“My research focuses on ensuring machine learning systems are understood by and aligned with humans.”In their own words: jsteinhardt.stat.berkeley.edu
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.
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Received $3.2M from 4 funders
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Funded by
- Coefficient Giving$2.7M
- AI2050$290k
- Navigating Transformative AI$100k
- Future of Life Institute$88k
All grants
5 grants totalling $3.2M, newest first.
2026 1 grant · $130k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2026 | Coefficient Giving | $130k | Compute Funds for AI Safety Research source |
2025 1 grant · $2.6M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Coefficient Giving | $2.6M | Compute Resources for AI Safety Research (Jacob Steinhardt) source |
2024 1 grant · $290k
2022 1 grant · $100k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2022 | Navigating Transformative AI | $100k | Grant "to provide operational support to Steinhardt’s lab at the University of California Berkeley, which specializes in research on how to align machine learning systems." The webpage https://jsteinhardt.stat.berkeley.edu/ is linked.. From Vipul Naik's donations database (via Op source |
2015 1 grant · $88k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
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| 2015 | Future of Life Institute | $88k | Summer Program in Applied Rationality and Cognition — Stanford University — 2015 AI Safety Grants source |