Funding Programs
13Total budget tracked: $38M
| Program | Type | Budget | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Grantssource 16 grants distributed in 2023 for AI safety research, policy, and governance | Grant Round | $8.6M | Awarded | Needs attention |
| 2015 AI Safety Research Grant Programsource First peer-reviewed AI safety grant program; 37 grants funded from Elon Musk's $10M donation | Grant Round | $6.5M | Awarded | Verified |
| How to Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentrationsource 13 projects addressing AI-driven power concentration. Largest $1.66M to OpenMined Foundation. | RFP | $5.6M | Awarded | Verified |
| Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AIsource Up to $5M for multi-stakeholder engagement projects. Individual grants $100K-$500K, multi-year up to 3 years. | RFP | $5M | Closed | Verified |
| 2024 Grantssource 6 grants including AI-nuclear nexus and journalism | Grant Round | $4.2M | Awarded | Needs attention |
| Nuclear War Research Grant Programsource 10 grants studying nuclear war environmental impacts: climate, agriculture, ozone, fire modeling | Grant Round | $4.1M | Open | Needs attention |
| 2018 AGI Safety Grant Programsource 10 projects focused on AGI safety; recipients at Stanford, MIT, Oxford, Yale, ANU | Grant Round | $1.8M | Awarded | Needs attention |
| Request for Proposals on Religious Projectssource Up to $1.5M total; individual grants $30K-$300K. Faith community engagement with AI risks. | RFP | $1.5M | Closed | Verified |
| Impact of AI on SDGssource 10 research grants at $15K each on AI impact on poverty, health, energy and climate. Primarily Global South recipients. | RFP | $150K | Awarded | Needs attention |
| Global Institutions Governing AIsource 6 research papers at $15K each designing governance institutions for AGI | RFP | $90K | Awarded | Needs attention |
| Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship in AI Existential Safetysource 5-year tuition + $40K/year stipend + $10K research fund. 14 fellows at UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Cambridge. | Fellowship | Closed | Verified | |
| Vitalik Buterin Postdoctoral Fellowship in AI Existential Safetysource $80K/year stipend + $10K research fund. Fellows at Berkeley/CHAI, MIT, Oxford. | Fellowship | Closed | Verified | |
| US-China AI Governance PhD Fellowshipsource Same structure as technical PhD fellowship. Focused on US-China AI governance. | Fellowship | Closed | Verified |