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Global catastrophic risks

10 proposals
30 active projects
$1.22M
Grants122Impact certificates8
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Connor Axiotes

'Making God': a Documentary on AI Risks for the Public

Filming a feature-length documentary on risks from AI for a non-technical audience on streaming services

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
14
28
$199K raised
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Asterisk Magazine

Asterisk AI Blogging Fellowship

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
3
1
$10K / $70K
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Tsvi Benson-Tilsen

human intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project

accelerating strong human germline genomic engineering to make lots of geniuses

Science & technologyBiomedicalGlobal catastrophic risks
12
15
$17.9K raised
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Florian Dietz

Split Personality Training

Revealing Latent Knowledge Through Personality-Shift Tokens

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
3
3
$3K raised
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Center for AI Policy

Support CAIP’s 3-month project on reducing chem-bio AI risk

AI governanceBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
6
0
$100 / $400K
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Yuanyuan Sun

AI Governance Exchange (focus on China, AI safety), Seed Funding

Building bridges between Western and Chinese AI governance efforts to address global AI safety challenges.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
5
3
$12.3K raised
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John Sherman

Dads Against AGI Inc.

Funding For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
2
10
$20.2K raised
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ampdot

Act I: Exploring emergent behavior from multi-AI, multi-human interaction

Community exploring and predicting potential risks and opportunities arising from a future that involves many independently controlled AI systems

Technical AI safetyEA Community ChoiceForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
26
98
$67.8K raised
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Tyler John

Philanthropic advising

Technical AI safetyAI governanceBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
4
5
$50K raised
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Jai Dhyani

Luthien

Developing AI Control for Immediate Real-World Use

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
6
6
$45.5K raised
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Francisco Carvalho

Building Tooling to Map how Ideas Spread

The nooscope will deliver public tools to map how ideas spread, starting with psyop detection, within 18 months

Science & technologyForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
2
1
$2.63K / $100K
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Nuño Sempere

Fund Sentinel for Q1-2025

A foresight and emergency response team seeking to react fast to calamities

BiosecurityForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
14
19
$40K raised
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Oliver Habryka

Lightcone Infrastructure

Funding for LessWrong.com, the AI Alignment Forum, Lighthaven and other Lightcone Projects

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA Community ChoiceEA communityForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
36
29
$82K raised
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Piotr Zaborszczyk

AI safety fieldbuilding in Warsaw, Poland (funding for 1 semester)

Reach the university that trained close to 20% of OpenAI early employees

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
5
5
$10K raised
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Jørgen Ljønes

80,000 Hours

We provide research and support to help people move into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceBiosecurityEA Community ChoiceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
12
13
$4.92K raised
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Jonathan Claybrough

Biosecurity bootcamp by EffiSciences

5 day bootcamp upskilling participants on biosecurity, to enable and empower career change towards reducing biorisks, from ML4Good organisers

BiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
2
1
$1.3K raised
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Jordan Braunstein

Overcoming inertial barriers to collective action through anonymous coordination

Combining "kickstarter" style functionality with transitional anonymity to decrease risk and raise expected value of participating in collective action.

Science & technologyAI governanceEA Community ChoiceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
6
25
$822 raised

Complete Projects

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PauseAI US

PauseAI US 2025 through Q2

SFF main round did us dirty!

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
14
23
$100K raised

Unfunded Projects

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Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA

AI Safety Atlas

Distilling AI safety research into a complete learning ecosystem: textbook, courses, guides, videos, and more.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
15
14
$0 raised
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Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA

Scaling AI safety awareness via content creators

4M+ views on AI safety: Help us replicate and scale this success with more creators

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
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6
$0 raised