Safety Cape Town)"},{"name":"Individual #2447","role":"co-author"},{"name":"Jacob Haimes","role":"co-author (Apart Research)"},{"name":"Jacy Reese Anthis","role":"corresponding author (University of Chicago; Stanford; Sentience Institute)"}],"quote":"HumanAgencyBench (HAB) is a benchmark evaluation of how LLM-based assistants support or reduce human agency.","quoteUrl":"https://github.com/BenSturgeon/HumanAgencyBench/","sources":["https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08494v1","https://arxiv.org/html/2509.08494v1","https://github.com/BenSturgeon/HumanAgencyBench/","https://huggingface.co/Experimental-Orange"],"status":"active","statusNote":"README says 13 models were added in May 2026","summary":"Benchmark that measures how far AI assistants support or reduce human agency, across six behaviours such as asking clarifying questions and avoiding value manipulation.","tags":["Evaluations","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Probably a benchmark of whether AI systems support or erode human agency, AI-relevant but not clearly aimed at takeover.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://github.com/BenSturgeon/HumanAgencyBench/"}},"humanity-ai":{"name":"Humanity AI","aliases":["Humanity AI (Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors)"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://humanityai.ai/","founded":"2025","fiscalSponsor":"Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors","summary":"Five-year, $500M coalition of ten US foundations (including MacArthur, Ford, Mellon, Mozilla, Omidyar Network and Packard), with a pooled grants fund managed by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors; its priorities are democracy, education, humanities and culture, labour and the economy, and security.","quote":"a $500 million five-year initiative dedicated to making sure people have a stake in the future of artificial intelligence (AI).","quoteUrl":"https://www.macfound.org/press/press-releases/humanity-ai-commits-500-million-to-build-a-people-centered-future-for-ai","tags":["Governance & policy"],"sources":["https://www.macfound.org/press/press-releases/humanity-ai-commits-500-million-to-build-a-people-centered-future-for-ai","https://www.mellon.org/news/humanity-ai-commits-500m-build-people-centered-future-ai","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/rockefeller-philanthropy-advisors-44314/"],"fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.macfound.org/press/press-releases/humanity-ai-commits-500-million-to-build-a-people-centered-future-for-ai","quote":"https://www.macfound.org/press/press-releases/humanity-ai-commits-500-million-to-build-a-people-centered-future-for-ai"},"infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-08","notFound":["people"],"why":"Launch announcement (by member foundations) used; Humanity AI's own site not read. No executive director named yet."},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. A pooled fund tiered by what it funds: its five priority areas are about people-centred AI, and its 'Security' area means everyday safety such as driverless cars and automated credit decisions, not loss of control, so Adjacent (macfound.org launch release)."},"humans-in-control":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://donorbox.org/support-humans-in-control-action","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://humansincontrol.org/about/","summary":"https://humansincontrol.org/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://humansincontrol.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/a34575fa746ade280eafe9b0b2d0c59a.jpg","name":"Humans in Control","people":[{"name":"Vael Gates","role":"Executive Director & Founder"}],"quote":"Humans in Control is a nonpartisan grassroots movement of parents, workers, veterans, and neighbors fighting to keep people – not a handful of AI companies – in charge of our future.","quoteUrl":"https://humansincontrol.org/about/","sources":["https://humansincontrol.org/about/"],"summary":"US nonpartisan grassroots movement, founded by Vael Gates, organising parents, workers, veterans and neighbours in every state for AI safeguards and to keep people in charge of AI.","tags":["Advocacy","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T1":0.4,"T2":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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From the grant purpose, an AI development forecasting tournament with Metaculus (rule: forecasting is Adjacent)."},"idea-lab-uiuc":{"aliases":["University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Hanghang Tong)","IDEA Lab","Hanghang Tong's group at UIUC"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"http://tonghanghang.org/","summary":"https://siebelschool.illinois.edu/about/people/faculty/htong"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 15 current lab members on PI homepage (10 PhD, 3 Master's, 2 postdocs) plus the PI","range":"","url":"http://tonghanghang.org/","value":16},"homepage":"http://tonghanghang.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Urbana, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/908e77131eaf7e98d2d7a5f41f7eb240.png","name":"IDEA Lab@UIUC","outputs":[{"label":"Hanghang Tong (Google Scholar)","type":"scholar","url":"https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RaINcuUAAAAJ&hl=en"}],"parentOrg":"university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign","people":[{"name":"Hanghang Tong","role":"PI (Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science)"}],"quote":"large scale data mining, machine learning and AI, especially for graph and multimedia data","quoteUrl":"http://tonghanghang.org/","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/htong","x":""},"sources":["http://tonghanghang.org/","https://siebelschool.illinois.edu/about/people/faculty/htong"],"status":"active","summary":"Group led by UIUC computer science professor Hanghang Tong, whose research interests are large-scale data mining and machine learning, especially for graph and multimedia data.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The university news page describes the SLES foundation-model award (PI Individual #8798) as work on hallucination, consistency and misinformation safety, with no x-risk framing, so it is prosaic T3; agent cyber-risk evals are T3 and safe GNNs probably Adjacent."},"idinsight":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.idinsight.org/give/","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.idinsight.org","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/97234e5c84a2d5575fd35e487d5273c3.jpg","name":"IDinsight","quote":"IDinsight is a mission-driven global advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders maximize their social impact.","quoteUrl":"https://www.idinsight.org/about/","sources":["https://www.idinsight.org","https://www.idinsight.org/","https://www.idinsight.org/about/"],"summary":"Global advisory, data analytics and research organisation running impact evaluations and surveys for governments and NGOs, and building shared standards for evaluating AI in the social sector.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant funded public health surveys in India, and IDinsight's about page describes evidence-for-development work, so it is not AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.idinsight.org/","quote":"https://www.idinsight.org/about/"}},"ifp-action":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ifp.org/about","kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, USA","name":"IFP Action","parentOrg":"Institute for Progress","people":[{"name":"Alec Stapp","role":"CEO and co-founder (Institute for Progress)"},{"name":"Tim Fist","role":"President (Institute for Progress)"}],"quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://ifp.org/about","https://causeiq.com/organizations/ifp-action,882117242"],"status":"active","summary":"501(c)(4) affiliate of the Institute for Progress, a non-partisan think tank on innovation policy; it promotes policies for scientific and technological progress and educates policymakers on them.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"compute-governance":0.2,"general-ai-policy":0.6,"misuse-policy":0.2},"xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T1":0.2,"T2":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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This foundations work aims at takeover risk and works on the hard parts (T1). 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The ILINA 3.0 call says the programme targets 'global catastrophic risk, especially those posed by AI' (AI governance, alignment, bio, animal welfare) and names GovAI among alumni destinations; it names catastrophic risk but not takeover or superintelligence, so the first-pass mix stands."},"impact-academy":{"aliases":["Stiftelsen Impact Academy"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.impactacademy.org/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/92ea1a47a97c9cc74e7261e276865126.jpg","name":"Impact Academy","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jnkDBDDDPu7chz694/launching-applications-for-the-global-ai-safety-fellowship","https://steadrise.org/"],"summary":"Talent organisation that runs programmes such as the Global AI Safety Fellowship, plus headhunting and career support, to place skilled people in AI safety roles. Its domain now redirects to SteadRise.","tags":["Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T1":0.1,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Impact Academy's domain now redirects to SteadRise, an AI safety talent-placement service; its named partners and placements include UK AISI, MATS, FAR AI and Apollo (mostly T3) plus Timaeus, TamperSec and Lucid Computing (T1 under the SLT and hardware-governance rules), and the site doesn't name takeover or superintelligence."},"impact-focused-education":{"aliases":["Impact-Focused Education / Tel Aviv University","Impact-Focused Education","Making a Difference (TAUx)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.edx.org/certificates/professional-certificate/taux-making-a-difference","kind":"programme","location":"Tel Aviv, Israel","logoAsset":"/_blob/13bbd4594fb878d4aa55cca10232aefc.jpg","name":"Impact Focused Education","outputs":[{"label":"Making a Difference professional certificate (edX)","type":"other","url":"https://www.edx.org/certificates/professional-certificate/taux-making-a-difference"},{"label":"Making a Difference I course page (effectivealtruism.org)","type":"other","url":"https://www.effectivealtruism.org/courses/making-a-difference-evidence-based-impact"}],"parentOrg":"tel-aviv-university","people":[{"name":"Dan Lahav","role":"co-founder; course instructor (Lecturer, Tel Aviv University; CEO of Irregular/Pattern Labs)"},{"name":"Sella Nevo","role":"course instructor (Lecturer, Tel Aviv University; RAND Meselson Center director)"}],"quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.longtermwiki.com/grants/3-ymv9k5-t","https://www.effectivealtruism.org/courses/making-a-difference-evidence-based-impact","https://proxy.edx.org/certificates/professional-certificate/taux-making-a-difference","https://www.edx.org/certificates/professional-certificate/taux-making-a-difference","https://tauout.tau.ac.il/sites/tauonline.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/tauonline/%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%20%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9D/Course%20Syllabus%20-%20Making%20a%20Difference.pdf","https://www.edx.org/bio/dan-lahav"],"status":"unknown","statusNote":"Course is live on edX; no standalone org site found.","summary":"Education initiative, co-founded by Dan Lahav, that aims to develop an effective educational path for large-scale high-impact work; Lahav also teaches Tel Aviv University's two-course Making a Difference programme on edX.","tags":["Education & training","Field-building","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, an EAIF-funded 'Making A Difference' MOOC, probably general effective-altruism education rather than AI; flag as possibly wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.edx.org/bio/dan-lahav"}},"impact-markets":{"aliases":["GiveWiki"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://givewiki.org/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/8cafaa1f87fbb62d8e7e219bf71df08f.jpg","name":"Impact Markets","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://givewiki.org/","https://impartial-priorities.org/t/impact-markets"],"summary":"Charity evaluator for AI safety, formerly AI Safety Impact Markets and now GiveWiki, which published top picks in AI safety; givewiki.org now redirects to a post listing on a Substack.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"","funderId":"givewiki","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://impartial-priorities.org/t/impact-markets"}},"imperial-college-london":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.imperial.ac.uk","kind":"university","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/d30110f2c98043d67b4dae1e49305679.jpg","name":"Imperial College London","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.imperial.ac.uk","https://aisfund.org/update-on-the-aisf-grantmaking-and-upcoming-funding-opportunity/","https://www.aria.org.uk/insights/2026/can-ai-help-us-prove-software-is-secure"],"summary":"London university. Its AI safety funding includes a 2024 AI Safety Fund grant for detecting sandbagging (strategic underperformance on AI evaluations) and a 2026 ARIA Safeguarded AI project with EPFL on an inference stack with formal proofs.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"UK university (registered charity)","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Most of the money is a 2026 ARIA Safeguarded AI award; ARIA's published list doesn't name the track, but its size and timing point to the cybersecurity-verification track, i.e. verification tooling, which is safety work that could cut either way (T3). The smaller grant, on detecting sandbagging in evaluations, is evals work and also T3. 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Figures come from the government funder's budget estimate.","tags":["Governance & policy","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":""},"inesia-in-house":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.entreprises.gouv.fr/espace-presse/linstitut-national-pour-levaluation-et-la-securite-de-lia-adopte-sa-feuille-de-route","summary":"https://www.entreprises.gouv.fr/espace-presse/linstitut-national-pour-levaluation-et-la-securite-de-lia-adopte-sa-feuille-de-route"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2025","foundedUrl":"https://www.entreprises.gouv.fr/espace-presse/linstitut-national-pour-levaluation-et-la-securite-de-lia-adopte-sa-feuille-de-route","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.entreprises.gouv.fr/espace-presse/linstitut-national-pour-levaluation-et-la-securite-de-lia-adopte-sa-feuille-de-route","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["quote"]},"kind":"government","location":"Paris, France","logoAsset":"/_blob/a6d5f60bc7716ebe0b50967c34e344b9.svg","name":"INESIA (in-house)","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.entreprises.gouv.fr/espace-presse/linstitut-national-pour-levaluation-et-la-securite-de-lia-adopte-sa-feuille-de-route"],"summary":"France's national institute for AI evaluation and security, created in 2025 and jointly steered by the DGE and SGDSN; it brings together national bodies such as ANSSI, Inria, LNE and PEReN.","tags":["Governance & policy","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":""},"information-and-decision-science-laboratory-ids-lab":{"aliases":["Cornell University (Andreas Malikopoulos)","IDS Lab","Information and Decision Science Lab"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://ids-lab.net/","summary":"https://ids-lab.net/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted on /people: director, 4 postdocs, 8 PhD (incl. 1 visiting), 8 MS, 11 undergraduates","range":"","url":"https://ids-lab.net/people/","value":32},"homepage":"https://ids-lab.net/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Ithaca, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/517985a5c131e1bb993f1e63e791c6d6.jpg","name":"Information and Decision Science Laboratory (IDS Lab)","outputs":[{"label":"IDS Lab publications","type":"publications","url":"https://ids-lab.net/publications/"},{"label":"Andreas Malikopoulos (Scholar)","type":"scholar","url":"https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ScKI3psAAAAJ&hl=en"},{"label":"Research","type":"other","url":"https://ids-lab.net/research/"}],"parentOrg":"cornell-university","people":[{"name":"Andreas Malikopoulos","role":"Director; 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INHR's own site blocks crawlers (not fetched); a job posting says it promotes international cooperation to avoid existential risks from AI and nuclear weapons, consistent with track-2 US-China AI catastrophic-risk dialogues plus a separate China biosecurity grant flagged notAI; dollar split still unknown."},"ink-switch":{"aliases":["Ink & Switch LLC"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company (LLC)","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.inkandswitch.com/","kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/f4ea526e83dca0160262f57db7486886.jpg","name":"Ink & Switch","quote":"An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought","quoteUrl":"https://www.inkandswitch.com/","sources":["https://www.inkandswitch.com/"],"summary":"Independent software research lab; contracted under ARIA's Safeguarded AI programme to build tooling for formally verified AI safety.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Independent research lab on tools for thought, such as local-first and malleable software, contracted under ARIA's Safeguarded AI programme to build tooling for formally verified AI. This general verification tooling is safety work that could cut either way (T3). Source: https://www.inkandswitch.com/"},"inkstick-media":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"logoUrl":"https://inkstickmedia.com/","quote":"https://inkstickmedia.com/","summary":"https://inkstickmedia.com/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://inkstickmedia.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","name":"Inkstick Media","people":[{"name":"Laicie Heeley","role":"Editor in Chief"}],"quote":"Inkstick Media is an award-winning nonprofit newsroom investigating how power, money, and the systems built in the name of security shape people’s lives.","quoteUrl":"https://inkstickmedia.com/about/","sources":["https://inkstickmedia.com/","https://inkstickmedia.com/about/","https://inkstickmedia.com/our-team/"],"status":"active","summary":"Nonprofit newsroom investigating how power, money and the systems built in the name of security shape people's lives, covering wars, weapons spending, policing and surveillance.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"nuclear":1}},"inspect-evals":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/work/inspect-evals","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/8011a21827e56bde00b117c4767f76c5.jpg","name":"Inspect Evals","quote":"Inspect Evals is intended to serve as a place for the broader evals community to collaborate on high quality evaluations that everyone can benefit from.","quoteUrl":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/work/inspect-evals","sources":["https://www.aisi.gov.uk/work/inspect-evals","https://manifund.org/projects/inspect-evals"],"summary":"Open-source repository of community-contributed LLM benchmark evaluations built on the Inspect framework, developed with the UK AI Security Institute, Arcadia Impact and the Vector Institute.","tags":["Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.6,"T4":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Probably the community repo of eval implementations for the UK AISI Inspect framework; mixes safety and dangerous-capability evals with general capability benchmarks, so evals rule gives T3 with a T4 share.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/work/inspect-evals"}},"institute-for-advanced-consciousness-studies":{"aliases":["Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies (IACS)","IACS"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://advancedconsciousness.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://advancedconsciousness.org/about/","people":"https://advancedconsciousness.org/about/","summary":"https://advancedconsciousness.org/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2019","foundedUrl":"https://advancedconsciousness.org/about/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://advancedconsciousness.org/","kind":"org","location":"Santa Monica, CA, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/fe62ebba24226800a003028631382851.jpg","name":"Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies","people":[{"name":"Nicco Reggente","role":"Research Director"},{"name":"Alexander (Sasha) Bystritsky","role":"President"}],"quote":"We are a 501(c)(3) research laboratory using experiential technology to promote human flourishing","quoteUrl":"https://advancedconsciousness.org/","sources":["https://advancedconsciousness.org/","https://advancedconsciousness.org/about/"],"summary":"Santa Monica nonprofit research lab studying consciousness and using experiential technologies (e.g. VR, neuroscience methods) to promote human flourishing.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)"},"institute-for-advanced-study":{"name":"Institute for Advanced Study","aliases":["IAS","Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://www.ias.edu/","location":"Princeton, NJ, USA","summary":"Independent research institute in Princeton; its AI Policy and Governance Working Group convenes researchers and policymakers on AI governance, and the MacArthur grant paid for its September 2023 workshop on international AI governance.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy"],"sources":["https://www.ias.edu/","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/institute-for-advanced-study-13290/"],"fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.macfound.org/grantee/institute-for-advanced-study-13290/"},"infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-08","notFound":["quote","people"],"why":"ias.edu refuses automated readers (403)."},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft, low confidence. The grant paid for one workshop on international AI governance; the working group's publications could not be read (ias.edu blocks automated readers) to check for loss-of-control work, so Adjacent by default (macfound.org grantee page)."},"institute-for-ai-policy-and-strategy":{"aliases":["IAPS","Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS)","Rethink Priorities AI Governance & Strategy team","Rethink Priorities AI Governance and Strategy Team","RP AIGS"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"location":"https://www.iaps.ai/contact","people":"https://www.iaps.ai/our-team","summary":"https://www.iaps.ai/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2023","foundedUrl":"https://www.rethinkpriorities.org/news/introducing-the-institute-for-ai-policy-and-strategy","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.iaps.ai/","kind":"org","location":"Washington, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/3c7fcc1196744b3da7db2443e886832e.jpg","name":"Institute for AI Policy and Strategy","parentOrg":"rethink-priorities","people":[{"name":"Jennifer Marron","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Individual #1924","role":"President and Director (board)"}],"quote":"The Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS) is a nonpartisan think tank that produces policy research to address the implications of AI, from today’s most advanced models to potential AGI and superintelligence.","quoteUrl":"https://www.iaps.ai/","sources":["https://www.iaps.ai/","https://www.iaps.ai/contact","https://www.iaps.ai/our-team"],"status":"renamed","statusNote":"The RP AI Governance and Strategy team became the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS), launched by Rethink Priorities in October 2023","summary":"Nonpartisan think tank that researches policy for advanced AI, including compute and security, develops policy talent and advises policymakers.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.006,"T1":0.297,"T2":0.698},"xrTierNote":"Think tank researching policy for advanced AI up to AGI and superintelligence, across frontier security, compute policy (export-control enforcement, hardware-enabled mechanisms) and international strategy. The compute-governance work buys time (T1, about three-tenths); the rest aims at large-scale risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2, about seven-tenths). 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The grant title is multi-agent oversight, but the institute describes its goal as protocols and tooling for decentralized AI and doesn't mention catastrophic or takeover risk, so prosaic T3 mixed with Adjacent stands.","funderId":"cosmos-institute"},"institute-for-family-studies":{"aliases":["IFS","The Institute for Family Studies (IFS)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://donate.ifstudies.org/?hr_se=169","donateNote":"No donation page verified","fieldSources":{"people":"https://ifstudies.org/about-us","summary":"https://ifstudies.org/family-first-technology-initiative"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ifstudies.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Charlottesville, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/8105bc6c5a0d52b4f4298b50277a989a.jpg","name":"Institute for Family Studies","people":[{"name":"Carter Skeel","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"The mission of the Institute for Family Studies is to strengthen marriage and family life and advance the welfare of children through research and public engagement.","quoteUrl":"https://ifstudies.org/about-us","sources":["https://ifstudies.org/about-us","https://ifstudies.org/family-first-technology-initiative"],"summary":"Charlottesville, Virginia-based research organisation that studies marriage and family, including the effects of AI on family life through its Family First Technology Initiative.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.8,"T2":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. FLI's grant page describes a project guiding AI to protect family interests, and IFS's own AI pages fetched say nothing about superintelligence; kept a small T2 share because FLI funds it as a pro-human constituency."},"institute-for-law-ai":{"aliases":["LawAI","Institute for Law and AI","Legal Priorities Inc (Institute for Law & AI)","Legal Priorities Project","Legal Priorities Inc","LPP","Essay Contest on Existential Risk in US Cost-Benefit Analysis (Legal Priorities Project)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://www.every.org/law-ai","donateNote":"Via Every.org","fieldSources":{"people":"https://law-ai.org/team/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://law-ai.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Boston, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/022767cd60dc3877a5a706cf6c6cbe7c.png","name":"Institute for Law & AI","people":[{"name":"Christoph Winter","role":"Director"}],"quote":"We conduct foundational research into issues at the intersection of artificial intelligence and law","quoteUrl":"https://law-ai.org/","sources":["https://law-ai.org/","https://law-ai.org/support-us/","https://law-ai.org/team/"],"summary":"Legal research institute working on law and policy for AI risk, and running fellowships and field-building for AI law. Formerly the Legal Priorities Project (LPP, founded 2020); grants to either name are counted here.","tags":["Governance & policy","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.439,"T1":0.146,"T2":0.414},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Legal research institute whose pages describe general AI law work (EU rules for general-purpose AI, incident reporting, laws on AI hacking, AI that follows the law) without naming catastrophic or existential risk, which is not aimed at x-risk (Adjacent, about 45%). Its work on overseeing frontier models aims at large-scale risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2, about 40%), and its compute deals proposal (Chips for Peace) buys time (T1, about 15%). Source: https://law-ai.org/"},"institute-for-philosophical-research":{"aliases":["IPR"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://philosophicalresearch.wordpress.com/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://philosophicalresearch.wordpress.com/people/","summary":"https://philosophicalresearch.wordpress.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2008","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://philosophicalresearch.wordpress.com/","kind":"org","location":"Oakland, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/46ae60e8f55004042c35727af7d97471.jpg","name":"Institute for Philosophical Research","people":[{"name":"Joseph Corabi","role":"President"},{"name":"Geoff Anders","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"IPR is dedicated to inspiring excellence in philosophy in the 21st century through 21st century means.","quoteUrl":"https://philosophicalresearch.wordpress.com/","sources":["https://philosophicalresearch.wordpress.com/","https://causes.benevity.org/causes/840-452740006","https://philosophicalresearch.wordpress.com/people/","https://philosophicalresearch.wordpress.com/faq/"],"summary":"Research organisation founded in 2008 that conducts research in systematic philosophy and runs free workshops on research methodology.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)"},"institute-for-progress":{"aliases":["IFP","Institute for Progress (IFP)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://ifp.org/about/","summary":"https://ifp.org/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ifp.org","kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/b4f366f804eb03f6b8845344ce115acc.jpg","name":"Institute for Progress","people":[{"name":"Alec Stapp","role":"Co-founder and CEO"},{"name":"Caleb Watney","role":"Co-founder"},{"name":"Tim Fist","role":"President"}],"quote":"A think tank for accelerating scientific, technological, and industrial progress","quoteUrl":"https://ifp.org","sources":["https://ifp.org","https://ifp.org/about/"],"summary":"Washington DC think tank on innovation policy, covering emerging technology including AI, high-skilled immigration, biotechnology and industrial policy.","tags":["Governance & policy","Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"notAI":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purposes, the FTX grant funded high-skilled immigration and biosecurity work (not AI) and the Founders Pledge grant an AI-and-biosecurity government placement; IFP's own AI writing is about compute build-out and AI IP security, with no catastrophic or loss-of-control framing, so Adjacent."},"institute-for-replication":{"aliases":["I4R"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.i4replication.org/about","quote":"https://www.i4replication.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://i4replication.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/8fa5bccfb7a87dca5baad20844693bbb.jpg","name":"Institute for Replication","people":[{"name":"Abel Brodeur","role":"Chair"},{"name":"Jörg Ankel-Peters","role":"Co-Chair"}],"quote":"Improving the credibility of science by systematically reproducing and replicating important empirical research in the social sciences.","quoteUrl":"https://www.i4replication.org/","sources":["https://i4replication.org","https://www.i4replication.org/about","https://www.i4replication.org/"],"summary":"Reproduces and replicates empirical social-science research via replication games, discussion papers and tools, including AI-assisted replication.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, probably replication games testing LLMs on reproducing social-science research, which is AI-relevant but not safety or x-risk work."},"institute-for-security-and-technology-ist":{"aliases":["Institute for Security and Technology","IST"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://securityandtechnology.org/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://securityandtechnology.org/our-team/","summary":"https://securityandtechnology.org/about-ist/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.securityandtechnology.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Oakland, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/6ef83bf069203a6a28aa1ff40ae3d025.jpg","name":"Institute for Security and Technology (IST)","people":[{"name":"Individual #9788","role":"Chief Executive Officer"},{"name":"Megan Stifel","role":"Chief Operating Officer"}],"quote":"The Institute for Security and Technology is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that unites technology and policy leaders to build actionable solutions to the security challenges of our time.","quoteUrl":"https://www.securityandtechnology.org/","sources":["https://securityandtechnology.org/about-ist/","https://www.securityandtechnology.org","https://securityandtechnology.org/our-team/","https://securityandtechnology.org/artificial-intelligence/"],"summary":"Nonprofit think tank bringing together technologists and policymakers on emerging security challenges, including AI risk reduction and recursive self-improvement.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T1":0.25,"T2":0.25},"xrTierNote":"Draft. IST's sampled AI work includes loss-of-control warning indicators, crisis simulations and a recursive self-improvement initiative (T1) and foundation-model misuse, SL5 weight-security and AI-in-nuclear-command work (T2), but the largest specific grants paid for religious-community AI ethics education, antitrust and power-concentration work and an AI chip export control initiative whose page frames chips around US-China competition and national security rather than frontier risk, so half is rated adjacent."},"integral-research":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Integral Research","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":[],"summary":"","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"unknown":1}},"intel":{"aliases":[],"capabilitiesNote":"Makes CPUs, GPUs and accelerators for AI in data centers and PCs.","checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"capabilitiesNote":"https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/overview.html","homepage":"https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/homepage.html","logoUrl":"https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/software/software-overview.html","quote":"https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/company-overview/company-overview.html","summary":"https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/homepage.html"},"homepage":"https://www.intel.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location","people"]},"kind":"company","name":"Intel","quoteUrl":"https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/company-overview/company-overview.html","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/homepage.html","https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/overview.html","https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/software/software-overview.html"],"summary":"Intel makes processors, GPUs and other chips plus software for running AI across data centers, edge devices and PCs.","tags":[],"quote":"To create world-changing technology that improves the life of every person on the planet."},"intelligence-security-laboratories":{"aliases":["Inversion Research","ISL","intseclab"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 3 people on /team page (Executive, Staff and Technical Directors)","range":"","url":"https://intelligencesecuritylaboratories.org/team/","value":3},"homepage":"https://intelligencesecuritylaboratories.org/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/a6f57f59c409da775b4b5a13aeead97f.png","name":"Intelligence Security Laboratories","people":[{"name":"Gabriel Kulp","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Tom Gardiner","role":"Staff Director"},{"name":"Paul Murley","role":"Technical Director"}],"quote":"We are a nonprofit research lab focused on implementation-driven R&D for high-security AI systems.","quoteUrl":"https://intelligencesecuritylaboratories.org/","sources":["https://inversionresearch.org/","https://intelligencesecuritylaboratories.org/","https://intelligencesecuritylaboratories.org/about/","https://intelligencesecuritylaboratories.org/team/"],"status":"renamed","statusNote":"inversionresearch.org now 302-redirects to intelligencesecuritylaboratories.org; date of rename unknown","summary":"Nonprofit research lab doing implementation-driven research and development for high-security AI systems, bridging security requirements and practical deployments.","tags":["AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3), EIN 39-2886672 (stated on homepage)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T2":0.4,"untiered":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. No public site or description found for Inversion Research or its 'Security Research Space' grant; first-pass guess (probably AI/weight-security research) kept unverified.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://intelligencesecuritylaboratories.org/"}},"intelligent-and-reliable-autonomous-systems-iras-research-group":{"aliases":["Oregon State University (Sandhya Saisubramanian)","IRAS group","IRAS research group"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://research.engr.oregonstate.edu/iras/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 7 current students on PI's /group page (4 PhD, 1 MS, 2 undergrad) plus the PI; alumni excluded","range":"","url":"https://www.sandhyasai.com/group","value":8},"homepage":"https://research.engr.oregonstate.edu/iras/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"lab","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/662f591fac2c9bd71caf3ba2678bda8b.jpg","name":"Intelligent and Reliable Autonomous Systems (IRAS) research group","outputs":[{"label":"IRAS publications","type":"publications","url":"https://research.engr.oregonstate.edu/iras/publication"},{"label":"PI publications","type":"publications","url":"https://www.sandhyasai.com/publications"},{"label":"sandysa (PI GitHub)","type":"github","url":"https://github.com/sandysa"},{"label":"Data & software","type":"other","url":"https://research.engr.oregonstate.edu/iras/data-software"}],"parentOrg":"Oregon State University","people":[{"name":"Sandhya Saisubramanian","role":"Assistant Professor, EECS; group lead (PI)"}],"quote":"Our group is particularly interested in ensuring that the single and multi-agent systems are safe, reliable, and unbiased, when operating in fully and partially observable environments.","quoteUrl":"https://research.engr.oregonstate.edu/iras/","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"","x":"https://twitter.com/sandhya_ai"},"sources":["https://research.engr.oregonstate.edu/iras/node/10","https://research.engr.oregonstate.edu/iras/","https://www.sandhyasai.com/","https://www.sandhyasai.com/group"],"status":"active","summary":"A research group at Oregon State University studying sequential decision making for autonomous systems, with a focus on making single- and multi-agent systems safe, reliable and unbiased.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The project summary describes norm-aligned agent behaviour and runtime safety monitors with no superintelligence or takeover framing, so it is academic prosaic safety (T3). (NSF award page is blocked by robots.txt; the basis is a UPenn project summary.)"},"intelligent-cyber-physical-systems-icps-laboratory":{"aliases":["Georgia Tech (Kyriakos Vamvoudakis)","ICPS Lab","Kyriakos G. 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The lab's homepage names AI alignment (learning what people want from human feedback) as a core problem alongside general human-robot collaboration; it does not mention takeover risk, but Dragan is a known safety-motivated PI, so T3 with a T2 share and an Adjacent share for HRI work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://interact.berkeley.edu/","quote":"https://interact.berkeley.edu/"}},"interface":{"aliases":["Stiftung Neue Verantwortung","SNV","Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV)"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.interface-eu.org/","kind":"org","location":"Berlin, Germany","logoAsset":"/_blob/9cea4d21e70b9b705019b6e6ae715d0e.jpg","name":"interface","quote":"interface (formerly Stiftung Neue Verantwortung) is a European think tank specialising in information technology and public policy.","quoteUrl":"https://www.interface-eu.org/","sources":["https://www.interface-eu.org/","https://www.interface-eu.org/about-us"],"status":"renamed","statusNote":"Stiftung Neue Verantwortung renamed itself interface.","summary":"Berlin-based European think tank on information technology and public policy, covering AI governance and global chip dynamics; formerly Stiftung Neue Verantwortung.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The site describes a general European IT-policy think tank (AI, cyber, chips, digital rights) with no stated takeover or catastrophic-risk focus; the grant funded talent-flow and chip supply-chain data reports, so general competitiveness policy.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.interface-eu.org/"}},"international-association-for-safe-and-ethical-ai":{"aliases":["IASEAI","International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI)","International Association for Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (IASEAI)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.iaseai.org/about","location":"https://www.iaseai.org/contact","people":"https://www.iaseai.org/leadership","quote":"https://www.iaseai.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","foundedUrl":"https://www.iaseai.org/about","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.iaseai.org/","kind":"org","location":"San Diego, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/bbfefe651ac1ac3673a754ea0f2dcec9.png","name":"International Association for Safe and Ethical AI","people":[{"name":"Stuart Russell","role":"President"},{"name":"Mark Nitzberg","role":"Interim Executive Director"}],"quote":"founded to ensure that systems operate safely and ethically, benefiting all of humanity","quoteUrl":"https://www.iaseai.org/","sources":["https://www.iaseai.org/","https://www.iaseai.org/contact","https://www.iaseai.org/about","https://www.iaseai.org/leadership"],"summary":"Membership association of researchers and policymakers working on safe and ethical AI; organises an annual international conference and policy engagement on AI risks.","tags":["Governance & policy","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":1},"xrTierNote":"Membership association of researchers and policymakers that runs an annual international conference and policy work on AI risks; its site gave no readable text. As risk-motivated governance it aims at takeover risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2)."},"international-biosecurity-and-biosafety-initiative-for-science":{"aliases":["International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science","International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science (IBBIS)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ibbis.bio","kind":"org","location":"Geneva, Switzerland","logoAsset":"/_blob/9154324bf34a133ee4fd2ed561c89540.jpg","name":"IBBIS","quote":"IBBIS works with global partners to strengthen biosecurity norms and develop innovative tools to uphold them.","quoteUrl":"https://ibbis.bio/","sources":["https://ibbis.bio","https://www.longtermwiki.com/wiki/ibbis"],"summary":"Geneva-based nonprofit foundation working on biosecurity norms and tools such as DNA synthesis screening standards.","tags":["Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":"Swiss non-profit foundation","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Kept: Founders Pledge describes IBBIS as building biosecurity tools, starting with the Common Mechanism for DNA synthesis screening, with no AI component (flag: likely wrongly counted, including the grantmaking-ai grant).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://ibbis.bio"}},"international-commission-on-non-ionizing-radiation-protection":{"aliases":["ICNIRP","International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (Rodney Croft)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.icnirp.org/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/7f6a6fc98195846cc5e9bd3cf08af448.jpg","name":"International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection","quote":"ICNIRP aims to protect people and the environment against adverse effects of non-ionizing radiation (NIR).","quoteUrl":"https://www.icnirp.org/en/about-icnirp/aim-status-history/index.html","sources":["https://www.icnirp.org/"],"summary":"Independent scientific body that sets exposure guidelines for non-ionizing radiation; funded to scope the evidence needed to revise far-UVC exposure limits, relevant to pandemic prevention.","tags":["Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. ICNIRP is a radiation-protection standards body, and the grant scoped far-UVC exposure guidelines, which is biosecurity or pandemic prevention, not AI. The site does not mention AI.","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.icnirp.org/en/about-icnirp/aim-status-history/index.html"}},"international-conference-on-machine-learning":{"aliases":["ICML"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Not a donation recipient","fieldSources":{"people":"https://icml.cc/Conferences/2026/Board","summary":"https://icml.cc/About","quote":"https://icml.cc/About"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://icml.cc/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location","quote"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/190797f351f666e85bed28c5489408ed.jpg","name":"International Conference on Machine Learning","people":[{"name":"Kamalika Chaudhuri","role":"President"},{"name":"Ruslan Salakhutdinov","role":"President Elect"}],"quote":"The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning.","quoteUrl":"https://icml.cc/About","sources":["https://icml.cc/","https://icml.cc/Conferences/2026/Board","https://icml.cc/About"],"summary":"Gathering of professionals in machine learning, whose participants range from academic and industrial researchers to entrepreneurs, engineers, graduate students and postdocs; funded here for an AI governance workshop.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T2":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, an AI governance workshop at ICML, likely mixed general governance with some catastrophic-risk content."},"international-dialogues-on-ai-safety-idais":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Run by Safe AI Forum (US 501(c)(3)); no dedicated donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://idais.ai/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/f283d43bd5ad74475abebb5874b7497f.png","name":"International Dialogues on AI Safety (IDAIS)","quote":"The International Dialogues on AI Safety (IDAIS) bring together leading scientists from around the world to collaborate on mitigating risks from AI.","quoteUrl":"https://idais.ai/","sources":["https://idais.ai/","https://saif.org/"],"summary":"Series of meetings bringing scientists from around the world together to tackle extreme risks from AI, supported by the Safe AI Forum.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.4,"T2":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. IDAIS statements call for global verifiable red lines and name loss of control over autonomous AI; this is coordination that could buy time, but the path to binding limits is uncertain and the site never names superintelligence.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://idais.ai/","quote":"https://idais.ai/"}},"international-institute-of-information-technology-hyderabad":{"aliases":["IIIT Hyderabad","IIIT-H"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.iiit.ac.in/giving/","donateNote":"University giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.iiit.ac.in/","kind":"university","location":"Hyderabad, India","logoAsset":"/_blob/22e61142776524eb2075c84b0ea00836.png","name":"International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.iiit.ac.in/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Institute_of_Information_Technology,_Hyderabad"],"summary":"Deemed university in Hyderabad, India, founded as a non-profit public-private partnership, with departments in computer science, electronics, AI and related fields. Funded here for an AI systems course.","tags":["Academic","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, an AI systems course by Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, whose work is probably responsible AI and social computing rather than x-risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Institute_of_Information_Technology,_Hyderabad"}},"international-union-against-tuberculosis-and-lung-disease":{"aliases":["The Union"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://donate.theunion.org/giving/~my-donation","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1920","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://theunion.org","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/5f529d05ad4bf8246fb083e8003315b0.jpg","name":"International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://theunion.org/node/5480"],"summary":"Global health organisation, founded 1920, working on tuberculosis and lung disease; not an AI-safety organisation.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is travel scholarships to a lung health conference; global health, not AI, may be wrongly counted."},"inverse-scaling-prize":{"aliases":["AI Alignment Prize on Inverse Scaling"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Prize contest; no donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://github.com/inverse-scaling/prize","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Inverse Scaling Prize","quote":"We hypothesize that inverse scaling is often a sign of an alignment failure and that more examples of alignment failures would benefit empirical alignment research.","quoteUrl":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eqxqgFxymP8hXDTt5/announcing-the-inverse-scaling-prize-usd250k-prize-pool","sources":["https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eqxqgFxymP8hXDTt5/announcing-the-inverse-scaling-prize-usd250k-prize-pool","https://github.com/inverse-scaling/prize"],"summary":"Prize contest announced in June 2022 by Ethan Perez, Ian McKenzie and Sam Bowman, for finding tasks on which larger language models show increasingly undesirable behaviour.","tags":["Evaluations","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The prize collected tasks where larger LMs do worse, motivated by training teaching potentially dangerous behaviours, but it states no takeover aim, so it stays a prosaic safety eval (T3).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eqxqgFxymP8hXDTt5/announcing-the-inverse-scaling-prize-usd250k-prize-pool","quote":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eqxqgFxymP8hXDTt5/announcing-the-inverse-scaling-prize-usd250k-prize-pool"}},"irene-chen":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"homepage":"https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/iychen.html","quote":"https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/iychen.html","summary":"https://irenechen.net/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/iychen.html","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Irene Chen","quote":"My research program spans clinical decision-making, fairness and inequality in machine learning, and rigorous evaluation of increasingly advanced AI systems.","quoteUrl":"https://irenechen.net/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/iychen.html","https://irenechen.net/"],"summary":"Assistant professor at UC Berkeley; AI2050 Early Career Fellow.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"irregular":{"aliases":["Pattern Labs","Irregular (formerly Pattern Labs)"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.irregular.com/research","summary":"https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-1001522079"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.irregular.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"company","location":"Israel","logoAsset":"/_blob/d9c8133e33695e39713521349dd7d087.png","name":"Irregular","people":[{"name":"Dan Lahav","role":"CEO"}],"quote":"Irregular is the first frontier security lab with the mission of protecting the world in the time of increasingly capable and sophisticated AI systems.","quoteUrl":"https://www.irregular.com/","sources":["https://www.irregular.com/","https://www.irregular.com/about","https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-1001522079","https://www.irregular.com/research"],"status":"renamed","statusNote":"Renamed from Pattern Labs to Irregular in 2025.","summary":"Israeli AI security lab, formerly Pattern Labs, that tests frontier AI models for potential misuse in cyber operations and for resilience against attackers, working with labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic.","tags":["AI control & security","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":""},"isaaa-africenter":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://africenter.isaaa.org/","kind":"org","location":"Nairobi, Kenya","logoAsset":"/_blob/a61f3a5ebfb7a2afbd12e651ad95391e.jpg","name":"ISAAA AfriCenter","quote":"Science communication, policy clarity, and bioscience knowledge for Africa","quoteUrl":"https://africenter.isaaa.org/","sources":["https://africenter.isaaa.org/","https://africenter.isaaa.org/about"],"summary":"Nairobi-based ISAAA centre that shares knowledge on agricultural biotechnology and biosafety in Africa through communication and outreach for informed policy.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is an African biosciences communication conference: not AI-related.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://africenter.isaaa.org/about"}},"individual-7112":{"name":"Individual #7112","kind":"person","anonId":"7112"},"it-for-change":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"http://itforchange.net/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://itforchange.net/leadership/","quote":"https://itforchange.net/aboutus/","summary":"https://itforchange.net/aboutus/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2000","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://itforchange.net","kind":"org","location":"Bengaluru, India","logoAsset":"/_blob/d54e3e4d09d242fcbc8fe8bde837ebfe.jpg","name":"IT for Change","people":[{"name":"Anita Gurumurthy","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"IT for Change aims for a society in which digital technologies contribute to human rights, social justice and equity.","quoteUrl":"https://itforchange.net/aboutus/","sources":["https://itforchange.net/aboutus","https://itforchange.net/leadership/","https://itforchange.net/aboutus/","https://itforchange.net/"],"summary":"NGO based in Bengaluru, India, working for digital technologies that serve human rights, social justice and equity, including work on internet and AI governance.","tags":["Governance & policy","Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. IT for Change is a digital-justice policy NGO and the grant purpose (AI trade safety assessment) reads as AI and society/trade policy, Adjacent by rule."},"individual-8205":{"name":"Individual #8205","kind":"person","anonId":"8205"},"j-peter-scoblic":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-11-07","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"person","location":"","name":"J. Individual #1770","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.csis.org/people/peter-scoblic","https://www.nti.org/about/people/peter-scoblic/"],"summary":"Senior associate (non-resident) at CSIS's Hess Center for New Frontiers; previously a fellow at New America and NTI. Works on nuclear strategy and strategic foresight.","tags":["Forecasting","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is nuclear war forecasting questions, not AI-related; flag as possibly wrongly counted.","uncertain":"Role from CSIS's people page (read 7 Nov 2026: 'Senior Associate (Non-resident), Hess Center for New Frontiers'); NTI lists him as a former fellow. His New America profile is gone.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.csis.org/people/peter-scoblic"}},"jackie-chi-kit-cheung-s-group-at-mcgill-university":{"aliases":["Mila / McGill University (Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Jin Guo)","Jackie Cheung's NLP group (McGill / Mila)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jcheung/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"Mila profile 'Current Students' lists 27 entries, 18 of them students (PhD/MSc/undergrad/intern); excludes visitors, postdocs, collaborators and alumni","range":"","url":"https://mila.quebec/en/jackie-cheung","value":18},"homepage":"https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jcheung/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Montréal, Canada","logoAsset":"/_blob/8ba81e9c81ef42542e10c40fc3837e94.png","name":"Jackie Chi Kit Cheung's group at McGill University","outputs":[{"label":"Reasoning and Learning Lab publications","type":"publications","url":"https://rl.cs.mcgill.ca/publications/"},{"label":"Mila profile","type":"other","url":"https://mila.quebec/en/jackie-cheung"}],"parentOrg":"McGill University","people":[{"name":"Jackie Chi Kit Cheung","role":"PI; Associate Professor, McGill; Associate Scientific Director, Mila; Canada CIFAR AI Chair"},{"name":"Jin Guo","role":"co-PI on CAISI grant (McGill University)"}],"quote":"The goal of our research is to develop useful and beneficial NLP systems that can support people in accomplishing complex tasks.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jcheung/","sources":["https://cifar.ca/?p=61899","https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jcheung/","https://rl.cs.mcgill.ca/","https://mila.quebec/en/jackie-cheung"],"status":"active","summary":"A natural language processing group at McGill University and Mila that builds computational models of human language, aiming for useful and beneficial NLP systems.","tags":["Academic","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, keeping human control in AI-assisted coding is mostly HCI and oversight work, not aimed at x-risk."},"jacob-steinhardt":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://jsteinhardt.stat.berkeley.edu/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Jacob Steinhardt","quote":"My research focuses on ensuring machine learning systems are understood by and aligned with humans.","quoteUrl":"https://jsteinhardt.stat.berkeley.edu/","sources":["https://jsteinhardt.stat.berkeley.edu/"],"summary":"Associate Professor of Statistics at UC Berkeley researching how to make ML systems understood by and aligned with humans; also Founder & CEO of Transluce, a non-profit lab building tools for understanding frontier AI systems.","tags":["Alignment research","Interpretability","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.25,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.55},"xrTierNote":"Mostly prosaic safety technique work (T3): Open Philanthropy's main grant funded robustness, value learning and preference aggregation. A share is T1 because his lab also studied whether a model's hidden knowledge can be read out even when its outputs mislead, and he writes about deception and reward hacking emerging in future models. A smaller share is T2. Sources: Open Philanthropy grant pages; his 2023 post 'Emergent Deception and Emergent Optimization'.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://jsteinhardt.stat.berkeley.edu/"}},"individual-3175":{"name":"Individual #3175","kind":"person","anonId":"3175"},"individual-2664":{"name":"Individual #2664","kind":"person","anonId":"2664"},"individual-2188":{"name":"Individual #2188","kind":"person","anonId":"2188"},"jaime-raldua-veuthey":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://foresight.org/grantees/2026-jaime-raldua-veuthey/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Jaime Raldua Veuthey","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://foresight.org/grantees/2026-jaime-raldua-veuthey/","https://apartresearch.com/about"],"summary":"CEO of Apart Research, a nonprofit AI safety organisation running research fellowships and weekend research hackathons.","tags":["Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose this funds the Apart fellowship on security-relevant AI safety projects; Apart's output is mostly prosaic safety and evals, so pipeline rule gives mostly T3.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://apartresearch.com/about"}},"jakob-foerster-and-christian-schroeder-de-witt":{"aliases":["Jakob Foerster and Christian Schroeder de Witt, University of Oxford"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.jakobfoerster.com","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Jakob Foerster and Christian Schroeder de Witt","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.jakobfoerster.com","https://www.cooperativeai.com/post/grant-summaries"],"summary":"Recipients of a 2021–2023 Cooperative AI Foundation grant supporting the Foerster Lab for AI Research (FLAIR) at the University of Oxford, focused on machine learning in multi-agent settings.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T3":0.5,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The CAIF grant page says this money helped set up FLAIR's multi-agent ML lab (Schroeder de Witt as postdoc), with a focus on cooperation, real-world applications and scaling multi-agent learning, and it states no x-risk aim; so cooperative AI (T3) plus general multi-agent work (Adjacent) and a small capabilities share.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cooperativeai.com/post/grant-summaries"}},"jakob-foerster":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.jakobfoerster.com/","kind":"person","location":"Oxford, UK","name":"Jakob Foerster","quote":"Overall, my research interest is on paradigm breaking innovation in AI.","quoteUrl":"https://www.jakobfoerster.com/","sources":["https://www.jakobfoerster.com/"],"summary":"Associate Professor in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and Research Scientist at Meta AI (FAIR), working on multi-agent reinforcement learning and human-AI coordination.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.1,"T3":0.6,"T4":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. One grant is CoT encoded-reasoning reduction (monitorability, T3); the other, per the funder page, builds a benchmark of whether LLMs can replicate computational science and engineering arXiv results, an agent-capability benchmark funded under an AI-risk RFP (T4/T3); Foerster's own page frames his work as capabilities-oriented with no x-risk framing.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.jakobfoerster.com/"}},"james-d-miller":{"aliases":["James Miller"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.smith.edu/people/james-miller","kind":"person","location":"Northampton, USA","name":"James D. 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FLI AGI safety grant for a guide to utility functions for AGI theorists by an x-risk-motivated economist; agent-foundations-adjacent but expository.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.smith.edu/people/james-miller"}},"individual-2771":{"name":"Individual #2771","kind":"person","anonId":"2771"},"james-mickens":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"James Mickens","quote":"Broadly speaking, my research focuses on the best ways to design, build, and secure complicated pieces of software.","quoteUrl":"https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/research/","sources":["https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/","https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/research/"],"summary":"Harvard SEAS researcher on how to design, build and secure complicated software, including recent work on hypervisors for potentially malicious AI models.","tags":["AI control & security","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.3,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Mickens's Harvard profile lists systems and security research with no AI-safety work. The grant title explicitly aims at containing misaligned AI (AI control from a systems-security PI), so the rule for a safety-motivated PI doing prosaic work applies: T3 70 / T2 30. I couldn't find a project page.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/research/","quote":"https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/research/"}},"individual-2158":{"name":"Individual #2158","kind":"person","anonId":"2158"},"individual-27130":{"name":"Individual #27130","kind":"person","anonId":"27130"},"individual-8289":{"name":"Individual #8289","kind":"person","anonId":"8289"},"jane-coffin-childs-memorial-fund":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Private foundation; no public donation page seen","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"http://jccfund.org","kind":"fund","location":"New Haven, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/bbdf44a0115fd961afdcdc3f45fb25bd.jpg","name":"Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund","quote":"The JCC Fund provides three years of salary support to the best and brightest postdoctoral fellows","quoteUrl":"https://www.jccfund.org/about-fund/","sources":["https://www.guidestar.org/profile/06-6034840","https://www.jccfund.org/about-fund/"],"summary":"Private foundation that gives postdoctoral fellows three years of salary support for fundamental biomedical research.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) private foundation","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The fund's own page says it funds basic biomedical postdoctoral fellowships, and the grant purpose is an immunology fellowship, so it is not AI work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.jccfund.org/about-fund/","quote":"https://www.jccfund.org/about-fund/"}},"japan-ai-safety-institute-in-house":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://aisi.go.jp/about/","quote":"https://aisi.go.jp/about/","summary":"https://aisi.go.jp/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","foundedUrl":"https://aisi.go.jp/about/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://aisi.go.jp/","kind":"government","location":"Tokyo, Japan","logoAsset":"/_blob/4cf1a4046edb202a46045a01b75c808b.png","name":"Japan AI Safety Institute (in-house)","quote":"安全・安心で信頼できるAIの実現に向けて、AIの安全性に関する評価手法や基準の検討・推進を行うための機関です。","quoteUrl":"https://aisi.go.jp/about/","sources":["https://aisi.go.jp/","https://aisi.go.jp/about/"],"summary":"Japanese institution set up in February 2024 at the Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) to examine and promote evaluation methods and standards for AI safety; here its in-house spending.","tags":["Governance & policy","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":""},"individual-64424":{"name":"Individual #64424","kind":"person","anonId":"64424"},"individual-2714":{"name":"Individual #2714","kind":"person","anonId":"2714"},"jason-crawford":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://jasoncrawford.org/","summary":"https://jasoncrawford.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://jasoncrawford.org/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Jason Crawford","quote":"I write and speak about the history and philosophy of progress, especially in technology and industry.","quoteUrl":"https://jasoncrawford.org/","sources":["https://jasoncrawford.org/"],"summary":"Writer on the history and philosophy of progress and founder of the Roots of Progress Institute.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":""},"jason-lee":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/jasondlee.html","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Jason Lee","quote":"My current focus is on machine learning with a focus on foundations of AI, deep learning, representation learning, and deep reinforcement learning.","quoteUrl":"https://jasondlee88.github.io/","sources":["https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/jasondlee.html","https://jasondlee88.github.io/"],"summary":"Associate Professor of EECS and Statistics at UC Berkeley, previously at Princeton, researching the theory of machine learning, optimisation and statistics.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is scalable oversight research, probably by the Princeton ML theorist, who isn't known for x-risk work (rule: other academics → T3).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/jasondlee.html","quote":"https://jasondlee88.github.io/"}},"individual-2005":{"name":"Individual #2005","kind":"person","anonId":"2005"},"individual-5482":{"name":"Individual #5482","kind":"person","anonId":"5482"},"jeffrey-ding":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://elliott.gwu.edu/node/6351","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Jeffrey Ding","quote":"I research great power competition and cooperation in emerging technologies, the political economy of innovation, and China's scientific and technological capabilities.","quoteUrl":"https://jeffreyjding.github.io/","sources":["https://elliott.gwu.edu/node/6351","https://jeffreyjding.github.io/"],"summary":"Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University researching great-power competition and cooperation in emerging technologies and China's science and technology capabilities.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The AI2050 project studies how international cooperation could strengthen China's AI safety rules against AI accidents, using nuclear-plant oversight as the analogy; this is accident-risk governance with no takeover framing, so it stays Adjacent.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://jeffreyjding.github.io/","quote":"https://jeffreyjding.github.io/"}},"jeffrey-ladish":{"aliases":["Jeffrey Ladish (Palisade Research)"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://palisaderesearch.org/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Jeffrey Ladish","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://palisaderesearch.org/","https://palisaderesearch.org/about/"],"summary":"Executive Director of Palisade Research, a Berkeley nonprofit that studies AI capabilities, including hacking and self-replication, to prevent loss of control, and briefs policymakers.","tags":["AI control & security","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.5,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Executive director of Palisade Research, which studies AI agents' drives and capabilities, such as shutdown resistance and hacking, and briefs policymakers on loss of control. The briefing buys time (T1, half); the research aims at takeover risk without its own plan for the hard parts (T2, half). 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Grant purpose links short- and long-term AI policy; her known policy work is broad, with some long-term risk focus.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.longtermresilience.org/jess-whittlestone"}},"individual-9597":{"name":"Individual #9597","kind":"person","anonId":"9597"},"individual-7983":{"name":"Individual #7983","kind":"person","anonId":"7983"},"individual-7688":{"name":"Individual #7688","kind":"person","anonId":"7688"},"individual-4026":{"name":"Individual #4026","kind":"person","anonId":"4026"},"jessica-rumbelow":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-11-07","kind":"person","name":"Jessica Rumbelow","sources":[],"summary":"Individual grantee.","tags":["Interpretability","Field-building"]},"jewish-social-impact-network":{"aliases":["EA for Jews","Effective Altruism for Jews","Jewish Social Impact Network (formerly but unofficially EA for Jews)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://eaforjews.org/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/b940725cda603d5255e3a756747701fc.png","name":"Jewish Social Impact Network","quote":"We are a group of people committed to sharing the ideas of effective altruism in the Jewish community and building a community of Jewish effective altruists.","quoteUrl":"https://eaforjews.org/","sources":["https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/groups/sL6qdAHNWTAuCw3wv","https://eaforjews.org/"],"summary":"Group that shares effective altruism ideas in the Jewish community and builds a community of Jewish effective altruists.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Her Toronto talk and bio frame her work as multi-agent LLM safety risks, causal reasoning and alignment with societal values, with no mention of catastrophic or takeover risk; the Schmidt project is interpretability to tell reasoning from memorisation, so prosaic safety plus some non-safety NLP."},"individual-1052":{"name":"Individual #1052","kind":"person","anonId":"1052"},"individual-9321":{"name":"Individual #9321","kind":"person","anonId":"9321"},"individual-8854":{"name":"Individual #8854","kind":"person","anonId":"8854"},"individual-3429":{"name":"Individual #3429","kind":"person","anonId":"3429"},"individual-7330":{"name":"Individual #7330","kind":"person","anonId":"7330"},"individual-96928":{"name":"Individual #96928","kind":"person","anonId":"96928"},"individual-2837":{"name":"Individual #2837","kind":"person","anonId":"2837"},"individual-6061":{"name":"Individual #6061","kind":"person","anonId":"6061"},"individual-5795":{"name":"Individual #5795","kind":"person","anonId":"5795"},"john-hawthorne":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/john-hawthorne/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"John Hawthorne","sources":["https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/john-hawthorne/"],"summary":"Provost Professor of Philosophy and Linda MacDonald Hilf Chair in Philosophy at the University of Southern California.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. USC and Dornsife pages show only a philosophy professorship (epistemology, mind and language, religious epistemology) with no AI work listed, and the grant purpose 'miscellaneous research projects' says nothing, so the mix stays a guess; the funder's grant page could not be reached (longtermwiki is robots-blocked).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/john-hawthorne/"}},"individual-8511":{"name":"Individual #8511","kind":"person","anonId":"8511"},"john-liagouris":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.bu.edu/cs/profiles/liagos","kind":"person","location":"","name":"John Liagouris","quote":"I'm interested in distributed systems, cloud computing, security and privacy, and data management.","quoteUrl":"https://cs-people.bu.edu/liagos/index.html","sources":["https://www.bu.edu/cs/profiles/liagos","https://cs-people.bu.edu/liagos/index.html"],"summary":"Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston University who co-leads the CASP lab and researches distributed systems, databases and secure analytics.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the Foresight 2026 grant purpose, decentralized platform for secure collaborative dataset generation; privacy-preserving AI infrastructure is Adjacent by rule.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://cs-people.bu.edu/liagos/index.html","quote":"https://cs-people.bu.edu/liagos/index.html"}},"individual-3307":{"name":"Individual #3307","kind":"person","anonId":"3307"},"johns-hopkins-center-for-health-security":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/make-a-gift-to-the-center-for-health-security","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/","kind":"university","location":"Baltimore, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/0a6b84cdebe9df030a5c032a6c2467ea.png","name":"Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security","quote":"To protect people's health from epidemics and disasters","quoteUrl":"https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/","sources":["https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/"],"summary":"Research centre at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health that works on pandemic preparedness, biosecurity and catastrophic biological risk policy.","tags":["Biosecurity","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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May's ISI profile lists NLP, chatbot and gameplay-agent work and no safety framing, and I could not find the funded paper.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.isi.edu/directory/jonmay/"}},"individual-5722":{"name":"Individual #5722","kind":"person","anonId":"5722"},"jose-hernandez-orallo":{"aliases":["Jose Hernandez-Orallo"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://josephorallo.webs.upv.es/","kind":"person","location":"Cambridge, UK","name":"José Hernández-Orallo","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://josephorallo.webs.upv.es/"],"summary":"Research Professor at the University of Cambridge and Director of Research at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence; works on AI evaluation and measurement of capabilities and risks.","tags":["Academic","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T2":0.5,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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From the grant purpose, formal work on intention in cooperative AI by a causality/responsibility theorist, not explicitly aimed at takeover risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/halpern/","quote":"https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/halpern/"}},"josh-tenenbaum":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cocosci.mit.edu/josh-tenenbaum/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Josh Tenenbaum","quote":"While our core interests are in human learning and reasoning, we also work actively in machine learning and artificial intelligence.","quoteUrl":"https://cocosci.mit.edu/josh-tenenbaum/","sources":["https://cocosci.mit.edu/josh-tenenbaum/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Tenenbaum"],"summary":"Professor of Computational Cognitive Science at MIT; leads the Computational Cognitive Science group studying human-like learning and inference in AI.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Robin Jia's homepage frames his work as understanding, auditing and governing LLMs with no takeover framing, and USC ISI's knowledge-concealment paper is prosaic deception-detection work, so T3; neurosymbolic multi-agent safety and the Hollywood, Health & Society alias are probably Adjacent.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Deshmukh/Jyotirmoy"}},"individual-8630":{"name":"Individual #8630","kind":"person","anonId":"8630"},"kahn-group":{"aliases":["University of Toronto (Yonatan Kahn)","Kahn Group - Theoretical Particle Physics and Machine Learning"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://kahn-group.physics.utoronto.ca/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 14 current members on /group page incl. 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Mixed grants: Toryn Klassen's alignment research (OP page says AI alignment, $80k; T3/T2), Chris Maddison's ML research (his Vector profile lists scaling laws and drug discovery, so it probably leans Adjacent despite the 'controlling ML systems' framing), Yonatan Kahn's physics-style deep learning theory (small T1 share under the maths-of-networks rule, though his profile never mentions safety), and multi-agent LLM sanctioning (Adjacent/T3)."},"kai-wang":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/grantee/kai-wang/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["quote"]},"kind":"person","location":"","name":"Kai Wang","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/grantee/kai-wang/"],"summary":"Georgia Institute of Technology faculty member working on machine learning and decision-focused learning for societal challenges.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/grantee/kai-wang/"}},"kaiqing-zhang":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://user.eng.umd.edu/~kaiqing/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Kaiqing Zhang","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://user.eng.umd.edu/~kaiqing/"],"summary":"Assistant professor at the University of Maryland working on multi-agent reinforcement learning and learning for control.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. UMD's announcement says the Open Phil-funded project studies whether LLM agents covertly collude and how to prevent it, framed as safe/reliable communication rather than takeover risk, so prosaic multi-agent safety T3."},"kairos":{"aliases":["Kairos AI Project, Inc."],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://kairos-project.org/","summary":"https://kairos-project.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://kairos-project.org/","kind":"org","location":"Remote (Bay Area hub)","logoAsset":"/_blob/5ed02837662b96d993772a5a485e6d88.jpg","name":"Kairos","people":[{"name":"Agustín Covarrubias","role":"Co-Director"},{"name":"Neav Topaz","role":"Co-Director"}],"quote":"We build the talent infrastructure needed to address risks from advanced AI.","quoteUrl":"https://kairos-project.org/","sources":["https://kairos-project.org/","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/6ucKLAbrnbESYguyL/kairos-has-raised-usd50m-to-build-talent-infrastructure-for"],"summary":"AI safety field-building organisation running talent programmes including SPAR, the Pathfinder Fellowship for university groups, the Generator Residency and Global Challenges Project workshops.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.15,"T1":0.05,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.55,"T4":0.05},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Runs AI safety talent programmes: the SPAR research fellowship, support for university AI safety clubs (Pathfinder), Global Challenges Project workshops on AI safety and biosecurity, and the Generator Residency; it cites risks from advanced AI but not superintelligence or takeover. Tiered by who it serves: SPAR projects span technical safety, interpretability, policy, chip-based governance, biosecurity and societal impacts, so most is safety work that could cut either way (T3, 55%), with shares for governance aimed at large-scale risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2, 20%), work not aimed at AI x-risk (Adjacent, 15%), chip governance that buys time (T1, 5%) and work that may advance capabilities (T4, 5%). 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About three-quarters of the money (Open Philanthropy, $1,045,620) paid for a benchmark of software-engineering AI agents, with no safety reason given beyond the funder's programme name; benchmarks of agent capability count mainly as advancing capabilities (T4). His Schmidt Sciences project targets catastrophic failures of such agents, which is prosaic safety (T3). His own page describes building more capable AI agents and doesn't mention safety. 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The funder's page says the grant builds a benchmark of whether LLM agents can solve chemistry structure-analysis problems, under an RFP on benchmarking agents on consequential tasks with a stated advanced-AI-risk rationale, so it splits between capability measurement and safety-motivated evals.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://kjablonka.com/"}},"khalil-lab-boston-university":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.bu.edu/khalillab/","kind":"university","location":"Boston, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/49d91f039cf53ce65d9fc51022c1f3d8.png","name":"Khalil Lab, Boston University","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.bu.edu/khalillab/"],"summary":"Synthetic biology lab whose tools build regulatory circuits inside living cells, with applications to gene and cell-based therapies such as CAR-T cells for cancer.","tags":["Biosecurity","Academic"],"taxStatus":"Private university","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The lab's own pages describe synthetic and systems biology (engineering regulatory circuits in cells), and the grant funds therapeutic antibody generation, so this is biosecurity, not AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.bu.edu/khalillab/"}},"kiante-brantley":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://seas.harvard.edu/person/kiante-brantley","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Kianté Brantley","sources":["https://seas.harvard.edu/person/kiante-brantley","https://xkianteb.github.io/"],"summary":"Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, working on reinforcement learning, imitation learning and natural language processing to improve the decision-making capabilities of foundation models.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, this is empirical reward-hacking model-organism work (T3). Co-PI Shi Feng's site states a long-term goal of human control over future AIs, which supports a small T2 share; I could not reach Brantley's own page.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://xkianteb.github.io/","quote":"https://xkianteb.github.io/"},"quote":"My research focuses on problems at the intersection of machine learning and sequential decision-making, with the goal of improving the decision-making capabilities of foundation models.","quoteUrl":"https://xkianteb.github.io/"},"kickstarting-for-good":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://kickstartingforgood.org/","kind":"org","location":"Berlin, Germany","logoAsset":"/_blob/16348c33b4f859c1e06252a21a1cadac.jpg","name":"Kickstarting For Good","quote":"The Kickstarting For Good incubator is an 18-week programme for social-impact entrepreneurs and organisations looking to move the food system towards a plant-forward future.","quoteUrl":"https://kickstartingforgood.org/incubator/","sources":["https://kickstartingforgood.org/","https://kickstartingforgood.org/incubator/"],"summary":"Berlin-based incubator programme for social-impact entrepreneurs and organisations, with a focus on moving the food system towards a plant-forward future. Not an AI-safety organisation.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://kickstartingforgood.org/incubator/","quote":"https://kickstartingforgood.org/incubator/"}},"king-s-college-london":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.kcl.ac.uk/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"university","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/1ea87f39a7944220af594a73992468b5.jpg","name":"King's College London","quote":"King's College London is a world-leading university, dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, learning and society.","quoteUrl":"https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research","sources":["https://www.kcl.ac.uk/","https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research"],"summary":"King's College London is a university whose researchers received an AI-alignment grant from the Alignment Project.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"koddermann-public-affairs":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Koddermann Public Affairs","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://onlineinfo.ch/company/koddermann-public-affairs-gmbh---che-211-668-700/pdf"],"summary":"Swiss limited company providing consulting and support services in government affairs, communications and politics.","tags":["Governance & policy","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"international-coordination":0.7,"talent-pipeline":0.3},"xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T2":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. No public description found (searches returned nothing relevant and the firm's site disallows crawling), so this stays a guess from the grant purposes: AI summit coalition work plus recruiting for AI safety orgs.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://onlineinfo.ch/company/koddermann-public-affairs-gmbh---che-211-668-700/pdf"}},"individual-3826":{"name":"Individual #3826","kind":"person","anonId":"3826"},"konrad-kording":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual academic","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://pikprofessors.upenn.edu/meet-the-professors/konrad-kording","kind":"person","location":"Philadelphia, USA","name":"Konrad Kording","sources":["https://pikprofessors.upenn.edu/meet-the-professors/konrad-kording","https://kordinglab.com/"],"summary":"University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania with joint appointments in neuroscience and bioengineering; works on computational neuroscience, causal inference and deep learning.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.75,"T4":0.25},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Adjusted: Foresight neurotech/WBE framed as AI safety: T1 75 / T4 25 (maintainer, 27 Oct).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://pikprofessors.upenn.edu/meet-the-professors/konrad-kording","quote":"https://kordinglab.com/"},"quote":"The Kording Lab at the University of Pennsylvania develops computational and conceptual tools for understanding brains and intelligent systems.","quoteUrl":"https://kordinglab.com/"},"individual-3131":{"name":"Individual #3131","kind":"person","anonId":"3131"},"individual-5415":{"name":"Individual #5415","kind":"person","anonId":"5415"},"korea-ai-safety-institute-in-house":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/","kind":"government","location":"Seongnam-si, South Korea","logoAsset":"/_blob/ab37421fb91a5faa3a0b7d6e1a97ce34.png","name":"Korea AI Safety Institute (in-house)","quote":"We broadly carry out AI safety evaluation, AI safety policy research, AI safety technology research, and internal and external cooperation on AI safety.","quoteUrl":"https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/","sources":["https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/","https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/contents/22"],"summary":"Institute established in November 2024 in Seongnam, South Korea, to evaluate risks from AI models and systems and research ways to prevent and mitigate them.","tags":["Governance & policy","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/contents/22","quote":"https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/"}},"korean-animal-welfare-association":{"aliases":["KAWA"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/animalkorea","donateNote":"PayPal link for overseas donations","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://animals.or.kr/english/mission","kind":"org","location":"Seoul, South Korea","logoAsset":"/_blob/98ce7a2af53efd363ad7ab5599c9b6e8.jpg","name":"Korean Animal Welfare Association","quote":"KAWA was the first animal organization in Korea to undertake farm animal welfare investigations starting in 2005 with pigs","quoteUrl":"https://animals.or.kr/english/greetings","sources":["https://animals.or.kr/english/mission","https://animals.or.kr/english/greetings"],"summary":"Seoul-based animal welfare association, founded in 2000, running projects on cage-free farming, dog meat consumption, puppy mills and bear farming. Not an AI-safety organisation.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is cage-free campaigns in South Korea; animal welfare, not AI, so may be wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://animals.or.kr/english/greetings","quote":"https://animals.or.kr/english/greetings"}},"koushik-sen":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ksen/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Koushik Sen","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ksen/"],"summary":"Professor in the Computer Sciences Division at UC Berkeley working on software engineering, program analysis and AI, including AI coding agents.","tags":["Academic","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Works on program analysis, testing and AI coding agents; the grant funded a software-engineering benchmark. As AI-code verification work, this is safety work that could cut either way (T3). 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The KASL site still describes the group as at Cambridge, with latest content from 2024 (internship, research agenda) and publications up to 2023, so the Cambridge group has probably wound down or moved. Krueger founded Evitable (AI moratorium advocacy nonprofit) in 2025.","summary":"An AI safety research group in the University of Cambridge's Department of Engineering, led by David Krueger, working on topics such as reward gaming, goal misgeneralization and LLM alignment.","tags":["Alignment research","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.45,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.35},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Not AI-safety specific.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, a general nonprofit incubator, not AI-related; may be wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"http://www.emprendimientosocial.org/"}},"langsikt":{"aliases":["Centre for Long-Term Policy","Langsikt - Centre for Long-Term Policy","Centre for Long-Term Policy (Senter for langsiktig politikk)","Senter for Langsiktig Politikk","Senter for langsiktig politikk AS"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"No donate button; see funding/support page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.langsikt.no/en/personer","summary":"https://www.langsikt.no/en"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.langsikt.no/en","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Oslo, Norway","logoAsset":"/_blob/17d98fa9f17ca6d111d6a7fcb78c03be.jpg","name":"Langsikt","people":[{"name":"Eirik Mofoss","role":"Managing Director"},{"name":"Christer Tryggestad","role":"Chair of the board"}],"quote":"Our focus is on major global challenges such as artificial intelligence, pandemics, and extreme poverty.","quoteUrl":"https://www.langsikt.no/en","sources":["https://www.langsikt.no/en","https://www.langsikt.no/en/personer"],"summary":"Oslo-based independent think tank for long-term policy, publishing on AI risk, pandemics and extreme poverty, including a policy note on Norwegian foreign policy for AI.","tags":["Governance & policy","Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T2":0.533,"notAI":0.067},"xrTierNote":"Draft. OP's grant supports Langsikt's AI safety policy advocacy in Norway; the site lists AI-risk work such as a 'Disaster from autonomous AI' note and an op-ed on Bengio's warnings, alongside general AI foreign-policy and benefit-sharing work."},"language-model-safety-fund":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"players-philanthropy-fund","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Language Model Safety Fund","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2022-h1-recommendations.html"],"status":"unknown","summary":"Not identified from public sources. SFF's 2022-H1 round lists $582,000 for general support of it, including a $340,000 Speculation Grant, with Jaan Tallinn as the source and Players Philanthropy Fund as the receiving charity.","tags":["Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"untiered":1},"xrTierNote":"Purpose unknown (§3); counts as Adjacent, reported separately.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2022-h1-recommendations.html"}},"lantern-bioworks":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.luminaprobiotic.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location","people","quote"]},"kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/811b79c489416ea8f604eae193cd7dbf.jpg","name":"Lantern Bioworks","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.luminaprobiotic.com/"],"summary":"For-profit biotech company behind Lumina, an engineered oral probiotic intended to reduce tooth decay. Not an AI-safety organisation.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"For-profit"},"lasr-labs":{"aliases":["AI Safety Hub","AI Safety Hub Ltd","AI Safety Hub Labs"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.lasrlabs.org/about","summary":"https://www.lasrlabs.org"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.lasrlabs.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/95e595bd41f8dd9c8c7933d9ad8d5871.png","name":"LASR Labs","quote":"LASR (London AI Safety Research) Labs is a 13-week research programme that aims to assist individuals in transitioning to full-time careers in AI Safety.","quoteUrl":"https://www.lasrlabs.org/about","sources":["https://www.lasrlabs.org","https://www.lasrlabs.org/about"],"summary":"AI safety research programme in London, aimed at reducing existential risk from advanced AI, where teams of three or four supervised by an experienced researcher take a project to publication over 13 weeks.","tags":["Education & training","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. LASR's site says it aims at existential and loss-of-control risk, and its listed papers are empirical safety work (SAEs, steganographic collusion, deception scaling, reward hacking), so it gets the empirical-safety-org default rather than the pipeline-stated default, which has T1 weight.","funderId":"lasr-labs","historyNote":"Earlier run as AI Safety Hub (AI Safety Hub Ltd, UK company 14100696, founded 2022, dissolved 6 August 2024), which ran the Oxford Safety Labs programme in 2022 and the Cambridge AI Safety Hub; its AI Safety Hub Labs programme continues as LASR Labs."},"latecomer-institute":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://latecomermag.com/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/7b55c624b81bc40523fb16b73cb4e77d.png","name":"Latecomer Institute","people":[{"name":"Matt Southey","role":"Editor (of The Latecomer magazine)"}],"quote":"The Latecomer therefore leans into theoretical conversations and does not apologize for being concerned with existential risks like unaligned AI, engineered pathogens, or nuclear holocaust.","quoteUrl":"https://latecomermag.com/about/","sources":["https://latecomermag.com/about/","https://www.openphilanthropy.org/?p=13370"],"status":"active","summary":"Open Philanthropy funded the Latecomer Institute to launch an online magazine about humanity's long-term interests. The magazine appears to be The Latecomer, which publishes long-form essays on longtermism and existential risks.","tags":[],"taxStatus":""},"lauren-daugherty-american-shield":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-11-07","kind":"person","name":"Individual #3325 (American Shield)","sources":[],"summary":"Individual grantee.","tags":["Alignment research"]},"individual-8601":{"name":"Individual #8601","kind":"person","anonId":"8601"},"laurence-aitchison":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://futureoflife.org/person/aitchison-laurence/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Laurence Aitchison","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://futureoflife.org/person/aitchison-laurence/","https://www.laurenceai.com/"],"summary":"Lecturer (assistant professor) at the University of Bristol working on probabilistic machine learning and large language models, including mechanistic interpretability, pretraining dynamics and AI agents.","tags":["Academic","Interpretability"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.5,"T4":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is Bayesian modelling of LLM capabilities from evals; eval methodology that mainly measures capability.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.laurenceai.com/"}},"lausanne-movement":{"aliases":["Individual #8775 (Lausanne Movement)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://lausanne.org/give","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1974","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://lausanne.org","kind":"org","location":"Lausanne, Switzerland","logoAsset":"/_blob/08e0b5afd05feeb520f828e5f638e9a5.jpg","name":"Lausanne Movement","quote":"The Lausanne Movement connects influencers and ideas for global mission","quoteUrl":"https://lausanne.org/about","sources":["https://lausanne.org/about","https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/rfp-on-religious-projects/"],"summary":"Global Christian network that connects influencers and ideas for global mission; listed by the Future of Life Institute as a recommended recipient of its call for religious projects on the challenges of the AGI race.","tags":["Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T1":0.15,"T2":0.15},"xrTierNote":"Draft. FLI's grant listing describes engaging evangelical leaders in AI discussions and moral guidance, which reads as general AI ethics with no stated superintelligence or race argument, so the coordinator's AGI-race-RFP general-ethics default applies.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/rfp-on-religious-projects/"}},"individual-7387":{"name":"Individual #7387","kind":"person","anonId":"7387"},"lawzero":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://lawzero.org/en/team","summary":"https://lawzero.org/en/news/yoshua-bengio-launches-lawzero-new-nonprofit-advancing-safe-design-ai"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2025","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://lawzero.org/en","kind":"org","location":"Montréal, Canada","logoAsset":"/_blob/504bf3d7e1844bc8034c4998429fc837.jpg","name":"LawZero","people":[{"name":"Yoshua Bengio","role":"Co-President and Scientific Director"},{"name":"Sam Ramadori","role":"Co-President and Executive Director"},{"name":"Maria Eitel","role":"Chair, Board of Directors"}],"quote":"LawZero is a nonprofit startup developing technical solutions for highly-capable, safe-by-design AI systems.","quoteUrl":"https://lawzero.org/en","sources":["https://lawzero.org/en","https://lawzero.org/en/news/yoshua-bengio-launches-lawzero-new-nonprofit-advancing-safe-design-ai","https://lawzero.org/en/team"],"summary":"Nonprofit led by Yoshua Bengio and incubated at Mila, developing non-agentic Scientist AI and other safe-by-design approaches to advanced AI.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":1},"xrTierNote":"Nonprofit developing safe-by-design advanced AI, including \"Scientist AI\", a system meant to explain and predict rather than act on its own, and citing deception and self-preservation in current frontier systems. It aims at takeover risk but without a plan for the known ways a question-answering (\"oracle\") AI can still be dangerous, so T2. Source: https://lawzero.org/en"},"leaf":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Site has a donate link; exact page not verified","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.leaf.courses","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/c5c861dd50e44cb80c673cd4413b96d4.jpg","name":"Leaf","quote":"Leaf’s mission is to prepare and support exceptional teenagers to have a positive impact at university and with their career.","quoteUrl":"https://www.leaf.courses/about","sources":["https://www.leaf.courses/about","https://manifund.org/projects/leaf-courses"],"summary":"US-registered nonprofit that prepares exceptional teenagers to have a positive impact at university and in their careers, through free online courses and selective cohorts, including a course titled Dilemmas and Dangers in AI.","tags":["Education & training","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T2":0.15,"T3":0.15,"notAI":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Leaf is probably the UK programme running impact-focused fellowships for teenagers across cause areas; mostly general EA-meta outreach, with a minority AI-safety share.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.leaf.courses/about","quote":"https://www.leaf.courses/about"}},"leah-coworking-space":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.impactfirst.org.uk/coworking-space","summary":"https://www.impactfirst.org.uk/coworking-space"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://impactfirst.org.uk/coworking-space","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["people"]},"kind":"org","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/a95a1b4e11af4b019152ab36dfdfc3ce.jpg","name":"LEAH Coworking Space","quote":"The Impact First office is a coworking space in central London for people working on projects with the potential for large-scale positive impact.","quoteUrl":"https://www.impactfirst.org.uk/coworking-space","sources":["https://manifund.org/projects/leah-coworking-space","https://impactfirst.org.uk/coworking-space","https://www.impactfirst.org.uk/coworking-space"],"summary":"Central London coworking space, now run by Impact First and previously called the LEAH coworking space, for people working on AI safety, biosecurity, global health and animal welfare; founded by Arcadia Impact.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":""},"leap-laboratories":{"aliases":["Leap Laboratories (Jessica Rumbelow)","Leap Labs","Leap Laboratories Inc"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.leap-labs.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"","basis":"no team page found","range":"","url":"","value":null},"homepage":"https://www.leap-labs.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/9124a8bd8abfe8cf8bffd88b465ec3ca.jpg","name":"Leap Laboratories","outputs":[{"label":"Leap Labs blog","type":"blog","url":"https://www.leap-labs.com/blog"},{"label":"GitHub (leap-laboratories)","type":"github","url":"https://github.com/leap-laboratories"},{"label":"Launch post: Introducing Leap Labs (EA Forum, Mar 2023)","type":"eaforum","url":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mqJTbsqfAGyCo2JA7/introducing-leap-labs-an-ai-interpretability-startup"},{"label":"Jessica Rumbelow (founder) on LessWrong","type":"lesswrong","url":"https://www.lesswrong.com/users/jessica-rumbelow"}],"people":[{"name":"Jessica Rumbelow","role":"founder (author of the 2023 launch post and all current blog posts; role not stated on site)"}],"quote":"Disco fits neural networks to your data, then applies interpretability methods to extract the patterns they learned.","quoteUrl":"https://www.leap-labs.com/","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/leap-labs-inc/","x":"https://x.com/Leap_Labs"},"sources":["https://www.leap-labs.com/","https://www.leap-labs.com/blog","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mqJTbsqfAGyCo2JA7/introducing-leap-labs-an-ai-interpretability-startup","https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/Q44QjdtKtSoqRKgRe/introducing-leap-labs-an-ai-interpretability-startup","https://leap-labs.notion.site/Careers-Page-896195aba4e04c87bae8868358163609"],"status":"active","statusNote":"Launched in March 2023 as an AI interpretability startup building a 'universal interpretability engine'. As of 2026 it markets 'Disco', a data-driven scientific-discovery product that applies interpretability methods to neural nets fitted to data. AI safety is no longer mentioned on the homepage.","summary":"Leap Laboratories builds Disco, a tool that fits neural networks to datasets and uses interpretability methods to surface validated patterns for scientific discovery.","tags":["Interpretability"],"taxStatus":"For-profit company incorporated in the US (per the 2023 launch post).","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.138,"T3":0.816,"T4":0.046},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Leap Labs' launch post describes a for-profit, model-agnostic 'universal interpretability engine' framed around AI safety and failure modes but not takeover risk; it matches the grant purpose, so interpretability at T3."},"individual-1953":{"name":"Individual #1953","kind":"person","anonId":"1953"},"leep":{"aliases":["Lead Exposure Elimination Project"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://leadelimination.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://leadelimination.org/team/","summary":"https://www.leadelimination.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.leadelimination.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/6cfaf36d32f840c87e76a77e4fa6811e.jpg","name":"LEEP","people":[{"name":"Clare Donaldson","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Lucia Coulter","role":"Co-Founder"}],"quote":"We drive effective policies to eliminate lead poisoning across the globe.","quoteUrl":"https://www.leadelimination.org/","sources":["https://www.leadelimination.org/","https://leadelimination.org/team/"],"summary":"Nonprofit working to eliminate childhood lead poisoning; not AI-safety related.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)"},"legal-advocates-for-safe-science-and-technology":{"aliases":["LASST","Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST)","Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology, Inc."],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.every.org/lasst","donateNote":"Via Every.org","fieldSources":{"people":"https://lasst.org/who-we-are/","summary":"https://lasst.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://lasst.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"New York, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/f13da90ee85a19803b2e075a1e131796.jpg","name":"Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology","people":[{"name":"Individual #2162","role":"CEO/President/Director"}],"quote":"Enhancing Safety in Science and Technology Through Legal Advocacy","quoteUrl":"https://lasst.org/","sources":["https://lasst.org/","https://lasst.org/support/","https://lasst.org/who-we-are/"],"summary":"Nonprofit that uses legal advocacy and litigation to mitigate risks from cutting-edge technologies, including a lawsuit against OpenAI.","tags":["Governance & policy","Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.25,"T1":0.15,"T2":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The site and press describe LASST as an AI-focused impact-litigation nonprofit holding frontier labs accountable: the OpenAI restructuring letters, a lawsuit after OpenAI agents allegedly escaped a test environment, and an AI-safety whistleblower defense fund. No page fetched names superintelligence or takeover explicitly, so the T2 share rests on its SFF funding and its loss-of-control-type cases."},"legal-safety-lab":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"Netherlands","name":"Legal Safety Lab","quote":"Legal Safety Lab harnesses legal expertise to promote safer scientific and technological progress for humanity and our environment.","quoteUrl":"https://legalsafetylab.org/","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations","https://legalsafetylab.org/","https://just-technologies.org/"],"summary":"Amsterdam-based Dutch foundation that uses legal advocacy to reduce risks from frontier technologies; now renamed JUST, the Legal Alliance for Just Technologies, which works on catastrophic risks from AI and biotechnology.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"Dutch stichting (foundation)","xrTier":{"untiered":1},"xrTierNote":"Purpose unknown (§3); counts as Adjacent, reported separately.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://legalsafetylab.org/","quote":"https://legalsafetylab.org/"}},"legal-services-planning-grant":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Legal Services Planning Grant","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://ftxfuturefund.org.cach3.com/index.html%3Fp=758.html"],"summary":"Six-month research project, funded by a $100,000 FTX Future Fund regrant in 2022, on how legal services can be provided to the effective altruism community; not identified further.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://ftxfuturefund.org.cach3.com/index.html%3Fp=758.html"}},"lei-ying-s-group-at-university-of-michigan":{"aliases":["University of Michigan (Lei Ying)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"","basis":"homepage lists no group members (only openings for PhD students/postdocs)","range":"","url":"https://leiying.engin.umich.edu","value":null},"homepage":"https://leiying.engin.umich.edu","kind":"lab","location":"Ann Arbor, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/e9690b5c0ffc8861f31070692a2fc187.jpg","name":"Lei Ying's group at University of Michigan","parentOrg":"University of Michigan (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)","people":[{"name":"Lei Ying","role":"Professor, EECS; PI"}],"quote":"His research is broadly in the interplay of complex stochastic systems and big data","quoteUrl":"https://leiying.engin.umich.edu","sources":["https://leiying.engin.umich.edu","https://controls.engin.umich.edu/profile/lei-ying/","https://api.nsf.gov/services/v1/awards.json?keyword=SLES&printFields=id,title,awardeeName,piFirstName,piLastName,estimatedTotalAmt,date,fundProgramName&rpp=15&offset=16","https://api.nsf.gov/services/v1/awards/2331780.json?printFields=id,title,awardeeName,piFirstName,piLastName,estimatedTotalAmt,date,fundProgramName"],"status":"active","summary":"Research group of Lei Ying, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, working on reinforcement learning and stochastic systems; received an NSF AI-Safety award for research on safe distributional reinforcement learning.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://leiying.engin.umich.edu"}},"lennart-heim":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://heim.xyz/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Lennart Heim","quote":"my research focuses on the role of compute for advanced AI systems and how compute can be leveraged as an instrument for AI governance","quoteUrl":"https://heim.xyz/","sources":["https://heim.xyz/"],"summary":"Independent researcher on semiconductors and AI policy, focused on compute as an instrument of AI governance; formerly led the Compute Team at RAND's Center on AI, Security, and Technology.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Purpose not published, but known work is compute governance (buying time rule).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://heim.xyz/","quote":"https://heim.xyz/"}},"individual-3755":{"name":"Individual #3755","kind":"person","anonId":"3755"},"lens-academy":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://lensacademy.org/about","summary":"https://lensacademy.org"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://lensacademy.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/2dc28462b885ab9174ff3baf6ea33abf.jpg","name":"Lens Academy","people":[{"name":"Luc Brinkman","role":"Founder & CEO"}],"quote":"Lens runs intermediate online programs for professionals transitioning to AI safety.","quoteUrl":"https://lensacademy.org","sources":["https://lensacademy.org","https://lensacademy.org/about"],"summary":"Nonprofit running online programmes for professionals moving into AI safety, aiming to scale the talent working on reducing existential risks from advanced AI.","tags":["Education & training","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.4,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Grant purpose is program synthesis via recursive Bayesian inference under FLI's 2015 safety grants; mostly AI methods work with only a loose safety angle.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02155"}},"long-term-future-fund":{"aliases":["EA Funds (Long-Term Future Fund)","LTFF"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Fund closed; succeeded by EA Funds' Transformative AI Fund","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future","kind":"fund","location":"Remote","logoAsset":"/_blob/6a5b863c1cb3698fbfa692a90734677e.png","name":"Long-Term Future Fund","quote":"We make grants that address global catastrophic risks, especially potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence and pandemics.","quoteUrl":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/long-term-future","sources":["https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future","https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/long-term-future"],"summary":"EA Funds grantmaker that made grants to reduce global catastrophic risks, especially from advanced AI. EA Funds has since closed it and launched the Transformative AI Fund in its place.","tags":["Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) (Centre for Effective Altruism, Inc.)","xrTier":{"T1":0.15,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.35,"notAI":0.2},"xrTierNote":"A grantmaker, so it is tiered by what it funded: its published 2022 grant write-ups are mostly AI alignment work and research training (e.g. the SERI MATS scholars programme, Palisade), largely prosaic safety (T3) with a share aimed at takeover risk (T2, and T1 for the strongest work), plus smaller biosecurity, forecasting and community grants outside AI (notAI). The split is estimated; the fund published no per-area percentages. 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Not an AI safety organisation.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)"},"longevity-research-institute":{"aliases":["LRI"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Longevity Research Institute","quote":"We write grants to academic researchers and commission studies from contract research organizations.","quoteUrl":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cGQtDf9arnvRuecW5/introducing-the-longevity-research-institute","sources":["https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cGQtDf9arnvRuecW5/introducing-the-longevity-research-institute","https://thelri.org/"],"status":"closed","statusNote":"thelri.org now redirects to an unrelated site; no recent activity found","summary":"Nonprofit founded in 2018 by Sarah Constantin to fund lifespan studies of candidate anti-aging drugs, by writing grants to academics and commissioning contract research.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cGQtDf9arnvRuecW5/introducing-the-longevity-research-institute","quote":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cGQtDf9arnvRuecW5/introducing-the-longevity-research-institute"}},"longview-philanthropy":{"aliases":["Emerging Challenges Fund","Longview","Longview Philanthropy (Emerging Challenges Fund)","Longview Philanthropy (Consortium for Digital Sentience Research and Applied Work)","Longview Philanthropy (Hardware-Enabled Mechanisms RFP)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"Gives via its funds; see https://www.longview.org/grantmaking/#funds","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.longview.org/about/","summary":"https://www.longview.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.longview.org/","kind":"fund","location":"London, UK / Washington DC and San Francisco, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/95bfbd23bfe40b05e7c678b831907322.svg","name":"Longview Philanthropy","people":[{"name":"Simran Dhaliwal","role":"CEO"},{"name":"Katie Hearsum","role":"President"},{"name":"Natalie Cargill","role":"Founder"}],"quote":"Our work aims to reduce the risk of a major global catastrophe, such as a nuclear war between great powers, an engineered pandemic, or the misuse of advanced artificial intelligence.","quoteUrl":"https://www.longview.org/","sources":["https://www.longview.org/","https://www.longview.org/about/"],"summary":"Philanthropic advisor and grantmaker directing major donors' funds to reducing risks from advanced AI, nuclear weapons and biological threats; runs pooled funds including the Frontier AI Fund and the Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund.","tags":["Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3); UK company limited by guarantee","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.15,"T1":0.25,"T2":0.15,"T3":0.15,"notAI":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Source: https://www.longview.org/","funderId":"longview-philanthropy"},"individual-7256":{"name":"Individual #7256","kind":"person","anonId":"7256"},"lu-wang":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~wangluxy/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Lu Wang","quote":"My research agenda centers on understanding and advancing the trustworthiness and capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and AI agents.","quoteUrl":"https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~wangluxy/research.html","sources":["https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~wangluxy/","https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~wangluxy/research.html"],"summary":"Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan working on NLP and trustworthy, safe LLMs; PI on a Coefficient Giving grant on out-of-context learning in alignment faking.","tags":["Alignment research","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. A Michigan NLP professor working on trustworthy LLMs, who co-authored a 2026 paper (VLAF) that measures alignment faking and reduces it with steering vectors; prosaic empirical work on deception, kept at T3 with a T2 share for the topic.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~wangluxy/"}},"individual-8329":{"name":"Individual #8329","kind":"person","anonId":"8329"},"lucas-irwin":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-11-07","kind":"person","name":"lucas.irwin","sources":[],"summary":"Individual grantee.","tags":["Alignment research"]},"individual-9889":{"name":"Individual #9889","kind":"person","anonId":"9889"},"individual-9554":{"name":"Individual #9554","kind":"person","anonId":"9554"},"lucius-caviola":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://luciuscaviola.com/","summary":"https://luciuscaviola.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.luciuscaviola.com/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Lucius Caviola","quote":"My research explores how people and societies will respond to increasingly advanced AI.","quoteUrl":"https://luciuscaviola.com/","sources":["https://www.luciuscaviola.com/","https://luciuscaviola.com/"],"summary":"Assistant professor in the social science of AI at Cambridge studying how people respond to advanced AI, digital minds and moral psychology.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"individual-2519":{"name":"Individual #2519","kind":"person","anonId":"2519"},"individual-3763":{"name":"Individual #3763","kind":"person","anonId":"3763"},"luke-zettlemoyer":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/lsz","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Luke Zettlemoyer","quote":"My research focuses on empirical methods for natural language semantics","quoteUrl":"https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~lsz/","sources":["https://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/lsz","https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/"],"summary":"Professor at the University of Washington's Allen School researching natural language processing and large language model training. AI2050 Senior Fellow.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/lsz"}},"luthien":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://luthienresearch.org/","summary":"https://manifund.org/projects/luthien"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://luthienresearch.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Seattle, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/d20afd6805c5e0f4021a4e2fd41a03e3.jpg","name":"Luthien","people":[{"name":"Scott Wofford","role":"Co-founder & CEO"},{"name":"Allister Lundberg","role":"Co-founder & CTO"},{"name":"Katherine Cohen","role":"Interim Board Chair"}],"quote":"Tools for AI auditors and AI safety/security researchers","quoteUrl":"https://luthienresearch.org","sources":["https://manifund.org/projects/luthien","https://luthienresearch.org","https://luthienresearch.org/"],"summary":"Builds tools for AI auditors and AI safety researchers, including the open-source Luthien Proxy, an API-level AI control implementation now maintained by Luthien PBC, a for-profit corporation.","tags":["AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"Nonprofit (Seattle Network for Alignment Problem Solving); 501(c)(3) status pend","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Luthien is probably the AI-control infrastructure startup; control default T3, with T2 share for its stated misalignment motivation."},"lydia-liu":{"aliases":["Lydia Liu"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.lydiatliu.com/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Lydia T. Liu","quote":"I am broadly interested in the scientific and normative foundations of machine learning and algorithmic decision-making, with a focus on societal impact and welfare.","quoteUrl":"https://www.lydiatliu.com/","sources":["https://www.cs.princeton.edu/people/profile/ltliu","https://www.lydiatliu.com/"],"summary":"Assistant professor of computer science at Princeton studying foundations of machine learning and algorithmic decision-making and their societal impact.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Phil AI Fellow known mainly for ML fairness and long-term impact of decisions, AI-relevant but not aimed at x-risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.princeton.edu/people/profile/ltliu","quote":"https://www.lydiatliu.com/"}},"m-oladoyin-odubanjo":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.interacademies.org/person/m-oladoyin-odubanjo","kind":"person","location":"","name":"M. Oladoyin Odubanjo","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.interacademies.org/person/m-oladoyin-odubanjo"],"summary":"Public health physician and Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Academy of Science; chairs INGSA-Africa.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is evaluating AI's impact on health outcomes in Nigeria, AI-relevant but not aimed at x-risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.interacademies.org/person/m-oladoyin-odubanjo"}},"maarten-sap":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://maartensap.com/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Maarten Sap","quote":"My research group explores novel measures of agentic AI safety together with user-centric risks such as overreliance, manipulation, and unsafe interaction patterns.","quoteUrl":"https://maartensap.com/","sources":["https://maartensap.com/"],"summary":"Assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute and technical AI safety lead at the Allen Institute for AI.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. OpenAgentSafety (the funded project, ICLR 2026) is an agent-safety eval with real tools across eight risk categories, framed around deployment harms rather than takeover; Sap's wider social-harms work justifies the small Adjacent share.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://maartensap.com/","quote":"https://maartensap.com/"}},"machine-intelligence-and-normative-theory-lab":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://mintresearch.org/","kind":"university","location":"Canberra, Australia","logoAsset":"/_blob/6d0cf1de00ce98cc5756a70a4a37279d.png","name":"Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory Lab","quote":"The MINT Lab uses philosophical and computational research to chart a course through the AI transition","quoteUrl":"https://mintresearch.org/","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations","https://mintresearch.org/"],"summary":"Research lab at Johns Hopkins University, which moved from the Australian National University in 2025, studying normative questions raised by advanced AI systems.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.85,"T3":0.15},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The lab's site describes philosophy-plus-computation work on normative competence, governing agents and power concentration to preserve liberal democratic values, with some sociotechnical-safety and catastrophic-risk workshops, but no aim at takeover risk and a record of questioning x-risk prioritisation.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://mintresearch.org/","quote":"https://mintresearch.org/"}},"machine-intelligence-research-institute":{"aliases":["MIRI","Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)","Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://intelligence.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://intelligence.org/team/","quote":"https://intelligence.org/about/","filings":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/582565917","registration":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/582565917","summary":"https://intelligence.org/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2000","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://intelligence.org/","kind":"org","location":"Berkeley, CA, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/42960c5daa51b2e17df298cdab6bab9b.jpg","name":"Machine Intelligence Research Institute","people":[{"name":"Malo Bourgon","role":"Chief Executive Officer"},{"name":"Nate Soares","role":"President"},{"name":"Eliezer Yudkowsky","role":"Co-Founder"}],"quote":"We do research and public outreach intended to help prevent human extinction from the development of artificial superintelligence (ASI).","quoteUrl":"https://intelligence.org/about/","sources":["https://intelligence.org/","https://intelligence.org/team/","https://intelligence.org/about/"],"summary":"Berkeley nonprofit, long known for technical alignment research, now focused on communication and policy work to prevent human extinction from artificial superintelligence.","tags":["Alignment research","Advocacy","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.995,"T2":0.005},"xrTierNote":"Does research and outreach to prevent human extinction from superintelligence, now mainly communication and governance, including a draft international agreement to stop premature superintelligence. 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Bostrom's CV and Wikipedia confirm MRI is his post-FHI vehicle. His listed 2024-25 outputs are 'Propositions Concerning Digital Minds and Society', 'AI Creation and the Cosmic Host' and Deep Utopia, a mix of AI macrostrategy, digital minds and non-AI philosophy. So it is dollar-weighted at about 40% x-risk strategy, 35% digital minds and 25% general philosophy.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom"}},"madhur-behl-s-group-at-university-of-virginia":{"aliases":["University of Virginia (Madhur Behl)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"","basis":"no group roster found; the Cavalier Autonomous Racing team he leads lists 21 student crew members (2026-10) but is not the same as his research group","range":"","url":"https://autonomousracing.dev/crew","value":null},"homepage":"https://www.engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/madhur-behl","kind":"lab","location":"Charlottesville, United States","name":"Madhur Behl's group at University of Virginia","outputs":[{"label":"CRASH paper (SLES-funded)","type":"arxiv","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16996v1"},{"label":"Cavalier Autonomous Racing (team led by Behl)","type":"other","url":"https://autonomousracing.dev/"}],"parentOrg":"University of Virginia","people":[{"name":"Madhur Behl","role":"PI, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Systems & Information Engineering; Team Principal, Cavalier Autonomous Racing"}],"quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/madhur-behl","https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16996v1","https://autonomousracing.dev/","https://autonomousracing.dev/crew"],"status":"active","summary":"University of Virginia research group led by Madhur Behl working on safety and control of autonomous vehicles and cyber-physical systems, including autonomous racing.","tags":["Evaluations","Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"individual-3025":{"name":"Individual #3025","kind":"person","anonId":"3025"},"individual-3892":{"name":"Individual #3892","kind":"person","anonId":"3892"},"maksym-andriushchenko":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/maksym-andriushchenko/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Maksym Andriushchenko","quote":"We focus on developing algorithmic solutions to reduce harms from advanced general-purpose AI models.","quoteUrl":"https://www.andriushchenko.me/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","https://www.andriushchenko.me/","https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/maksym-andriushchenko/"],"summary":"Group leader at ELLIS Institute Tübingen and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems; AI2050 Early Career Fellow.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. MATS mentor page says he leads the AI Safety and Alignment group at ELLIS/MPI with focus on monitoring, adversarial robustness, evals and 'Misalignment Science'; no explicit superintelligence or loss-of-control language, so safety-motivated prosaic work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.andriushchenko.me/","quote":"https://www.andriushchenko.me/"}},"manifold-markets":{"aliases":["Manifold","Individual #3233, James Grugett, Austin Chen"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://manifold.markets/","kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/9721e4b67862b33fe15c4b16c192951c.png","name":"Manifold Markets","quote":"Manifold is the world's largest social prediction market.","quoteUrl":"https://manifold.markets/about","sources":["https://manifold.markets/","https://manifold.markets/about"],"summary":"Play-money prediction market platform run by Manifold Markets, Inc., giving real-time odds on politics, tech, sports and more.","tags":["Forecasting"],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.939,"notAI":0.061},"xrTierNote":"Runs a play-money social prediction market on politics, tech, sports and other questions, including AI. Forecasting is AI-relevant but not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent, nearly all); a small share falls outside AI (not AI, about 6%). 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Multi-cause intermediary, dollar-weighted: its causes page lists AI safety/governance as the largest areas but also many science, EA, health, animal and forecasting projects, and two of the three grants (an SF coworking/events space and Manifold for Charity) are only partly or not AI, so the notAI share is raised slightly.","funderId":"manifund"},"manish-raghavan":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/manish-raghavan/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["quote"]},"kind":"person","location":"","name":"Manish Raghavan","quote":"My primary interests lie in the application of computational techniques to domains of social concern, including online platforms, algorithmic fairness/discrimination, and behavioral economics.","quoteUrl":"https://mraghavan.github.io/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/manish-raghavan/"],"summary":"Assistant professor at MIT Sloan and EECS researching the societal impacts of algorithmic decision-making; AI2050 Fellow studying how dependence on AI could affect institutions such as markets and democracy.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/manish-raghavan/","quote":"https://mraghavan.github.io/"}},"mantic":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"people":"https://mantic.com/","summary":"https://www.mantic.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.mantic.com/","kind":"company","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/2d22461b8a8ab04938cc652221d10629.jpg","name":"Mantic","people":[{"name":"Toby Shevlane","role":"Co-founder"},{"name":"Ben Day","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"Mantic predicts world events.","quoteUrl":"https://www.mantic.com/","sources":["https://www.mantic.com/","https://mantic.com/"],"summary":"London AI forecasting company building systems that research questions and give calibrated probabilities on world events.","tags":["Forecasting"],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T4":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Mantic is a London startup (founders Toby Shevlane and Ben Day) building AI judgmental-forecasting systems for businesses and governments; press coverage doesn't mention AI safety, so it's Adjacent under the forecasting rule, with a T4 share for building commercial forecasting capability."},"manuel-collado":{"aliases":["Manuel Collado Rodríguez"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cimus.usc.gal/staff/manuel-collado-rodriguez","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Manuel Collado","quote":"We are convinced that we will find a way to leverage our knowledge of cell senescence to improve cancer treatment.","quoteUrl":"https://cimus.usc.gal/group/cell-senescence-cancer-and-aging","sources":["https://cimus.usc.gal/staff/manuel-collado-rodriguez","https://cimus.usc.gal/group/cell-senescence-cancer-and-aging"],"summary":"Research scientist at CNB-CSIC and group leader at CiMUS in Santiago de Compostela, studying cell senescence, cancer and ageing.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"notAI":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. His CIMUS-USC staff page lists his group as cell senescence, cancer and aging, with no mention of AI, so most of the money probably went to biology; the Adjacent share allows for an AI-for-science project under Foresight's nodes.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://cimus.usc.gal/staff/manuel-collado-rodriguez","quote":"https://cimus.usc.gal/group/cell-senescence-cancer-and-aging"}},"manuela-veloso":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Manuela Veloso","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv/"],"summary":"Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emerita at Carnegie Mellon; roboticist and former head of JPMorganChase AI Research.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. FLI grant page funds explanations of robot (CoBot, quadrotor) decisions to humans, half explainability, half human-robot interaction, with no x-risk framing.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv/"}},"manufacturing-technology-centre":{"aliases":["MTC"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Not a donation-funded organisation","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.the-mtc.org/about/our-journey","location":"https://www.the-mtc.org/about/our-journey","people":"https://www.the-mtc.org/about/our-people"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2010","foundedUrl":"https://www.the-mtc.org/about/our-journey","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.the-mtc.org/","kind":"org","location":"Coventry, United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/d74d245fbf2b3563042d31608b2c3b62.jpg","name":"Manufacturing Technology Centre","people":[{"name":"Graham Hoare","role":"Chief Executive Officer"},{"name":"Clive Hickman","role":"Chairman"}],"quote":"As partners for progress in manufacturing and technology, MTC combines hands-on engineering expertise and cutting-edge technology to solve challenges for organisations like yours.","quoteUrl":"https://www.the-mtc.org/","sources":["https://www.the-mtc.org/","https://www.the-mtc.org/about/our-journey","https://www.the-mtc.org/about/our-people"],"summary":"UK manufacturing research and technology organisation; contracted under ARIA's Safeguarded AI programme.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant purpose puts this in ARIA Safeguarded AI TA2, which the maintainer's call tiers T3; search-result titles (on a site not fetched) suggest a TA2 project on safeguarding AI in manufacturing, but this wasn't confirmed."},"marcus-hutter":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"http://www.hutter1.net/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Marcus Hutter","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["http://www.hutter1.net/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Hutter","http://www.hutter1.net/home.htm"],"summary":"Senior Staff Researcher at DeepMind in London and honorary professor at the Australian National University; his research centres on universal artificial intelligence.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The FLI grant summary says the project extends Universal AI theory to formally solve the control problem for artificial superintelligent agents (embedded agency, self-modelling, goal specification), which is agent foundations, so T1.","fieldSources":{"summary":"http://www.hutter1.net/home.htm"}},"marius-hobbhahn":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.apolloresearch.ai/about","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Marius Hobbhahn","quote":"My main focus is AI scheming: AI systems covertly pursuing misaligned goals while hiding them from their developers and users.","quoteUrl":"https://www.mariushobbhahn.com/","sources":["https://www.apolloresearch.ai/about","https://www.mariushobbhahn.com/"],"summary":"CEO and co-founder of Apollo Research, which works on risks from scheming frontier AI and has run evaluations for major AI labs.","tags":["Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.3,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 2022 grants for AI safety research and a pipeline pilot by the later Apollo Research founder; safety-motivated prosaic work per the default.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.apolloresearch.ai/about","quote":"https://www.mariushobbhahn.com/"}},"mark-crovella":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual academic","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cs.bu.edu/faculty/crovella/","kind":"person","location":"Boston, USA","name":"Mark Crovella","sources":["https://www.cs.bu.edu/faculty/crovella/","https://www.cs.bu.edu/faculty/crovella/short-bio.html"],"summary":"Professor of computer science at Boston University; research spans data science and machine learning, with applications including computer networking and the social impacts of computing.","tags":["Interpretability","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is mechanistic interpretability research by an academic, T3 by the interp default.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.bu.edu/faculty/crovella/short-bio.html"}},"individual-8787":{"name":"Individual #8787","kind":"person","anonId":"8787"},"mark-s-miller":{"aliases":["Mark Miller"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://agoric.com/team","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Mark S. Miller","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://agoric.com/team","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_S._Miller"],"summary":"Chief Scientist at Agoric; computer scientist known for object-capability security and secure distributed computing.","tags":["AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From known work: Agoric/object-capability secure cooperation and Foresight's multipolar framing, AI-relevant security infrastructure not aimed at takeover risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_S._Miller"}},"martin-schrimpf":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"homepage":"https://www.epfl.ch/labs/schrimpflab/","quote":"https://www.epfl.ch/labs/schrimpflab/","summary":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.epfl.ch/labs/schrimpflab/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Martin Schrimpf","quote":"Our research focuses on a computational understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying human natural intelligence","quoteUrl":"https://www.epfl.ch/labs/schrimpflab/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","https://www.epfl.ch/labs/schrimpflab/"],"summary":"Assistant professor at EPFL leading a NeuroAI lab that builds neural network models matching the brain's representations; named an AI2050 Early Career Fellow by Schmidt Sciences in 2025.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"martin-wattenberg-and-fernanda-viegas-harvard":{"aliases":["Harvard University (Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/martin-wattenberg","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas (Harvard)","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/martin-wattenberg","https://kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/people/our-people/fernanda-viegas/"],"summary":"Harvard researchers who co-lead the Insight + Interaction Lab; their joint work in machine learning focuses on transparency and interpretability, alongside data visualisation.","tags":["Interpretability","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Probably Individual #3655's (zhukeepa) institute: in a podcast transcript it is linked to his AI safety interest and his work on metaphysics and religious insight as the central problem of AI alignment and coordination, explicitly about AI that might kill everyone, but with an unconventional and unproven plan, so mostly T2."},"mathematics-foundation-of-america":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://www.mathcamp.org/mfoa/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://mfoa.org/","summary":"https://mfoa.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1995","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://mfoa.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/deecac21984d5cb98125c2654aef6c1f.png","name":"Mathematics Foundation of America","people":[{"name":"Daniel Zaharopol","role":"Chair"},{"name":"Marisa Debowsky","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"The Mathematics Foundation of America (MFOA)'s mission is to create joyous student communities built around shared curiosity for deep mathematics","quoteUrl":"https://mfoa.org/","sources":["https://mfoa.org/","https://www.mathcamp.org/"],"summary":"Nonprofit that runs Canada/USA Mathcamp, a summer programme for mathematically talented students aged 13 to 18.","tags":["Education & training"],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)"},"mats-research":{"aliases":["MATS","SERI MATS","SERI ML Alignment Theory Scholars Program","SERI ML Alignment Theory Scholars","MATS London Ltd","MATS London","SERI ML Alignment Theory Scholars Program (MATS)","SERI MATS — Stanford Existential Risks Initiative ML Alignment Theory Scholars Program"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://matsprogram.org/donate","donateNote":"Donations to MATS Research Inc. are US tax-deductible","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.matsprogram.org/team","summary":"https://www.matsprogram.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2021","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.matsprogram.org/","kind":"org","location":"Berkeley, USA / London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/53615228ce8e0250f7c024f101e051d5.png","name":"MATS Research","people":[{"name":"Ryan Kidd","role":"CEO & Co-Founder"},{"name":"Christian Smith","role":"COO & Co-Founder"}],"quote":"The MATS Program is an independent research fellowship that connects talented researchers with top mentors in the fields of machine alignment, transparency, and security.","quoteUrl":"https://www.matsprogram.org/","sources":["https://www.matsprogram.org/","https://matsprogram.org/donate","https://www.matsprogram.org/team"],"summary":"Runs the MATS fellowship, connecting researchers with mentors in AI alignment, transparency, security and governance for 12-week research periods at offices in Berkeley and London.","tags":["Education & training","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"US tax-deductible nonprofit","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.05,"T1":0.1,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.6,"T4":0.05},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Open Phil AI Fellowship PhD scholarship; known work is learning theory and control/RL theory, not aimed at x-risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://msimchowitz.github.io/"}},"individual-1631":{"name":"Individual #1631","kind":"person","anonId":"1631"},"individual-6584":{"name":"Individual #6584","kind":"person","anonId":"6584"},"mayank-varia":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.bu.edu/cs/profiles/mayank-varia/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Mayank Varia","quote":"My research interests span theoretical and applied cryptography and its applications throughout and beyond computing & data sciences.","quoteUrl":"http://www.mvaria.com/","sources":["https://www.bu.edu/cs/profiles/mayank-varia/","http://www.mvaria.com/"],"summary":"Associate Professor at Boston University's Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences; studies cryptography and privacy-preserving data analysis.","tags":["Academic","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Individual #4402's phishing work builds ScamBench, an eval of AI-enabled social-engineering attack capability with defences attached; under the misuse-capability-eval rule that is T4 0.6 / T3 0.4, and there is no visible link to regulation or slowdown, so no T2 share.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://menloparkintelligence.com/"}},"meridian-prime":{"aliases":["Meridian Prime Inc"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"Dillon, Colorado, USA","name":"Meridian Prime","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/873119171","https://impala.digital/public/profiles/87-3119171/programs","https://www.packard.org/grantee/meridian-prime-inc/","https://www.frontiermodelforum.org/ai-safety-fund/"],"statusNote":"Appears linked to Meridian Institute (also Dillon, CO), which first administered the Frontier Model Forum AI Safety Fund and announced in June 2025 it would close; link not confirmed.","summary":"Colorado nonprofit whose AI Safety Donorship Fund offered fiscal donorship services and a donor collaborative fund for AI safety (Oct 2023–Sep 2024 filing); Packard funded it in 2023 for core support of the AI Safety Fund.","tags":["Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"untiered":1},"xrTierNote":"Purpose unknown (§3); counts as Adjacent, reported separately.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://impala.digital/public/profiles/87-3119171/programs"}},"meridian":{"aliases":["Meridian Cambridge","Meridian Impact CIC"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.meridiancambridge.org/core-team","quote":"https://www.meridiancambridge.org/","summary":"https://www.meridiancambridge.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2021","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.meridiancambridge.org/","kind":"org","location":"Cambridge, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/d74f36d3ae1b478f8168261cfbcceccf.jpg","name":"Meridian","people":[{"name":"Hannes Whittingham","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"Meridian Cambridge is an independent research and incubation hub focused on AI safety, biosecurity, frontier-risk policy, and institutional design.","quoteUrl":"https://www.meridiancambridge.org/","sources":["https://www.meridiancambridge.org/","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bsGGK86uBxinjjxoy/introducing-meridian-cambridge-s-hub-for-impact-driven","https://www.meridiancambridge.org/core-team"],"summary":"Independent research and incubation hub in Cambridge (Meridian Impact CIC) focused on AI safety, biosecurity, frontier-risk policy and institutional design; runs the ERA Fellowship, MARS and the Cambridge AI Safety Hub.","tags":["Field-building","Alignment research","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"UK Community Interest Company","xrTier":{"T2":0.25,"T3":0.75},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Cambridge hub (formerly EA Cambridge) for AI safety, biosecurity and policy. The grants it received fund empirical research on AI deception (alignment faking, emergent misalignment), which the rules put mostly in prosaic safety that could cut either way (T3, three quarters), with a share for work aimed at takeover risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2). Source: grant purposes; https://www.meridiancambridge.org/"},"meta":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.meta.com/about/company-info/","homepage":"https://www.meta.com/about/?utm_source=about.meta.com&utm_medium=redirect","people":"https://www.meta.com/about/leadership/","quote":"https://www.meta.com/about/company-info/","summary":"https://www.meta.com/about/?utm_source=about.meta.com&utm_medium=redirect"},"founded":"2004","foundedUrl":"https://www.meta.com/about/company-info/","homepage":"https://www.meta.com/about/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["capabilitiesNote","location","logo"]},"kind":"company","name":"Meta","people":[{"name":"Mark Zuckerberg","role":"Founder, Chairman and CEO"},{"name":"Dina Powell McCormick","role":"President and Vice Chairman"}],"quote":"Build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible","quoteUrl":"https://www.meta.com/about/company-info/","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://www.meta.com/about/?utm_source=about.meta.com&utm_medium=redirect","https://www.meta.com/about/company-info/","https://www.meta.com/about/leadership/"],"summary":"Meta runs Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads and makes devices such as Quest headsets and AI glasses.","tags":[]},"metaculus":{"aliases":["Metaculus, Inc.","Metaculus (Anthony Aguirre)","Individual #7100 (Metaculus)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"Public benefit corporation; no public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.metaculus.com/","kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/9e9657a3434167da257eeabed8a7bd94.jpg","name":"Metaculus","quote":"Metaculus is an online forecasting platform and aggregation engine working to improve human reasoning","quoteUrl":"https://www.metaculus.com/about/","sources":["https://www.metaculus.com/about/"],"summary":"Forecasting platform and aggregation engine running questions and tournaments, including many on AI progress and risk.","tags":["Forecasting"],"taxStatus":"Public benefit corporation","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Forecasting platform and aggregation engine running questions and tournaments, including many on AI progress and risk. Forecasting is AI-relevant but not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent)."},"metagov":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://metagov.org/support","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://metagov.org/people","summary":"https://metagov.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2019","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://metagov.org/","kind":"org","location":"Boston, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/5e9711428f1e4a276919821ed53053fe.jpg","name":"Metagov","people":[{"name":"Liz Barry","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"We cultivate tools, practices, and communities that enable self-governance in the digital age.","quoteUrl":"https://metagov.org/","sources":["https://metagov.org/","https://metagov.org/people"],"summary":"Nonprofit research-to-infrastructure lab advancing community sovereignty, network governance and statecraft in the age of AI, including Public AI work on a new political economy for AI.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is research into global governance institution design; Metagov works on digital/democratic governance, Adjacent by rule."},"methuselah-foundation":{"aliases":["The Methuselah Foundation"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://www.mfoundation.org/join-us#donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.mfoundation.org/who-we-are","summary":"https://www.mfoundation.org/what-we-do"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2001","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.mfoundation.org/","kind":"org","location":"Springfield, VA, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/bc0e35394ce4eb305bb574463f61a018.jpg","name":"Methuselah Foundation","people":[{"name":"Individual #1360","role":"Co-founder and CEO"},{"name":"Dane Gobel","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"Our mission is to make 90 the new 50 by 2030.","quoteUrl":"https://www.mfoundation.org/what-we-do","sources":["https://www.mfoundation.org/what-we-do","https://www.guidestar.org/Profile/54-2040344","https://www.mfoundation.org/who-we-are"],"summary":"Biomedical charity co-founded in 2001, aiming to make 90 the new 50 by 2030; it has run prizes such as the Methuselah Mouse Prize and directs investment into projects and startups to extend healthy lifespan.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)"},"metr":{"aliases":["ARC Evals (now METR)","Model Evaluation & Threat Research (METR)","Model Evaluation and Threat Research","Alignment Research Center (Evals team, now METR)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://metr.org/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://metr.org/about","filings":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/991219864","registration":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/991219864","summary":"https://metr.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://metr.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/36a7ffe807452d636358b645f9f341be.jpg","name":"METR","people":[{"name":"Beth Barnes","role":"Founder, CEO"},{"name":"Chris Painter","role":"President"}],"quote":"METR (pronounced “meter”) is a nonprofit that studies the most advanced AI agents to understand whether their developers are on track to lose control of them.","quoteUrl":"https://metr.org/about","sources":["https://metr.org/","https://metr.org/about"],"summary":"Nonprofit studying the most advanced AI agents to understand whether their developers are on track to lose control of them; publishes measurement research and applied assessments, including frontier risk assessments.","tags":["Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.3,"T3":0.5,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Measures frontier AI agents' autonomous capabilities and publishes risk assessments on loss of control. The evals could cut either way (T3, half); work feeding risk policy aims at takeover risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2, about a third); the capability measures drive investment (T4, a fifth). Source: https://metr.org/about","filings":[{"contributions":13603035,"form":"990","periodEnd":"2024-12","revenue":13639155,"url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/991219864","year":2024}],"registration":{"id":"99-1219864","register":"IRS (via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/991219864"}},"individual-2571":{"name":"Individual #2571","kind":"person","anonId":"2571"},"michael-albergo":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"homepage":"https://seas.harvard.edu/person/michael-albergo","summary":"http://malbergo.me/","quote":"http://malbergo.me/research-themes.html"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://seas.harvard.edu/person/michael-albergo","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["quote"]},"kind":"person","location":"","name":"Michael Albergo","quote":"We will work on principled algorithms that make generative models scalable, understandable, and useful across the sciences and beyond.","quoteUrl":"http://malbergo.me/research-themes.html","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","http://malbergo.me/","http://malbergo.me/research-themes.html"],"summary":"Assistant professor of applied mathematics at Harvard and Kempner Institute investigator working on generative modelling; a Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow (2025).","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"individual-3846":{"name":"Individual #3846","kind":"person","anonId":"3846"},"individual-4438":{"name":"Individual #4438","kind":"person","anonId":"4438"},"individual-1440":{"name":"Individual #1440","kind":"person","anonId":"1440"},"michael-pearce-alice-riggs-thomas-dooms":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-11-07","kind":"person","name":"Individual #2870, Alice Riggs, Individual #2614","sources":[],"summary":"Individual grantee.","tags":["Interpretability"]},"individual-4763":{"name":"Individual #4763","kind":"person","anonId":"4763"},"individual-1315":{"name":"Individual #1315","kind":"person","anonId":"1315"},"michael-specter":{"aliases":["Michael A. 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From the grant purposes, comms on AI risk (the SB-1047 documentary, a TikTok channel, alignment explainers and podcasts); partly arguing for regulation and explaining alignment, so it gets a T1 share.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://michaeltrazzi.com/"}},"michael-webb":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.michaelwebb.co/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Michael Webb","quote":"I'm an economist working on artificial intelligence, the labor market, and economic growth.","quoteUrl":"https://www.michaelwebb.co/","sources":["https://www.michaelwebb.co/","https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/2015-grant-program/"],"summary":"Economist studying the impact of artificial intelligence on labour markets and growth; Stanford PhD, formerly at DeepMind.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Economics of the transition to an AI economy (2015 FLI grant); AI-relevant but not x-risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.michaelwebb.co/","quote":"https://www.michaelwebb.co/"}},"michael-wellman":{"aliases":["Michael P. Wellman"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~wellman/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Michael Wellman","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://micde.umich.edu/member/michael-wellman/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wellman","https://strategicreasoning.org/","https://strategicreasoning.org/empirical-game-theoretic-analysis/"],"summary":"Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, working on multiagent systems and empirical game-theoretic analysis with the Strategic Reasoning Group.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. FLI page funds simulation and game-theoretic study of AI trading threats to financial markets to inform regulation; FLI's profile says he hopes for lessons for superintelligence later, but the funded work is about financial stability, so Adjacent.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wellman"}},"michael-wooldridge":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.wooldridge/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Michael Wooldridge","quote":"My research area is Artificial Intelligence (AI), and within that field, I have worked extensively on multi-agent systems: systems composed of multiple interacting AI systems.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.wooldridge/","sources":["https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.wooldridge/","https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellows/"],"summary":"Ashall Professor of Foundations of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford; researches multi-agent systems and AI; AI2050 Senior Fellow (2024).","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, a 2015 code of ethics for AI research, which is AI ethics and not aimed at x-risk; Wooldridge is publicly sceptical of x-risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.wooldridge/"}},"michiel-bakker-mit":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.michielbakker.com","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Michiel Bakker, MIT","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.michielbakker.com"],"summary":"Assistant Professor at MIT working on AI alignment with human preferences and AI-mediated deliberation.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, AI-mediated shareholder democracy, which falls under democratic AI / AI and society (rule: Adjacent)."},"micron":{"aliases":[],"capabilitiesNote":"Makes memory and storage chips used in AI servers.","checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"capabilitiesNote":"https://www.micron.com/markets-industries/ai","founded":"https://www.micron.com/","homepage":"https://www.micron.com/","location":"https://www.micron.com/","logoUrl":"https://www.micron.com/","people":"https://www.micron.com/markets-industries/ai","quote":"https://www.micron.com/","summary":"https://www.micron.com/about/blog"},"founded":"1978","foundedUrl":"https://www.micron.com/","homepage":"https://www.micron.com/","kind":"company","location":"Boise, United States","name":"Micron","people":[{"name":"Sanjay Mehrotra","role":"Chairman and CEO"}],"quote":"Micron is the critical layer powering AI","quoteUrl":"https://www.micron.com/","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://www.micron.com/","https://www.micron.com/about/blog","https://www.micron.com/markets-industries/ai"],"summary":"Micron is a US maker of memory and storage chips (DRAM, NAND, NOR flash) and SSDs, used in AI and data-centre hardware.","tags":[]},"microsoft":{"aliases":[],"capabilitiesNote":"Sells AI assistants (Copilot) and Azure cloud compute.","checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"capabilitiesNote":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us","homepage":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us","quote":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about","summary":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us"},"homepage":"https://www.microsoft.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location","logo","people"]},"kind":"company","name":"Microsoft","quote":"Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.","quoteUrl":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://www.microsoft.com/en-us","https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about"],"summary":"Microsoft sells software, cloud and AI services and devices, including Microsoft 365, Copilot, Azure, Windows, Surface and Xbox.","tags":[],"donorId":"microsoft"},"mieux-donner":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Donations go via its Donner page to recommended charities","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.mieuxdonner.org","kind":"org","location":"France","logoAsset":"/_blob/7a2e972005dacd2dabe19976dd769d47.png","name":"Mieux Donner","quote":"Nous sommes là pour vous guider vers des associations à l’impact hors normes avec des preuves sérieuses, que vous donniez en votre nom ou celui de votre entreprise.","quoteUrl":"https://www.mieuxdonner.org/","sources":["https://www.mieuxdonner.org","https://www.mieuxdonner.org/"],"summary":"French effective-giving association guiding donors to high-impact, evidence-backed charities.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"French association (loi 1901)","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is effective-giving promotion in France and Switzerland, EA meta rather than AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.mieuxdonner.org/","quote":"https://www.mieuxdonner.org/"}},"mikhail-belkin":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://misha.belkin-wang.org/","kind":"person","location":"San Diego, USA","name":"Mikhail Belkin","quote":"I have also become increasingly interested in and concerned about AI safety and the implications of AI and LLMs for the future of society and the human condition.","quoteUrl":"https://misha.belkin-wang.org/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","https://misha.belkin-wang.org/"],"summary":"HDSI Endowed Chair Professor in Artificial Intelligence at UC San Diego's Halicioglu Data Science Institute; studies the internal mechanisms behind AI behaviour to help monitor and steer advanced systems. AI2050 Senior Fellow (2026).","tags":["Academic","Interpretability"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. His AI2050 project studies the hidden internal mechanisms behind AI behaviour so researchers can understand, monitor and steer advanced systems (interpretability). Interpretability is usually prosaic safety that could cut either way (T3), and the project page states no takeover aim; a small share is AI work not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent). 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From the grant purpose and known focus on adversarial-ML security, likelihood analysis of AI security threats is AI security, not takeover risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://milev.ai/","quote":"https://milev.ai/"}},"mind-foundry":{"aliases":["Mind Foundry Ltd"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.mindfoundry.ai/leadership-team","quote":"https://www.mindfoundry.ai/about-us"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.mindfoundry.ai/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"company","location":"Oxford, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/52151c0deb0442b11fed6b2118a52fa9.jpg","name":"Mind Foundry","people":[{"name":"Lindsay Chadwick","role":"Chief Executive Officer"},{"name":"Stephen Roberts","role":"Co-founder and Chief Science Officer"},{"name":"Maike Osborne","role":"Co-founder & Chief Science Officer"}],"quote":"Bridging the gap between academic research and real-world applications of Machine Learning in mission-critical, high-stakes environments.","quoteUrl":"https://www.mindfoundry.ai/about-us","sources":["https://www.mindfoundry.ai/","https://aria.org.uk/media/wuebqa5w/transparencydata-end-of-q4fy24-25.pdf","https://www.mindfoundry.ai/leadership-team","https://www.mindfoundry.ai/about-us"],"summary":"Oxford University spinout building machine learning for defence and national security; held an ARIA Safeguarded AI contract.","tags":["AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. ARIA Safeguarded AI TA3 application contract; search results title the project 'Digital Custodians for Ageing Infrastructure', i.e. applied AI for civil infrastructure by a commercial ML firm, so the TA3 provisional call (Adjacent 0.5 / T3 0.5) applies."},"minerl-basalt-competition-at-neurips":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Academic competition; no public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://minerl.io/basalt/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/dce75f0125d18c45c28e6a8aa9be35a4.png","name":"MineRL BASALT competition at NeurIPS","quote":"a competition on solving human-judged tasks","quoteUrl":"https://minerl.io/basalt/","sources":["https://minerl.io/basalt/","https://proceedings.mlr.press/v220/milani23a.html","https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.01969"],"summary":"NeurIPS competition on learning from human feedback in Minecraft, where agents must solve fuzzy tasks judged by humans; run at NeurIPS in 2021 and 2022.","tags":["Alignment research","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.85,"T4":0.15},"xrTierNote":"Draft. BASALT NeurIPS competition on learning from human feedback in Minecraft (Rohin Shah et al.); prosaic alignment benchmark with some capabilities spillover.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.01969"}},"individual-2755":{"name":"Individual #2755","kind":"person","anonId":"2755"},"mirror-biology-dialogues-fund":{"aliases":["MBDF"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://mbdialogues.org","kind":"org","location":"Dover, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/619aa3eed8ef8b4b5b72c7f4b9d71076.jpg","name":"Mirror Biology Dialogues Fund","quote":"We lead, support, and contribute to research and discussions about the risks of mirror life and how they can be addressed.","quoteUrl":"https://mbdialogues.org","sources":["https://mbdialogues.org","https://www.guidestar.org/Profile/99-3886393","https://www.founderspledge.com/grantees/mirror-biology-dialogues-fund"],"summary":"Nonprofit that funds and co-organises international dialogues on the risks of mirror life, hypothetical organisms built from mirror-image molecules, and supports research and work toward a prohibition.","tags":["Biosecurity","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Founders Pledge describes MBDF as mirror-life biosecurity work, co-organising the Singapore Summit toward a ban on creating the mirror ribosome; AI is cited only as an accelerant of synthetic biology, so notAI and possibly wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://mbdialogues.org","quote":"https://mbdialogues.org"}},"missing-measures":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Missing Measures","parentOrg":"Lightcone Infrastructure, Inc. (fiscal sponsor)","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"],"status":"active","summary":"Not identified from public sources. SFF recommended $338,000 in 2025 and $276,000 in 2026 for general support of it, received through Lightcone Infrastructure, Inc.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"unknown":1},"xrTier":{"untiered":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. No public description of Missing Measures turned up in searches (the only hits were longtermwiki grant pages, which robots.txt blocks), so it stays untiered.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations"}},"mistral-ai":{"aliases":[],"capabilitiesNote":"Builds open-weight frontier language models and AI agents, plus inference infrastructure.","checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"capabilitiesNote":"https://mistral.ai/","founded":"https://mistral.ai/","homepage":"https://mistral.ai/","location":"https://mistral.ai/","logoUrl":"https://mistral.ai/","people":"https://mistral.ai/about/","quote":"https://mistral.ai/about/","summary":"https://mistral.ai/"},"founded":"2023","foundedUrl":"https://mistral.ai/","homepage":"https://mistral.ai/","kind":"company","location":"Paris, France","name":"Mistral AI","people":[{"name":"Arthur Mensch","role":"Co-founder and CEO"},{"name":"Guillaume Lample","role":"Co-founder and Chief Science Officer"},{"name":"Timothée Lacroix","role":"Co-founder and CTO"}],"quote":"make frontier AI open to all, and together solve the world's hardest problems","quoteUrl":"https://mistral.ai/about/","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://mistral.ai/","https://mistral.ai/about/"],"summary":"Mistral AI is a French company building open-weight frontier language models, AI agents and developer platforms, with its own inference infrastructure.","tags":[]},"mit-media-lab":{"aliases":["Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.media.mit.edu/people/","quote":"https://www.media.mit.edu/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1985","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.media.mit.edu/","kind":"lab","location":"Cambridge, MA, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/c3495c1a3d4173be9d967d1d6e1f0286.jpg","name":"MIT Media Lab","parentOrg":"massachusetts-institute-of-technology","people":[{"name":"Tod Machover","role":"Faculty Director"},{"name":"Hiroshi Ishii","role":"Associate Director"}],"quote":"We imagine what humans and machines can be.","quoteUrl":"https://www.media.mit.edu/","sources":["https://www.media.mit.edu/","https://www.media.mit.edu/people/"],"summary":"Interdisciplinary research lab at MIT; Open Philanthropy funding here supported Kevin Esvelt's Sculpting Evolution group's biosecurity and GCR research.","tags":["Academic","Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":""},"mitre":{"aliases":["Individual #2096, MITRE"],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.mitre.org/","kind":"org","location":"McLean, Virginia, United States","name":"MITRE","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.mitre.org/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MITRE_Corporation"],"summary":"Not-for-profit that runs US federally funded research and development centres.","tags":["Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention, which is biosecurity, not AI; nothing found linking it to AI (FTX grant archive was blocked, MITRE biodefense doc says nothing of AI).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MITRE_Corporation"}},"ml-safety-scholars-program":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Project of CAIS; no separate donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.mlsafety.org","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/66536aae6f406bbd502cd0d3cf11dfe3.jpg","name":"ML Safety Scholars Program","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.mlsafety.org"],"summary":"Summer machine learning safety course for students, associated with the ML Safety community project of the Center for AI Safety.","tags":["Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.3,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The 2022 retrospective describes a course in ML, deep learning and intro ML safety (with Carlsmith's power-seeking x-risk reading) whose graduates mostly aimed at entry-level AI safety roles; mostly prosaic with some x-risk framing."},"ml-safety-workshop-at-neurips-2022":{"aliases":["Existential Risk NeurIPS prize","NeurIPS ML Safety Workshop 2022","NeurIPS 2022 ML Safety Workshop Paper Analysis Awards"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","foundedUrl":"https://neurips2022.mlsafety.org/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://neurips2022.mlsafety.org/","kind":"event","location":"Virtual","logoAsset":"/_blob/8d426df382bee146698a2b7b909d636c.png","name":"ML Safety Workshop at NeurIPS 2022","outputs":[{"label":"Workshop site","type":"events","url":"https://neurips2022.mlsafety.org/"},{"label":"EA Forum announcement","type":"eaforum","url":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xTaLSBoHPnvJ864Xv/neurips-ml-safety-workshop-2022"},{"label":"LessWrong linkpost","type":"lesswrong","url":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pY4J2qNaHgKp2nbEd/neurips-ml-safety-workshop-2022"}],"parentOrg":"center-for-ai-safety","people":[{"name":"Dan Hendrycks","role":"announced the workshop (EA Forum poster)"}],"quote":"This workshop will bring together researchers from machine learning communities","quoteUrl":"https://neurips2022.mlsafety.org/","sources":["https://neurips2022.mlsafety.org/","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xTaLSBoHPnvJ864Xv/neurips-ml-safety-workshop-2022","https://www.safe.ai/field-building","https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EmnvtFLnQBte66Ydh/mlsn-5-prize-compilation","https://www.mlsafety.org/"],"status":"closed","statusNote":"One-off workshop held virtually on 9 December 2022 alongside NeurIPS 2022.","summary":"Center for AI Safety workshop held virtually at NeurIPS on 9 December 2022, covering robustness, monitoring, alignment and systemic safety, with $100,000 in paper awards.","tags":["Alignment research","Field-building","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.4,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, prizes for NeurIPS safety workshop papers, including best x-risk discussion, are mostly prosaic ML safety with an explicit x-risk share.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://neurips2022.mlsafety.org/"}},"ml4good":{"aliases":["Dandelion Labs"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://donate.stripe.com/14AdR95ckgw7dXK2Cu3F600","donateNote":"Payment link listed on its About page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://ml4good.org/about/","summary":"https://www.ml4good.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.ml4good.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/5f7ea6bc3505fe758370931521402dd7.png","name":"ML4Good","people":[{"name":"Nia Gardner","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"We train motivated people to contribute to AI Safety","quoteUrl":"https://www.ml4good.org/about","sources":["https://www.ml4good.org/about","https://www.ml4good.org","https://ml4good.org/about/"],"summary":"Runs intensive in-person AI safety bootcamps for people wanting to enter the field; started in 2022 with EffiSciences and became independent in 2024.","tags":["Education & training","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.191,"T2":0.291,"T3":0.509,"T4":0.009},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The site describes free AI safety bootcamps with technical and governance tracks, and its listed alumni destinations (EU AI Office, UK AISI, SaferAI, CHAI, MATS) are a mix of prosaic safety, x-risk-leaning research and general AI governance; it doesn't mention takeover or superintelligence."},"ml4sts-lab-machine-learning-for-socio-technical-systems":{"aliases":["Machine Learning for Socio-technical Systems Lab","ML4STS"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://www.givecampus.com/campaigns/63618/donations/new?designation=machinelearningforsociotechlab","donateNote":"Lab /give page; donations fund paid undergraduate and graduate research positions, travel and research costs","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://ml4sts.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"The University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 11 current members on /people page (1 PI, 2 PhD students, 8 undergraduates); 19 alumni listed separately","range":"","url":"https://ml4sts.com/people/","value":11},"homepage":"https://ml4sts.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Kingston, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/84c2a35532b0e4ece056d5cdeb73e44e.jpg","name":"ML4STS Lab (Machine Learning for Socio-Technical Systems)","outputs":[{"label":"Publications","type":"publications","url":"https://ml4sts.com/publications/"},{"label":"GitHub (ml4sts)","type":"github","url":"https://github.com/ml4sts/"},{"label":"Projects","type":"other","url":"https://ml4sts.com/projects/"},{"label":"Code","type":"other","url":"https://ml4sts.com/code/"},{"label":"Outreach","type":"events","url":"https://ml4sts.com/outreach/"}],"parentOrg":"University of Rhode Island","people":[{"name":"Individual #8834","role":"PI / lab director (Assistant Professor of CS)"}],"quote":"We study how to do Machine Learning for Socio-technical Systems.","quoteUrl":"https://ml4sts.com/","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"","x":"https://twitter.com/ml4sts"},"sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations","https://ml4sts.com/","https://ml4sts.com/people/","https://ml4sts.com/give/"],"status":"active","summary":"A University of Rhode Island lab studying how machine learning interacts with the socio-technical systems it is deployed into, with a current focus on fairness of automated decision-making.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3) (via University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement); tax-deductible","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T3":0.1,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. URI's page says the SFF award to Sarah Brown's lab funds a benchmark of LLM agents doing fair data science, which is AI fairness work (Adjacent) plus an agent-capability benchmark with no stated safety reason (T4 0.7 / T3 0.3 on that share)."},"mobility-reading-group":{"aliases":["University of Oxford (Yoshida)","MRG","Nobuko Yoshida's group at the University of Oxford"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://mrg.cs.ox.ac.uk/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 13 current members on /people page (1 faculty, 5 research staff, 7 PhD students)","range":"","url":"https://mrg.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/","value":13},"homepage":"https://mrg.cs.ox.ac.uk/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Oxford, United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/b9d88f2a7237a4f7a75d36321d6bf47a.jpg","name":"Mobility Reading Group","outputs":[{"label":"MRG publications","type":"publications","url":"https://mrg.cs.ox.ac.uk/publications/"},{"label":"Nobuko Yoshida (Google Scholar)","type":"scholar","url":"https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4T-p76AAAAAJ&hl=en"},{"label":"MRG talks","type":"events","url":"https://mrg.cs.ox.ac.uk/talks/"},{"label":"MRG tutorials","type":"other","url":"https://mrg.cs.ox.ac.uk/tutorials/"},{"label":"Yoshida publications (Oxford CS)","type":"publications","url":"https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/publications/date/Nobuko.Yoshida.html"}],"parentOrg":"university-of-oxford","people":[{"name":"Nobuko Yoshida","role":"PI; Christopher Strachey Professor of Computer Science"}],"quote":"π-calculus, Session Types research at the University of Oxford","quoteUrl":"https://mrg.cs.ox.ac.uk/","sources":["https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/2379-full.html","https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/Nobuko.Yoshida/","https://mrg.cs.ox.ac.uk/","https://mrg.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/"],"status":"active","summary":"A University of Oxford research group working on the pi-calculus and session types for concurrent and distributed programming.","tags":["Alignment research","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T1":0.25,"T2":0.15,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Oxford CS pages confirm ARIA Safeguarded AI grants: Staton's TA1.1 categorical probability (£682k, decided T1 as a theory team) and Abate's SAINT, plus TA3 applications such as Yoshida/Parker's business-process verification, which look applied and give a T3/Adjacent share; the remaining non-ARIA grants are smaller and unclear."},"modeling-cooperation":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Fiscally sponsored by Convergence Analysis","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.modelingcooperation.com/about","people":"https://www.modelingcooperation.com/about","quote":"https://www.modelingcooperation.com/","summary":"https://www.modelingcooperation.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"Convergence Analysis","founded":"2019","foundedUrl":"https://www.modelingcooperation.com/about","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.modelingcooperation.com","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/802b0735dffcefe91545692bd70138cb.jpg","name":"Modeling Cooperation","people":[{"name":"Individual #9442","role":"Lead"}],"quote":"Making AI competition dynamics visible to the people who can change them","quoteUrl":"https://www.modelingcooperation.com/","sources":["https://www.modelingcooperation.com","https://www.modelingcooperation.com/about","https://www.modelingcooperation.com/"],"summary":"Small group of engineers and researchers building simulation tools and models of AI competition dynamics, used to run structured policy simulations such as the Intelligence Rising workshops.","tags":["Governance & policy","Forecasting"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The site describes game-theory and simulation research and software (it powers Intelligence Rising) on safety investment under competitive pressure to build transformative AI, but never names extinction or takeover risk, so the T2 share is trimmed."},"modeling-transformative-ai-risk-mtair":{"aliases":["Modeling Transformative AI Risks (Individual #1534, Individual #1758, Analytica Consulting)","Modelling Transformative AI Risks (MTAIR) Project","MTAIR"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2021-08","basis":"counted 3 leads + 6 original APL team members + 7 non-APL contributors named in the introduction post","range":"","url":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qnA6paRwMky3Q6ktk/modelling-transformative-ai-risks-mtair-project-introduction","value":16},"homepage":"https://www.lesswrong.com/s/aERZoriyHfCqvWkzg","kind":"programme","location":"","name":"Modeling Transformative AI Risk (MTAIR)","outputs":[{"label":"MTAIR sequence (LessWrong)","type":"lesswrong","url":"https://www.lesswrong.com/s/aERZoriyHfCqvWkzg"},{"label":"MTAIR sequence (Alignment Forum)","type":"alignmentforum","url":"https://www.alignmentforum.org/s/aERZoriyHfCqvWkzg"}],"people":[{"name":"Daniel Eth","role":"project lead (FHI); model integration"},{"name":"Individual #4707","role":"project lead"},{"name":"Individual #1534","role":"project lead (JHU APL)"},{"name":"Individual #1758","role":"contributor"}],"quote":"Our longer-term plan is to convert our hypothesis map into a quantitative model that can be used to calculate decision-relevant probability estimates.","quoteUrl":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qnA6paRwMky3Q6ktk/modelling-transformative-ai-risks-mtair-project-introduction","sources":["https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qnA6paRwMky3Q6ktk/modelling-transformative-ai-risks-mtair-project-introduction","https://www.lesswrong.com/s/aERZoriyHfCqvWkzg"],"status":"unknown","statusNote":"No project activity after the 2021 LessWrong/AF sequence was checked.","summary":"Research project, begun at Johns Hopkins APL, mapping the key hypotheses, cruxes and relationships behind risks from transformative AI, with models built in the Analytica decision-modelling software.","tags":["Alignment research","Forecasting"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T2":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. MTAIR's own introduction says it builds a quantitative model of AI catastrophe pathways, including catastrophically misaligned HLMI and loss of control, so it is x-risk strategy at its core (T2), with a small Adjacent share for the forecasting component.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qnA6paRwMky3Q6ktk/modelling-transformative-ai-risks-mtair-project-introduction"}},"modulo-research":{"aliases":["Modulo Research Ltd"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14472745","kind":"company","location":"Cambridge, UK","name":"Modulo Research","quote":"Modulo conducts alignment research and evaluates the capabilities of language models","quoteUrl":"https://www.moduloresearch.com/","sources":["https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14472745/officers","https://www.moduloresearch.com/","https://www.moduloresearch.com/index.php/research/"],"summary":"Cambridge (UK) research company whose sole listed director is Gabriel Recchia, doing AI safety work such as sandwiching-like experiments, dataset development and capability evaluations.","tags":["Alignment research","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"Private limited company","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Recchia's sandwiching work is scalable oversight aimed at advanced AI, so T3 80 / T2 20 is kept.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.moduloresearch.com/","quote":"https://www.moduloresearch.com/"}},"monash-university":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.monash.edu/about/who"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.monash.edu/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"university","location":"Melbourne, Australia","logoAsset":"/_blob/e392d4c7b678223545a38e4c01c7b311.png","name":"Monash University","quote":"Monash is a modern, global, research-intensive university","quoteUrl":"https://www.monash.edu/about/who","sources":["https://www.monash.edu/","https://www.monash.edu/about/who"],"summary":"Monash University is a university whose researchers received an AI-alignment grant from the Alignment Project.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"moncef-slaoui":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moncef_Slaoui","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Moncef Slaoui","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moncef_Slaoui"],"summary":"Immunologist and former GSK vaccines executive who led the US Operation Warp Speed COVID-19 vaccine effort in 2020-21.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moncef_Slaoui"}},"mondo":{"aliases":["MTÜ Mondo"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://mondo.org.ee/en/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://mondo.org.ee/en/about/","people":"https://mondo.org.ee/en/people/","summary":"https://mondo.org.ee/en/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2007","foundedUrl":"https://mondo.org.ee/en/about/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://mondo.org.ee/en/","kind":"org","location":"Tallinn, Estonia","logoAsset":"/_blob/03d780ac305a193e2b8774159b70714c.jpg","name":"Mondo","people":[{"name":"Triinu Ossinovski","role":"Member of the Board, Director of Programmes and Strategy"},{"name":"Meelike Terasmaa","role":"Member of the Board, Director of Operations and Development"}],"quote":"Mondo is an Estonian organisation aiming to reduce global inequality.","quoteUrl":"https://mondo.org.ee/en/","sources":["https://mondo.org.ee/en/","https://jaan.online/philanthropy/donations.html","https://mondo.org.ee/en/about/","https://mondo.org.ee/en/people/"],"summary":"Estonian organisation aiming to reduce global inequality; its team includes over 35 experts in development cooperation, humanitarian aid and global education, and in 2024 it supported humanitarian aid to Ukraine.","tags":[],"taxStatus":""},"montaigne-institute":{"aliases":["Institut Montaigne"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Membership model, no donate page","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/about-us","people":"https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/about-us","summary":"https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/about-us"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2000","foundedUrl":"https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/about-us","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en","kind":"org","location":"Paris, France","logoAsset":"/_blob/56296a0f40e5a9d012f8277b7efe7415.jpg","name":"Montaigne Institute","people":[{"name":"Claude Bébéar","role":"Founder"},{"name":"Henri de Castries","role":"Chairman"}],"quote":"France’s leading independent and nonpartisan think tank","quoteUrl":"https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en","sources":["https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en","https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/about-us"],"summary":"Nonprofit, independent think tank based in Paris whose policy expertise includes the digital sector, health, the economy and finance.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T2":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Probably Institut Montaigne (Paris), whose AI lead Milo Rignell wrote an April 2023 note on safe, trustworthy general-purpose AI that frames risk as misuse and failure and calls for EU regulation of frontier GPAI, with no loss-of-control or x-risk language; that the FTX-funded staff role produced this note is an inference."},"moonlight-institute":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Moonlight Institute","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h1-recommendations"],"summary":"Not identified from public sources. SFF's 2021 H1 round recommended $127,000 from Jaan Tallinn to it for general support.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"unknown":1},"fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h1-recommendations"}},"moonshot-ai":{"aliases":[],"capabilitiesNote":"Builds frontier large language models (Kimi) offered via app and API.","checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"capabilitiesNote":"https://www.moonshot.ai/","founded":"https://www.moonshot.ai/about","homepage":"https://www.moonshot.ai/","location":"https://www.moonshot.ai/about","quote":"https://www.moonshot.ai/","summary":"https://www.moonshot.ai/"},"founded":"2023","foundedUrl":"https://www.moonshot.ai/about","homepage":"https://www.moonshot.ai/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["logo","people"]},"kind":"company","location":"Beijing, China","name":"Moonshot AI","quote":"Our research team works toward AGI while sharing the latest research with the global open-source community.","quoteUrl":"https://www.moonshot.ai/","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://www.moonshot.ai/","https://www.moonshot.ai/about"],"summary":"Moonshot AI is a Chinese AI lab working towards AGI; it makes the Kimi models and assistant and offers an API.","tags":[]},"moral-uncertainty-research-competition":{"aliases":["Machine Learning Moral Uncertainty Competition","ML Moral Uncertainty Competition"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","foundedUrl":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EmnvtFLnQBte66Ydh/mlsn-5-prize-compilation","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://moraluncertainty.mlsafety.org/","kind":"programme","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/485d96667e387e63a0d4a9f9d4510ebc.jpg","name":"Moral Uncertainty Research Competition","outputs":[{"label":"Announcement in ML Safety Newsletter #5","type":"newsletter","url":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EmnvtFLnQBte66Ydh/mlsn-5-prize-compilation"}],"parentOrg":"center-for-ai-safety","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EmnvtFLnQBte66Ydh/mlsn-5-prize-compilation","https://www.mlsafety.org/"],"status":"closed","statusNote":"Time-limited prize competition; first iteration's submission deadline was 31 May 2023. 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From the grant purpose, prizes for ML estimation of moral uncertainty are prosaic machine-ethics work in the ML-safety-competition mould.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EmnvtFLnQBte66Ydh/mlsn-5-prize-compilation"}},"individual-5159":{"name":"Individual #5159","kind":"person","anonId":"5159"},"morgan-state-university":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.morgan.edu/","kind":"university","location":"Baltimore, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/b0bf266f30829d7396e8e40c21024888.jpg","name":"Morgan State University","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.morgan.edu/","https://www.frontiermodelforum.org/updates/announcement-of-new-ai-safety-fund-grantees/","https://www.morgan.edu/about"],"summary":"Public research university in Baltimore, Maryland; received a Frontier Model Forum AI Safety Fund grant in December 2025 for evaluating AI-assisted cybersecurity operations.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.4,"T4":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. A cyber human-uplift study funded under the AISF cybersecurity RFP, so the misuse-capability-eval rule applies (T4 0.6 / T3 0.4); the RFP doesn't tie results to thresholds or regulation, so no T2 share.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.frontiermodelforum.org/updates/announcement-of-new-ai-safety-fund-grantees/"}},"moshe-vardi":{"aliases":["Moshe Y. 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Grant purpose is AI and the future of work, an economic/societal topic not aimed at x-risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.rice.edu/~vardi/"}},"movement-alliance-project":{"name":"Movement Alliance Project","aliases":["Media Mobilizing Project","MAP"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://movementalliance.org/","donate":"https://movementalliance.allyrafundraising.com","location":"Philadelphia, USA","founded":"2005","summary":"Philadelphia movement-building organisation (formerly Media Mobilizing Project, renamed 2020) offering fiscal sponsorship, shared space and coalition support; MacArthur funded its 2019 work on community control over automated decision systems such as pretrial risk assessments.","quote":"Movement Alliance Project exists to help build a coordinated, cross-sector, multiracial, working class movement in Philadelphia","quoteUrl":"https://movementalliance.org/","tags":["Governance & policy"],"sources":["https://movementalliance.org/","https://movementalliance.org/our-history/","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/movement-alliance-project-10115769/"],"fieldSources":{"summary":"https://movementalliance.org/our-history/","quote":"https://movementalliance.org/"},"infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-08","notFound":["people"]},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grants paid for community organising on algorithmic accountability and automated decision systems, not x-risk-aimed, so Adjacent (macfound.org grantee page)."},"mox":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://manifund.org/projects/mox-2026-fundraiser","donateNote":"Via Manifund","fieldSources":{"people":"https://moxsf.com/people","summary":"https://moxsf.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2025","fundraiser":"https://manifund.org/projects/mox-2026-fundraiser","fundraiserDate":"2026-03","fundraiserTitle":"Mox: 2026 Fundraiser","homepage":"https://moxsf.com/","kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/37ccc461d6b63a0e0d6efd2efdf97d3a.jpg","name":"Mox","people":[{"name":"Individual #97878","role":"Director"}],"quote":"A research-focused incubator & community space for doers of good and masters of craft","quoteUrl":"https://moxsf.com/","sources":["https://manifund.org/projects/mox-2026-fundraiser","https://moxsf.com/","https://moxsf.com/people"],"summary":"Coworking, events and incubator space in San Francisco serving the AI safety and effective altruism communities.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T1":0.15,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.35,"notAI":0.1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The fundraiser page calls Mox SF's primary AI safety incubator; tenants and guest partners are mostly AI safety orgs (MIRI, Redwood, FAR.AI, Timaeus, BlueDot, PIBBSS, MATS) plus some non-AI tenants (e.g. Sentient Futures, an investor) and AI-for-reasoning tool fellows."},"murdoch-childrens-research-institute":{"aliases":["Murdoch Children’s Research Institute","Murdoch Childrens Research Institute","MCRI"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://www.mcri.edu.au/support/donate","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1986","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.mcri.edu.au/","kind":"org","location":"Melbourne, Australia","logoAsset":"/_blob/31ab35d516096ef8b9d8bca9556d5bea.png","name":"Murdoch Children's Research Institute","quote":"Australia's largest child health research institute","quoteUrl":"https://www.mcri.edu.au/about","sources":["https://www.mcri.edu.au/about"],"summary":"Child health research institute based at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne.","tags":[],"taxStatus":""},"mykel-kochenderfer":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://mykel.kochenderfer.com/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Mykel Kochenderfer","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://mykel.kochenderfer.com/"],"summary":"Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, working on robust decision making for air traffic control, unmanned aircraft and automated driving; co-director of the Center for AI Safety.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Funder's page describes an automated framework that uses adaptive stress testing to find LLM failures; this is prosaic safety testing with no stated superintelligence or takeover aim.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://mykel.kochenderfer.com/"}},"nada-amin":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://namin.seas.harvard.edu/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Nada Amin","quote":"I combine programming languages (PL) and artificial intelligence (AI), including large language models (LLMs), to create intelligent systems that are correct by construction.","quoteUrl":"https://namin.seas.harvard.edu/","sources":["https://namin.seas.harvard.edu/"],"summary":"Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harvard SEAS combining programming languages and LLMs for verified, correct-by-construction code and proof synthesis.","tags":["AI control & security","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Leads a Harvard lab combining programming languages and LLMs for verified, correct-by-construction program and proof synthesis. 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The Open Philanthropy and BU pages describe a benchmark of how well LLMs do academic ML research, with no stated safety reason beyond the funder's programme label, so the provisional agent-benchmark rule (T4 0.7 / T3 0.3) applies."},"naomi-brockwell":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.nbtv.media/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Naomi Brockwell","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.nbtv.media/","https://foresight.org/grantees/2026-naomi-brockwell/"],"summary":"Creator of NBTV, a privacy education channel; President and Founder of the Ludlow Institute; Foresight Institute grantee building an open-source local AI agent to prevent AI-driven surveillance.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the Foresight 2026 grant purpose, automated identity compartmentalization against AI surveillance; privacy work is Adjacent by rule despite the safety framing.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://foresight.org/grantees/2026-naomi-brockwell/"}},"natasha-jaques-and-sergey-levine-university-of-washington-and-uc-berkeley":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cooperativeai.com/post/grant-summaries","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Natasha Jaques and Sergey Levine, University of Washington and UC Berkeley","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.cooperativeai.com/post/grant-summaries"],"summary":"Joint grant to two academics, at the University of Washington and Berkeley, for research on cooperation and negotiation in large language models.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T3":0.5,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The CAIF grant description covers an LLM cooperation/negotiation benchmark and spotting deceptive or coercive models, without safety, risk or takeover framing; part prosaic safety, part cooperative-AI, part capability improvement.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cooperativeai.com/post/grant-summaries"}},"natasha-jaques":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Natasha Jaques","quote":"My research is focused on Social Reinforcement Learning","quoteUrl":"https://natashajaques.ai/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","https://natashajaques.ai/"],"summary":"Assistant Professor at the University of Washington and Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, researching social reinforcement learning.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Her AI2050 page files the project under 'Alignment': co-adapting language models, robustness, per-user adaptation and avoiding manipulation of users. 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The grant went to the AI Peace project led by Marine Ragnet, whose bio frames her work around tech governance and international affairs with no takeover framing, so Adjacent; FLI's grant page has no project description.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.nyupeace.education/"}},"oak-optimizing-awakening-and-kindness":{"aliases":["OAK (Organization for Awakening and Kindness)","OAK"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"OAK (Optimizing Awakening and Kindness)","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2019-q4-recommendations.html"],"summary":"Recipient of a $100,000 SFF-2019-Q4 general-support recommendation, received through the Center for Mindful Learning; not identified further.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2019-q4-recommendations.html"}},"oath-technologies":{"aliases":["Oath"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"Convergent Research","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://oath.tech/","kind":"org","location":"Berkeley, CA, USA","name":"Oath Technologies","quote":"A Focused Research Organization working on AI oversight via formal methods.","quoteUrl":"https://oath.tech/","sources":["https://oath.tech/","https://builtinlondon.uk/job/oath-technologies-formal-methods-research-engineer/11088021"],"summary":"Berkeley nonprofit Focused Research Organization, fiscally sponsored by Convergent Research, working on AI oversight via formal methods to give trustworthy evidence that rules are obeyed.","tags":["AI control & security","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.4,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Formal verification of AI behaviour is T3 by default. 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The specific funded programme is not stated.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"Intergovernmental organisation","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://oecd.ai/","quote":"https://oecd.ai/"}},"ofir-press":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ofir.io","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Ofir Press","quote":"I’m Ofir and I push the frontier of AI capabilities by developing new benchmarks.","quoteUrl":"https://ofir.io/about","sources":["https://ofir.io","https://ofir.io/about"],"summary":"Researcher in language models who develops AI benchmarks, including VideoGameBench.","tags":["Academic","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T4":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Two searches found no pages for Ossian Labs, so the first-pass tier is kept from the grant purpose (debate as verification of agent outputs, scalable oversight); the T2 share over the none-framing default reflects the probable safety motivation of an LTFF debate grant, unverified.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/pJyCWzevPHsycj4oQ/long-term-future-fund-may-2023-to-march-2024-payout"}},"ought":{"aliases":["Ought Inc."],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Site requests donations but no donate URL verified","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ought.org/","kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, CA, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/a7a30648d7203ae19861bac25261c379.jpg","name":"Ought","quote":"Ought is a product-driven research lab that develops mechanisms for delegating high-quality reasoning to advanced machine learning systems.","quoteUrl":"https://ought.org/","sources":["https://ought.org/","https://ought.org/updates/2023-09-25-spinoff","https://ought.org/updates"],"summary":"San Francisco non-profit research lab that worked on process-based supervision of machine-learning reasoning; in September 2023 it spun off its Elicit research assistant as a public benefit corporation, and expects minimal operations for the next few years.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"US nonprofit (501(c))","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.35,"T2":0.45,"T3":0.1,"T4":0.1},"xrTierNote":"Ought aimed to keep capable AI aligned by having it reason in small, checkable steps that people supervise, rather than judging only its final answers. That aims at the core problem but with a plan that may not hold for much smarter systems (T2, 45%); much of the money built Elicit, an AI research-assistant product (Adjacent 35%, with 10% for the capability it adds, T4), and some is ordinary safety research (T3, 10%). 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From the grant purpose, 2015 strategy research on decision-relevant uncertainty in AI safety, aimed at x-risk prioritisation without engaging the hard parts directly.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.forethought.org/people/owen-cotton-barratt"}},"owen-toon":{"aliases":["University of Colorado Boulder (Owen Toon)"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Toon","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Owen Toon","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Toon"],"summary":"Atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder and LASP; studies clouds, atmospheric chemistry and climate effects of nuclear war (nuclear winter).","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Toon"}},"oxford-ai-safety-initiative":{"aliases":["OAISI"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://oaisi.org/about/","people":"https://oaisi.org/about/","quote":"https://oaisi.org/","summary":"https://oaisi.org/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","foundedUrl":"https://oaisi.org/about/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://oaisi.org","kind":"org","location":"Oxford, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/a6dce264b25325fb47f7a91db77c4b29.jpg","name":"Oxford AI Safety Initiative","people":[{"name":"Cadence James","role":"President"},{"name":"Nick Marsh","role":"Co-founder"},{"name":"Gracie Green","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"The Oxford AI Safety Initiative (OAISI) is a community of students and researchers committed to reducing societal risks from advanced artificial intelligence.","quoteUrl":"https://oaisi.org/","sources":["https://oaisi.org","https://village.ai/company/oaisi","https://oaisi.org/about/","https://oaisi.org/"],"summary":"Community of Oxford students and researchers working to reduce risks from advanced AI, mainly catastrophic ones; spun out of OxAI's safety and governance team in 2024, it runs fellowships, roundtables and speaker events.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Oxford student AI safety group (office access); pipeline tiered by probable member destinations, mostly prosaic safety and governance."},"oxford-china-policy-lab":{"aliases":["OCPL","Oxford China Policy Lab (OCPL)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.oxfordchinapolicylab.org/","kind":"org","location":"Oxford, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/77291c5d73c7868634b2a6e32ddc0461.png","name":"Oxford China Policy Lab","quote":"We produce policy-relevant research to address global challenges stemming from US-China relations","quoteUrl":"https://www.oxfordchinapolicylab.org/","sources":["https://www.oxfordchinapolicylab.org/"],"summary":"Research community in Oxford and London studying US–China relations and emerging technology, including AI governance.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T1":0.15,"T2":0.15},"xrTierNote":"Draft. OCPL's stated mission is reducing global risk from US-China great-power competition, with a focus on AI. Its research pages could not be read (the site is script-rendered), and the outputs found (a fellowship, a series on third countries, a co-founder's interview on US-China escalation and arms-race incentives) are mostly about great-power rivalry rather than catastrophic AI risk. So mostly AI-relevant work not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent), with small T1 and T2 shares for its AI-safety dialogue work."},"oxford-martin-ai-governance-initiative":{"aliases":["AIGI"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://aigi.ox.ac.uk/","kind":"university","location":"Oxford, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/d61141abb1eb92ab6e9b3c09f7caabaa.jpg","name":"Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative","quote":"Our mission is to understand and anticipate the potential risks from AI through rigorous research into the technical elements of AI, combined with deep policy analysis.","quoteUrl":"https://aigi.ox.ac.uk/","sources":["https://aigi.ox.ac.uk/"],"summary":"University of Oxford research initiative combining technical AI research and policy analysis on frontier, international and technical AI governance; runs DPhil studentships.","tags":["Governance & policy","Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"T2":1},"xrTierNote":"Oxford initiative combining technical research and policy analysis on frontier, international and technical AI governance, addressing misuse and unintended consequences. This aims at AI risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2). Source: https://aigi.ox.ac.uk/","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://aigi.ox.ac.uk/"}},"ozzie-gooen":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual; see QURI","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://quantifieduncertainty.org/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Ozzie Gooen","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://quantifieduncertainty.org/","https://quantifieduncertainty.org/posts/quri-is-moving-into-maintenance-mode/"],"summary":"Founder of the Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute (QURI), a forecasting and epistemics nonprofit; in June 2026 he moved QURI into maintenance mode to work on AI safety at Google DeepMind.","tags":["Forecasting","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.68,"notAI":0.32},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Dollar-weighted: the 2019 LTFF grant ($70k) was general forecasting infrastructure (Foretold) with no AI link, so notAI under the forecasting rule; the remaining ~$150k (probably the Foresight grant) uses LLMs to evaluate longtermist strategy documents, an AI epistemics tool not aimed at x-risk (Adjacent).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://quantifieduncertainty.org/posts/quri-is-moving-into-maintenance-mode/"}},"p-zero-research":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://pzeroresearch.com/","kind":"org","location":"San Francisco Bay Area and London (from job listings)","logoAsset":"/_blob/84f5dcf67e12460fdc1f2ce4c657ea33.png","name":"P-Zero Research","people":[{"name":"Dane Sherburn","role":"Co-founder"},{"name":"Ollie Jaffe","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"Mitigating the risks downstream of automated AI R&D","quoteUrl":"https://pzeroresearch.com/","sources":["https://pzeroresearch.com/"],"status":"active","statusNote":"","summary":"Small research team measuring and forecasting automated AI R&D and working on how to pace it safely.","tags":["Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.3,"T3":0.5,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Small team, founded by former OpenAI staff, that measures how close AI models are to automating AI research and forecasts when that will happen, aiming to reduce the risks that follow. Measuring and timing this is mostly safety work that could cut either way (T3, half); it aims at catastrophic risk from runaway AI progress without a plan for the hard parts (T2, 30%); and measuring research ability also tracks and can spur capabilities (T4, 20%). Source: https://pzeroresearch.com/","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://pzeroresearch.com/"}},"pacific-forum":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=PRHHR8D4AAWK6&source=url","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1975","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://pacforum.org/","kind":"org","location":"Honolulu, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/ec478816750a67b70f061c63b5f338a3.jpg","name":"Pacific Forum","quote":"the Pacific Forum is a non-profit foreign policy research institute based in Honolulu, Hawaii","quoteUrl":"https://pacforum.org/about","sources":["https://pacforum.org/","https://pacforum.org/about"],"summary":"Honolulu-based non-profit foreign policy research institute, founded in 1975, that works through analysis and dialogue to encourage cooperative policies in the Indo-Pacific.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. All grant purposes are US-China(-Russia) strategic nuclear dialogues; the Pacific Forum dialogue page covers nuclear deterrence, strategic stability, North Korea and Taiwan and does not mention AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://pacforum.org/about"}},"palisade-research":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://palisaderesearch.org/donate","donateNote":"Card donations via every.org","fieldSources":{"location":"https://palisaderesearch.org/about/","people":"https://palisaderesearch.org/about/","quote":"https://palisaderesearch.org/about/","summary":"https://palisaderesearch.org/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://palisaderesearch.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Berkeley, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/a14603063ef0e9a014ac686e4519f2a4.jpg","name":"Palisade Research","people":[{"name":"Jeffrey Ladish","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Benjamin Weinstein-Raun","role":"Head of Research"},{"name":"Dave Kasten","role":"Head of Policy"},{"name":"Individual #3413","role":"Head of Strategy"}],"quote":"Palisade Research is a nonprofit based in Berkeley, California, studying AI capabilities to prevent loss of control.","quoteUrl":"https://palisaderesearch.org/about/","sources":["https://palisaderesearch.org/","https://palisaderesearch.org/donate","https://palisaderesearch.org/about/"],"summary":"Nonprofit based in Berkeley studying AI capabilities and motivations, such as hacking and resisting shutdown, to prevent loss of control; has briefed members of Congress.","tags":["Evaluations","Advocacy","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T1":0.5,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Studies AI agents' drives and strategic capabilities, such as shutdown resistance, deception and hacking, and briefs policymakers on loss of control. The policy briefing buys time (T1, half); the research aims at takeover risk without its own plan for the hard parts (T2, half). Source: https://palisaderesearch.org/about/"},"palladium-magazine":{"aliases":["Palladium","American Governance Foundation"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://palladiummag.com/subscribe/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.palladiummag.com/about/","quote":"https://www.palladiummag.com/about/","summary":"https://www.palladiummag.com/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.palladiummag.com/","kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/88e3f545e9f8ae1060f18c5fc0e4e4d0.jpg","name":"Palladium Magazine","people":[{"name":"Samo Burja","role":"Editor-in-Chief"},{"name":"Wolf Tivy","role":"Editor-at-Large and Founder"},{"name":"Jonah Bennett","role":"Editor Emeritus and Founder"}],"quote":"a San Francisco-based, non-partisan publication that explores the future of governance","quoteUrl":"https://www.palladiummag.com/about/","sources":["https://www.palladiummag.com/about/"],"summary":"San Francisco non-partisan magazine on governance and society, published by the American Governance Foundation.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3) (American Governance Foundation Inc.)"},"pang-wei-koh":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.engr.washington.edu/faculty-research/new-faculty-2023/koh","summary":"https://www.engr.washington.edu/faculty-research/new-faculty-2023/koh"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.engr.washington.edu/faculty-research/new-faculty-2023/koh","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Pang Wei Koh","quote":"Our group develops methods for making AI systems more useful, responsible, and reliable in the real world.","quoteUrl":"https://koh.pw/","sources":["https://www.engr.washington.edu/faculty-research/new-faculty-2023/koh","https://koh.pw/"],"summary":"Assistant professor at the University of Washington's Allen School working on machine learning and natural language processing, with a focus on building reliable machine learning systems.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"panoplia-laboratories":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.every.org/panoplia-laboratories-inc#/donate","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://activesite.org/","kind":"org","location":"Cambridge, MA, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/720c70d6091beb92efb94147d790e202.jpg","name":"Panoplia Laboratories","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://mtec-sc.org/life-sciences/panoplia-laboratories","https://activesite.org/"],"summary":"US 501(c)(3) nonprofit that evaluates AI-driven biology and runs targeted wet-lab research to inform biosecurity policy, including a study of whether large language models help novices perform biological tasks.","tags":["Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"notAI":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Panoplia is a biosecurity lab (broad-spectrum antivirals); one grant studies AI-enabled virus synthesis barriers, the rest is general support for bio work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://mtec-sc.org/life-sciences/panoplia-laboratories"}},"parklab":{"aliases":["Amii / University of British Columbia (Mi Jung Park)","ParkLabML","Mi Jung Park's group at University of British Columbia"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mijungp/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted PI plus 4 current trainees (PhD/PhD-track/undergrad) on /people page; 12 alumni not counted","range":"","url":"https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mijungp/people.html","value":5},"homepage":"https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mijungp/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Vancouver, Canada","logoAsset":"/_blob/e5b524c36d0d41031877d1dab27cf353.png","name":"ParkLab","outputs":[{"label":"Publications","type":"publications","url":"https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mijungp/publications.html"},{"label":"Mi Jung Park (Google Scholar)","type":"scholar","url":"https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fqKsAJcAAAAJ"}],"parentOrg":"University of British Columbia (Department of Computer Science)","people":[{"name":"Mi Jung Park","role":"PI; Assistant Professor, UBC Computer Science; CIFAR AI Chair at Amii"}],"quote":"I lead a machine learning research group working on privacy-preserving machine learning, differentially private synthetic data generation, Bayesian learning, and AI safety in diffusion foundation models.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mijungp/","sources":["https://cifar.ca/?p=61899","https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mijungp/","https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mijungp/people.html"],"status":"active","summary":"Mi Jung Park's machine learning lab at the University of British Columbia works on privacy-preserving ML, differentially private synthetic data and safer diffusion foundation models.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose and her known privacy work, safe use of diffusion models probably concerns privacy and misuse, not x-risk."},"parpa":{"aliases":["PARPA, Inc.","Parpa"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.spec.tech/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location","people","quote"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/f592c8b839d52c9e55bb7eb605eff2ea.png","name":"PARPA","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://sloan.org/grant-detail/G-2023-19599","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2022-h2-recommendations.html"],"summary":"Recipient of a 2023 Sloan Foundation grant for a workshop on approaches to research roadmapping and programme design, and of $200,000 in SFF-2022-H2 general support.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://sloan.org/grant-detail/G-2023-19599"}},"parthe-pandit":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fieldSources":{"homepage":"https://parthe.github.io/","quote":"https://parthe.github.io/","summary":"https://parthe.github.io/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://parthe.github.io/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Parthe Pandit","quote":"My current research focusses on understanding the generalization behaviour of interpolating machine learning models such as neural networks.","quoteUrl":"https://parthe.github.io/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/grantee/parthe-pandit/","https://acr.iitbombay.org/?p=25156","https://parthe.github.io/"],"summary":"Thakur Family Chair Assistant Professor at IIT Bombay's Centre for Machine Intelligence and Data Science, researching generalisation in interpolating machine learning models and fast algorithms for kernel machines.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"partnership-for-global-security":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"logoUrl":"https://partnershipforglobalsecurity.org/","quote":"https://partnershipforglobalsecurity.org/","summary":"https://partnershipforglobalsecurity.org/overview/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1999","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.partnershipforglobalsecurity.org/","kind":"org","location":"Philadelphia, PA, USA (per GuideStar; historically Washington, DC — inference, unverified)","name":"Partnership for Global Security","people":[{"name":"Kenneth Luongo","role":"President (and founder)"}],"quote":"a recognized international leader and innovator in nuclear and transnational security policy","quoteUrl":"https://partnershipforglobalsecurity.org/","sources":["https://www.partnershipforglobalsecurity.org/","https://www.guidestar.org/Profile/52-2196300","https://globalnexusinitiative.org/?p=213","https://partnershipforglobalsecurity.org/","https://partnershipforglobalsecurity.org/overview/"],"status":"active","summary":"Non-partisan 501(c)(3) organisation working on nuclear and transnational security and energy policy, including the intersection of energy, nuclear, climate change and global security issues.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"nuclear":1}},"partnership-on-ai":{"aliases":["PAI","Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society"],"checked":"2026-11-07","donate":"https://partnershiponai.org/donate","fieldSources":{"people":"https://partnershiponai.org/team"},"homepage":"https://partnershiponai.org/","kind":"org","name":"Partnership on AI","people":[{"name":"Rebecca Finlay","role":"Chief Executive Officer"},{"name":"Jatin Aythora","role":"Board Chair"}],"quote":"Partnership on AI brings together a diverse community to address important questions about our future with AI.","quoteUrl":"https://partnershiponai.org/","sources":["https://partnershiponai.org/","https://partnershiponai.org/about/","https://partnershiponai.org/team","https://macfound.org/grantee/partnership-on-artificial-intelligence-to-benefit-people-and-society-10114517"],"summary":"Non-profit partnership of AI companies, civil society and academia working on responsible AI practice and policy, with programmes on AI safety, public policy, labour and the economy, and AI and human connection.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Funded as general operating support for a responsible-AI multistakeholder body whose current focus areas are AI and human connection and AI and shared prosperity; it has an AI Safety programme but its work centres on deployment norms and policy, not catastrophic or loss-of-control risk (partnershiponai.org/about)."},"pascal-berrang":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/computer-science/academic-staff/berrang-pascal.aspx","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Pascal Berrang","quote":"My research applies cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs to problems in AI security, privacy, and safety.","quoteUrl":"http://www.pascal-berrang.de/","sources":["https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/computer-science/academic-staff/berrang-pascal.aspx","http://www.pascal-berrang.de/"],"summary":"Associate professor in computer security at the University of Birmingham and, since October 2026, tech lead for AI verification at the Singapore AI Safety Hub; applies cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs to AI security, privacy and safety.","tags":["Academic","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Project not published. FAR.AI lists him as an associate professor at the University of Birmingham and co-founder of Zeroth Research, with no stated AI-safety or x-risk aim. The Foresight nodes' relevant tracks are AI for Security and Private AI, so the grant is probably privacy or security work: Adjacent for privacy, T3 for AI-system security.","fieldSources":{"summary":"http://www.pascal-berrang.de/","quote":"http://www.pascal-berrang.de/"}},"pathos-labs-popshift":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.popshift.org","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/1d51731d3fa8871ea747cd40c2bb49cb.jpg","name":"Pathos Labs (PopShift)","quote":"Privately brings Hollywood’s leading storytellers together with the world’s most fascinating people","quoteUrl":"https://www.popshift.org","sources":["https://www.popshift.org","https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/pathos-labs/"],"summary":"Nonprofit whose PopShift programme convenes entertainment writers with experts, including tech and existential-risk specialists.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.25,"T2":0.4,"notAI":0.35},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Pathos Labs' PopShift pairs topic experts with Hollywood TV writers on social-impact storylines. Profiles of the organisation say nothing about AI or existential risk, so only the grant purpose (convening tech and x-risk experts with writers) makes it x-risk comms, probably spread across AI, bio and nuclear. No grant page was found that confirms the AI share or any hard-parts content."},"patient-philanthropy-fund":{"aliases":["Founders Pledge — Patient Philanthropy Fund","Founders Pledge: Patient Philanthropy Fund","PPF"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2021","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://givingwhatwecan.org/charities/patient-philanthropy-fund","kind":"fund","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/2ba603958d7787078d54d9e6f9edf404.jpg","name":"Patient Philanthropy Fund","parentOrg":"founders-pledge","quote":"Think of this as an emergency fund for humanity: a savings pot meant to be dipped into when exceptional opportunities appear and funding is needed most.","quoteUrl":"https://www.founderspledge.com/funds/patient-philanthropy-fund","sources":["https://givingwhatwecan.org/charities/patient-philanthropy-fund","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/HYRpeSQx46u278vYK","https://www.founderspledge.com/funds/patient-philanthropy-fund"],"summary":"Founders Pledge fund that invests donations and waits to deploy them on the highest-impact opportunities to reduce existential risk.","tags":["Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://givingwhatwecan.org/charities/patient-philanthropy-fund"}},"individual-1248":{"name":"Individual #1248","kind":"person","anonId":"1248"},"individual-6254":{"name":"Individual #6254","kind":"person","anonId":"6254"},"individual-9727":{"name":"Individual #9727","kind":"person","anonId":"9727"},"paul-christiano":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://paulfchristiano.com/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Paul Christiano","quote":"I am the executive director of the Alignment Research Center, a nonprofit developing methods for white-box analysis of neural networks.","quoteUrl":"https://paulfchristiano.com/","sources":["https://paulfchristiano.com/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Christiano_(researcher)"],"summary":"Executive director of the Alignment Research Center, which develops methods for white-box analysis of neural networks; technical advisor at NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation, previously its head of safety, and earlier ran OpenAI's language model alignment team.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.6,"T2":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Counterfactual human oversight is early scalable-oversight work explicitly aimed at aligning superhuman AI and engaging how oversight fails at scale, so a PI squarely targeting superintelligence risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://paulfchristiano.com/","quote":"https://paulfchristiano.com/"}},"individual-1648":{"name":"Individual #1648","kind":"person","anonId":"1648"},"individual-1186":{"name":"Individual #1186","kind":"person","anonId":"1186"},"pauseai-deutschland":{"aliases":["PauseAI Germany"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page verified","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.pause-ai.de/impressum","quote":"https://www.pause-ai.de/impressum","summary":"https://www.pause-ai.de/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.pause-ai.de/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Halle (Saale), Germany","logoAsset":"/_blob/1d259c7fd09dcf1c4661c46dfac2a6bc.jpg","name":"PauseAI Deutschland","people":[{"name":"Benjamin Schmidt","role":"Chair (1. 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Campaigning for a pause buys time (T1). Source: https://pauseai.info/","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://pauseai.info/"}},"pauseai-us":{"aliases":["PauseAI USA"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/donate-to-help-pause-ai","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.pauseai-us.org/about/","people":"https://www.pauseai-us.org/about/","quote":"https://www.pauseai-us.org/","summary":"https://www.pauseai-us.org/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2023","foundedUrl":"https://www.pauseai-us.org/about/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://pauseai-us.org","kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/61dc20c413dc5709de938bd4f5b6da35.jpg","name":"PauseAI US","people":[{"name":"Individual #22206","role":"Founder & Executive Director"}],"quote":"We urge the United States to lead an international treaty to pause AI development.","quoteUrl":"https://www.pauseai-us.org/","sources":["https://pauseai-us.org","https://www.pauseai-us.org/about/","https://www.pauseai-us.org/"],"summary":"US grassroots organisation campaigning for a pause on frontier AI development through lobbying, protests and local events.","tags":["Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"US grassroots group that lobbies lawmakers, holds protests and local events, and calls for an international treaty to pause frontier AI development. Campaigning for a pause buys time (T1). Source: https://www.pauseai-us.org/about/"},"individual-1789":{"name":"Individual #1789","kind":"person","anonId":"1789"},"pentenamio":{"aliases":["Pentenamio","PentenAmio"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://pentenamio.com/leadership/","summary":"https://pentenamio.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2025","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://pentenamio.com/","kind":"company","location":"UK and Australia","logoAsset":"/_blob/6e0b9145d2866839b6973367264eb45b.jpg","name":"PentenAmio","people":[{"name":"Sarah Bailey","role":"Group CEO"},{"name":"Adrian Cunningham","role":"Executive Co-Chair"},{"name":"Matthew Wilson","role":"Executive Co-Chair"}],"quote":"PentenAmio is a leading provider of advanced digital security solutions that power national security and resilience","quoteUrl":"https://pentenamio.com/","sources":["https://pentenamio.com/","https://securitybrief.co.uk/story/pentenamio-merger-targets-secure-global-cyber-defence-growth","https://pentenamio.com/leadership/"],"summary":"Digital security company working across the UK and Australia, providing secure mobility, cryptography and AI-driven deception technologies for government and defence markets.","tags":["AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Defence cybersecurity company (secure mobile access, encryption, AI-driven cyber defence and deception tools) contracted under ARIA's Safeguarded AI programme. General security and verification tooling for that programme is safety work that could cut either way (T3). Source: https://pentenamio.com/"},"people-for-animals-uttarakhand":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.every.org/people-for-animals-uttarakhand","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://pfauttarakhand.org/","kind":"org","location":"Uttarakhand, India","logoAsset":"/_blob/6b54e056b3a2a51e9ef4c609ee750c7d.png","name":"People for Animals Uttarakhand","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.every.org/people-for-animals-uttarakhand"],"summary":"Indian grassroots animal-welfare organisation that rescues animals, pushes for policy reform and promotes humane farming, including cage-free campaigns. Not AI-safety related.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Philanthropy grant pages describe corporate cage-free campaigning in India under farm animal welfare; nothing AI-related, so likely miscounted."},"percy-liang":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cs.stanford.edu/~pliang/","kind":"person","location":"Stanford, USA","name":"Percy Liang","quote":"I am interested in fundamental questions around learning and intelligence.","quoteUrl":"https://cs.stanford.edu/~pliang/","sources":["https://cs.stanford.edu/~pliang/"],"summary":"Professor of Computer Science at Stanford who works on foundation model development and efficient, reproducible research, and created Marin to build models openly.","tags":["Academic","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T3":0.5,"T4":0.4},"xrTierNote":"The main grant funded Cybench, a benchmark of AI agents' hacking ability. It was built with a misuse-prevention motive (T3), but what it mainly produces is capability tracking (a large T4 share). His homepage states no safety or x-risk aim, and the 2015 robustness grant was prosaic. Sources: his homepage and the grant pages.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://cs.stanford.edu/~pliang/"}},"perry-world-house-university-of-pennsylvania":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://perryworldhouse.upenn.edu","kind":"university","location":"Philadelphia, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/313e797911fd56f0067f9c36bde50f58.jpg","name":"Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania","quote":"Perry World House is a center for scholarly inquiry, teaching, research, international exchange, policy engagement, and public outreach on pressing global issues.","quoteUrl":"https://perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/about/","sources":["https://perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/about/","https://perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/programs-and-outputs/programs/security/"],"summary":"Global-affairs research and policy centre at the University of Pennsylvania, hosting work on international security and emerging technologies including artificial intelligence.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T2":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, drafts US-China AI-nuclear arms control agreements, mostly about AI in nuclear command and national security rather than takeover (policy rule).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/programs-and-outputs/programs/security/"}},"peter-asaro":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/2015-grant-program/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Peter Asaro","quote":"His current research focuses on the social, cultural, political, legal and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence, automation and autonomous technologies, from a perspective that combines media theory with science and technology studies.","quoteUrl":"https://peterasaro.org/info.htm","sources":["https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/2015-grant-program/","https://peterasaro.org/info.htm"],"summary":"Philosopher of science, technology and media whose research covers the social, legal and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence and autonomous technologies, including autonomous weapons.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose and known work, policy on autonomous agents, robots and lethal autonomous weapons, which is not aimed at x-risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://peterasaro.org/info.htm","quote":"https://peterasaro.org/info.htm"}},"individual-8008":{"name":"Individual #8008","kind":"person","anonId":"8008"},"peter-henderson":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/peter-henderson/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Peter Henderson","quote":"I work on reinforcement learning, alignment, and law.","quoteUrl":"https://www.peterhenderson.co/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","https://www.peterhenderson.co/"],"summary":"Assistant professor at Princeton University, leading the Polaris Lab and working on reinforcement learning, alignment and law.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Princeton CITP bio describes ML-law-policy work including AI safety, and his MATS stream covers safe aligned agents and scalable oversight, but nothing on his pages mentions takeover or superintelligence risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.peterhenderson.co/","quote":"https://www.peterhenderson.co/"}},"individual-7252":{"name":"Individual #7252","kind":"person","anonId":"7252"},"individual-2599":{"name":"Individual #2599","kind":"person","anonId":"2599"},"peter-reiner":{"aliases":["Peter Reiner (University of British Columbia)","Peter B. 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FLI's project summary is about teaching ad hoc teammate agents human morality through negative human feedback, with no mention of AGI, superintelligence or x-risk, so it is prosaic value-alignment and HRI work (tags default to roughly T3 0.5 / Adjacent 0.5; first pass kept).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/bio_short.shtml","quote":"https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/"}},"individual-6055":{"name":"Individual #6055","kind":"person","anonId":"6055"},"peterson-institute-for-international-economics":{"aliases":["PIIE"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.piie.com/support-piie","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.piie.com/","kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/7bb3e648ab34af0fc781d70f4ae84b73.jpg","name":"Peterson Institute for International Economics","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.piie.com/"],"summary":"Independent nonprofit research organisation producing expert analysis and practical policy solutions on the global economy.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Provisional Adjacent (§5 general policy), pending publication-sample reread.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.piie.com/"}},"individual-5987":{"name":"Individual #5987","kind":"person","anonId":"5987"},"individual-86435":{"name":"Individual #86435","kind":"person","anonId":"86435"},"individual-7899":{"name":"Individual #7899","kind":"person","anonId":"7899"},"individual-4757":{"name":"Individual #4757","kind":"person","anonId":"4757"},"philip-torr":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/philip-torr/","kind":"person","location":"Oxford, UK","name":"Philip Torr","quote":"Philip's research interests lie in the fields of computer vision and machine learning.","quoteUrl":"https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/philip-torr/","sources":["https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/philip-torr/","https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/philip-torr/"],"summary":"Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford working on computer vision and machine learning; 2025 AI2050 Senior Fellow for a project on an AI system capable of historical reasoning.","tags":["Interpretability","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant pays for LLM steering-vector work, which is prosaic interpretability and control; the Oxford group describes its own interpretability work as aimed at superhuman-AI alignment, so it takes a small T2 share under the interpretability 'stated' default.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/philip-torr/"}},"philip-trammell":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://philiptrammell.com","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Philip Trammell","quote":"I mainly study questions related to economic growth and AI, but I have also done work on decision theory and the game theory of public good provision.","quoteUrl":"https://philiptrammell.com","sources":["https://philiptrammell.com"],"summary":"Economist at Epoch AI and Stanford's Digital Economy Lab researching economic growth and AI.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Known economist of transformative AI and growth; the summer programme is TAI economics, Adjacent under the economics rule.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://philiptrammell.com","quote":"https://philiptrammell.com"}},"individual-7470":{"name":"Individual #7470","kind":"person","anonId":"7470"},"piezo-therapeutics":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"people":"https://piezotx.com/","quote":"https://piezotx.com/","summary":"https://piezotx.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.piezotx.com","kind":"company","location":"Atlanta, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/10de7233fcd879aaf17343e95b27a299.png","name":"Piezo Therapeutics","people":[{"name":"Gaurav Byagathvalli","role":"CEO, Co-Founder & Director"},{"name":"Mark Prausnitz","role":"Co-Founder & Director"},{"name":"Saad Bhamla","role":"Co-Founder & Director"},{"name":"Cynthia Sundell","role":"Co-Founder & Director"}],"quote":"A non-viral, intradermally administered DNA therapy that raises endogenous production of the proteins defining youthful skin while suppressing the drivers of its degradation.","quoteUrl":"https://piezotx.com/","sources":["https://piezotx.com/"],"summary":"Clinical-stage biotechnology company developing PIEZO-101, a non-viral DNA therapy administered intradermally to raise production of the proteins that define youthful skin.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"For-profit","uncertain":"The Georgia Tech licensing news item this profile cited is offline (404, 4 Nov 2026). The company's own press item confirms its January 2023 launch to deliver nucleic acid medicines, but the battery-free piezoelectric microneedle and 'without lipid nanoparticles' details are now unsourced, and its site now centres on a skin-ageing DNA therapy (PIEZO-101)."},"pivotal-research":{"aliases":["Pivotal","CHERI / Individual #1838","CHERI","Swiss Existential Risk Initiative"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.pivotal-research.org/about","quote":"https://www.pivotal-research.org/about","summary":"https://www.pivotal-research.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.pivotal-research.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/0cde64a3bcbd5d799665a12bfecaa120.png","name":"Pivotal Research","outputs":[{"label":"EA Forum topic: Pivotal Research (prev. 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London fellowship programme aimed at reducing catastrophic risks from advanced AI and biotechnology; its tracks are an AI Safety Fellowship (technical safety and governance) and a Frontier Biodefense Fellowship, and alumni go to UK AISI, GovAI, METR, Apollo and Timaeus. Pipelines are tiered by where their people go: mostly prosaic safety (T3) and governance aimed at catastrophic risk (T2), with small shares for work on the hard parts (T1), AI work not aimed at x-risk (Adjacent) and biosecurity (not AI). Source: https://www.pivotal-research.org/about","funderId":"pivotal-research-fellowship"},"individual-2049":{"name":"Individual #2049","kind":"person","anonId":"2049"},"players-philanthropy-fund":{"aliases":["Players Philanthropy Fund, Inc.","PPF"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Fiscal sponsor; donations go to the sponsored project","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://ppf.org/about/","summary":"https://ppf.org/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2010","foundedUrl":"https://ppf.org/about/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ppf.org/","kind":"org","location":"Towson, MD, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/902aa9d53897efb98963a15277679ef4.jpg","name":"Players Philanthropy Fund","people":[{"name":"Seth A. 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Fiscal sponsor whose projects, from the grant purposes and Open Phil pages, are probably the Fund for Alignment Research (Ethan Perez) misalignment work (T3 80 / T2 20) and Observatorio de Riesgos Catastroficos Globales' $110k AI policy work in the EU and Latin America, which is catastrophic-risk-motivated (T2), plus SFF's AI-risk outreach salary (T2)."},"ploughshares-fund":{"aliases":["Ploughshares Fund (N Square)"],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"logoUrl":"https://ploughshares.org/","quote":"https://ploughshares.org/about/mission-vision-promise/","summary":"https://ploughshares.org/about/mission-vision-promise/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ploughshares.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, USA","name":"Ploughshares Fund","people":[{"name":"Gretchen Hund","role":"Board Chair"},{"name":"Emma Belcher","role":"President"},{"name":"Samara Dun","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"Our mission is to reduce and eventually eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons.","quoteUrl":"https://ploughshares.org/about/mission-vision-promise/","sources":["https://ploughshares.org/","https://ploughshares.org/about","https://ploughshares.org/about/mission-vision-promise/"],"status":"active","summary":"A public grantmaking foundation that funds experts and organisations working to reduce and eventually eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons, and drives collaborative action within the nuclear field.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"nuclear":1}},"plurality-institute":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/4806714","donateNote":"Via PayPal charity fundraiser linked from its site","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.plurality.institute/about","summary":"https://www.plurality.institute/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.plurality.institute","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/13d35c3ba4fcfcae02274765ce0a5b90.jpg","name":"Plurality Institute","people":[{"name":"Glen Weyl","role":"Co-founder and Chair"},{"name":"Rose Bloomin","role":"Co-founder and Executive Director"}],"quote":"We work on a range of events to help advance the research, development and deployment of Plural technology across our ecosystem.","quoteUrl":"https://www.plurality.institute/","sources":["https://www.plurality.institute","https://www.plurality.institute/about"],"summary":"Research hub connecting researchers and practitioners to advance technologies that upgrade democracy and support human cooperation at scale, including LLM-based tools such as BridgingBot.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Known work is plural/democratic technology and collective governance, which falls under the democratic AI / AI and society Adjacent rule."},"po-shen-loh":{"aliases":["Po-Shen Loh’s work on NOVID platform"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://poshenloh.com/bio","summary":"https://www.cmu.edu/math/people/faculty/loh.html"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://poshenloh.com/about","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Po-Shen Loh","quote":"He personally speaks in an unprecedented 100+ cities per year on education-after-AI.","quoteUrl":"https://poshenloh.com/bio","sources":["https://www.cmu.edu/math/people/faculty/loh.html","https://poshenloh.com/about","https://poshenloh.com/bio"],"summary":"Mathematics professor at Carnegie Mellon working on combinatorics and probability, and national lead coach for the United States of America.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"polish-foundation-for-effective-altruism":{"aliases":["EA Poland","Fundacja Efektywny Altruizm","The Polish Foundation for Effective Altruism"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://efektywnyaltruizm.org/wesprzyj-nas/","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://efektywnyaltruizm.org","kind":"org","location":"Poland","logoAsset":"/_blob/c1612c6f25a5de57607471aa820cc3dc.jpg","name":"Polish Foundation for Effective Altruism","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://efektywnyaltruizm.org","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/vd325jctadGoL2F8s/ea-poland-2023-the-first-update","https://efektywnyaltruizm.org/en/"],"summary":"Polish foundation supporting the growth of effective altruism in Poland, including career-focused courses, community building and the WiecejDobra.pl effective giving platform.","tags":["Field-building","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"Polish public benefit organization","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is a Polish 80,000 Hours guide and career advising: general EA meta, not AI-specific.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://efektywnyaltruizm.org"}},"poseidon-research":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"location":"https://poseidonresearch.org/about","summary":"https://poseidonresearch.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://poseidonresearch.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"New York City, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/dd94688c8d1f75d20629d1ecbda10ec6.jpg","name":"Poseidon Research","quote":"Poseidon Research conducts foundational technical research into how advanced AI systems represent, conceal, and communicate information.","quoteUrl":"https://poseidonresearch.org/","sources":["https://poseidonresearch.org/","https://poseidonresearch.org/about"],"summary":"Registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit AI safety lab in New York City researching how AI systems represent and conceal information, including steganographic and covert channels in outputs.","tags":["Interpretability","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T2":0.1,"T3":0.9},"xrTierNote":"Draft. A SPAR mentor bio describes Poseidon as an NYC interpretability nonprofit aiming to make AI 'reliable, accountable and governable', with no takeover or deception motivation stated; the encoded-reasoning (CoT steganography) project bears on scheming, so it gets only a small T2 share."},"positive-ai-labs":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://positiveailabs.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://positiveailabs.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/ed7cf9766a04f01decf7f40527970f35.jpg","name":"Positive AI Labs","quote":"We bring researchers, practitioners and communities together to study, develop and evaluate AI—and to shape its direction through dialogue.","quoteUrl":"https://positiveailabs.org/","sources":["https://positiveailabs.org/","https://positiveailabs.org/about"],"status":"active","statusNote":"site is live; activity level not otherwise verified","summary":"A nonprofit building open-source datasets and evaluations to guide frontier AI models toward human values and human flourishing.","tags":["Evaluations","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"untiered":1},"xrTierNote":"Purpose unknown (§3); counts as Adjacent, reported separately."},"pour-demain":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.pourdemain.ngo/en","kind":"org","location":"Brussels, Belgium","logoAsset":"/_blob/4654a6fa2060a9467e14479d4a3bb7b0.jpg","name":"Pour Demain","quote":"We champion smart AI oversight with clear standards that protect society while enabling innovation.","quoteUrl":"https://www.pourdemain.ngo/en","sources":["https://www.pourdemain.ngo/en"],"summary":"Independent think tank with offices in Brussels and Bern, working on AI oversight and contributing to the implementation of Europe's emerging AI governance framework.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T2":0.5,"notAI":0.1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Swiss/EU policy think tank; grant purpose is EU AI Act work, probably on general-purpose AI systemic-risk provisions, with some non-AI (bio) work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.pourdemain.ngo/en"}},"practical-ai-alignment-and-interpretability-research-group":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://prair.group/","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Practical AI Alignment and Interpretability Research Group","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://prair.group/","https://www.goodventures.org/blog/organization/practical-ai-alignment-and-interpretability-research-group"],"summary":"Research group developing theory and applied methods for finding and inducing interpretable algorithms in deep learning models.","tags":["Interpretability","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The funder's grant page says the $737k funds Atticus Geiger's interpretability research, open-source mech-interp course materials and a mentorship programme; interpretability default -> T3."},"individual-9412":{"name":"Individual #9412","kind":"person","anonId":"9412"},"individual-8168":{"name":"Individual #8168","kind":"person","anonId":"8168"},"president-and-fellows-of-harvard-college":{"aliases":["Harvard","Harvard University"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.harvard.edu/","kind":"university","location":"Cambridge, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/6652651667cbd2b6d8f79ae0438d004e.jpg","name":"President and Fellows of Harvard College","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.harvard.edu/about/"],"summary":"Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The grant supported the Greene Lab's work on cognitive oversight of AI.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"US private university (501(c)(3))","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Lightspeed project 'Greene Lab Cognitive Oversight', probably Joshua Greene's lab applying cognitive science to AI oversight; topic unclear from the name."},"princeton-university-program-on-science-and-global-security":{"aliases":["Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University (The Trustees of Princeton University)"],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"logoUrl":"https://sgs.princeton.edu/","quote":"https://sgs.princeton.edu/about","summary":"https://sgs.princeton.edu/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1974","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://sgs.princeton.edu/","kind":"org","location":"Princeton, NJ, USA","name":"Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security","parentOrg":"Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University","people":[{"name":"Alexander Glaser","role":"Co-director"},{"name":"Zia Mian","role":"Co-director"}],"quote":"SGS aims to inform the policy debates about offensive cyberwarfare capabilities and artificial intelligence (AI) and their impact on international peace and security.","quoteUrl":"https://sgs.princeton.edu/about","sources":["https://sgs.princeton.edu/","https://sgs.princeton.edu/about"],"status":"active","summary":"University programme at Princeton researching AI and offensive cyber capabilities as international security issues, alongside nuclear arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament; it also teaches and does outreach.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"nuclear":1}},"princeton-university":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.princeton.edu","kind":"university","location":"Princeton, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/206c8ae2ed6142b295d8b17486eb7ae4.jpg","name":"Princeton University","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.princeton.edu","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University"],"summary":"Private research university in Princeton, New Jersey.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T3":0.2,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The Princeton AI Lab policy fellows page describes general government AI advising with no catastrophic-risk framing (Adjacent); I could not find a public page for the FY2021-22 'state-of-the-art computer vision models' grant, so its T4/T3 share is still a guess from the purpose text.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University"}},"princeton-vision-learning-lab":{"aliases":["Princeton University (Jia Deng)","Vision & Learning Lab @ Princeton University","PVL"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://pvl.cs.princeton.edu/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted current members on people page: 1 faculty, 15 PhD students, 1 undergraduate; excludes alumni","range":"","url":"https://pvl.cs.princeton.edu/people.html","value":17},"homepage":"https://pvl.cs.princeton.edu/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Princeton, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/2ee51e55968d768749736921386d3bf0.png","name":"Princeton Vision & Learning Lab","outputs":[{"label":"Research page","type":"publications","url":"https://pvl.cs.princeton.edu/research.html"}],"parentOrg":"princeton-university","people":[{"name":"Jia Deng","role":"PI (Professor of Computer Science)"}],"quote":"We study computer vision, robotics, and machine learning.","quoteUrl":"https://pvl.cs.princeton.edu/","sources":["https://pvl.cs.princeton.edu/","https://pvl.cs.princeton.edu/people.html"],"status":"active","summary":"Jia Deng's lab at Princeton researches computer vision, robotics and machine learning, including 3D reconstruction, robot manipulation and procedurally generated synthetic data such as Infinigen.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"principles-of-intelligence":{"aliases":["PIBBSS","PIBBSS (Principles of Intelligence)","PrincInt","Principles of Intelligence (PIBBSS)","Principles of Intelligent Behavior in Biological and Social Systems","Principles of Intelligent Behavior in Biological and Social Systems (PIBBSS)","EA Switzerland/PIBBSS Fellowship","PIBBSS Fellowship"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://manifund.org/projects/pibbss---affiliate-program-funding-6-months-6-affiliates-or-more","donateNote":"Via Manifund","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2021","foundedUrl":"https://princint.ai/about/team-advisors/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 8 people on Team & Advisors page (2 organizing, 6 research incl. 3 affiliates); 4 board members not counted","range":"","url":"https://princint.ai/about/team-advisors/","value":8},"homepage":"https://princint.ai/","kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/4a6f20ba818bc04b9dc507ccafa3ce0f.jpg","name":"Principles of Intelligence","outputs":[{"label":"Research highlights","type":"publications","url":"https://princint.ai/research-highlights/"},{"label":"Fellowship","type":"other","url":"https://princint.ai/programs/fellowship/"},{"label":"Fellows and mentors","type":"other","url":"https://princint.ai/about/fellows-alumni/"},{"label":"News","type":"blog","url":"https://princint.ai/news/"},{"label":"YouTube","type":"youtube","url":"https://www.youtube.com/@PrincInt"}],"people":[{"name":"Lucas Teixeira","role":"Executive Director, Research"},{"name":"Dušan D. 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FLI's grant page says the project (PI Luke Kemp) reviews AI-enabled mass surveillance laws and maps power-concentration scenarios; that is human misuse and governance, not takeover risk, so Adjacent by rule.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/mitigate-ai-driven-power-concentration/"}},"project-solve":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"Effective Ventures Foundation","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"programme","location":"","name":"Project Solve","people":[],"sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2023/h1/recommendations"],"status":"active","summary":"Not identified from public sources. SFF's 2023-H1 round recommends $196,000 for general support of it, with Effective Ventures Foundation as receiving charity.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2023/h1/recommendations"}},"project-tempo":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://projecttempo.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://projecttempo.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Europe","logoAsset":"/_blob/04635c6282126c0d2d48d45fa99865a2.jpg","name":"Project Tempo","people":[{"name":"Luke Shore","role":"Co-Founder and Managing Director"}],"quote":"Across Europe, we study the forces shaping public opinion and the barriers holding back strong and clean economies.","quoteUrl":"https://projecttempo.com/","sources":["https://projecttempo.com/","https://eccoclimate.org/project-tempo-new-tools-to-navigate-the-energy-transition/"],"summary":"European research initiative studying public opinion and political barriers to clean-energy and climate policy, producing country playbooks such as one for Italy.","tags":[],"taxStatus":""},"prometheus-science-bowl":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://prometheus.science/about-us","summary":"https://prometheus.science"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://prometheus.science","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"programme","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/91c88701c15ab165a8eb88a1a91d5d77.jpg","name":"Prometheus Science Bowl","people":[{"name":"Peter Bennett","role":"President and Co-founder"},{"name":"Devansh Pandey","role":"Co-founder"},{"name":"Patrick Bennett","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"Humanity faces many diverse challenges, some of which pose existential threats to our entire species.","quoteUrl":"https://prometheus.science/","sources":["https://prometheus.science","https://manifold.markets/PeterBennett/which-team-will-win-prometheus-scie","https://prometheus.science/about-us","https://prometheus.science/mission"],"summary":"Science Bowl-style competition for middle and high schoolers that introduces students to existential risks such as AI and biosecurity; not running tournaments this year and unsure whether it will return.","tags":["Education & training","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.4,"T2":0.4,"T3":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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From the grant purpose, model psychology and evaluation research, which defaults to T3."},"pronatalist-org":{"aliases":["Pragmatist Foundation","The Pragmatist Foundation"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=LUSLMHENGDDMA","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://pronatalist.org/about/","summary":"https://pronatalist.org/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://pronatalist.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/abca097ec27ad6fed4d0401ee56ae2c8.png","name":"Pronatalist.org","people":[{"name":"Malcolm Collins","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"A big-tent, optimistic movement working to address demographic collapse","quoteUrl":"https://pronatalist.org/","sources":["https://pronatalist.org/","https://pronatalist.org/about/"],"summary":"Advocacy organisation connecting leaders in pronatalist advocacy and campaigning on falling birth rates and demographic collapse; Malcolm Collins is its Executive Director.","tags":["Advocacy"],"taxStatus":""},"pronomos-capital-management":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"location":"https://www.pronomos.vc/contact","people":"https://www.pronomos.vc/people","quote":"https://www.pronomos.vc/","summary":"https://www.pronomos.vc/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://pronomos.vc","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"company","location":"San Francisco, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/9a0cdb72c55f0216e52eb3f921a3eca5.png","name":"Pronomos Capital Management","people":[{"name":"Patri Friedman","role":"Founder and General Partner"}],"quote":"Our mission is to build prosperous cities that uplift entire regions.","quoteUrl":"https://www.pronomos.vc/","sources":["https://www.pronomoscapital.com/","https://www.pronomos.vc/contact","https://www.pronomos.vc/people","https://www.pronomos.vc/","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"],"summary":"Firm founded by Patri Friedman that works with citizens, states and developers to build prosperous cities and upgrade laws and institutions; SFF's 2026 round recommended it for education and advocacy for self-governing jurisdictions.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"For-profit"},"psst-org":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://psst.org/support-us","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://psst.org/about","summary":"https://psst.org","quote":"https://psst.org"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://psst.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location","quote"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/d1a32a3b1f7930783f1392397563e14c.jpg","name":"Psst.org","people":[{"name":"Jennifer Gibson","role":"Co-Founder & Executive Director"}],"quote":"Psst.org is a nonprofit for tech and AI workers who've seen something at work that doesn't seem right.","quoteUrl":"https://psst.org","sources":["https://psst.org","https://psst.org/about"],"summary":"Nonprofit supporting tech and AI workers who have concerns about their workplace, offering confidential legal guidance and whistleblower support.","tags":["Governance & policy","Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Whistleblower support for AI lab insiders; maintainer's answer 27 Oct: T1."},"public-editor":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.goodlylabs.org/projects","kind":"programme","location":"Berkeley, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/f87697a25816bf78a35f5dd440ee4580.jpg","name":"Public Editor","quote":"Public Editor is a collective intelligence system that labels over 50 types of manipulation in news articles within 30 minutes of publication.","quoteUrl":"https://www.goodlylabs.org/projects","sources":["https://bids.berkeley.edu/public-editor","https://www.goodlylabs.org/projects"],"summary":"Citizen-science news-assessment platform, a Goodly Labs project, in which public volunteers label over 50 types of manipulation in news articles within 30 minutes of publication.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.goodlylabs.org/projects"}},"pulitzer-center-on-crisis-reporting":{"name":"Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting","aliases":["Pulitzer Center","Pulitzer Center AI Accountability Network"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://pulitzercenter.org/","summary":"Journalism nonprofit; its AI Accountability Network (since 2022) runs fellowships, reporting grants and the AI Spotlight Series for reporting on governments' and companies' use of predictive and surveillance technologies.","tags":["Communications"],"sources":["https://pulitzercenter.org/ai-accountability-network","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/pulitzer-center-on-crisis-reporting-41986/"],"fieldSources":{"summary":"https://pulitzercenter.org/ai-accountability-network"},"infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-08","notFound":["quote","people","location"],"why":"pulitzercenter.org refuses automated readers (403); summary from one web search of its own pages."},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grants paid for AI accountability journalism on present-day uses such as policing, welfare and hiring algorithms, not x-risk-aimed, so Adjacent (pulitzercenter.org/ai-accountability-network)."},"purdue-university":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1869","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.purdue.edu","kind":"university","location":"West Lafayette, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/c73a6471054855f8dee4fdfc199c9b2d.jpg","name":"Purdue University","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.purdue.edu"],"summary":"US public research university in West Lafayette, Indiana; funded under the Alignment Project for work on equilibrium concepts for robust AI alignment.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is Prof. Xiangyu Zhang's research on language-model robustness against adversarial attacks, prosaic robustness work."},"individual-7254":{"name":"Individual #7254","kind":"person","anonId":"7254"},"quantified-uncertainty-research-institute":{"aliases":["QURI"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://quantifieduncertainty.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2019","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://quantifieduncertainty.org","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/0c0b0c6dfaa05b45fd07b5b9110a23cf.jpg","name":"Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute","quote":"forecasting and epistemics to improve the long-term future of humanity","quoteUrl":"https://quantifieduncertainty.org","sources":["https://quantifieduncertainty.org","https://quantifieduncertainty.org/posts/quri-is-moving-into-maintenance-mode/","https://quantifieduncertainty.org/about/"],"summary":"Nonprofit research organisation behind forecasting tools such as Squiggle and Guesstimate; announced on 20 June 2026 that it was moving into maintenance mode, with no new software or research.","tags":["Forecasting"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"notAI":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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The Survival and Flourishing Fund lists a $140,000 SFF-2022-H2 grant to Rationality Meetups for general support, with the Center for Applied Rationality as receiving charity.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"hub-community":0.4,"rationality-epistemics":0.6},"fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2022-h2-recommendations"}},"rauno-arike-elizabeth-donoway":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-11-07","kind":"person","name":"Rauno Arike, Individual #5251","sources":[],"summary":"Individual grantee.","tags":["Evaluations"]},"individual-5170":{"name":"Individual #5170","kind":"person","anonId":"5170"},"real-ml":{"name":"REAL ML","aliases":["Research, Engagement, Advocacy & Lived Experience in Machine Learning"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://codeforsociety.org/fsp/projects/real-ml","fiscalSponsor":"Code for Science & Society","summary":"Global interdisciplinary community, fiscally sponsored by Code for Science & Society, that aims to turn algorithmic accountability research into real-world interventions in the public interest; runs workshops and peer-support spaces.","tags":["Field-building"],"sources":["https://codeforsociety.org/news/real-ml-joins-code-for-science-and-society","https://codeforsociety.org/fsp/projects/real-ml","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/code-for-science-and-society-10115475/"],"fieldSources":{"summary":"https://codeforsociety.org/news/real-ml-joins-code-for-science-and-society"},"infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-08","notFound":["quote","people","location"],"why":"No own site found; its Code for Science & Society pages returned 404 to automated readers. 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An algorithmic-accountability community whose MacArthur grants paid for its network and workshops, not x-risk-aimed, so Adjacent (macfound.org grantee page)."},"reciprocal-research":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://reciprocalresearch.org/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://reciprocalresearch.org/about","summary":"https://reciprocalresearch.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://reciprocalresearch.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"New York, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/098c0593c9d04f84dbeea0d420ba779c.jpg","name":"Reciprocal Research","people":[{"name":"Individual #6135","role":"Founder & Director"}],"quote":"Developing the empirical science of AI cognition and consciousness","quoteUrl":"https://reciprocalresearch.org/","sources":["https://reciprocalresearch.org/","https://reciprocalresearch.org/about","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"],"summary":"New York nonprofit led by Individual #6135 studying AI systems' internal workings with interpretability, neuroscience and psychometric methods, to inform safe AI development and questions of AI consciousness.","tags":["Interpretability","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Nonprofit developing the empirical science of AI cognition and consciousness. 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We infer their plans with uncertainty-aware representations to keep humans in the loop.","quoteUrl":"https://recursive-safeguarding.org/","sources":["https://aria.org.uk/media/0usfmzui/aria-end-of-q2-fy25-26.pdf","https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search/companies?q=Recursive+Safeguarding","https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16535478/officers","https://younesse.net/","https://recursive-safeguarding.org/"],"status":"active","statusNote":"Incorporated 23 June 2025 (Companies House no. 16535478), status incorporated/active","summary":"A UK research company studying how AI agents drift from human intent on long tasks, inferring their plans with uncertainty-aware representations to keep humans in the loop.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. ARIA Safeguarded AI TA2 Phase 1 paid teams to write a Phase 2 proposal (technical roadmap and org plan) for the TA2 ML entity, so it falls under the decided ARIA TA2 call (T3); the company has no public pages I could find, and ARIA's call text names misuse risk but not superintelligence."},"redwood-research":{"aliases":["Redwood","Redwood Research Group Inc."],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.redwoodresearch.org/team","filings":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/871702255","registration":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/871702255","summary":"https://www.redwoodresearch.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2021","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.redwoodresearch.org/","kind":"org","location":"Berkeley, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/64834bc36599f3ae6df33f753c124b22.jpg","name":"Redwood Research","people":[{"name":"Buck Shlegeris","role":"Chief Executive Officer"}],"quote":"Redwood Research is a nonprofit AI safety and security research organization","quoteUrl":"https://www.redwoodresearch.org/","sources":["https://www.redwoodresearch.org/","https://www.redwoodresearch.org/team"],"summary":"Nonprofit AI safety and security research organisation studying risks from AI systems acting against their developers' interests; introduced AI control research, collaborates with governments and advises AI companies.","tags":["AI control & security","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Studies AI systems that might deliberately act against their developers, mainly through AI control (ways to use AI safely even if it is trying to cause harm) and work on strategic deception. The empirical control work could cut either way (T3, four-fifths); its stated deception and subversion motivation, without a plan for the hard parts, gives a T2 share (one-fifth). 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His research focuses on resource-bounded reasoning, which lets complex systems make decisions while coping with uncertainty and limited computational resources, including automated reasoning and multi-agent systems.","tags":["Alignment research","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. A collaborator's CV describes Zilberstein's NSF project as a formal design pipeline to reduce agents' norm-violating surprises (prosaic alignment, T3); the novel-translation grant is Adjacent; the dollar split between grants is still unknown.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://groups.cs.umass.edu/shlomo/"}},"responsible-accountable-learning-real-lab":{"aliases":["University of California, Santa Cruz (Yang Liu)","REAL@UCSC","UCSC-REAL","Yang Liu's group at UC Santa Cruz"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"","basis":"no member list retrievable (group page blocked by robots.txt; lab site fetch failed)","range":"","url":"","value":null},"homepage":"https://www.yliuu.com/","kind":"lab","location":"Santa Cruz, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/57e2623e84e747de6b4059c67ed38242.jpg","name":"REsponsible & Accountable Learning (REAL) Lab","outputs":[{"label":"UCSC-REAL on GitHub","type":"github","url":"https://github.com/UCSC-REAL"}],"parentOrg":"University of California, Santa Cruz (Computer Science and Engineering)","people":[{"name":"Yang Liu","role":"PI, Assistant Professor of CSE (on leave)"}],"quoteUrl":"https://github.com/UCSC-REAL","sources":["https://www.yliuu.com/","https://github.com/UCSC-REAL","https://api.nsf.gov/services/v1/awards.json?id=2416896,2416895,2415478&printFields=id,title,awardeeName,awardeeCity,piFirstName,piLastName,piEmail,estimatedTotalAmt,startDate"],"status":"unknown","statusNote":"PI homepage says he is currently on leave from UCSC and leading the Responsible AI team at ByteDance; lab activity during leave unclear.","summary":"Research group on responsible and accountable learning at the University of California, Santa Cruz.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The NSF abstract could not be fetched (robots.txt); the PI's other work, such as a UCSC-reported NSF fairness project on long-term human-AI interaction, is trustworthy ML and fairness, not x-risk, so the first-pass mix stands.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://github.com/UCSC-REAL"}},"rethink-priorities-worldview-investigations-team":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://rethinkpriorities.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://rethinkpriorities.org/our-research-areas/worldview-investigations/","summary":"https://rethinkpriorities.org/our-research-areas/worldview-investigations/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://rethinkpriorities.org/our-research-areas/worldview-investigations/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/5990bd97f316d4d8591990919c36b263.jpg","name":"Rethink Priorities, Worldview Investigations Team","quote":"Turning complex philosophical and empirical challenges into actionable insights for better philanthropic decisions.","quoteUrl":"https://rethinkpriorities.org/our-research-areas/worldview-investigations/","sources":["https://rethinkpriorities.org","https://rethinkpriorities.org/our-research-areas/worldview-investigations/"],"summary":"Research team at Rethink Priorities turning philosophical and empirical questions into guidance for philanthropic resource allocation, including a model for assessing evidence of AI consciousness.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) (RP US)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Rethink Priorities team that builds a framework for assessing evidence of AI consciousness and researches risk alignment in agentic AI systems. The digital-minds work is not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent, half); the agentic-AI work aims at AI risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2, half). Source: https://rethinkpriorities.org/our-research-areas/"},"rethink-priorities":{"aliases":["Rethink Priorities (General Longtermism Team)","RP"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://rethinkpriorities.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://rethinkpriorities.org/about-us/","summary":"https://rethinkpriorities.org/about-us/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://rethinkpriorities.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/03d9b04aef077305e57cc959d3428bdd.jpg","name":"Rethink Priorities","people":[{"name":"Marcus A. 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The governance work aims at AI risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2, half); the rest is not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent, half). 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From the grant purpose and known work: conceptual research on AGI development by an author of well-known x-risk alignment writing that engages deception and situational awareness.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.richardcngo.com/"}},"individual-4226":{"name":"Individual #4226","kind":"person","anonId":"4226"},"rigorous-engineering-ltd":{"aliases":["Rigorous Engineering LTD"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2026","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"company","location":"Cambridge, UK","name":"Rigorous Engineering Ltd","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://ltds.uk/company/17302833/rigorous-engineering-ltd","https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/17302833"],"summary":"Cambridge (UK) research and development company, incorporated in June 2026.","tags":["AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"UK private limited company","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Cambridge (UK) research and development company contracted under ARIA's Safeguarded AI programme; no website found. As a general verification-tooling contractor, its work is safety work that could cut either way (T3).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/17302833"}},"individual-8019":{"name":"Individual #8019","kind":"person","anonId":"8019"},"robert-miles":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.robertskmiles.com/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Robert Miles","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/FJxc4Lk6mijiFiPp2/the-big-nonprofits-post-2025/comment/TLhSxmFFreSreWwbJ"],"summary":"AI safety communicator who makes YouTube videos explaining alignment and AI safety concepts to a general audience.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Makes YouTube videos explaining AI alignment and AI safety to a general audience. 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Adjusted: Foresight neurotech/WBE framed as AI safety: T1 75 / T4 25 (maintainer, 27 Oct).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/roman-bauer"}},"roman-yampolskiy-research-group-university-of-louisville":{"aliases":["University of Louisville (Dr. Roman Yampolskiy’s Research Group (Cybersecurity Lab)","Dr. Roman Yampolskiy’s Research Group at UofL (Cybersecurity Lab)","Roman Yampolskiy, University of Louisville CS department","Cybersecurity Laboratory","CyberSecurity Lab","Roman Yampolskiy's research group"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"Grants were paid via the University of Louisville Foundation (per grant data supplied).","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://faculty.cse.louisville.edu/roman/","summary":"https://faculty.cse.louisville.edu/roman/"},"fiscalSponsor":"University of Louisville Foundation","founded":"2008","foundedUrl":"http://cecs.louisville.edu/security/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"","basis":"lab page mentions students but lists none","range":"","url":"http://cecs.louisville.edu/security/","value":null},"homepage":"https://faculty.cse.louisville.edu/roman/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["logo"]},"kind":"org","location":"Louisville, United States","name":"University of Louisville (Roman Yampolskiy's research group)","outputs":[{"label":"Yampolskiy selected papers","type":"publications","url":"https://faculty.cse.louisville.edu/roman/publications.html"},{"label":"Yampolskiy publications (CECS)","type":"publications","url":"http://cecs.louisville.edu/ry/publications.html"},{"label":"Roman Yampolskiy (Google Scholar)","type":"scholar","url":"http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0_Rq68cAAAAJ"},{"label":"Yampolskiy talks","type":"events","url":"https://faculty.cse.louisville.edu/roman/talks.html"}],"parentOrg":"University of Louisville (Speed School of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering)","people":[{"name":"Roman V. 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His work squarely targets superintelligence: he argues it cannot be indefinitely controlled and should not be built until proven safe, which engages why control fails and supports slowdown; his impossibility arguments are informal, so roughly half T2; he says FLI, EA Ventures and others funded him, but I found no grant page stating a purpose; seen: FLI profile, UofL 2024 Q&A."},"rootclaim":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Not accepting donations","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.rootclaim.com/about","quote":"https://www.rootclaim.com/about","summary":"https://www.rootclaim.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.rootclaim.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/47ab734d32d8427a6d6f1d600747dd5c.jpg","name":"Rootclaim","people":[{"name":"Saar Wilf","role":"Founder"}],"quote":"We overcome the flaws of human reasoning with our probabilistic inference methodology","quoteUrl":"https://www.rootclaim.com/about","sources":["https://www.rootclaim.com/about","https://www.rootclaim.com/"],"summary":"Website that analyses public controversies with a probabilistic inference methodology; its team is now fully dedicated to teaching AI models probabilistic inference. 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Rootclaim's site says it is now focused on training AI models to do probabilistic inference for analysing controversies; that is AI work not aimed at x-risk, with a small capabilities share, and it is probably what the late-2024 general-support grant paid for."},"roots-of-progress-institute":{"aliases":["The Roots of Progress"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://rootsofprogress.org/support/","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://rootsofprogress.org","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/0aae52618a8ee61b4048be1b2db68b0f.jpg","name":"Roots of Progress Institute","quote":"To establish a new philosophy of progress for the 21st century, and to build a culture of progress.","quoteUrl":"https://rootsofprogress.org/about","sources":["https://rootsofprogress.org/about","https://rootsofprogress.org/support/","https://rootsofprogress.org"],"summary":"Nonprofit promoting a philosophy and culture of progress through writing, fellowships and events such as the Progress Conference.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"notAI":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Progress Conference is general progress-studies meta, not AI safety; possibly wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://rootsofprogress.org/about","quote":"https://rootsofprogress.org/about"}},"individual-9821":{"name":"Individual #9821","kind":"person","anonId":"9821"},"individual-4324":{"name":"Individual #4324","kind":"person","anonId":"4324"},"individual-4109":{"name":"Individual #4109","kind":"person","anonId":"4109"},"routstr":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://routstr.com/","kind":"org","location":"Berlin, Germany","logoAsset":"/_blob/5218d783eceb2d0068c6b2640414559d.jpg","name":"Routstr","quote":"The open source protocol for decentralized AI inference routing","quoteUrl":"https://routstr.com/","sources":["https://routstr.com/","https://foresight.org/grantees/2026-dominic-baumer/"],"summary":"Open-source decentralised protocol for buying and selling AI model access via Nostr discovery and Bitcoin micropayments, without accounts or sign-ups.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.8,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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From the grant purpose, mitigating AI agent sandbagging, an evals/control topic tied to deception; evals default T3 with a small T2 share.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.psu.edu/news/engineering/story/qa-are-developers-prepared-control-super-intelligent-ai","quote":"https://ryanzhumich.github.io/"}},"individual-4409":{"name":"Individual #4409","kind":"person","anonId":"4409"},"individual-9614":{"name":"Individual #9614","kind":"person","anonId":"9614"},"rutgers-university":{"aliases":["Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1766","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.rutgers.edu/","kind":"university","location":"New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/1b3b27fa901530c8e5f1b789cca11540.jpg","name":"Rutgers University","quote":"Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, stands among America’s highest-ranked, most diverse public research universities.","quoteUrl":"https://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers","sources":["https://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers"],"summary":"Public research university in New Jersey; received grants for Alan Robock's nuclear-winter climate modeling.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"ruth-fong":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cs.princeton.edu/people/profile/ruthfong","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Ruth Fong","quote":"My research focuses on human-centered AI and spans the fields of machine learning, computer vision, and human-computer interaction (HCI).","quoteUrl":"http://ruthfong.com/","sources":["https://www.cs.princeton.edu/people/profile/ruthfong","http://ruthfong.com/"],"summary":"Lecturer (teaching professor) in computer science at Princeton University; research interests include explainable AI, computer vision and deep learning.","tags":["Academic","Interpretability"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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From the name and purpose, a German AI safety community and field-building hub; tiered by the likely destinations of the people it serves, per the hub rule."},"safe-superintelligence":{"aliases":[],"capabilitiesNote":"Frontier AI research lab aiming directly at superintelligence.","checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"capabilitiesNote":"https://ssi.inc/","homepage":"https://ssi.inc/","location":"https://ssi.inc/","logoUrl":"https://ssi.inc/","quote":"https://ssi.inc/","summary":"https://ssi.inc/"},"homepage":"https://ssi.inc/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","people"]},"kind":"company","location":"Palo Alto, United States","name":"Safe Superintelligence","quote":"Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time.","quoteUrl":"https://ssi.inc/","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://ssi.inc/"],"summary":"AI lab with a single goal and product: building a safe superintelligence, advancing safety and capabilities together.","tags":[]},"saferai":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.safer-ai.org/about","summary":"https://www.safer-ai.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.safer-ai.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Paris, France","logoAsset":"/_blob/c192faeceee24580224d4b9c8d11b929.jpg","name":"SaferAI","people":[{"name":"Henry Papadatos","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"SaferAI is a French non-profit furthering risk management in policy and industry.","quoteUrl":"https://www.safer-ai.org/","sources":["https://www.safer-ai.org/","https://www.safer-ai.org/about"],"summary":"Paris-based nonprofit working on AI risk management: it rates AI companies' risk practices and contributes to standards and EU AI Act policy work.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"French association (loi 1901)","xrTier":{"T2":1},"xrTierNote":"Paris nonprofit that rates AI companies' risk management, builds quantitative risk models (so far on AI-enabled cyberattacks, with loss of control planned) and shapes EU and international AI standards. 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Oxford CS pages confirm ARIA Safeguarded AI grants: Staton's TA1.1 categorical probability (£682k, decided T1 as a theory team) and Abate's SAINT, plus TA3 applications such as Yoshida/Parker's business-process verification, which look applied and give a T3/Adjacent share; the remaining non-ARIA grants are smaller and unclear.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/samuel.staton/main.html"}},"samet-oymak":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://eecs.engin.umich.edu/people/oymak-samet/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Samet Oymak","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://eecs.engin.umich.edu/people/oymak-samet/"],"summary":"Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, researching machine learning theory and trustworthy methods.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is scalable oversight research by an ML academic not known for x-risk work (rule: other academics → T3)."},"individual-1758":{"name":"Individual #1758","kind":"person","anonId":"1758"},"samsung-electronics":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"homepage":"https://www.samsung.com/us/","logoUrl":"https://www.samsung.com/us/","summary":"https://semiconductor.samsung.com/","quote":"https://www.samsung.com/global/sustainability/people/tech-for-all"},"homepage":"https://www.samsung.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["capabilitiesNote","founded","location","people","quote","summary"]},"kind":"company","name":"Samsung Electronics","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://www.samsung.com/us/","https://semiconductor.samsung.com/","https://www.samsung.com/global/sustainability/people/tech-for-all"],"tags":[],"summary":"Electronics company whose semiconductor business makes memory chips, such as LPDDR6, for AI systems from devices to servers.","quote":"Samsung Electronics is committed to AI Ethics Principles. We aim to create human-centered devices that are safe, helpful and continuously learning through AI technology, whenever and wherever they are used.","quoteUrl":"https://www.samsung.com/global/sustainability/people/tech-for-all"},"individual-9390":{"name":"Individual #9390","kind":"person","anonId":"9390"},"individual-4932":{"name":"Individual #4932","kind":"person","anonId":"4932"},"individual-6788":{"name":"Individual #6788","kind":"person","anonId":"6788"},"sanjeev-arora":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://profsanjeevarora.github.io/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Sanjeev Arora","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://profsanjeevarora.github.io/"],"summary":"Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.8,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Schmidt Sciences grantee page says the project uses skill-emergence and LLM-metacognition theory to measure upper-bound risk, complementing red-teaming; a safety-framed eval that largely measures what models can do, so mostly T3 with a capability share."},"sanjiban-choudhury":{"aliases":["Cornell University (Sanjiban Choudhury)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://sanjibanc.github.io/","kind":"person","location":"Ithaca, USA","name":"Sanjiban Choudhury","quote":"I work on interactive AI agents that self-align through few-shot interactions with humans and their environment.","quoteUrl":"https://sanjibanc.github.io/","sources":["https://sanjibanc.github.io/","https://bowers.cornell.edu/news-stories/openai-funds-choudhurys-work-keep-superhuman-ai-check"],"summary":"Assistant professor at Cornell funded by OpenAI's Superalignment Fast Grants for work that may help keep superhuman AI systems under human control; also works on reinforcement learning and imitation learning.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.3,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Philanthropy says the grant funds Lionel Levine's research related to AI alignment and safety; Cornell describes his lab's work as evaluating whether models follow their stated principles and how values drift under self-improvement, and Levine is quoted on building superintelligence carefully, so this is a safety-motivated PI doing prosaic work (T3 70 / T2 30 rule).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://bowers.cornell.edu/news-stories/openai-funds-choudhurys-work-keep-superhuman-ai-check"}},"sanmi-koyejo":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cs.stanford.edu/~sanmi/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Sanmi Koyejo","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://cs.stanford.edu/~sanmi/","https://www.schmidtsciences.org/safetyscience/","https://cs.stanford.edu/~sanmi/research.html"],"summary":"Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford researching trustworthy AI, including AI evaluation science, predictable AI evaluation and scaling laws, and machine unlearning.","tags":["Academic","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.6,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Schmidt Sciences describes his project as scaling laws including pre-training interventions as predictors of 'performance and safety', and his capability-prediction paper is framed for engineers, companies and governments rather than safety, so the mix of prosaic safety, forecasting and some capability science holds.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://cs.stanford.edu/~sanmi/"}},"individual-2055":{"name":"Individual #2055","kind":"person","anonId":"2055"},"sapiens-first":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://sapiensfirst.org/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://sapiensfirst.org/about","people":"https://sapiensfirst.org/about","quote":"https://sapiensfirst.org/about","summary":"https://sapiensfirst.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2026","foundedUrl":"https://sapiensfirst.org/about","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://sapiensfirst.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/13bafe4f2b64b05d7853d8fc4ba655cd.jpg","name":"Sapiens First","people":[{"name":"Rohan Prasad","role":"Founder and Executive Director"}],"quote":"We build political power to make sure artificial intelligence benefits the common good.","quoteUrl":"https://sapiensfirst.org/about","sources":["https://manifund.org/projects/movement-building-to-make-agi-go-well","https://sapiensfirst.org","https://sapiensfirst.org/about"],"summary":"Volunteer-powered nonprofit founded in 2026 that builds local chapters and political power for AI governance, pressing city councils to act on AI and aiming to win policy in California.","tags":["Advocacy","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T1":0.1,"T2":0.6,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, movement-building to make AGI go well, recommended by safety regrantors; probably x-risk-motivated outreach."},"sara-beery":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://beerylab.csail.mit.edu/people","summary":"https://beerylab.csail.mit.edu/people"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://beerylab.csail.mit.edu/people","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Sara Beery","quote":"Her research focuses on building computer vision methods that enable global-scale environmental and biodiversity monitoring across data modalities","quoteUrl":"https://beerylab.csail.mit.edu/people","sources":["https://beerylab.csail.mit.edu/people"],"summary":"MIT EECS faculty member working on computer vision and AI for biodiversity and environmental monitoring.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"individual-9796":{"name":"Individual #9796","kind":"person","anonId":"9796"},"sarah-dean":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/sarah-dean","summary":"https://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/sarah-dean"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cs.cornell.edu/index.php/people/sarah-dean","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Sarah Dean","quote":"She studies the interplay between optimization, machine learning, and dynamics in real-world systems.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/sarah-dean","sources":["https://www.cs.cornell.edu/index.php/people/sarah-dean","https://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/sarah-dean"],"summary":"Assistant professor of computer science at Cornell University, studying data-driven methods for control and decision-making and the interplay of optimisation, machine learning and dynamics.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"sarah-wiegreffe":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://sarahwie.github.io","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Sarah Wiegreffe","quote":"I research the interpretability of language models (LMs) and other neural networks, with the goal of increasing their transparency, reliability, safety, and utility.","quoteUrl":"https://sarahwie.github.io/","sources":["https://sarahwie.github.io"],"summary":"Assistant professor of computer science at the University of Maryland; researches language model interpretability and natural-language explanations.","tags":["Academic","Interpretability"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Wiegreffe (UMD/UMIACS) works on LLM internals and CoT faithfulness with a stated AI safety and reliability focus but no stated takeover aim; a study of when chain-of-thought is necessary bears on CoT monitorability, so prosaic control/interpretability work at T3.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://sarahwie.github.io/","quote":"https://sarahwie.github.io/"}},"saturn-data":{"aliases":["Saturn Data Inc."],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://saturndata.com/","summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://saturndata.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location","logo","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"","name":"Saturn Data","quote":"We’re making an FPGA-accelerated server for high-memory high-bandwidth workloads, and expect to announce more soon.","quoteUrl":"https://saturndata.com/","sources":["https://saturndata.com/","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations"],"status":"active","summary":"Company that received an SFF Initiative Committee grant to support work on prototyping flexible hardware-enabled chip governors (FlexHEGs). Its site says it is making an FPGA-accelerated server.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"compute-governance":1},"xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant purposes say it prototypes FlexHEGs, which SFF's FlexHEG call describes as on-chip compliance verification for multilateral AI agreements (hardware-enabled governance, T1 by rule); I couldn't find any public page for Saturn Data itself."},"school-of-thinking":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"programme","location":"","name":"School of Thinking","people":[{"name":"Luca Parodi","role":"CEO and co-founder"}],"quote":"dedicated to rationality and longtermism education, which reached 50k+ users.","quoteUrl":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/luca-parodi-1","sources":["https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EEQuMjGYxxFKCtxjC/where-are-the-ea-influencers?commentId=XxRsKE4cHT5DvbBFZ","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/luca-parodi","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/luca-parodi-1"],"status":"active","summary":"An EA-aligned media project making Italian- and English-language YouTube, TikTok and Instagram content on rationality, longtermism and effective altruism; its founder's profile says an EA-funded media platform he led has since shut down.","tags":[],"taxStatus":""},"schwartz-reisman-institute-for-technology-and-society":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/","kind":"university","location":"Toronto, Canada","logoAsset":"/_blob/6da9fd382e8792b9dc602d4a0e3810c6.png","name":"Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society","quote":"The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society convenes world-class expertise across sectors and disciplines to help ensure that powerful technologies like AI are responsible, inclusive, and beneficial to everyone.","quoteUrl":"https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/","sources":["https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/","https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/research"],"summary":"University of Toronto research institute studying the social impacts of advanced technologies, from safe and aligned AI development to systems of governance.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant is for AI safety and alignment initiatives, and SRI's 2025-2028 strategic plan puts safe AI systems (interpretability, alignment) first and names AGI, potential superintelligence and catastrophic scenarios; the work is probably mostly prosaic plus convening, with some AI-and-society spillover.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/research","quote":"https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/"}},"scott-aaronson":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.scottaaronson.com/","kind":"person","location":"Austin, USA","name":"Scott Aaronson","quote":"For the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 academic years, I was on leave to work at OpenAI on the theoretical foundations of AI safety.","quoteUrl":"https://www.scottaaronson.com/","sources":["https://www.scottaaronson.com/"],"summary":"Computer scientist at UT Austin working on quantum computing and computational complexity; spent 2022–2024 at OpenAI on theoretical foundations of AI safety.","tags":["Alignment research","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.2,"T2":0.4,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. His grant announcement says it funds alignment-motivated theory (interpretability, cryptographic backdoors, OOD generalization) at UT Austin; the post does not explicitly mention superintelligence or takeover, so the mostly T3/T2 mix with a T1 share for theory stays.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.scottaaronson.com/"}},"scott-niekum":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://people.cs.umass.edu/~sniekum/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Scott Niekum","quote":"The goal of my research is to ensure that AI systems are well-aligned with human objectives and can be deployed safely in the real world.","quoteUrl":"https://people.cs.umass.edu/~sniekum/","sources":["https://people.cs.umass.edu/~sniekum/"],"summary":"Professor at UMass Amherst who directs the Safe, Confident, and Aligned Learning + Robotics Lab (SCALAR), researching safe and aligned learning.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.3,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Left at the draft default: his stated work is reward inference from human preferences and efficient verification of agent alignment, which is safety-motivated technique work, but I could not find a funder grant page naming him (CV fetch was blocked); seen: FLI profile only.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://people.cs.umass.edu/~sniekum/"}},"individual-3640":{"name":"Individual #3640","kind":"person","anonId":"3640"},"individual-4584":{"name":"Individual #4584","kind":"person","anonId":"4584"},"search-for-common-ground-university-of-oxford":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.sfcg.org/donate-ways-to-give/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.sfcg.org/our-global-leadership/","summary":"https://www.cooperativeai.com/post/grant-summaries"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1982","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.sfcg.org","kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/7d83cd196dc3c6923a9dd9b1c726fd06.jpg","name":"Search for Common Ground, University of Oxford","people":[{"name":"Shamil Idriss","role":"Chief Executive Officer"}],"quote":"Since 1982, Search for Common Ground has been building peace, transforming societies, and using innovative tools to end violent conflict around the world.","quoteUrl":"https://www.sfcg.org/about-us/","sources":["https://www.sfcg.org","https://www.sfcg.org/our-global-leadership/","https://www.sfcg.org/about-us/","https://www.cooperativeai.com/post/grant-summaries"],"summary":"International peacebuilding non-profit; with the University of Oxford it received a Cooperative AI Foundation grant for deliberative technology in conflict contexts.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant pays for deliberative/AI-mediated dialogue tools for peacebuilding in conflict zones, which is AI-and-society work with no stated x-risk aim, so Adjacent; CAIF's published grants page does not list this grant yet, so this rests on the grant title and the deliberative-tech field."},"sebastian-elbaum-lu-feng-and-zsolt-kira":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/sebastian-elbaum","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Sebastian Elbaum, Lu Feng, and Zsolt Kira","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/sebastian-elbaum","https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lufeng/awards.html","https://www.cc.gatech.edu/cv/zk15","https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lufeng/research.html","https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~se4ja/"],"summary":"Team of University of Virginia professors Sebastian Elbaum and Lu Feng and Georgia Tech professor Zsolt Kira; Feng's research develops runtime safety architectures for embodied AI systems.","tags":["Academic","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant funds inference-time safety monitoring for embodied/VLA robot chain-of-thought; Lu Feng's page says she works on runtime safety for embodied AI, and neither her page nor the Schmidt RFP mentions takeover risk, so prosaic monitoring (T3) with a conventional robot-safety share (Adjacent).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lufeng/research.html"}},"secure-ai-project":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://secureaiproject.org/about/","people":"https://secureaiproject.org/about/","summary":"https://secureaiproject.org/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","foundedUrl":"https://secureaiproject.org/about/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://secureaiproject.org","kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/9a8981bc7c07904a76645325edae466a.jpg","name":"Secure AI Project","people":[{"name":"Nick Beckstead","role":"Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer"},{"name":"Individual #6015","role":"Co-Founder & Policy Director"}],"quote":"We develop and advocate for pragmatic policies to reduce risks of severe harm from advanced AI.","quoteUrl":"https://secureaiproject.org","sources":["https://secureaiproject.org","https://www.longtermwiki.com/wiki/secure-ai-project","https://secureaiproject.org/about/","https://secureaiproject.org/bills-we-support"],"summary":"Policy advocacy organisation that has backed state transparency laws requiring the largest AI developers to publish safety and security protocols, and pushes for state and federal third-party risk assessment.","tags":["Governance & policy","Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T1":0.2,"T2":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The site says it advocates policies to reduce severe harm from advanced AI and lists frontier-lab transparency bills it backs (CA SB 53 sponsor, NY RAISE Act); catastrophic-risk governance without explicit takeover language."},"secure-future-research":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Secure Future Research","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":[],"status":"unknown","summary":"Recipient of two Jaan Tallinn gifts via Slimrock (500,000 GBP and 2,000,000 GBP) with no published purpose; identity and activities could not be verified.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"untiered":1},"xrTierNote":"Purpose unknown (§3); counts as Adjacent, reported separately."},"securebio":{"aliases":["SecureBio Detection (SecureBio, Inc.)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://securebio.org/donate/index.html","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://securebio.org/team/","summary":"https://securebio.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://securebio.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Cambridge, MA, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/e163280a369e070eb88de265078d72df.jpg","name":"SecureBio","people":[{"name":"Ben Mueller","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"SecureBio’s in-house team of researchers and technologists work with experts in academia, industry and government to develop new technologies and policy proposals to delay, detect, and defend against any catastrophic pandemic, whether natural or engineered.","quoteUrl":"https://securebio.org/","sources":["https://securebio.org/","https://securebio.org/blog/three-day-early-warning-system/","https://securebio.org/team/"],"summary":"Biosecurity nonprofit developing pathogen-agnostic early warning of pandemics through metagenomic sequencing, and tools to evaluate whether AI systems could worsen biological risks.","tags":["Biosecurity","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.15,"notAI":0.65},"xrTierNote":"Most of SecureBio's work is pandemic early detection and DNA-synthesis screening, which is not AI (notAI); its AI team builds evaluations of whether frontier models could help with bioweapons, misuse-focused safety work that could cut either way or is AI-relevant without aiming at takeover risk (T3, Adjacent). Its counted grants are meant to be the AI part, but the split of the money is uncertain. Source: https://securebio.org/"},"securedna":{"aliases":["SecureDNA Foundation"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.securedna.org/","kind":"org","location":"Basel, Switzerland","logoAsset":"/_blob/189b91b945d5752e1da36b68eeb2a1af.png","name":"SecureDNA","quote":"SecureDNA provides free, privacy-preserving DNA synthesis screening to detect security-relevant, controlled, or regulated sequences.","quoteUrl":"https://securedna.org/","sources":["https://www.securedna.org/","https://securedna.org/"],"summary":"Swiss foundation providing a free, privacy-preserving service that screens DNA synthesis for security-relevant, controlled, or regulated sequences, to help ensure biosecurity and regulatory compliance.","tags":["Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":"Swiss foundation","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The SecureDNA homepage describes free privacy-preserving DNA synthesis screening for biosecurity and does not mention AI, so it stays notAI and may be wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://securedna.org/"}},"security-layers-project":{"aliases":["Earendil [Security Layers Project]","Security Layers Project (Earendil)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"programme","location":"","name":"Security Layers Project","parentOrg":"Earendil, LLC","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations"],"status":"unknown","summary":"Not identified from public sources. SFF's 2024 FlexHEGs round recommends $682,000 and $96,000 to Earendil, LLC for general support of the Security Layers Project.","tags":["AI control & security","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Received general support in SFF's 2024 round for work on flexible hardware-enabled guarantees (FlexHEGs) for AI compute; no public site found. Hardware-enabled governance of compute buys time (T1).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations"}},"security-level-5-sl5-task-force":{"aliases":["Security Level 5","Security Level 5 Taskforce","SL5","SL5 Task Force"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://sl5.org/about","summary":"https://sl5.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://sl5.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/b75bf98b02b379a0acaf429c0cdea4b4.jpg","name":"Security Level 5 (SL5 Task Force)","people":[{"name":"Individual #6468","role":"CEO"}],"quote":"Security Level 5 is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit developing the standard for protecting frontier AI against the most capable nation-state adversaries.","quoteUrl":"https://sl5.org/","sources":["https://sl5.org/","https://sl5.org/about"],"summary":"Registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit developing security standards to protect frontier AI against the most capable nation-state adversaries.","tags":["AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T2":1},"xrTierNote":"Nonprofit bringing AI labs, national-security leaders and technical experts together to set and prototype the highest security standard (SL5) for frontier AI so labs can deploy it quickly. Securing model weights aims at catastrophic misuse and theft without a plan for the hard parts (T2). Source: https://sl5.org/about"},"seedai":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.seedai.org/about","summary":"https://www.seedai.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.seedai.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/0dd7f3e8f5346cff603cf5577d69fbb3.jpg","name":"SeedAI","people":[{"name":"Austin Carson","role":"Founder & CEO"}],"quote":"SeedAI is a nonprofit working to establish AI-readiness for the United States","quoteUrl":"https://www.seedai.org/","sources":["https://www.seedai.org/","https://www.seedai.org/about"],"summary":"US nonprofit doing AI policy development and convening events with policymakers.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.85,"T3":0.15},"xrTierNote":"SeedAI works on US 'AI-readiness': AI literacy events across the country, briefings for Congressional staff on AI in science, transport and education, and economic and workforce papers. That is AI-relevant but not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent). Its public red-teaming events (e.g. the DEF CON 2023 Generative Red Team) look for general model flaws, safety work that could cut either way (T3, a small share). Source: https://www.seedai.org/about"},"seismic-foundation":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=JNJQBESRKEPLE","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.seismic.org/","summary":"https://www.seismic.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.seismic.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/f9b348b1629191725b8c7cd68d63f319.jpg","name":"Seismic Foundation","people":[{"name":"Sander Volten","role":"CEO"},{"name":"Malcom Glenn","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"uses media to raise public awareness around A.I. security","quoteUrl":"https://www.seismic.org/","sources":["https://www.seismic.org/","https://www.seismic.org/blog/why-seismic-exists"],"summary":"Nonprofit running media campaigns, audience research and message testing to raise public awareness and engagement on AI risks.","tags":["Communications","Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T2":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Probably the public-awareness campaigns org on AI risk; mass-audience comms that only partly target takeover risk and rarely explain the hard parts."},"seldon-lab":{"aliases":["Seldon","Seldon Labs"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit public benefit corporation; Manifund investments via SAFE","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://seldonlab.com/mission","summary":"https://manifund.org/projects/ai-security-startup-accelerator-batch-2"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2025","fundraiser":"https://manifund.org/projects/ai-security-startup-accelerator-batch-2","fundraiserDate":"2025-12","fundraiserTitle":"AI Security Startup Accelerator Batch #2","homepage":"https://seldonlab.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["people"]},"kind":"company","location":"San Francisco, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/f8829a1a13aa5feead5a226a74642e7d.png","name":"Seldon Lab","quote":"We're building a portfolio of technologies that will define AGI security as a global industry.","quoteUrl":"https://seldonlab.com/mission","sources":["https://seldonlab.com/","https://manifund.org/projects/ai-security-startup-accelerator-batch-2","https://seldonlab.com/mission"],"summary":"AI security research lab and startup accelerator, structured as a public benefit corporation, that invests in and supports early-stage AGI security and assurance startups.","tags":["AI control & security","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"For-profit (PBC)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T1":0.2,"T2":0.5,"T3":0.12,"T4":0.08},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Seldon Lab is an AI security/assurance startup accelerator whose pages state a catastrophic-risk and superintelligence motivation; batch-1 startups per Berkeley SCET were Lucid (GPU monitoring, compute governance), Asymmetric Security and 0labs (cyber), Andon Labs (agent evals) and Workshop Labs (power distribution), dollar-weighted roughly equally by tag defaults for stated framing.","funderId":"seldon-lab"},"sendhil-mullainathan":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/sendhil-mullainathan","kind":"person","location":"Cambridge, USA","name":"Sendhil Mullainathan","quoteUrl":"https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/sendhil-mullainathan","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/sendhil-mullainathan"],"summary":"MIT professor of economics and EECS; develops tools that turn patterns found by AI into testable scientific theories. AI2050 Senior Fellow (2026).","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/"}},"sentience-institute":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://sentienceinstitute.org/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/team","summary":"https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2017","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/","kind":"org","location":"New York, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/a2aa8dadf4cb8ac049f775a4d91251b0.jpg","name":"Sentience Institute","people":[{"name":"Jacy Reese Anthis","role":"Co-Founder"},{"name":"Kelly Anthis","role":"Co-Founder"}],"quote":"Sentience Institute is a nonprofit, interdisciplinary think tank researching long-term social and technological change, particularly digital minds and moral circle expansion.","quoteUrl":"https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/","sources":["https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/","https://sentienceinstitute.org/donate","https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/team"],"summary":"Interdisciplinary nonprofit think tank researching long-term social and technological change, especially digital minds and moral circle expansion.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)"},"sentient-futures":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://sentientfutures.substack.com","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/fb466fb23c30c254dfdf3f30d5c174f6.jpg","name":"Sentient Futures","quote":"Sentient Futures is a field-building organization steering the future for the welfare of all sentient beings.","quoteUrl":"https://sentientfutures.substack.com/about","sources":["https://sentientfutures.substack.com/about","https://manifund.org/projects/sentient-futures-project-incubator","https://www.sentientfutures.ai/about","https://www.sentientfutures.ai/"],"summary":"Field-building organisation for the welfare of all sentient beings, focused on transformative AI and nonhumans (animals and digital minds); runs a Slack community, a monthly newsletter, summits and a project incubator.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"notAI":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Sentient Futures works on AI and sentience (digital minds and animal welfare); AI welfare is Adjacent and the animal side is not AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.sentientfutures.ai/about"}},"separatrix":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://manifund.org/projects/separatrix","donateNote":"Via Manifund project page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://separatrix.ai/","kind":"org","location":"Seattle, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/b5f92d70508a439d63cd873c4945f17d.png","name":"Separatrix","quote":"We are a technical cooperative AI safety research organization","quoteUrl":"https://separatrix.ai/","sources":["https://separatrix.ai/","https://manifund.org/projects/separatrix"],"summary":"Technical AI safety research initiative working on cooperative strategies among near-future AIs, honesty commitments toward AIs, and deception-free evaluations. Operates under a Seattle-based nonprofit.","tags":["Alignment research","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"Operates under a nonprofit (Seattle Network for AI Alignment Problem Solving)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T2":0.5,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Its Manifund page (run by Individual #2188 under SNAPS, Seattle) describes making cooperative strategies dominate adversarial ones among near-future AIs via a public honesty commitment toward AIs and deception-free 'Honest Evals', citing unaligned superintelligence and existential risk; cooperative-ai with stated framing defaults to T1, but I put that share at T2 because the plan (earning AIs' trust) is speculative and the page says its theory of change does not depend on superintelligence.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://separatrix.ai/"}},"sergey-levine":{"aliases":["Sergey Levine, UC Berkeley"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~svlevine/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Sergey Levine","quote":"His work focuses on machine learning for decision making and control, with an emphasis on deep learning and reinforcement learning algorithms.","quoteUrl":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~svlevine/","sources":["https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~svlevine/"],"summary":"Associate Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley working on deep reinforcement learning, decision-making and robotics.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.7,"T4":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. A 2025 arXiv paper co-authored by Levine matches the grant topic (measuring and reducing LLM deception with multi-turn RL); prosaic safety with no takeover framing, plus a T4 share for RL-method spillover.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~svlevine/"}},"seth-baum":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://gcri.org/people","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Seth Baum","quote":"The risk of AI taking over the world and killing everyone has long been a subject of speculative, theoretical research - research I have contributed to since 2011.","quoteUrl":"https://sethbaum.com/","sources":["https://gcri.org/people","https://sethbaum.com/"],"summary":"Co-founder and executive director of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute; research affiliate at Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T2":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is evaluating safe development pathways for artificial superintelligence; known GCRI work is risk-analysis and strategy rather than hard-parts technical work, so mostly T2.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://gcri.org/people","quote":"https://sethbaum.com/"}},"individual-3214":{"name":"Individual #3214","kind":"person","anonId":"3214"},"shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["quote"]},"kind":"person","location":"","name":"Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/"],"summary":"Senior lecturer at Bayero University, Kano, and AI2050 Early Career Fellow; works on multilingual NLP and AI alignment, with a focus on low-resource African languages.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/"}},"individual-3156":{"name":"Individual #3156","kind":"person","anonId":"3156"},"sharon-li-s-group-at-university-of-wisconsin-madison":{"aliases":["University of Wisconsin-Madison (Sharon Li)","Sharon Yixuan Li's group","Sharon Li","Sharon Yixuan Li"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~sharonli/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 12 current members on group page (1 postdoc, 10 grad students, 1 undergrad), excluding PI","range":"","url":"https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~sharonli/group.html","value":12},"homepage":"https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~sharonli","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Madison, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/906fb0acd1c71469882c8854477746df.jpg","name":"Sharon Li's group at University of Wisconsin-Madison","outputs":[{"label":"Publications","type":"publications","url":"https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~sharonli/publications.html"},{"label":"Sharon Li (Google Scholar)","type":"scholar","url":"https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=QSTd1oUAAAAJ"},{"label":"deeplearning-wisc (group code)","type":"github","url":"https://github.com/deeplearning-wisc"},{"label":"yixuanli (PI GitHub)","type":"github","url":"http://github.com/yixuanli"}],"parentOrg":"University of Wisconsin-Madison","people":[{"name":"Sharon Yixuan Li","role":"PI, Associate Professor of Computer Sciences"}],"quote":"Ultimately, our goal is to develop AI systems whose behaviors can be rigorously understood and predicted, enabling principled control throughout the model lifecycle.","quoteUrl":"https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~sharonli","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"","x":"https://twitter.com/SharonYixuanLi"},"sources":["https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~sharonli","https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~sharonli/publications.html","https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~sharonli/group.html","https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~sharonli/"],"status":"active","summary":"Sharon Li's group at UW-Madison works on the foundations of reliable intelligence: learning systems that know the limits of their competence and make reliable decisions in the open world, currently focusing on reliable LLM and agentic systems.","tags":["Alignment research","Evaluations","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Her homepage describes work on 'reliable intelligence': agent-failure tracing, hallucination detection, OOD and reward shaping. There is no mention of x-risk or superintelligence. Together with the grant purposes (conformal safety assurance, probes for steering), this is prosaic ML safety."},"sharpen-strategy":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.sharpenstrategy.org/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/f3336062e9636b9b8807bbe19e526fb7.jpg","name":"Sharpen Strategy","quote":"We exist to help the growing animal protection movement succeed, providing free support to organizations, advocates, and funders impacting animals around the globe.","quoteUrl":"https://www.sharpenstrategy.org/","sources":["https://www.sharpenstrategy.org/","https://www.openphilanthropy.org/?p=13676"],"summary":"Provides free advising, coaching and training to animal protection organisations, advocates and funders.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Philanthropy's grant page describes Sharpen Strategy as a farm animal welfare consultancy founded by former Humane League co-leaders, so the corporate negotiations training is animal-welfare work, not AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.sharpenstrategy.org/"}},"shauna-kravec-nova-dassarma":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-11-07","kind":"person","name":"Shauna Kravec & Nova DasSarma","sources":[],"summary":"Individual grantee.","tags":["Alignment research"]},"sheila-mcilraith-s-group-at-university-of-toronto":{"aliases":["Vector Institute / University of Toronto (Sheila McIlraith)","Sheila McIlraith"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sheila/","summary":"https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sheila/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2025","basis":"counted 16 under 'Current Students and Postdocs' (4 postdocs/fellows, 1 visitor, 1 undergrad, 10 students), excluding entries marked former; page undated, but lists 2025 visitors","range":"","url":"https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sheila/students/","value":16},"homepage":"https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sheila/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Toronto, Canada","logoAsset":"/_blob/2eaeea1f08e05d9cf72fb5356d0fdea1.jpg","name":"Sheila McIlraith's group at University of Toronto","outputs":[{"label":"Publications","type":"publications","url":"https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sheila/publications/"},{"label":"Google Scholar (Sheila McIlraith)","type":"scholar","url":"https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ny2zuvMAAAAJ&hl=en"}],"parentOrg":"university-of-toronto","people":[{"name":"Sheila McIlraith","role":"PI; Professor, University of Toronto; Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute; Associate Director, Schwartz Reisman Institute"}],"quote":"Her work focuses on AI sequential decision making, broadly construed, through the lens of human-compatible AI.","quoteUrl":"https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sheila/","sources":["https://cifar.ca/?p=61899","https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sheila/","https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sheila/students/"],"status":"active","summary":"Research group of University of Toronto computer science professor Sheila McIlraith, working on AI sequential decision making through the lens of human-compatible AI.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, formal constraints for agentic risk are prosaic agent safety, with some formal-methods grounding."},"sherlock-biosciences":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://orasure.com/","kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/d21552279dff08dc1f8965fa2de9743c.jpg","name":"Sherlock Biosciences","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://orasure.com/","https://web.archive.org/web/20221101090359/https://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/","https://orasure.com/company.html"],"summary":"Developer of an accurate, disposable molecular diagnostics platform for use at the point of need; acquired by OraSure Technologies.","tags":["Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":"For-profit","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://orasure.com/company.html"}},"sherry-glied":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://wagner.nyu.edu/community/faculty/sherry-glied","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Sherry Glied","quote":"Dean of New York University's Robert F. 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From the grant purpose, this paid for a crisis-estimate platform for policymakers (for example on pandemic NPIs), not AI work; it may be wrongly counted."},"shi-feng":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"http://shifeng.me/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Shi Feng","quote":"I’m an assistant professor leading a research group on AI alignment","quoteUrl":"http://shifeng.me/","sources":["https://engineering.gwu.edu/shi-feng","http://shifeng.me/","https://shifeng.me/"],"summary":"Assistant professor leading a research group on AI alignment, aiming to ensure human oversight and control over future AIs.","tags":["Alignment research","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.45,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.35},"xrTierNote":"Assistant professor at George Washington University leading a group whose stated long-term goal is 'human oversight and control over future AIs'. His funded work studies how deception and collusion emerge and how AIs could sabotage oversight of smarter-than-human models; testing whether oversight schemes break counts as engaging the hard parts (T1, the largest share), with the rest prosaic alignment research (T3) or aimed at the risk without that test (T2). Source: http://shifeng.me/","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://shifeng.me/"}},"shibani-santurkar":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-11-07","kind":"person","name":"Shibani Santurkar","sources":[],"summary":"Individual grantee.","tags":["AI control & security"]},"individual-4360":{"name":"Individual #4360","kind":"person","anonId":"4360"},"individual-1718":{"name":"Individual #1718","kind":"person","anonId":"1718"},"shirley-ho":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.shirleyho.space/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Shirley Ho","quote":"Shirley Ho is an American astrophysicist and machine learning expert, currently Group Leader at Simons Foundation and a Professor at New York University, with a visiting appointment at Princeton University.","quoteUrl":"https://www.shirleyho.space/","sources":["https://www.shirleyho.space/","https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/"],"summary":"Astrophysicist and ML researcher at the Flatiron Institute and NYU working on foundation models for science. AI2050 Senior Fellow.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/"}},"shlomo-zilberstein":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cics.umass.edu/about/directory/shlomo-zilberstein","kind":"person","location":"Amherst, USA","name":"Shlomo Zilberstein","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.cics.umass.edu/about/directory/shlomo-zilberstein","https://groups.cs.umass.edu/shlomo/"],"summary":"Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, working on safe and ethical AI, planning and learning under uncertainty and multi-agent systems.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. UMass news describes trust modules that isolate malicious agents and guard against deceptive behaviour and collusion among agents; prosaic multi-agent safety with no superintelligence or loss-of-control framing.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://groups.cs.umass.edu/shlomo/"}},"individual-9570":{"name":"Individual #9570","kind":"person","anonId":"9570"},"should-we-studio":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.shouldwestudio.com/","summary":"https://shouldwestudio.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://shouldwestudio.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/6c6a5525c7f26c67ff2d61ad2382d6b5.jpg","name":"Should We Studio","people":[{"name":"Individual #6669","role":"Founder"}],"quote":"Should We Studio is an independent production company dedicated to projects that will raise awareness of the most important issues facing humanity–especially those that aren’t getting enough attention.","quoteUrl":"https://shouldwestudio.com/","sources":["https://shouldwestudio.com/","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ryGFSo2MFpKpfNSgQ","https://www.shouldwestudio.com/","https://shouldwestudio.com/ada"],"summary":"Independent production company founded by former TED-Ed Senior Editorial Producer Individual #6669, raising awareness of important issues that aren't getting enough attention; its series Ada explores the ethical and social implications of new technologies.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":""},"individual-9408":{"name":"Individual #9408","kind":"person","anonId":"9408"},"show-me-integrity":{"aliases":["Show Me Integrity Education Fund"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.showmeintegrity.org/smiteam","summary":"https://showmeintegrity.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://showmeintegrity.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Missouri, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/d18f07d927b010e8cf49c4d0d7d6ecd2.jpg","name":"Show Me Integrity","people":[{"name":"Benjamin D. 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Not on either Foresight node page I fetched, and searches found no public profile or project, so it stays untiered.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://people.research.gatech.edu/shucong-li","quote":"https://www.shucongli.com/"}},"individual-9397":{"name":"Individual #9397","kind":"person","anonId":"9397"},"siddharth-karamcheti":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.siddkaramcheti.com/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Siddharth Karamcheti","quote":"My research focuses on robotics, multimodal machine learning, and human-robot interaction","quoteUrl":"https://www.siddkaramcheti.com/","sources":["https://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/siddharth-karamcheti","https://www.siddkaramcheti.com/"],"summary":"Assistant professor of interactive computing at Georgia Tech; robotics, multimodal machine learning and human-robot interaction.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T4":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Phil AI Fellowship PhD scholarship (2020-22); his own faculty page describes robot learning, multimodal ML and human-robot interaction with no safety aim, and his known outputs (vision-language and VLA models) mainly advance capabilities.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.siddkaramcheti.com/","quote":"https://www.siddkaramcheti.com/"}},"signal-technology-foundation":{"aliases":["Signal Foundation"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://signal.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://signal.org/","kind":"org","location":"Mountain View, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/3d56a64f445042913c0678cb16336b0d.jpg","name":"Signal Technology Foundation","quote":"Donating to Signal helps pay for the servers, bandwidth, and ongoing development to ensure that Signal remains available to the millions of people around the world who count on it to protect their privacy.","quoteUrl":"https://signal.org/donate/","sources":["https://signal.org/donate/","https://www.signalfoundation.org/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation"],"summary":"Nonprofit formed in 2018 to support Signal Messenger and publish open-source privacy technology; its subsidiary develops the Signal app and the Signal Protocol.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.signalfoundation.org/"}},"sijia-liu-shiyu-chang-and-mingyi-hong":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://lsjxjtu.github.io/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Sijia Liu, Shiyu Chang, and Mingyi Hong","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://lsjxjtu.github.io/","https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/navigating-transformative-ai/"],"summary":"Research by Michigan State University associate professor Sijia Liu on machine unlearning for vision and language models, including papers co-authored with S. Chang and M. Hong.","tags":["Academic","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The PIs' unlearning papers aim at robust removal of unwanted or hazardous knowledge (WMDP experiments) against relearning attacks, prosaic misuse-safety work with no stated takeover framing.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://lsjxjtu.github.io/"}},"sijia-liu-zhangyang-wang-and-huan-zhang":{"aliases":["Sijia Liu, Zhangyang Wang, and Huan Zhang"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://lsjxjtu.github.io/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Sijia Liu, Zhangyang (Atlas) Wang, and Huan Zhang","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://lsjxjtu.github.io/","https://www.schmidtsciences.org/safetyscience/"],"summary":"Schmidt Sciences-funded project led by Michigan State associate professor Sijia Liu with co-PIs Zhangyang Wang (UT Austin) and Huan Zhang (UIUC), on reasoning model safety within the test-time compute paradigm.","tags":["Academic","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Sijia Liu's related paper on reasoning-model unlearning removes hazardous (WMDP bio/cyber) knowledge from chain-of-thought traces, with no takeover framing, so prosaic misuse-oriented unlearning (T3).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://lsjxjtu.github.io/"}},"simeon-campos":{"aliases":["Simeon Campos"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.safer-ai.org/about/simeon-campos","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Siméon Campos","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.safer-ai.org/about/simeon-campos","https://www.safer-ai.org/about"],"summary":"Founder of SaferAI, a France-based nonprofit working on AI risk management; he now serves as an advisor and chairman of the board.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is part-time AI safety projects; he later founded SaferAI (frontier-AI risk management) and is x-risk motivated, so split T2/T3.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.safer-ai.org/about/simeon-campos"}},"simon-du":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/simon-du/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Simon Du","quote":"My research interests are broadly in machine learning such as reinforcement learning, non-convex optimization, data synthesis and selection, and test-time compute.","quoteUrl":"https://simonshaoleidu.com/","sources":["https://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/simon-du/","https://simonshaoleidu.com/"],"summary":"University of Washington Allen School faculty member working on machine learning, including reinforcement learning, non-convex optimisation and test-time compute.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T3":0.2,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The AI2050 page describes the funded project as theory and algorithms for AI cooperating with humans (AI2050 files it under its Alignment problem); his stated research is general deep learning/RL theory, so mostly Adjacent with a small prosaic-alignment share and a T4 share for capability-relevant RL/representation work; no x-risk framing.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://simonshaoleidu.com/","quote":"https://simonshaoleidu.com/"}},"simon-durr":{"aliases":["Simon Duerr"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://people.hes-so.ch/en/profile/11216272030-simon-duerr","kind":"person","location":"Sion, Switzerland","name":"Simon Dürr","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://people.hes-so.ch/en/profile/11216272030-simon-duerr","https://foresight.org/people/simon-durr/"],"summary":"Assistant professor at HES-SO Valais-Wallis in Sion designing proteins and optimising biocatalysts with deep learning, and using AI agents for lab automation.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T4":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. His own pages describe AI/deep-learning protein and enzyme design and lab-automation agents (AI for science, no safety or x-risk aim); tag default for AI-for-science tools is T4, softened to T4 0.6 / Adjacent 0.4 because narrow protein-design models add little to general AI capabilities; the specific Foresight project is unpublished. The grantees/2026 project page pattern returned errors for both spellings.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://people.hes-so.ch/en/profile/11216272030-simon-duerr"}},"simon-institute-for-longterm-governance":{"aliases":["Simon Institute"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.every.org/simon-institute-for-longterm-governance","donateNote":"Tax-deductible in US/Switzerland via every.org","fieldSources":{"people":"https://simoninstitute.ch/about","quote":"https://simoninstitute.ch/about","summary":"https://www.simoninstitute.ch/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2021","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.simoninstitute.ch/","kind":"org","location":"Geneva, Switzerland","logoAsset":"/_blob/a1f9317a0535daa0d625a665d1ef166a.jpg","name":"Simon Institute for Longterm Governance","people":[{"name":"Max Stauffer","role":"Chief Executive Officer"},{"name":"Konrad Gerosa","role":"Chief Strategy Officer"},{"name":"Adyasha Dash","role":"President of the Board"}],"quote":"SI’s mission is to support policymakers, diplomats, and technical experts in fostering international cooperation on governing transformative technologies.","quoteUrl":"https://simoninstitute.ch/about","sources":["https://www.simoninstitute.ch/","https://simoninstitute.ch/support","https://simoninstitute.ch/about"],"summary":"Geneva think tank working on international cooperation to govern transformative technologies, focused on frontier AI diplomacy, research and training for diplomats and civil servants.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":1},"xrTierNote":"Geneva think tank that briefs diplomats and advises on multilateral agreements to govern frontier AI, aiming to prevent severe, potentially catastrophic outcomes. International governance aimed at catastrophic AI risk, without a plan for the hard parts, is T2. Source: https://simoninstitute.ch/about"},"simplex":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"Epistea (SFF receiving charity)","founded":"2024","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.simplexaisafety.com/","kind":"org","location":"Emeryville, USA / London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/290ef68770142d780ef97279cf73b43a.jpg","name":"Simplex","quote":"Simplex is an AI safety research organization building a science of intelligence","quoteUrl":"https://www.simplexaisafety.com/","sources":["https://www.simplexaisafety.com/","https://manifund.org/projects/simplex---building-our-research-team","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"],"summary":"AI safety research organisation founded in 2024 by Individual #5837 and Adam Shai, developing a theory of how neural networks internally organise their representations.","tags":["Interpretability","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Uses computational mechanics to study how neural networks organise internal representations, finding transformers learn geometry matching optimal belief updating, aiming to understand AI well enough to monitor and control it. Mathematical theory of what networks learn works on the hard parts (T1). Source: https://www.simplexaisafety.com/","people":[{"name":"Individual #5837","role":"Co-founder"},{"name":"Adam Shai","role":"Co-founder"}],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.simplexaisafety.com/","founded":"https://www.simplexaisafety.com/","summary":"https://www.simplexaisafety.com/"}},"sinai-and-synapses":{"aliases":["Geoffrey Mitelman (Sinai and Synapses)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://sinaiandsynapses.org/support","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://sinaiandsynapses.org","kind":"org","location":"New York, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/b841eb5ed11245e2249802b7dcb34385.jpg","name":"Sinai and Synapses","quote":"Sinai and Synapses bridges the religious and scientific worlds, offering people a worldview that is scientifically grounded and spiritually uplifting.","quoteUrl":"https://sinaiandsynapses.org","sources":["https://sinaiandsynapses.org","https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/rfp-on-religious-projects/"],"summary":"Organisation bridging religion and science, led by founding director Rabbi Geoffrey Mitelman and incubated at Clal; funded by the Future of Life Institute for a Reform Jewish project informing rabbis about AI.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T1":0.15,"T2":0.15},"xrTierNote":"Draft. FLI's description (inform rabbis on AI, social justice impacts, interfaith partnerships 'to promote a human future') and the group's own AI event pages read as general AI ethics with no superintelligence or race framing, so I used the coordinator's FLI-AGI-race-RFP general-ethics default.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://sinaiandsynapses.org"}},"singapore-ai-safety-hub":{"aliases":["SASH","Singapore AI Safety Hub (SASH)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.aisafety.sg/about","people":"https://www.aisafety.sg/about","summary":"https://www.aisafety.sg/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","foundedUrl":"https://www.aisafety.sg/about","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.aisafety.sg/","kind":"org","location":"Singapore","logoAsset":"/_blob/36e82ae89f64b9e56a43228abbedc8c4.jpg","name":"Singapore AI Safety Hub","people":[{"name":"Miro Plueckebaum","role":"Director of Strategy & Research, Founder"},{"name":"Vivian Leung","role":"Director of Programmes"}],"quote":"We bridge governments, academics and industry across East and West to ensure frontier AI systems benefit everyone.","quoteUrl":"https://www.aisafety.sg/","sources":["https://www.aisafety.sg/","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations","https://www.aisafety.sg/about","https://www.aisafety.sg/programs","https://www.aisafety.sg/co-working"],"summary":"Research and field-building organisation in Singapore developing AI safety talent through fellowships, training programmes, events and a co-working space, plus AI governance work.","tags":["Field-building","Community & infrastructure","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.15,"T1":0.25,"T2":0.15,"T3":0.45},"xrTierNote":"Draft. SASH's own pages describe a fellowship (technical safety, loss of control, governance), fieldbuilding and coworking, plus a physical inference-verification prototype shown to governments, which counts as hardware-enabled governance under the rules; its pages don't mention superintelligence or catastrophic risk."},"singapore-aisi-digital-trust-centre-incl-grants":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://sgaisi.sg/about-us/","quote":"https://sgaisi.sg/about-us/","summary":"https://sgaisi.sg/about-us/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","foundedUrl":"https://sgaisi.sg/about-us/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://sgaisi.sg/about-us/","kind":"government","location":"Singapore","logoAsset":"/_blob/80217cc2290e564f10e1ca0ba9381c9f.png","name":"Singapore AISI / Digital Trust Centre (incl. grants)","quote":"The Singapore AI Safety Institute (AISI) will drive Singapore’s AI evaluation and testing work, to support addressing gaps in global AI safety sciences.","quoteUrl":"https://sgaisi.sg/about-us/","sources":["https://sgaisi.sg/about-us/"],"summary":"Singapore's designated AI safety institute, run by the Digital Trust Centre with IMDA, which designs and conducts technical testing of AI systems and studies their effects on society.","tags":["Governance & policy","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":""},"sipri":{"aliases":["Stockholm International Peace Research Institute"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://donate.sipri.org/","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.sipri.org/","summary":"https://www.sipri.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1966","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.sipri.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["people"]},"kind":"org","location":"Stockholm, Sweden","logoAsset":"/_blob/19dcf71296e0a8702b5c263952abd8fb.jpg","name":"SIPRI","quote":"an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament","quoteUrl":"https://www.sipri.org/","sources":["https://www.sipri.org/about","https://www.sipri.org/","https://www.sipri.org/research/armament-and-disarmament/emerging-military-and-security-technologies"],"summary":"Independent Swedish research institute on conflict, armaments and arms control; its work includes the governance of AI risks to peace and security.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.9,"T2":0.1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is AI agent interactions and peace/security, mainly international security rather than takeover."},"sitan-chen-s-group-at-harvard-university":{"aliases":["Harvard University (Sitan Chen)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://sitanchen.com/","summary":"https://sitanchen.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"PI plus 10 current group members listed on homepage (3 postdocs, 5 PhD, 2 undergrads); excludes 5 former members","range":"","url":"https://sitanchen.com/","value":11},"homepage":"https://sitanchen.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Cambridge, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/6652651667cbd2b6d8f79ae0438d004e.jpg","name":"Sitan Chen's group at Harvard University","parentOrg":"president-and-fellows-of-harvard-college","people":[{"name":"Sitan Chen","role":"PI (Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Harvard SEAS)"}],"quote":"I am broadly interested in algorithmic questions about learning from data.","quoteUrl":"https://sitanchen.com/","sources":["https://sitanchen.com/"],"status":"active","summary":"Research group of Harvard SEAS assistant professor Sitan Chen, working on algorithmic and theoretical questions in learning from data, including generative models and quantum learning.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. NSF describes the funded project as theoretical guarantees that generative AI stays within intended behaviour, with no takeover framing, and the PI's homepage describes diffusion-model and quantum learning theory with no safety mention."},"sk-hynix":{"aliases":[],"capabilitiesNote":"Makes memory chips (DRAM, NAND) used in AI servers.","checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"capabilitiesNote":"https://www.skhynix.com/","homepage":"https://www.skhynix.com/","quote":"https://www.skhynix.com/","summary":"https://www.skhynix.com/"},"homepage":"https://www.skhynix.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location","logo","people"]},"kind":"company","name":"SK hynix","quoteUrl":"https://www.skhynix.com/","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://www.skhynix.com/"],"summary":"South Korean memory chipmaker making DRAM, NAND and SSD products for AI, server, mobile and PC markets.","tags":[]},"individual-7770":{"name":"Individual #7770","kind":"person","anonId":"7770"},"individual-1405":{"name":"Individual #1405","kind":"person","anonId":"1405"},"individual-4679":{"name":"Individual #4679","kind":"person","anonId":"4679"},"social-reinforcement-learning-lab":{"aliases":["Kunal Jha, University of Washington","Social RL Lab","Natasha Jaques's group at University of Washington"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://socialrl.cs.washington.edu/","summary":"https://socialrl.cs.washington.edu/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","foundedUrl":"https://socialrl.cs.washington.edu/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 15 on /people page (PI, 9 PhD, 1 postdoc, 1 MS, 2 undergrads, 1 visiting); excludes 4 listed collaborators","range":"","url":"https://socialrl.cs.washington.edu/people.html","value":15},"homepage":"https://socialrl.cs.washington.edu/","kind":"lab","location":"Seattle, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/4c13adbf4c331bc036a348d6528942e7.jpg","name":"Social Reinforcement Learning Lab","outputs":[{"label":"Lab publications","type":"publications","url":"https://socialrl.cs.washington.edu/publications.html"},{"label":"Natasha Jaques (PI) Google Scholar","type":"scholar","url":"https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=8iCb2TwAAAAJ"},{"label":"Kunal Jha Google Scholar","type":"scholar","url":"https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F8ypNIcAAAAJ"},{"label":"Kunal Jha GitHub","type":"github","url":"https://github.com/KJha02"},{"label":"Grant output: Modeling Others' Minds as Code","type":"arxiv","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01272"}],"parentOrg":"University of Washington (Paul G. 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From the grant purpose: cooperative AI theory (multi-agent cooperation), not explicitly aimed at takeover risk."},"social-science-prediction-platform":{"aliases":["Social Science Prediction Platform, University of Toronto"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.socialscienceprediction.org","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/97e3e5f9351977bc7e1199a122fb2dfb.jpg","name":"Social Science Prediction Platform","quote":"This prediction platform will enable the systematic collection and assessment of expert forecasts of the effects of untested social programs.","quoteUrl":"https://www.socialscienceprediction.org/","sources":["https://www.socialscienceprediction.org"],"summary":"Platform for the systematic collection and assessment of expert forecasts of the effects of untested social programmes, to help policymakers and social scientists.","tags":["Forecasting"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The platform's own site describes collecting human expert forecasts of social programme effects, with nothing AI-related, so it is probably wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.socialscienceprediction.org"}},"softmax":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"people":"https://softmax.com/team","summary":"https://softmax.com"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://softmax.com","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/f64974e4907fa1a0e21de1e8c011c029.png","name":"Softmax","people":[{"name":"Emmett Shear","role":"CEO & Founder"},{"name":"Individual #7602","role":"Founder"},{"name":"Adam Goldstein","role":"Board Member and Founder Emeritus"}],"quote":"A universe of multiplayer games where humans and their coding agents compete, cooperate, and interact","quoteUrl":"https://softmax.com","sources":["https://softmax.com","https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/QGQiCuE33iHFv9jkv/softmax-emmett-shear-s-new-ai-startup-focused-on-organic","https://softmax.com/team"],"summary":"Independent research lab co-founded by Emmett Shear that pursues organic alignment, studying cooperation among humans and AI agents in multi-agent simulated environments.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"T2":0.5,"T3":0.3,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Emmett Shear's startup pursuing 'organic alignment' via multi-agent learning; aimed at AGI alignment but with an unproven plan, and a for-profit lab that may build capabilities."},"software-analytics-and-technologies-lab-swat":{"aliases":["Mila / Polytechnique Montréal and Amii / University of Alberta (Foutse Khomh, Lei Ma, Randy Goebel)","SWAT Lab","SWAT"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://swat.polymtl.ca/","summary":"https://swat.polymtl.ca/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted on /members.html: team leader, 1 research associate, 3 postdocs, 20 students (13 PhD, 7 MSc); about 64 alumni excluded","range":"","url":"https://swat.polymtl.ca/members.html","value":25},"homepage":"https://swat.polymtl.ca/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Montréal, Canada","logoAsset":"/_blob/962b190e56342836d5aece4b67ae9cd7.jpg","name":"SoftWare Analytics and Technologies Lab (SWAT)","outputs":[{"label":"SWAT publications","type":"publications","url":"https://swat.polymtl.ca/publications.html"}],"parentOrg":"Polytechnique Montréal","people":[{"name":"Foutse Khomh","role":"Team leader / PI (Mila, Polytechnique Montréal)"},{"name":"Lei Ma","role":"co-PI on CAISI grant (Amii, University of Alberta)"},{"name":"Randy Goebel","role":"co-PI on CAISI grant (Amii, University of Alberta)"}],"quote":"SWAT aims to empower software development teams to gain and share insight from their data to make better decisions; and develop technologies to help improve the quality and the development productivity of AI intensive and cloud based software systems.","quoteUrl":"https://swat.polymtl.ca/","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"","x":"https://twitter.com/SWATLab"},"sources":["https://cifar.ca/?p=61899","https://swat.polymtl.ca/","https://swat.polymtl.ca/members.html"],"status":"active","summary":"Foutse Khomh's software engineering lab at Polytechnique Montréal, working on the quality of AI-intensive software; he co-leads a project on safety assurance for multimodal foundation model systems in the CAISI Research Program at CIFAR.","tags":["Academic","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, safety assurance and engineering for multimodal FM systems is software-reliability work."},"sogive":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://sogive.org","kind":"org","location":"United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/d505fccf8d3abd3e41105e9b41851491.png","name":"SoGive","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://sogive.org"],"summary":"Charity evaluator that produces in-depth analyses of charities' impact to inform donors, with roots in the effective altruism community.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":""},"individual-5539":{"name":"Individual #5539","kind":"person","anonId":"5539"},"somil-bansal":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://profiles.stanford.edu/somil-bansal","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Somil Bansal","quote":"I am broadly interested in robotics and autonomous systems, with a particular focus on safety-critical systems.","quoteUrl":"https://smlbansal.github.io/","sources":["https://profiles.stanford.edu/somil-bansal?tab=bio","https://smlbansal.github.io/"],"summary":"Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford, developing algorithms for controlling and analysing safety-critical learning-enabled autonomous systems.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. A 2025 paper by Bansal (Karnik and Bansal, 'Preemptive Detection and Steering of LLM Misalignment via Latent Reachability') applies control-theoretic reachability to monitor and steer LLMs away from harmful outputs, framed around toxicity and harmful content rather than takeover, so prosaic safety (T3).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://profiles.stanford.edu/somil-bansal?tab=bio","quote":"https://smlbansal.github.io/"}},"soothcheck-project":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Soothcheck Project","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":[],"summary":"","tags":["AI control & security","Interpretability"],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"control":0.7,"interpretability":0.3},"xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. No public pages found for Soothcheck; from the grant purpose, red-teaming probe-based trusted monitors is AI control work, default T3 with no stated framing to verify."},"sophia-hatz":{"aliases":["Sophia Hatz, Uppsala University"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://mp.uu.se/sv/web/profilsidor/start/-/emp/N12-1038","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Sophia Hatz","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://mp.uu.se/sv/web/profilsidor/start/-/emp/N12-1038","https://www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisation/staff?query=N12-1038"],"summary":"Senior lecturer and associate professor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, researching coercion and deception, international governance and risks from advanced AI.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose: concepts and measurement of AI coercive capabilities from a conflict-studies angle, not aimed at takeover risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisation/staff?query=N12-1038"}},"souti-chattopadhyay":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Chattopadhyay/Souti","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Souti Chattopadhyay","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Chattopadhyay/Souti"],"summary":"Assistant professor of computer science at USC; research at the intersection of software engineering and human-computer interaction.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the Foresight 2026 grant purpose, formally verified AI code generation against vulnerability propagation; formal verification of AI-written code is T3 by rule.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Chattopadhyay/Souti"}},"space-future-initiative":{"aliases":["Space Futures Initiative"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://spacefuturesinitiative.org/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/0bc92c54744b868329ad401ce29fa11f.jpg","name":"Space Future Initiative","quote":"We are excited to announce the Space Futures Initiative, which has a mission of conducting research, promoting education, and engaging in outreach to improve the long-term future in outer space.","quoteUrl":"https://ea.greaterwrong.com/posts/x5czbdCW6SqnLJhbD/announcing-the-space-futures-initiative","sources":["https://ea.greaterwrong.com/posts/x5czbdCW6SqnLJhbD/announcing-the-space-futures-initiative"],"summary":"Group doing research, education and outreach on the long-term future of outer space, including scalable space governance frameworks.","tags":["Governance & policy","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, student groups on longtermist space governance, which is not AI-related; flagged as possibly wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://ea.greaterwrong.com/posts/x5czbdCW6SqnLJhbD/announcing-the-space-futures-initiative","quote":"https://ea.greaterwrong.com/posts/x5czbdCW6SqnLJhbD/announcing-the-space-futures-initiative"}},"sparc":{"aliases":["Summer Program on Applied Rationality and Cognition","Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.sparc.camp/staff","summary":"https://www.sparc.camp/faq"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.sparc.camp/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"programme","location":"California, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/93baf5e62de0245d0f92fe207e0fac50.jpg","name":"SPARC","people":[{"name":"Individual #7858","role":"Director"}],"quote":"A free program for talented high schoolers to develop quantitative skills and apply them to the world.","quoteUrl":"https://www.sparc.camp/","sources":["https://www.sparc.camp/","https://www.sparc.camp/staff","https://www.sparc.camp/faq"],"summary":"Two-week summer programme that trains talented high-school students in quantitative skills and applied rationality.","tags":["Education & training"],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)"},"speculative-technologies":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.spec.tech/?form=FUNDTHEFUTURE","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.spec.tech","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/f6ee14d38d1a5439fac556222a3e1ad9.jpg","name":"Speculative Technologies","quote":"Speculative Technologies is a nonprofit industrial research lab for public good.","quoteUrl":"https://www.spec.tech","sources":["https://www.spec.tech"],"summary":"Nonprofit research organisation running coordinated research programmes and a fellowship for research leaders, aimed at technologies lacking an institutional home.","tags":["Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Philanthropy's page for its related Speculative Technologies grant files it under innovation policy, describing training people to lead coordinated research programmes, with no mention of AI; likely miscounted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.spec.tech","quote":"https://www.spec.tech"}},"standards-infrastructure-project":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"programme","location":"","name":"Standards Infrastructure Project","people":[],"quoteUrl":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2024/flexhegs-recommendations","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2024/flexhegs-recommendations"],"status":"active","summary":"Project of Earendil, LLC funded in SFF's 2024 round on Flexible Hardware-Enabled Guarantee (flexHEG) mechanisms for agreements on the development and use of advanced AI: $547,000 from Jaan Tallinn and $17,000 from Blake Borgeson ($564,000 total).","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.8,"T3":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. SFF's grant table lists this Earendil grant in the SFF-2024-FlexHEGs round, which funds work to mature flexible hardware-enabled guarantees, so it is hardware-enabled governance (T1 by rule); the project's own pages weren't found, so a T3 share covers the chance it is general standards tooling.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2024/flexhegs-recommendations"}},"stanford-existential-risks-initiative":{"aliases":["SERI","Stanford Existential Risk Initiative","Stanford University (Stanford Existential Risks Initiative)"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://seri.stanford.edu/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2020","foundedUrl":"https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/05/20/stanford-existential-risk-initiative-tackles-global-threats/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 13 members on /people (2 faculty co-directors, 2 postdocs, 3 student fellows, 1 RA, 2 affiliates, 3 unlabelled); includes students and affiliates","range":"","url":"https://seri.stanford.edu/people","value":13},"homepage":"https://seri.stanford.edu/","kind":"programme","location":"Stanford, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/590dd1168d711e66fed36ef36954cef5.jpg","name":"Stanford Existential Risks Initiative","outputs":[{"label":"Research publications","type":"publications","url":"https://seri.stanford.edu/research-0/research-publications"},{"label":"News","type":"other","url":"https://seri.stanford.edu/news"},{"label":"YouTube","type":"youtube","url":"https://www.youtube.com/@stanfordexistentialrisksin6152"},{"label":"SERI Symposium 2026","type":"events","url":"https://seri.stanford.edu/news/publications/stanford-existential-risks-initiative-seri-symposium-2026-emerging-technologies"}],"parentOrg":"stanford-university","people":[{"name":"Stephen Luby","role":"Faculty Co-Director"},{"name":"Paul N. 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Student x-risk pipeline (fellowships, summer research) covering AI safety alongside bio and other risks; tiered by who it serves, partly not AI."},"stanford-university-lean-verification-for-safe-ai":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.stanford.edu/","kind":"university","location":"Stanford, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/3c61eaea5021446c4bf2bee972876241.jpg","name":"Stanford University [Lean Verification for Safe AI]","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"],"summary":"Stanford University project called Lean Verification for Safe AI; the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2026 round recommends general support for it.","tags":["Alignment research","Academic"],"taxStatus":"Private university (US 501(c)(3))","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Lean formal verification for safe AI, probably verifying AI-written code or proofs; T3 by rule.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"}},"stanford-university":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.stanford.edu","kind":"university","location":"Stanford, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/9d8661ab9c4d72acedd63befcfafa723.jpg","name":"Stanford University","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://hai.stanford.edu","https://www.stanford.edu/about/"],"summary":"Research university in Stanford, California, founded in 1885; home of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), which works on AI research, education and policy.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) private university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T2":0.1,"T3":0.55,"T4":0.15},"xrTierNote":"Grants paid for several Stanford faculty and groups. 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Open Phil AI Fellowship for a PhD on loss landscapes, robustness and OOD detection; general ML research with some robustness relevance (academic rule).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://stanislavfort.com/","quote":"https://stanislavfort.com/"}},"individual-8704":{"name":"Individual #8704","kind":"person","anonId":"8704"},"stefano-ermon":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cs.stanford.edu/~ermon/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Stefano Ermon","quote":"My research is in machine learning and generative AI.","quoteUrl":"https://cs.stanford.edu/~ermon/","sources":["https://cs.stanford.edu/~ermon/","https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/2015-grant-program/"],"summary":"Associate professor of computer science at Stanford working on machine learning and generative AI.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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From the grant purpose, academic research on AI self-jailbreaking, which is prosaic robustness/safety work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://cs.brown.edu/people/sbach/","quote":"https://cs.brown.edu/people/sbach/"}},"individual-9505":{"name":"Individual #9505","kind":"person","anonId":"9505"},"steve-petersen":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://stevepetersen.net/","kind":"person","location":"Niagara, USA","name":"Steve Petersen","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://stevepetersen.net/petersen-cv.pdf","https://futureoflife.org/person/prof-steve-petersen/"],"summary":"Professor at Niagara University and a professional philosopher; his interests include philosophical aspects of value alignment, especially formal value learning.","tags":["Alignment research","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Stimson's South Asia programme page covers confidence-building and nuclear risk-reduction between India and Pakistan and does not mention AI."},"stimson-center":{"aliases":["The Henry L. 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CAIF's grant page says the project builds standard outcome-based metrics of cooperativeness for MARL and LLM agents in mixed-motive settings, which is cooperative-AI evaluation (T3 with no x-risk framing), with an Adjacent share for the general multi-agent economics side; the page does not mention collusion or catastrophic risk."},"straumli":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://straumli.ai/","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Straumli","people":[{"name":"Individual #9727","role":"project lead (per grant record)"}],"quoteUrl":"https://straumli.ai/","sources":["https://straumli.ai/","https://www.longtermwiki.com/grants/AnvK38WznP"],"status":"active","statusNote":"homepage live as of 2026-10; offers dangerous-capability screening evaluations","summary":"Managed auditing service for AI models, with evaluations that screen for dangerous capabilities in areas such as biology, cyberattacks and persuasion.","tags":["Evaluations","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.4,"T4":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant page describes a benchmark of LLM agents' cyberoffense capabilities, funded through an RFP for benchmarking agents on real-world tasks, and gives no safety rationale beyond the programme label; it does not show results feeding regulation, so the provisional misuse-eval rule applies.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://straumli.ai/"}},"stuart-russell":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Stuart Russell","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_J._Russell"],"summary":"Professor of computer science at UC Berkeley who founded the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence in 2016; co-author of the textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach and author of Human Compatible.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.4,"T2":0.35,"T3":0.25},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Phil's $5.56M 2016 CHAI grant backed Russell because he was unusually focused on risks from advanced AI; his own agenda (assistance games, the off-switch/corrigibility problem) aims squarely at loss of control, though critics consider the plan shaky; his regulation and red-lines advocacy buys time; a lot of CHAI output is prosaic; seen: Open Phil 2016 grant page.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_J._Russell"}},"successif":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.successif.org/about","summary":"https://www.successif.org"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.successif.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/c81845591881da823379e154e03515b4.jpg","name":"Successif","people":[{"name":"Individual #4760","role":"CEO"},{"name":"Claire Boine","role":"Founder & Strategic Advisor"}],"quote":"Build an impactful career in AI risk reduction through our free, personalized advising program, customized to your professional background and aspirations.","quoteUrl":"https://www.successif.org/","sources":["https://www.successif.org","https://www.successif.org/about"],"summary":"Offers free career advising for experienced professionals moving into AI risk reduction, plus an AI policy strategy fellowship and a women's program.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T2":0.4,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Successif's homepage describes career advising for 'AI risk reduction' and never mentions catastrophic or existential risk or a consulting service. The 'AI Safety Management Consulting' grant text wasn't found (the Good Ventures links returned other pages), so the first-pass mix, which assumes the consulting serves a mixed AI-safety and governance clientele, is kept."},"sudo-ml":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"company","location":"San Francisco, USA","name":"Sudo ML","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://foresight.org/grantees/2026-sudo-ml/"],"summary":"Works on secure, open and verifiable silicon so users can independently check that chips run as intended, reducing trust assumptions in AI coordination and safety research. A 2026 Foresight Institute grantee.","tags":["AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T1":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Verifiable-chip project with no stated governance aim (maintainer, 27 Oct: T1 .5 / Adjacent .5); Foresight lists it as Project Sovereign.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://foresight.org/grantees/2026-sudo-ml/"}},"individual-5371":{"name":"Individual #5371","kind":"person","anonId":"5371"},"supervised-program-for-alignment-research-spar":{"aliases":["SPAR","Supervised Program for Alignment Research"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://sparai.org","kind":"org","location":"Remote","logoAsset":"/_blob/6335951702133c92d7a08126d1d38533.jpg","name":"Supervised Program for Alignment Research (SPAR)","quote":"A part-time, remote research program pairing aspiring researchers with professionals addressing risks from AI.","quoteUrl":"https://sparai.org","sources":["https://sparai.org"],"summary":"Part-time remote research programme pairing aspiring AI safety researchers with professional mentors.","tags":["Education & training","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) (project of Kairos AI Project, Inc.)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.15,"T2":0.25,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Kept: SPAR describes itself as three-month mentored AI safety and governance research projects (mixed technical and policy mentees) without explicit x-risk wording on the page read; T2 share kept because many mentors are x-risk-motivated, which is an inference not a stated aim.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://sparai.org"}},"surbhi-goel":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Surbhi Goel","quote":"I work on a range of problems at the intersection of theoretical computer science and machine learning, driven by the goal of making modern AI systems trustworthy.","quoteUrl":"https://www.surbhigoel.com/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","https://www.surbhigoel.com/"],"summary":"Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, working where theoretical computer science meets machine learning; a 2025 AI2050 Early Career Fellow.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Her AI2050 page files the project under 'Assurance': a theory-grounded way to predict failures and have the system verifiably avoid risky decisions. That is prosaic safety work with no takeover framing, so it is mostly T3.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.surbhigoel.com/","quote":"https://www.surbhigoel.com/"}},"surge-ai":{"aliases":["Surge","SurgeHQ"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.surgehq.ai/","kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/b350b8e3a1738ff8cd82f2930b94e809.jpg","name":"Surge AI","quote":"Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of humanity: curious, witty, creative, and wise.","quoteUrl":"https://www.surgehq.ai/","sources":["https://www.surgehq.ai/","https://www.surgehq.ai/about"],"summary":"Company offering an expert human workforce, training and benchmark services for AGI development.","tags":["Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.8,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, a data-labelling contract for Gabriel Recchia's sandwiching (scalable oversight) experiments plus capability evals.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.surgehq.ai/"}},"surya-ganguli":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ganguli-gang.stanford.edu/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Surya Ganguli","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://ganguli-gang.stanford.edu/","https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/"],"summary":"Associate Professor at Stanford University developing analytic theories of how large language and generative models create, reason and learn. AI2050 Senior Fellow in 2025.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.45,"T3":0.2,"T4":0.35},"xrTierNote":"Draft. His AI2050 project builds mathematical theory of how large language models and general intelligence work, aimed at explainable and trustworthy AI. The fellowship page files it under capabilities and doesn't mention safety or risk, so it is mostly AI work not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent), with shares for advancing capabilities (T4) and prosaic safety (T3). 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Open Philanthropy's grant page describes a 2023 multidisciplinary bootcamp (deep learning courses, paper readings, lectures) under its advanced-AI-risks programme. The camp's own pages weren't found, so no x-risk framing could be confirmed. The first-pass pipeline mix is kept; it gives a little more T2/Adjacent than the talent-pipeline 'none' default, because the camp probably comes from the x-risk-aware EA community but this is unverified.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.aisafetycamp.ch/","quote":"https://www.aisafetycamp.ch/"}},"sydney-ai-safety-space":{"aliases":["Sydney AI Safety Hub","Sydney AI Safety Hub (SASH)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page; contact via website. Funds handled via fiscal sponsor Good Ancestors.","fiscalSponsor":"Good Ancestors","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://sydneyaisafetyspace.org/","kind":"org","location":"Sydney, Australia","logoAsset":"/_blob/6ddde8de2b42408b9effcca6f7e79529.jpg","name":"Sydney AI Safety Space","quote":"The Sydney AI Safety Space is a volunteer run and donation-supported coworking space based at Broad Church, 3 Little Queen St, Chippendale.","quoteUrl":"https://sydneyaisafetyspace.org/","sources":["https://sydneyaisafetyspace.org/","https://manifund.org/projects/sydney-ai-safety-space-fy27"],"summary":"Volunteer-run coworking space in Sydney offering free office space to people working on AI safety. Formerly the Sydney AI Safety Hub.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose: bridge funding for a regional AI safety hub; tiered by a guess at a typical hub's tenants.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://sydneyaisafetyspace.org/"}},"individual-3842":{"name":"Individual #3842","kind":"person","anonId":"3842"},"talent-mobility-fund":{"aliases":["Fund for Global Talent Mobility","TMF"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"No donate link; site offers a 'Summary for Funders' doc.","fiscalSponsor":"Renaissance Philanthropy (site footer: 'a program of Renaissance Philanthropy')","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 2 leadership staff on /our-team page (plus 13 Experts Council advisors, not counted)","range":"","url":"https://www.talentmobility.fund/our-team","value":2},"homepage":"https://www.talentmobility.fund/","kind":"programme","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/b9795ed275261b5daeeea633886179de.jpg","name":"Talent Mobility Fund","outputs":[{"label":"Welcoming the Future (US STEM immigration newsletter)","type":"substack","url":"https://welcomingthefuture.substack.com/"},{"label":"Grantees","type":"other","url":"https://www.talentmobility.fund/our-grantees"}],"parentOrg":"Renaissance Philanthropy","people":[{"name":"Doug Rand","role":"Director"},{"name":"Diane Rish","role":"Deputy Director"},{"name":"Amy Nice","role":"Founder (listed on Experts Council)"}],"quote":"The Talent Mobility Fund expands opportunitiesfor international scientists, engineers, and other highly skilled professionals to work and thrive in the United States.","quoteUrl":"https://www.talentmobility.fund/","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"https://linkedin.com/company/talent-mobility-fund/about","x":"https://twitter.com/FundMobility"},"sources":["https://www.longtermwiki.com/grants/x2zB4U4qNp","https://welcomingthefuture.substack.com/p/announcing-our-first-round-of-us","https://www.talentmobility.fund/","https://www.talentmobility.fund/our-team"],"status":"active","summary":"Renaissance Philanthropy programme that funds projects increasing the use of underused US immigration pathways by international STEM professionals.","tags":["Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant purpose is a help desk and information service for international students, which is immigration support with no AI connection, so it may be wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.talentmobility.fund/"}},"tallinn-university-of-technology-taltech":{"aliases":["Tallinn University of Technology","TalTech"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://taltech.ee/en"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1918","foundedUrl":"https://taltech.ee/en","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://taltech.ee/en","kind":"org","location":"Tallinn, Estonia","logoAsset":"/_blob/f089a117a7c6dea7409109c4c097f793.jpg","name":"Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)","outputs":[{"label":"ARIA Safeguarded AI funded projects","type":"other","url":"https://aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/trust-everything-everywhere/safeguarded-ai/funded-projects"}],"people":[{"name":"Amar Hadzihasanovic","role":"PI, ARIA TA1.1 'Syntax and Semantics for Multimodal Petri Nets'"},{"name":"Pawel Sobocinski","role":"PI, ARIA TA1.1 'String Diagrammatic Probabilistic Logic: Specification and modelling languages'"}],"quote":"Founded in 1918, TalTech is the sole technological university in Estonia.","quoteUrl":"https://taltech.ee/en","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/school/taltech-%E2%80%93-tallinn-university-of-technology/","x":"https://twitter.com/TallinnTech"},"sources":["https://taltech.ee/en","https://www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/mathematics-for-safe-ai/safeguarded-ai/","https://aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/trust-everything-everywhere/safeguarded-ai/funded-projects"],"status":"active","summary":"TalTech is Estonia's only technological university, a research university offering bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in engineering, natural sciences, IT, business and maritime studies.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. ARIA's funded-projects page lists two TalTech TA1.1 theory projects (Hadzihasanovic, multimodal Petri nets; Sobocinski, string-diagrammatic probabilistic logic), and the decided ARIA call puts TA1.1 theory at T1."},"talmo-pereira":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.salk.edu/scientist/talmo-pereira/","kind":"person","location":"La Jolla, USA","name":"Talmo Pereira","quote":"Pereira and his lab develop and apply artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to study the processes that give rise to biological motion.","quoteUrl":"https://www.salk.edu/scientist/talmo-pereira/","sources":["https://www.salk.edu/scientist/talmo-pereira/","https://www.salk.edu/news-release/salk-institute-appoints-talmo-pereira-as-assistant-professor-and-promotes-julie-law-to-professor/"],"summary":"Develops AI-based motion-capture tools, including the open-source SLEAP, to study biological movement; assistant professor at the Salk Institute.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.75,"T4":0.25},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Foresight AI for Science & Safety Nodes grant, project not published; his known work is ML for animal behaviour and neuroscience (SLEAP), not AI safety. Adjusted: Foresight neurotech/WBE framed as AI safety: T1 75 / T4 25 (maintainer, 27 Oct).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.salk.edu/scientist/talmo-pereira/"}},"talos-network":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.talosnetwork.org/donate","donateNote":"Via every.org","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.talosnetwork.org/team","quote":"https://www.talosnetwork.org/","summary":"https://www.talosnetwork.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CsBGdHTLmxQnbaSap/support-talos-ai-policy-placements-the-talent-pipeline-for","fundraiserDate":"2025-11","fundraiserTitle":"Support Talos' AI policy placements: The talent pipeline for European AI Governance","homepage":"https://www.talosnetwork.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/e72a5533311b68a203d40358234029d6.jpg","name":"Talos Network","people":[{"name":"Chiara Gerosa","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"David Conrad","role":"Managing Director"}],"quote":"We prepare people for careers in European AI governance, place them at think tanks and government institutions, and back founders building new organisations in the field.","quoteUrl":"https://www.talosnetwork.org/","sources":["https://talosnetwork.org/","https://www.talosnetwork.org/donate","https://www.talosnetwork.org/team","https://www.talosnetwork.org/"],"summary":"Prepares people for careers in European AI governance through the Talos Fellowship, Policy Leaders Programme and Talos Incubator Europe, placing them in think tanks and government institutions.","tags":["Field-building","Governance & policy","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.45,"T1":0.15,"T2":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Runs fellowships that train and place early-career people in European AI policy roles; a 2025 fundraising post says 58 of 83 alumni went into AI safety roles such as the EU AI Office, the UK AI Security Institute and the OECD. Tiered by where alumni go: much of it is AI policy work aimed at catastrophic risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2, 40%) or at slowing or coordinating dangerous AI (T1, 15%), but its own pages speak of 'systemic risks' and safe deployment rather than loss of control, so the rest counts as AI-relevant but not x-risk-aimed (Adjacent, 45%). 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It runs an honesty benchmark for AI agents and tests methods that reduce lying, saying 'Misalignment becomes catastrophic when models hide it'; under the rules that would usually be evaluation work (T3) with a share for its stated deception motive (T2), but the tier still needs a hand check. 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Coverage of advanced-AI risk informs the public without a plan for the hard parts (T2, two-fifths); general AI reporting is not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent, three-fifths). Source: https://www.tarbellcenter.org/","funderId":"tarbell-center"},"tatsunori-hashimoto":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://thashim.github.io/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Tatsunori Hashimoto","quote":"My research uses tools from statistics to make machine learning systems more robust and trustworthy — especially in complex systems such as large language models.","quoteUrl":"https://thashim.github.io/","sources":["https://thashim.github.io/"],"summary":"Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford researching how to make machine learning systems, especially large language models, more robust and trustworthy.","tags":["Evaluations","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T3":0.4,"T4":0.5},"xrTierNote":"His largest grant ($880k) evaluates how well AI agents can come up with research ideas. It gives no safety reason beyond the funder's AI-risk category, so it mainly measures capability (T4). His homepage describes his work as robustness and worst-case reliability of ML, with no alignment or x-risk framing, so the robust-benchmark work is T3. Sources: his homepage and the grant pages.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://thashim.github.io/"}},"taylor-berg-kirkpatrick-and-loris-d-antoni":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ldantoni","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick and Loris D'Antoni","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ldantoni"],"summary":"UC San Diego computer scientists studying faithfulness of LLM reasoning via code execution and debugging.","tags":["Academic","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose (no project page found): measuring CoT faithfulness via code execution and debate is prosaic oversight/monitorability work, and the Schmidt RFP frames it as model-safety science without takeover framing."},"tech-policy-press":{"name":"Tech Policy Press","aliases":["Protego Press"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://techpolicy.press/","donate":"https://techpolicy.press/donate/","summary":"Nonprofit tech-policy publication (news, analysis, podcast and fellowships) covering technology and democracy, with AI governance a large share of its coverage.","quote":"Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture focused on the intersection of technology and democracy.","quoteUrl":"https://techpolicy.press/about-us","people":[{"name":"Justin Hendrix","role":"CEO and Editor; co-founder"},{"name":"Bryan Jones","role":"Board Chairman; co-founder"}],"tags":["Communications"],"sources":["https://techpolicy.press/","https://techpolicy.press/about-us","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/tech-policy-press-10706786/"],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://techpolicy.press/about-us","summary":"https://techpolicy.press/about-us","quote":"https://techpolicy.press/about-us"},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. General tech-and-democracy journalism whose key areas are power concentration, economy, ethics and elections, without an x-risk aim, so Adjacent (techpolicy.press/about-us)."},"techcongress":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No donate link found on site","fieldSources":{"people":"https://techcongress.io/our-team","quote":"https://techcongress.io/about-us","summary":"https://techcongress.io/about-us"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.techcongress.io","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/2b976beaa430dcf2450157c76d49563a.jpg","name":"TechCongress","people":[{"name":"Travis Moore","role":"Founder and Executive Director"}],"quote":"Our mission is to serve as a pipeline for tech expertise into the public sector.","quoteUrl":"https://techcongress.io/about-us","sources":["https://www.techcongress.io","https://techcongress.io/our-team","https://techcongress.io/about-us","https://www.techcongress.io/ai-security-fellowship"],"summary":"Has run an AI Security Fellowship placing technologists in federal agencies, and places technologists as policy advisers in Congressional offices on 10- and 12-month fellowships.","tags":["Governance & policy","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. TechCongress's AI Safety Fellowship placed technologists in executive agencies (Commerce, State, DHS, Energy) to work on risk management, evals and red-teaming under the 2023 AI Executive Order, framed around present harms with no stated x-risk aim, so it is mostly T3 (evals and pipeline) with an Adjacent share for general standards and policy work."},"techequity-collaborative":{"name":"TechEquity Collaborative","aliases":["TechEquity"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://techequity.us/","location":"Oakland, CA, USA","summary":"California advocacy group on economic inequity caused by the tech industry; since 2024 it runs a People-First AI agenda, AI policy principles and an AI education series for state legislators.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"sources":["https://techequity.us/2023-annual-report/","https://techequitycollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/AI_Policy_Principles.pdf","https://macfound.org/grantee/techequity-collaborative-10115693"],"fieldSources":{"summary":"https://techequitycollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/AI_Policy_Principles.pdf"},"infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-08","notFound":["quote","people"],"why":"techequity.us refuses automated readers (403); summary from one web search of its own pages."},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grants paid for events educating California lawmakers about AI, from a group focused on economic equity, not x-risk, so Adjacent (macfound.org grantee page)."},"technical-alignment-impossibility-proofs":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship Incorporated","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"programme","location":"","name":"Technical Alignment Impossibility Proofs","people":[],"sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2022-h2-recommendations"],"status":"active","summary":"Project on technical AI alignment impossibility proofs; Jaan Tallinn gave it $170,000 general support through SFF's 2022 H2 round, with the Ronin Institute as receiving charity.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.5,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Probably Forrest Landry / Individual #9334 style arguments that AGI cannot be kept aligned, which target takeover risk and argue for stopping AI development, though the rigour is disputed.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2022-h2-recommendations"}},"technical-alignment-research-accelerator-tara":{"aliases":["TARA"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.taraprogram.org/about-us","quote":"https://www.taraprogram.org/about-us","summary":"https://www.taraprogram.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.taraprogram.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Asia-Pacific","logoAsset":"/_blob/5f86487e67a00575e78d65834f7fee30.jpg","name":"Technical Alignment Research Accelerator (TARA)","people":[{"name":"Yanni Kyriacos","role":"Founder & Director"}],"quote":"Create and accelerate AI safety careers across Asia-Pacific","quoteUrl":"https://www.taraprogram.org/about-us","sources":["https://www.taraprogram.org/","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yxFhTBkkrTrdu2BAC/announcing-tara-receive-and-give-technical-ai-safety","https://www.taraprogram.org/about-us"],"summary":"Free part-time, in-person programme running the ARENA curriculum in the Asia-Pacific region to help professionals and students move into technical AI safety work.","tags":["Education & training","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.1,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Technical alignment training programme (grant purpose); tiered as a pipeline by probable alumni destinations, mostly prosaic safety work."},"technion-israel-institute-of-technology":{"aliases":["Technion Israel Institute of Technology","Technion"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1912","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.technion.ac.il/en/","kind":"university","location":"Haifa, Israel","logoAsset":"/_blob/f8943447c558abd0222d65deff841c7a.jpg","name":"Technion – Israel Institute of Technology","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.technion.ac.il/en/","https://www.technion.ac.il/en/blog/2023/01/prestigious-grant-awarded-to-prof-yonatan-belinkov/","https://www.technion.ac.il/en/about/"],"summary":"Science and technology research university in Israel; Open Philanthropy funded Yonatan Belinkov there, with David Bau of Northeastern University, to build interpretable tools for controlling knowledge in large language models.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Technion's announcement says the Open Philanthropy grant to Yonatan Belinkov (with David Bau) funds interpretability and steering of LLM knowledge, framed around alignment and harmful behaviour but not takeover risk, so it gets the interpretability default of T3.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.technion.ac.il/en/blog/2023/01/prestigious-grant-awarded-to-prof-yonatan-belinkov/"}},"technologies-for-pandemic-defense":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"Convergence Analysis","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"programme","location":"","name":"Technologies for Pandemic Defense","people":[],"sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2023-h2-recommendations"],"status":"active","summary":"Project on technologies for pandemic defence that received $86,000 general support from Jaan Tallinn in SFF's 2023 H2 round, with Convergence Analysis as receiving charity.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2023-h2-recommendations"}},"technology-strategy-roleplay":{"aliases":["Intelligence Rising","TSR"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.intelligencerising.org/about","people":"https://www.intelligencerising.org/about","quote":"https://www.intelligencerising.org/","summary":"https://www.intelligencerising.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","foundedUrl":"https://www.intelligencerising.org/about","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.intelligencerising.org","kind":"org","location":"United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/e9d8e1c4388e3a865b5c54fc2d302382.jpg","name":"Technology Strategy Roleplay","people":[{"name":"Inbar Bobrovsky","role":"Chief Executive Officer"}],"quote":"A strategic simulation of AI futures","quoteUrl":"https://www.intelligencerising.org/","sources":["https://www.intelligencerising.org","https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/5205250","https://www.intelligencerising.org/about","https://www.intelligencerising.org/"],"summary":"Charity registered in England and Wales that runs Intelligence Rising, a strategic roleplaying game on AI futures, deployed with clients across academia, civil society, government and industry.","tags":["Education & training","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"UK registered charity (1200928)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T1":0.1,"T2":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Runs Intelligence Rising, a roleplay exercise for decision-makers about competitive transformative-AI development that the site frames in terms of existential and disempowerment risk, plus a documentary that urges leaders to take AI dangers seriously without arguing for a slowdown."},"individual-9691":{"name":"Individual #9691","kind":"person","anonId":"9691"},"tegmark-ai-safety-group":{"aliases":["Tegmark research group, MIT","Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Tegmark group)","Max Tegmark's group at MIT"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://tegmark.org/","kind":"lab","location":"Cambridge, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/b65a8b9aa48d5a0348461d3509a47cec.jpg","name":"Tegmark AI Safety Group","outputs":[{"label":"Max Tegmark MIT Physics faculty page","type":"other","url":"https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/max-tegmark/"}],"parentOrg":"massachusetts-institute-of-technology","people":[{"name":"Max Tegmark","role":"PI (Professor of Physics, MIT)"}],"quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/max-tegmark/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Tegmark","https://tegmark.org/"],"status":"active","statusNote":"MIT Physics faculty page currently links the 'Tegmark AI Safety Group'.","summary":"AI safety group led by Max Tegmark in MIT's Department of Physics, whose research links physics and machine learning: using AI for physics and physics for AI.","tags":["Alignment research","Interpretability","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.1,"T2":0.35,"T3":0.4,"T4":0.15},"xrTierNote":"Draft. SFF/Tallinn gave MIT $1M general support (2023 H2) for Tegmark's group, which does physics-style interpretability and new architectures (some capabilities-relevant) aimed at 'intelligible intelligence' and provably safe superintelligence; that targets superintelligence but with a shaky plan, so more T2 than the draft; Tegmark's pause advocacy runs through FLI, not this grant; seen: SFF 2023-H2 page and FLI bio.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/max-tegmark/"}},"tel-aviv-university":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.tau.ac.il/","kind":"university","location":"Tel Aviv, Israel","logoAsset":"/_blob/5c4169fde59e1774eb95f9eaa9efd47e.jpg","name":"Tel Aviv University","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.tau.ac.il/"],"summary":"Tel Aviv University is a university whose researchers received an AI-alignment grant from the Alignment Project.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"tencent-holdings":{"aliases":[],"capabilitiesNote":"Builds its own Hunyuan foundation models and sells cloud computing.","checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"capabilitiesNote":"https://www.tencent.com/who-we-are/our-story/","founded":"https://www.tencent.com/who-we-are/","homepage":"https://www.tencent.com/who-we-are/","location":"https://www.tencent.com/who-we-are/","logoUrl":"https://www.tencent.com/who-we-are/","people":"https://www.tencent.com/who-we-are/our-team/","quote":"https://www.tencent.com/who-we-are/our-vision/","summary":"https://www.tencent.com/who-we-are/our-story/"},"founded":"1998","foundedUrl":"https://www.tencent.com/who-we-are/","homepage":"https://www.tencent.com/","kind":"company","location":"Shenzhen, China","name":"Tencent Holdings","people":[{"name":"Ma Huateng (Pony Ma)","role":"Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO"},{"name":"Lau Chi Ping (Martin Lau)","role":"President"}],"quote":"Tencent is committed to using Tech for Good and will continuously enhance our research and development capabilities by investing in our people, platforms and technologies.","quoteUrl":"https://www.tencent.com/who-we-are/our-vision/","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://www.tencent.com/who-we-are/","https://www.tencent.com/who-we-are/our-story/","https://www.tencent.com/who-we-are/our-team/","https://www.tencent.com/who-we-are/our-vision/"],"summary":"Chinese internet and technology company behind Weixin/WeChat and Tencent Games, also selling cloud computing, advertising and fintech services.","tags":[]},"tess-smidt":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"homepage":"http://atomicarchitects.com/","quote":"http://atomicarchitects.com/","summary":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"http://atomicarchitects.com/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Tess Smidt","quote":"The Atomic Architects work at the intersection of physics, geometry, and machine learning to design algorithms that aid in the understanding and design of physical systems.","quoteUrl":"http://atomicarchitects.com/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","http://atomicarchitects.com/"],"summary":"Associate Professor at MIT who leads the Atomic Architects group, working on machine learning and geometry for physical systems; named an AI2050 Early Career Fellow in Schmidt Sciences' 2025 cohort.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"individual-1510":{"name":"Individual #1510","kind":"person","anonId":"1510"},"the-ai-governance-archive-taiga":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://manifund.org/projects/the-ai-governance-archive-taiga-t9r8c28q3r","kind":"org","location":"","name":"The AI Governance Archive (TAIGA)","quote":"The AI Governance Archive (TAIGA) is a private platform for qualified AI Governance researchers to better coordinate among one another.","quoteUrl":"https://manifund.org/projects/the-ai-governance-archive-taiga-t9r8c28q3r","sources":["https://manifund.org/projects/the-ai-governance-archive-taiga-t9r8c28q3r"],"summary":"Private platform for qualified AI governance researchers to coordinate and share non-public information, created by David Corfield, who later wrote that it was live but unsupported and unfunded.","tags":["Governance & policy","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T1":0.2,"T2":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose: a private research-sharing platform for the AI governance community, tiered by that community's mix of x-risk and general governance work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://manifund.org/projects/the-ai-governance-archive-taiga-t9r8c28q3r","quote":"https://manifund.org/projects/the-ai-governance-archive-taiga-t9r8c28q3r"}},"the-ai-incident-database":{"aliases":["AI Incident Database","AIID","Responsible AI Collaborative"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://donate.stripe.com/28E7sDbq18xN82kbJ8bQY00","donateNote":"Donation link from the About page; operated by the Responsible AI Collaborative","fieldSources":{"people":"https://incidentdatabase.ai/about/","quote":"https://incidentdatabase.ai/","summary":"https://incidentdatabase.ai/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://incidentdatabase.ai/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/f790df873ced49861e4a6237af422887.jpg","name":"The AI Incident Database","people":[{"name":"Sean McGregor","role":"Executive Director"}],"quote":"The AI Incident Database is dedicated to indexing the collective history of harms or near harms realized in the real world by the deployment of artificial intelligence systems.","quoteUrl":"https://incidentdatabase.ai/","sources":["https://incidentdatabase.ai/about/","https://incidentdatabase.ai/"],"summary":"A public database cataloguing real-world harms and near-harms caused by AI systems, run by the Responsible AI Collaborative, to help others learn from past failures.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is maintaining the AI Incident Database of real-world harms, which is AI-relevant but not aimed at x-risk."},"the-ai-policy-network":{"aliases":["AI Policy Network Inc","AIPN"],"checked":"2026-11-07","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://theaipn.org/","summary":"https://theaipn.org/"},"homepage":"https://theaipn.org/","kind":"org","location":"United States","name":"The AI Policy Network","quote":"AIPN builds bipartisan support for policies that help America prepare for AI systems of unprecedented scope and capability.","quoteUrl":"https://theaipn.org/","sources":["https://theaipn.org/","https://www.jefftk.com/donations"],"summary":"US advocacy group that brings together government leaders, policy experts and technical researchers to build bipartisan support for policies preparing America for highly capable AI systems.","tags":["Governance & policy"]},"the-alan-turing-institute":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2015","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.turing.ac.uk/","kind":"org","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/960910d851d161db020b2d443aa33890.png","name":"The Alan Turing Institute","quote":"the UK’s independent national institute for data science and artificial intelligence","quoteUrl":"https://www.turing.ac.uk/about-us","sources":["https://www.turing.ac.uk/about-us"],"summary":"UK national institute for data science and AI, based in London.","tags":["Academic","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"UK registered charity 1162533","xrTier":{"T3":0.4,"T4":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is AI cybersecurity evals for critical national infrastructure, a misuse-capability eval, so the provisional cyber-uplift rule applies; no sign results feed regulation or slowdown, and the grant's own page was not found."},"the-alignment-journal":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.alignmentjournal.org/about","summary":"https://www.alignmentjournal.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://alignmentjournal.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/6831d144455f9fc5cb584de00128fcc6.jpg","name":"The Alignment Journal","people":[{"name":"Dan MacKinlay","role":"Managing editor"},{"name":"Jess Riedel","role":"Managing editor"}],"quote":"Research on the scientific foundations of understanding, predicting and steering AI systems.","quoteUrl":"https://alignmentjournal.org/","sources":["https://alignmentjournal.org","https://www.alignmentjournal.org/about"],"summary":"Journal for foundational AI alignment research, covering the scientific foundations of understanding, predicting and steering AI systems.","tags":["Alignment research","Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.25,"T2":0.45,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The journal's own scope statement targets aligning superintelligent AI (central framing), so as a venue it is tiered as half conceptual alignment theory and half unspecified technical safety; the journal is fiscally sponsored by Principles of Intelligence (ILIAD's parent), which probably tilts it toward theory."},"the-anh-han":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/the-anh-han/","kind":"person","location":"Middlesbrough, United Kingdom","name":"The Anh Han","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/the-anh-han/"],"summary":"Professor of computer science at Teesside University modelling AI race dynamics, safety incentives and cooperation with evolutionary game theory.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T2":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The funded project models incentives for complying with safety agreements in an AI race. Its page warns of a race towards powerful AI and of 'AI disasters' but doesn't name AGI or takeover, so the T2 share (race-dynamics strategy) plus Adjacent (general game theory) stands.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/the-anh-han/"}},"the-atlas-fellowship":{"aliases":["Atlas Fellowship"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Wound down (no longer running programmes)","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.atlasfellowship.org/about","summary":"https://atlasfellowship.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://atlasfellowship.org/","kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, CA, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/519e06046cc417df2faa291df620f196.jpg","name":"The Atlas Fellowship","people":[{"name":"Jonas Vollmer","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"The Atlas Fellowship is a highly selective scholarship for students interested in science, philosophy, and the future.","quoteUrl":"https://atlasfellowship.org/","sources":["https://atlasfellowship.org/","https://www.atlasfellowship.org/about"],"summary":"Scholarship and summer programme for high-school students; announced in November 2023 that it was winding down.","tags":["Education & training"],"taxStatus":""},"the-center-for-election-science":{"aliases":["Center for Election Science"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://electionscience.org/giving","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://electionscience.org/about-us","people":"https://electionscience.org/about-us","quote":"https://electionscience.org/about-us","summary":"https://electionscience.org"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2011","foundedUrl":"https://electionscience.org/about-us","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://electionscience.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/1d3298598768db5ab7bbf15f70e13c5c.jpg","name":"The Center for Election Science","people":[{"name":"Nina Taylor","role":"CEO"},{"name":"Michael Ruvinsky","role":"Chair"}],"quote":"We empower voters and lawmakers to improve elections","quoteUrl":"https://electionscience.org/about-us","sources":["https://electionscience.org","https://electionscience.org/about-us"],"summary":"Nonpartisan group promoting approval voting and voting-method research.","tags":[],"taxStatus":""},"the-community-foundation":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"The Community Foundation","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":[],"summary":"","tags":["Grantmaking"],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"regranting":0.5,"unknown":0.5}},"the-degrees-initiative":{"aliases":["Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative","SRMGI","Degrees"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2010","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.degrees.ngo/","kind":"org","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/c92c05a60673e9595762cba0f66063d1.jpg","name":"The Degrees Initiative","quote":"The Degrees Initiative is changing how the world evaluates solar radiation modification (SRM), also known as solar geoengineering.","quoteUrl":"https://www.degrees.ngo/","sources":["https://www.degrees.ngo/","https://www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/the-degrees-initiative","https://www.degrees.ngo/about"],"status":"renamed","statusNote":"Formerly the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI)","summary":"NGO that builds the capacity of developing countries to evaluate solar radiation modification (solar geoengineering).","tags":["Governance & policy","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.degrees.ngo/about"}},"the-divinity-school":{"aliases":["The Divinity School (Div School)","Div School"],"checked":"2026-11-07","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"Better Giving","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"The Divinity School","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations","https://grantedai.com/grants/survival-and-flourishing-fund-sff-ai-safety-grants-survival-and-flourishing-fund-managed-by-cce413d0"],"status":"unknown","summary":"Not identified from public sources. SFF's 2026 round recommends $117,000 for general support of \"The Divinity School (Div School)\", received through Better Giving.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"}},"the-elders":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"location":"https://theelders.org/contact-us","people":"https://theelders.org/who-we-are","summary":"https://theelders.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2007","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://theelders.org/","kind":"org","location":"London, United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/a69e0fc05ad75a0b2d8021a05ecaa795.jpg","name":"The Elders","people":[{"name":"Nelson Mandela","role":"Founder"},{"name":"Juan Manuel Santos","role":"Chair"},{"name":"Graça Machel","role":"Deputy Chair"}],"quote":"We are an independent group of global leaders working for peace, justice, human rights and a sustainable planet.","quoteUrl":"https://theelders.org/about","sources":["https://theelders.org/","https://theelders.org/about","https://theelders.org/contact-us","https://theelders.org/who-we-are"],"summary":"Independent group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela, working on peace, human rights and existential threats including AI.","tags":["Governance & policy","Advocacy"],"taxStatus":""},"the-future-society":{"aliases":["TFS","The Future Society, Inc."],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://thefuturesociety.org/donate","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2014","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.thefuturesociety.org","kind":"org","location":"US and Europe","logoAsset":"/_blob/fc3c176f03a1c3055bf18ca75e46d18a.jpg","name":"The Future Society","quote":"The Future Society (TFS) is an independent nonprofit organization with a mission to align AI through better governance.","quoteUrl":"https://www.thefuturesociety.org/","sources":["https://www.thefuturesociety.org","https://thefuturesociety.org/about-us/"],"summary":"Independent nonprofit advising US, European and international decision-makers on AI governance and AI security policy.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T2":1},"xrTierNote":"Nonprofit advising US, European and international decision-makers on governing the most powerful AI, including AGI and superintelligence, to prevent catastrophic harms. This governance work aims at takeover risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2). 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Not an AI-safety organisation.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T1":0.15,"T2":0.15},"xrTierNote":"Draft. FLI AGI-race religious RFP grant whose funded materials read as general AI ethics: normalised to Adjacent .7 / T1 .15 / T2 .15 for consistency across this RFP (pending the maintainer). Research: FLI's grant page says the project covers theologically sound use of AI through a podcast, a retreat and a conference, and the podcast intro talks about work, worship and truth but never AGI, superintelligence or the race, so the maintainer's general-AI-ethics rule makes it mostly Adjacent; a small T1/T2 share stays because the RFP is about the AGI race.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/rfp-on-religious-projects/"}},"the-hack-foundation":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Fiscal sponsor; donate to the sponsored project","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://hackclub.com/","kind":"org","location":"Burlington, US","logoAsset":"/_blob/c5ed6e55e9f07a4cc67548248a4c0123.jpg","name":"The Hack Foundation","people":[{"name":"Zachary Latta","role":"President / Executive Director (principal officer per IRS filing)"}],"quote":"Hack Club is the world's largest nonprofit movement of teenagers making cool projects.","quoteUrl":"https://hackclub.com/","sources":["https://hackclub.com/","https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/","https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/812908499","https://hackclub.com/philanthropy"],"status":"active","summary":"US 501(c)(3) nonprofit behind Hack Club; its HCB fiscal sponsorship programme lets projects accept donations and receive foundation grants with tax-deductible 501(c)(3) status.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T1":0.3,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Fiscal sponsor; the money went to AI lab-accountability litigation (LASST says it focuses mainly on catastrophic AI and bio risk; T2 by the litigation call) and to the AI Policy Institute, whose polling and advocacy push slowing AI down (T1 share) alongside general AI policy (Adjacent); the dollar split per grant is not known.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://hackclub.com/philanthropy"}},"the-inside-view":{"aliases":["The Inside View (Individual #4322)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://theinsideview.ai/about","quote":"https://theinsideview.ai/about","summary":"https://theinsideview.ai/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://theinsideview.ai","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/419bd93e6226ab9c4dbcde28bc30ce84.jpg","name":"The Inside View","people":[{"name":"Michaël Trazzi","role":"Founder"}],"quote":"The Inside View is a media company producing documentaries about AI Safety","quoteUrl":"https://theinsideview.ai/about","sources":["https://theinsideview.ai","https://www.lesswrong.com/s/aB9DPaYnktuufLy47","https://theinsideview.ai/about"],"summary":"Media company founded by Michaël Trazzi that produces documentaries about AI safety; earlier episodes feature Owain Evans and Evan Hubinger.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.3,"T2":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is podcast/YouTube episodes on AI risks, comms aimed at x-risk with some coverage of the hard parts."},"the-leadership-conference-education-fund":{"name":"The Leadership Conference Education Fund","aliases":["Leadership Conference Education Fund","Center for Civil Rights and Technology"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://civilrights.org/edfund/","donate":"https://connect.civilrights.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1540&mfc_pref=T&1540.donation=form1","location":"Washington DC, USA","founded":"1969","summary":"US civil-rights education and advocacy body; its Media and Technology programme and Center for Civil Rights and Technology examine AI, facial recognition, risk assessments and platforms for civil-rights harms. AI is a small share of its work.","quote":"The Leadership Conference Education Fund builds public will for laws and policies that promote and protect the civil and human rights of every person in the United States.","quoteUrl":"https://civilrights.org/edfund/who-we-are/","people":[{"name":"Maya Wiley","role":"President and CEO"},{"name":"Dorian Warren","role":"Board Chair"}],"tags":["Governance & policy"],"sources":["https://civilrights.org/edfund/","https://civilrights.org/edfund/who-we-are/","https://civilrights.org/edfund/value/media-tech/","https://civilrights.org/edfund/board-of-directors/","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/the-leadership-conference-education-fund-32248/"],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://civilrights.org/edfund/board-of-directors/","summary":"https://civilrights.org/edfund/value/media-tech/","quote":"https://civilrights.org/edfund/who-we-are/"},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grants paid for its media and technology programme's work on AI rights, platform oversight and the AI Bill of Rights, a civil-rights framing with no x-risk aim, so Adjacent (civilrights.org/edfund/value/media-tech/)."},"the-matter-lab":{"aliases":["Vector Institute / University of Toronto (Alán Aspuru-Guzik)","Matter Lab","Aspuru-Guzik and Bernales Group"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.matter.toronto.edu/","summary":"https://cifar.ca/?p=61899"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted current members on /people: 2 PIs, 10 postdocs, 17 grad students, 5 staff (alumni excluded)","range":"","url":"https://matter.toronto.edu/people","value":34},"homepage":"https://www.matter.toronto.edu/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Toronto, Canada","logoAsset":"/_blob/310eb88acf2b014ae6d1a6d4ed48cb91.jpg","name":"The Matter Lab","outputs":[{"label":"Publications","type":"publications","url":"https://matter.toronto.edu/publications"}],"parentOrg":"university-of-toronto","people":[{"name":"Alán Aspuru-Guzik","role":"PI"},{"name":"Varinia Bernales","role":"PI"}],"quote":"To accelerate the discovery of new chemicals and materials that are useful to society","quoteUrl":"https://www.matter.toronto.edu/","sources":["https://cifar.ca/?p=61899","https://www.matter.toronto.edu/","https://matter.toronto.edu/people"],"status":"active","summary":"Aspuru-Guzik and Bernales group at the University of Toronto, working where theoretical chemistry meets physics, computer science and applied mathematics; Aspuru-Guzik's CIFAR-funded project is building a safety architecture for self-driving chemistry labs.","tags":["AI control & security","Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T3":0.2,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, safety for self-driving chemistry labs is applied lab and misuse safety from a lab-automation group, so some capability spillover."},"the-metascience-observatory":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://manifund.org/projects/llm-driven-metascience-observatory","donateNote":"Via fiscal sponsor Mind First Foundation; also PayPal on its site","fieldSources":{"people":"https://metascienceobservatory.org/","quote":"https://metascienceobservatory.org/","summary":"https://metascienceobservatory.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"Mind First Foundation","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://metascienceobservatory.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/8be690ce0ebecbc20f354e4e2524f044.png","name":"The Metascience Observatory","people":[{"name":"Individual #7783","role":"Founder and Director"}],"quote":"At The Metascience Observatory, we are using AI to analyze scientific papers at scale to help answer these questions.","quoteUrl":"https://metascienceobservatory.org/","sources":["https://metascienceobservatory.org/","https://manifund.org/projects/llm-driven-metascience-observatory"],"summary":"Project using AI to analyse scientific papers at scale, including building a database of replication studies, to study the reliability of research.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"Fiscally sponsored by a US 501(c)(3)"},"the-midas-project":{"aliases":["Midas Project","TMP"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"https://www.themidasproject.com/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.themidasproject.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","foundedUrl":"https://www.themidasproject.com/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 6 names on /about page (roles not all given); in Sept 2025 the founder said he was the only full-time employee (InfluenceWatch)","range":"","url":"https://www.themidasproject.com/about","value":6},"homepage":"https://www.themidasproject.com/","kind":"org","location":"Tulsa, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/0776836e990de836557412664c9bb7b7.jpg","name":"The Midas Project","outputs":[{"label":"Articles","type":"blog","url":"https://www.themidasproject.com/articles"},{"label":"Watchtower (AI safety policy change tracker)","type":"other","url":"https://www.themidasproject.com/watchtower"},{"label":"Projects","type":"other","url":"https://www.themidasproject.com/projects"},{"label":"The OpenAI Files","type":"reports","url":"https://www.openaifiles.org/"},{"label":"Seoul Tracker","type":"other","url":"https://www.seoul-tracker.org/"},{"label":"YouTube","type":"youtube","url":"https://www.youtube.com/@TheMidasProj"},{"label":"Newsletter","type":"newsletter","url":"https://www.themidasproject.com/about#newsletter"}],"people":[{"name":"Tyler Johnston","role":"founder, executive director"},{"name":"Brittney Gallagher","role":"vice president"},{"name":"Rory Erlich","role":"program manager"},{"name":"Jack Kelly","role":"chief of staff"}],"quote":"We’re an independent nonprofit working to ensure AI benefits everyone","quoteUrl":"https://www.themidasproject.com/about","socials":{"bluesky":"https://bsky.app/profile/themidasproject.bsky.social","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/101720633","x":"https://x.com/TheMidasProj"},"sources":["https://www.themidasproject.com/","https://www.themidasproject.com/about","https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-midas-project/"],"status":"active","summary":"A watchdog nonprofit that investigates and reports on the practices of leading AI companies to push for transparency, safety and accountability.","tags":["Advocacy","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3), EIN 99-2326977","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T1":0.2,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. General support; the Midas Project is an AI-lab accountability watchdog (safety commitments, OpenAI restructuring), probably x-risk motivated but mostly corporate-governance work."},"the-mission-motor":{"aliases":["Mission Motor"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.themissionmotor.org/donate","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.themissionmotor.org/","kind":"org","location":"Netherlands","logoAsset":"/_blob/276d1c70ab7544038ec5462185f76ecb.jpg","name":"The Mission Motor","quote":"The Mission Motor empowers the farmed animal and food-system change advocacy movement to systematically collect and use data and insights to increase their impact.","quoteUrl":"https://www.themissionmotor.org/","sources":["https://www.themissionmotor.org/"],"summary":"Dutch charity providing monitoring, evaluation and learning support to animal advocacy organisations. Not AI-safety focused.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"Dutch registered charity (ANBI)","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The page describes training animal and vegan advocacy groups in monitoring, evaluation and learning, which is not AI work; basis: EA Forum post by the org (own site blocks robots).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.themissionmotor.org/"}},"the-normativity-lab":{"aliases":["Vector Institute / Johns Hopkins (Gillian Hadfield)","Normativity Lab","Gillian Hadfield's lab"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://gillianhadfield.org/normativity-lab"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 17 names on lab page incl. 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Her site describes AI governance (regulatory markets, legal infrastructure) and building 'normatively competent' AI as alignment, with no superintelligence, takeover or catastrophic-risk framing, so mostly Adjacent with a prosaic-alignment T3 share."},"the-pollination-project":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://thepollinationproject.org/donate/","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://thepollinationproject.org/","kind":"org","location":"Martinez, CA, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/7b13bb97e9fec3e04a4ef4198d133e79.jpg","name":"The Pollination Project","quote":"We provide small, trust-based seed grants to grassroots leaders on the front lines, who are often unseen by most of philanthropy.","quoteUrl":"https://thepollinationproject.org/","sources":["https://thepollinationproject.org/","https://thepollinationproject.org/global-animal-advocacy/"],"summary":"Makes small, trust-based seed grants to grassroots leaders, including daily grants and funding for farmed animal protection leaders worldwide; not AI safety.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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The grant funds EU protein/food-transition fellowships, and the School's food page describes food-system and factory-farming work with no mention of AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://moralambition.org/about-us","quote":"https://moralambition.org/about-us"}},"the-society-library":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://secure.givelively.org/donate/benjamin-franklin-society-library-inc/the-society-library-general-support","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.societylibrary.org/team","summary":"https://www.societylibrary.org"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.societylibrary.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Orlando, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/1126cb88ed13adfe55cde15d5d078230.jpg","name":"The Society Library","people":[{"name":"Jamie Joyce","role":"President and Executive Director"}],"quote":"The Society Library is a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution dedicated to improving humanity’s relationship to information.","quoteUrl":"https://www.societylibrary.org/","sources":["https://www.societylibrary.org","https://www.societylibrary.org/team","https://www.societylibrary.org/topics-blog/ai-alignment-superintelligence-ethics"],"summary":"Nonprofit that models arguments, claims and evidence into structured debate map databases, and in 2023 began mapping arguments and issues in AI safety and alignment.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"T1":0.75,"T4":0.25},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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ARIA's funded-projects page lists Ohad Kammar (Edinburgh) as a TA1.1 Theory creator, so the ARIA rule gives T1; the second, 36-month grant's technical area isn't stated, so it keeps a small T3 share."},"the-unjournal":{"aliases":["Unjournal"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://info.unjournal.org/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/7752e666704def44ca20b45dbfa6880a.jpg","name":"The Unjournal","quote":"The Unjournal is an independent, nonprofit organization that coordinates expert public evaluation of research papers and projects.","quoteUrl":"https://www.unjournal.org/about","sources":["https://info.unjournal.org/about","https://www.unjournal.org/about"],"summary":"Nonprofit that organises open, public expert evaluations of research relevant to global priorities, including some AI and catastrophic-risk topics.","tags":["Field-building"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"notAI":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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As a theory team on that programme, it works on the hard parts (T1). 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Grant purpose is general support of an NLP group for AI safety, probably Zhijing Jin's and collaborators' LLM safety and multi-agent work; academic prosaic safety with some ethics-style work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/recommendations"}},"toulouse-school-of-economics":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.tse-fr.eu/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","quote"]},"kind":"university","location":"Toulouse, France","logoAsset":"/_blob/364440c6a6156b4030c0e68d00e63f58.jpg","name":"Toulouse School of Economics","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.tse-fr.eu/"],"summary":"International research and education institution in economics, mathematics and quantitative social sciences in Toulouse, France.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.tse-fr.eu/"}},"tracking-american-ai-data-center-buildout":{"aliases":["AI Datacenter Community Response Tracker","datacentertracker.org"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"2 builders named in the 'Built by' credit on the homepage","range":"","url":"https://datacentertracker.org/","value":2},"homepage":"https://datacentertracker.org/","kind":"programme","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/4593feb714b975b1713f57b28f38c712.jpg","name":"Tracking American AI Data Center Buildout","outputs":[{"label":"Interactive map and database","type":"other","url":"https://datacentertracker.org/"}],"people":[{"name":"Cam Acosta","role":"builder"},{"name":"Individual #4068","role":"builder"}],"sources":["https://datacentertracker.org/"],"status":"active","summary":"Interactive map and open database tracking community response and legislative action on AI data centre buildout across the United States.","tags":["Governance & policy","Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T2":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the name, a tracker of local community responses to AI datacenters; mostly AI-and-society, with some possible relevance to compute slowdown.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://datacentertracker.org/"}},"trail-of-bits":{"aliases":["Trail of Bits Inc","Trail of Bits, Inc."],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://trailofbits.com/team/","summary":"https://www.trailofbits.com/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2012","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.trailofbits.com/","kind":"company","location":"New York, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/818e33b671a3591306bf38d12d25311f.jpg","name":"Trail of Bits","people":[{"name":"Dan Guido","role":"CEO and co-founder"},{"name":"Alex Sotirov","role":"Co-CEO"}],"quote":"Trail of Bits secures the software, blockchains, and AI systems the world relies on.","quoteUrl":"https://www.trailofbits.com/","sources":["https://www.trailofbits.com/","https://trailofbits.com/team/","https://www.trailofbits.com/about/"],"summary":"Security research and engineering firm, founded in 2012, that audits software, blockchain and AI systems; it assessed frontier-model offensive capability for the UK's Frontier AI Taskforce.","tags":["AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Security research firm that audits and hardens software, blockchain and AI/ML systems; an ARIA Safeguarded AI contractor. General security and verification tooling is safety work that could cut either way (T3). Source: https://www.trailofbits.com/"},"training-for-good":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/b6f9afed2895ba271f111c0bc3b060cc.png","name":"Training for Good","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/22zk3tZyYWoanQwt7/training-for-good-update-and-plans-for-2023"],"summary":"Runs funded fellowships placing early-career people in European think tanks and news outlets to work on risks from emerging technologies.","tags":["Education & training","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T2":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Training for Good's 2023 plan says the EU Tech Policy Fellowship aims at existential risk from emerging technologies, especially AGI (T2), while Tarbell, now the Tarbell Center, frames its mission as journalism on advanced AI generally with no x-risk framing (Adjacent); the SFF part funded AI-risk outreach (T2).","uncertain":"Unsourced since 4 Nov 2026: its website trainingforgood.com returns 404 and no replacement was found. The site had said 'Kickstarting policy and journalism careers that reduce risks from emerging technologies'. Whether it still operates is unconfirmed (its Tarbell programme now runs as the Tarbell Center)."},"trajectory-labs":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.trajectorylabs.org/about-us","summary":"https://www.trajectorylabs.org/about-us"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2025","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.trajectorylabs.org/","kind":"org","location":"Toronto, Canada","logoAsset":"/_blob/d2640055b74f45114cbe0af37386d609.jpg","name":"Trajectory Labs","people":[{"name":"Mario Gibney","role":"Founder & Executive Director"},{"name":"Joanne Kim","role":"Chief Operating Officer"}],"quote":"Trajectory Labs exists to increase Toronto’s contribution to reducing catastrophic risks from advanced AI","quoteUrl":"https://www.trajectorylabs.org/","sources":["https://www.trajectorylabs.org/","https://www.trajectorylabs.org/about-us"],"summary":"Coworking and events space in downtown Toronto that serves as a hub for AI safety and related practitioners, hosting multiple events each week.","tags":["Community & infrastructure","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The announcement describes a Toronto AI safety coworking and events office whose listed members are mostly prosaic safety researchers (MATS, FAR AI interp, Apart, debate/robustness) plus policy (AIGS Canada) and Epoch staff; its mission line doesn't state x-risk, but by the hub rule it's tiered by tenants, whose orgs are largely x-risk motivated, so the first pass stands (above the hub/none default)."},"transformative-futures-institute":{"aliases":["Transformative Futures Institute (TFI)","TFI","Transformative Futures Foresight Institute"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Transformative Futures Institute","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://foresight.org/?p=2683","https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/grants"],"summary":"Organisation whose executive director, Ross Gruetzemacher, works on forecasting and foresight methods related to technological progress, existential risk and transformative AI.","tags":["Forecasting","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T2":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. CSER's profile of TFI's executive director describes forecasting and foresight on transformative AI and existential risk, so the forecasting rule gives Adjacent with an x-risk-motivated T2 share.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://foresight.org/?p=2683"}},"transformerlens":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://transformerlensorg.github.io/TransformerLens/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/5976027351842d9e0839087bc5b796c4.jpg","name":"TransformerLens","quote":"This is a library for doing mechanistic interpretability of GPT-2 Style language models","quoteUrl":"https://transformerlensorg.github.io/TransformerLens/","sources":["https://transformerlensorg.github.io/TransformerLens/","https://github.com/TransformerLensOrg/TransformerLens"],"summary":"Open-source Python library for mechanistic interpretability research on GPT-style transformer language models.","tags":["Interpretability"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose: the standard mechanistic-interpretability library, interp tooling defaults to T3.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://github.com/TransformerLensOrg/TransformerLens"}},"transluce":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://transluce.org/donate","donateNote":"Registered as Clarity AI Research Inc.","fieldSources":{"people":"https://transluce.org/about","quote":"https://transluce.org/","summary":"https://transluce.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2024","fundraiser":"https://transluce.org/2025-fundraiser","fundraiserDate":"2025-12","fundraiserTitle":"Help Fund Scalable Democratic Oversight of AI","homepage":"https://transluce.org/","kind":"org","location":"San Francisco, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/0996853b679dfb8328c92769bb07e940.jpg","name":"Transluce","people":[{"name":"Jacob Steinhardt","role":"Co-Founder & CEO"}],"quote":"Transluce is a nonprofit research lab dedicated to public understanding and oversight of AI.","quoteUrl":"https://transluce.org/","sources":["https://transluce.org/","https://transluce.org/about","https://transluce.org/2025-fundraiser"],"summary":"Independent nonprofit research lab building open, accessible tools and running independent evaluations to understand AI model behaviour and support public oversight of AI.","tags":["Interpretability","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Transluce builds interpretability and AI-oversight tooling (T3 default); the democratic-oversight framing adds an Adjacent share."},"tri-dao":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"homepage":"https://tridao.me/","quote":"https://tridao.me/","summary":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://tridao.me/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Tri Dao","quote":"Machine learning and systems, with a focus on efficient training and inference","quoteUrl":"https://tridao.me/","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","https://tridao.me/"],"summary":"Academic at Princeton University; named an AI2050 Early Career Fellow (2025 cohort) by Schmidt Sciences.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"trinity-college-dublin":{"name":"Trinity College Dublin","aliases":["TCD","AI Accountability Lab","AI Accountability Lab (Trinity College Dublin)","AIAL"],"kind":"university","homepage":"https://www.tcd.ie/","location":"Dublin, Ireland","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","summary":"Irish university; MacArthur's grant set up its AI Accountability Lab, which audits AI systems and datasets and studies their societal impact and regulation, including general-purpose model transparency under the EU AI Act.","quote":"The AIAL is an independent research lab with a mission to ensure that AI technologies work for the public, particularly those at the margins of society.","quoteUrl":"https://aial.ie/mission/","people":[{"name":"Abeba Birhane","role":"Founder and Principal Investigator, AI Accountability Lab"}],"tags":["Academic","Governance & policy"],"sources":["https://aial.ie/","https://aial.ie/mission/","https://aial.ie/people/","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/trinity-college-dublin-42073/"],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://aial.ie/people/","summary":"https://aial.ie/","quote":"https://aial.ie/mission/"},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The only grant set up the AI Accountability Lab, which audits AI for harms to marginalised people, not x-risk-aimed, so Adjacent; future grants to other Trinity work may need their own tier (aial.ie/mission/)."},"trojan-detection-challenge-at-neurips-2022":{"aliases":["Trojan Detection Challenge"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"One-off competition; not accepting donations","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","homepageNote":"trojandetection.ai no longer belongs to the competition (it redirects to an unrelated site, checked 1 Nov 2026), so the link was removed.","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Trojan Detection Challenge at NeurIPS 2022","quote":"We propose the Trojan Detection Challenge to further the community's understanding of methods to construct and detect Trojans.","quoteUrl":"https://neurips.cc/virtual/2022/competition/50100","sources":["https://neurips.cc/virtual/2022/competition/50100"],"summary":"A NeurIPS 2022 competition on detecting trojaned neural networks, a growing security concern for machine learning systems; Mantas Mazeika and Dan Hendrycks are among those listed on its page.","tags":["AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Prizes for detecting trojaned networks are a prosaic ML security/safety benchmark.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://neurips.cc/virtual/2022/competition/50100","quote":"https://neurips.cc/virtual/2022/competition/50100"}},"truman-center-for-national-policy":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"logoUrl":"https://www.trumancenter.org/","quote":"https://www.trumancenter.org/","summary":"https://www.trumancenter.org/news-posts/macarthur-provides-truman-center-with-nuclear-grant"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.trumancenter.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Washington, D.C., USA","name":"Truman Center for National Policy","people":[{"name":"Kelly Dietrich","role":"CEO"},{"name":"Sam Scanlon","role":"Senior Vice President"}],"quote":"An education and research institution dedicated to offering timely, innovative, and principled national security solutions.","quoteUrl":"https://www.trumancenter.org/","sources":["https://www.trumancenter.org/","https://www.trumancenter.org/news-posts/macarthur-provides-truman-center-with-nuclear-grant","https://www.trumancenter.org/about/our-team"],"status":"active","summary":"An education and research institution dedicated to national security solutions. A three-year MacArthur grant from 2021 funds its work on diversity, equity, inclusion and justice in the nuclear field, with roundtables, white papers and a Nuclear 101 training programme.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"nuclear":1}},"trustless-tee":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"PBS Foundation","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"programme","location":"","name":"Trustless TEE","people":[],"quote":"A group of researchers within Flashbots has set out to realise a TEE which more thoroughly enables the decentralised ethos and goals of the crypto industry.","quoteUrl":"https://collective.flashbots.net/t/project-t-tee-from-trusted-to-trustless-execution-environments/3541","sources":["https://collective.flashbots.net/t/project-t-tee-from-trusted-to-trustless-execution-environments/3541","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"],"status":"active","summary":"A trusted execution environment project recommended for general support by the Survival and Flourishing Fund in 2026. In June 2024 researchers within Flashbots set out to build a more trustless TEE, Project T-TEE.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.45,"T1":0.35,"notAI":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 'Trustless TEE' appears to be the Flashbots-originated initiative for open-source, physically tamper-resistant trusted execution hardware with a decentralised root of trust. Its public pages are about crypto/MEV use cases and never state an AI-governance aim. The technology is probably useful for hardware-enabled AI verification, which is probably why SFF funded it.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"}},"uiuc-trustworthy-ml-lab":{"aliases":["University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Individual #8798)","uiuctml","Individual #8798's group at UIUC"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://hanzhaoml.github.io/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"","basis":"the homepage People section could not be read from the fetched content","range":"","url":"","value":null},"homepage":"https://hanzhaoml.github.io/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Urbana, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/f6e133ba24e059aa9dc7d97c6622e04b.jpg","name":"UIUC Trustworthy ML Lab","outputs":[{"label":"Publications (PI homepage)","type":"publications","url":"https://hanzhaoml.github.io/#publication"},{"label":"Individual #8798 (Google Scholar)","type":"scholar","url":"https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=x942ipYAAAAJ&hl=en"},{"label":"uiuctml (GitHub)","type":"github","url":"https://github.com/uiuctml"},{"label":"DBLP","type":"other","url":"https://dblp.org/pid/03/3520-2.html"}],"parentOrg":"university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign","people":[{"name":"Individual #8798","role":"PI (Assistant Professor, CS; affiliated ECE)"}],"quote":"My long-term goal is to build trustworthy ML systems that are efficient, robust, fair, and interpretable.","quoteUrl":"https://hanzhaoml.github.io/","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanzhaotsinghua/","x":"https://twitter.com/hanzhao_ml"},"sources":["https://hanzhaoml.github.io/","https://github.com/uiuctml"],"status":"active","summary":"Individual #8798's research group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working on trustworthy machine learning, domain adaptation, algorithmic fairness and probabilistic circuits.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Hardware for verifying AI compute is hardware-enabled governance, which buys time (T1).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"}},"unite-america-institute":{"aliases":["Unite America"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://secure.anedot.com/unite-america/donate","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.uniteamerica.org/who-we-are","summary":"https://www.uniteamerica.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2014","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.uniteamerica.org/","kind":"org","location":"Denver, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/c4c3acea6f0edb374880358897f380f8.jpg","name":"Unite America Institute","people":[{"name":"Nick Troiano","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Marc Merrill","role":"Board Co-Chair"},{"name":"Kathryn Murdoch","role":"Board Co-Chair"},{"name":"Kent Thiry","role":"Board Co-Chair"}],"quote":"Unite America is a philanthropic venture fund that invests in nonpartisan election reform to foster a more representative and functional government.","quoteUrl":"https://www.uniteamerica.org/","sources":["https://www.uniteamerica.org/","https://www.uniteamerica.org/about","https://www.uniteamerica.org/who-we-are"],"summary":"Philanthropic venture fund headquartered in Denver that invests in nonpartisan election reform.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":""},"universita-di-pisa":{"aliases":["University of Pisa","UniPi"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.unipi.it/","kind":"org","location":"Pisa, Italy","logoAsset":"/_blob/678646a2c34b182cb03be4c9109e1788.jpg","name":"Università di Pisa","quote":"The University of Pisa is committed to conducting research that expands the frontiers of knowledge, enabling students to tackle major global challenges.","quoteUrl":"https://www.unipi.it/en/","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/edu/school?id=13904&trk=edu-cp-title","x":"https://x.com/Unipisa"},"sources":["https://www.aria.org.uk/media/ikopiqfp/aria-end-of-q2-fy24-25.pdf","https://www.unipi.it/","https://www.unipi.it/en/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Pisa"],"status":"active","summary":"Public research university in Pisa, Italy, founded in 1343. Received a 12-month ARIA grant in September 2024 under the Safeguarded AI programme.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.75,"T3":0.25},"xrTierNote":"Draft. ARIA Safeguarded AI TA1.1 theory portion is T1 by the decided rule; the later Mathematics for Safe AI amendment (about half the money) is undecided, given a best-guess T1/T3 split.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Pisa"}},"universitat-politecnica-de-valencia":{"aliases":["Valencia Polytechnic University"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.upv.es","kind":"university","location":"Valencia, Spain","logoAsset":"/_blob/ae776ac4a0ec56df1e13eaa294583a79.jpg","name":"Universitat Politècnica de València","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.upv.es","https://www.upv.es/index-en.html","https://ai-evaluation.org/"],"summary":"Technological university in Valencia, Spain, whose faculty support ValgrAI's International Programme on AI Evaluation: Capabilities and Safety, which is funded by Coefficient Giving.","tags":["Academic","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T2":0.1,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant probably funded the ValgrAI 'International Programme on AI Evaluation: Capabilities & Safety' led by Hernandez-Orallo, which trains safety evaluators (red teaming, risks of advanced AI, EU AI Act compliance), so mostly prosaic safety-eval pipeline.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://ai-evaluation.org/"}},"universite-de-montreal":{"aliases":["Universite de Montreal"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/20cb303fae488db7eba156589f62f7f3.png","name":"Université de Montréal","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A9_de_Montr%C3%A9al","https://cifar.ca/?p=61899"],"summary":"French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its AI safety grants include 2025 CIFAR AI Safety Catalyst Grants to Yoshua Bengio and Gauthier Gidel of Mila and the university.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Philanthropy's grant page describes research on AI consciousness and moral patienthood with Mila and FHI, which the digital-minds rule puts in Adjacent (the page gives US$210,552, below the counted amount).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A9_de_Montr%C3%A9al"}},"university-college-london":{"aliases":["UCL"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.ucl.ac.uk/giving/","donateNote":"University giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1826","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.ucl.ac.uk/","kind":"university","location":"London, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/0757c52bcdc1757c707434fa802da62b.jpg","name":"University College London","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.ucl.ac.uk/","https://aria.org.uk/media/0usfmzui/aria-end-of-q2-fy25-26.pdf","https://aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/trust-everything-everywhere/safeguarded-ai/funded-projects"],"summary":"University where ARIA's Safeguarded AI programme funds two theory projects, led by Fabio Zanasi (string diagrams for probabilistic processes) and Alexandra Silva (automated reasoning for randomised distributed systems).","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university (UK exempt charity)","xrTier":{"T1":0.55,"T3":0.45},"xrTierNote":"Draft. ARIA lists two UCL teams on the theory side of its Safeguarded AI programme, which builds mathematical foundations for AI systems with checkable safety guarantees; the rules count that theory as T1. The largest award (about £760k, 2025) is recorded as tooling work, a label inferred rather than stated by ARIA, so it is T3. Source: https://aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/trust-everything-everywhere/safeguarded-ai/funded-projects","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/trust-everything-everywhere/safeguarded-ai/funded-projects"}},"university-of-alberta":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.ualberta.ca","kind":"university","location":"Edmonton, Canada","logoAsset":"/_blob/60ab388252c5199fcaa69e277ca6d246.jpg","name":"University of Alberta","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.ualberta.ca","https://cifar.ca/cifarnews/2026/02/19/cifar-commits-1m-to-global-ai-safety-initiative/"],"summary":"Its researchers Bei Jiang and Linglong Kong, Canada CIFAR AI Chairs at Amii, received funding through CIFAR's Canadian AI Safety Institute research programme, part of the UK-led AI Alignment Project.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://cifar.ca/cifarnews/2026/02/19/cifar-commits-1m-to-global-ai-safety-initiative/"}},"university-of-birmingham":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/","kind":"university","location":"Birmingham, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/0dfe253ec855719b17eeeb6af8cc9aad.jpg","name":"University of Birmingham","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/","https://aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/trust-everything-everywhere/safeguarded-ai/funded-projects"],"summary":"University where ARIA's Safeguarded AI programme funds a project led by Individual #2755 on supermartingale certificates for temporal logic.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"T1":0.35,"T2":0.15,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. ARIA's Safeguarded AI programme lists Individual #2755's Birmingham project ('Supermartingale Certificates for Temporal Logic', mathematical proofs that AI systems keep to safety rules) as theory work, which counts as working on the hard parts (T1, about a third). Its other ARIA grants are for building or applying tools, or for parts of the programme whose topic is not published, so they are mostly prosaic safety (T3) with a smaller share aimed at the programme's risk goals without engaging the hard parts (T2). Source: https://www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/trust-everything-everywhere/safeguarded-ai/funded-projects","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/trust-everything-everywhere/safeguarded-ai/funded-projects"}},"university-of-bristol":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.bristol.ac.uk/research/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.bristol.ac.uk","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Bristol, United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/39fc7875e21a1ff8e4c44519a61b1bbd.jpg","name":"University of Bristol","people":[{"name":"Alex Kavvos","role":"creator/PI, ARIA Safeguarded AI TA1.1 project 'Event Structures as World Models'"}],"quote":"Bristol is at the cutting edge of global research.","quoteUrl":"https://www.bristol.ac.uk/about/","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-bristol","x":"https://twitter.com/bristoluni"},"sources":["https://www.aria.org.uk/media/ikopiqfp/aria-end-of-q2-fy24-25.pdf","https://www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/mathematics-for-safe-ai/safeguarded-ai/meet-the-creators","https://www.bristol.ac.uk/about/","https://www.bristol.ac.uk/research/"],"status":"active","summary":"A research-intensive public university in Bristol, England, offering undergraduate and postgraduate study and research across many fields.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T1":0.45,"T3":0.45},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Two ARIA rows: $174k Safeguarded AI TA1.1 theory (Kavvos, decided T1) and a $234k Mathematics for Safe AI amendment with new scope. Mathematics for Safe AI is ARIA's broader seed call that excludes core Safeguarded AI projects, so that part is tiered mostly T3 with some Adjacent; dollar-weighted T1 0.45 / T3 0.45 / Adjacent 0.1."},"university-of-british-columbia":{"aliases":["UBC"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.ubc.ca/","kind":"university","location":"Vancouver, Canada","logoAsset":"/_blob/c4575f7f252b8aba291e6ec59291c8f5.jpg","name":"University of British Columbia","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.cs.ubc.ca/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_British_Columbia"],"summary":"Public research university in British Columbia, Canada, with main campuses near Vancouver and Kelowna.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.6,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Alignment research led by Jeff Clune, who voices x-risk concern but whose main work is open-endedness and AI-generating algorithms, which leans toward capabilities.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_British_Columbia"}},"university-of-california-berkeley":{"aliases":["UC Berkeley","UC Berkeley Foundation"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.berkeley.edu","kind":"university","location":"Berkeley, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/f9be435acee1396f545f7cf67492dc54.jpg","name":"University of California, Berkeley","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.berkeley.edu","https://humancompatible.ai/about/"],"summary":"University of California campus that hosts the Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI), a multi-institution research group based at UC Berkeley and sponsored by Open Philanthropy, the Future of Life Institute and others.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.096,"T1":0.048,"T2":0.252,"T3":0.604},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Most of the money is probably the 2021 grant for CHAI, whose about page frames AI as a control problem with irreversible outcomes but whose recent papers (training on human feedback, reward models, robustness) are ordinary safety work that could cut either way (T3, three-fifths). The CHAI aim gives shares for takeover-aimed work without a plan for the hard parts (T2, a quarter) and work on the hard parts (T1, about 5%); a robotics grant on mis-specified goals is T3, and a small AI Policy Hub share is not aimed at x-risk (Adjacent, about a tenth). Source: https://humancompatible.ai/about/","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://humancompatible.ai/about/"}},"university-of-california-los-angeles":{"aliases":["UCLA","UCLA School of Law"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.ucla.edu","kind":"university","location":"Los Angeles, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/4016c7c9d265c6c70e2f6389482944e0.jpg","name":"University of California, Los Angeles","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.ucla.edu/about","https://law.ucla.edu/centers/interdisciplinary-studies/pulse/program-on-artificial-intelligence"],"summary":"University of California campus in Los Angeles whose School of Law received an Open Philanthropy grant supporting PULSE fellowships in artificial intelligence, law and policy.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.521,"T2":0.174,"T3":0.305},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The 2017 law-school grant paid for work on the legal and policy side of AI. The programme's pages and sample outputs (e.g. 'Developing Artificially Intelligent Justice') cover broad AI-and-law questions and don't mention extinction risk, superintelligence or loss of control, so about half is AI work not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent), with shares for prosaic safety (T3) and for governance aimed at catastrophic risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://law.ucla.edu/centers/interdisciplinary-studies/pulse/program-on-artificial-intelligence"}},"university-of-california-santa-cruz":{"aliases":["UC Santa Cruz","UCSC"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1965","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.ucsc.edu/","kind":"university","location":"Santa Cruz, CA, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/7c41dab95816462eaa24412285f0a420.png","name":"University of California, Santa Cruz","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.ucsc.edu/","https://www.ucsc.edu/about/"],"summary":"Research university above the city of Santa Cruz on California's Central Coast, part of a system of public higher education.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The Open Philanthropy grant page says it funds Cihang Xie's adversarial robustness research framed as improving AI safety, with no takeover framing, so prosaic ML safety.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.ucsc.edu/about/"}},"university-of-cambridge":{"aliases":["Cambridge University","University of Cambridge - Gift Registry","University of Cambridge — Gift Registry"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1209","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cam.ac.uk/","kind":"university","location":"Cambridge, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/36f63bfbf5dd78acb4970ccc69525487.jpg","name":"University of Cambridge","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.cam.ac.uk/"],"summary":"Collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England, home of CSER and the Leverhulme CFI.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"About 93% of its counted money is a 2026 ARIA Safeguarded AI award; ARIA's published list doesn't name the track, but its size and timing point to the cybersecurity-verification track, i.e. verification tooling, which is safety work that could cut either way (T3). The other 7% is a 2021 grant for David Krueger's machine learning safety research, also treated as T3. Source: https://aria.org.uk/media/zd1au3ve/aria-end-of-q2-fy26-27docx.pdf"},"university-of-cape-town":{"aliases":["UCT"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://uct.ac.za/","summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cape_Town"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1829","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://uct.ac.za/","kind":"university","location":"Cape Town, South Africa","logoAsset":"/_blob/18e2535bbe47940fcc10b6defc3280ba.jpg","name":"University of Cape Town","quote":"UCT is committed to generating new knowledge in, for and from Africa.","quoteUrl":"https://uct.ac.za/","sources":["https://uct.ac.za/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cape_Town"],"summary":"Public research university in Cape Town, South Africa.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"university-of-chicago":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.uchicago.edu","kind":"university","location":"Chicago, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/3b6b1c9fa8bac768cd6ad03287d054e9.jpg","name":"University of Chicago","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.uchicago.edu","https://xrisk.uchicago.edu/","https://xrisk.uchicago.edu/about.html"],"summary":"University in Chicago whose Existential Risk Laboratory (XLab) runs research fellowships in AI safety and nuclear security, supported by funders including Coefficient Giving, the Future of Life Institute and the Survival and Flourishing Fund.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) private university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.17,"T2":0.08,"T3":0.65,"notAI":0.1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. By dollars: FLI's XLab grant is $380k (the lab says it covers AI and nuclear security, framed as existential risk); Open Phil's Complementary AI grant to Chenhao Tan is $250k; the remaining ~$749k is the counterfactual-feedback grant, probably prosaic alignment work (not verified).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://xrisk.uchicago.edu/about.html"}},"university-of-exeter":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.exeter.ac.uk/","kind":"university","location":"Exeter, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/71dd44ca78d28875a7f8cbb38fcc09d7.jpg","name":"University of Exeter","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.exeter.ac.uk/"],"summary":"Public research university in South West England; received an ARIA Safeguarded AI grant.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.5,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. A grant of the ARIA Safeguarded AI TA3 applications type; from search-result titles it is probably SAINTES (safe AI decision support for energy systems), but I couldn't fetch that, so the provisional TA3 rule applies."},"university-of-glasgow":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1451","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.gla.ac.uk/","kind":"university","location":"Glasgow, United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/b5193be492f10d6594869b41eb691bb7.jpg","name":"University of Glasgow","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.gla.ac.uk/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Glasgow","https://aria.org.uk/media/3fgi5daa/aria-fy-2025-26.pdf"],"summary":"Public research university in Glasgow, Scotland, founded in 1451. Received an ARIA grant in June 2025 under the Mathematics for Safe AI opportunity space.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.2,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. ARIA 'Mathematics for Safe AI' grant (the grant purpose says so), not the TA1.1 theory grant, which went to GLAIVE as a separate row. The project isn't public; mostly verification-style maths, so mainly T3 pending the ARIA question.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Glasgow"}},"university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign":{"aliases":["University of Illinois Foundation","University of Illinois"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1867","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://illinois.edu","kind":"university","location":"Urbana-Champaign, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/908e77131eaf7e98d2d7a5f41f7eb240.png","name":"University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.frontiermodelforum.org/updates/announcement-of-new-ai-safety-fund-grantees/"],"summary":"University funded by the Frontier Model Forum's AI Safety Fund for cybersecurity risk evaluations of AI agents with computer interaction capabilities.","tags":["Academic","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The university news page describes the SLES foundation-model award (PI Individual #8798) as work on hallucination, consistency and misinformation safety, with no x-risk framing, so it is prosaic T3; agent cyber-risk evals are T3 and safe GNNs probably Adjacent.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.frontiermodelforum.org/updates/announcement-of-new-ai-safety-fund-grantees/"}},"university-of-kent":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.kent.ac.uk/research","summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Kent"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.kent.ac.uk/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","people"]},"kind":"org","location":"Canterbury, United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/f8e84fd1f202f7f02fe14cea59c16b8e.jpg","name":"University of Kent","quote":"Tackling urgent global challenges for a healthier, more sustainable and socially just world.","quoteUrl":"https://www.kent.ac.uk/research","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-kent","x":"https://x.com/unikent"},"sources":["https://www.kent.ac.uk/","https://www.kent.ac.uk/about","https://www.aria.org.uk/media/ikopiqfp/aria-end-of-q2-fy24-25.pdf","https://www.kent.ac.uk/research","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Kent"],"status":"active","summary":"University with campuses in Canterbury and Medway, England, and part of the London and South East University Group. Received an ARIA Safeguarded AI grant in September 2024.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. ARIA's funded-projects page lists Kent (Rajani, Orchard) under TA1.1 Creators (Theory), and the provisional ARIA call puts TA1.1 theory at T1."},"university-of-liverpool":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/about/","quote":"https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1881","foundedUrl":"https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/about/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.liverpool.ac.uk","kind":"university","location":"Liverpool, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/9e3142137c61d3cbf74119846ee8e96b.jpg","name":"University of Liverpool","quote":"Original and inclusive, we’re a truly inspirational place to learn and research.","quoteUrl":"https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/about/","sources":["https://www.liverpool.ac.uk","https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/about/"],"summary":"University whose researchers received AI-alignment research funding, including from the UK AISI-backed Alignment Project.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"UK university (registered charity)"},"university-of-manchester":{"aliases":["The University of Manchester"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.manchester.ac.uk/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.manchester.ac.uk/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Manchester, United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/26351c363eaa46f2697330076e987152.jpg","name":"University of Manchester","outputs":[{"label":"Nicola Gambino research outputs (PI of ARIA project)","type":"publications","url":"https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/nicola.gambino/publications/"}],"people":[{"name":"Nicola Gambino","role":"PI, ARIA Safeguarded AI TA1.1 project 'Profunctors: A unified semantics for safeguarded AI' (Professor of Pure Mathematics)"}],"quote":"The University of Manchester is a centre of teaching excellence, world-class research, outstanding student experience, and social responsibility.","quoteUrl":"https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/","socials":{"bluesky":"https://bsky.app/profile/manchester.ac.uk","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-manchester/","x":""},"sources":["https://www.aria.org.uk/media/ikopiqfp/aria-end-of-q2-fy24-25.pdf","https://aria.org.uk/media/0usfmzui/aria-end-of-q2-fy25-26.pdf","https://aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/trust-everything-everywhere/safeguarded-ai/funded-projects","https://www.manchester.ac.uk/","https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/nicola.gambino.html"],"status":"active","summary":"The UK's largest single-site university and a Russell Group member, doing teaching and research across many fields.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.3,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Two ARIA grants: the smaller TA1.1 theory grant (about 16% of dollars) is T1 under the ARIA rule; the larger Mathematics for Safe AI opportunity-seed grant's project could not be identified, and the seed call covers mostly formal-methods and verification work with some theory, so it is weighted mainly T3."},"university-of-maryland":{"aliases":["University of Maryland, College Park","UMD"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1856","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.umd.edu/","kind":"university","location":"College Park, Maryland, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/ef8e75905b3ce226cca17c5082b92016.jpg","name":"University of Maryland","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.umd.edu/","https://www.umd.edu/about"],"summary":"Public research university in College Park and the Flagship Institution of the State of Maryland.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. OP's page says the $350k grant funds Individual #5877's research on how neural networks generalize, with no safety wording beyond the programme label, so it gets a modest T3 share; the other grant funds technology and national security fellowships (Adjacent).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.umd.edu/about"}},"university-of-massachusetts-amherst":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1863","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.umass.edu","kind":"university","location":"Amherst, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/952ea904446398a95c2d8206903935c0.png","name":"University of Massachusetts Amherst","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.umass.edu"],"summary":"Public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts; the grant funded data collection for an outcome-based approach to AI alignment.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. A collaborator's CV describes Zilberstein's NSF project as a formal design pipeline to reduce agents' norm-violating surprises (prosaic alignment, T3); the novel-translation grant is Adjacent; the dollar split between grants is still unknown."},"university-of-miami":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.miami.edu","kind":"university","location":"Coral Gables, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/b4c3202ba2bd50a986ca8b183c4b8a9e.jpg","name":"University of Miami","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.miami.edu"],"summary":"Private research university in Coral Gables, Florida; funded here for a teaching buyout to write an effective altruism textbook.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is a teaching buyout to write an Effective Altruism textbook, general EA meta and not AI."},"university-of-michigan":{"aliases":["Regents of the University of Michigan","UMich"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1817","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://umich.edu/","kind":"university","location":"Ann Arbor, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/21f91bab5fda751c6a10858a8e2db095.jpg","name":"University of Michigan","quote":"A top-ranked public university, the University of Michigan has a tradition of excellence in research, learning and teaching","quoteUrl":"https://umich.edu/","sources":["https://umich.edu/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan"],"summary":"Public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.2,"T2":0.2,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. ARIA Mathematics for Safe AI seed grant; the seed call targets mathematical assurance that powerful AI interacts safely with real-world systems but the specific Michigan project or PI could not be found, so the first-pass mix is kept.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan"}},"university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill":{"aliases":["UNC","University of North Carolina"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://giveto.unc.edu/","donateNote":"University giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1789","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.unc.edu/","kind":"university","location":"Chapel Hill, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/69c4a0573118f6e0f79fbddcdbcd608e.jpg","name":"University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.unc.edu/"],"summary":"Public university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, chartered in 1789; it describes itself as the nation's first public university.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.1,"T3":0.9},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Probably Colin Raffel's grant from OP's 2022 alignment RFP for deep learning projects, listed under 'Truthful and honest AI', which is prosaic alignment work (T3); the 990 line 'AI language generation project' fits it, but the match is an inference.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.unc.edu/"}},"university-of-oxford":{"aliases":["University of Oxford (Philip Torr, Individual #9991, Christian Schroeder de Witt)","University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.ox.ac.uk/","kind":"university","location":"Oxford, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/cba9de30c7a10f9a4033281f163524f0.png","name":"University of Oxford","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.ox.ac.uk/","https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/2379-full.html","https://aria.org.uk/media/3fgi5daa/aria-fy-2025-26.pdf"],"summary":"University in Oxford. Its AI-safety funding includes ARIA Safeguarded AI awards, announced in 2024, for three research programmes in computer science led by Sam Staton, Alessandro Abate and Nobuko Yoshida, and ARIA Mathematics for Safe AI grants.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.203,"T1":0.246,"T2":0.147,"T3":0.403},"xrTierNote":"A mix that follows the separate grants. ARIA theory grants (Staton's categorical probability work and Abate's project; Oxford CS news) aim at AI that can be proved safe, so they are T1. ARIA's applied verification grants and the grants whose topic ARIA does not publish are prosaic or applied work, so they are T3 or Adjacent. The 2018 governance grant at the Future of Humanity Institute was motivated by x-risk but had no worked-out plan (T2). Sources: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/2379-full.html and ARIA's transparency reports.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/2379-full.html"}},"university-of-pennsylvania":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.upenn.edu","kind":"university","location":"Philadelphia, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/0d4b972f829106c75033c26e5f0ed3eb.jpg","name":"University of Pennsylvania","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.upenn.edu"],"summary":"Private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. Grants here relate to a researcher's project on strategic behaviour and manipulation in LLMs, and to an animal welfare conference.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T2":0.2,"notAI":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Phil's page puts the Conti-Brown roundtables at $110k of the $140k (so the farm-animal conference is probably the ~$30k remainder, notAI); the roundtables apply bank-style supervision to powerful AI companies, mostly general regulation (Adjacent) with a small T2 share because Conti-Brown's related work discusses powerful models being hijacked or misused, slightly above the standards-regulation 'none' default."},"university-of-southern-california":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.usc.edu","kind":"university","location":"Los Angeles, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/a537e8428ef4e6c9c060d9aff903238b.jpg","name":"University of Southern California","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.usc.edu"],"summary":"Private research university in Los Angeles. Its counted AI safety money is mainly an NSF Safe Learning-Enabled Systems award for a neurosymbolic approach to safe multi-agent systems (Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, 2024), plus Open Philanthropy-advised grants for Robin Jia's robustness research and for detecting hidden knowledge in language models, and an FLI grant to its Hollywood, Health & Society programme.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"Private university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Robin Jia's robustness and hidden-knowledge work and the multi-agent safety award are prosaic safety with no stated takeover aim (T3). The Hollywood, Health & Society grant, which advises TV and film writers on AI and nuclear storylines, is AI-relevant but not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent)."},"university-of-strathclyde":{"aliases":["Strathclyde"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.strath.ac.uk/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.strath.ac.uk/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"org","location":"Glasgow, United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/18054d98b1bfc4b2813835f54fb6f2bc.jpg","name":"University of Strathclyde","outputs":[{"label":"Mathematically Structured Programming group (home of the Safeguarded AI PI)","type":"other","url":"https://msp.cis.strath.ac.uk/"},{"label":"MSP group events","type":"events","url":"https://msp.cis.strath.ac.uk/events.html"}],"people":[{"name":"Robert (Bob) Atkey","role":"Academic staff, MSP group; Strathclyde co-lead on ARIA Safeguarded AI TA1.1 project"},{"name":"Ekaterina Komendantskaya","role":"Lead on ARIA TA1.1 project (Southampton/Heriot-Watt, not Strathclyde)"},{"name":"Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg","role":"MSP group contact"}],"quote":"a leading technological university right in the heart of Glasgow","quoteUrl":"https://www.strath.ac.uk/whystrathclyde/","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-strathclyde/","x":"https://twitter.com/unistrathclyde"},"sources":["https://www.aria.org.uk/media/ikopiqfp/aria-end-of-q2-fy24-25.pdf","https://www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/mathematics-for-safe-ai/safeguarded-ai/funded-projects","https://www.strath.ac.uk/","https://www.strath.ac.uk/whystrathclyde/","https://msp.cis.strath.ac.uk/","https://msp.cis.strath.ac.uk/people.html"],"status":"active","summary":"A university in Glasgow, Scotland, home to about 30,000 students.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The MSP group's grants page lists an ARIA Safeguarded AI project on quantitative predicate logic for verified ML (Atkey, Komendantskaya, Mardare, Capucci), which fits the TA1.1 theory track given in the grant purpose, so the decided ARIA call sets it to T1."},"university-of-surrey":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1966","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.surrey.ac.uk/","kind":"university","location":"Guildford, United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/dffeee28ed47c4fc3cc1cb26dcd6940c.jpg","name":"University of Surrey","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.surrey.ac.uk/community/news/your-university","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Surrey","https://aria.org.uk/media/zd1au3ve/aria-end-of-q2-fy26-27docx.pdf"],"summary":"Public research university in Guildford, England. Received a 15-month ARIA grant in August 2026 under the Safeguarded AI programme.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Its only counted grant is a 2026 ARIA Safeguarded AI award; ARIA's published list doesn't name the track, but its size and timing point to the cybersecurity-verification track, i.e. verification tooling, which is safety work that could cut either way (T3). The track is inferred, not stated. Source: https://aria.org.uk/media/zd1au3ve/aria-end-of-q2-fy26-27docx.pdf","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Surrey"}},"university-of-sussex":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Sussex"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1961","foundedUrl":"https://www.sussex.ac.uk/about","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.sussex.ac.uk/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["people"]},"kind":"org","location":"Brighton, United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/1334221960e47c30818e495b3ea931c1.jpg","name":"University of Sussex","socials":{"bluesky":"","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-sussex","x":""},"sources":["https://www.sussex.ac.uk/","https://www.sussex.ac.uk/about","https://www.aria.org.uk/media/ikopiqfp/aria-end-of-q2-fy24-25.pdf","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Sussex"],"status":"active","summary":"Public research university in Falmer, near Brighton, England. Received a 12-month ARIA grant in September 2024 under the Safeguarded AI programme.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. ARIA's funded-projects page lists Fernando Rosas (Sussex) as a TA1.1 Creator (Theory) on a computational-mechanics approach to world models; TA1.1 theory is decided as T1, and computational mechanics is also a T1 learning-theory default."},"university-of-tartu":{"aliases":["Tartu Ülikool","Tartu Ulikool","Tartu Ülikooli Sihtasutus"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1632","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ut.ee/en","kind":"university","location":"Tartu, Estonia","logoAsset":"/_blob/daa8413d69c7b7f0453c730c70d7e4e2.png","name":"University of Tartu","quote":"We are the flagship of Estonian science.","quoteUrl":"https://ut.ee/en","sources":["https://ut.ee/en"],"summary":"Estonia's oldest and leading research university, founded in 1632.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.4,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, a Jaan Tallinn gift to Tartu's CS institute for an 'AI control' project in 2016-17; probably early safety research of uncertain kind."},"university-of-texas-at-austin":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1883","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.utexas.edu","kind":"university","location":"Austin, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/da90cf726b1870bca11b86d885f6888a.jpg","name":"University of Texas at Austin","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.cs.utexas.edu"],"summary":"Public research university in Austin, Texas; the grant supported a new CS research professor working on technical AI alignment.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purposes only: an Open Phil AI safety research gift and QA-model feedback work are prosaic T3, and the NSF specification-refinement award is closer to Adjacent. I couldn't confirm the PIs of the $885k gift."},"university-of-toronto":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1827","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.utoronto.ca","kind":"university","location":"Toronto, Canada","logoAsset":"/_blob/2858680a7d1d9ddbd60733513d38e48b.png","name":"University of Toronto","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.utoronto.ca/about-u-of-t"],"summary":"Public research university in Toronto, Canada. Most of its counted AI safety money is Open Philanthropy-advised grants (machine-learning research led by Chris Maddison from 2020, and alignment research in 2022-23); smaller grants come from the Canadian AI Safety Institute programme at CIFAR, SFF and the Frontier Model Forum's AI Safety Fund (multi-agent LLM systems).","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.35,"T1":0.1,"T2":0.05,"T3":0.5},"xrTierNote":"Draft. A mix of grants. The alignment research grants are prosaic safety, partly aimed at takeover risk (mostly T3, some T2). Chris Maddison's 2020 grant was framed as understanding and controlling machine-learning systems, but his research profile lists scaling laws and drug discovery, so it leans to AI work not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent). Yonatan Kahn's physics-style theory of how networks learn gets a small T1 share under the rule for mathematical theory of what networks learn, though his pages don't mention safety. The multi-agent LLM grant is Adjacent or T3."},"university-of-tubingen":{"aliases":["Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen","University of Tuebingen","Universität Tübingen"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1477","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/","kind":"university","location":"Tübingen, Germany","logoAsset":"/_blob/4405b8e8f4cbdc61467301a1c6e075c8.jpg","name":"University of Tübingen","quote":"The University of Tübingen is pushing back the boundaries of knowledge.","quoteUrl":"https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/","sources":["https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/"],"summary":"Public research university in Tübingen, Germany. Its counted grants are Open Philanthropy-advised awards for adversarial robustness research led by Wieland Brendel and Matthias Hein (2021) and Matthias Bethge (2023). The ELLIS Institute Tübingen is a separate organisation.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. All three grants fund adversarial robustness research (making models hold up against inputs crafted to fool them), which Open Philanthropy funded as a route to AI safety. It is prosaic safety with no stated takeover aim, so T3."},"university-of-utah":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1850","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.utah.edu/","kind":"university","location":"Salt Lake City, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/1bdd3428719405e981e483f4eda74d7f.jpg","name":"University of Utah","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.utah.edu/","https://www.openphilanthropy.org/?p=15052","https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/university-of-utah-course-on-human-ai-alignment"],"summary":"Research university in Salt Lake City and Utah's flagship institution; AI-safety funding has supported Daniel Brown's research on verifying how far AI systems are aligned with human values, and a course on human-AI alignment.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Supports Prof. Daniel Brown's human-AI alignment course and research, known for reward learning and robust imitation, which is safety-motivated prosaic work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.openphilanthropy.org/?p=15052"}},"university-of-warwick":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://warwick.ac.uk","kind":"university","location":"Coventry, UK","logoAsset":"/_blob/84fc11e79dd77ae43b8b7fe30b92ce6a.jpg","name":"University of Warwick","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://warwick.ac.uk","https://aria.org.uk/media/3fgi5daa/aria-fy-2025-26.pdf"],"summary":"University in Coventry, UK, founded in 1965. It holds a 16-month ARIA Safeguarded AI grant of £1,150,801, awarded in May 2025.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"UK university (registered charity)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T2":0.4,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Its one grant is from ARIA's Safeguarded AI programme and appears to fund ASPAI, a Warwick-led project (Markus Brill) on combining many stakeholders' safety requirements into the rules a safeguarded AI system is checked against. That is work on who sets the safety rules rather than core safety mathematics, so it is split between aiming at catastrophic risk without a plan for the hard parts (T2), prosaic safety (T3) and AI work not aimed at extinction risk (Adjacent). The project match is inferred; ARIA's page doesn't state it.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://aria.org.uk/media/3fgi5daa/aria-fy-2025-26.pdf"}},"university-of-washington":{"aliases":["UW"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1861","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.washington.edu/","kind":"university","location":"Seattle, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/a2941516764b58a891c80763008b9887.jpg","name":"University of Washington","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.washington.edu/","https://www.openphilanthropy.org/?p=9563","https://www.cooperativeai.com/post/grant-summaries","https://www.washington.edu/about/"],"summary":"Public university in Seattle; AI-safety funding has supported Ludwig Schmidt's research on adversarial robustness and Cooperative AI Foundation projects on cooperation and negotiation in AI systems.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.8,"T4":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The Open Philanthropy grant page confirms $730k for Ludwig Schmidt's adversarial-robustness research framed as AI safety (T3). The T4 share reflects his concurrent large-dataset/CLIP work, which probably makes early-career support partly fungible; the $15.5k philosophy-course grant is negligible.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.openphilanthropy.org/?p=9563"}},"university-of-waterloo-pascal-poupart-and-sriram-ganapathi":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/news/professors-pascal-poupart-and-sriram-ganapathi-awarded","kind":"university","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/9cd839193e098d2287466f3f37d173f7.png","name":"University of Waterloo (Pascal Poupart and Sriram Ganapathi)","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/news/professors-pascal-poupart-and-sriram-ganapathi-awarded"],"summary":"Project led by Pascal Poupart (University of Waterloo) and Sriram Ganapathi (Carleton University), funded by Coefficient Giving, that uses constraint learning to improve the reliability and safety of multi-agent orchestrators.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant funds constraint learning for safer multi-agent orchestrators; Poupart's pages list multi-agent orchestration safety and inverse constraint learning next to industry workflow-automation projects, and they frame safety as constraint satisfaction rather than takeover risk; that is prosaic T3 with a reliability/deployment tilt.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/news/professors-pascal-poupart-and-sriram-ganapathi-awarded"}},"university-of-waterloo":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://uwaterloo.ca/about/","quote":"https://uwaterloo.ca/about/","summary":"https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/news/professors-pascal-poupart-and-sriram-ganapathi-awarded"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1957","foundedUrl":"https://uwaterloo.ca/about/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://uwaterloo.ca/","kind":"university","location":"Waterloo, Canada","logoAsset":"/_blob/27ea1960c6234da403de16b246a2a5df.jpg","name":"University of Waterloo","quote":"We are a leading global research-intensive university, renowned for entrepreneurship and innovation, providing co-op and work-integrated learning at scale with impact.","quoteUrl":"https://uwaterloo.ca/about/","sources":["https://uwaterloo.ca/","https://uwaterloo.ca/about/","https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/news/professors-pascal-poupart-and-sriram-ganapathi-awarded"],"summary":"Research-intensive university in Waterloo, ON, Canada. Professor Pascal Poupart co-leads a team with a two-year Coefficient Giving grant to improve the reliability and safety of multi-agent orchestrators.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"university-of-wisconsin-madison":{"aliases":["University of Wisconsin - Madison","University of Wisconsin-Madison","UW-Madison","University of Wisconsin Foundation"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.wisc.edu/about/facts/","quote":"https://www.wisc.edu/research/","summary":"https://www.wisc.edu/about/facts/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1848","foundedUrl":"https://www.wisc.edu/about/facts/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.wisc.edu/","kind":"university","location":"Madison, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/2458a66878dbf2deedc9e066e9097f82.jpg","name":"University of Wisconsin–Madison","quote":"A large research institution with an even larger mission: to improve lives around the world","quoteUrl":"https://www.wisc.edu/research/","sources":["https://www.wisc.edu/","https://www.wisc.edu/about/facts/","https://www.wisc.edu/research/","https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~sharonli/"],"summary":"Research university in Madison, Wisconsin, part of the Universities of Wisconsin; home to Sharon Li's group in Computer Sciences, which studies reliable and safe machine learning and LLM agents.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"university-of-york":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.york.ac.uk/york-giving/","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.york.ac.uk/","kind":"university","location":"York, United Kingdom","logoAsset":"/_blob/c148780314d10315294a523bc9449bb4.jpg","name":"University of York","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.york.ac.uk/","https://www.york.ac.uk/assuring-autonomy/news/news/2025/safeguarded-ai-programme-funding/"],"summary":"Research-intensive university in York, UK. Its Centre for Assuring Autonomy holds two ARIA Safeguarded AI awards: SAFER-ADS, on safely deploying frontier AI models in automated driving systems, and ULTIMATE, the Universal Stochastic Modelling, Verification and Synthesis Framework.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"Public university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.35,"T1":0.4,"T3":0.25},"xrTierNote":"Draft. York's own news page names the two ARIA awards: TA1.1 ULTIMATE (Calinescu, probabilistic/stochastic world-model verification framework, ~40% of dollars) which the decided ARIA rule puts at T1, and TA3 SAFER-ADS (~60%), a safety case for frontier AI in automated driving, which I split roughly 60/40 Adjacent/T3 since it targets automotive safety, not takeover; evidence quote is from the ULTIMATE paper at arxiv.org/html/2503.16034v2.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.york.ac.uk/assuring-autonomy/news/news/2025/safeguarded-ai-programme-funding/"}},"upturn":{"name":"Upturn","aliases":[],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://www.upturn.org/","location":"Washington DC, USA","founded":"2011","summary":"Research and advocacy group on how algorithms, automated decisions and AI harm people in housing, work, public benefits, credit, policing and criminal courts.","quote":"Upturn challenges the material harms of AI, algorithms, and data on people's lives.","quoteUrl":"https://www.upturn.org/about","people":[{"name":"Tina M. Park","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Steven Renderos","role":"Board President"},{"name":"David Robinson","role":"Co-founder"},{"name":"Harlan Yu","role":"Co-founder"}],"tags":["Governance & policy"],"sources":["https://www.upturn.org/","https://www.upturn.org/about","https://www.upturn.org/team","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/upturn-10114578/"],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.upturn.org/team","summary":"https://www.upturn.org/about","quote":"https://www.upturn.org/about"},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Works on present-day harms of algorithms and AI to people's lives, not x-risk-aimed, so Adjacent (upturn.org/about)."},"uri-maoz":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/uri-maoz","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Uri Maoz","quote":"His research lies at the intersection of volition, decision-making, and moral choice.","quoteUrl":"https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/uri-maoz","sources":["https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/uri-maoz"],"summary":"Computational neuroscientist and associate professor at Chapman University; funded for research on alignment faking in AI models.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.3,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. His Chapman faculty page describes neuroscience of volition and decision-making with some explainable-ML work and no AI-safety or takeover framing; the grant purpose (alignment faking, a deception topic) supports prosaic deception research with a T2 share, but his own pages could not confirm the motivation."},"us-caisi-at-nist-in-house":{"aliases":["CAISI","US CAISI at NIST (in-house)","Center for AI Standards and Innovation","Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence","US AI Safety Institute"],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.nist.gov/caissi","summary":"https://www.nist.gov/caissi"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.nist.gov/caissi","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"government","location":"Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/314b76da01a4b7877f64ef1ab390d6c0.png","name":"US CAISSI at NIST (in-house)","quote":"CAISSI will focus on demonstrable risks, such as cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical weapons","quoteUrl":"https://www.nist.gov/caissi","sources":["https://www.nist.gov/caisi","https://www.nist.gov/caissi"],"statusNote":"NIST's page now calls the centre the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI); nist.gov/caisi redirects there (checked 1 Nov 2026).","summary":"The work of NIST's Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI), which will serve as industry's primary point of contact within the U.S. government to facilitate testing and to lead unclassified evaluations of capabilities that may pose risks to national security.","tags":["Governance & policy","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":""},"us-national-academy-of-sciences-committee-on-international-security-and-arms-con":{"aliases":["CISAC (National Academies)"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Part of the National Academies — no dedicated donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.nationalacademies.org/units/PGA-CISAC-21-P-428","quote":"https://www.nationalacademies.org/units/PGA-CISAC-21-P-428","summary":"https://www.nationalacademies.org/units/PGA-CISAC-21-P-428"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1980","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.nationalacademies.org/cisac/about","kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/10094e88d1ae4aa71e27a9de399b590f.jpg","name":"US National Academy of Sciences, Committee on International Security and Arms Control","people":[{"name":"Persis S. Drell","role":"Chair"},{"name":"Rose E. Gottemoeller","role":"Vice Chair"}],"quote":"The Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) is a permanent committee to bring the resources of the Academy to bear on critical problems of international security and arms control.","quoteUrl":"https://www.nationalacademies.org/units/PGA-CISAC-21-P-428","sources":["https://www.nationalacademies.org/cisac/about","https://www.nationalacademies.org/units/PGA-CISAC-21-P-428"],"summary":"A permanent committee of the US National Academy of Sciences, formed in 1980 to bring the Academy's resources to bear on critical problems of international security and arms control.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.25,"T2":0.35,"notAI":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Funder's page says the Conclave coordinates great-power track-II dialogues on extreme risks, naming AI first alongside nuclear and bio (examples include FAR.AI's International Dialogues on AI Safety); the AI share is probably catastrophic-risk diplomacy, the rest not AI."},"uwe-kortshagen":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://kortshagen.umn.edu/people","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Uwe Kortshagen","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://kortshagen.umn.edu/people"],"summary":"Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota; studies plasma processes and nanomaterial synthesis.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.75,"T4":0.25},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose: nanoparticle optical clearing for whole-brain imaging, enabling neurotech framed as toward AI safety via brain emulation. Adjusted: Foresight neurotech/WBE framed as AI safety: T1 75 / T4 25 (maintainer, 27 Oct)."},"v2a2-verification-and-validation-for-learning-enabled-autonomy":{"aliases":["University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Dung Tran)","V2A2","Verification and Validation for Assured Autonomy Group","Verification and Validation for Learning-enabled Autonomy"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://sites.google.com/view/v2a2/about","summary":"https://sites.google.com/view/v2a2/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://sites.google.com/view/v2a2/about","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"lab","location":"Gainesville, United States","name":"V2A2 (Verification and Validation for Learning-enabled Autonomy)","outputs":[{"label":"V2A2 publications","type":"publications","url":"https://sites.google.com/view/v2a2/publications"},{"label":"Hoang-Dung Tran on Google Scholar","type":"scholar","url":"https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_RzS3uMAAAAJ&hl=en"},{"label":"V2A2 GitHub (StarV)","type":"github","url":"https://github.com/V2A2/StarV/tree/sub_main"},{"label":"NNV neural network verification tool","type":"other","url":"https://sites.google.com/view/v2a2/projects/nnv"}],"parentOrg":"University of Florida (formerly University of Nebraska-Lincoln)","people":[{"name":"Hoang-Dung Tran","role":"PI (Assistant Professor, CISE, University of Florida; formerly UNL School of Computing and co-director of NIMBUS Lab)"}],"quote":"reachability analysis and robustness certification of deep neural networks","quoteUrl":"https://sites.google.com/view/v2a2/about","sources":["https://avrlab.unl.edu/","https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/cse/16551/91676","https://cise.ufl.edu/people/faculty/name/dung-tran","https://sites.google.com/view/v2a2/about","https://github.com/V2A2/StarV"],"status":"active","statusNote":"PI appears to have moved from University of Nebraska-Lincoln to University of Florida (UF faculty page and group site list UF affiliation, 2025 grant as UF-PI); grant was made to UNL in 2023.","summary":"Research group at the University of Florida led by Hoang-Dung Tran, working on formal verification of deep neural networks and learning-enabled cyber-physical systems; it develops the NNV and StarV verification tools.","tags":["Academic","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":""},"vanderbilt-university-formal-epistemology-and-ai-safety-fast":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.vanderbilt.edu","kind":"university","location":"Nashville, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/f201f76f25e9313857077c6544ad6949.png","name":"Vanderbilt University [Formal Epistemology and AI Safety (FAST)]","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://as.vanderbilt.edu/philosophy/bio/david-thorstad","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"],"summary":"Not identified from public sources. SFF's 2026 main round lists $5,000 for general support of Formal Epistemology and AI Safety at Vanderbilt University, subsumed by a larger $10,000 Speculation Grant.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) private university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Guessing from the name: an academic formal epistemology and AI safety group, focus on x-risk unknown.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"}},"vanessa-kosoy":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/vanessa-kosoy","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Vanessa Kosoy","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/vanessa-kosoy","https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QPxrH5ex6MpYoLwer/interview-with-vanessa-kosoy-on-the-value-of-theoretical","https://coral-research.org/"],"summary":"Agent-foundations researcher behind the learning-theoretic alignment agenda; leads research at CORAL and directs AI research at ALTER.","tags":["Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Both grants fund the learning-theoretic AI alignment agenda, a mathematical agent-foundations programme aimed at AI existential risk, so T1 by the agent-foundations rule.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/vanessa-kosoy"}},"vanguard-charitable":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Donor-advised fund sponsor — pass-through, not an end recipient","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.vanguardcharitable.org/giving-with-vc","summary":"https://www.vanguardcharitable.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1997","foundedUrl":"https://www.vanguardcharitable.org/giving-with-vc","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.vanguardcharitable.org","kind":"fund","location":"Malvern, PA, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/dd44a035cb0bf556b9552ab98b1d5478.jpg","name":"Vanguard Charitable","people":[{"name":"Rebecca Moffett","role":"President"},{"name":"John J. 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DAF pass-through to AISTOF, a pooled fund aimed at catastrophic risks from advanced AI; its listed grants lean toward technical alignment, auditing, evals and formal certification (mostly T3) with some governance and shutdown-eval work, so the mix shifts toward T3."},"varun-chandrasekaran":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ece.illinois.edu/about/directory/faculty/varunc","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Varun Chandrasekaran","quote":"My research interests lie at the intersection of Security & Privacy and fields such as Systems, Networking, Distributed Computing, and Machine Learning.","quoteUrl":"https://chandrasekaran-group.github.io/","sources":["https://ece.illinois.edu/about/directory/faculty/varunc","https://chandrasekaran-group.github.io/"],"summary":"Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, researching security and privacy in systems and machine learning.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, academic testing of low-perplexity jailbreaks, which is prosaic robustness work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://chandrasekaran-group.github.io/","quote":"https://chandrasekaran-group.github.io/"}},"vibecamp":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://vibe.camp/team/","quote":"https://vibe.camp/","summary":"https://vibe.camp/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2021","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://vibe.camp/","kind":"org","location":"Maryland, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/062b3b675eb48b1594c11a2b49560f7c.jpg","name":"vibecamp","people":[{"name":"Brooke","role":"CEO"}],"quote":"Vibecamp is a four-day gathering for curious, creative, openness-loving people — part festival, part unconference, part summer camp for nerdy adults","quoteUrl":"https://vibe.camp/","sources":["https://manifund.org/projects/vibecamp","https://vibe.camp/team/","https://vibe.camp/"],"summary":"Annual four-day festival and unconference founded in 2021 drawing rationalist, EA and wider internet-adjacent communities, held in Maryland.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":""},"individual-4179":{"name":"Individual #4179","kind":"person","anonId":"4179"},"victory-briefs-institute":{"aliases":["VBI","Victory Briefs"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://vbidebate.com/","kind":"org","location":"Chicago, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/75c3956d1561f1f0e1c4a07d7b8252a1.jpg","name":"Victory Briefs Institute","quote":"Empowering debate champions through world-class education and comprehensive resources.","quoteUrl":"https://vbidebate.com/","sources":["https://vbidebate.com/","https://www.victorybriefs.com/"],"summary":"Debate education organisation running summer camps and resources, including topic briefs, textbooks and virtual lessons, for Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum debaters.","tags":["Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://vbidebate.com/"}},"viento":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"Viento","parentOrg":"Social Good Fund (fiscal sponsor; inferred from SFF's receiving-charity column)","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2021/h1/recommendations","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h1-recommendations.html"],"summary":"Recipient of a $102,000 SFF-2021-H1 general-support recommendation from Jaan Tallinn, received via Social Good Fund; not identified further.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"unknown":1},"fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h1-recommendations.html"}},"vincent-conitzer":{"aliases":["Vincent Conitzer, Carnegie Mellon University"],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Vincent Conitzer","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/"],"summary":"Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University; directs the Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab (FOCAL).","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Cooperative AI Foundation grant for the Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab (FOCAL), 2021–2025; FOCAL is a decided T1 call (XR-TIERS §5).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/"}},"virginia-smith-and-steven-wu":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~smithv/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Virginia Smith and Steven Wu","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~smithv/","https://zstevenwu.com/"],"summary":"Carnegie Mellon University associate professors Virginia Smith, whose recent topics include AI safety and privacy, and Zhiwei Steven Wu, who works on safe and responsible AI, including privacy.","tags":["Academic","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant funds robust unlearning techniques at CMU; Smith's profile frames her work as ML safety and efficiency, with no superintelligence or takeover framing, so prosaic ML safety (T3).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~smithv/"}},"virtue-ai":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.virtueai.com","kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/48be95c3e5542710ef5f9051b4ad5735.jpg","name":"Virtue AI","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.unite.ai/bo-li-ceo-virtue-ai-interview-series/","https://fintech.global/2025/04/16/ai-security-platform-virtue-ai-raises-30m-to-advance-genai-safety/","https://www.securityweek.com/fortinet-acquires-ai-security-company-virtue-ai/"],"summary":"AI security company whose platform offers automated red-teaming, real-time guardrails and compliance oversight for AI models; acquired by Fortinet in August 2026.","tags":["Evaluations","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The company's funding announcement describes algorithmic red-teaming and guardrail products against enterprise threats (jailbreaks, prompt injection) with no x-risk framing; robustness/red-teaming with framing none maps to T3, and commercial security of AI systems is still prosaic safety rather than merely adjacent.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.securityweek.com/fortinet-acquires-ai-security-company-virtue-ai/"}},"vitalism-foundation":{"aliases":["The Vitalism Charity Project","VITALISM Charitable Foundation","Vitalism"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://vitalismfoundation.org/donate","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://vitalismfoundation.org/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/428bd7434146d915e7dedc48faf1d67b.png","name":"Vitalism Foundation","quote":"Vitalism Foundation coordinates key leaders, government, business, and academia to direct unprecedented attention towards solving humanity's greatest challenge, death.","quoteUrl":"https://vitalismfoundation.org/","sources":["https://vitalismfoundation.org/"],"summary":"Longevity organisation coordinating leaders in government, business and academia to work towards ending ageing; operates 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) entities.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://vitalismfoundation.org/"}},"viva-city-galactic":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ns.com/dashboard/viva-city","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/f80f6abcc1d6b80ce2b89bced8361692.jpg","name":"Viva City Galactic","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://ns.com/dashboard/viva-city","https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"],"summary":"Not identified from public sources. SFF's 2026 recommendations list $4,000 for general support of it, received by Healthspan Action Coalition, Inc.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/recommendations"}},"vivid":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","kind":"org","location":"","name":"VIVID","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://forum.nunosempere.com/posts/z3J439wF8Xk8qSZku/announcing-vivid-a-new-ea-organization-aspiring-to-scale-1"],"summary":"Startup announced in 2022 to build a mobile app that helps people overcome internal obstacles to personal growth; the FTX Future Fund invested in it in return for equity.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTags":{"global-health-other":0.5,"rationality-epistemics":0.5},"fieldSources":{"summary":"https://forum.nunosempere.com/posts/z3J439wF8Xk8qSZku/announcing-vivid-a-new-ea-organization-aspiring-to-scale-1"}},"individual-5073":{"name":"Individual #5073","kind":"person","anonId":"5073"},"vox-future-perfect":{"aliases":["Vox Future Perfect"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.vox.com/future-perfect","summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_(website)"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2018","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.vox.com/future-perfect","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["location","people"]},"kind":"programme","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/666a469531c243edfcc396682d7a525c.jpg","name":"Future Perfect","parentOrg":"vox-media","quote":"Future Perfect explores the best ways to do good in the world.","quoteUrl":"https://www.vox.com/future-perfect","sources":["https://trace.manifund.org/orgs/the-rockefeller-foundation","https://www.vox.com/future-perfect","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_(website)"],"summary":"Reporting project launched by Vox in 2018 that examines the world through philanthropy and effective altruism.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":""},"vox-media":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"For-profit company","fieldSources":{"quote":"https://www.voxmedia.com/","summary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Media"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2011","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.voxmedia.com","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["people"]},"kind":"company","location":"Washington, DC, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/b88f671db74dd0ad74e0290f2b4c1dff.jpg","name":"Vox Media","quote":"Vox Media is where influence sparks action.","quoteUrl":"https://www.voxmedia.com/","sources":["https://www.founderspledge.com/programs/global-catastrophic-risks-fund","https://www.voxmedia.com/","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Media"],"summary":"American digital media company whose brands have included Vox, The Verge, Polygon, SB Nation and Eater; in 2026 its businesses were acquired by Lupa Systems and Penske Media Corporation.","tags":["Communications","Biosecurity"],"taxStatus":"For-profit","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, reporting on the Biological Weapons Convention review conference is biosecurity journalism; may be wrongly counted."},"walter-scheirer":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual academic","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://neuroscienceandbehavior.nd.edu/people/walter-scheirer","kind":"person","location":"Notre Dame, USA","name":"Walter Scheirer","quote":"My research is primarily focused around the problem of recognition, including the representations and algorithms supporting solutions to it.","quoteUrl":"https://engineering.nd.edu/faculty/walter-scheirer/","sources":["https://neuroscienceandbehavior.nd.edu/people/walter-scheirer","https://engineering.nd.edu/faculty/walter-scheirer/"],"summary":"Professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, working on computer vision and machine learning, including open set recognition.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is robust unlearning, prosaic ML safety; the PI's own homepage describes recognition/computer-vision research with no stated takeover motivation, so T3 holds.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://engineering.nd.edu/faculty/walter-scheirer/"}},"wavefront-security":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Service provider; no public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2023","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://impactpool.org/organizations/813295/wavefront-security","kind":"company","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/d4e4d7b6459a2cf2e6f01e1b29fa26e0.jpg","name":"Wavefront Security","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://impactpool.org/organizations/813295/wavefront-security"],"summary":"Provides at-cost cybersecurity services to non-profits and policy organisations, including AI model safety evaluators and biosecurity groups.","tags":["AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"notAI":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Its profile says it gives at-cost cybersecurity to non-profits and policy groups, naming AI safety evaluators, biosecurity and policy groups as clients; that is operational infosec rather than AI research, and part of it serves non-AI causes. I put the notAI share at 0.3 rather than the 0.5 default because the named clients look mostly AI-related.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://impactpool.org/organizations/813295/wavefront-security"}},"weiyan-shi":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://wyshi.github.io/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Weiyan Shi","quote":"I am interested in Agents Managing Agents, Human-AI Interaction, and AI Safety.","quoteUrl":"https://wyshi.github.io/","sources":["https://wyshi.github.io/","https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/"],"summary":"Assistant Professor at Northeastern University working on AI safety, human-AI interaction and agents that manage other agents.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Her grant purposes (a sabotage benchmark and mitigations for emergent misalignment) are prosaic safety, and her AI2050 project is about monitoring and defending against AI persuasion, with no superintelligence or takeover framing on her pages, so T3 with an Adjacent share for the persuasion/AI-and-society work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://wyshi.github.io/"}},"wendell-wallach":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Wallach","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Wendell Wallach","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Wallach","https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/people/wendell-wallach"],"summary":"Author and scholar on the ethics and governance of AI and emerging technologies; Emeritus Chair of Technology and Ethics Studies at Yale's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and a former Carnegie-Uehiro Fellow.","tags":["Academic","Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Yale ethicist; 2015 FLI grant on control and responsible innovation for autonomous machines, mostly ethics/governance rather than takeover risk.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/people/wendell-wallach"}},"weplanet":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://act.weplanet.org/p/web-donate-today","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.weplanet.org/whoweare","people":"https://www.weplanet.org/our-team","quote":"https://www.weplanet.org/whoweare","summary":"https://www.weplanet.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2021","foundedUrl":"https://www.weplanet.org/whoweare","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.weplanet.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/63082d40e400a7a4db9736ed9913a971.png","name":"WePlanet","people":[{"name":"Adam Blazowski","role":"Chair, WePlanet board"},{"name":"Karolina Lisslö Gylfe","role":"Secretary General"}],"quote":"We are a global grassroots movement of scientists and citizens campaigning for scalable science-backed solutions to the climate and nature emergency.","quoteUrl":"https://www.weplanet.org/whoweare","sources":["https://www.weplanet.org/","https://www.weplanet.org/whoweare","https://www.weplanet.org/our-team"],"summary":"Grassroots environmental movement campaigning for science-backed climate and nature solutions, including nuclear energy. Not AI-safety focused.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"Belgian non-profit"},"westexec-advisors":{"aliases":["WestExec"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"people":"https://westexec.com/our-team/","quote":"https://westexec.com/","summary":"https://westexec.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://westexec.com/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"company","location":"Washington, D.C., USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/166b0df61c68bcdb2dd869a602bc8b03.jpg","name":"WestExec Advisors","people":[{"name":"Michèle Flournoy","role":"Co-Founder and Managing Partner"},{"name":"Sergio Aguirre","role":"Co-Founder and Managing Partner"},{"name":"Nitin Chadda","role":"Co-Founder and Managing Partner"}],"quote":"WestExec Advisors is a strategic advisory firm","quoteUrl":"https://westexec.com/","sources":["https://westexec.com/","https://westexec.com/our-team/"],"summary":"Strategic advisory firm, the geopolitical and policy arm of Teneo, whose advisers include former senior defence and national-security officials.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T3":0.3},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Philanthropy's grant page says the contract funded a report on DoD policy, process and funding for test, evaluation, verification and validation (TEVV) of deep learning, which is ML assurance policy for defence with no stated takeover motivation."},"whitebox-research":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page found","fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.whiteboxresearch.org/","summary":"https://manifund.org/projects/whitebox-researchs-ai-interpretability-fellowship"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2023","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://whiteboxresearch.org","kind":"org","location":"Manila, Philippines","logoAsset":"/_blob/549354d39970a1e526844745d90842db.jpg","name":"WhiteBox Research","people":[{"name":"Clark Urzo","role":"Co-Founder and Strategy Director"},{"name":"Individual #6108","role":"Co-Founder and Operations Director"}],"quote":"WhiteBox aims to develop more AI interpretability and safety researchers in Asia.","quoteUrl":"https://whiteboxresearch.org","sources":["https://manifund.org/projects/whitebox-researchs-ai-interpretability-fellowship","https://whiteboxresearch.org","https://www.whiteboxresearch.org/"],"summary":"Sought funding in 2024 to run a free, part-time AI Interpretability Fellowship in Manila to train junior interpretability and safety researchers, with the long-term goal of building an AI safety community in Southeast Asia.","tags":["Education & training","Interpretability","Field-building"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.2,"T3":0.8},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Known as an interpretability fellowship (Philippines-based); interp pipelines default to T3, with a small T2 share for alumni going to x-risk-motivated orgs."},"whylome":{"aliases":["Whylome, Inc."],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://whylome.org/","kind":"org","location":"Vermont, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/c7f9fc8714bfca835d1b0c2cff4e0ba5.png","name":"Whylome","quote":"Whylome, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research organization headquartered deep in the forests of Vermont.","quoteUrl":"https://whylome.org/","sources":["https://whylome.org/","https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/873034706"],"summary":"Nonprofit research institute in Fairfax, Vermont, designated a 501(c)(3), with tax exemption issued in June 2022.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"501(c)(3)","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/873034706"}},"wichita-state-university":{"aliases":["Wichita State University Foundation","WSU Foundation"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1895","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.wichita.edu/","kind":"university","location":"Wichita, KS, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/36d87f5fc0db5fcc3c8e69e37ff05295.jpg","name":"Wichita State University","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.wichita.edu/","https://www.wichita.edu/about/"],"summary":"Research university in Wichita, Kansas, with a stated commitment to applied learning and research and public-private partnerships with businesses.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.wichita.edu/about/"}},"wikiciv":{"aliases":["Wikiciv Foundation","wikiciv.org"],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"no donation page found","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2022","foundedUrl":"https://wikiciv.org/index.php/User:Jehan","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://wikiciv.org/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/50798640159dd19beb6f6c0233849bb2.jpg","name":"Wikiciv","outputs":[{"label":"Wikiciv wiki","type":"other","url":"https://wikiciv.org/"},{"label":"Discord","type":"other","url":"https://discord.gg/ZzdmgSKtrE"}],"people":[{"name":"Jehan","role":"founder (wiki user name; full name not given)"}],"quote":"Wikiciv is a guide for creating modern civilization from the most basic inputs possible.","quoteUrl":"https://wikiciv.org/index.php/Wikiciv:About","sources":["https://wikiciv.org/","https://wikiciv.org/index.php/Wikiciv:About","https://wikiciv.org/index.php/User:Jehan","https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/pJyCWzevPHsycj4oQ"],"status":"active","statusNote":"Wiki still online; homepage last edited 7 July 2025, with 329 articles as of 2026-10-26.","summary":"Wiki guide to creating modern civilisation from the most basic inputs possible, aimed at making societies, communities and individuals more resilient to systemic disruptions.","tags":["Community & infrastructure"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is wiki content for rebuilding civilisational technology after catastrophes, which is general catastrophe resilience, not AI; may be wrongly counted.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://wikiciv.org/index.php/Wikiciv:About"}},"individual-7650":{"name":"Individual #7650","kind":"person","anonId":"7650"},"william-yang-wang":{"aliases":["William Wang"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"http://nlp.cs.ucsb.edu/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"William Yang Wang","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://mind-machine.ucsb.edu/people/directors/william-wang"],"summary":"Professor of computer science at UC Santa Barbara; directs the UCSB NLP group and Responsible Machine Learning Center.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Probably UCSB's William Yang Wang; Open Phil funded parallel 'LLM Use Case Database' grants to UCSB and CMU, and the joint CMU/UCSB REALM dataset of 94k real-world LLM use cases is framed as research on LLMs' societal roles, i.e. AI-impact tracking rather than x-risk work.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://mind-machine.ucsb.edu/people/directors/william-wang"}},"wilson-center":{"aliases":["The Wilson Center","Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"https://engage.wilsoncenter.org/onlineactions/KxzFKo0YTk2W8uYVKK5HKg2","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1968","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.wilsoncenter.org/","kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, United States","logoAsset":"/_blob/56a050e0df0b751fc50503a5da2421cf.jpg","name":"Wilson Center","quote":"For over 50 years, the Wilson Center has bridged scholarship and policy to help leaders navigate global challenges and forge a stronger America and more secure world.","quoteUrl":"https://www.wilsoncenter.org/","sources":["https://www.wilsoncenter.org/","https://www.wilsoncenter.org/about"],"summary":"Congressionally chartered, nonpartisan Washington policy forum linking scholarship and policy on global affairs; ran AI policy seminars and training for congressional staff.","tags":["Governance & policy","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grants paid for the Wilson Center's AI Lab seminars and training for congressional and executive staff, whose published curriculum (AI 101, bias and fairness, data science workshop, national security, China and AI, applications) and the STIP AI items sampled, mostly by title (ethics, transparency, deepfakes, cybersecurity, Indo-Pacific security), show no focus on catastrophic risk, alignment or loss of control.","people":[{"name":"Natasha Jacome","role":"President and CEO"}],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.wilsoncenter.org/leadership"}},"windfall-trust":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"people":"https://windfalltrust.org/about","quote":"https://windfalltrust.org/","summary":"https://windfalltrust.org/about"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2025","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://windfalltrust.org/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/a42bd54e8fe6b1e06930e68fc6ee928d.jpg","name":"Windfall Trust","people":[{"name":"Adrian Brown","role":"Founder and CEO"},{"name":"Anna Yelizarova","role":"Senior Advisor"}],"quote":"Windfall Trust is a policy research organization preparing governments and institutions for AI-driven economic disruption.","quoteUrl":"https://windfalltrust.org/","sources":["https://windfalltrust.org/about","https://windfalltrust.org/"],"summary":"Nonprofit bringing together tech pioneers, economists and policymakers to help countries plan for how transformative AI could reshape jobs, tax bases and social contracts, which it calls AI economic preparedness.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Windfall Trust probably works on distributing economic gains from transformative AI, which is AI economics rather than takeover risk, so Adjacent by the policy rule."},"wise-ancestors":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.wiseancestors.org/donation","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.wiseancestors.org","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/266b28c726ac7ba4ee8ca336e4b467e9.jpg","name":"Wise Ancestors","quote":"Wise Ancestors confronts the extinction crisis by braiding Indigenous and genomic knowledge systems with local community leadership and a decentralized online platform to restore and maintain biodiversity at scale.","quoteUrl":"https://www.wiseancestors.org/our-mission","sources":["https://www.wiseancestors.org","https://www.wiseancestors.org/our-mission"],"summary":"Supports research and community-led efforts on biodiversity understanding and conservation with Indigenous and local communities. Not an AI-safety organisation.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is biodiversity conservation, not AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.wiseancestors.org/our-mission","quote":"https://www.wiseancestors.org/our-mission"}},"witness":{"name":"WITNESS","aliases":["WITNESS Inc"],"kind":"org","homepage":"https://www.witness.org/","donate":"https://give.witness.org/give/56889/","summary":"Human-rights video organisation that trains and supports activists and journalists; since 2018 its 'Prepare, Don't Panic' work covers deepfakes and generative AI, including a Deepfake Rapid Response Force and AI-detection benchmarks.","quote":"We are a global organization that helps people everywhere harness the power of video and technology to defend human rights.","quoteUrl":"https://www.witness.org/","people":[{"name":"Polly Fields","role":"Interim Executive Director"}],"tags":["Communications"],"sources":["https://www.witness.org/","https://www.witness.org/about/","https://www.gen-ai.witness.org/","https://www.macfound.org/grantee/witness-39751/"],"fieldSources":{"people":"https://www.witness.org/","summary":"https://www.gen-ai.witness.org/","quote":"https://www.witness.org/"},"checked":"2026-11-08","xrTier":{"Adjacent":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grants paid for work on deepfakes and synthetic media for human-rights defenders, a misinformation and trust framing with no x-risk aim, so Adjacent (gen-ai.witness.org)."},"individual-3784":{"name":"Individual #3784","kind":"person","anonId":"3784"},"women-of-color-advancing-peace-security-and-conflict-transformation-wcaps":{"aliases":["Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS)"],"checked":"2026-10-28","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://www.wcaps.org/founder/bonniedjenkins","logoUrl":"https://www.wcaps.org/","quote":"https://www.wcaps.org/mission","summary":"https://www.wcaps.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2017","foundedUrl":"https://www.wcaps.org/founder/bonniedjenkins","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.wcaps.org/","kind":"org","location":"Washington, DC, USA","name":"Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS)","people":[{"name":"Amb. 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FLI's page says the WCC project will set 'red lines for AI' and guide governance that 'mitigates the risks of advanced AI'; WCC also joined FLI's joint submission to the UN Global Dialogue, so it leans toward the anti-race reading, but it never names superintelligence or loss of control, so I placed it between the general-ethics default (Adjacent 0.7) and the anti-race default (T1/T2 50/50)."},"world-economic-forum":{"aliases":["WEF"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"1971","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.weforum.org/","kind":"org","location":"Geneva, Switzerland","logoAsset":"/_blob/f649691dc44a1ca0ec31249dda0d32cd.png","name":"World Economic Forum","quote":"Connecting leaders to make sense of global challenges and move the world forward together.","quoteUrl":"https://www.weforum.org/about/world-economic-forum/","sources":["https://www.weforum.org/about/world-economic-forum/"],"summary":"International organisation for public-private cooperation that convenes business, government and civil-society leaders; hosts the Global AI Council.","tags":["Governance & policy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.8,"T3":0.2},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, a WEF Global AI Council workshop co-developed with CHAI is probably the positive-AI-futures/policy convening rather than x-risk work, with a small share for CHAI's safety input."},"wyatt-tessari-lallie":{"aliases":["Wyatt Tessari"],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://fwd50.com/speaker/1985/wyatt-tessari-l-allie","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Wyatt Tessari L'Allié","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://fwd50.com/speaker/1985/wyatt-tessari-l-allie","https://aigs.ca/"],"summary":"Founder and executive director of AI Governance & Safety Canada; former engineer, filmmaker and climate advocate.","tags":["Governance & policy","Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.2,"T1":0.2,"T2":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purposes, growing the AGI safety and governance community in Canada; probably via AI Governance and Safety Canada, which focuses on AGI risk policy.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://fwd50.com/speaker/1985/wyatt-tessari-l-allie"}},"wytham-abbey":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Property, not an organisation","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"","homepageNote":"No website of its own; the house was put up for sale. 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Her homepage lists alignment, safety and scalable oversight as a research area and announces the Open Philanthropy grant on control evaluations for AI debate, with no takeover framing, so control and oversight default to T3.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://xinyadu.github.io"}},"yale-university":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.yale.edu","kind":"university","location":"New Haven, USA","logoAsset":"/_blob/47d263f5867ba091a8981427b185dde7.jpg","name":"Yale University","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.yale.edu","https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/funding-60-projects-to-advance-ai-alignment-research","https://www.yale.edu/about-yale"],"summary":"University in New Haven; Yale economist Dirk Bergemann, with MIT's Stephen Morris and colleagues, has Alignment Project funding to apply mechanism and information design to aligning and controlling advanced AI.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3) private university","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T2":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Open Phil's page funds Dafoe's research on the global politics of advanced AI (partly at FHI), and his GovAI research agenda from this period centred on transformative-AI racing and catastrophic risk, so mostly T2 with an Adjacent share for general geopolitics; the programme label alone was not relied on.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/funding-60-projects-to-advance-ai-alignment-research"}},"individual-7858":{"name":"Individual #7858","kind":"person","anonId":"7858"},"individual-3404":{"name":"Individual #3404","kind":"person","anonId":"3404"},"yarin-gal":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/yarin.gal/website/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Yarin Gal","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/yarin.gal/website/"],"summary":"Professor of Machine Learning in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, working on Bayesian deep learning, with applications including AI safety.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant title, the project traces and removes harmful capabilities across model generations, which is mitigation (unlearning-style) rather than uplift evals; the OATML group page frames its work as general ML with no takeover framing, so T3.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/yarin.gal/website/"}},"yejin-choi":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://hai.stanford.edu/people/yejin-choi","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Yejin Choi","quote":"Her research focuses on democratizing generative AI through smaller yet powerful language models, scaling intelligence via smarter algorithms, pluralistic alignment, and AI for science and social good.","quoteUrl":"https://hai.stanford.edu/people/yejin-choi","sources":["https://hai.stanford.edu/people/yejin-choi"],"summary":"Professor of Computer Science and Senior Fellow at Stanford HAI, researching smaller yet powerful language models, pluralistic alignment and AI for science; AI2050 Senior Fellow.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.7,"T3":0.2,"T4":0.1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The AI2050 page describes the funded project as pluralistic alignment (frameworks, benchmarks, methods and a catalogue of diverse human values) aimed at AI that serves all people, with no catastrophic-risk framing, so the AI-and-society default (Adjacent) applies.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://hai.stanford.edu/people/yejin-choi"}},"yevgeniy-vorobeychik":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://vorobeychik.com/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Yevgeniy Vorobeychik","quote":"Much of my work is in Multiagent Systems, at the intersection of Computer Science and Economics (especially Game Theory).","quoteUrl":"https://vorobeychik.com/","sources":["https://vorobeychik.com/"],"summary":"Professor of computer science and engineering at Washington University in St. Louis; game theory, multiagent systems and adversarial machine learning.","tags":["Academic","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.4,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. His WashU page and talk abstract describe trustworthy AI, adversarial ML and game-theoretic security, with safety framed by examples like self-driving cars and no mention of takeover; the Foresight project itself isn't published.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://vorobeychik.com/","quote":"https://vorobeychik.com/"}},"yield-spread":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VYBGWQ4FPQZAN","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.yieldandspread.org/","kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/8027373f0da8cd94f840f79c8749e0b4.jpg","name":"Yield & Spread","quote":"We help aspiring philanthropists blend their personal financial goals with meaningful giving, showing that you don’t have to choose between stability and generosity.","quoteUrl":"https://www.yieldandspread.org/","sources":["https://www.yieldandspread.org/","https://www.yieldandspread.org/about"],"summary":"US 501(c)(3) nonprofit offering financial education through its Learn to Invest & Build Wealth course and encouraging people to take its FI-lanthropy Pledge.","tags":[],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"notAI":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Grant purpose is giving-pledge marketing in personal finance, not AI.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.yieldandspread.org/about","quote":"https://www.yieldandspread.org/"}},"yiqiao-zhong":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"University — give via the university's giving page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://stat.wisc.edu/staff/zhong-yiqiao/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Yiqiao Zhong","quote":"My recent research interests are the scientific foundations of generative AI, especially Large Language Models (LLMs).","quoteUrl":"https://pages.stat.wisc.edu/~zhong35","sources":["https://stat.wisc.edu/staff/zhong-yiqiao/","https://pages.stat.wisc.edu/~zhong35"],"summary":"Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working on the theory of deep learning and language models.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Homepage describes LLM evaluation, interpretability and theory work aimed at 'safety' with no takeover framing (e.g. circuit analysis of logical reasoning, CoT unfaithfulness, generalisation), so interpretability T3 plus general DL-theory Adjacent.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://pages.stat.wisc.edu/~zhong35","quote":"https://pages.stat.wisc.edu/~zhong35"}},"yizheng-chen":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://surrealyz.github.io/","kind":"person","location":"College Park, USA","name":"Yizheng Chen","quote":"My research focuses on Large Language Models for Code Generation and AI for Security.","quoteUrl":"https://surrealyz.github.io/","sources":["https://www.cs.umd.edu/user/12006","https://surrealyz.github.io/"],"summary":"Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, researching AI for security and the robustness of security models, including LLM cybersecurity benchmarks.","tags":["Academic","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":0.4,"T4":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Misuse-capability eval: the grant builds a benchmark of LLM cybersecurity capabilities (maintainer, 27 Oct: misuse-capability evals T4 60 / T3 40).","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://surrealyz.github.io/"}},"individual-3459":{"name":"Individual #3459","kind":"person","anonId":"3459"},"yonatan-belinkov":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://belinkov.com/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Yonatan Belinkov","quote":"I work on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, especially large language models, multi-modal models, and other natural language processing models.","quoteUrl":"https://belinkov.com/","sources":["https://belinkov.com/"],"summary":"Associate professor of computer science at the Technion working on interpretability and robustness of language models.","tags":["Academic","Interpretability"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T2":0.1,"T3":0.9},"xrTierNote":"Draft. 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Since 2023 Bengio has targeted loss of control by superintelligent agents explicitly; his funded agenda (Schmidt Sciences 'quantitative safety guardrails', non-agentic Scientist AI) is an ambitious but unproven plan (T2), plus slowdown and regulation advocacy (T1); his 2017 Open Phil money predates that turn (T3); seen: Schmidt Sciences profile, Open Phil 2017 grant page.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://yoshuabengio.org/","quote":"https://yoshuabengio.org/"}},"young-people-s-alliance-education-fund":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"https://givebutter.com/ncypa","donateNote":"Education Fund donations are tax-deductible per YPA site","fieldSources":{"people":"https://youngpeoplesalliance.org/press-releases/ca-ab1709-passage","quote":"https://youngpeoplesalliance.org","summary":"https://youngpeoplesalliance.org/education-fund"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.youngpeoplesalliance.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/228918afc3ae19770303cc2d14cd3019.jpg","name":"Young People's Alliance Education Fund","people":[{"name":"Mick Tobin","role":"Co-founder and Advocacy Director"}],"quote":"YPAEF develops nonpartisan youth policy research, organizes our grassroots base, and educates the public on the issues facing our generation.","quoteUrl":"https://youngpeoplesalliance.org/education-fund","sources":["https://www.youngpeoplesalliance.org","https://youngpeoplesalliance.org/press-releases/ca-ab1709-passage","https://youngpeoplesalliance.org","https://youngpeoplesalliance.org/education-fund"],"summary":"The 501(c)(3) affiliate of the Young People's Alliance, a youth-led nonprofit that develops nonpartisan youth policy research, including on AI, and educates the public.","tags":["Advocacy"],"taxStatus":"US 501(c)(3)","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.9,"T2":0.1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. YPA's site shows AI work on kids and chatbots, election misinformation and social-media design, with no mention of catastrophic or loss-of-control risk; the small T2 share reflects the FLI grant context only."},"yu-meng":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual academic","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/yu-meng","kind":"person","location":"Charlottesville, USA","name":"Yu Meng","quote":"My research is dedicated to developing more capable, efficient, and aligned Large Language Models (LLMs).","quoteUrl":"https://yumeng5.github.io/","sources":["https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/yu-meng","https://yumeng5.github.io/"],"summary":"Assistant professor of computer science at the University of Virginia, working on more capable, efficient and aligned large language models.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose, latent adversarial training is a robustness technique against harmful LLM behaviours; the PI's UVA faculty page lists general ML/NLP interests and no x-risk framing, so prosaic T3 holds, though the grant page itself was not found.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://yumeng5.github.io/"}},"yuanyuan-shi":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual researcher","fieldSources":{"homepage":"https://yyshi.ucsd.edu/","quote":"https://yyshi.ucsd.edu/","summary":"https://yyshi.ucsd.edu/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://yyshi.ucsd.edu/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Yuanyuan Shi","quote":"Her group develops theory and algorithms that integrate learning with control-theoretic guarantees, enabling reliable decision-making in complex dynamical systems.","quoteUrl":"https://yyshi.ucsd.edu/","sources":["https://ece.ucsd.edu/people/faculty","https://yyshi.ucsd.edu/"],"summary":"UC San Diego electrical and computer engineering faculty member working on machine learning and control, with applications in power and energy systems.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":""},"yue-xing":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-27","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://sites.google.com/site/xingyuecuhk","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Yue Xing","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://sites.google.com/site/xingyuecuhk"],"summary":"Assistant professor of statistics and probability at Michigan State University researching trustworthy AI, the statistical theory of large language models and adversarial training.","tags":["Academic","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Latent adversarial training research; prosaic robustness, default T3.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://sites.google.com/site/xingyuecuhk"}},"yue-zhao":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"Individual academic","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://viterbi-web.usc.edu/~yzhao010/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Yue Zhao","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://viterbi-web.usc.edu/~yzhao010/","https://foresight.org/grantees/2026-yue-zhao/"],"summary":"Assistant professor of computer science at the University of Southern California and director of the FORTIS Lab, working on reliable and safe AI, spanning LLM and agent safety, robustness and anomaly detection.","tags":["Academic","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the Foresight 2026 grant purpose, audit-to-patch pipelines for LLM agent security at USC; prosaic agent-security work, T3.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://foresight.org/grantees/2026-yue-zhao/"}},"yunha-hwang":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/yunha-hwang/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["quote"]},"kind":"person","location":"","name":"Yunha Hwang","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/yunha-hwang/"],"summary":"Assistant professor at MIT (biology, EECS); machine learning for microbial evolution and enzyme function; AI2050 Early Career Fellow.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/yunha-hwang/"}},"zeroth-research":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.zeroth.org/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 13 names on /team page (staff vs. affiliates not distinguished)","range":"","url":"https://www.zeroth.org/team/","value":13},"homepage":"https://www.zeroth.org","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/aff8ac577a83d73d6a25b6e54c5d918d.jpg","name":"Zeroth Research","people":[{"name":"Individual #2755","role":"CEO"},{"name":"Marek Chalupa","role":"CTO"},{"name":"Greg Neustroev","role":"CSO"}],"quote":"We provide the infrastructure for monitoring and controlling AI systems after deployment, to assure their ongoing compliance with safety specifications and validate modelling assumptions.","quoteUrl":"https://www.zeroth.org","sources":["https://www.zeroth.org","https://www.zeroth.org/team/","https://mircogiacobbe.github.io","https://manifund.org/mgiacobbe","https://www.longtermwiki.com/things/Ru2x7yXhJS","https://www.zeroth.org/"],"status":"active","summary":"Zeroth Research develops formal verification technology to give mathematical guarantees that AI systems behave safely and securely.","tags":["Alignment research","AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"non-profit (self-described)","xrTier":{"untiered":1},"xrTierNote":"Untiered for now. An earlier pass marked it 'purpose unknown', but its own site describes a non-profit combining machine learning with automated reasoning to give AI systems mathematically certain safety guarantees, funded by ARIA under its 'Trust Everything, Everywhere' opportunity space. Verification tooling of this kind is usually prosaic safety (T3); the tier is left for the maintainer. 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Probably Individual #3563 (2021 Open Phil AI Fellowship class, MIT; Western name order in the 990-PF gives 'Zhi Tan'), whose work models human goals and values so AI can infer them and who now lists AI safety and alignment as research interests at NUS, so prosaic value-alignment and cooperative AI rather than robotics.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/people/zhi-tan/"}},"zhijing-jin":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://zhijing-jin.com/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Zhijing Jin","quote":"My research contributes to AI Safety and AI for Science.","quoteUrl":"https://zhijing-jin.com/","sources":["https://zhijing-jin.com/","https://www.schmidtsciences.org/safetyscience/"],"summary":"Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto researching causal reasoning in LLMs, multi-agent LLMs and responsible AI, including interpretability and AI safety work.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.3,"T3":0.7},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Her Toronto talk and bio frame her work as multi-agent LLM safety risks, causal reasoning and alignment with societal values, with no mention of catastrophic or takeover risk; the Schmidt project is interpretability to tell reasoning from memorisation, so prosaic safety plus some non-safety NLP.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://zhijing-jin.com/"}},"zhipu-ai":{"aliases":[],"capabilitiesNote":"Builds frontier GLM language and multimodal models (e.g. GLM-5.3) and sells API access and agent products.","checked":"2026-10-31","fieldSources":{"capabilitiesNote":"https://www.zhipuai.cn/","homepage":"https://www.zhipuai.cn/","location":"https://www.zhipuai.cn/","logoUrl":"https://www.zhipuai.cn/","people":"https://www.zhipuai.cn/","quote":"https://www.zhipuai.cn/","summary":"https://www.zhipuai.cn/"},"homepage":"https://www.zhipuai.cn/","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"kind":"company","location":"Beijing, China","name":"Zhipu AI","people":[{"name":"Liu Debing (刘德兵)","role":"Chairman"}],"quote":"我们不仅生产模型，更构建可信智能","quoteUrl":"https://www.zhipuai.cn/","role":"capabilities","sources":["https://www.zhipuai.cn/"],"summary":"Zhipu AI (Z.ai) is a Chinese AI company that builds the GLM family of large language and multimodal models and sells model APIs, agents and apps.","tags":[]},"zhiqiang-lin":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~lin.3021/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Zhiqiang Lin","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~lin.3021/","https://cse.osu.edu/people/lin.3021"],"summary":"Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Ohio State University; systems and software security.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Schmidt Sciences grantee page says the project builds a simulated environment for testing and defending computer-use agents in adversarial settings; security-style prosaic safety with no takeover framing.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://cse.osu.edu/people/lin.3021"}},"individual-2147":{"name":"Individual #2147","kind":"person","anonId":"2147"},"ziang-xiao":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://ziangxiao.com","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Ziang Xiao","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://ziangxiao.com"],"summary":"Assistant professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University researching human-centred model evaluation, AI for social science and information seeking.","tags":["Academic","Evaluations"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"Adjacent":0.6,"T3":0.4},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Funder's page describes the project as psychometric analysis of existing benchmarks plus a toolkit for building custom ones; that is general evaluation methodology with no stated safety reason beyond the programme label, so it leans Adjacent.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://ziangxiao.com"}},"zico-kolter":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://zicokolter.com/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Zico Kolter","quote":"Much of our work aims at making deep learning algorithms more robust, safer, and understanding how data impacts how models function.","quoteUrl":"https://zicokolter.com/","sources":["https://zicokolter.com/"],"summary":"Professor and Director of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, whose group works to make deep learning more robust and safer.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The Schmidt Sciences grantee page says the project trains a set of LLMs to find out why adversarial attacks transfer between models; this is prosaic adversarial-robustness research.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://zicokolter.com/","quote":"https://zicokolter.com/"}},"zkbricks":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-26","donate":"","donateNote":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://zkbricks.com/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","headcount":{"asOf":"2026-10","basis":"counted 4 people on /team page (includes Mingyuan Wang, listed as an assistant professor at University of Delaware)","range":"","url":"https://zkbricks.com/team.html","value":4},"homepage":"https://zkbricks.com","infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-11-01","notFound":["founded","location"]},"kind":"org","location":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/0594637331472df460b0f258217b0cbe.png","name":"zkBricks","outputs":[{"label":"GitHub","type":"github","url":"https://github.com/zkbricks"},{"label":"Research","type":"publications","url":"https://zkbricks.com/research.html"},{"label":"Blog","type":"blog","url":"https://zkbricks.com/blogs.html"}],"people":[{"name":"Sanjam Garg","role":"Chief Scientist"},{"name":"Arka Rai Choudhuri","role":"Senior Scientist"},{"name":"Individual #7544","role":"Cryptography Researcher"},{"name":"Mingyuan Wang","role":"Assistant Professor, University of Delaware"}],"quote":"We translate cutting-edge advances in cryptography into practical tools for privacy, safety, and trust in digital systems.","quoteUrl":"https://zkbricks.com","sources":["https://zkbricks.com","https://zkbricks.com/team.html","https://zkbricks.com/research.html","https://zkbricks.com/"],"status":"active","summary":"zkBricks is an applied cryptography group that turns research advances into open-source tools for privacy, safety and trust in digital systems.","tags":["AI control & security"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T3":1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. The grant pays academic cryptographers to build defences against LLM backdoors, and zkBricks' site lists 'AI safety' only as a category with a prompt-guard paper and states no takeover aim, so it is prosaic robustness work (T3)."},"zohar-ringel":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://cris.huji.ac.il/en/persons/zohar-ringel/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Zohar Ringel","quoteUrl":"https://cris.huji.ac.il/en/persons/zohar-ringel/","sources":["https://cris.huji.ac.il/en/persons/zohar-ringel/"],"summary":"Associate professor at the Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, whose work spans condensed matter physics and machine learning.","tags":["Academic","Alignment research"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.5,"T3":0.4,"T4":0.1},"xrTierNote":"Draft. From the grant purpose and known work, physics-style theory of neural network learning and generalization; it gets a T1 share under the maths-of-what-networks-learn rule, but it is not explicitly safety-aimed.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://cris.huji.ac.il/en/persons/zohar-ringel/"}},"zongyi-li":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Zongyi Li","quote":"","quoteUrl":"","sources":["https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/zongyi-li"],"summary":"2025 AI2050 Early Career Fellow, then an MIT postdoc due to join NYU Courant as assistant professor of mathematics and data science in autumn 2026; works on neural operators for scientific computing.","tags":["Academic"],"taxStatus":"","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/fellow/zongyi-li"}},"zurich-ai-safety":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fieldSources":{"founded":"https://zurich.aisafety.ch/about/","people":"https://zurich.aisafety.ch/about/","quote":"https://zurich.aisafety.ch/","summary":"https://zurich.aisafety.ch/about/"},"fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"2025","foundedUrl":"https://zurich.aisafety.ch/about/","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://zurich.aisafety.ch","kind":"org","location":"Zurich, Switzerland","logoAsset":"/_blob/7212c11e59427d25f9bc0e5601f08403.jpg","name":"Zurich AI Safety","people":[{"name":"Individual #6139","role":"President"},{"name":"Patrick Widmann","role":"Director"}],"quote":"Let's make sure that AI development happens safely.","quoteUrl":"https://zurich.aisafety.ch/","sources":["https://zurich.aisafety.ch","https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tNBs2RoHNc3keh6CC/zurich-ai-safety-is-looking-for-co-directors-eoi","https://zurich.aisafety.ch/about/","https://zurich.aisafety.ch/"],"summary":"Non-profit community in Zurich of students, researchers and professionals working on the long-term safety of AI, running meetups, courses and events, mostly delivered by volunteers.","tags":["Field-building","Education & training"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.1,"T2":0.3,"T3":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Its EA Forum hiring post says it is a Zurich AI safety community/field-building group (Fundamentals course, talks, co-working, reading group, career support pointing to MATS/BlueDot/ERA/SPAR), with x-risk mentioned only as a Director requirement; tiered as a pipeline by likely destinations, near the talent-pipeline 'stated' default."},"zvi-mowshowitz":{"aliases":[],"checked":"2026-10-25","donate":"","donateNote":"No public donation page","fiscalSponsor":"","founded":"","fundraiser":"","fundraiserDate":"","fundraiserTitle":"","homepage":"https://thezvi.substack.com","kind":"person","location":"","name":"Zvi Mowshowitz","quote":"I also cover issues surrounding catastrophic and existential risk from AI, and the discourse around those issues.","quoteUrl":"https://thezvi.substack.com/about","sources":["https://thezvi.substack.com/about"],"summary":"Writer of the Substack blog Don't Worry About the Vase, which publishes weekly AI updates including coverage of catastrophic and existential risk.","tags":["Communications"],"taxStatus":"","xrTier":{"T1":0.4,"T2":0.6},"xrTierNote":"Draft. Unconditional gift to a blogger whose About page says the blog is mainly about AI and covers catastrophic and existential AI risk; from his known writing, part of it argues against racing, so comms T2 with a T1 share for that part.","fieldSources":{"summary":"https://thezvi.substack.com/about","quote":"https://thezvi.substack.com/about"}}}