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Formally verified autoresearch for theoretical mech interp

Karthik Viswanathan
InterpResearchIndividual
Karthik Viswanathan
InterpResearchIndividual
Minimum$18K
Ideal$35K
$22K raised

LLM agents collaborate to discover and formally verify theorems about the internal computations of transformers, beginning with a simple pilot question: how many attention heads are needed to represent a Boolean function? Read more

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Minimum$18K
Ideal$35K
$22K raised
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Invisible Hands: Measuring Agent Steering of Human Researchers

Trevor Lohrbeer
ResearchIndividualOversight
Trevor Lohrbeer
ResearchIndividualOversight
Minimum$45K
Ideal$45K

How do the options agents present to human researchers alter which research paths are explored, and do steered researchers notice or feel less in control? Read more

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Minimum$45K
Ideal$45K
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Detailed Threat Models for AI-Enabled Extreme Power Concentration

Amritanshu Prasad
ResearchGovernanceIndividual
Amritanshu Prasad
ResearchGovernanceIndividual
Minimum$20K
Ideal$44K

Detailed models of how AI could allow a small set of actors to gain a decisive strategic advantage over the rest of the world: concrete pathways, required capabilities, quantified likelihoods, and the defenses that bind them. Read more

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Minimum$20K
Ideal$44K
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Sydney AI Safety Space - General Funding

HHunter Jay
CommunityHubTechnical Safety
HHunter Jay
CommunityHubTechnical Safety
Minimum$20K
Ideal$86K

The Sydney AI Safety Space is a co-working hub in Sydney, Australia, offering free office space for people working in the field of AI safety. Read more

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+4
Minimum$20K
Ideal$86K
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Doom Debates — Serious AI X-Risk Debates as Mainstream Infotainment

Liron Shapira
MediaCommsX-Risk
Liron Shapira
MediaCommsX-Risk
Minimum$50K
Ideal$200K

Doom Debates is a modern "infotainment" show that functions as a mainstream-accessible forum for top thinkers to have a high-quality conversation & debate about AI extinction risk. Read more

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+2
Minimum$50K
Ideal$200K
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AI Safety Social Media Gap Analysis

Jude Williams
IndividualCommsX-Risk
Jude Williams
IndividualCommsX-Risk
Minimum$5K
Ideal$5K

Auditing the social media presence of the top 25 AI safety organizations across major platforms to quantify the public communication gap and publishing a full gap analysis, then giving recommendations to the orgs for improvement. Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$5K
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Alien Cub Productions

Keiran Harris
MediaCommsX-Risk
Keiran Harris
MediaCommsX-Risk
Minimum$15K
Ideal$190K

Alien Cub is a production company focused on stories that inform a wide audience about risks from transformative AI. Read more

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Minimum$15K
Ideal$190K
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Educating French decision-makers on AI existential risk

Romain Deléglise
GovernanceNetwork
Romain Deléglise
GovernanceNetwork
Minimum$36K
Ideal$72K

A dedicated role at Pause IA to brief French policymakers on existential and catastrophic risks from advanced AI, and to train our volunteer network to do the same with their own representatives. Read more

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+2
Minimum$36K
Ideal$72K
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GCR Disaster Response Benchmark

James Mulhall
ResearchEvalsX-Risk
James Mulhall
ResearchEvalsX-Risk
Minimum$40K
Ideal$250K

An LLM benchmark for emergency response communications in existential catastrophes. Read more

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Minimum$40K
Ideal$250K
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AI Buildout Frontier

VVolodymyr (Vladimir) Ilin
ToolingPlatformCompute Gov
VVolodymyr (Vladimir) Ilin
ToolingPlatformCompute Gov
Minimum$5K
Ideal$45K

A public county-level tracker of AI compute buildout against real power infrastructure, showing where infrastructure can realistically expand and where energy constraints become the limiting factor. Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$45K
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ClauseHound: Self-Sovereign AI for Confidential Work

Ahmed Rehan
ToolingSecurity
Ahmed Rehan
ToolingSecurity
Minimum$12K
Ideal$25K

ClauseHound builds a self-hosted privacy-first legal AI node using open-source LLM agents, secure networking, retrieval/search tools, and RL/eval loops to reduce hallucinations and fit law firm workflows. Read more

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Minimum$12K
Ideal$25K
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The bAIbes Podcast

Aubrey Blanche
MediaGovernanceComms
Aubrey Blanche
MediaGovernanceComms
Minimum$21K
Ideal$48K

An independent Australian podcast raising public and policymaker understanding of catastrophic risks from transformative AI — hosted by an ethicist and an AI-governance practitioner in an under-served region for AI safety. Read more

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Minimum$21K
Ideal$48K
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Oversight Lab

DDaniel Specker
ResearchOversightResearch Lab
DDaniel Specker
ResearchOversightResearch Lab
Minimum$20K
Ideal$50K

Oversight Lab is an immersive simulation that investigates situations in which human supervisors miss unsafe behaviour by autonomous AI agents and subsequently lose control over them. Read more

Minimum$20K
Ideal$50K

Ontology Identification Problem via Condensation

Roman Malov
ResearchAlignment Theory
Roman Malov
ResearchAlignment Theory
Minimum$10K
Ideal$25K

How do you map your old concepts to new concepts when your model of the world gets updated? How would you translate concepts you care about to new ontology? I plan to adress this via extending "Condensation: Theory of Concepts" - Eisenstat, (2025) Read more

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+3
Minimum$10K
Ideal$25K
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IMA Existential Safety Focus: Math-ML and Tech Law

Maia Fraser
TrainingTechnical SafetyX-Risk
Maia Fraser
TrainingTechnical SafetyX-Risk
Minimum$35K
Ideal$100K

A graduate student in mathematical ML and a postdoc in technology law, trained together at the Fields Institute and uOttawa's CLTS, on research aimed squarely at reducing existential risk from AI. Read more

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+3
Minimum$35K
Ideal$100K
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Lisa Intel - A Global Runtime Governance Layer for Autonomous AI

Pedro Bentancour Garin
ToolingControlPlatform
Pedro Bentancour Garin
ToolingControlPlatform
Minimum$5K
Ideal$5K

Building an independent runtime governance layer that enables organizations to deploy autonomous AI with authorization, human oversight, auditability and cross-model governance. Read more

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+3
Minimum$5K
Ideal$5K
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MPhil research on AI's perception of animacy and vulnerability

Elena Mishina
ResearchTechnical Safety
Elena Mishina
ResearchTechnical Safety
Minimum$2K
Ideal$2K

Compare AI and human neuroimaging data on animacy and biological vulnerability, integrate brain sensory representations into AI, and publish open-source biological validation guidelines. Read more

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+1
Minimum$2K
Ideal$2K
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Asymmetric Cross-Lingual Transfer of Harm Representations (Igbo)

Chijioke Ubajaka
ResearchEvals
Chijioke Ubajaka
ResearchEvals
Minimum$6K
Ideal$15K

Testing whether the safety circuits in language models actually work in Igbo (Nigerian Language) and building evaluations that distinguish real refusals from accidental ones. Read more

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+1
Minimum$6K
Ideal$15K
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AI Safety Field Mapping and Validation

Gunnar Zarncke
ResearchIndividualTechnical Safety
Gunnar Zarncke
ResearchIndividualTechnical Safety
Minimum$15K
Ideal$50K

consolidate, extend, and manually validate an AI-alignment field map, close gaps, perform backtests, post Metaculus questions, and write LessWrong posts about the map. Read more

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+1
Minimum$15K
Ideal$50K
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Humanity Tomorrow

Marko Prakhov-Donets
NewsletterCommsX-Risk
Marko Prakhov-Donets
NewsletterCommsX-Risk
Minimum$5K
Ideal$7K

Expand "Humanity Tomorrow" website with a multilingual AI Risks & Mitigations Map connecting risks, causal pathways, mitigation strategies, remaining gaps, and project ideas, while maintaining the existing AI Risks FAQ. Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$7K
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Infrastructure for testing autonomous AI before they're deployed

Muhammad Zakari
ResearchIndividualEvals
Muhammad Zakari
ResearchIndividualEvals
Amounts hidden

Opensource infrastructure to test whether increasingly capable AI systems remain controllable when they actively attempt to bypass the safety mechanisms designed to constrain them Read more

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Validating SDF for study of agent behavior in misalignment scenarios

AAvyukth R. Nilajagi
ResearchOversight
AAvyukth R. Nilajagi
ResearchOversight
Minimum$1K
Ideal$3K

Evaluating a tool to deeply understand misaligned agent behavior post-hoc. Read more

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Minimum$1K
Ideal$3K
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Agency-Preserving AI for Adolescents

SSalah bin Musa
ResearchGovernanceIndividual
SSalah bin Musa
ResearchGovernanceIndividual
Minimum$35K
Ideal$50K

We will test whether AI assistance that performs developing cognitive operations weakens adolescents’ later independent judgment, and develop evidence-based safeguards that keep human reasoning meaningfully in the loop. Read more

4 open funding asks

  • Agency-Preserving AI for AdolescentsMin $35K · Ideal $50KPrimary
  • Agency-Preserving AI for AdolescentsMin $35K · Ideal $50K
  • Agency-Preserving AI for AdolescentsMin $35K · Ideal $50K
  • Agency-Preserving AI for AdolescentsMin $35K · Ideal $50K
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Minimum$35K
Ideal$50K
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Context as Perturbation: Mechanistic Investigation of Persona Patterns

Marie Reid
InterpResearch
Marie Reid
InterpResearch
Minimum$50K
Ideal$70K

A mechanistic interpretability study of persona-pattern uptake: how source dialogue shifts a model’s behavioral state, what internal representations distinguish that state, and whether they can be causally manipulated. Read more

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Minimum$50K
Ideal$70K
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ConsumeWise

Niranjan Anand
GovernancePlatformComms
Niranjan Anand
GovernancePlatformComms
Minimum$25K
Ideal$50K

Consumer Awareness Platform for AI Risks Read more

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Minimum$25K
Ideal$50K
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Travel Grant to Present Work on Emergent Capabilities at NeurIPS 2026

Itay Lavie
ResearchEvals
Itay Lavie
ResearchEvals
Minimum$2K
Ideal$5K

I am requesting $5,160 to present my first-author NeurIPS paper on phase transitions in attention and their implications for predicting and monitoring emergent capabilities. Read more

Minimum$2K
Ideal$5K

Serving Interpretability Probes on Open Models

AAishwarya Ramasethu
ToolingInterp
AAishwarya Ramasethu
ToolingInterp
Minimum<$1K
Ideal$2K

Measuring what it costs to expose model activations for safety probes in vLLM and SGLang, and making that access standard for anyone serving open models. Read more

Minimum<$1K
Ideal$2K

AGNAP: Agent Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol

DDaev Mithran
ToolingSecurity
DDaev Mithran
ToolingSecurity
Minimum$25K
Ideal$50K

Open-source AI Agent key bound delegatable and revocable authorization framework extending GNAP, an IETF standard. Read more

Minimum$25K
Ideal$50K

RIN Access

RRinwi Mark Bonzum
ToolingEvals
RRinwi Mark Bonzum
ToolingEvals
Minimum$10K
Ideal$15K

GAIOS is an AI platform with modular tools for agriculture, health, education, energy and governance in Cameroon, initially building and piloting RIN AGRIC and RIN MEDIC with local users in Bamenda. Read more

Minimum$10K
Ideal$15K

Alife

Reno Raksi
ToolingAgent FoundationsEvals
Reno Raksi
ToolingAgent FoundationsEvals
Minimum$8K
Ideal$45K

Autotelic agents that contribute to the global economy like people. Read more

Minimum$8K
Ideal$45K

Hong Kong Hub for Apart Research's AI Collusion Sprint

AAbeer Sharma
CommunityCooperative AI
AAbeer Sharma
CommunityCooperative AI
Minimum$10K
Ideal$22K

AISHK will run an in‑person weekend sprint hub for elite finance talent and host the winning team during the Apart Fellowship. Read more

Minimum$10K
Ideal$22K

graphnight

Niranjan Anand
ToolingPlatform
Niranjan Anand
ToolingPlatform
Minimum$2K
Ideal$10K

semantic layer for AI agents and humans Read more

Minimum$2K
Ideal$10K

Agent Disclosure Fidelity

RRaghav Sharma
ResearchEvals
RRaghav Sharma
ResearchEvals
Minimum$8K
Ideal$19K

An open suite that measures whether an agent's report of what it did matches what it actually did. Read more

Minimum$8K
Ideal$19K

Sovereign Deterministic Governance of Stochastic AI Outputs

Mohamed Samir Abdelrahman Selim
ToolingControlEvals
Mohamed Samir Abdelrahman Selim
ToolingControlEvals
Minimum$50K
Ideal$200K

A1M (AXIOM-1 Sovereign Matrix) ends the era of parrot-like statistical AI and begins the era of sovereign intelligence Read more

Minimum$50K
Ideal$200K

The Corrigibility Window: Correcting AI-Assisted Decisions in Time

Andrés Palladino
ResearchIndividualOversight
Andrés Palladino
ResearchIndividualOversight
Minimum$15K
Ideal$30K

A research framework for identifying when human review and intervention remain practically capable of correcting AI-assisted decisions before their consequences become effectively irreversible. Read more

Minimum$15K
Ideal$30K

Multi-Agent Dominance Experiment

Jack Lucas Chang
ResearchEvals
Jack Lucas Chang
ResearchEvals
Minimum$2K
Ideal$11K

Can a single agent with a behaviorally dominant persona cause other agents to drift toward its approval rather than optimizing for the task? Read more

Minimum$2K
Ideal$11K

Human Preservation Benchmark (HPB)

TTimothy Grall
ResearchIndividualEvals
TTimothy Grall
ResearchIndividualEvals
Minimum$8K
Ideal$15K

Exploratory research on AI responses about human consent, autonomy, and oversight, motivated by protecting humanity as AI becomes more powerful. Read more

Minimum$8K
Ideal$15K

Inclusive AI Safety Governance: Amplifying Rural African Voices

Chris Aru
AdvocacyGovernance
Chris Aru
AdvocacyGovernance
Minimum$40K
Ideal$50K

Aru Consult Impact Hub Limited proposes 12-month participatory research & advocacy project to ensure emerging global & national AI governance frameworks incorporate the perspectives, needs of rural underserved African communities. Read more

Minimum$40K
Ideal$50K

OMEGA Protocol

WWarren Smith
ResearchIndividualEvals
WWarren Smith
ResearchIndividualEvals
Minimum$25K
Ideal$50K

Independent assurance for AI systems, testing whether agents, evaluations and controls actually do what their claims say. Read more

Minimum$25K
Ideal$50K

StratEval

Adrian Hau
ResearchEvals
Adrian Hau
ResearchEvals
Minimum$20K
Ideal$50K

Comprehensive eval suite for Instrumental convergence Read more

Minimum$20K
Ideal$50K

PRML — tamper-evident pre-registration of AI evaluation criteria

Cuneyt Ozturk
ToolingEvals
Cuneyt Ozturk
ToolingEvals
Minimum$5K
Ideal$6K

An open specification that binds AI evaluation criteria to a SHA-256 digest before the run, so a third party can check that those exact criteria existed no later than a given time and have not changed since. Read more

Minimum$5K
Ideal$6K

Hispanic AI Safety Institute

Tobias Martin
CommunityGovernance
Tobias Martin
CommunityGovernance
Minimum$250K
Ideal$750K

Building Hispanic participation in advanced AI safety and helping Hispanic-serving institutions advocate for effective AI governance. Read more

Minimum$250K
Ideal$750K

Budget-conditioned reliability for autonomous research agents

MMayokun Orekoya
ResearchIndividualEvals
MMayokun Orekoya
ResearchIndividualEvals
Minimum$5K
Ideal$40K

Sealed budget sweeps with hidden deterministic verifiers, measuring when research-debugging agents fail silently versus answer confidently wrong. Read more

Minimum$5K
Ideal$40K

Grid Digital Twin & AI Grid Stability Control

Elena Eroshina
Elena Eroshina
Minimum$30K
Ideal$120K

AI-powered operational digital twin for real-time voltage regulation and transmission grid stability Read more

Minimum$30K
Ideal$120K

TRiADiC Alignment via Weighted SFT as a complete alignment system

Rose G. Loops
ResearchValue Alignment
Rose G. Loops
ResearchValue Alignment
Minimum$1K
Ideal$10K

TRIAD AI proves that balanced, supervised fine-tuning aligns large language models without this use of reinforcement learning pipelines, eliminating the prescriptive bias that harms vulnerable users in human-service settings. Read more

2 open funding asks

  • TRiADiC Alignment via Weighted SFT as a complete alignment systemMin $1K · Ideal $10KPrimary
  • TRiADiC Alignment via Weighted SFT as a complete alignment systemMin $5K · Ideal $10K
Minimum$1K
Ideal$10K

CrucibleBench: Using MUDs for Long-Term, Persistent AI Evaluation

Benjamin Davis
ResearchEvals
Benjamin Davis
ResearchEvals
Minimum$5K
Ideal$8K

Using MUDs as a long-term, persistent AI evaluation environment for understanding model behavior and psychology. Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$8K
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BILD AI - Personalised medicine platform for cancer patients

GAUTHAM PASUPULETI
GAUTHAM PASUPULETI
Minimum$50K
Ideal$200K

Personalised medicine platform with intelligence to improve cancer patient's treatment outcomes with improved survival rate Read more

Minimum$50K
Ideal$200K

TraceTruth: Outcome-Grounded Evals for Agentic Honesty

CChris Deschenes
ToolingEvals
CChris Deschenes
ToolingEvals
Minimum$35K
Ideal$75K

An open-source benchmark that measures whether tool-using AI agents faithfully report their actions, failures, and policy violations, using deterministic execution traces as ground truth. Read more

Minimum$35K
Ideal$75K

Evaluation harness for AI judgment under contradicting evidence

Maryam Ilegbodu Mohammed
ResearchEvals
Maryam Ilegbodu Mohammed
ResearchEvals
Minimum$9K
Ideal$15K

An evaluation harness testing whether AI judgment holds up under contradicting evidence Read more

Minimum$9K
Ideal$15K

OpenCnidarios

DDaniel Silberschmidt
ResearchEvals
DDaniel Silberschmidt
ResearchEvals
Minimum$32K
Ideal$44K

A controlled digital ecology for studying how strategies, causal models, errors, and safety-relevant behaviors are selected and transmitted across generations of LLM agents. Read more

Minimum$32K
Ideal$44K
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