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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."

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NameGrant 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."
Amount$350,000
Recipient9k7drw6Qpg
DateJun 2022
Sourceweb.archive.org
Notes[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."

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KeyNameAmountRecipient
0DQeQXUASxGrant to "support the production of high quality materials for learning about AI safety work."$100,000Siddharth Hiregowdara
1PqM43C95dGrant to "support two competitions to produce better public materials on the existential risk from AI."$40,000AI Risk Public Materials Competition
21AWWwJK5uGrant to "support Longview’s independent grantmaking on global priorities research, nuclear weapons policy, and other longtermist issues."$15 milliongV4U3qi2QA
2fYCsS6QFfGrant to "support Helix Nano running preclinical and Phase 1 trials of a pan-variant Covid-19 vaccine."$10 millionHelixNano
2T-36SdkBjGrant for "general support for their activities, including running conferences, supporting student groups, and maintaining online resources."$13.9 milliongNsqAes7Dw
3husdmwduYGrant to "support the completion of a book which explores the nature of human values and the implications for aligning AI with human preferences."$300,000Brian Christian
3UDBPaAAGnGrant 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."$320,000High Impact Professionals
441CYU8TCbGrant to "support one year of operating expenses and salaries at the Legal Priorities Project, a longtermist legal research and field-building organization."$700,000Legal Priorities Project
5uP33iWDRUGrant to "support Ought’s work building Elicit, a language-model based research assistant."$5 million2VexoROapg
6m4vLv5y_KGrant to "support the development of universal CRISPR-based diagnostics, including paper-based diagnostics that can be used in developing-country settings without electricity."$2 millionSherlock Biosciences
75gKqleajyGrant to "fund the writing of Slaoui's memoir, especially including his experience directing Operation Warp Speed."$150,000Moncef Slaoui
7aUqxk5ixqGrant to "support rerunning the highly-cited survey “When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts” from 2016, analysis, and publication of results."$250,000TdbypiKyCw
7CjLnzgmxIGrant to "support Giving What We Can’s mission to create a world in which giving effectively and significantly is a cultural norm."$700,000aKZsmUeuWg
_7umbm25F7Grant "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."$200,000AI Safety Support
8weWAKxl_yGrant 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."$250,000University of Ottawa
a2dUdFr_duGrant to "support two years of research on the impacts of disruptive space technologies, nuclear risk, and mitigating risks from future space-based weapons."$85,000Konstantinos Konstantinidis
AcG9dd85zSGrant 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."$137,500Legal Priorities Project
AzjIJLj0VrGrant 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."$336,000Global Guessing
bJiT-3MhtTGrant to "support SI’s policy work with the United Nations system on the prevention of existential risks to humanity."$820,000Simon Institute for Longterm Governance
bMm1rbdbpzGrant 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."$135,000EffiSciences
C_2-wvNOwqGrant to "support a project aimed at training large language models to represent the probability distribution over question answers in a prediction market."$230,000Peter Hrosso
C7ix0REhj5Grant 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 millionLightcone Infrastructure
Cj4ZiS4GXEGrant 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.$190,000James Lin
Cv7Fwlbln1Grant to "support scholarships for talented and promising high school students to use towards educational opportunities and enrolling in a summer program."$5 millionThe Atlas Fellowship
dwg5mr1AtdGrant to "support a researcher and research assistant to work on high-skill immigration and AI policy at FAS for three years."$1 millionFederation for American Scientists
E50uPuB7BcGrant 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."$95,000Apart Research
EDyLT8JbMZGrant 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."$50,000Trojan Detection Challenge at NeurIPS 2022
eoJGReF28pGrant to "support the work of a PhD student [Claudia Shi] working on AI safety at Columbia University."$100,000Columbia University
er4QABAfWpGrant to "support the Institute’s research and policy engagement work on high skilled immigration, biosecurity, and pandemic prevention."$480,000Institute for Progress
hfGc41jP1VGrant 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."$320,000Association for Long Term Existence and Resilience
hG_GPFnNDWGrant to "support a NeurIPS competition applying human feedback in a non-language-model setting, specifically pretrained models in Minecraft."$155,000Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
HLp2StQcyhGrant 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."$280,000University of Utah
hOxscaRcUyGrant to "fund a summer program for up to 100 students to spend 9 weeks studying machine learning, deep learning, and technical topics in safety."$490,000ML Safety Scholars Program
hpL0OMw_FHGrant to "support work on technology for delivering mRNA vaccines without lipid nanoparticles with the aim of making vaccines more safe, affordable, and scalable."$1 millionPiezo Therapeutics
HSZtFHMUKyGrant to "support Apollo’s work aggregating the views of academic experts in many different fields and making them freely available online."$250,000Apollo Academic Surveys
iGUzOGi23WGrant to "support research on the feasibility of inactivating viruses via electromagnetic radiation."$140,000Justin Mares
jOWlPVczGMGrant 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 millionNon-trivial Pursuits
K3pqSf8JKtGrant 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."$100,000Prometheus Science Bowl
Khg4W372JBGrant 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."$800,000University of California, Berkeley
kl5yuNh2ztGrant 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."$485,000MITRE
l2ZT4oJIypGrant 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."$500,000Virginia Tech
leXZP9qVt2Grant to "support BERI in hiring a second core operations employee to contribute to BERI’s work supporting university research groups."$100,000Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
lXjp9ZyI0yGrant 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."$380,000University of Cambridge
N6jrXjS-olGrant 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."$7,500Maxwell Tabarrok
nafX7qhfxGThe 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."$300,000The Center for Election Science
NdJ8uyNADGThe 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$400,000FL52kVPTlA
NICtZ34J-DInvestment to "build a communication platform that provably leaks zero metadata."$200,000Anysphere
nY36Uvo_55Grant to "support prizes for outstanding writing which encourages a broader public conversation around effective altruism and longtermism."$900,000Effective Ideas Blog Prize
OVdFJudYY6Grant to "support six months of independent research on interpretability and other AI safety topics."$30,000Evan R. Murphy
PGoCJ1ZYrDGrant to "support the incubation of new charities that will work on health security."$470,000Charity Entrepreneurship
pJg_3J-4t3Grant 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."$480,000Legal Priorities Project
PZWV-NfeyeGrant 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 millionY8MiLNuAWA
QNYHJ6qAj_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."$250,000Nonlinear
qR20NeHv4_Grant to "partially support the salaries for AI Safety Camp’s two directors and to support logistical expenses at its physical camp."$290,000AI Safety Camp
q_txfqeUNzGrant 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.$700,000t0p43V5oLA
qVComB1qUZThe 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."$1.2 million301
rIyhNROFYVInvestment to "support development of statistical models and software tools that can automate parts of the regulatory process for complex clinical trials."$1 millionConfirm Solutions
TmueWfc7veGrant 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."$160,000Cecil Abungu
toejS02NaBGrant to "support QURI to develop a programming language called "Squiggle" as a tool for probabilistic estimation."$200,000Khej79OA8g
tsyr82nq9GGrant 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."$135,000Institute for Progress
-UbuApCe3kGrant 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."$388,080Ohio State University
up0Qo2mV5OGrant to "support a Good Judgment initiative to produce forecasts on 10 Our World in Data data sets/charts."$300,000Zx7ckq6syw
UV1jlT8UJgGrant 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."$350,000High Impact Athletes
uW75jmGhIJGrant to "support the identification and implementation of promising confidence-building measures to reduce conflict between India and Pakistan."$250,000Stimson South Asia Program
vj9kL4xUjwGrant to "support a project to study how large language models integrated with offline reinforcement learning pose a risk of machine deception and persuasion."$600,000University of California, Berkeley
vK04T4Gy7mGrant to "support Prof. Levine, as well as students and collaborators, to work on alignment theory research at the Cornell math department."$1.5 millionCornell University
VtD1AJ3SR_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."$700,000Sage
xJu6P_ZXNjGrant 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."$50,000Pathos Labs
XPR9jKHdAdGrant to "support the creation of animated videos on topics related to rationality and effective altruism to explain these topics for a broader audience."$400,000Rational Animations
yaIHAfOVX5Grant 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."$200,000Rajalakshmi Children Foundation
YISwrsztDzGrant to "support two years of academic research on long-term economic growth."$500,000Brown University
YUnoiFzy44Grant to "support the creation of a website for collaboratively creating public forecasting questions for a range of prediction aggregators and markets."$182,000Nathan Young
yZFYvobLGZInvestment 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."$3.6 millionAVECRIS
zwKtJgJKxFGrant to "support Manifold Markets in building a charity prediction market, as an experiment for enabling effective forecasters to direct altruistic donations."$500,000Y8MiLNuAWA
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