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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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Evitable

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Evitable is a nonprofit that informs and organizes the public to confront societal-scale risks from AI and put an end to the reckless race to develop superintelligence.

Led byDavid Krueger, Gretchen Krueger
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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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Compassion in Machine Learning

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OrgValue AlignmentAI Evals & Red-TeamingTechnical AI SafetyFundraising

CaML researches how synthetic pretraining data can shift AI systems towards greater compassion and moral open-mindedness regarding all sentient beings, including animals and potential digital minds.

Led byJasmine Brazilek, Miles Tidmarsh
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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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Shallow review of cost-effectivness of technical AI safety orgs

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Do ACE-style cost-effectivness analysis of technical AI safety orgs.

Led byMikolaj Kniejski
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Sage Future

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OrgAI ForecastingRationality & EpistemicsData PlatformFundraising

Sage builds tools to improve forecasting skills and public understanding of AI capabilities, with the goal of reducing global catastrophic risks from emerging technologies.

Led byAdam Binksmith, Aaron Ho, Eli Lifland, and others
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AI forecasting and policy research by the AI 2027 team

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AI Futures Project

Led byJonas Vollmer
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Φ-Arena and adversarial multi-agent VLA interpretability

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Independent collective. Φ-Arena open benchmark, 3 ICLR 2027 papers (Φ-Arena, mechinterp, energy-bounded) — kickstart for a 10-year program.

Led byYuchen Liu
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Horizon Events 2025

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Non-profit facilitating progress in AI safety R&D through events

Led byOrpheus Lummis
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Retroactive funding for Don't Dismiss Simple Alignment Approaches

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No summary available yet.

Led byChris Leong
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Paper Clip Apocalypse (War Horse Machine)

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Short Documentary and Music Video

Led bySara Holt
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Jacques Thibodeau - Independent AI Safety Research

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3 month salary for AI safety work on deconfusion and technical alignment.

Led byJacques Thibodeau
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The Emergent AI Foundation

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A Coherence based Emergent Protocol

Led byAdriaan
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Doom Debates

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Doom Debates is a podcast and debate show hosted by Liron Shapira focused on high-stakes debates about AI existential risk. Its mission is to raise mainstream awareness of potential extinction from AGI and build social infrastructure for high-quality public discourse on the topic.

Led byLiron Shapira, Ori Nagel
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Groundless Alignment Residency 2025

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Practicing Embodied Protocols that work with Live Interfaces

Led byAditya Arpitha Prasad
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Support the AI Policy Institute for AGI preparedness polling and education

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No summary available yet.

Led byJeffrey Starr
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Epistemology in Large Language Models

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1-year salary for independent research to investigate how LLMs know what they know.

Led byBart Bussmann
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Synthetic pretraining to make AIs more compassionate

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Enabling Compassion in Machine Learning (CaML) to develop methods and data to shift future AI values

Led byMiles Tidmarsh
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Project B2-Boop: Gamifying Instrumental Convergence & Reward Hacking

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A virtual pet simulator that teaches reinforcement learning failures through simple and fun interactions.

Led byLukas Penkava
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The AI Risk Network (ARN)

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OrgComms & Public AwarenessPodcast & MediaFundraising

A Baltimore-based nonprofit media platform that produces podcasts, videos, and social content to bring AI extinction risk into mainstream public conversation.

Led byJohn Sherman, Louis S. Berman, Cameron Berg, and others
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Art installation pilot: bridging silos between AI Safety and the public

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Ship It: Building Bridges for Better AI Outcomes

Led byLauren Mecca
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Live Theory

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OrgTechnical AI SafetyAlignment TheoryFundraising

An AI safety research initiative developing new adaptive theoretical frameworks and AI interface designs to keep human sensemaking at pace with rapidly advancing AI systems.

Led bySahil Kulshrestha, Aayush Kucheria, Aditya Adiga, and others
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KIRI-A1: Autonomous AI Agent for Full OS Control via Vision

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An advanced agent that perceives your screen and executes tasks by controlling the mouse, acting as a digital proxy to handle complex work on your behalf.

Led byAhmed dawoud
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