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Funding Programs

8
Total budget tracked: $670K
ProgramTypeBudgetStatusDeadline
FTX Future Fund ML Safety Scholars Programsource
9-week paid summer fellowship for undergraduate students to learn machine learning, deep learning, and technical AI safety research topics.
Fellowship$490KClosed2022-05-31
FTX Future Fund EA Criticism and Red Teaming Contestsource
Writing contest offering prizes for critical engagement with effective altruism theory and practice, including fact-checking, philosophical critiques, and major project evaluations.
Prize$100KClosed2022-09-01
FTX Future Fund Trojan Detection Challenge (NeurIPS 2022)source
Competition to identify hidden backdoor (Trojan) functionality in deep neural networks using a dataset of over 6,000 networks, challenging researchers to detect attacks designed to cause sudden behavior changes.
Prize$50KClosed2022-12
FTX Future Fund Adversarial Robustness Prizes at ECCV 2022source
Three prizes for best papers on adversarial robustness research at the ECCV 2022 workshop, selected for higher relevance to long-term AI safety threat models.
Prize$30KClosed2022-10
FTX Future Fund Project Ideas Competitionsource
Prize competition soliciting new project ideas aligned with the Future Fund's areas of interest. Nearly 1,000 submissions received.
PrizeClosed2022-03-07
FTX Future Fund AI Worldview Prizesource
Prize competition offering up to $1.5M for analysis updating key probability estimates on AI misalignment risk and AGI timeline questions.
PrizeClosed2022-12-23
FTX Future Fund General Grantssource
FTX Future Fund's main grantmaking program across AI safety, biosecurity, values, and institutions. Ceased operations November 2022 after FTX collapse.
Grant RoundClosedFailed source check
FTX Future Fund Regranting Programsource
Program allowing designated regranters to make independent funding decisions using FTX Future Fund capital
Grant RoundClosedFailed source check