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.
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Received $19M from 4 funders
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13 grants totalling $19M, newest first.
2026 2 grants · $1.2M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Feb 2026 | The Alignment Project | ~$590k | Alignment Project round 1 (lead: Guruswami, Venkatesan): Error-correction and Pseudorandomness in Alignment: Watermarks and Backdoors. Amount undisclosed; awards £50k–£1M from a £27m pool across 60 announced projects. source |
| 19 Feb 2026 | The Alignment Project | ~$590k | Alignment Project round 1 (lead: Yu, Bin): The Geometry of Risk: Using Model Complexity to Improve Predictions of Catastrophic AI Failures. Amount undisclosed; awards £50k–£1M from a £27m pool across 60 announced projects. source |
2023 2 grants · $526k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2023 | Navigating Transformative AI | $26k | University of California, Berkeley — AI Alignment Workshop — Open Philanthropy recommended a gift of $26,000 to UC Berkeley to support a small workshop bringing together experts in computational social choice theory and AI alignment. Professor Wesley H.... [Navigating Transformat source |
| 2023 | MacArthur Foundation | $500k | Foundations of Machine Learning Lab's Algorithm Auditing Project: audit case studies, practitioner resources, policy guidance on algorithmic accountability (4 years) — MacArthur Technology in the Public Interest, grantee page source |
2022 1 grant · $800k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2022 | Coefficient Giving | $800k | Truthfulness problems in language models — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2021–Jun 2022 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source |
2021 5 grants · $13M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2021 | Navigating Transformative AI | $88k | Grant to "support postdoctoral research by Aditi Raghunathan on adversarial robustness as a means to improve AI safety.". From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source |
| Jul 2021 | Navigating Transformative AI | $25k | Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Standards (2021) — Open Philanthropy recommended a gift of $25,000 to the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC), via UC Berkeley, to support work by CLTC's AI Security Initiative on the development and... [Navigating Transformative AI; source |
| Feb 2021 | Navigating Transformative AI | $330k | Grant "to support research by Professor Dawn Song on adversarial robustness as a means to improve AI safety.". From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source |
| Feb 2021 | Navigating Transformative AI | $330k | UC Berkeley — Adversarial Robustness Research (David Wagner) — Grant Investigator: Catherine Olsson and Individual #3182 This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigators. UC Berkeley staff also reviewed this page prior to publication. Open... [Navigating Transfor source |
| Jan 2021 | Navigating Transformative AI | $12M | UC Berkeley — Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (2021) — Grant investigator: Nick Beckstead This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. UC Berkeley staff also reviewed this page prior to publication. Open Philanthropy recommended a... [Navi source |
2019 1 grant · $1.1M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2019 | Navigating Transformative AI | $1.1M | The grant page says: "This funding will allow Professor Steinhardt to fund students to work on robustness, value learning, aggregating preferences, and other areas of machine learning.". From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source |
2018 1 grant · $1.1M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2018 | Navigating Transformative AI | $1.1M | Grant "for machine learning researchers Pieter Abbeel and Aviv Tamar to study uses of generative models for robustness and interpretability. This funding will allow Mr. Abbeel and Mr. Tamar to fund PhD students and summer undergraduates.... From Vipul Naik's donations database (v source |
2017 1 grant · $1.5M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2017 | Navigating Transformative AI | $1.5M | The grant page says: "The work will be led by Professors Sergey Levine and Anca Dragan, who will each devote approximately 20% of their time to the project, with additional assistance from four graduate students. They initially intend.... From Vipul Naik's donations database (via source |