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5WM
William MacAskill
Team Member
Feb 2022 – Nov 2022
Oxford philosophy professor. Co-founded 80K Hours. Resigned Nov 2022. Per EA Forum.
NB
CEO
Feb 2022 – Nov 2022
CEO of FTX Foundation. Future Fund launched Feb 2022, team resigned Nov 2022 after FTX collapse. Per EA Forum.
LA
Team Member
Feb 2022 – Nov 2022
Economist, Oxford GPI affiliate. Resigned Nov 2022. Per EA Forum.
KR
Team Member
Feb 2022 – Nov 2022
Later joined Anthropic. Resigned Nov 2022. Per EA Forum.
KR
Ketan Ramakrishnan
Team Member
Feb 2022 – Nov 2022
Resigned Nov 2022. Per EA Forum.
All Facts
General
Websitehttps://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1—▶
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Funding Programs
2| Name | ProgramType | Description | Currency | Status | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTX Future Fund General Grants | grant-round | FTX Future Fund's main grantmaking program across AI safety, biosecurity, values, and institutions. Ceased operations November 2022 after FTX collapse. | USD | closed | ftxfuturefund.org | Operational Feb-Nov 2022. Committed approximately $160M before FTX collapse. Many grants were clawed back in bankruptcy proceedings. |
| FTX Future Fund Regranting Program | grant-round | Program allowing designated regranters to make independent funding decisions using FTX Future Fund capital | USD | closed | ftxfuturefund.org | Notable regranters included Leopold Aschenbrenner, Nuno Sempere, and others. Program ceased with FTX collapse. |
Grants
75| Name | Amount | Recipient | Date | Source | Notes | ProgramId |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant to "support the production of high quality materials for learning about AI safety work." | 100,000 | Siddharth Hiregowdara | 2022-03 | web.archive.org | [AI safety] Grant to "support the production of high quality materials for learning about AI safety work." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support two competitions to produce better public materials on the existential risk from AI." | 40,000 | AI Risk Public Materials Competition | 2022-04 | web.archive.org | [AI safety; regrant] Grant to "support two competitions to produce better public materials on the existential risk from AI." | IOMa-dP7g0 |
| Grant to "support Longview’s independent grantmaking on global priorities research, nuclear weapons policy, and other longtermist issues." | 15,000,000 | gV4U3qi2QA | 2022-02 | web.archive.org | [staff-led] Grant to "support Longview’s independent grantmaking on global priorities research, nuclear weapons policy, and other longtermist issues." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support Helix Nano running preclinical and Phase 1 trials of a pan-variant Covid-19 vaccine." | 10,000,000 | HelixNano | 2022-01 | web.archive.org | [Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/COVID-19/COVID-19 vaccine; staff-led] Grant to "support Helix Nano running preclinical and Phase 1 trials of a pan-variant Covid-19 vaccine." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant for "general support for their activities, including running conferences, supporting student groups, and maintaining online resources." | 13,940,000 | gNsqAes7Dw | 2022-03 | web.archive.org | [Effective altruism; staff-led] Grant for "general support for their activities, including running conferences, supporting student groups, and maintaining online resources." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support the completion of a book which explores the nature of human values and the implications for aligning AI with human preferences." | 300,000 | Brian Christian | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [AI safety] Grant to "support the completion of a book which explores the nature of human values and the implications for aligning AI with human preferences." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support HIP’s work recruiting EA working professionals to use more of their resources, including their careers, to focus on the world’s most pressing problems." | 320,000 | High Impact Professionals | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Talent pipeline] Grant to "support HIP’s work recruiting EA working professionals to use more of their resources, including their careers, to focus on the world’s most pressing problems." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support one year of operating expenses and salaries at the Legal Priorities Project, a longtermist legal research and field-building organization." | 700,000 | Legal Priorities Project | 2022-06 | web.archive.org | [staff-led] Grant to "support one year of operating expenses and salaries at the Legal Priorities Project, a longtermist legal research and field-building organization." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support Ought’s work building Elicit, a language-model based research assistant." | 5,000,000 | 2VexoROapg | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [AI safety; regrant] Grant to "support Ought’s work building Elicit, a language-model based research assistant." | IOMa-dP7g0 |
| Grant to "support the development of universal CRISPR-based diagnostics, including paper-based diagnostics that can be used in developing-country settings without electricity." | 2,000,000 | Sherlock Biosciences | 2022-02 | web.archive.org | [Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness; staff-led] Grant to "support the development of universal CRISPR-based diagnostics, including paper-based diagnostics that can be used in developing-country settings without electricity." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "fund the writing of Slaoui's memoir, especially including his experience directing Operation Warp Speed." | 150,000 | Moncef Slaoui | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness; regrant] Grant to "fund the writing of Slaoui's memoir, especially including his experience directing Operation Warp Speed." | IOMa-dP7g0 |
| Grant to "support rerunning the highly-cited survey “When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts” from 2016, analysis, and publication of results." | 250,000 | TdbypiKyCw | 2022-06 | web.archive.org | [AI safety/forecasting; regrant] Grant to "support rerunning the highly-cited survey “When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts” from 2016, analysis, and publication of results." | IOMa-dP7g0 |
| Grant to "support Giving What We Can’s mission to create a world in which giving effectively and significantly is a cultural norm." | 700,000 | aKZsmUeuWg | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Effective altruism/effective giving] Grant to "support Giving What We Can’s mission to create a world in which giving effectively and significantly is a cultural norm." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant "for general funding for community building and managing the talent pipeline for AI alignment researchers. AI Safety Support’s work includes one-on-one coaching, events, and research training programs." | 200,000 | AI Safety Support | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [AI safety/talent pipeline] Grant "for general funding for community building and managing the talent pipeline for AI alignment researchers. AI Safety Support’s work includes one-on-one coaching, events, and research training programs." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support a project to develop new plastic surfaces incorporating molecules that can be activated with low-energy visible light to eradicate bacteria and kill viruses continuously." | 250,000 | University of Ottawa | 2022-03 | web.archive.org | [Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/disinfection] Grant to "support a project to develop new plastic surfaces incorporating molecules that can be activated with low-energy visible light to eradicate bacteria and kill viruses continuously." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support two years of research on the impacts of disruptive space technologies, nuclear risk, and mitigating risks from future space-based weapons." | 85,000 | Konstantinos Konstantinidis | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Global catastrophic risks|International relations|Space exploration/space governance] Grant to "support two years of research on the impacts of disruptive space technologies, nuclear risk, and mitigating risks from future space-based weapons." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support an essay contest on “Accounting for Existential Risks in US Cost-Benefit Analysis,” with the aim of contributing to the revision of OMB Circular-A4, a document which guides US government cost-benefit analysis. The Legal Priorities Project is administering the contest." | 137,500 | Legal Priorities Project | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Epistemic institutions; regrant] Grant to "support an essay contest on “Accounting for Existential Risks in US Cost-Benefit Analysis,” with the aim of contributing to the revision of OMB Circular-A4, a document which guides US government cost-benefit analysis. The Legal Priorities Project is administering the contest." | IOMa-dP7g0 |
| Grant to "support Global Guessing’s forecasting coverage on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which they will also use to build tools and infrastructure to support future forecasting work." | 336,000 | Global Guessing | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Epistemic institutions/forecasting] Grant to "support Global Guessing’s forecasting coverage on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which they will also use to build tools and infrastructure to support future forecasting work." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support SI’s policy work with the United Nations system on the prevention of existential risks to humanity." | 820,000 | Simon Institute for Longterm Governance | 2022-04 | web.archive.org | [Global catastrophic risks|International relations] Grant to "support SI’s policy work with the United Nations system on the prevention of existential risks to humanity." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support EffiSciences’s work promoting high impact research on global priorities (e.g. AI safety, biosecurity, and climate change) among French students and academics, and building up a community of people willing to work on important topics." | 135,000 | EffiSciences | 2022-04 | web.archive.org | [Effective altruism|AI safety|Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness|Climate change] Grant to "support EffiSciences’s work promoting high impact research on global priorities (e.g. AI safety, biosecurity, and climate change) among French students and academics, and building up a community of people willing to work on important topics." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support a project aimed at training large language models to represent the probability distribution over question answers in a prediction market." | 230,000 | Peter Hrosso | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Epistemic institutions/forecasting] Grant to "support a project aimed at training large language models to represent the probability distribution over question answers in a prediction market." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support Lightcone’s ongoing projects including running the LessWrong forum, hosting conferences and events, and maintaining an office space for Effective Altruist organizations." | 2,000,000 | Lightcone Infrastructure | 2022-02 | web.archive.org | [Effective altruism|AI safety; staff-led] Grant to "support Lightcone’s ongoing projects including running the LessWrong forum, hosting conferences and events, and maintaining an office space for Effective Altruist organizations." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "allow a reputable technology publication to engage 2-5 undergraduate student interns to write about topics including AI safety, alternative proteins, and biosecurity." See https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qoB8MHe94kCEZyswd/i-want-future-perfect-but-for-science-publications for the grantee's original vision. | 190,000 | James Lin | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [AI safety|Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness] Grant to "allow a reputable technology publication to engage 2-5 undergraduate student interns to write about topics including AI safety, alternative proteins, and biosecurity." See https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qoB8MHe94kCEZyswd/i-want-future-perfect-but-for-science-publications for the grantee's original vision. | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support scholarships for talented and promising high school students to use towards educational opportunities and enrolling in a summer program." | 5,000,000 | The Atlas Fellowship | 2022-01 | web.archive.org | [Education|Talent pipeline; staff-led] Grant to "support scholarships for talented and promising high school students to use towards educational opportunities and enrolling in a summer program." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support a researcher and research assistant to work on high-skill immigration and AI policy at FAS for three years." | 1,000,000 | Federation for American Scientists | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [AI safety|Migration policy/high-skilled migration; regrant] Grant to "support a researcher and research assistant to work on high-skill immigration and AI policy at FAS for three years." | IOMa-dP7g0 |
| Grant to "support the creation of an AI Safety organization which will create a platform to share AI safety research ideas and educational materials, connect people working on AI safety, and bring new people into the field." | 95,000 | Apart Research | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [AI safety/talent pipeline; regrant] Grant to "support the creation of an AI Safety organization which will create a platform to share AI safety research ideas and educational materials, connect people working on AI safety, and bring new people into the field." | IOMa-dP7g0 |
| Grant to "support prizes for a trojan detection competition at NeurIPS, which involves identifying whether a deep neural network will suddenly change behavior if certain unknown conditions are met." | 50,000 | Trojan Detection Challenge at NeurIPS 2022 | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [AI safety; regrant] Grant to "support prizes for a trojan detection competition at NeurIPS, which involves identifying whether a deep neural network will suddenly change behavior if certain unknown conditions are met." | IOMa-dP7g0 |
| Grant to "support the work of a PhD student [Claudia Shi] working on AI safety at Columbia University." | 100,000 | Columbia University | 2022-04 | web.archive.org | [AI safety] Grant to "support the work of a PhD student [Claudia Shi] working on AI safety at Columbia University." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support the Institute’s research and policy engagement work on high skilled immigration, biosecurity, and pandemic prevention." | 480,000 | Institute for Progress | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness] Grant to "support the Institute’s research and policy engagement work on high skilled immigration, biosecurity, and pandemic prevention." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support ALTER, an academic research and advocacy organization, which hopes to investigate, demonstrate, and foster useful ways to improve the future in the short term, and to safeguard and improve the long-term trajectory of humanity. The organization's initial focus is building bridges to academia via conferences and grants to find researchers who can focus on AI safety, and on policy for reducing biorisk." | 320,000 | Association for Long Term Existence and Resilience | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [AI safety|Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness] Grant to "support ALTER, an academic research and advocacy organization, which hopes to investigate, demonstrate, and foster useful ways to improve the future in the short term, and to safeguard and improve the long-term trajectory of humanity. The organization's initial focus is building bridges to academia via conferences and grants to find researchers who can focus on AI safety, and on policy for reducing biorisk." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support a NeurIPS competition applying human feedback in a non-language-model setting, specifically pretrained models in Minecraft." | 155,000 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [AI safety; regrant] Grant to "support a NeurIPS competition applying human feedback in a non-language-model setting, specifically pretrained models in Minecraft." | IOMa-dP7g0 |
| Grant to "support research on value alignment in AI systems, practical algorithms for efficient value alignment verification, and user studies and experiments to test these algorithms." | 280,000 | University of Utah | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [AI safety] Grant to "support research on value alignment in AI systems, practical algorithms for efficient value alignment verification, and user studies and experiments to test these algorithms." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "fund a summer program for up to 100 students to spend 9 weeks studying machine learning, deep learning, and technical topics in safety." | 490,000 | ML Safety Scholars Program | 2022-04 | web.archive.org | [AI safety; regrant] Grant to "fund a summer program for up to 100 students to spend 9 weeks studying machine learning, deep learning, and technical topics in safety." | IOMa-dP7g0 |
| Grant to "support work on technology for delivering mRNA vaccines without lipid nanoparticles with the aim of making vaccines more safe, affordable, and scalable." | 1,000,000 | Piezo Therapeutics | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/vaccine development] Grant to "support work on technology for delivering mRNA vaccines without lipid nanoparticles with the aim of making vaccines more safe, affordable, and scalable." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support Apollo’s work aggregating the views of academic experts in many different fields and making them freely available online." | 250,000 | Apollo Academic Surveys | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Epistemic institutions] Grant to "support Apollo’s work aggregating the views of academic experts in many different fields and making them freely available online." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support research on the feasibility of inactivating viruses via electromagnetic radiation." | 140,000 | Justin Mares | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/disinfection] Grant to "support research on the feasibility of inactivating viruses via electromagnetic radiation." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support outreach to help students to learn about career options, develop their skills, and plan their careers to work on the world’s most pressing problems." | 1,000,000 | Non-trivial Pursuits | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Effective altruism] Grant to "support outreach to help students to learn about career options, develop their skills, and plan their careers to work on the world’s most pressing problems." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support a competition for work on Eliciting Latent Knowledge, an open problem in AI alignment, for talented high school and college students who are participating in Prometheus Science Bowl." | 100,000 | Prometheus Science Bowl | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [AI safety/talent pipeline] Grant to "support a competition for work on Eliciting Latent Knowledge, an open problem in AI alignment, for talented high school and college students who are participating in Prometheus Science Bowl." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support a project to develop interactive AI algorithms for alignment that can uncover the causal features in human reward systems, and thereby help AI systems learn underlying human values that generalize to new situations." | 800,000 | University of California, Berkeley | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [AI safety] Grant to "support a project to develop interactive AI algorithms for alignment that can uncover the causal features in human reward systems, and thereby help AI systems learn underlying human values that generalize to new situations." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support research that we hope will be used to help strengthen the bioweapons convention and guide proactive actions to better secure those facilities or stop the dangerous work being done there." | 485,000 | MITRE | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness] Grant to "support research that we hope will be used to help strengthen the bioweapons convention and guide proactive actions to better secure those facilities or stop the dangerous work being done there." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support a project to develop a new material -- an ultra-thin polymer-based thin film -- for use in next-generation Personal Protective Equipment which is both more effective and more comfortable." | 500,000 | Virginia Tech | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/personal protective equipment] Grant to "support a project to develop a new material -- an ultra-thin polymer-based thin film -- for use in next-generation Personal Protective Equipment which is both more effective and more comfortable." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support BERI in hiring a second core operations employee to contribute to BERI’s work supporting university research groups." | 100,000 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | 2022-03 | web.archive.org | Grant to "support BERI in hiring a second core operations employee to contribute to BERI’s work supporting university research groups." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support research on how to fine-tune GPT-3 models to identify flaws in other fine-tuned language models' arguments for the correctness of their outputs, and to test whether these help nonexpert humans successfully judge such arguments." | 380,000 | University of Cambridge | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [AI safety] Grant to "support research on how to fine-tune GPT-3 models to identify flaws in other fine-tuned language models' arguments for the correctness of their outputs, and to test whether these help nonexpert humans successfully judge such arguments." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support [Maxwell Tabarrok] to spend a summer at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University researching differential tech development and the connection between existential risks to humanity and economic growth." | 7,500 | Maxwell Tabarrok | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Global catastrophic risks|Economic growth] Grant to "support [Maxwell Tabarrok] to spend a summer at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University researching differential tech development and the connection between existential risks to humanity and economic growth." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| The grant description says: "We recommended a grant to support the development of statewide ballot initiatives to institute approval voting. Approval voting is a simple voting method reform that lets voters select all the candidates they wish." | 300,000 | The Center for Election Science | 2022-03 | web.archive.org | [Epistemic institutions|Politics; staff-led] The grant description says: "We recommended a grant to support the development of statewide ballot initiatives to institute approval voting. Approval voting is a simple voting method reform that lets voters select all the candidates they wish." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| The grant description says: "We recommended a grant to support a project which will develop and advance ideas for strengthening regional and multilateral cooperation for addressing biological risks and filling gaps in current international institutions. These efforts include promoting the creation of a center with the capacity to rapidly respond to emerging infectious disease threats to prioritize blunting the impact of such events as well as quickly saving lives, and cooperative mechanisms to e | 400,000 | FL52kVPTlA | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/coordination efforts] The grant description says: "We recommended a grant to support a project which will develop and advance ideas for strengthening regional and multilateral cooperation for addressing biological risks and filling gaps in current international institutions. These efforts include promoting the creation of a center with the capacity to rapidly respond to emerging infectious disease threats to prioritize blunting the impact of such events as well as quickly saving lives, and cooperative mechanisms to enhance biosafety and biosecurity while reducing the potential risks of spaces such as high-containment laboratories." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Investment to "build a communication platform that provably leaks zero metadata." | 200,000 | Anysphere | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | Investment to "build a communication platform that provably leaks zero metadata." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support prizes for outstanding writing which encourages a broader public conversation around effective altruism and longtermism." | 900,000 | Effective Ideas Blog Prize | 2022-01 | web.archive.org | [Effective altruism; staff-led] Grant to "support prizes for outstanding writing which encourages a broader public conversation around effective altruism and longtermism." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support six months of independent research on interpretability and other AI safety topics." | 30,000 | Evan R. Murphy | 2022-07 | web.archive.org | [AI safety; regrant] Grant to "support six months of independent research on interpretability and other AI safety topics." | IOMa-dP7g0 |
| Grant to "support the incubation of new charities that will work on health security." | 470,000 | Charity Entrepreneurship | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness] Grant to "support the incubation of new charities that will work on health security." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support the Legal Priorities Project’s ongoing research and outreach activities. This will allow LPP to pay two new hires and to put on a summer institute for non-US law students in Oxford." | 480,000 | Legal Priorities Project | 2022-04 | web.archive.org | [staff-led] Grant to "support the Legal Priorities Project’s ongoing research and outreach activities. This will allow LPP to pay two new hires and to put on a summer institute for non-US law students in Oxford." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support Manifold Markets in building a play-money prediction market platform. The platform is also experimenting with impact certificates and charity prediction markets." | 1,000,000 | Y8MiLNuAWA | 2022-03 | web.archive.org | [Epistemic institutions/forecasting; regrant] Grant to "support Manifold Markets in building a play-money prediction market platform. The platform is also experimenting with impact certificates and charity prediction markets." | IOMa-dP7g0 |
| Grant to "support the maintenance of a library of high-quality audio content on the world’s most pressing problems, and a fund to provide productivity-enhancing equipment and support staff for people working on important social issues." | 250,000 | Nonlinear | 2022-04 | web.archive.org | [Effective altruism/information corpus] Grant to "support the maintenance of a library of high-quality audio content on the world’s most pressing problems, and a fund to provide productivity-enhancing equipment and support staff for people working on important social issues." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "partially support the salaries for AI Safety Camp’s two directors and to support logistical expenses at its physical camp." | 290,000 | AI Safety Camp | 2022-06 | web.archive.org | [AI safety] Grant to "partially support the salaries for AI Safety Camp’s two directors and to support logistical expenses at its physical camp." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support Rethink’s research and projects aimed at improving humanity’s long-term prospects." Rethink Priorities also does non-human-centric work (such as research into animal welfare) and more neartermist work, and the grant seems limited to the longtermist work. | 700,000 | t0p43V5oLA | 2022-03 | web.archive.org | [staff-led] Grant to "support Rethink’s research and projects aimed at improving humanity’s long-term prospects." Rethink Priorities also does non-human-centric work (such as research into animal welfare) and more neartermist work, and the grant seems limited to the longtermist work. | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| The grant description states: "We recommended a grant to support the hiring of several key staff for Dr. Kevin Esvelt’s pandemic prevention work. SecureBio is working to implement universal DNA synthesis screening, build a reliable early warning system, and coordinate the development of improved personal protective equipment and its delivery to essential workers when needed." | 1,200,000 | — | 2022-03 | web.archive.org | [Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness] The grant description states: "We recommended a grant to support the hiring of several key staff for Dr. Kevin Esvelt’s pandemic prevention work. SecureBio is working to implement universal DNA synthesis screening, build a reliable early warning system, and coordinate the development of improved personal protective equipment and its delivery to essential workers when needed." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Investment to "support development of statistical models and software tools that can automate parts of the regulatory process for complex clinical trials." | 1,000,000 | Confirm Solutions | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/regulatory speedup] Investment to "support development of statistical models and software tools that can automate parts of the regulatory process for complex clinical trials." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support 1DS’ work on pandemic preparedness, including advocacy for advance market purchase commitments, collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator on challenge studies, and advocacy with 1Day Africa and the West African Health Organization for a global pandemic insurance fund." | 350,000 | 9k7drw6Qpg | 2022-06 | web.archive.org | [Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/coordination efforts] Grant to "support 1DS’ work on pandemic preparedness, including advocacy for advance market purchase commitments, collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator on challenge studies, and advocacy with 1Day Africa and the West African Health Organization for a global pandemic insurance fund." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "Cecil Abungu, Visiting Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and Research Affiliate at the Legal Priorities Project, to support the writing and publication of a book on longtermist currents in historical African thought." | 160,000 | Cecil Abungu | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | Grant to "Cecil Abungu, Visiting Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and Research Affiliate at the Legal Priorities Project, to support the writing and publication of a book on longtermist currents in historical African thought." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support QURI to develop a programming language called "Squiggle" as a tool for probabilistic estimation." | 200,000 | Khej79OA8g | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Epistemic institutions; regrant] Grant to "support QURI to develop a programming language called "Squiggle" as a tool for probabilistic estimation." | IOMa-dP7g0 |
| Grant to "support the creation of biosecurity policy priorities via conversations with experts in security, technology, policy, and advocacy. It will develop position papers, research papers, and agendas for the biosecurity community." | 135,000 | Institute for Progress | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness] Grant to "support the creation of biosecurity policy priorities via conversations with experts in security, technology, policy, and advocacy. It will develop position papers, research papers, and agendas for the biosecurity community." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support a postdoc and two research assistants for Professor Braumoeller’s MESO Lab for two years to carry out research on international orders and how they affect the probability of war." | 388,080 | Ohio State University | 2022-04 | web.archive.org | [International relations] Grant to "support a postdoc and two research assistants for Professor Braumoeller’s MESO Lab for two years to carry out research on international orders and how they affect the probability of war." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support a Good Judgment initiative to produce forecasts on 10 Our World in Data data sets/charts." | 300,000 | Zx7ckq6syw | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Epistemic institutions/forecasting] Grant to "support a Good Judgment initiative to produce forecasts on 10 Our World in Data data sets/charts." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support HIA’s work encouraging professional athletes to donate more of their earnings to high impact charities and causes, and to promote a culture of giving among their fans." | 350,000 | High Impact Athletes | 2022-04 | web.archive.org | [Effective altruism/effective giving] Grant to "support HIA’s work encouraging professional athletes to donate more of their earnings to high impact charities and causes, and to promote a culture of giving among their fans." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support the identification and implementation of promising confidence-building measures to reduce conflict between India and Pakistan." | 250,000 | Stimson South Asia Program | 2022-04 | web.archive.org | [International relations] Grant to "support the identification and implementation of promising confidence-building measures to reduce conflict between India and Pakistan." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support a project to study how large language models integrated with offline reinforcement learning pose a risk of machine deception and persuasion." | 600,000 | University of California, Berkeley | 2022-06 | web.archive.org | [AI safety] Grant to "support a project to study how large language models integrated with offline reinforcement learning pose a risk of machine deception and persuasion." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support Prof. Levine, as well as students and collaborators, to work on alignment theory research at the Cornell math department." | 1,500,000 | Cornell University | 2022-04 | web.archive.org | [AI safety] Grant to "support Prof. Levine, as well as students and collaborators, to work on alignment theory research at the Cornell math department." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support the creation of a pilot version of a forecasting platform, and a paid forecasting team, to make predictions about questions relevant to high-impact research." | 700,000 | Sage | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Epistemic institutions/forecasting] Grant to "support the creation of a pilot version of a forecasting platform, and a paid forecasting team, to make predictions about questions relevant to high-impact research." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support Pathos Labs to produce a PopShift convening connecting experts on the future of technology and existential risks with television writers to inspire new ideas for their shows." | 50,000 | Pathos Labs | 2022-01 | web.archive.org | [Values and reflective processes; staff-led] Grant to "support Pathos Labs to produce a PopShift convening connecting experts on the future of technology and existential risks with television writers to inspire new ideas for their shows." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support the creation of animated videos on topics related to rationality and effective altruism to explain these topics for a broader audience." | 400,000 | Rational Animations | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Effective altruism/information corpus] Grant to "support the creation of animated videos on topics related to rationality and effective altruism to explain these topics for a broader audience." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support the identification of children in India from under-resourced areas who excel in math, science, and technology, and enable them to obtain high quality online education by digitally connecting them with mentors and teachers." | 200,000 | Rajalakshmi Children Foundation | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Education|Talent pipeline] Grant to "support the identification of children in India from under-resourced areas who excel in math, science, and technology, and enable them to obtain high quality online education by digitally connecting them with mentors and teachers." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support two years of academic research on long-term economic growth." | 500,000 | Brown University | 2022-01 | web.archive.org | [Economic growth; staff-led] Grant to "support two years of academic research on long-term economic growth." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support the creation of a website for collaboratively creating public forecasting questions for a range of prediction aggregators and markets." | 182,000 | Nathan Young | 2022-06 | web.archive.org | [Epistemic institutions/forecasting] Grant to "support the creation of a website for collaboratively creating public forecasting questions for a range of prediction aggregators and markets." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Investment in AVECRIS’s "Project DOOR to support the development of a next generation genetic vaccine platform that aims to allow for highly distributed vaccine production using AVECRIS’s advanced DNA vector delivery technology." | 3,600,000 | AVECRIS | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/vaccine development] Investment in AVECRIS’s "Project DOOR to support the development of a next generation genetic vaccine platform that aims to allow for highly distributed vaccine production using AVECRIS’s advanced DNA vector delivery technology." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
| Grant to "support Manifold Markets in building a charity prediction market, as an experiment for enabling effective forecasters to direct altruistic donations." | 500,000 | Y8MiLNuAWA | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | [Epistemic institutions/forecasting] Grant to "support Manifold Markets in building a charity prediction market, as an experiment for enabling effective forecasters to direct altruistic donations." | rHlJJ8FpqP |
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