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FTX Future Fund Regranting Program

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Grant Round
Funder Organization
FTX Future Fund
Source
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Description

Program allowing designated regranters to make independent funding decisions using FTX Future Fund capital

Notes

Notable regranters included Leopold Aschenbrenner, Nuno Sempere, and others. Program ceased with FTX collapse.

Grants Awarded

13Total: $9M
GrantRecipientAmountDateStatus
Grant to "support Ought’s work building Elicit, a language-model based research assistant."Elicit (AI Research Tool)$5MMay 2022
Grant to "support a researcher and research assistant to work on high-skill immigration and AI policy at FAS for three years."Federation For American Scientists$1MMay 2022
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."Manifold (Prediction Market)$1MMar 2022
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."ML Safety Scholars Program$490KApr 2022
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."AI Impacts$250KJun 2022
Grant to "support QURI to develop a programming language called "Squiggle" as a tool for probabilistic estimation."QURI (Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute)$200KMay 2022
Grant to "support a NeurIPS competition applying human feedback in a non-language-model setting, specifically pretrained models in Minecraft."Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative$155KMay 2022
Grant to "fund the writing of Slaoui's memoir, especially including his experience directing Operation Warp Speed."Moncef Slaoui$150KMay 2022
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."Legal Priorities Project$138KMay 2022
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."Apart Research$95KMay 2022
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."Trojan Detection Challenge At NeurIPS 2022$50KMay 2022
Grant to "support two competitions to produce better public materials on the existential risk from AI."AI Risk Public Materials Competition$40KApr 2022
Grant to "support six months of independent research on interpretability and other AI safety topics."Evan R. Murphy$30KJul 2022
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