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Total Funding Raised
$2.3 million
as of 2025

Key People

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Austin ChenFounder
Founder & CEO
Apr 2024 – present
Founded Manifund (charity spinoff of Manifold). Left Manifold April 2024 to focus on Manifund full-time. Per Wikipedia.

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Total Funding Raised$2.3 million2025▶
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2025$2.3 millionmanifund.orgf_9cmhuAHFrA

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NameDivisionTypeStatusSourceNotes
Regranting Platformprogram-areaactivemanifund.orgPlatform enabling individuals to receive tax-deductible donations for regranting. Provides fiscal sponsorship for individual regranters.
Impact Certificatesprogram-areaactivemanifund.orgExperimental impact certificate marketplace where project creators sell shares of their impact to retroactive funders.

Funding Programs

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NameProgramTypeDescriptionDivisionIdTotalBudgetCurrencyStatusSourceNotes
AI Safety Regranting (2025)grant-round10 regrantors distributing AI safety funding; individual regrantors have $100K-$500K budgets.T0CMn4NVY62,250,000USDopenmanifund.org$2.25M pool. First 10 AI safety regrantors announced 2025.
Manifund Impact Certificatesgrant-roundExperimental impact certificate marketplace where project creators sell shares of their impact to retroactive funders8BUA--PdSX—USDopenmanifund.orgNovel funding mechanism using impact certificates/retroactive public goods funding. Since 2023.
Manifund Regrantinggrant-roundPlatform enabling individuals to receive tax-deductible donations for regranting to effective projectsT0CMn4NVY6—USDopenmanifund.orgManifund provides fiscal sponsorship for individual regranters
AI Safety Regranting (2024)grant-roundRegranting program funded primarily by Coefficient Giving; multiple regrantors.T0CMn4NVY61,400,000USDawardedmanifund.org—

Grants

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NameAmountRecipientDateSourceNotesProgramId
Train great open-source sparse autoencoders4,025Tom McGrath2024-05-09manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Find the best settings for SAE training we can, then scale across models8jnn54YEbQ
Develop an accessible, low-cost system for single-cell imaging in multiple regions of freely moving organisms25,000Andrew Luskin2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Interpretable Forecasting with Transformers602.5Sheikh Abdur Raheem Ali2023-02-24manifund.org[ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Make accurate, well-calibrated, and honest predictions with large language models.8jnn54YEbQ
Forethought365,270Amrit Sidhu-Brar2025-12-16manifund.org[AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Research on how to navigate the transition to a world with superintelligent AI systems8jnn54YEbQ
Luthien170,470Jai Dhyani2025-03-04manifund.org[Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Developing AI Control for Immediate Real-World Use8jnn54YEbQ
Investigating the Effects of IF in the reversal of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.8,500Ambreen Deol 2024-03-09manifund.org[Biomedical, Global health & development] RCT with predominantly Asian Indian population and literature review for understanding mechanisms of IF in relation to T2DM 8jnn54YEbQ
Connect For Animals: a platform for ending factory farming21,054Steven Rouk2024-08-16manifund.org[Animal welfare, EA Community Choice] Scaling up the people power of the movement to end factory farming.8jnn54YEbQ
Split Personality Training3,000Florian Dietz2025-04-26manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Revealing Latent Knowledge Through Personality-Shift Tokens8jnn54YEbQ
Holly Elmore organizing people for a frontier AI moratorium5,310Holly Elmore2023-07-07manifund.org[AI governance] Help me to organize US moratorium-promoting activities to expand the Overton window and increase public pressure in favor of a moratorium on frontier AI.8jnn54YEbQ
Lead-acid battery recycling in Philippines50,000Micaella Rogers2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025, Global health & development] Develop and promote market-based policies to reduce informal lead-acid battery recycling in the Philippines.8jnn54YEbQ
AI-Plans.com 5,370Kabir Kumar2024-01-12manifund.orgScience & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance8jnn54YEbQ
Adjacent News1,000Lucas Kohorst2024-08-14manifund.org[EA Community Choice, EA community, Forecasting] Prediction Market Driven News8jnn54YEbQ
African School of Economics in Zanzibar charter city100,000Kurtis Lockhart2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Forecasting global disasters50,705—2025-10-09manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Elite cyborg forecasters identify and share the most important signs of global catastrophic risks for you and the public.8jnn54YEbQ
Hive Highlights Newsletter - farmed animal advocacy upd with 7k/month views1,452Sofia Balderson2024-08-19manifund.org[Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Help deliver key movement updates to over 3000 advocates (50% open rate)8jnn54YEbQ
Tooling + Model Orgs for CoT Faithfulness Research3,000Sudarsh Kunnavakkam2025-07-20manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Building model organisms of CoT and Python packages for intervention in reasoning traces8jnn54YEbQ
Recreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor 40,640Aaron Silverbook2023-07-11manifund.org[Science & technology] Because I think curing cavities for everyone would be "based", actually 8jnn54YEbQ
'Making God': a Documentary on AI Risks for the Public205,094Connor Axiotes2025-03-31manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Geoffrey Hinton & Yoshua Bengio Interviews Secured, Funding Still Needed8jnn54YEbQ
Transformative AI scenarios for EU policymakers30,000Thomas Lingard on behalf of Stichting Centre for Future Generations2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Build awareness and urgency among European policymakers on AI’s rapid, transformative impacts through future scenarios and targeted institutional engagement8jnn54YEbQ
LEAH Coworking Space3,847Joseph Hardie2024-08-20manifund.org[EA Community Choice, EA community] Rent costs for a coworking space supporting organisations and individuals in London.8jnn54YEbQ
Good Ancestors (Australia)65,020Gregory Sadler2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Advocate for Australian policies that safeguard against global catastrophic risks – including pandemics, AI risks, and catastrophic disasters. 8jnn54YEbQ
Coursetexts2,540Coursetexts2025-05-05manifund.org[Science & technology] Open sourcing advanced science graduate courses at scale, to democratize higher level education.8jnn54YEbQ
Make large-scale analysis of Python code several orders of magnitude quicker1,000Tom Forbes2023-03-03manifund.orgForecasting8jnn54YEbQ
Crystal Ballin' Podcast2,790.08Brian T. Edwards2023-03-04manifund.org[ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] New fortnightly podcast on all things prediction markets8jnn54YEbQ
Elizabeth and Timothy Podcast on values in Effective Altruism (Funded)7,810Elizabeth Van Nostrand2024-10-26manifund.org[Science & technology, EA community] Elizabeth and Timothy create a podcast about truthseeking, values drift, and a potential EA Renaissance (or diaspora).8jnn54YEbQ
Stipend to enable a US PhD student to move to the UK for a temporary role with the UK DSIT13,000J2024-02-28manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
News through prediction markets499Marcel van Diemen2024-02-26manifund.org[ACX Grants 2024] The Base Rate Times8jnn54YEbQ
Convert a hybrid car to chip wood and generate electricity25,100David Denkenberger2024-02-26manifund.orgACX Grants 2024, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks8jnn54YEbQ
Telemedicine platform for Congo12,000Manoj Nathwani2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Provide an equitable and accessible telemedicine platform in DRC where there is a humanitarian crisis to provide free healthcare over the phone.8jnn54YEbQ
Mechanistic Interpretability research for unfaithful chain-of-thought (1 month)11,000Iván Arcuschin Moreno2024-11-19manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Iván and Jett are seeking funding to research unfaithful chain-of-thought, under Arthur Conmy's mentorship, for a month before the start of MATS.8jnn54YEbQ
Social Media Strategy for EA Orgs1,246Marisa Vogiatzi2024-08-17manifund.org[EA Community Choice, EA community] Providing free professional social media strategy consulting for EA orgs8jnn54YEbQ
80,000 Hours4,915.11Jørgen Ljønes2024-08-16manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance, Biosecurity, EA Community Choice, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] We provide research and support to help people move into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems.8jnn54YEbQ
CaML - AGI alignment to nonhumans30,000Miles Tidmarsh2025-11-13manifund.org[Technical AI safety, Animal welfare] Training AI to generalize compassion for all sentient beings using pretraining-style interventions as a more robust alternative to instruction tuning8jnn54YEbQ
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Unlearning Techniques 30,000FazlBarez2024-06-18manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Unlearning, AI Safety 8jnn54YEbQ
Mox, a coworking & events space in SF261,820Mox2025-03-31manifund.org[Technical AI safety, EA community] For AI safety, AI labs, EA charities & startups8jnn54YEbQ
Synthesizing Standalone World-Models51,500Thane Ruthenis2025-09-22manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Research agenda aimed at developing methods for constructing powerful, easily interpretable world-models.8jnn54YEbQ
Animal Advocacy Africa 5,585Cameron King2024-08-15manifund.org[Animal welfare, EA Community Choice] Mitigating factory farming in Africa (Empowering animal advocates in African countries)8jnn54YEbQ
Forecast Dissemination Mini-Market 2 of 3: Hurricane Hazards450Ryan Kupyn2023-02-28manifund.org[ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Promoting forecasts in order to help mitigate weather risks, then evaluating the effect of this information.8jnn54YEbQ
Benchmarking and comparing different evaluation awareness metrics3,000Hieu Minh Nguyen2025-08-06manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance] LLMs often know when they are being evaluated. We’ll do a study comparing various methods to measure and monitor this capability.8jnn54YEbQ
Year one of AI Safety Tokyo600Blaine William Rogers2024-02-26manifund.orgTechnical AI safety, ACX Grants 2024, AI governance, EA community8jnn54YEbQ
Hive Slack - an active community space for engaged farmed animal advocates3,749Sofia Balderson2024-08-19manifund.org[Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Help us fund Slack fees for over 1000 monthly active members8jnn54YEbQ
Kickstarting EA Latvia community507Effective Altruism Latvia2024-08-21manifund.org[EA Community Choice, EA community] A group of latvian EAs have recently created an NGO and is attempting to grow it8jnn54YEbQ
Native psilocybin use in Southern Africa13,000Eli Elster2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Continue documenting the indigenous use of native Psilocybe mushrooms in Lesotho, including the collection of physical samples, to identify novel medical applications of psilocybin.8jnn54YEbQ
[AI Safety Workshop @ EA Hotel] Autostructures8,555Sahil2024-10-27manifund.orgScaling meaning without fixed structure (...dynamically generating it instead.)8jnn54YEbQ
Joseph Bloom - Independent AI Safety Research51,400joseph bloom2023-07-03manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Trajectory Models and Agent Simulators8jnn54YEbQ
Videos on UK Free Speech7,700Sam Glover2025-08-19manifund.orgWe want to make a series of videos intended to inform the UK public about arrests/convictions related to free speech.8jnn54YEbQ
Conduct field research on informal lead-acid battery recycling supply chains in Nigeria13,000John Lohier2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Medical Expenses for CHAI PhD Student23,043Rachel Freedman2023-06-22manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Allow Berkeley PhD student to devote more time and focus to AI safety research and mentorship.8jnn54YEbQ
VaccinateCA15,075Karl Yang2023-07-26manifund.org[Global health & development] Retroactive grant for website & infra to display COVID vaccine availability8jnn54YEbQ
AI that standardizes and curates bio datasets70,000400fe9a6-6614-4e98-a334-f7e70a67f3da2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Create a permanent, public, and computable foundation of biological knowledge by building an AI-powered engine that automatically standardizes and curates the world’s biological datasets—past, present, and future.8jnn54YEbQ
Tardigrade stress tolerance genes that modified for improved performance in human cells.8,000Joshua Morgan2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Formal Certification Technologies for AI Safety128,000Mirco Giacobbe2025-11-20manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance] Developing the software infrastructure to make AI systems safe, with formal guarantees8jnn54YEbQ
Apart incubates and facilitates hundreds of AI safety researchers around the globe.59,000Esben Kran Christensen2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
BAIS (ex-AIS Hub Serbia) Office Space for (Frugal) AI Safety Researchers10,473Dusan D Nesic2023-12-13manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA community] Free/Subsidized/Cheap office space outside of EU but in good timezones with favorable visa policies (especially for Chinese/Russian but also US&others near EU).8jnn54YEbQ
Pilot for new benchmark by Epoch AI200,000Epoch Artificial Intelligence, Inc.2024-12-09manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance] For tracking and predicting future AI progress to AGI8jnn54YEbQ
Produce therapeutic food for Ethiopia50,000Dr. Lewis Wall2025-10-10manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Production and distribution of peanut butter based therapeutic food for the treatment of childhood malnutrition in northern Ethiopia8jnn54YEbQ
FloraForge: Aesthetic Gene Editing in Petunias5,000Justin Bianchini2025-11-21manifund.org[Science & technology, Biomedical] A modular gene-editing platform for engineering new pigment patterns in ornamental plants, starting with a vein-pattern rescue line in petunias. 8jnn54YEbQ
Virtue-Ethical Rationality and Training Dynamics 20,000Peli Grietzer2025-05-22manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
AI Safety & Society250,000—2024-12-17manifund.orgHigh-quality, timely articles on AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
Understanding SAE features using Sparse Feature Circuits11,000Lovis Heindrich2024-06-28manifund.orgTechnical AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
Publish a book on Egan education for parents5,602.89Brandon Hendrickson2024-02-26manifund.org[ACX Grants 2024] Working title — Egan @ Home, the Elementary Years8jnn54YEbQ
Covid Work By Elizabeth VN/Aceso Under Glass1,484Elizabeth Van Nostrand2024-08-17manifund.org[Science & technology, EA Community Choice, EA community] retroactive support for covid work 8jnn54YEbQ
Invest in the Conflux Manifold Media Empire(??)310.58Jacob Cohen2023-11-16manifund.org[Manifold Community Fund] I'm planning to do something starting in January, but I'm not sure what!8jnn54YEbQ
"Contemporary Issues in Animal Rights Law" online course1,380Marine Lercier2024-08-21manifund.org[Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Educating and training 30 animal rights advocates per online course globally8jnn54YEbQ
Manifold x College Admissions949.32cc62023-12-13manifund.org[Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting] Attract more high school seniors anxious about their college admissions chances8jnn54YEbQ
Impact Assessment of Social Programs3,500Devansh Mehta2023-02-28manifund.org[ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Verifying and Quantifying the Outcomes of Nonprofits8jnn54YEbQ
Improving fish welfare through producer and retail outreach in Türkiye15,000İbrahim Çağrı Mutaf2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Help a Bootstrapped AI Risk Literacy Founder Get To IASEAI 2026 in Paris3,036Aashkaben Kalpesh Patel2026-01-25manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Nutrition labels transformed food safety through informed consumer choice, help me do the same for AI and make this standard :)8jnn54YEbQ
Making God's Post-Production: Aiming for Netflix550Connor Axiotes2025-08-18manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Making God is now raising for post-production so we can deliver a festival-ready documentary fit for Netflix acquisition. 8jnn54YEbQ
Good Ancestors Policy expenses15,100Gregory Sadler2023-09-20manifund.org[AI governance, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks] GAP is an Australian charity, working to improve the long-term future, that requires funding for salary and operational expenses.8jnn54YEbQ
Influenza Pandemic Protection on Day 1 through universal priming vaccines30,000Duncan Purvis2024-02-09manifund.org[Science & technology, ACX Grants 2024, Biomedical, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks] Pivoting this project, due to stakeholder feedback. Former focus was inclusion of a pre-pandemic strain in a quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccine8jnn54YEbQ
Trading bot guide20nikki2023-12-12manifund.org[Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting] More bots, better predictions!8jnn54YEbQ
SDCPNs for AI Safety39,009Jade Master2025-10-30manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Developing correct-by-construction world models for verification of frontier AI8jnn54YEbQ
Safe AI Germany (SAIGE)9,201Jessica P. Wang2026-01-24manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Germany’s talents are critical to the global effort of reducing catastrophic risks brought by artificial intelligence.8jnn54YEbQ
Teamwork - professional EA co-working space in Berlin1,868anne schulze2024-08-15manifund.org[EA Community Choice, EA community] Funding for 2025 operational budget to maintain and manage Teamwork8jnn54YEbQ
Forecasting Meetup Network - Washington, DC pilot (4 meetups)677David Glidden2024-08-20manifund.org[EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA community, Forecasting, EA Infrastructure Fund] Local meetups of forecasters, fans of prediction markets, and others interested in improving humanity’s ability to predict the future.8jnn54YEbQ
Charge selective large pore membranes for artificial implantable kidney.80,000Tugrul Irmak2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Compute for 4 MATS scholars to rapidly scale promising new method pre-ICLR16,047Alex Cloud2024-08-17manifund.orgTechnical AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
Distribute HPMOR copies in Bangalore, India1,000Aditya Arpitha Prasad2024-02-26manifund.org[ACX Grants 2024] Let the kids read, we need to raise the sanity waterline and inspire creative minds into AI Safety8jnn54YEbQ
Visa fee support for Australian researcher to join a fellowship with Anthropic4,000L2025-11-22manifund.orgTechnical AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
Mitigating Reward Hacking Through RL Training Interventions7,900Aria Wong2026-02-18manifund.orgTechnical AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
Funding researcher on frontier AI governance inclusive of global majority 87,543H2025-07-22manifund.orgTechnical AI safety, AI governance8jnn54YEbQ
Gene editing corn for nutrition10,000Kasey Markel2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Use a new and more precise form of gene editing to increase the nutritional content of corn, primarily for Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa. 8jnn54YEbQ
Is electrical stunning a humane slaughter method for decapods?5,020Nino O’Shea-Nejad2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Produce a peer-reviewed literature review assessing whether electrical stunning is a humane method for slaughtering decapod crustaceans, identifying evidence gaps, methodological flaws, and next research steps to guide advocacy and policy.8jnn54YEbQ
The Grass is Greener: Skirting Deflation via Strong Overseas Growth. Again.40Jason M. Kingodn2024-01-28manifund.org[ChinaTalk Essay Contest, Forecasting] There is an 80% change that the top five performing Chinese Internet and Internet related companies will be those who manage domestic deflationary pressures via8jnn54YEbQ
Manifold merch store302tobiasvyseri2023-11-22manifund.org[Manifold Community Fund, EA community] Putting the "fold" in Manifold8jnn54YEbQ
YIMBY movement for African cities85,000Kurtis Lockhart2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Support the AUL to bring a YIMBY movement to African cities so these cities can build the urban infrastructure needed to accommodate ~900 million new urbanites by 2050.8jnn54YEbQ
BLAM Liberia Seed Project10,000Saeed Ahmad2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Scoping Biosafety and Biosecurity Strengthening for Global Health Security 8jnn54YEbQ
Doom Debates - Podcast & debate show to help AI x-risk discourse go mainstream41,195Liron Shapira2024-08-14manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, Global catastrophic risks] Let's warn millions of people about the near-term AI extinction threat by directly & proactively explaining the issue in every context where it belongs8jnn54YEbQ
Build anti-mosquito drones28,630Alex Toussaint2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Field building in universities for AI policy careers in the US25,000Matthew David Fargo2023-12-08manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
Demonstration of LLMs deceiving and getting out of a sandbox3,110Igor Ivanov2025-06-16manifund.orgTechnical AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
Improve eligibility for organ donation105,000Daniela Shuman2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025, Global health & development] Help previously ineligible living organ donors become eligible to donate8jnn54YEbQ
Independent research to improve SAEs (4-6 months)55,025Glen M. Taggart2024-04-19manifund.org[Technical AI safety] By rapid iteration on possible alternative architectures & training techniques8jnn54YEbQ
Finishing a Video on the Google DeepMind Hunger Strike1,800Michaël Rubens Trazzi2025-10-12manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance] Funding gap to pay for a video editor and scriptwriter8jnn54YEbQ
Accelerating the AI Safety talent pipeline in South Africa| Matched donations656Carmen Csilla Medina2024-08-29manifund.orgTechnical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA Infrastructure Fund, Global catastrophic risks8jnn54YEbQ
AI Policy work @ IAPS10,050Peter Wildeford2023-12-20manifund.orgAI governance8jnn54YEbQ
Write a good primer on political change.1,500Spencer Orenstein2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Evitable: a new public-facing AI risk non-profit 8,982David Krueger2025-12-23manifund.org[AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Our mission is to inform and organize the public to confront societal-scale risks of AI, and put an end to the reckless race to develop superintelligent AI.8jnn54YEbQ
AI-Plans.com Critique-a-Thon $500 Prize Fund Proposal500Kabir Kumar2023-07-27manifund.orgTechnical AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
Metaculus x Givewell Forecasting Tournament4,500Leonard Barrett2024-11-12manifund.orgScience & technology, Global health & development8jnn54YEbQ
Athena - New Program for Women in AI Alignment Research20,000Claire Short2023-12-12manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
Scaling AI safety awareness via content creators21,309Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA2025-04-11manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] 4M+ views on AI safety: Help us replicate and scale this success with more creators8jnn54YEbQ
Eradicate the hidden factory farming of feeder rodents50,200GG2025-10-29manifund.org[Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025, Animal welfare, Biosecurity] Developing and commercializing an alternative to feeder rodents—tackling one of the most neglected and high-suffering forms of factory farming.8jnn54YEbQ
Lost Ones in-person meetups10Yoyo Y2024-08-15manifund.org[EA Community Choice, EA community] hackathons, dinners etc8jnn54YEbQ
Run a public online Turing Test with a variety of models and prompts3,149camrobjones2024-02-26manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Calibration City8,864wasabipesto2024-08-16manifund.org[EA Community Choice, Forecasting] Prediction markets have the potential to reshape the way we process information, but how accurate are they in practice?8jnn54YEbQ
Progress Studies YouTube Channel20,000Justin Petersen2025-12-01manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
Promote Georgism100,000Joseph Caissie2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Fund a Fellow for the Cooperative AI Research Fellowship! 2,530Leo Hyams2025-09-30manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] A 3-month fellowship in Cape Town, connecting a global cohort of talent to top mentors at MIT, Oxford, CMU, and Google DeepMind8jnn54YEbQ
Developing a Course on AI x-risk10,000Johan Fredrikzon2024-08-07manifund.orgScience & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks8jnn54YEbQ
Scenario analysis and planning platform for more effective developing world agriculture projects20,000Chris M2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Superforecaster predictions of long-term impacts4,548.33David Rhys Bernard2023-02-26manifund.org[ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] I will pay 30 superforecasters to make forecasts of long-run treatment effects from randomised control trials8jnn54YEbQ
Forecast Dissemination Mini-Market 3 of 3: Earthquake Risk345Ryan Kupyn2023-02-28manifund.org[ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Evaluating whether forecasts of earthquake risk lead people to take steps to prepare8jnn54YEbQ
Scoping Developmental Interpretability144,650Jesse Hoogland2023-07-18manifund.org[Technical AI safety] 6-month funding for a team of researchers to assess a novel AI alignment research agenda that studies how structure forms in neural networks8jnn54YEbQ
Charting the Policy Landscape of Advanced Education in America8,350Thomas Briggs2025-10-29manifund.org[Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025, EA community] This nationwide report will provide a detailed account of the policies states have that in place to help advanced learners thrive.8jnn54YEbQ
Blog about Forecasting Global Catastrophic Risks1,449.55Damien Laird2023-02-24manifund.org[ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Forecasting GCRs is hard. How can we do it better, and how much better is that?8jnn54YEbQ
Assess online training platform for health workers in Nigeria25,000HealthLearn2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Isolating CBRN Knowledge in LLMs for Safety - Phase 2 (Research)150,000.16Krishna Patel2025-12-17manifund.org[Technical AI safety, Biomedical, Biosecurity] Expanding proven isolation techniques to high-risk capability domains in Mixture of Expert models8jnn54YEbQ
A Lumenator Company, or: A More Ambitious Life Trajectory6,000Adrian Regenfuss2023-09-30manifund.orgUsing Bright Lamps to make money, improve EAs productivity, do research and achieve free agency8jnn54YEbQ
General Career Support38,000Parker Whitfill2025-11-25manifund.orgTechnical AI safety, Forecasting8jnn54YEbQ
AI scam research targeting seniors 10,000Fred Heiding2025-08-30manifund.org[Science & technology, AI governance] A microgrant to help us scale our research on AI-assisted online scams by building real-world defenses for seniors and collecting data for ScamBench.8jnn54YEbQ
Replicate and extend brain entrainment results32,500Aleksandr Putilin2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Attention-Guided-RL for Human-Like LMs3,100Scott Viteri2025-03-15manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Compute Funding8jnn54YEbQ
Estimating annual burden of airborne disease (last mile to MVP)8,200Joel Becker2023-10-21manifund.org[Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks] Boosting advocacy for investment in and deployment of technologies for improving indoor air quality8jnn54YEbQ
Sentience Politics535Melina Tan2024-08-23manifund.org[Animal welfare, EA community] We place the interests of non-human animals at the centre of society. Our vision is a society in which animals are protected from suffering.8jnn54YEbQ
Study land reform5,000Mark Webb2024-02-09manifund.org[ACX Grants 2024, Global health & development] Direct land purchases and transfer from landowners to tenant farmers8jnn54YEbQ
Train LLMs in honest introspection15,000Adam Morris2025-10-29manifund.org[Technical AI safety, ACX Grants 2025] Train LLMs to accurately & honestly report on their internal decision-making processes through real-time introspection8jnn54YEbQ
Introductory resources for Singular Learning Theory10,650Matthew Cameron Farrugia-Roberts2023-07-07manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Literature review or other introductory material for Singular Learning Theory targeted at AI alignment applications8jnn54YEbQ
Seed Funding For Geodesic Research201,000Cameron Tice2026-01-30manifund.orgTechnical AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
The AI Governance Archive (TAIGA)1,485David Corfield2024-08-20manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Site maintenance, grant writing, and leadership handover8jnn54YEbQ
Support funding for Hardeep Gambhir's gap semester3,999Hardeep Singh Gambhir2023-08-17manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
AI to screen DNA orders26,000Alejandro Acelas2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Create open-source AI tools for customer screening of DNA orders.8jnn54YEbQ
Project on optimal government hedging against labour automation9,000Nathan Barnard2025-08-21manifund.org[AI governance] Paper and policy briefs on the feasibility and optimality of governments hedging against the risk of labour automation by selling bonds and buying equities.8jnn54YEbQ
Platform for migrants to start legal & profitable microbusinesses.4,050Emily Kerr-Finell2024-02-26manifund.org[ACX Grants 2024, Global health & development] Briico helps migrants legally start profitable microbusinesses in less than 30 days with less than $500 – allowing millions of people to skip decades of “gray e8jnn54YEbQ
MATS Program290,193Ryan Kidd2023-10-20manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, Global catastrophic risks] Help us support more research scholars!8jnn54YEbQ
Dads Against AGI Inc.20,181John Sherman2025-03-22manifund.org[AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Funding For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast8jnn54YEbQ
Support for Deep Coverage of China and AI37,567Jordan Schneider2023-07-25manifund.orgAI governance8jnn54YEbQ
Build an app to track ones impact on animal cruelty1,000Sai Deep Tetali2024-02-26manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Rabbitholeathon Event Food500Jacob Cohen2024-12-29manifund.orgIneffective altruism (but I figured why not post it)8jnn54YEbQ
PIBBSS - General Programs funding or specific funding51,200PIBBSS2024-07-05manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Fund unique approaches to research, field diversification, and scouting of novel ideas by experienced researchers supported by PIBBSS research team8jnn54YEbQ
Establishing the Utilitarian School of Thought in Thai Society1,012Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal2025-02-28manifund.org[EA community] Utilitarianism.net into Thai8jnn54YEbQ
Animal Advocacy Innovation Hub in the Bay Area4,100Constance Li2025-02-20manifund.org[Animal welfare, EA community] Hackathon and co-working space for animal advocates in SF8jnn54YEbQ
Coordinal Research: Accelerating the research of safely deploying AI systems.125,062Ronak Mehta2025-04-03manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Funding for a new nonprofit organization focusing on accelerating and automating safety work. 8jnn54YEbQ
Using M&E to increase impact in the animal cause area, by The Mission Motor.3,372N. Peracha2024-08-22manifund.org[Animal welfare, EA Community Choice] Increasing the impact of current projects while building a deeper understanding of what works for animals in the long run.8jnn54YEbQ
Implicit planning in LLMs Paper1,000Jim Maar2025-05-30manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Reproducing the Claude poetry planning results quantitatively8jnn54YEbQ
Clean Indoor Air for Schools150,000David Carel2025-10-15manifund.org[Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025, Biomedical, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks, Global health & development] Accelerating the adoption of air filters in every classroom8jnn54YEbQ
Bayesian modelling of LLM capabilities from evals32,000Laurence Aitchison2024-12-23manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
Disentangling Political Bias from Epistemic Integrity in AI Systems50,000David Rozado2025-10-29manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, ACX Grants 2025, AI governance, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks] An Integrative Framework for Auditing Political Preferences and Truth-Seeking in AI Systems8jnn54YEbQ
An online platform to solve coordination problems and generate leverage through collective action campaigns17,090Jordan Braunstein2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
BioBind for the Amazon1,050Tom O’Haire2024-08-14manifund.org[Science & technology, EA community, Global health & development] Valorising sustainable nut meal. Empowering indiginous operators. Protecting Rainforests.8jnn54YEbQ
Offline AI voice restoration device for people with voice disorders25,000Harry Warne2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] I am developing a portable, offline AI assistive medical device which restores disordered speech to a clear, natural voice.8jnn54YEbQ
3 Months Career Transition into AI Safety Research & Software Engineering32,000Sean Peters2025-09-12manifund.org[Technical AI safety] I'd like to explore a research agenda at the intersection of time horizon model evaluation and control protocols.8jnn54YEbQ
Develop technical framework for human control mechanisms for agentic AI systems10,030Francesca Gomez2025-02-27manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance] Building a technical mechanism to assess risks, evaluate safeguards, and identify control gaps in agentic AI systems, enabling verifiable human oversight.8jnn54YEbQ
Telegram bot for Manifold Markets1,251.41Valentin Golev2023-02-27manifund.orgACX mini-grants, Forecasting8jnn54YEbQ
Out of This Box: AI Safety Musical19,205Guy2025-03-21manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance] Out of This Box: The Last Musical (Written by Humans)8jnn54YEbQ
Bridge Funding for the Sydney AI Safety Hub (SASH)5,167Yanni Kyriacos2025-02-04manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
One semester living expenses for MIT-based researcher500Vikram (Vik) Gupta2023-07-24manifund.orgScience & technology8jnn54YEbQ
Build a new nonprofit thinktank that advances technological solutions to animal welfare challenges100,000Robert Yaman2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Scale up biologics manufacturing50,000Alexander (Olek) Pisera2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Develop a system to enable scalable, cheap, yeast-based manufacturing of difficult biologics using a continuous in vivo evolution platform, facilitating cheaper medicines, new drugs, and broadening access in low-income countries by enabling manufacturing will less reliance on cold chains. 8jnn54YEbQ
Animal Advocacy Strategy Forum2,942t0p43V5oLA2024-08-21manifund.org[Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Connecting and coordinating leaders and key decision makers to strengthen the animal advocacy movement8jnn54YEbQ
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) timelines ignore the social factor at their peril650Trevor Klee2023-03-27manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance, Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest] By Trevor Klee8jnn54YEbQ
Vaccine manufacturing platform50,000Nishank Bhalla2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Creating a manufacturing platform to rapidly and scalably manufacture vaccines against current and emerging viral pandemic threats. 8jnn54YEbQ
AI-assisted low-cost ultrasound scanner23,000Venkata Subhash Chandra Sadhu2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025, Biomedical, Global health & development] Low-cost wearable ultrasound scanner backed with AI diagnostics available to people at home or in settings where hospitals are inaccessible8jnn54YEbQ
Athena 2.08,000Claire Short2024-08-16manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Program for Women in AI Alignment Research8jnn54YEbQ
Giving What We Can3,173Lucas Moore2024-08-22manifund.org[EA Community Choice, EA community] Making giving effectively and significantly a global cultural norm8jnn54YEbQ
AI Animals and Digital Minds 202517,380Constance Li2024-08-20manifund.org[Science & technology, AI governance, Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Field building on AI's impact on nonhumans8jnn54YEbQ
Kickstarting For Good - High-Impact Nonprofit Incubation Program2,631SebastianJoy2024-08-19manifund.org[Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Turning impactful ideas for transforming the global food system into reality8jnn54YEbQ
Operating Capital for AI Safety Evaluation Infrastructure400,000Chris Canal2025-10-29manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance, Biosecurity] Enabling rapid deployment of specialized engineering teams for critical AI safety evaluation projects worldwide8jnn54YEbQ
Emergency travel funding to attend EA Global: New York 2025500Sheikh Abdur Raheem Ali2025-10-04manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
Manifold Tournaments262.5Isaac King2023-11-17manifund.orgManifold Community Fund, EA community, Forecasting8jnn54YEbQ
General support for SaferAI100,025SaferAI2025-02-05manifund.org[AI governance] Support for SaferAI’s technical and governance research and education programs to enable responsible and safe AI.8jnn54YEbQ
Act I: Exploring emergent behavior from multi-AI, multi-human interaction67,832.77ampdot2024-08-25manifund.org[Technical AI safety, EA Community Choice, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks] Community exploring and predicting potential risks and opportunities arising from a future that involves many independently controlled AI systems8jnn54YEbQ
Standardized Tools for Impact Market Reporting1,263.53Ryan Kupyn2023-02-28manifund.org[ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Working towards GAAP For Impact Markets8jnn54YEbQ
Long-Term Future Fund141,457Linch Zhang2023-09-09manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
Forecast Dissemination Mini-Market 1 of 3: College Majors550Ryan Kupyn2023-02-28manifund.org[ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Promoting forecasts in order to help college choose their field of study, then evaluating the effect of this information.8jnn54YEbQ
human intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project107,502Tsvi Benson-Tilsen2025-03-11manifund.org[Science & technology, Biomedical, Global catastrophic risks] accelerating strong human germline genomic engineering to make lots of geniuses8jnn54YEbQ
Support early career journalists covering AI by providing training, funding, and placements at major news outlets.32,000Cillian Crosson2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Preventing Worst Case Pandemics Symposium @ Cambridge4,100Grace Braithwaite2024-05-30manifund.org[Biomedical, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks] A Cambridge Biosecurity Hub and Cambridge Infectious Diseases Symposium on Avoiding Worst-Case Scenarios8jnn54YEbQ
Orexin Pilot Experiment for Reducing Sleep Need5,170niplav2025-05-22manifund.org[Science & technology, Biomedical] Testing intranasal orexin-A administration for sleep need reduction: a 2-3 participant self-blinded randomized controlled trial8jnn54YEbQ
Experiments to test EA / longtermist framings and branding26,760David Moss2023-11-14manifund.org[EA community] Testing responses to “effective altruism”, “longtermism”, “existential risk” etc.8jnn54YEbQ
Advertise Christians for Impact (EA for Christians)40,000JD Bauman2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Scale the reach of evidence-based, impact-focused career advice for Christians through a high-leverage digital engagement campaign at Christians for Impact.8jnn54YEbQ
Mapping neuroscience and mechanistic interpretability 5,950Zhonghao He2023-12-09manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Surveying neuroscience for tools to analyze and understand neural networks and building a natural science of deep learning8jnn54YEbQ
PauseAI US 2025 through Q2100,000PauseAI US2024-11-07manifund.org[AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] SFF main round did us dirty! 8jnn54YEbQ
Lightcone Infrastructure237,365Oliver Habryka2024-05-08manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, EA community, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks] Funding for LessWrong.com, the AI Alignment Forum, Lighthaven and other Lightcone Projects8jnn54YEbQ
EEG using a generalizable ML model + 32 channel PCB2,500Sophia Pung2024-01-16manifund.org[Science & technology] A group of 5 teenage hackers creating a novel PCB design and ML model to process electrical signals generated by neurons with an Electroencephalogram.8jnn54YEbQ
Combat global antibiotic resistance60,000Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Shallow review of AI safety 202420,860Gavin Leech2024-10-28manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
Development of a Cautionary Tale Feature Film about Gradual Disempowerment100,000Petr Salaba2025-07-25manifund.org[AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] work title: Seductive Machines and Human Agency8jnn54YEbQ
Agent Island: An Environment for Interagent Cooperation and Conflict2,000Connacher Murphy2026-02-09manifund.org[Technical AI safety] A flexible simulation environment for assessing strategic and persuasive capabilities, benchmarking, and agent development, inspired by reality TV competitions.8jnn54YEbQ
OpenReg: AI tools for FDA application and reg compliance50,000Bryan Davis2025-10-29manifund.org[Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025, Biomedical] A set of AI-powered open-source tools intended to shorten time-to-market for medtech innovators.8jnn54YEbQ
PauseAI local communities - volunteer stipends93,574Joep Meindertsma2024-08-23manifund.org[AI governance, EA Community Choice] Help the largest AI activist group grow 8jnn54YEbQ
AI Governance YouTube Channel732Gaurav Yadav2024-08-22manifund.org[AI governance, EA Community Choice] Explainable videos for ideas in AI Governance8jnn54YEbQ
AI-Driven Market Alternatives for a post-AGI world15,745Oliver Klingefjord2024-07-09manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global health & development] Develop an LLM-based coordinator and test against consumer spending with 200 people.8jnn54YEbQ
Making 52 AI Alignment Video Explainers and Podcasts15,269Michaël Rubens Trazzi2024-02-12manifund.orgEA Community Choice8jnn54YEbQ
Finishing The SB-1047 Documentary118,987Michaël Rubens Trazzi2024-10-24manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance] How California became ground zero in the global debate over who gets to shape humanity's most powerful technology8jnn54YEbQ
AI Safety Research Organization Incubator - Pilot Program15,977Alexandra Bos2023-11-24manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
3 months full-time contributing software to Inspect20,000Anthony Duong2025-08-05manifund.orgTechnical AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
Fund thebes' model tinkering26,402Theia Vogel2025-11-04manifund.org[Science & technology] Research, tutorial writing, and open-source libraries & tools for experimenting with language models8jnn54YEbQ
Shanzhai Intelligence and the role of AI in China’s future40frank yu2024-01-19manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, ChinaTalk Essay Contest, AI governance, Forecasting] Can China’s AI industry adapt to a changing global landscape8jnn54YEbQ
Democratising charity evaluations501Sasha Cooper2024-09-02manifund.org[EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA community, EA Infrastructure Fund] Creating a database of independent charity evaluations, incentives to use them and tools to use them with8jnn54YEbQ
AI, Animals, and Digital Minds 2024 Conference and Retreat5,109Constance Li2024-06-22manifund.org[Science & technology, AI governance, Animal welfare, EA Community Choice] Request for Retroactive Funding8jnn54YEbQ
The Deal of the Century: Targeted Persuasion Campaign for a US-China AI Treaty11,050Rufo Guerreschi2025-10-15manifund.org[AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Persuading a critical mass of key potential influencers of Trump's AI policy to champion a bold, timely and proper US-China-led global AI treaty 8jnn54YEbQ
Manifold feature to improve non-resolving popularity markets800Kenan Schaefkofer2023-03-05manifund.org[ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Add additional social incentives to bet YES to publicly signal value/support/belief and NO to signal the opposite.8jnn54YEbQ
Research Staff for AI Safety Research Projects26,710—2024-05-08manifund.orgTechnical AI safety, Biosecurity8jnn54YEbQ
Optimizing clinical Metagenomics and Far-UVC implementation.41,800Miti Saksena2023-08-04manifund.org[Biosecurity] 3-month research to inform the design of large-scale R&D projects in metagenomics and Far-UVC8jnn54YEbQ
China’s Incoming AI Ethics Leadership Push40Emmie Hine2024-01-10manifund.org[ChinaTalk Essay Contest, AI governance, Forecasting] There is a 70% chance that China will tie AI ethics into its Digital Silk Road, releasing a global AI ethics framework targeting developing countries.8jnn54YEbQ
Keep Apart Research Going: Global AI Safety Research & Talent Pipeline130,926Apart Research2025-05-21manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA community] Funding ends June 2025: Urgent support for proven AI safety pipeline converting technical talent from 26+ countries into published contributors8jnn54YEbQ
Systems that "give a damn"12,000Steve Petersen2025-08-01manifund.org[Technical AI safety, Animal welfare] Teleology, agential risks, and AI well-being8jnn54YEbQ
Software to detect data fabrication50,000Markus Englund2025-10-29manifund.org[Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025] Continue developing ‘copy-paste-detective’ - a software that detects signs of data fabrication in scientific research - and run it against 20,000 publicly available Excel datasets.8jnn54YEbQ
Finish Video Game about AI Girlfriends and Social Peril20,000Keaton Lee2025-10-27manifund.orgHire Human Illustrators!8jnn54YEbQ
New Roots Institute: Empowering the Next Generation to End Factory Farming15,531Monica Chen2024-08-21manifund.org[Animal welfare, EA Community Choice] Growing Advocacy Ecosystems8jnn54YEbQ
Youtube tutorial videos about computational biology and bioinformatics1,000Mike Saint-Antoine2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
12th Edition of AI Safety Camp40,190Remmelt Ellen2026-01-23manifund.orgTechnical AI safety, AI governance8jnn54YEbQ
aCFAR 2025/6 Fundraiser3,250Anna Salamon2025-12-31manifund.orgRevised CFAR workshops. Same Sequences-epistemics, same CFAR classics, more support for individual freedom, sovereignty, and authorship8jnn54YEbQ
Human Inductive Bias Project10,000Ka Wang Pang2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Investigating intersection between mathematical models of human and machine learning8jnn54YEbQ
Create a platform for assurance contracts that looks nice.17,000Tetra Jones2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
1200€ to move in SF for an international high-level event and meetings1,300Tom David2024-11-15manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
TransformerLens - Bridge Funding30,000Bryce Meyer2025-07-07manifund.orgScience & technology, Technical AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
OPTIC12,926.2Saul Munn2023-03-04manifund.org[ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Intercollegiate Forecasting Tournament8jnn54YEbQ
Pro-Animal Future4,020Aidan Kankyoku2024-08-21manifund.org[Animal welfare] U.S. citizen initiatives to disrupt factory farming8jnn54YEbQ
AI Safety Los Angeles (AISLA)2,500Kristina Vaia2025-07-07manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] The official AI safety community in Los Angeles8jnn54YEbQ
Support EA NZ's operations1,531Effective Altruism New Zealand2024-08-21manifund.orgEA Community Choice, EA community8jnn54YEbQ
Retroactive: Presenting a poster at the ICML technical AI governance workshop1,300Evžen Wybitul2025-11-23manifund.orgAI governance8jnn54YEbQ
Help launch the Technical Alignment Research Accelerator (TARA)!14,901Yanni Kyriacos2024-11-14manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
Giving free AI safety books for potentially high-impact individuals761Aidar Toktargazin2025-06-26manifund.orgEA community8jnn54YEbQ
Advocate for a specialized pandemic response team at the FDA100,0009k7drw6Qpg2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
make and sell far-UVC lamps for air disinfection50,000Misha Gurevich2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Make cheap, inherently safe, and effective consumer 222nm far-UVC lamps for air and surface disinfection8jnn54YEbQ
FarmKind - A donation platform creating new donors for effective animal advocacy2,581Aidan Alexander2024-08-19manifund.orgAnimal welfare, EA Community Choice8jnn54YEbQ
N.C. Young's Umbrella Project393.03N.C. Young2023-11-16manifund.org[Manifold Community Fund] Everything Manifold-related that I'm doing on my own8jnn54YEbQ
Asterisk AI Blogging Fellowship70,000Asterisk Magazine2025-05-21manifund.orgTechnical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks8jnn54YEbQ
Alignment Is Hard6,070Alexander Bistagne2023-07-23manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Proving Computational Hardness of Verifying Alignment Desirata8jnn54YEbQ
Manifold Markets Add-on for Google Sheets879.69Jesús Francisco Quevedo Osegueda2023-02-28manifund.org[ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] An Add-on for easy access to Manifold´s Prediction Markets8jnn54YEbQ
AI scam research targeting seniors4,500Fred Heiding2025-06-15manifund.org[Science & technology, AI governance] A microgrant to help us disseminate our work on AI scams targeting seniors and present it at BSides Las Vegas, DEF CON, and other conferences8jnn54YEbQ
Create open source predictors for various genetically influenced traits such as intelligence and disease risk20,000Gene Smith2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Manufacture Manyfold Manifolders in the Maritime Metropolis800Robert Cousineau2023-11-17manifund.org[Manifold Community Fund, EA community, Forecasting] Lets create a new defining addiction for Seattle!8jnn54YEbQ
Inspect Evals50,000Justin Olive2025-09-29manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance] Funding to cover our expenses for 3 months during unexpected shortfall8jnn54YEbQ
Comparing forecasting platform accuracy2,173.59Jack2023-03-04manifund.orgACX mini-grants, Forecasting8jnn54YEbQ
Help Apart Expand Global AI Safety Research17,732Apart Research2023-12-18manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Incubate AI safety research and develop the next generation of global AI safety talent via research sprints and research fellowships8jnn54YEbQ
Why I think strong general AI is coming soon60Ross Nordby2023-03-25manifund.org[Technical AI safety, Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest] By porby8jnn54YEbQ
Talos Network1,000Cillian Crosson2023-12-07manifund.org[AI governance] -8jnn54YEbQ
CEEALAR (EA Hotel) Needs a New Roof3,476Greg Colbourn2023-09-12manifund.org[EA Community Choice, EA community, EA Infrastructure Fund, Global catastrophic risks] Centre hosting EAs’ research projects/EAs’ upskilling for ~1/3 of the average cost of funding such projects remotely8jnn54YEbQ
Manifold: Live!1,927Joshua Fleming2023-11-23manifund.org[Manifold Community Fund, EA community, Forecasting] A weekly community livestream/discord call where top traders discuss the week's events on Manifold and live-bet with the audience on markets from new users 8jnn54YEbQ
Wasabipesto's Umbrella Project3,500wasabipesto2023-11-20manifund.org[Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting] Six Projects in Search of an Investor - Details inside8jnn54YEbQ
EA Christian / CFI Community4,902JD Bauman2024-08-16manifund.org[EA Community Choice, EA community] Growth Fund 8jnn54YEbQ
Educate the public about high impact causes2,050Alex Khurgin2024-02-26manifund.orgScience & technology, Technical AI safety, ACX Grants 2024, Animal welfare, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks, Global health & development8jnn54YEbQ
"Sweeten" training corpuses with stories of nice AI5,000Aaron Silverbook2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Flood the internet with stories about AI being nice, to nudge future AI training data nicer 8jnn54YEbQ
AI safety fieldbuilding in Warsaw, Poland (funding for 1 semester)10,024Piotr Zaborszczyk2024-11-04manifund.org[Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Reach the university that trained close to 20% of OpenAI early employees8jnn54YEbQ
Wise AI: Fine-Tune an Open Source Model5,550Oliver Klingefjord2024-01-15manifund.orgAligning to Human Values by Eliciting a Moral Graph8jnn54YEbQ
11th edition of AI Safety Camp45,115Remmelt Ellen2024-12-21manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance] Cost-efficiently support new careers and new organisations in AI Safety.8jnn54YEbQ
Acausal research and interventions80,050Chi Nguyen2025-06-25manifund.org[Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Making sure AI systems don't mess up acausal interactions8jnn54YEbQ
Activation vector steering with BCI30,260Lisa Thiergart2023-07-30manifund.orgTechnical AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
Understanding Trust100,000Abram Demski2025-05-26manifund.orgFunding Basic Theoretical AI Safety Research8jnn54YEbQ
Forecasting - AI Governance Policies9,000Tolga Bilge2023-08-20manifund.orgAI governance, Forecasting8jnn54YEbQ
Scaling Training Process Transparency5,150Robert Krzyzanowski2023-11-02manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Compute and infrastructure costs8jnn54YEbQ
Database of the Most Impactful Research Questions by Discipline and Cause Area500Joel Christoph | Effective Thesis2024-02-26manifund.org[ACX Grants 2024] To match the highest-potential research questions with the students and researchers that can work on them8jnn54YEbQ
Runway till January: Amplify's funding ask to market EA & AI Safety 520Gergő Gáspár2025-11-17manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Help us solve the talent and funding bottleneck for EA and AIS.8jnn54YEbQ
The Base Rate Times4,275Marcel van Diemen2023-07-13manifund.org[Forecasting] News through prediction markets8jnn54YEbQ
Satoshi's Antithesis: China to use CBDC to Boost CNY Trade40Will Peracchio2024-01-14manifund.org[Science & technology, ChinaTalk Essay Contest, Forecasting] There is a 95% chance China will trade internationally with their eCNY CBDC an annual volume in excess of $50bn USD by 20288jnn54YEbQ
Make ALERT happen18,466—2023-12-03manifund.org[Science & technology, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks] ALERT := Active Longtermist Emergency Response Team8jnn54YEbQ
Biosecurity bootcamp by EffiSciences1,300Jonathan Samuel Claybrough2025-01-02manifund.org[Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks] 5 day bootcamp upskilling participants on biosecurity, to enable and empower career change towards reducing biorisks, from ML4Good organisers8jnn54YEbQ
Avoiding Incentives for Performative Prediction in AI33,200Rubi Hudson2023-08-30manifund.orgTechnical AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
Pandemic Interventions Course - Introductory Biosecurity Syllabus1,117Lin Bowker-Lonnecker2024-08-19manifund.org[Technical AI safety, Biosecurity, EA Community Choice, Global catastrophic risks] Updates, additional resources and promotion for a 4-week introductory syllabus that looks at interventions to help prevent future pandemics.8jnn54YEbQ
WhiteBox Research’s AI Interpretability Fellowship2,005Brian Tan2024-07-16manifund.org[Technical AI safety, EA Community Choice] ~4 FTE for 9 months to fund WhiteBox Research, mainly for the 2nd cohort of our AI Interpretability Fellowship in Manila8jnn54YEbQ
Graduate School Application Fee for Students from Third World Country5,000Ammon Lam2024-04-20manifund.orgGlobal health & development8jnn54YEbQ
Thrive Philanthropy12,646Jessika Ava, MS, MPA2024-08-20manifund.org[Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, Global health & development] Catalyzing Global End to Factory Farming8jnn54YEbQ
Personal development and better infrastructure for learning, "Anki V2"10,000Brent Burdick2023-11-26manifund.org[Science & technology] SRS software projects and general career development8jnn54YEbQ
Help me create a free programming school in my city800Matías Federico Ciruelos2024-11-27manifund.orgScience & technology8jnn54YEbQ
Enabling a Student to Present his Mechanistic Interpretability Work at NeurIPS 1,100Chris Wendler2025-10-10manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety] Help fund our student’s trip to NeurIPS to present his main conference paper on interpretable features in text-to-image diffusion models.8jnn54YEbQ
Commissions for a Cause - a Profit for Good project 801Brad West2024-08-17manifund.org[Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, Global health & development] Profit for Good Initiative Project Enabling People to Buy Insurance and Fund Charities at no Extra Cost8jnn54YEbQ
Support a thriving and talented community of Filipino EAs43,700Zian Marie V. Bonoan2024-03-21manifund.org[EA Community Choice, EA community] Your contribution makes a difference at EA Philippines!8jnn54YEbQ
Isaac's Blog Writing1,034.46Isaac King2023-11-18manifund.orgManifold Community Fund, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks8jnn54YEbQ
Towards Shared AI Compute Infrastructure23,000Haakon Huynh2026-01-29manifund.orgScience & technology, AI governance8jnn54YEbQ
Update Big List of Cause Candidates1,000David Federico Rivadeneira2023-12-07manifund.orgEA community, Global catastrophic risks, Global health & development8jnn54YEbQ
Travel grant to present AI safety paper at ACM FAccT1,650Max Kaufmann2024-06-18manifund.orgTechnical AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
Metaculus' First Animal-Focused Forecasting Tournament3,400Aditi Basu2025-10-09manifund.org[Animal welfare, Forecasting] Generating decision-relevant forecasts for the animal advocacy community8jnn54YEbQ
Building Effective Giving ecosystem in India30,000Chetan Kharbanda2025-10-29manifund.org[Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025, Biomedical, Animal welfare, Biosecurity, EA community, Global health & development] Funding circles and advisory to fund high impact non-profits8jnn54YEbQ
Removing Hazardous Knowledge from AIs190,000Alexander Pan2023-12-24manifund.orgTechnical AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
AI Policy Breakthroughs — Empowering Insiders20,000Kyle Gracey2024-07-03manifund.org[AI governance] Strategy Consulting Support for AI Policymakers8jnn54YEbQ
CHAT Diplomacy50John Buridan2023-05-05manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance, Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest] Advances in LLMs are a National Security Risk8jnn54YEbQ
Use smartphone pupillometry to triage brain injury in rural Missouri.60,000Anthony James Maxin2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
The Looming Super-Bug Crisis40Nick Ayrton2024-01-28manifund.org[Science & technology, ChinaTalk Essay Contest, Biosecurity, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks, Global health & development] China's Battle Against Antimicrobial Resistance8jnn54YEbQ
Support Riesgos Catastroficos Globales32,500Jorge Andrés Torres Celis2023-09-06manifund.orgScience & technology, AI governance, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks8jnn54YEbQ
Seed fund for boundaries-based empirical AI safety projects after workshop.40,000Chris Lakin2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Budget for events aiming to "mainstream" EA in Sweden1,047Jonas Ludvig Daniel Wernstedt 2024-08-21manifund.org[EA Community Choice, EA community] Make it Count is an effective giving initiative aiming to make a cultural shift in Sweden to give 1) to effective charities and 2) a percentage of ones income8jnn54YEbQ
Explainer and analysis of CNCERT/CC (国家互联网应急中心)3,000Alexa Pan2023-12-13manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
Live Governance3,000Murray Buchanan2024-11-28manifund.org[AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Leveraging AI to enable coordination without demanding centralization8jnn54YEbQ
Mirrorbot1,593.12Joris Kerkhoff2023-11-29manifund.org[Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting] Automatically mirror popular questions from other platforms to Manifold8jnn54YEbQ
EVN General Support Application50,000Elizabeth Van Nostrand2024-11-03manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
Visa fee support for US researcher to take on a temporary role with the UK AISI3,000S2024-02-28manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
Future-Proofing Forecasting: Easy Open-Source Solution2,071Osnat Katz2024-08-20manifund.org[EA Community Choice, Forecasting] Free Forecasting For Everyone, Everywhere8jnn54YEbQ
Travel funding to the International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory.1,170Joss Oliver2024-09-04manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars 202630,000Orpheus Lummis2025-10-16manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Seminars on quantitative/guaranteed AI safety (formal methods, verification, mech-interp), with recordings, debates, and the guaranteedsafe.ai community hub.8jnn54YEbQ
"Litigating and Legislating for Animal Rights" Online Seminar Series781Marine Lercier2024-08-18manifund.org[Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA community, Global health & development] Educating an online global audience about strategic litigation and legislative reform for animal rights8jnn54YEbQ
Next Steps in Developmental Interpretability80,680Jesse Hoogland2024-07-12manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Addressing Immediate AI Safety Concerns through DevInterp8jnn54YEbQ
Effective Altruism Meetup, Abuja, Nigeria1,448Daniel Elabi2024-08-20manifund.org[EA Community Choice, EA community] Effective Altruism meetup for community members in Abuja, Nigeria to foster aligned discussions, networking and collaboration 8jnn54YEbQ
London Manifold.love dating shows2,538.91Aleksandr Putilin2023-12-15manifund.org[Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting] Two prediction market dating show with live betting8jnn54YEbQ
Play money prediction markets2,400Case Sandberg2024-08-21manifund.org[EA Community Choice, Forecasting] Community-run, open source prediction market platform8jnn54YEbQ
Scaling Legal Impact for Chickens to make factory-farm cruelty a liability5,674Alene Georgia Anello2024-02-26manifund.org[ACX Grants 2024, Animal welfare] Help us sue executives and companies that abuse animals. 8jnn54YEbQ
Compute and other expenses for LLM alignment research400,100Ethan Josean Perez2023-08-19manifund.org[Technical AI safety] 4 different projects (finding RLHF alignment failures, debate, improving CoT faithfulness, and model organisms)8jnn54YEbQ
Run five international hackathons on AI safety research10,950Esben Kran Christensen2023-07-27manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Six-month support for a Program Manager to organize and execute international AI safety hackathons with Apart Research8jnn54YEbQ
AI Safety Textbook41,070Charbel-Raphael Segerie2024-04-24manifund.orgWe are writing an AI safety textbook designed to serve as a comprehensive educational resource for the field.8jnn54YEbQ
mRNA for airway disease80,000Jacob Witten2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Cure idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, eventually reverse lung aging8jnn54YEbQ
Reflective altruism2,000David Thorstad2023-07-05manifund.orgEA community8jnn54YEbQ
Neuronpedia - Open Interpretability Platform2,500Johnny Lin2023-07-26manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Platform for interpretability researchers, especially those creating/using Sparse Autoencoders8jnn54YEbQ
Apollo Research: Scale up interpretability & behavioral model evals research339,409pKeaWwP6sQ2023-07-20manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Hire 3 additional AI safety research engineers / scientists8jnn54YEbQ
VoiceDeck538Devansh Mehta2024-08-28manifund.org[EA Community Choice, EA Infrastructure Fund] Marketplace for Impact Certificates8jnn54YEbQ
Unprompted Unfaithful Chain of Thought Dataset Project2,000Robert Krzyzanowski2025-01-04manifund.orgTechnical AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
SafePlanBench: evaluating a Guaranteed Safe AI Approach for LLM-based Agents1,975Agustín Martinez Suñé2025-01-07manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance] Seeking funding to develop and evaluate a new benchmark for systematically assesing safety of LLM-based agents8jnn54YEbQ
Normie-friendly prediction market interfaces7,000Charlie Molthrop2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Normie-friendly interfaces for prediction markets and their probabilities8jnn54YEbQ
Fatebook and Quantified Intuitions1,025Adam Binksmith2024-08-22manifund.org[EA Community Choice, Forecasting] Forecasting tools by Sage. Fatebook: the fastest way to track your predictions. Quantified Intuitions: Forecasting training tools with rapid feedback loops8jnn54YEbQ
Design budget for rebuilding the dating site we all want back. 5,000Shreeda Segan2024-06-10manifund.org[EA community] We know what works. Let's make sure it looks good. 8jnn54YEbQ
Funding for Solar4Africa app development500Sophia Pung2023-07-18manifund.org[Global health & development] Supplementing living expenses of a full stack dev to pursue educational opportunities while doing app development in Berkeley for a week.8jnn54YEbQ
AI Governance Exchange (focus on China, AI safety), Seed Funding12,365Yuanyuan Sun2025-03-28manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Building bridges between Western and Chinese AI governance efforts to address global AI safety challenges.8jnn54YEbQ
Hallucination Detector6,000Oscar Balcells Obeso2025-05-07manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
Impact Accelerator Program: Biggest career program for experienced professionals978Nina Friedrich2024-08-20manifund.org[EA Community Choice, EA community] Help us create more high impact career transitions via the Impact Accelerator Program run by High Impact Professionals (HIP) 8jnn54YEbQ
Exploring feature interactions in transformer LLMs through sparse autoencoders8,500Kunvar Thaman2023-12-01manifund.orgTechnical AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
Measuring the Epistemic Cost-Effectiveness of AI Safety Content6,060Aditya Mehta2025-10-14manifund.org[EA community] https://drive.google.com/file/d/16KxeA1ZdFrKRAa10owLStunk5huAAyLr/view?usp=sharing8jnn54YEbQ
HIV/TB clinic in Africa45,000Matthew Loftus2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] We want to integrate our HIV/TB clinic with our medical clinic at our hospital in rural Kenya and tell the world about it to promote conversations about how to continue providing excellent outpatient HIV/TB care as foreign aid to support these projects changes.8jnn54YEbQ
Search for more solar system objects6,000Ben Engebreth2025-10-29manifund.org[Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025] Purchase compute and support algorithm development8jnn54YEbQ
Journal of Animal Rights Law911Marine Lercier2024-08-19manifund.org[Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA community, Global health & development] The first and only open-access legal journal dedicated to disseminating and discussing animal rights law research8jnn54YEbQ
Fish welfare training in Nigeria10,000Felix Onyeka Nwose2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Pilot a scalable, direct-to-farmer fish welfare program in Nigeria, training 400+ farmers across five clusters to adopt and maintain humane handling, slaughter, and welfare practices through hands-on field training and ongoing farm support.8jnn54YEbQ
A tool for making well sized (~Kelly optimal) bets on manifold10,890.93Will Howard2023-02-25manifund.org[ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Instead of saying "I want to bet $X on this market" you will say "I think the true probability is Y%", and it will tell you how much to bet8jnn54YEbQ
AI Crisis Convening at India AI Impact Summit 2026100,000AISA2026-01-30manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Translating in-person convening to measurable outcomes 8jnn54YEbQ
AI Security Startup Accelerator Batch #2355,000Finn Metz2025-12-02manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Funding 5–10 AI security startups through Seldon’s second SF cohort.8jnn54YEbQ
Cadenza Labs: AI Safety research group working on own interpretability agenda7,810Cadenza Labs2023-11-06manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] We're a team of SERI-MATS alumni working on interpretability, seeking funding to continue our research after our LTFF grant ended.8jnn54YEbQ
Philanthropic advising50,000Tyler John2025-03-16manifund.orgTechnical AI safety, AI governance, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks8jnn54YEbQ
The Metascience Observatory 35,000Daniel Elton2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] AI pipelines to conduct metascience research at scale, mapping how reproducibility and rigor vary across fields, countries, institutions, and journals.8jnn54YEbQ
Testing and spreading messages to reduce AI x-risk12,600AI Safety and Governance Fund2024-08-30manifund.org[AI governance, EA Community Choice] Educating the general public about AI and risks in most efficient ways and leveraging this to achieve good policy outcomes8jnn54YEbQ
Fund Sentinel for Q1-202542,384—2024-09-26manifund.org[Biosecurity, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks] A foresight and emergency response team seeking to react fast to calamities8jnn54YEbQ
Collaborative Resolution of Political Controversies1,714EB_Team2023-03-04manifund.orgACX mini-grants, Forecasting8jnn54YEbQ
Overcoming inertial barriers to collective action through anonymous coordination822Jordan Braunstein2024-08-20manifund.org[Science & technology, AI governance, EA Community Choice, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Combining "kickstarter" style functionality with transitional anonymity to decrease risk and raise expected value of participating in collective action.8jnn54YEbQ
Funding for AI safety comms strategy & career transition support38,952Alex Lintz2024-08-26manifund.org[AI governance, Long-Term Future Fund, Global catastrophic risks] Mostly retroactive funding for prior work on AI safety comms strategy as well as career transition support. 8jnn54YEbQ
Start an online editorial journal focusing on paradigm development in psychiatry and psychology10,020Jessica Ocean2024-02-26manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Empirical research into AI consciousness and moral patienthood12,020Robert Long2023-09-09manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
SirCryptomind Moderation400x2024-02-15manifund.org[Manifold Community Fund, EA community] Remote Moderation8jnn54YEbQ
Validate a solution for ozone generation from far-UVC germicidal light25,000Jacob Swett2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Provide Rationality / EA Education at University of Maryland7,800Max Morawski2023-03-03manifund.orgACX mini-grants, Forecasting8jnn54YEbQ
10th edition of AI Safety Camp68,463Remmelt Ellen2023-12-11manifund.orgTechnical AI safety, AI governance8jnn54YEbQ
Automatic circuit discovery on sparse autoencoded features25,000Can Rager2023-12-30manifund.org3-month independent research8jnn54YEbQ
Effective Giving in New Zealand25,000Effective Altruism New Zealand2024-05-10manifund.orgEA community8jnn54YEbQ
Helping to change the stray animal crisis in Mexico600Ace Malik2024-08-31manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
Develop an app or website to help parents choose between IVF clinics20,000Samuel F Celarek2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Isaac's power-user Manifold search and dashboard2,478.55Isaac King2023-11-17manifund.orgManifold Community Fund, Forecasting8jnn54YEbQ
Discovering latent goals (mechanistic interpretability PhD salary)1,590Lucy Farnik2023-07-10manifund.org[Technical AI safety] 6-month salary for interpretability research focusing on probing for goals and "agency" inside large language models8jnn54YEbQ
Screwworm Free Future: Seizing the Eradication Window55,599Screwworm Free Future2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Accelerate eradication of the New World Screwworm from South America via research, coordination, and advocacy around safe development of gene-drives8jnn54YEbQ
Reducing Risk in AI Safety Through Expanding Capacity.11,025Lawrence Wagner2025-12-17manifund.orgTechnical AI safety, AI governance, EA community, Global catastrophic risks8jnn54YEbQ
Trading assistant bot (Remind Me)230.46cc62023-11-24manifund.org[Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting] Sends you notifications when markets that you are betting on have a big swing and allows you to set parameters for custom reminders 8jnn54YEbQ
Exploring novel research directions in prosaic AI alignment30,000Lawrence Chan2023-11-27manifund.org[Technical AI safety] 3 month8jnn54YEbQ
[Urgent] Top-up funding to present poster at the Tokyo AI Safety Conference 700Matthew Farr2025-03-25manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety] My allocated travel funding is insufficient. Seeking extra funding for flights, accommodation, etc, to present poster and network8jnn54YEbQ
Improving farmed fish welfare in Egypt5,000Alexandria Beck2025-05-20manifund.orgAnimal welfare, EA community8jnn54YEbQ
Investigating and informing the public about the trajectory of AI5,975cBPkzcVBBQ2025-01-03manifund.orgAI governance, Forecasting8jnn54YEbQ
Evaluating Model Attack Selection and Offensive Cyber Horizons41,000Sean Peters2025-12-02manifund.org[Technical AI safety] Measuring attack selection as an emergent capability, and extending offensive cyber time horizons to newer models and benchmarks8jnn54YEbQ
Groundless Alignment Residency 202515,000Aditya Arpitha Prasad2025-09-15manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Practicing Embodied Protocols that work with Live Interfaces8jnn54YEbQ
Translation of BlueDot Impact's AI alignment curriculum into Portuguese3,300Luan Rafael Marques de Oliveira2023-12-24manifund.org[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Support to translate BlueDot Impact’s AI alignment curriculum into (Br) Portuguese to be used in university study groups and an online course8jnn54YEbQ
AI Digest97,730Adam Binksmith2025-06-05manifund.orgInteractive AI explainers and demos, including the Agent Village8jnn54YEbQ
AI forecasting and policy research by the AI 2027 team44,022Jonas Vollmer2025-05-06manifund.org[AI governance, Forecasting] AI Futures Project8jnn54YEbQ
Regrant to charities working on developing country nutrition100,012Joel Tan Jiong Yang2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Automated forecasting25,000Simon Chen2025-10-09manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Automate Forecasting in Unfun Domains - by Exploring with Shapley Attribution and all the other Low Hanging Fruits.8jnn54YEbQ
Research introduction of new antibiotics78,000Yonatan Grad2025-10-29manifund.org[ACX Grants 2025] Since new antibiotics are a rare and precious resource, how do we best introduce them to minimize the emergence and spread of resistance?8jnn54YEbQ
Civitech Incubator10,000Lincoln Quirk2026-01-01manifund.orgBuilding Talent Infrastructure for American Democracy8jnn54YEbQ
The first public benefit biotechnology company with an explicit goal of involuntary suffering abolition.50,020Joshua Michael Sparks 2024-02-09manifund.orgACX Grants 20248jnn54YEbQ
Building a Culture of Care: Educating on Animal Welfare in Somalia520Abdiaziz Idiris Mohamud2024-08-21manifund.orgAnimal welfare, EA community8jnn54YEbQ
Survey for LLM Self-Knowledge and Coordination Practices10,000Francisco Carvalho2024-08-27manifund.org—8jnn54YEbQ
Help AIs create AI safety tools80,000Jacob Arbeid2025-10-29manifund.org[Technical AI safety, ACX Grants 2025] Automated creation of defensive tools like AI control protocols and defensive cybersecurity agents 8jnn54YEbQ
AI Safety Reading Group at metauni [Retrospective]815Matthew Cameron Farrugia-Roberts2024-08-18manifund.org[Technical AI safety, EA Community Choice] Retrospective support for small virtual reading group on AI safety topics8jnn54YEbQ
Grow An AI Safety Tiktok Channel To Reach Ten Million People29,700Michaël Rubens Trazzi2025-08-10manifund.org[Technical AI safety, AI governance] 20 Weeks Salary to reach a neglected audience of 10M viewers8jnn54YEbQ
A Happier World (YouTube channel promoting EA ideas)2,790Jeroen Willems2024-04-02manifund.org[EA community] A Happier World explores exciting ideas with the potential to radically improve the world. It discusses the most pressing problems and how we can solve them.8jnn54YEbQ
WhiteBox Research: Training Exclusively for Mechanistic Interpretability12,420Brian Tan2023-08-20manifund.org[Technical AI safety] 1.9 FTE for 9 months to pilot a training program in Manila exclusively focused on Mechanistic Interpretability8jnn54YEbQ
AI Alignment Research Lab for Africa2,450Jonas Kgomo2023-07-21manifund.org[Technical AI safety] AI Safety lab focusing on technical alignment and governance of AI in Africa and the Global South more broadly. We are a grassroots community-led research lab8jnn54YEbQ
Building Bridges: Effective Animal Advocacy in the Global South2,667Caroline Araujo de Oliveira2024-08-21manifund.org[Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Gathering activists, influencers, and organizations to foster effective advocacy and drive impactful change in regions where factory farming is growing, yet adv8jnn54YEbQ
The First Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability for Vision1,500tamar rott shaham2025-05-28manifund.orgScience & technology, Technical AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
Aquatic Animal Alliance: A Global Movement for Neglected Species4,212Cecilia Valenza2024-08-20manifund.org[Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Building a Unified Front for Aquatic Animal Welfare8jnn54YEbQ
Travel funding for International Conference on Learning Representations1,500Joar Skalse 2024-05-03manifund.orgPresenting an AI safety paper, STARC8jnn54YEbQ
Subsidize Real Money Prediction Markets on High Impact Topics8,042Ezra Brodey2023-03-06manifund.org[ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Create Subsidized Prediction Markets On Polymarket.com8jnn54YEbQ
A Critical Study of the EU’s Anti-Subsidy Probe into Chinese Electric Vehicles40Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa2024-01-28manifund.orgScience & technology, ChinaTalk Essay Contest, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks8jnn54YEbQ
Support for SAELens and other Decode Research Projects6,800David Chanin2025-08-04manifund.orgTechnical AI safety8jnn54YEbQ
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