Launching Foresight Institute's AI Grant for Underexplored Areas

# Launching Foresight Institute’s AI Grant for Underexplored Approaches to AI Safety – Apply for Funding! 
By elte, Allison Duettmann
Published: 2023-08-17
**Summary **
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We are excited to **launch our new grant programme** that will fund areas that we consider underexplored when it comes to AI safety. In light of the potential for shorter AGI timelines, we will re-grant $1-1.2 million per year to support much needed development in one of the following areas: 

1.  **Neurotechnology, Whole Brain Emulation, and Lo-fi uploading for AI safety**
2.  **Cryptography and Security approaches for Infosec and AI security**
3.  **Safe Multipolar AI scenarios and Multi-Agent games**

[Apply](https://form.typeform.com/to/Pcpx52n9?typeform-source=foresight.org) for funding– to be reviewed on a rolling basis.

See below, or visit our [website](https://foresight.org/ai-safety/) to learn more! 

**Areas that We’re Excited to Fund **
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### ***Neurotechnology, Whole Brain Emulation, and Lo-fi uploading for AI safety***

We are interested in exploring the potential of neurotechnology, particularly Whole Brain Emulation (WBE) and cost-effective lo-fi approaches to uploading, that could be significantly sped up, leading to a re-ordering of technology arrival that might reduce the risk of unaligned AGI by the presence of aligned software intelligence. 

We are particularly excited by the following: 

*   WBE as a potential technology that may generate software intelligence that is human-aligned simply by being based directly on human brains
*   Lo-fi approaches to uploading (e.g. extensive lifetime video of a laboratory mouse to train a model of a mouse without referring to biological brain data)
*   Neuroscience and neurotech approaches to AI Safety (e.g. BCI development for AI safety)
*   Other concrete approaches in this area
*   General scoping/mapping opportunities in this area, especially from a differential technology development perspective, as well as understanding the reasons why this area may not be a suitable focus  
     

### ***Cryptography and Security approaches for Infosec and AI security***

To explore the potential benefits of Cryptography and Security technologies in securing AI systems. This includes:

*   Computer security to help with AI Infosecurity or approaches for scaling up security techniques to potentially apply to more advanced AI systems
*   Cryptographic and auxiliary techniques for building coordination/governance architectures across different AI(-building) entities
*   Privacy-preserving verification/evaluation techniques
*   Other concrete approaches in this area
*   General scoping/mapping opportunities in this area, especially from a differential technology development perspective, or exploring why this area is not a good focus area

### ***Safe Multipolar AI scenarios and Multi-Agent games***

Exploring the potential of safe Multipolar AI scenarios, such as:

*   Multi-agent game 

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