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This page lists Future of Life Institute's 2024 institutional grants, showing how a major AI safety funder is allocating resources across policy, journalism, research, and advocacy organizations working on AI risk.

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The Future of Life Institute's 2024 grants page catalogs institutional funding awarded to organizations working on AI safety, policy, and governance. Recipients include the Federation of American Scientists ($1.5M for AI and global security policy), IASEAI ($1.85M for general support), Encode, Tarbell journalism grants, The Elders, and University of Virginia AI economics research. These grants reflect FLI's strategy of supporting policy influence, public communication, and research on transformative AI risks.

Key Points

  • •IASEAI received the largest grant ($1.85M) for general support of safe and ethical AI nonprofit work.
  • •Federation of American Scientists received $1.5M to study AI implications for nuclear deterrence, bioengineering, autonomy, and cybersecurity.
  • •Tarbell received $150K to fund journalists investigating AI harms, frontier models, and AI company lobbying.
  • •University of Virginia's Anton Korinek received ~$110K for economics research on transformative AI.
  • •FLI also participated in the Survival and Flourishing Fund's Flexible Hardware-Enabled Guarantees (flexHEGs) funding round.

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All Grant Programs 2024 Grants 

 This page highlights some of the institutional grants that the Future of Life Institute awarded in 2024. Status: Funds allocated In 2024, many grants were made through our Requests for Proposals and those grants can be found on those specific pages. We also participated in the Survival and Flourishing Fund's funding round on Flexible Hardware-Enabled Guarantees (flexHEGs).

 Grants archive

 An archive of all grants provided within this grant program: Project title Encode 

 Amount recommended $250,000.00 Details Project Summary

 General Support. Encode are young people mobilizing policymakers and the public for a future where human-centered artificial intelligence fulfills its transformative potential.

 Project title Federation of American Scientists (FAS) 

 Amount recommended $1,500,000.00 Details Project Summary

 To investigate the implications of artificial intelligence on global risk. The 18-month project supports FAS’s efforts to bring together the world’s leading security and technology experts to better understand and inform policy on the nexus between AI and several global issues, including nuclear deterrence and security, bioengineering, autonomy and lethality, and cyber security-related issues. The Federation of American Scientists works to advance progress on a broad suite of contemporary issues where science, technology, and innovation policy can deliver dramatic progress, and seeks to ensure that scientific and technical expertise have a seat at the policymaking table. Established in 1945 by scientists in response to the atomic bomb, FAS continues to work on behalf of a safer, more equitable, and more peaceful world.

 Project title International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI) 

 Amount recommended $1,850,000.00 Details Project Summary

 General support. The International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI) is a nonprofit organization founded to address the risks and opportunities associated with rapid advances in AI. Its mission is to ensure that AI systems are guaranteed to operate safely and ethically; and to shape policy, promote research, and build understanding and community around this goal.

 Project title Tarbell 

 Amount recommended $150,000.00 Details Project Summary

 Support for Tarbell Grants which funds established journalists to pursue original reporting on current & future harms from AI. Topics may include frontier models, the inner workings of leading AI companies, lobbying efforts shaping AI policy, and explanatory reporting that helps the public understand complicated topics in AI. Tarbell works to build a global community of expert journalists covering artificial intelligence with the scrutiny it deserves.

 Project title The Elders 

 Amount recommended $294,160.00 Details Project Summary

 Support for the Long-View Leadership project. Long-view leadership means showing the determination to resolve intractable problems not just manage the

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