“Supports research into the design and implementation of safe learning-enabled systems in which safety is ensured with high levels of confidence.”In its own words: nsf.gov
An NSF CISE funding programme (solicitation NSF 23-562, published February 2023) for research on designing safe learning-enabled systems, run in partnership with Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures. The solicitation is now archived.
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Typical grant $439k ($375k–$940k)
Itemised here $8.2M in 13 grants
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Checked 29 Oct 2026
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Biggest recipients
- University of Southern California (Jyotirmoy Deshmukh)$1.5M
- Harvard University (Sitan Chen)$800k
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Hanghang Tong)$800k
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Individual #8798)$800k
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (Sharon Li)$793k
- Oregon State University (Sandhya Saisubramanian)$750k
All grants
13 grants totalling $8.2M, newest first. Recipients link to their own pages; people who received grants without a public profile are shown by number.
2024 9 grants · $5.8M
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2024 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Hanghang Tong) | $800k | NSF SLES award 2416070: NetSafe: Towards a Computational Foundation of Safe Graph Neural Networks. Estimated total award; 2024 cohort; programme run with Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures source |
| Aug 2024 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Individual #8798) | $800k | NSF SLES award 2416897: Monitoring, Improving, and Certifying Safe Foundation Models. Estimated total award; 2024 cohort; programme run with Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures source |
| Aug 2024 | Oregon State University (Sandhya Saisubramanian) | $750k | NSF SLES award 2416459: Collaborative Research: No Bad Surprises: Aligning Agent and Human Norms via Specification Refinements. Estimated total award; 2024 cohort; programme run with Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures source |
| Aug 2024 | University of Utah (Daniel Brown) | $439k | NSF SLES award 2416761: High-Confidence Guarantees for Safe Reward and Policy Learning Under Uncertainty. Estimated total award; 2024 cohort; programme run with Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures source |
| Aug 2024 | Ohio State University (Xueru Zhang) | $400k | NSF SLES award 2416895: Collaborative Research: Long-Term Safety for Human-AI Ecosystem. Estimated total award; 2024 cohort; programme run with Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures source |
| Aug 2024 | University of California, Santa Cruz (Yang Liu) | $396k | NSF SLES award 2416896: Collaborative Research: Long-Term Safety for Human-AI Ecosystem. Estimated total award; 2024 cohort; programme run with Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures source |
| Aug 2024 | University of Massachusetts Amherst (Shlomo Zilberstein) | $375k | NSF SLES award 2416460: Collaborative Research: No Bad Surprises: Aligning Agent and Human Norms via Specification Refinements. Estimated total award; 2024 cohort; programme run with Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures source |
| Aug 2024 | University of Texas at Austin (Joydeep Biswas) | $375k | NSF SLES award 2416461: Collaborative Research: No Bad Surprises: Aligning Agent and Human Norms via Specification Refinements. Estimated total award; 2024 cohort; programme run with Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures source |
| Jul 2024 | University of Southern California (Jyotirmoy Deshmukh) | $1.5M | NSF SLES award 2417075: A Neurosymbolic Approach for Safe Multi-Agent Systems. Estimated total award; 2024 cohort; programme run with Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures source |
2023 4 grants · $2.4M
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2023 | Harvard University (Sitan Chen) | $800k | NSF SLES award 2331831: A Theoretical Lens on Generative AI Safety: Near and Long Term. Estimated total award; 2023 cohort (NSF 23-562, $10.9M announced 31 Oct 2023); programme run with Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures source |
| Sep 2023 | University of Wisconsin-Madison (Sharon Li) | $793k | NSF SLES award 2331669: Foundations of Safety-Aware Learning in the Wild. Estimated total award; 2023 cohort (NSF 23-562, $10.9M announced 31 Oct 2023); programme run with Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures source |
| Sep 2023 | University of California, Los Angeles (Cho-Jui Hsieh) | $540k | NSF SLES award 2331966: Collaborative Research: Verifying and Enforcing Safety Constraints in AI-based Sequential Generation. Estimated total award; 2023 cohort (NSF 23-562, $10.9M announced 31 Oct 2023); programme run with Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures source |
| Sep 2023 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Huan Zhang) | $260k | NSF SLES award 2331967: Collaborative Research: Verifying and Enforcing Safety Constraints in AI-based Sequential Generation. Estimated total award; 2023 cohort (NSF 23-562, $10.9M announced 31 Oct 2023); programme run with Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures source |