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Lightcone Infrastructure

Team8
OrgOps & Infra SupportCoworking SpaceFunderFundraising

A nonprofit that builds infrastructure for the rationality and AI safety communities, running LessWrong, the AI Alignment Forum, and the Lighthaven campus in Berkeley, CA.

Led byBen Pace, Oliver Habryka
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Forethought

Team14
OrgAI GovernanceThink TankAI ForecastingFundraising

A research nonprofit focused on how to navigate the transition to a world with superintelligent AI systems, tackling neglected questions in AI macrostrategy.

Led byWilliam MacAskill, Max Dalton, Stefan Torges, and others
Endorsed by

AI Digest

Team3
OrgComms & Public AwarenessPodcast & MediaFundraising

AI Digest creates interactive explainers and demos to help policymakers and the public understand AI capabilities and their effects, operated as a project of Sage Future, a US 501(c)(3) charity.

Led byAdam Binksmith, Shoshannah Tekofsky, Simon Steshin, and others
Endorsed by

AI Safety Camp

Team4
OrgFellowship & TrainingField-BuildingFundraisingClaimed

A non-profit initiative that runs an online, part-time research program connecting early-career researchers with experienced AI safety mentors to collaborate on concrete projects aimed at reducing existential risk from AI.

Led byRemmelt Ellen, Aisha G., Amgoth Raghavendra, and others
Endorsed by
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Long-Term Future Fund

Team11
OrgFunderExistential RiskFundraising

An expert-managed grantmaking fund within EA Funds that distributes millions annually to reduce global catastrophic risks, with a primary focus on AI safety research, biosecurity, and other existential risk mitigation work.

Led byAsya Bergal, Caleb Parikh, Linchuan Zhang, and others
Endorsed by
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Effective Institutions Project

Team7
OrgAI GovernanceThink TankFunderFundraising

A global working group that seeks out and incubates high-impact strategies to improve institutional decision-making, with a primary focus on AI governance and existential risk reduction.

Led byElla McIntosh, Ian David Moss, Conrad Helminger, and others
Endorsed by
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Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research

Team2
OrgCoworking SpaceFellowship & TrainingEffective AltruismFundraising

CEEALAR (formerly the EA Hotel) is a residential fellowship in Blackpool, UK that provides free or subsidized accommodation, meals, and stipends to individuals working on effective altruism projects, with a focus on AI safety research.

Led byAttila Ujvari, Greg Colbourn, Dušan D. Nešić
Endorsed by
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Tarbell Center for AI Journalism

Team9
OrgFellowship & TrainingField-BuildingFundraising

A nonprofit supporting journalism that helps society navigate the emergence of increasingly advanced AI, through fellowships, grants, and its own publication Transformer.

Led byCillian Crosson, Shakeel Hashim, Jonathan Gibson, and others
Endorsed by
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Secure AI Project

Team7
OrgPolicy AdvocacyFundraising

A nonprofit that develops and advocates for pragmatic policies to reduce the risk of severe harm from advanced AI, promoting transparency, accountability, and safe development through state and federal legislation.

Led byHowie Lempel, Nick Beckstead, Scott Wisor, and others
Endorsed by
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Institute for Law & AI (LawAI)

Team30
OrgAI GovernanceThink TankField-BuildingFundraising

An independent legal research think tank, now operating as the Institute for Law & AI, that conducts foundational research and advises governments on the legal and governance challenges posed by artificial intelligence.

Led byChristoph Winter, Cullen O'Keefe, Anat Lior, and others
Endorsed by
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CeSIA

Team11
OrgAI Evals & Red-TeamingEducation & CurriculumFundraising

The French Center for AI Safety (Centre pour la Securite de l'IA) is a Paris-based non-profit think tank and research center working to reduce risks from artificial intelligence through education, technical research, and policy advocacy in France and Europe.

Led byCharbel-Raphaël Segerie, Arthur Grimonpont, Charles Martinet, and others
Endorsed by
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Foresight Institute

Team15
OrgFunderFellowship & TrainingConference & WorkshopFundraising

A nonprofit research organization founded in 1986 that advances frontier science and technology for the benefit of life, with focus areas spanning secure AI, nanotechnology, longevity biotechnology, neurotechnology, and existential hope.

Led byAllison Duettmann, Christine Peterson, Dan Elton, and others
Endorsed by
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Center for Applied Rationality

Team8
OrgRationality & EpistemicsEducation & CurriculumFundraising

A nonprofit that runs immersive workshops teaching rationality techniques drawn from cognitive science, behavioral economics, and decision theory, with a focus on improving thinking for people working on high-impact problems including AI safety.

Led byAnna Salamon, Davis Tower Kingsley, Divia Eden, and others
Endorsed by
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PauseAI

Team5
OrgPolicy AdvocacyFundraising

PauseAI is a global grassroots movement advocating for an immediate pause on the development of frontier AI systems until their safety can be demonstrated and they can be kept under democratic control.

Led byJoep Meindertsma, Maxime Fournes, Jan-Erik Vinje
Endorsed by
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ML Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS)

Team44
OrgFellowship & TrainingField-BuildingFundraising

MATS (ML Alignment & Theory Scholars) is the largest AI safety research fellowship and talent pipeline, running intensive 12-week research programs that pair fellows with leading AI alignment mentors in Berkeley and London.

Led byChristian Smith, Ryan Kidd, Amir Nuriyev, and others
Endorsed by
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Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST)

Team3
OrgLegal AdvocacyPolicy AdvocacyBiosecurityFundraising

A nonprofit that uses legal advocacy, including amicus briefs, impact litigation, and policy engagement, to mitigate catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems and biotechnology.

Led byAmy Labenz, Laurens Prins, Page Hedley, and others
Endorsed by
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Palisade Research

Team15
OrgAI Evals & Red-TeamingAI SecurityFundraising

Nonprofit investigating cyber offensive AI capabilities and the controllability of frontier AI models to help humanity avoid permanent disempowerment by strategic AI agents.

Led byJeffrey Ladish, Benjamin Weinstein-Raun, David Kasten, and others
Endorsed by
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Berryville Institute of Machine Learning

Team4
OrgAI SecurityResearch LabFundraising

BIML is an independent nonprofit research institute focused on machine learning security, specifically the work of building security into ML systems at the design level.

Led byGary McGraw, Harold Figueroa, Katie McMahon, and others
Endorsed by-

Empowering Futures: Bridging Opportunities for Youth through AI and Technology

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ProjectFundraisingManifund

Transforming Lives through Skills Development and Innovation in kenya and beyond .

Led byBenson Njeru
Endorsed by-

The Citadel: Sovereign Infrastructure for Relational AI

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ProjectFundraisingManifund

Establishing a secure, clean-room environment for locally-hosted, high-compute AI servers powered by sustainable solar backup and ethical governance.

Led byTheresa Clark
Endorsed by-

Stipend for mass biometric surveillance article

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ProjectFundraisingManifund

Contribute to costs of creating an in-depth article about the impact of mass biometric surveillance in the age of AI.

Led byLindsay Langenhoven
Endorsed by-

The Millennium Project

Team6
OrgThink TankAI GovernanceFundraising

A global participatory futures research think tank that produces the annual State of the Future report and tracks 15 Global Challenges facing humanity, with growing focus on AGI governance and existential risk.

Led byJerome Glenn, Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, Blaž Golob, and others
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Project on optimal government hedging against labour automation

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ProjectFundraisingManifund

Paper and policy briefs on the feasibility and optimality of governments hedging against the risk of labour automation by selling bonds and buying equities.

Led byNathan Barnard
Endorsed by-

Neuro-Safety: Reducing AI Latency for Bio-Safe Interaction

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ProjectFundraisingManifund

Developing an Edge-AI framework to reduce response latency to <0.6s, mitigating user cognitive stress and establishing "Digital Pharmacotherapy" standards.

Led byCefiyana
Endorsed by-

Salaries for SAE Co-occurrence Project

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ProjectFundraisingManifund

Working title - “Compositionality and Ambiguity: Latent Co-occurrence and Interpretable Subspaces”

Led byMatthew A. Clarke
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Expanding Francophone Awareness of AI Safety Through The Flares

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ProjectFundraisingManifund

This is a small grant buying a large increase in high-quality Francophone AI risk communication from a creator who has already a track record.

Led byGaetan Selle
Endorsed by-

The Society Library

Team4
OrgDemocracy & Gov ReformRationality & EpistemicsEducation & CurriculumFundraising

A nonprofit that archives humanity's ideas, ideologies, and world-views through structured debate mapping, with a focus on AI safety, alignment, and democratic governance of AI.

Led byJamie Joyce, Sharon Hammond, Timothy High, and others
Endorsed by-
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Agent Foundations Field Network

Team3
OrgFellowship & TrainingField-BuildingFundraising

AFFINE (Agent Foundations FIeld NEtwork) runs intensive superintelligence alignment seminars and fellowships to upskill promising newcomers in agent foundations and AI alignment research.

Led byMateusz Bagiński
Endorsed by-

Tooling + Model Orgs for CoT Faithfulness Research

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ProjectFundraisingManifund

Building model organisms of CoT and Python packages for intervention in reasoning traces

Led bySudarsh Kunnavakkam
Endorsed by-

SAIHM — open-source AI memory protocol with cryptographic erasure

Team?
ProjectFundraisingManifund

A sovereign, encrypted, sharable, persistent memory protocol for AI agents.

Led byRussell Jackson, LLC
Endorsed by-

GENESIS Protocol: Building Safe, Transparent AGI

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ProjectFundraisingManifund

Building a transparent, symbolic AGI that runs millions of tokens/sec on CPUs, making safe, explainable AI accessible to everyone.

Led byRobert looman
Endorsed by-

MATS 10.0 Neel Subliminal Learning

Team?
ProjectFundraisingManifund

No summary available yet.

Led byCamila Blank
Endorsed by-

Out of This Box: AI Safety Musical

Team?
ProjectFundraisingManifund

Out of This Box: The Last Musical (Written by Humans)

Led byGuy
Endorsed by-

Addressing Agentic AI Risks Induced by System Level Misalignment

Team?
ProjectFundraisingManifund

AI Safety Camp 2026 project: Bidirectional Failure modes between security and safety

Led byPreeti Ravindra
Endorsed by-

Gov't Action Kit

Team?
ProjectFundraisingManifund

AI-Risk Education for Politicians

Led byLouis S. Berman
Endorsed by-

Modeling Cooperation

Team7
OrgAI GovernanceResearch LabCooperative AIFundraising

A research project that uses game theory and computational modeling to reduce catastrophic risks from competition in the development of transformative AI.

Led byJonas Emanuel Müller, Vasily Kuznetsov
Endorsed by-

Human-Side Alignment Risks in Non-Self Language Models

Team?
ProjectFundraisingManifund

Projection, sycophancy, and institutional artifact fabrication in AI-mediated supervision.

Led byAkimitsu Takeuchi
Endorsed by-

Centre for AI Security and Access

Team2
OrgAI GovernanceThink TankFundraising

CASA is a research organization working to ensure the benefits of AI can be widely and equitably distributed globally without compromising essential security, with a focus on Global Majority countries.

Led byJoanna Wiaterek, Sumaya Nur Adan
Endorsed by-

Offensive Cyber Kill Chain Benchmark for LLM Evaluation

Team?
ProjectFundraisingManifund

Measuring whether AI can autonomously execute multi-stage cyberattacks to inform deployment decisions at frontier labs

Led byAlex Leader
Endorsed by-

Scaling EA/AIS Manchester

Team?
ProjectFundraisingManifund

Running an EA and AIS group, connecting participants to high impact orgs

Led byShep Riley
Endorsed by-

Safe AI Germany (SAIGE)

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ProjectFundraisingManifund

Germany’s talents are critical to the global effort of reducing catastrophic risks brought by artificial intelligence.

Led byJessica P. Wang, Jessica Pu Wang, Manon Kempermann
Endorsed by-

Scaling Public Understanding of AI Alignment and Existential Risk

Team?
ProjectFundraisingManifund

Leveraging a 23K Subscriber Channel to Advance AI Safety Discourse

Led byEthan Nelson
Endorsed by-

Cultivating a Mechanistic Interpretability Community

Team?
ProjectFundraisingManifund

Sustaining and Scaling a Grassroots Research Collective for Neural Network Interpretability and Control

Led byItay Yona
Endorsed by-

Apart Research: Research and Talent Acceleration

Team?
ProjectFundraisingManifund

Support the growth of an international AI safety research and talent program

Led byApart Research
Endorsed by-
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Machine Learning for Socio-technical Systems Lab

Team11
OrgAcademic InstitutionAI Evals & Red-TeamingFundraising

A university research lab at the University of Rhode Island directed by Dr. Sarah M Brown, studying how machine learning interacts with complex socio-technical systems, with a focus on fairness of automated decision-making and AI safety evaluation.

Led bySarah M Brown, Kadden Grant, Ritta Neg Mfa, and others
Endorsed by-

Independent research to improve SAEs (4-6 months)

Team?
ProjectFundraisingManifund

By rapid iteration on possible alternative architectures & training techniques

Led byGlen M. Taggart
Endorsed by-

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

Team?
ProjectFundraisingManifund

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

Led byampdot
Endorsed by-

Precautionary AGI Governance

Team?
ProjectFundraisingManifund

Limited Legal Personhood as a Reversible Safety Instrument

Led byKarsten Brensing
Endorsed by-

General support for research activities

Team?
ProjectFundraisingManifund

Funding for my work across AI governance and policy research

Led byAmritanshu Prasad
Endorsed by-

Semantica: Open Infrastructure for Explainable and Auditable AI Systems

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ProjectFundraisingManifund

An open-source semantic layer for trustworthy AI agents using knowledge graphs, provenance tracking, and hybrid retrieval.

Led byMohd Kaif
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