FTX Future Fund↗

No longer funding AI safety
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Funder·Founded 2022
“a philanthropic fund making grants and investments to ambitious projects”In its own words: forum.nunosempere.com

Philanthropic fund of the FTX Foundation, launched in February 2022, that made grants and investments to improve humanity's long-term prospects, including AI safety work. Closed in November 2022 when FTX collapsed and its executive team resigned, leaving many committed grants unpaid.

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Part of the FTX Foundation (announced 28 Feb 2022), it made grants and investments through three channels: a one-off open call (about 4% of 1,700+ applications funded), regranting budgets given to independent grantmakers, and staff-led grants, plus prizes. Staff-led grants made up the largest share of dollars.

Says it has given about $132M in total

Itemised here $55M in 93 grants

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Led by Nick Beckstead (CEO)Its grants page ↗Checked 29 Oct 2026

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93 grants totalling $55M, newest first. Recipients link to their own pages; people who received grants without a public profile are shown by number.

2022 92 grants · $55M
DateRecipientAmountPurpose
Aug 2022Fund for Alignment Research$1MRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Operations: engineering support for alignment researchers source
Aug 2022Cihang Xie, UC Santa Cruz$350kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Research on adversarial robustness and honest AI source
Aug 2022HR Luna Park$200kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Headhunting ML engineers for AI safety organisations source
Aug 2022Machine Learning Moral Uncertainty Competition$100kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Prizes for ML estimation of moral uncertainty source
Aug 2022The Inside View (Individual #4322)$52kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): 20 podcast/YouTube episodes on AI and its risks source
Aug 2022Individual #7222$30kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Three months of independent interpretability research
Aug 2022Charbel-Raphaël Segerie$25kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Six months of AI safety mentoring and study source
Jul 2022Constellation$3.9M18 months of operations for a longtermist coworking space in Berkeley source
Jul 2022Safety Philosophers Program$1.3MRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Seven-month AI safety research fellowship for philosophy academics source
Jul 2022Alignment Research Center$1.3MResearcher salaries, AI capability evaluation contractors, ELK prizes and workshops source
Jul 2022David Bau$766kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): 2-3 years of interpretability research on knowledge in LLMs source
Jul 2022AI Safety Community Building Hub$500kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): New organisation doing AI safety outreach to ML professionals source
Jul 2022Chatham House$400kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): UK convening and research on AI policy, pandemic, defence and great-power tech relations source
Jul 2022Chenhao Tan, University of Chicago$250kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): PhD student or postdoc to orient the lab toward AI safety source
Jul 2022Adji Bousso Dieng, Princeton University$250kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Robust generative models under non-random missing data source
Jul 2022Tim Oates, University of Maryland, Baltimore County$183kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Alignment research with a graduate student source
Jul 2022Existential Risk NeurIPS prize$100kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Prizes for NeurIPS workshop papers, incl. best AI x-risk discussion source
Jul 2022The Treacherous Turn Game$96kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Tabletop roleplaying game simulating advanced-AI risks source
Jul 2022AI Governance Summer Program$91kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Ten mentored AI governance summer fellows source
Jul 2022Individual #7961$65kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Four months of theoretical AI safety research mentored by Evan Hubinger
Jul 2022Individual #7858$56kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Teaching buyout to forecast AGI scenarios and research alignment
Jul 2022Individual #1188$50kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Career transition from physics to AI safety
Jul 2022Individual #9412$50kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Three-year cybersecurity project for AI research, paid against progress reports
Jul 2022David Chapman$48kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Independent research on AI risk magnitude and useful actions source
Jul 2022Individual #6111$43kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): AI safety study and research assistance for Lennart Heim
Jul 2022Individual #6601$40kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Six months of AI safety work
Jul 2022Individual #5693$30kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Six months of interpretability and AI safety research
Jul 2022Individual #4507$26kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Teaching buyout for AI governance research
Jul 2022Simeon Campos$25kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Part-time AI safety projects source
Jun 2022Long-Term Future Fund$3.9MFunding for LTFF's longtermist grantmaking (money to another funder; see transfer ftx-ltff-2022) source
Jun 2022Legal Priorities Project$700kOne year of operating expenses and salaries source
Jun 2022Sergey Levine, UC Berkeley$600kRisks of deception and persuasion from LLMs with offline RL source
Jun 2022AI Safety Camp$290kDirectors' salaries and camp logistics source
Jun 2022Differential Projections$250kNew research org using probabilistic models to forecast transformative AI questions source
Jun 2022Emma Pierson, Cornell University$250kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Research on fair and robustly aligned ML systems source
Jun 2022AI Impacts$250kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Rerunning the 2016 expert survey on AI progress source
Jun 2022Individual #5451$182kSite for collaboratively writing public forecasting questions [forecasting; counted for now]
Jun 2022Neel Nanda$125kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): A year of salary, an RA and compute for independent AI safety research source
Jun 2022Montaigne Institute$68kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Full-time staff member on AI policy source
Jun 2022Individual #5966$38kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Five months building longtermist and AI alignment communities
Jun 2022Individual #7896$27kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Six months distilling AI alignment research
Jun 2022Individual #5020$25kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Summer research internship at Columbia on aligning program synthesis models
Jun 2022Individual #6700$25kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Career transition to longtermist work incl. biosecurity research
Jun 2022Individual #2708, Cornell University$25kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Students and postdocs attend a human-centred AI conference and write a report source
May 2022Ought$5MRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Building Elicit; research on scaling human supervision via process-based systems source
May 2022Federation of American Scientists$1MRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Three years of a researcher and RA on high-skill immigration and AI policy source
May 2022Anca Dragan, UC Berkeley$800kInteractive alignment algorithms that learn causal features of human reward source
May 2022Sage$700kPilot forecasting platform and paid team [forecasting; counted for now] source
May 2022Manifold Markets$500kCharity prediction market [forecasting; counted for now] source
May 2022Individual #2207$380kFine-tuning GPT-3 to find flaws in other models' arguments
May 2022Olle Häggström, Chalmers University of Technology$380kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Research, outreach and policy work on x-risk and AI risk source
May 2022Association for Long Term Existence and Resilience (ALTER)$320kAcademic research and advocacy on AI safety and biorisk policy source
May 2022Brian Christian$300kBook on human values and aligning AI with human preferences source
May 2022Daniel Brown, University of Utah$280kValue alignment verification algorithms and user studies source
May 2022Modeling Transformative AI Risks (Individual #1534, Individual #1758, Analytica Consulting)$272kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Quantitative model of AI risks and interventions source
May 2022AI Alignment Prize on Inverse Scaling$250kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Prizes for tasks where larger LMs do worse source
May 2022Individual #7252$230kTraining LLMs to represent prediction-market answer distributions [forecasting; counted for now]
May 2022AI Safety Support$200kCommunity building and alignment talent pipeline source
May 2022Individual #2771$190kStudent interns writing on AI safety, alternative proteins and biosecurity
May 2022Confido Institute$190kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Forecasting and uncertainty-communication app [forecasting; counted for now] source
May 2022MineRL BASALT competition at NeurIPS$155kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): NeurIPS competition on learning from human feedback in Minecraft source
May 2022Essay Contest on Existential Risk in US Cost-Benefit Analysis (Legal Priorities Project)$138kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Essay contest aimed at revising OMB Circular A-4 to account for x-risk source
May 2022Prometheus Science Bowl$100kEliciting Latent Knowledge competition for students source
May 2022Apart Research$95kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Founding an AI safety research and community platform source
May 2022Artificial Intelligence Summer Residency Program$60kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Six-week AI safety residency in Berkeley source
May 2022Trojan Detection Challenge at NeurIPS 2022$50kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Prizes for detecting trojaned neural networks source
May 2022Individual #1573$46kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Salary, compute and scholarship for LM safety research
May 2022Individual #8028$43kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Four months of salary and compute for alignment research
May 2022Individual #3716$35kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Policy retreat on governing AI
May 2022Individual #8388$29kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Summer of alignment research in Berkeley
May 2022Individual #6584$8kSummer at FHI researching differential tech development and existential risk
Apr 2022Lionel Levine, Cornell University$1.5MAlignment theory research at the Cornell maths department source
Apr 2022Simon Institute for Longterm Governance$820kPolicy work with the UN system on preventing existential risks source
Apr 2022ML Safety Scholars Program$490kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Nine-week summer ML safety programme for up to 100 students source
Apr 2022Legal Priorities Project$480kResearch and outreach: two hires and a summer institute source
Apr 2022ALTER (Agent Foundations research with Vanessa Kosoy)$200kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): 1.5-3 years of a maths researcher on the learning-theoretic AI safety agenda source
Apr 2022EffiSciences$135kPromoting high-impact research (AI safety, biosecurity, climate) among French students and academics source
Apr 2022Individual #4075$100kResearch assistants for a PhD student working on AI safety
Apr 2022AI Risk Public Materials Competition$40kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Two competitions for public materials on AI x-risk source
Apr 2022Individual #1420$38kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Three months of AI safety research
Apr 2022Adversarial Robustness Prizes at ECCV$30kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Prizes for long-term-relevant adversarial robustness papers source
Apr 2022Individual #6610$28kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Applying cryptography to AI safety
Mar 2022Swift Centre for Applied Forecasting$2MRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): New applied forecasting centre [forecasting; counted for now] source
Mar 2022Manifold Markets$1MRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Play-money prediction market platform [forecasting; counted for now] source
Mar 2022Rethink Priorities$700kResearch and projects on humanity's long-term prospects source
Mar 2022Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative$100kSecond core operations hire supporting university x-risk research groups source
Mar 2022Individual #9397$100kHigh-quality materials for learning about AI safety
Mar 2022Individual #5153$50kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Six months of AI safety research
Feb 2022Longview Philanthropy$15MLongview's independent grantmaking on global priorities research, nuclear weapons policy and other longtermist issues (money to another funder; see transfer ftx-longview-2022) source
Feb 2022Lightcone Infrastructure$2MLessWrong, events and office space source
2022Pathos Labs (PopShift)$50kConvening tech and existential-risk experts with TV writers; month not given source
2022Topos Institute$30kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): Second 'Finding the Right Abstractions' workshop linking category theory and alignment; month not given source
2021 1 grant · $158k
DateRecipientAmountPurpose
Jun 2021Individual #5415$158kRegrant (recommended by an FTX regrantor): PhD at Cambridge linking algorithmic information theory, epistemology and AGI (dated June 2021 on the page)