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Exploring feature interactions in transformer LLMs through sparse autoencoders

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Led byKunvar Thaman
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[Retroactive] Funding for developing new "substrate-flexible risk" threat model

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I self-funded research into a new threat model. It is demonstrating impact (accepted at multiple venues, added to BlueDot's curriculum).

Led byMatthew Farr
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Attention-Guided-RL for Human-Like LMs

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Compute Funding

Led byScott Viteri
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Simplex - building our research team

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Fund a new research agenda, based on computational mechanics, bridging mechanism and behavior to develop a rigorous science of AI systems and capabilities.

Led byAdam Shai
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Talos Network needs your support in 2025

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We are fostering the next generation of AI Policy professionals through the Talos Fellowship. Your help will directly increase the number of places we can offer

Led byDavid Conrad
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Graduate Students for Safe and Responsible AI (SAFARI)

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An association for interdisciplinary interest in AI 

Led byAnnalise Norling
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AI vs AI: Deepfake and GenAI Defense System for Combating Synthetic Media threat

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Empowering everyone to detect and combat AI-generated content threats with advanced multi-modal verification tool

Led byUtsav Singhal
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Veritas: Testing Whether RAG Systems Truly Forget

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An audit-grade evaluation of persistent influence, reset failure, and isolation assumptions in long-context AI systems

Led byReamond Lopez
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AI Risk Literacy for Clinicians: Building a Trusted Voice for AI Governance

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A trusted profession that has advocated against existential risks like nuclear war can do so again for AI — but clinicians must first be made aware of the risks

Led byDr Richard Armitage
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Help AIs create AI safety tools

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Automated creation of defensive tools like AI control protocols and defensive cybersecurity agents

Led byJacob Arbeid
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AI Safety Los Angeles (AISLA)

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The Official AI Safety Community in Los Angeles

Led byKristina Vaia
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More Detailed Cyber Kill Chain For AI Control Evaluation

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Extending an AI control evaluation to include vulnerability discovery, weaponization, and payload creation

Led byJames Lucassen
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Travel Funding to Attend Workshop on Biosecurity and AI Safety at Oxford

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Funding top-up for an early-career reseacher to attend Global Challenges Project (GCP) Workshop for career exploration in mitigating GCRs

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Agent Threat Rules (ATR): open detection rule corpus for AI agent attacks

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344 MIT rules merged into Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit, Cisco AI Defense, MISP, OWASP. Microsoft Copilot SWE Agent uses ATR for CVE triage.

Led byAdam Lin
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Runway till January: Amplify's funding ask to market EA & AI Safety 

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Help us solve the talent and funding bottleneck for EA and AIS.

Led byGergő Gáspár
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Activation vector steering with BCI

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No summary available yet.

Led byLisa Thiergart
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Model Interpretability on modFDTGPT2-XL, a partially-aligned model

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6 months of work: Evaluating a variant of GPT2-XL that can simulate a shutdown activation, aiming to improve alignment theory & develop interpretability tools.

Led byMiguelito De Guzman
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AI & Quantum Diplomacy

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A Research Agenda for Sovereign Capability

Led byDr. Smadar Itskovich
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Agent Island: An Environment for Interagent Cooperation and Conflict

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A flexible simulation environment for assessing strategic and persuasive capabilities, benchmarking, and agent development, inspired by reality TV competitions.

Led byConnacher Murphy
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Emergent misalignment and memetic replication in multi-agent codebases

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No summary available yet.

Led byJonathan Elsworth Eicher
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Paired-Condition Audit + Time-Constraint Theory for AI Alignment Stability

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Proves observed alignment under monitoring ≠ intrinsic policy. Full simulator, 1,000-scenario audit, and general theory of entity freedom (ϕ_x).

Led byTimothy Karsch
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Next Steps in Developmental Interpretability

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Addressing Immediate AI Safety Concerns through DevInterp

Led byJesse Hoogland
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Diversify Funding for AI Safety

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Seeding a business which finds grants and High Net Worth Individuals beyond EA

Led byAngie Normandale
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3 months full-time contributing software to Inspect

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No summary available yet.

Led byAnthony Duong
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Get OpenAI employees addicted to factorio

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by buying gift cards for the game and handing them out at the OpenAI offices

Led byBoyd Kane
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FragGuard: Cross-Session Malicious Activity Detection for Model APIs

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No summary available yet.

Led byLinh Le
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PayBench: A Benchmark for Unsafe Commercial Autonomy

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Benchmark for agent safety when spending users money. How often do they violate user intent and rules?

Led byConor Plunkett
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Mapping neuroscience and mechanistic interpretability

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Surveying neuroscience for tools to analyze and understand neural networks and building a natural science of deep learning

Led byZhonghao He
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Effective AI Awareness: improving evidence-based AI risk communication

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No summary available yet.

Led byMonica Ulloa
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African Livestock AI Evals: Benchmarking LLMs on Nigerian Agricultural Knowledge

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The first AI safety evaluation benchmark for Nigerian indigenous livestock systems testing whether frontier models are safe to deploy in African food systems.

Led byFatika Umar Ibrahim
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Hardening a fail-closed runtime for agentic AI systems

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This round of funding will be used primarily for prototype hardening, artifact packaging, runtime evaluation, and preparation for external review.

Led byMu Zi
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Support CAIP’s Advocacy Work in 2025

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Advocating for U.S. federal AI safety legislation to reduce catastrophic AI risk.

Led byCenter for AI Policy
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Cash runway while I go through interviews/wait for OpenPhil's grant decision

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I've self funded my ramp up for six months and interview/grant processes are taking longer than expected.

Led byCarlos Rafael Giudice
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Riesgos Catastróficos Globales

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Promoting better management of Global Catastrophic Risks in Spanish-Speaking countries.

Led byJorge Andrés Torres Celis
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Investigating constructability as a safer approach to machine-learning

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No summary available yet.

Led byCharbel-Raphael Segerie
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Stress-testing alignment auditing methods of AuditBench

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No summary available yet.

Led byShaun Srirangam
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Organizing global AI ethics think tank for dynamic AI research updates

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Organizing global AI ethics think tank for dynamic AI research updates and framework for AI safety policies implementation and humanity income support

Led byLAUREL
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Online Biosecurity Course Starting May 2025

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Running the initial online version of a 4-week biosecurity course for 20-50 participants

Led byLin Bowker-Lonnecker
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Benchmarking and comparing different evaluation awareness metrics

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LLMs often know when they are being evaluated. We’ll do a study comparing various methods to measure and monitor this capability.

Led byJord Nguyen
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Videos covering AI news and politics with a focus on the extinction threat

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Social media content across YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok to grow AI x-risk awareness and build political momentum for a global pause.

Led byTom Bibby
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Summer AI Safety Workshops For 6th-8th Graders in India

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Inspiring India’s Middle‑Schoolers to pursue AI Safety, Governance, and X‑Risk Work

Led byAashka Patel
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Support for Deep Coverage of China and AI

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No summary available yet.

Led byJordan Schneider
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Wisdom Architecture: An Adaptive Layer for Cognitive Augmentation and Safer AI

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Developing an innovative wisdom layer for AI that enhances its capabilities for deep analysis, safe AI, and creative solutions to complex systemic problems.

Led byAntony Kalabukhov
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The Verified Loop: A Cyber-Physical Protocol for Deterministic AI Safety

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De-risking AI Catastrophe: A cyber-physical protocol using ZKPs and NIR Spectroscopy to resolve the governance deadlock in critical global infrastructure.

Led byNazia Nizar
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SDCPNs for AI Safety

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Developing correct-by-construction world models for verification of frontier AI

Led byJade Master
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Conceptual Boundaries Workshop (already funded, but some additional things)

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No summary available yet.

Led byChris Lakin
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Understanding Memory Management in Transformers

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We build a scalable "Automated Circuit Discovery" method and investigate "Cleanup Behavior" to advance the interpretability of transformer models.

Led byCan Rager
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Measuring Architectural SelfCorrection in an LLM Agent: 0.336 Baseline on 76,570

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Measured post-embodied sensation integration. Solo daily-pace brain-function development in Osaka. Phase 1 funds higher cognitive integration program.

Led bynobutaka hattori
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Alignment System to Replace RLHF

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Triadic geometric training data and architecture replaces RLHF

Led byRose G. Loops
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Run five international hackathons on AI safety research

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Six-month support for a Program Manager to organize and execute international AI safety hackathons with Apart Research

Led byEsben Kran Christensen
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