Structured Facts
Database Records
Total Funding Raised
$2.3M
as of 2025
All Facts
Financial
General
Divisions
3| Name | DivisionType | Status | Source | Notes | Source check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regranting Platform | program-area | active | manifund.org | Platform enabling individuals to receive tax-deductible donations for regranting. Provides fiscal sponsorship for individual regranters. | |
| Impact Certificates | program-area | active | manifund.org | Experimental impact certificate marketplace where project creators sell shares of their impact to retroactive funders. | |
| Impact Certificates | program-area | active | manifund.org | Experimental impact certificate marketplace where project creators sell shares of their impact to retroactive funders. |
Entity Assessments
8Entity Events
14| Title | Date | EventType | Significance | Description | Source | Source check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACX Grants 2025 funds 42 of 654 applications | 2025-01 | milestone | moderate | — | — | |
| $2.25M raised for 10 regrantors | 2025 | funding | moderate | — | — | |
| Manifest 2024 (600 attendees) | 2024-06 | milestone | moderate | — | — | |
| Impact certificate experiments conclude with mixed results | 2024-01 | milestone | moderate | — | — | |
| ACX Grants 2024 includes impact market for 50+ proposals | 2024 | milestone | moderate | — | — | |
| First Manifest conference (250 attendees, Berkeley) | 2023-09 | milestone | moderate | — | — | |
| Anonymous donor "D" provides $1.5M for regranting program | 2023-05 | funding | major | — | — | |
| $2.06M distributed ($2.012M grants + $45K impact certificates) | 2023 | milestone | moderate | — | — | |
| Manifund launches with ~12 regrantors ($50K-400K budgets each) | 2023 | launch | major | — | — | |
| Receives $500K from FTX Future Fund for charity prediction markets | 2022 | funding | moderate | — | — | |
| Scott Alexander approaches team about ACX Grants via impact certificates | 2022 | milestone | moderate | — | — | |
| Manifund incorporated as separate 501(c)(3) | 2022 | milestone | major | — | — | |
| Rachel Weinberg joins; builds manifund.org in two weeks | 2022 | milestone | moderate | — | — | |
| Manifold Markets founded | 2021-12 | founding | major | Founded by Austin Chen, Stephen Grugett, and James Grugett. | manifund.org |
Funding Programs
4| Name | ProgramType | Description | DivisionId | TotalBudget | Currency | ApplicationUrl | Deadline | Status | Source | Notes | Source check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Safety Regranting (2025) | grant-round | 10 regrantors distributing AI safety funding; individual regrantors have $100K-$500K budgets. | T0CMn4NVY6 | $2.3M | USD | manifund.org | Rolling | open | manifund.org | $2.25M pool. First 10 AI safety regrantors announced 2025. | |
| Manifund Impact Certificates | grant-round | Experimental impact certificate marketplace where project creators sell shares of their impact to retroactive funders | 8BUA--PdSX | — | USD | manifund.org | Rolling | open | manifund.org | Novel funding mechanism using impact certificates/retroactive public goods funding. Since 2023. | |
| Manifund Regranting | grant-round | Platform enabling individuals to receive tax-deductible donations for regranting to effective projects | T0CMn4NVY6 | — | USD | manifund.org | Rolling | open | manifund.org | Manifund provides fiscal sponsorship for individual regranters | |
| AI Safety Regranting (2024) | grant-round | Regranting program funded primarily by Coefficient Giving; multiple regrantors. | T0CMn4NVY6 | $1.4M | USD | — | — | awarded | manifund.org | — |
Grants
354| Name | Amount | Recipient | Date | Source | Notes | ProgramId | Source check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train great open-source sparse autoencoders | $4K | Tom McGrath | 2024-05-09 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Find the best settings for SAE training we can, then scale across models | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Develop an accessible, low-cost system for single-cell imaging in multiple regions of freely moving organisms | $25K | Andrew Luskin | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Luthien | $170K | Jai Dhyani | 2025-03-04 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Developing AI Control for Immediate Real-World Use | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Investigating the Effects of IF in the reversal of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. | $8.5K | Ambreen Deol | 2024-03-09 | manifund.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 farming | $21K | Steven Rouk | 2024-08-16 | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice] Scaling up the people power of the movement to end factory farming. | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Split Personality Training | $3K | Florian Dietz | 2025-04-26 | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Revealing Latent Knowledge Through Personality-Shift Tokens | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Holly Elmore organizing people for a frontier AI moratorium | $5.3K | Holly Elmore | 2023-07-07 | manifund.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 Philippines | $50K | Micaella Rogers | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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 | $5.4K | Kabir Kumar | 2024-01-12 | manifund.org | Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Adjacent News | $1K | Lucas Kohorst | 2024-08-14 | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community, Forecasting] Prediction Market Driven News | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| African School of Economics in Zanzibar charter city | $100K | Kurtis Lockhart | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Forecasting global disasters | $51K | — | 2025-10-09 | manifund.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 views | $1.5K | Sofia Balderson | 2024-08-19 | manifund.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 Research | $3K | Sudarsh Kunnavakkam | 2025-07-20 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Building model organisms of CoT and Python packages for intervention in reasoning traces | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Recreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor | $41K | Aaron Silverbook | 2023-07-11 | manifund.org | [Science & technology] Because I think curing cavities for everyone would be "based", actually | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| 'Making God': a Documentary on AI Risks for the Public | $205K | Connor Axiotes | 2025-03-31 | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Geoffrey Hinton & Yoshua Bengio Interviews Secured, Funding Still Needed | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Transformative AI scenarios for EU policymakers | $30K | Thomas Lingard on behalf of Stichting Centre for Future Generations | 2025-10-29 | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Build awareness and urgency among European policymakers on AI’s rapid, transformative impacts through future scenarios and targeted institutional engagement | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| LEAH Coworking Space | $3.8K | Joseph Hardie | 2024-08-20 | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] Rent costs for a coworking space supporting organisations and individuals in London. | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Good Ancestors (Australia) | $65K | Gregory Sadler | 2025-10-29 | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Advocate for Australian policies that safeguard against global catastrophic risks – including pandemics, AI risks, and catastrophic disasters. | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Coursetexts | $2.5K | Coursetexts | 2025-05-05 | manifund.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 quicker | $1K | Tom Forbes | 2023-03-03 | manifund.org | Forecasting | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Crystal Ballin' Podcast | $2.8K | Brian T. Edwards | 2023-03-04 | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] New fortnightly podcast on all things prediction markets | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Elizabeth and Timothy Podcast on values in Effective Altruism (Funded) | $7.8K | Elizabeth Van Nostrand | 2024-10-26 | manifund.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 DSIT | $13K | J | 2024-02-28 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| News through prediction markets | $499 | Marcel van Diemen | 2024-02-26 | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2024] The Base Rate Times | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Convert a hybrid car to chip wood and generate electricity | $25K | David Denkenberger | 2024-02-26 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Telemedicine platform for Congo | $12K | Manoj Nathwani | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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) | $11K | Iván Arcuschin Moreno | 2024-11-19 | manifund.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 Orgs | $1.2K | Marisa Vogiatzi | 2024-08-17 | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] Providing free professional social media strategy consulting for EA orgs | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| 80,000 Hours | $4.9K | Jørgen Ljønes | 2024-08-16 | manifund.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 nonhumans | $30K | Miles Tidmarsh | 2025-11-13 | manifund.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 tuning | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Evaluating the Effectiveness of Unlearning Techniques | $30K | FazlBarez | 2024-06-18 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Unlearning, AI Safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Synthesizing Standalone World-Models | $52K | Thane Ruthenis | 2025-09-22 | manifund.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 | $5.6K | Cameron King | 2024-08-15 | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice] Mitigating factory farming in Africa (Empowering animal advocates in African countries) | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Benchmarking and comparing different evaluation awareness metrics | $3K | Hieu Minh Nguyen | 2025-08-06 | manifund.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 Tokyo | $600 | Blaine William Rogers | 2024-02-26 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, ACX Grants 2024, AI governance, EA community | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Hive Slack - an active community space for engaged farmed animal advocates | $3.7K | Sofia Balderson | 2024-08-19 | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Help us fund Slack fees for over 1000 monthly active members | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Kickstarting EA Latvia community | $507 | Effective Altruism Latvia | 2024-08-21 | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] A group of latvian EAs have recently created an NGO and is attempting to grow it | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Native psilocybin use in Southern Africa | $13K | Eli Elster | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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] Autostructures | $8.6K | Sahil | 2024-10-27 | manifund.org | Scaling meaning without fixed structure (...dynamically generating it instead.) | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Joseph Bloom - Independent AI Safety Research | $51K | joseph bloom | 2023-07-03 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Trajectory Models and Agent Simulators | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Videos on UK Free Speech | $7.7K | Sam Glover | 2025-08-19 | manifund.org | We 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 Nigeria | $13K | John Lohier | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Medical Expenses for CHAI PhD Student | $23K | Rachel Freedman | 2023-06-22 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Allow Berkeley PhD student to devote more time and focus to AI safety research and mentorship. | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| VaccinateCA | $15K | Karl Yang | 2023-07-26 | manifund.org | [Global health & development] Retroactive grant for website & infra to display COVID vaccine availability | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI that standardizes and curates bio datasets | $70K | 400fe9a6-6614-4e98-a334-f7e70a67f3da | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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. | $8K | Joshua Morgan | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Formal Certification Technologies for AI Safety | $128K | Mirco Giacobbe | 2025-11-20 | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance] Developing the software infrastructure to make AI systems safe, with formal guarantees | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Apart incubates and facilitates hundreds of AI safety researchers around the globe. | $59K | Esben Kran Christensen | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| BAIS (ex-AIS Hub Serbia) Office Space for (Frugal) AI Safety Researchers | $10K | Dusan D Nesic | 2023-12-13 | manifund.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 AI | $200K | Epoch AI | 2024-12-09 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance] For tracking and predicting future AI progress to AGI | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Produce therapeutic food for Ethiopia | $50K | Dr. Lewis Wall | 2025-10-10 | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Production and distribution of peanut butter based therapeutic food for the treatment of childhood malnutrition in northern Ethiopia | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| FloraForge: Aesthetic Gene Editing in Petunias | $5K | Justin Bianchini | 2025-11-21 | manifund.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 | $20K | Peli Grietzer | 2025-05-22 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI Safety & Society | $250K | — | 2024-12-17 | manifund.org | High-quality, timely articles on AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Understanding SAE features using Sparse Feature Circuits | $11K | Lovis Heindrich | 2024-06-28 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Publish a book on Egan education for parents | $5.6K | Brandon Hendrickson | 2024-02-26 | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2024] Working title — Egan @ Home, the Elementary Years | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Covid Work By Elizabeth VN/Aceso Under Glass | $1.5K | Elizabeth Van Nostrand | 2024-08-17 | manifund.org | [Science & technology, EA Community Choice, EA community] retroactive support for covid work | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Invest in the Conflux Manifold Media Empire(??) | $310.58 | Jacob Cohen | 2023-11-16 | manifund.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 course | $1.4K | Marine Lercier | 2024-08-21 | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Educating and training 30 animal rights advocates per online course globally | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Manifold x College Admissions | $949.32 | cc6 | 2023-12-13 | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting] Attract more high school seniors anxious about their college admissions chances | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Impact Assessment of Social Programs | $3.5K | Devansh Mehta | 2023-02-28 | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Verifying and Quantifying the Outcomes of Nonprofits | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Improving fish welfare through producer and retail outreach in Türkiye | $15K | İbrahim Çağrı Mutaf | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Help a Bootstrapped AI Risk Literacy Founder Get To IASEAI 2026 in Paris | $3K | Aashkaben Kalpesh Patel | 2026-01-25 | manifund.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 Netflix | $550 | Connor Axiotes | 2025-08-18 | manifund.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 expenses | $15K | Gregory Sadler | 2023-09-20 | manifund.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 vaccines | $30K | Duncan Purvis | 2024-02-09 | manifund.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 vaccine | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Trading bot guide | $20 | nikki | 2023-12-12 | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting] More bots, better predictions! | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Teamwork - professional EA co-working space in Berlin | $1.9K | anne schulze | 2024-08-15 | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] Funding for 2025 operational budget to maintain and manage Teamwork | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Forecasting Meetup Network - Washington, DC pilot (4 meetups) | $677 | David Glidden | 2024-08-20 | manifund.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. | $80K | Tugrul Irmak | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Compute for 4 MATS scholars to rapidly scale promising new method pre-ICLR | $16K | Alex Cloud | 2024-08-17 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Distribute HPMOR copies in Bangalore, India | $1K | Aditya Arpitha Prasad | 2024-02-26 | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2024] Let the kids read, we need to raise the sanity waterline and inspire creative minds into AI Safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Visa fee support for Australian researcher to join a fellowship with Anthropic | $4K | L | 2025-11-22 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Mitigating Reward Hacking Through RL Training Interventions | $7.9K | Aria Wong | 2026-02-18 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Funding researcher on frontier AI governance inclusive of global majority | $88K | H | 2025-07-22 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, AI governance | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Gene editing corn for nutrition | $10K | Kasey Markel | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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? | $5K | Nino O’Shea-Nejad | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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. | $40 | Jason M. Kingodn | 2024-01-28 | manifund.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 via | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Manifold merch store | $302 | tobiasvyseri | 2023-11-22 | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, EA community] Putting the "fold" in Manifold | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| YIMBY movement for African cities | $85K | Kurtis Lockhart | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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 Project | $10K | Saeed Ahmad | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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 mainstream | $41K | Liron Shapira | 2024-08-14 | manifund.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 belongs | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Build anti-mosquito drones | $29K | Alex Toussaint | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Field building in universities for AI policy careers in the US | $25K | Matthew David Fargo | 2023-12-08 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Demonstration of LLMs deceiving and getting out of a sandbox | $3.1K | Igor Ivanov | 2025-06-16 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Improve eligibility for organ donation | $105K | Daniela Shuman | 2025-10-29 | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025, Global health & development] Help previously ineligible living organ donors become eligible to donate | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Independent research to improve SAEs (4-6 months) | $55K | Glen M. Taggart | 2024-04-19 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] By rapid iteration on possible alternative architectures & training techniques | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Finishing a Video on the Google DeepMind Hunger Strike | $1.8K | Michaël Rubens Trazzi | 2025-10-12 | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance] Funding gap to pay for a video editor and scriptwriter | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Accelerating the AI Safety talent pipeline in South Africa| Matched donations | $656 | Carmen Csilla Medina | 2024-08-29 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA Infrastructure Fund, Global catastrophic risks | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI Policy work @ IAPS | $10K | Peter Wildeford | 2023-12-20 | manifund.org | AI governance | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Write a good primer on political change. | $1.5K | Spencer Orenstein | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI-Plans.com Critique-a-Thon $500 Prize Fund Proposal | $500 | Kabir Kumar | 2023-07-27 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Metaculus x Givewell Forecasting Tournament | $4.5K | Leonard Barrett | 2024-11-12 | manifund.org | Science & technology, Global health & development | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Athena - New Program for Women in AI Alignment Research | $20K | Claire Short | 2023-12-12 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Scaling AI safety awareness via content creators | $21K | Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA | 2025-04-11 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] 4M+ views on AI safety: Help us replicate and scale this success with more creators | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Eradicate the hidden factory farming of feeder rodents | $50K | GG | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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 meetups | $10 | Yoyo Y | 2024-08-15 | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] hackathons, dinners etc | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Run a public online Turing Test with a variety of models and prompts | $3.1K | camrobjones | 2024-02-26 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Calibration City | $8.9K | wasabipesto | 2024-08-16 | manifund.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 Channel | $20K | Justin Petersen | 2025-12-01 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Promote Georgism | $100K | Joseph Caissie | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Fund a Fellow for the Cooperative AI Research Fellowship! | $2.5K | Leo Hyams | 2025-09-30 | manifund.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 DeepMind | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Developing a Course on AI x-risk | $10K | Johan Fredrikzon | 2024-08-07 | manifund.org | Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Scenario analysis and planning platform for more effective developing world agriculture projects | $20K | Chris M | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Superforecaster predictions of long-term impacts | $4.5K | David Rhys Bernard | 2023-02-26 | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] I will pay 30 superforecasters to make forecasts of long-run treatment effects from randomised control trials | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Scoping Developmental Interpretability | $145K | Jesse Hoogland | 2023-07-18 | manifund.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 networks | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Charting the Policy Landscape of Advanced Education in America | $8.3K | Thomas Briggs | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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 Risks | $1.4K | Damien Laird | 2023-02-24 | manifund.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 Nigeria | $25K | HealthLearn | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Isolating CBRN Knowledge in LLMs for Safety - Phase 2 (Research) | $150K | Krishna Patel | 2025-12-17 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, Biomedical, Biosecurity] Expanding proven isolation techniques to high-risk capability domains in Mixture of Expert models | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| A Lumenator Company, or: A More Ambitious Life Trajectory | $6K | Adrian Regenfuss | 2023-09-30 | manifund.org | Using Bright Lamps to make money, improve EAs productivity, do research and achieve free agency | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| General Career Support | $38K | Parker Whitfill | 2025-11-25 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, Forecasting | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI scam research targeting seniors | $10K | Fred Heiding | 2025-08-30 | manifund.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 results | $33K | Aleksandr Putilin | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Attention-Guided-RL for Human-Like LMs | $3.1K | Scott Viteri | 2025-03-15 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Compute Funding | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Estimating annual burden of airborne disease (last mile to MVP) | $8.2K | Joel Becker | 2023-10-21 | manifund.org | [Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks] Boosting advocacy for investment in and deployment of technologies for improving indoor air quality | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Sentience Politics | $535 | Melina Tan | 2024-08-23 | manifund.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 reform | $5K | Mark Webb | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2024, Global health & development] Direct land purchases and transfer from landowners to tenant farmers | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Train LLMs in honest introspection | $15K | Adam Morris | 2025-10-29 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, ACX Grants 2025] Train LLMs to accurately & honestly report on their internal decision-making processes through real-time introspection | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Introductory resources for Singular Learning Theory | $11K | Matthew Cameron Farrugia-Roberts | 2023-07-07 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Literature review or other introductory material for Singular Learning Theory targeted at AI alignment applications | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Seed Funding For Geodesic Research | $201K | Cameron Tice | 2026-01-30 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| The AI Governance Archive (TAIGA) | $1.5K | David Corfield | 2024-08-20 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Site maintenance, grant writing, and leadership handover | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Support funding for Hardeep Gambhir's gap semester | $4K | Hardeep Singh Gambhir | 2023-08-17 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI to screen DNA orders | $26K | Alejandro Acelas | 2025-10-29 | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Create open-source AI tools for customer screening of DNA orders. | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Project on optimal government hedging against labour automation | $9K | Nathan Barnard | 2025-08-21 | manifund.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. | $4K | Emily Kerr-Finell | 2024-02-26 | manifund.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 e | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| MATS Program | $290K | Ryan Kidd | 2023-10-20 | manifund.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. | $20K | John Sherman | 2025-03-22 | manifund.org | [AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Funding For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Support for Deep Coverage of China and AI | $38K | Jordan Schneider | 2023-07-25 | manifund.org | AI governance | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Build an app to track ones impact on animal cruelty | $1K | Sai Deep Tetali | 2024-02-26 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Rabbitholeathon Event Food | $500 | Jacob Cohen | 2024-12-29 | manifund.org | Ineffective altruism (but I figured why not post it) | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| PIBBSS - General Programs funding or specific funding | $51K | PIBBSS | 2024-07-05 | manifund.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 team | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Animal Advocacy Innovation Hub in the Bay Area | $4.1K | Constance Li | 2025-02-20 | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA community] Hackathon and co-working space for animal advocates in SF | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Coordinal Research: Accelerating the research of safely deploying AI systems. | $125K | Ronak Mehta | 2025-04-03 | manifund.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. | $3.4K | N. Peracha | 2024-08-22 | manifund.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 Paper | $1K | Jim Maar | 2025-05-30 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Reproducing the Claude poetry planning results quantitatively | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Clean Indoor Air for Schools | $150K | David Carel | 2025-10-15 | manifund.org | [Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025, Biomedical, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks, Global health & development] Accelerating the adoption of air filters in every classroom | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Bayesian modelling of LLM capabilities from evals | $32K | Laurence Aitchison | 2024-12-23 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Disentangling Political Bias from Epistemic Integrity in AI Systems | $50K | David Rozado | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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 Systems | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| An online platform to solve coordination problems and generate leverage through collective action campaigns | $17K | Jordan Braunstein | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| BioBind for the Amazon | $1.1K | Tom O’Haire | 2024-08-14 | manifund.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 disorders | $25K | Harry Warne | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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 Engineering | $32K | Sean Peters | 2025-09-12 | manifund.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 systems | $10K | Francesca Gomez | 2025-02-27 | manifund.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 | |
| Out of This Box: AI Safety Musical | $19K | Guy | 2025-03-21 | manifund.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) | $5.2K | Yanni Kyriacos | 2025-02-04 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| One semester living expenses for MIT-based researcher | $500 | Vikram (Vik) Gupta | 2023-07-24 | manifund.org | Science & technology | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Build a new nonprofit thinktank that advances technological solutions to animal welfare challenges | $100K | Robert Yaman | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Scale up biologics manufacturing | $50K | Alexander (Olek) Pisera | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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 Forum | $2.9K | Rethink Priorities | 2024-08-21 | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Connecting and coordinating leaders and key decision makers to strengthen the animal advocacy movement | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) timelines ignore the social factor at their peril | $650 | Trevor Klee | 2023-03-27 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest] By Trevor Klee | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Vaccine manufacturing platform | $50K | Nishank Bhalla | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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 scanner | $23K | Venkata Subhash Chandra Sadhu | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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 inaccessible | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Athena 2.0 | $8K | Claire Short | 2024-08-16 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Program for Women in AI Alignment Research | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Giving What We Can | $3.2K | Lucas Moore | 2024-08-22 | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] Making giving effectively and significantly a global cultural norm | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI Animals and Digital Minds 2025 | $17K | Constance Li | 2024-08-20 | manifund.org | [Science & technology, AI governance, Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Field building on AI's impact on nonhumans | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Kickstarting For Good - High-Impact Nonprofit Incubation Program | $2.6K | SebastianJoy | 2024-08-19 | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Turning impactful ideas for transforming the global food system into reality | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Operating Capital for AI Safety Evaluation Infrastructure | $400K | Chris Canal | 2025-10-29 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, Biosecurity] Enabling rapid deployment of specialized engineering teams for critical AI safety evaluation projects worldwide | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Emergency travel funding to attend EA Global: New York 2025 | $500 | Sheikh Abdur Raheem Ali | 2025-10-04 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Manifold Tournaments | $262.5 | Isaac King | 2023-11-17 | manifund.org | Manifold Community Fund, EA community, Forecasting | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| General support for SaferAI | $100K | SaferAI | 2025-02-05 | manifund.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 interaction | $68K | ampdot | 2024-08-25 | manifund.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 systems | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Long-Term Future Fund | $141K | Linch Zhang | 2023-09-09 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| human intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project | $108K | Tsvi Benson-Tilsen | 2025-03-11 | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Biomedical, Global catastrophic risks] accelerating strong human germline genomic engineering to make lots of geniuses | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Support early career journalists covering AI by providing training, funding, and placements at major news outlets. | $32K | Cillian Crosson | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Preventing Worst Case Pandemics Symposium @ Cambridge | $4.1K | Grace Braithwaite | 2024-05-30 | manifund.org | [Biomedical, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks] A Cambridge Biosecurity Hub and Cambridge Infectious Diseases Symposium on Avoiding Worst-Case Scenarios | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Orexin Pilot Experiment for Reducing Sleep Need | $5.2K | niplav | 2025-05-22 | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Biomedical] Testing intranasal orexin-A administration for sleep need reduction: a 2-3 participant self-blinded randomized controlled trial | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Experiments to test EA / longtermist framings and branding | $27K | David Moss | 2023-11-14 | manifund.org | [EA community] Testing responses to “effective altruism”, “longtermism”, “existential risk” etc. | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Advertise Christians for Impact (EA for Christians) | $40K | JD Bauman | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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 | $6K | Zhonghao He | 2023-12-09 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Surveying neuroscience for tools to analyze and understand neural networks and building a natural science of deep learning | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| PauseAI US 2025 through Q2 | $100K | Pause AI | 2024-11-07 | manifund.org | [AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] SFF main round did us dirty! | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Lightcone Infrastructure | $237K | Oliver Habryka | 2024-05-08 | manifund.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 Projects | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| EEG using a generalizable ML model + 32 channel PCB | $2.5K | Sophia Pung | 2024-01-16 | manifund.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 resistance | $60K | Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Shallow review of AI safety 2024 | $21K | Gavin Leech | 2024-10-28 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Development of a Cautionary Tale Feature Film about Gradual Disempowerment | $100K | Petr Salaba | 2025-07-25 | manifund.org | [AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] work title: Seductive Machines and Human Agency | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Agent Island: An Environment for Interagent Cooperation and Conflict | $2K | Connacher Murphy | 2026-02-09 | manifund.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 compliance | $50K | Bryan Davis | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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 stipends | $94K | Joep Meindertsma | 2024-08-23 | manifund.org | [AI governance, EA Community Choice] Help the largest AI activist group grow | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI Governance YouTube Channel | $732 | Gaurav Yadav | 2024-08-22 | manifund.org | [AI governance, EA Community Choice] Explainable videos for ideas in AI Governance | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Making 52 AI Alignment Video Explainers and Podcasts | $15K | Michaël Rubens Trazzi | 2024-02-12 | manifund.org | EA Community Choice | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Finishing The SB-1047 Documentary | $119K | Michaël Rubens Trazzi | 2024-10-24 | manifund.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 technology | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI Safety Research Organization Incubator - Pilot Program | $16K | Alexandra Bos | 2023-11-24 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| 3 months full-time contributing software to Inspect | $20K | Anthony Duong | 2025-08-05 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Fund thebes' model tinkering | $26K | Theia Vogel | 2025-11-04 | manifund.org | [Science & technology] Research, tutorial writing, and open-source libraries & tools for experimenting with language models | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Democratising charity evaluations | $501 | Sasha Cooper | 2024-09-02 | manifund.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 with | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI, Animals, and Digital Minds 2024 Conference and Retreat | $5.1K | Constance Li | 2024-06-22 | manifund.org | [Science & technology, AI governance, Animal welfare, EA Community Choice] Request for Retroactive Funding | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| The Deal of the Century: Targeted Persuasion Campaign for a US-China AI Treaty | $11K | Rufo Guerreschi | 2025-10-15 | manifund.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 markets | $800 | Kenan Schaefkofer | 2023-03-05 | manifund.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 Projects | $27K | — | 2024-05-08 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, Biosecurity | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Optimizing clinical Metagenomics and Far-UVC implementation. | $42K | Miti Saksena | 2023-08-04 | manifund.org | [Biosecurity] 3-month research to inform the design of large-scale R&D projects in metagenomics and Far-UVC | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| China’s Incoming AI Ethics Leadership Push | $40 | Emmie Hine | 2024-01-10 | manifund.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 Pipeline | $131K | Apart Research | 2025-05-21 | manifund.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 contributors | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Systems that "give a damn" | $12K | Steve Petersen | 2025-08-01 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, Animal welfare] Teleology, agential risks, and AI well-being | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Software to detect data fabrication | $50K | Markus Englund | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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 Peril | $20K | Keaton Lee | 2025-10-27 | manifund.org | Hire Human Illustrators! | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| New Roots Institute: Empowering the Next Generation to End Factory Farming | $16K | Monica Chen | 2024-08-21 | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice] Growing Advocacy Ecosystems | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Youtube tutorial videos about computational biology and bioinformatics | $1K | Mike Saint-Antoine | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| 12th Edition of AI Safety Camp | $40K | Remmelt Ellen | 2026-01-23 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, AI governance | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| aCFAR 2025/6 Fundraiser | $3.3K | Anna Salamon | 2025-12-31 | manifund.org | Revised CFAR workshops. Same Sequences-epistemics, same CFAR classics, more support for individual freedom, sovereignty, and authorship | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Human Inductive Bias Project | $10K | Ka Wang Pang | 2025-10-29 | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Investigating intersection between mathematical models of human and machine learning | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Create a platform for assurance contracts that looks nice. | $17K | Tetra Jones | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| 1200€ to move in SF for an international high-level event and meetings | $1.3K | Tom David | 2024-11-15 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| TransformerLens - Bridge Funding | $30K | Bryce Meyer | 2025-07-07 | manifund.org | Science & technology, Technical AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| OPTIC | $13K | Saul Munn | 2023-03-04 | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Intercollegiate Forecasting Tournament | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Pro-Animal Future | $4K | Aidan Kankyoku | 2024-08-21 | manifund.org | [Animal welfare] U.S. citizen initiatives to disrupt factory farming | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI Safety Los Angeles (AISLA) | $2.5K | Kristina Vaia | 2025-07-07 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] The official AI safety community in Los Angeles | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Support EA NZ's operations | $1.5K | Effective Altruism New Zealand | 2024-08-21 | manifund.org | EA Community Choice, EA community | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Retroactive: Presenting a poster at the ICML technical AI governance workshop | $1.3K | Evžen Wybitul | 2025-11-23 | manifund.org | AI governance | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Help launch the Technical Alignment Research Accelerator (TARA)! | $15K | Yanni Kyriacos | 2024-11-14 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Giving free AI safety books for potentially high-impact individuals | $761 | Aidar Toktargazin | 2025-06-26 | manifund.org | EA community | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Advocate for a specialized pandemic response team at the FDA | $100K | 1Day Sooner | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| make and sell far-UVC lamps for air disinfection | $50K | Misha Gurevich | 2025-10-29 | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Make cheap, inherently safe, and effective consumer 222nm far-UVC lamps for air and surface disinfection | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| FarmKind - A donation platform creating new donors for effective animal advocacy | $2.6K | Aidan Alexander | 2024-08-19 | manifund.org | Animal welfare, EA Community Choice | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Asterisk AI Blogging Fellowship | $70K | Asterisk Magazine | 2025-05-21 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Alignment Is Hard | $6.1K | Alexander Bistagne | 2023-07-23 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Proving Computational Hardness of Verifying Alignment Desirata | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Manifold Markets Add-on for Google Sheets | $879.69 | Jesús Francisco Quevedo Osegueda | 2023-02-28 | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] An Add-on for easy access to Manifold´s Prediction Markets | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI scam research targeting seniors | $4.5K | Fred Heiding | 2025-06-15 | manifund.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 conferences | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Create open source predictors for various genetically influenced traits such as intelligence and disease risk | $20K | Gene Smith | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Manufacture Manyfold Manifolders in the Maritime Metropolis | $800 | Robert Cousineau | 2023-11-17 | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, EA community, Forecasting] Lets create a new defining addiction for Seattle! | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Inspect Evals | $50K | Justin Olive | 2025-09-29 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance] Funding to cover our expenses for 3 months during unexpected shortfall | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Comparing forecasting platform accuracy | $2.2K | Jack | 2023-03-04 | manifund.org | ACX mini-grants, Forecasting | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Help Apart Expand Global AI Safety Research | $18K | Apart Research | 2023-12-18 | manifund.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 fellowships | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Why I think strong general AI is coming soon | $60 | Ross Nordby | 2023-03-25 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest] By porby | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Talos Network | $1K | Cillian Crosson | 2023-12-07 | manifund.org | [AI governance] - | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Wasabipesto's Umbrella Project | $3.5K | wasabipesto | 2023-11-20 | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting] Six Projects in Search of an Investor - Details inside | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| EA Christian / CFI Community | $4.9K | JD Bauman | 2024-08-16 | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] Growth Fund | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Educate the public about high impact causes | $2K | Alex Khurgin | 2024-02-26 | manifund.org | Science & technology, Technical AI safety, ACX Grants 2024, Animal welfare, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks, Global health & development | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| "Sweeten" training corpuses with stories of nice AI | $5K | Aaron Silverbook | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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) | $10K | Piotr Zaborszczyk | 2024-11-04 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Reach the university that trained close to 20% of OpenAI early employees | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Wise AI: Fine-Tune an Open Source Model | $5.5K | Oliver Klingefjord | 2024-01-15 | manifund.org | Aligning to Human Values by Eliciting a Moral Graph | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| 11th edition of AI Safety Camp | $45K | Remmelt Ellen | 2024-12-21 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance] Cost-efficiently support new careers and new organisations in AI Safety. | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Acausal research and interventions | $80K | Chi Nguyen | 2025-06-25 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Making sure AI systems don't mess up acausal interactions | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Activation vector steering with BCI | $30K | Lisa Thiergart | 2023-07-30 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Understanding Trust | $100K | Abram Demski | 2025-05-26 | manifund.org | Funding Basic Theoretical AI Safety Research | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Forecasting - AI Governance Policies | $9K | Tolga Bilge | 2023-08-20 | manifund.org | AI governance, Forecasting | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Scaling Training Process Transparency | $5.2K | Robert Krzyzanowski | 2023-11-02 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Compute and infrastructure costs | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Database of the Most Impactful Research Questions by Discipline and Cause Area | $500 | Joel Christoph | Effective Thesis | 2024-02-26 | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2024] To match the highest-potential research questions with the students and researchers that can work on them | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Runway till January: Amplify's funding ask to market EA & AI Safety | $520 | Gergő Gáspár | 2025-11-17 | manifund.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 Times | $4.3K | Marcel van Diemen | 2023-07-13 | manifund.org | [Forecasting] News through prediction markets | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Satoshi's Antithesis: China to use CBDC to Boost CNY Trade | $40 | Will Peracchio | 2024-01-14 | manifund.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 2028 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Make ALERT happen | $18K | — | 2023-12-03 | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks] ALERT := Active Longtermist Emergency Response Team | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Biosecurity bootcamp by EffiSciences | $1.3K | Jonathan Samuel Claybrough | 2025-01-02 | manifund.org | [Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks] 5 day bootcamp upskilling participants on biosecurity, to enable and empower career change towards reducing biorisks, from ML4Good organisers | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Avoiding Incentives for Performative Prediction in AI | $33K | Rubi Hudson | 2023-08-30 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Pandemic Interventions Course - Introductory Biosecurity Syllabus | $1.1K | Lin Bowker-Lonnecker | 2024-08-19 | manifund.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 Fellowship | $2K | Brian Tan | 2024-07-16 | manifund.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 Manila | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Graduate School Application Fee for Students from Third World Country | $5K | Ammon Lam | 2024-04-20 | manifund.org | Global health & development | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Thrive Philanthropy | $13K | Jessika Ava, MS, MPA | 2024-08-20 | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, Global health & development] Catalyzing Global End to Factory Farming | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Personal development and better infrastructure for learning, "Anki V2" | $10K | Brent Burdick | 2023-11-26 | manifund.org | [Science & technology] SRS software projects and general career development | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Help me create a free programming school in my city | $800 | Matías Federico Ciruelos | 2024-11-27 | manifund.org | Science & technology | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Enabling a Student to Present his Mechanistic Interpretability Work at NeurIPS | $1.1K | Chris Wendler | 2025-10-10 | manifund.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 | $801 | Brad West | 2024-08-17 | manifund.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 Cost | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Support a thriving and talented community of Filipino EAs | $44K | Zian Marie V. Bonoan | 2024-03-21 | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] Your contribution makes a difference at EA Philippines! | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Towards Shared AI Compute Infrastructure | $23K | Haakon Huynh | 2026-01-29 | manifund.org | Science & technology, AI governance | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Update Big List of Cause Candidates | $1K | David Federico Rivadeneira | 2023-12-07 | manifund.org | EA community, Global catastrophic risks, Global health & development | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Travel grant to present AI safety paper at ACM FAccT | $1.6K | Max Kaufmann | 2024-06-18 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Metaculus' First Animal-Focused Forecasting Tournament | $3.4K | Aditi Basu | 2025-10-09 | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, Forecasting] Generating decision-relevant forecasts for the animal advocacy community | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Building Effective Giving ecosystem in India | $30K | Chetan Kharbanda | 2025-10-29 | manifund.org | [Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025, Biomedical, Animal welfare, Biosecurity, EA community, Global health & development] Funding circles and advisory to fund high impact non-profits | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Removing Hazardous Knowledge from AIs | $190K | Alexander Pan | 2023-12-24 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI Policy Breakthroughs — Empowering Insiders | $20K | Kyle Gracey | 2024-07-03 | manifund.org | [AI governance] Strategy Consulting Support for AI Policymakers | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| CHAT Diplomacy | $50 | John Buridan | 2023-05-05 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest] Advances in LLMs are a National Security Risk | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Use smartphone pupillometry to triage brain injury in rural Missouri. | $60K | Anthony James Maxin | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| The Looming Super-Bug Crisis | $40 | Nick Ayrton | 2024-01-28 | manifund.org | [Science & technology, ChinaTalk Essay Contest, Biosecurity, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks, Global health & development] China's Battle Against Antimicrobial Resistance | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Support Riesgos Catastroficos Globales | $33K | Jorge Andrés Torres Celis | 2023-09-06 | manifund.org | Science & technology, AI governance, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Seed fund for boundaries-based empirical AI safety projects after workshop. | $40K | Chris Lakin | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Budget for events aiming to "mainstream" EA in Sweden | $1K | Jonas Ludvig Daniel Wernstedt | 2024-08-21 | manifund.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 income | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Explainer and analysis of CNCERT/CC (国家互联网应急中心) | $3K | Alexa Pan | 2023-12-13 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Live Governance | $3K | Murray Buchanan | 2024-11-28 | manifund.org | [AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Leveraging AI to enable coordination without demanding centralization | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Mirrorbot | $1.6K | Joris Kerkhoff | 2023-11-29 | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting] Automatically mirror popular questions from other platforms to Manifold | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| EVN General Support Application | $50K | Elizabeth Van Nostrand | 2024-11-03 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Visa fee support for US researcher to take on a temporary role with the UK AISI | $3K | S | 2024-02-28 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Future-Proofing Forecasting: Easy Open-Source Solution | $2.1K | Osnat Katz | 2024-08-20 | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, Forecasting] Free Forecasting For Everyone, Everywhere | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Travel funding to the International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory. | $1.2K | Joss Oliver | 2024-09-04 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars 2026 | $30K | Orpheus Lummis | 2025-10-16 | manifund.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 | |
| Next Steps in Developmental Interpretability | $81K | Jesse Hoogland | 2024-07-12 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Addressing Immediate AI Safety Concerns through DevInterp | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Effective Altruism Meetup, Abuja, Nigeria | $1.4K | Daniel Elabi | 2024-08-20 | manifund.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 shows | $2.5K | Aleksandr Putilin | 2023-12-15 | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting] Two prediction market dating show with live betting | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Play money prediction markets | $2.4K | Case Sandberg | 2024-08-21 | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, Forecasting] Community-run, open source prediction market platform | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Scaling Legal Impact for Chickens to make factory-farm cruelty a liability | $5.7K | Alene Georgia Anello | 2024-02-26 | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2024, Animal welfare] Help us sue executives and companies that abuse animals. | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Compute and other expenses for LLM alignment research | $400K | Ethan Josean Perez | 2023-08-19 | manifund.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 research | $11K | Esben Kran Christensen | 2023-07-27 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Six-month support for a Program Manager to organize and execute international AI safety hackathons with Apart Research | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI Safety Textbook | $41K | Charbel-Raphael Segerie | 2024-04-24 | manifund.org | We are writing an AI safety textbook designed to serve as a comprehensive educational resource for the field. | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| mRNA for airway disease | $80K | Jacob Witten | 2025-10-29 | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Cure idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, eventually reverse lung aging | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Reflective altruism | $2K | David Thorstad | 2023-07-05 | manifund.org | EA community | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Neuronpedia - Open Interpretability Platform | $2.5K | Johnny Lin | 2023-07-26 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Platform for interpretability researchers, especially those creating/using Sparse Autoencoders | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Apollo Research: Scale up interpretability & behavioral model evals research | $339K | Apollo Research | 2023-07-20 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Hire 3 additional AI safety research engineers / scientists | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| VoiceDeck | $538 | Devansh Mehta | 2024-08-28 | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA Infrastructure Fund] Marketplace for Impact Certificates | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Unprompted Unfaithful Chain of Thought Dataset Project | $2K | Robert Krzyzanowski | 2025-01-04 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| SafePlanBench: evaluating a Guaranteed Safe AI Approach for LLM-based Agents | $2K | Agustín Martinez Suñé | 2025-01-07 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance] Seeking funding to develop and evaluate a new benchmark for systematically assesing safety of LLM-based agents | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Normie-friendly prediction market interfaces | $7K | Charlie Molthrop | 2025-10-29 | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Normie-friendly interfaces for prediction markets and their probabilities | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Fatebook and Quantified Intuitions | $1K | Adam Binksmith | 2024-08-22 | manifund.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 loops | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Design budget for rebuilding the dating site we all want back. | $5K | Shreeda Segan | 2024-06-10 | manifund.org | [EA community] We know what works. Let's make sure it looks good. | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Funding for Solar4Africa app development | $500 | Sophia Pung | 2023-07-18 | manifund.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 Funding | $12K | Yuanyuan Sun | 2025-03-28 | manifund.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 Detector | $6K | Oscar Balcells Obeso | 2025-05-07 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Impact Accelerator Program: Biggest career program for experienced professionals | $978 | Nina Friedrich | 2024-08-20 | manifund.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 autoencoders | $8.5K | Kunvar Thaman | 2023-12-01 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Measuring the Epistemic Cost-Effectiveness of AI Safety Content | $6.1K | Aditya Mehta | 2025-10-14 | manifund.org | [EA community] https://drive.google.com/file/d/16KxeA1ZdFrKRAa10owLStunk5huAAyLr/view?usp=sharing | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| HIV/TB clinic in Africa | $45K | Matthew Loftus | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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 objects | $6K | Ben Engebreth | 2025-10-29 | manifund.org | [Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025] Purchase compute and support algorithm development | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Journal of Animal Rights Law | $911 | Marine Lercier | 2024-08-19 | manifund.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 research | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Fish welfare training in Nigeria | $10K | Felix Onyeka Nwose | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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 manifold | $11K | Will Howard | 2023-02-25 | manifund.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 bet | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI Crisis Convening at India AI Impact Summit 2026 | $100K | AISA | 2026-01-30 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Translating in-person convening to measurable outcomes | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI Security Startup Accelerator Batch #2 | $355K | Finn Metz | 2025-12-02 | manifund.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 agenda | $7.8K | Cadenza Labs | 2023-11-06 | manifund.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 advising | $50K | Tyler John | 2025-03-16 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, AI governance, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| The Metascience Observatory | $35K | Daniel Elton | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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-risk | $13K | AI Safety and Governance Fund | 2024-08-30 | manifund.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 outcomes | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Fund Sentinel for Q1-2025 | $42K | — | 2024-09-26 | manifund.org | [Biosecurity, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks] A foresight and emergency response team seeking to react fast to calamities | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Collaborative Resolution of Political Controversies | $1.7K | EB_Team | 2023-03-04 | manifund.org | ACX mini-grants, Forecasting | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Overcoming inertial barriers to collective action through anonymous coordination | $822 | Jordan Braunstein | 2024-08-20 | manifund.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 support | $39K | Alex Lintz | 2024-08-26 | manifund.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 | |
| Empirical research into AI consciousness and moral patienthood | $12K | Robert Long | 2023-09-09 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| SirCryptomind Moderation | $400 | x | 2024-02-15 | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, EA community] Remote Moderation | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Validate a solution for ozone generation from far-UVC germicidal light | $25K | Jacob Swett | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Provide Rationality / EA Education at University of Maryland | $7.8K | Max Morawski | 2023-03-03 | manifund.org | ACX mini-grants, Forecasting | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| 10th edition of AI Safety Camp | $68K | Remmelt Ellen | 2023-12-11 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, AI governance | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Automatic circuit discovery on sparse autoencoded features | $25K | Can Rager | 2023-12-30 | manifund.org | 3-month independent research | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Effective Giving in New Zealand | $25K | Effective Altruism New Zealand | 2024-05-10 | manifund.org | EA community | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Helping to change the stray animal crisis in Mexico | $600 | Ace Malik | 2024-08-31 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Develop an app or website to help parents choose between IVF clinics | $20K | Samuel F Celarek | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Discovering latent goals (mechanistic interpretability PhD salary) | $1.6K | Lucy Farnik | 2023-07-10 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] 6-month salary for interpretability research focusing on probing for goals and "agency" inside large language models | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Screwworm Free Future: Seizing the Eradication Window | $56K | Screwworm Free Future | 2025-10-29 | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Accelerate eradication of the New World Screwworm from South America via research, coordination, and advocacy around safe development of gene-drives | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Exploring novel research directions in prosaic AI alignment | $30K | Lawrence Chan | 2023-11-27 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] 3 month | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| [Urgent] Top-up funding to present poster at the Tokyo AI Safety Conference | $700 | Matthew Farr | 2025-03-25 | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety] My allocated travel funding is insufficient. Seeking extra funding for flights, accommodation, etc, to present poster and network | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Improving farmed fish welfare in Egypt | $5K | Alexandria Beck | 2025-05-20 | manifund.org | Animal welfare, EA community | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Investigating and informing the public about the trajectory of AI | $6K | Epoch AI | 2025-01-03 | manifund.org | AI governance, Forecasting | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Evaluating Model Attack Selection and Offensive Cyber Horizons | $41K | Sean Peters | 2025-12-02 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Measuring attack selection as an emergent capability, and extending offensive cyber time horizons to newer models and benchmarks | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Groundless Alignment Residency 2025 | $15K | Aditya Arpitha Prasad | 2025-09-15 | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Practicing Embodied Protocols that work with Live Interfaces | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Translation of BlueDot Impact's AI alignment curriculum into Portuguese | $3.3K | Luan Rafael Marques de Oliveira | 2023-12-24 | manifund.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 course | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI Digest | $98K | Adam Binksmith | 2025-06-05 | manifund.org | Interactive AI explainers and demos, including the Agent Village | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI forecasting and policy research by the AI 2027 team | $44K | Jonas Vollmer | 2025-05-06 | manifund.org | [AI governance, Forecasting] AI Futures Project | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Regrant to charities working on developing country nutrition | $100K | Joel Tan Jiong Yang | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Automated forecasting | $25K | Simon Chen | 2025-10-09 | manifund.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 antibiotics | $78K | Yonatan Grad | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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 Incubator | $10K | Lincoln Quirk | 2026-01-01 | manifund.org | Building Talent Infrastructure for American Democracy | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| The first public benefit biotechnology company with an explicit goal of involuntary suffering abolition. | $50K | Joshua Michael Sparks | 2024-02-09 | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Building a Culture of Care: Educating on Animal Welfare in Somalia | $520 | Abdiaziz Idiris Mohamud | 2024-08-21 | manifund.org | Animal welfare, EA community | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Survey for LLM Self-Knowledge and Coordination Practices | $10K | Francisco Carvalho | 2024-08-27 | manifund.org | — | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Help AIs create AI safety tools | $80K | Jacob Arbeid | 2025-10-29 | manifund.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] | $815 | Matthew Cameron Farrugia-Roberts | 2024-08-18 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, EA Community Choice] Retrospective support for small virtual reading group on AI safety topics | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Grow An AI Safety Tiktok Channel To Reach Ten Million People | $30K | Michaël Rubens Trazzi | 2025-08-10 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance] 20 Weeks Salary to reach a neglected audience of 10M viewers | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| A Happier World (YouTube channel promoting EA ideas) | $2.8K | Jeroen Willems | 2024-04-02 | manifund.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 Interpretability | $12K | Brian Tan | 2023-08-20 | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] 1.9 FTE for 9 months to pilot a training program in Manila exclusively focused on Mechanistic Interpretability | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| AI Alignment Research Lab for Africa | $2.5K | Jonas Kgomo | 2023-07-21 | manifund.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 lab | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Building Bridges: Effective Animal Advocacy in the Global South | $2.7K | Caroline Araujo de Oliveira | 2024-08-21 | manifund.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 adv | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| The First Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability for Vision | $1.5K | tamar rott shaham | 2025-05-28 | manifund.org | Science & technology, Technical AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Aquatic Animal Alliance: A Global Movement for Neglected Species | $4.2K | Cecilia Valenza | 2024-08-20 | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Building a Unified Front for Aquatic Animal Welfare | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Travel funding for International Conference on Learning Representations | $1.5K | Joar Skalse | 2024-05-03 | manifund.org | Presenting an AI safety paper, STARC | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Subsidize Real Money Prediction Markets on High Impact Topics | $8K | Ezra Brodey | 2023-03-06 | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Create Subsidized Prediction Markets On Polymarket.com | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| A Critical Study of the EU’s Anti-Subsidy Probe into Chinese Electric Vehicles | $40 | Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa | 2024-01-28 | manifund.org | Science & technology, ChinaTalk Essay Contest, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks | 8jnn54YEbQ | |
| Support for SAELens and other Decode Research Projects | $6.8K | David Chanin | 2025-08-04 | manifund.org | Technical AI safety | 8jnn54YEbQ |
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| Records: | 383 in 5 collections |