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.
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Received $4.5M from 4 funders
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10 grants totalling $4.5M, newest first.
2026 2 grants · $1.2M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Feb 2026 | The Alignment Project | ~$590k | Alignment Project round 1 (lead: Santhanam, Rahul): A Theoretical Framework for Machine Understanding. 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: Individual #43103): Adversarial Elicitation Theory. Amount undisclosed; awards £50k–£1M from a £27m pool across 60 announced projects. source |
2025 5 grants · $2.7M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Dec 2025 | Advanced Research + Invention Agency | $343k | Mathematics for Safe AI (amendment: new scope, value and 12-month extension; new total £513,683 (extends the Abate grant)); £270,366 incl. VAT where applicable (FY25-26 transparency recap) source |
| 21 Aug 2025 | Advanced Research + Invention Agency | $112k | Mathematics for Safe AI (grant, 18 months); £87,889 incl. VAT source |
| 20 Jun 2025 | Advanced Research + Invention Agency | $635k | Mathematics for Safe AI (grant, 12 months); £499,642 incl. VAT where applicable (FY25-26 transparency recap) source |
| 26 Feb 2025 | Advanced Research + Invention Agency | $635k | Safeguarded AI TA3 (grant, 15 months); £499,999 incl. VAT; technical area inferred source |
| 14 Feb 2025 | Advanced Research + Invention Agency | $977k | Safeguarded AI TA3 (grant, 15 months); £769,154 incl. VAT; technical area inferred source |
2024 1 grant · $114k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Sep 2024 | Advanced Research + Invention Agency | $114k | Safeguarded AI Safeguarded AI (grant, 12 months); £89,484 incl. VAT; technical area inferred source |
2021 1 grant · $78k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2021 | Long-Term Future Fund | $78k | EA Funds grants database (2021 Q4): DPhil project in AI that addresses safety concerns in ML algorithms and positions Kai to work on China-West AI relations source |
2018 1 grant · $430k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2018 | Navigating Transformative AI | $430k | Grant to support research on the global politics of advanced artificial intelligence. The work will be led by Professor Allan Dafoe at the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford, United Kingdom. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended.... From Vipul Naik's donations database (v source |