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).
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Received $3.6M from 4 funders
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7 grants totalling $3.6M, newest first.
2026 3 grants · $1.8M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Feb 2026 | The Alignment Project | ~$590k | Alignment Project round 1 (lead: Jin, Zhijing): Formal verification and Empirical Testing of Translucency in Multi-Agent AI Systems. 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: Jin, Zhijing): Game-Theoretic Safety Guarantees for Advanced AI Systems. 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: Kahn, Yonatan; Levi, Noam; Larkoski, Andrew): Scaling laws, data distributions, and learning dynamics: simulated high-energy physics data as a benchmark. Amount undisclosed; awards £50k–£1M from a £27m pool across 60 announced projects. source |
2025 1 grant · $455k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Dec 2025 | AI Safety Fund (Frontier Model Forum) | ~$455k | AISF Round 2: Emergent role of sanctioning in regulating multi-agent LLM systems. Amount undisclosed; share of >$5M across 11 grants. Amount here is an estimate: an equal share of the round's >$5M. source |
2023 2 grants · $842k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2023 | Coefficient Giving | $762k | Projects related to AI alignment — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source |
| Jan 2023 | Navigating Transformative AI | $80k | Grant "to support Toryn Klassen’s research on topics related to AI alignment.". From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source |
2020 1 grant · $520k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2020 | Navigating Transformative AI | $520k | The grant page says: "[the grant is] to support research on understanding, predicting, and controlling machine learning systems, led by Professor Chris Maddison, a former Open Phil AI Fellow. This funding is intended to enable three.... From Vipul Naik's donations database (via O source |