The AI Risk Mitigation Fund (ARM Fund) is a nonprofit grantmaker that distributes grants to reduce catastrophic risks from transformative AI. Launched in December 2023 as a spinoff from the Long-Term Future Fund, the ARM Fund focuses on three areas: technical AI alignment research (including mechanistic interpretability and scalable oversight), AI policy and governance work, and building AI safety research capacity by bringing new talent into the field. The fund is a project of Effective Ventures Foundation and is run by a team of experienced grantmakers, AI safety researchers, and policy experts.
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The ARM Fund believes transformative AI is likely to be developed in the coming years or decades, and that current efforts to manage its risks are severely inadequate relative to the scale of potential catastrophe. Their theory of change operates on three fronts: funding technical alignment research to make AI systems more interpretable, steerable, and subject to human oversight before dangerous capabilities emerge; supporting policy work to establish government regulations and corporate standards that guard against catastrophic risks; and expanding the pipeline of AI safety researchers to close the talent gap between capability development and safety work. By taking a hits-based grantmaking approach that funds high-risk, high-reward projects, they aim to identify and support the most impactful interventions in AI safety, even when individual grants may have uncertain outcomes.
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 9:48 PM UTC
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- Mar 18, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC