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Funding the last year of my PhD on embedded agency, to free up my time from teaching

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Associate Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Oxford and Director of Research at the UK Government’s AI Safety Institute (now AI Security Institute).

Aqib Zakaria is an analyst for ChinaTalk. Originally from New Orleans, he graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. in Government and an A.M. in Regional Studies—East Asia, and his research interests include semiconductors, robotics, and industrial policy.

Help fund our student’s trip to NeurIPS to present his main conference paper on interpretable features in text-to-image diffusion models.

Vivian Dong is Programs Director at Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST). She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and, before joining LASST, worked as a litigator and associate attorney at the law firm of Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, P.L.L.C. in Washington, D.C.

A collaborative hardware security research effort between WPI and UMass Amherst focused on developing tamper-detection and verification mechanisms for semiconductor chips, with applications to AI governance and hardware-enabled guarantees.

6-month salary to finish writing a book on international AI governance and three other smaller AI governance projects

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Taniel Yusef is a research affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and a researcher and advocate working on portfolios at the UN, European and UK parliaments with an emphasis on disarmament. Her work focuses on weapons technology regulation across AI, nuclear weapons, outer-space threats and cybersecurity, as well as supply chains, global trade, development, emerging economies and gender, and she holds roles including Technology Developers Coordinator of the UK Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, visiting lecturer at the University of East London and member of the WILPF Advisory Board.

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Joe Edelman is a philosopher, sociologist, and entrepreneur who co-founded and co-leads the Meaning Alignment Institute, where he serves as a principal investigator on programs such as Full-Stack Alignment and AGI Institutions. He previously developed meaning-based metrics used at companies like CouchSurfing, Facebook, and Apple, and co-founded the Center for Humane Technology.

Designing a Project Funding Proposal

Paul Christiano is a researcher in artificial intelligence alignment who formerly led the language model alignment team at OpenAI, founded and headed the nonprofit Alignment Research Center, and now serves as Head of Safety for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Co-founder and CEO of Manifund. An open and transparent charitable grant platform focused on AI safety and effective altruism causes. He previously co-founded Manifold Markets in 2021 alongside James and Stephen Grugett, a play-money prediction market platform that grew out of the EA and rationalist communities. Before founding Manifold, he worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Streamlit and as a software engineer at Google, and holds a degree from UC Berkeley. He stepped away from Manifold to launch Manifund, which operates a regranting program pairing domain experts with independent grant budgets to fund early-stage AI safety projects. Austin is active on LessWrong and the EA Forum, and also co-organizes Manifest, an annual forecasting conference held in the Bay Area.

Georgetown University is a major private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C. that hosts several programs relevant to AI safety and governance, including the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), the McCourt School's Tech & Public Policy program, and the Law School's Institute for Technology Law & Policy.

Buying out one year of my academic teaching so that I can spend time on AI alignment research instead

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PEAKS is a coworking space in Zurich, Switzerland for professionals working on Effective Altruism and AI Safety research.

(professional development grant) New laptop for technical AI safety research

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Mike X Cohen is the founder of Sincxpress Education SRL and an independent educator who designs and delivers comprehensive online courses and textbooks on topics such as data analysis, statistics, signal processing, linear algebra, and machine learning. After holding a research-focused professorship in neuroscience, he shifted to full-time teaching and writing to democratize high-quality STEM education, and reports having engaged over 300,000 learners worldwide through his online courses.

Co-founder of AI Safety Asia in Manila, where she has led early capacity-building programmes, strategic dialogue, and diplomatic efforts on AI governance, and founder of The Ambit, an AI governance network representing the Global Majority.

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6-month stipend for conducting AI-safety research during the MATS 5.0 extension program and beyond

A tech-infused immersive musical. Experience the future of storytelling where artificial intelligence meets the depths of human emotion.

The US fundraising arm of the ETH Zurich Foundation, enabling American donors to make tax-deductible gifts that support research, teaching, and talent at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

Dr. Petr Lebedev is Science Communication Lead at Palisade Research, where he leads video projects explaining AI and AI safety to broad audiences. A physicist by training, he previously completed a PhD in physics and worked as a writer and researcher for the YouTube channel Veritasium, building extensive experience in science communication.

William Alfred Rose Professor of Law whose academic work focuses on private law, consumer markets, and the legal implications of AI, as reflected on his Law & AI academic website.

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The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) is an international initiative of 46 member countries and the European Union that promotes the responsible development and use of AI, grounded in human rights, inclusion and democratic values. In July 2024, GPAI joined forces with the OECD’s AI policy work as an integrated partnership under the GPAI brand, hosted at the OECD in Paris.

William D'Alessandro (also known as Bill D'Alessandro) is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he joined in August 2024. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Illinois Chicago (2017) and has held postdoctoral positions at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (LMU Munich) and as a Marie Curie/UKRI Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, as well as a Philosophy Fellowship at the Center for AI Safety in 2023. His research spans philosophy of science and mathematics, with growing focus on applied ethics and AI safety, including deontological approaches to AI risk and the ethics of longtermism. He taught an MA seminar on longtermism and organized a Longtermism @ LMU talk series in Summer 2022, supported by an EA Funds grant for speaker fees and community building. His publications include "Deontology and Safe Artificial Intelligence" (Philosophical Studies, 2024) and "Artificial Intelligence: Approaches to Safety" (Philosophy Compass, 2025).

software engineer and shoggoth inventor

Economic stipend for MLSS scholar to set up a proper working environment in order to do research in AI technical research

EA Austria/Effective Animal Advocacy Austria

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One of the world's oldest universities, home to the Center for Reasoning, Normativity and AI (CERNAI), which conducts AI safety and alignment research led by Prof. Federico Faroldi.

Advisor with extensive experience in the cannabis and mental health sectors, active as an investor and advisor to early-stage cannabis companies and working as a guide, facilitator and coach at Entheogen Advisors focused on natural‑medicine‑based personal and spiritual development.

4-month stipend for MATS extension on mechanistic interpretability benchmark + 2-month stipend for career switch

interpretability researcher/ML engineer

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Samuel Conte Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University whose research focuses on AI security, software analysis and cyber forensics. His work develops techniques to detect bugs and security vulnerabilities in both traditional software systems and AI models, and he has led numerous DARPA, IARPA, ONR, NSF, Air Force and industry-funded projects whose results have been deployed in practice and recognized with awards at top venues in security, AI, software engineering and programming languages.

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Longtime administrator at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and core team member of the Buddhism & AI Initiative working at the intersection of Buddhist education and emerging technology.

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