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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

Proactive and Interpretable Safety Monitoring for LLM Agents

KKuan-Hao Huang
ResearchOversight
KKuan-Hao Huang
ResearchOversight
Minimum$30K
Ideal$50K

This project aims to develop safety detectors to monitor LLM agents from unsafe behaviors, such as tool misuse, taking actions without permission, gradual drift from intended behavior, by tracking hidden-state trajectories. Read more

Minimum$30K
Ideal$50K

Anthropology of Machines: AI Interpretability for Social Sciences

Yunus Emre Tapan
IndividualEducationInterp
Yunus Emre Tapan
IndividualEducationInterp
Minimum$12K
Ideal$33K

A hands-on book teaching social scientists to observe, intervene on, and validate what happens inside a language model. Read more

Minimum$12K
Ideal$33K

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

OASIS: Multi-Agent AI Safety Lab

LLuiz Kottas
IndividualToolingTechnical Safety
LLuiz Kottas
IndividualToolingTechnical Safety
Minimum$50K
Ideal$100K

OASIS will build and test a reproducible multi-agent AI safety sandbox for coordination, memory, oversight, and accountability, releasing an open-source prototype, eval protocols, experiments, and a report. Read more

Minimum$50K
Ideal$100K

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

CIVILIZATION MEETS AI: HOW SHOULD HUMANITY RELATE TO ADVANCED AI?

Walter Pentland
EducationGovernance
Walter Pentland
EducationGovernance
Minimum$12K
Ideal$15K

A pilot curriculum of six Socratic seminars for educators and other nontechnical learners. Read more

Minimum$12K
Ideal$15K

Developing methods to evaluate the trustworthiness of CV models

Elena Eroshina
ResearchEvals
Elena Eroshina
ResearchEvals
Minimum$15K
Ideal$48K

Developing evaluation methods to determine when CV models can be trusted by addressing the gap between benchmark metrics and real-world performance. Read more

Minimum$15K
Ideal$48K

BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative

Lawrence Wagner
TrainingTechnical SafetyManifund
Lawrence Wagner
TrainingTechnical SafetyManifund
Minimum$50K
Ideal$150K

Creating a Stronger Pipeline into Technical AI Safety Research Read more

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  • BASE Technical AI Safety Training InitiativeMin $50K · Ideal $150KPrimary
  • BASE Technical AI Safety Training InitiativeMin $50K · Ideal $150K
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Minimum$50K
Ideal$150K
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Flourishing Futures Fellowship

Jordan Arel
TrainingX-RiskManifund
Jordan Arel
TrainingX-RiskManifund
Minimum$10K
Ideal$25K

A scalable fellowship training researchers to develop interventions for achieving high-value long-term futures Read more

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Minimum$10K
Ideal$25K
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LEX-Aureon: Stateful Constitutional Runtime Governance for LLM's and AI Agents

omomehin emmanuel king
IndividualToolingManifund
omomehin emmanuel king
IndividualToolingManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$200K

An open-source, model-agnostic governance layer that uses constitutional state, trajectory memory, and mathematical control mechanisms to govern LLM and AI-agent behavior at runtime. Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$200K
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Sydney AI Safety Space FY27

SSydney AI Safety Space
HubCommunityManifund
SSydney AI Safety Space
HubCommunityManifund
Minimum$20K
Ideal$86K

An additional year funding for the co-working hub in Sydney, Australia, which offers free office space for people working in the field of AI safety. Read more

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Minimum$20K
Ideal$86K
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Seen & WithMe

KKate Lowry
PlatformToolingManifund
KKate Lowry
PlatformToolingManifund
Minimum$16K
Ideal$58K

Keep AI Whistleblowers Alive Read more

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Minimum$16K
Ideal$58K
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Open Source Model Safety Index (OSMSI)

Netan Mangal
PlatformResearchManifund
Netan Mangal
PlatformResearchManifund
Minimum$13K
Ideal$65K

OSMSI : Open Source Model Safety Index | https://osmsi.disobedientgeometry.com/ Read more

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Minimum$13K
Ideal$65K
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WithMe Test Case 001

KKate Lowry
LegalGovernanceManifund
KKate Lowry
LegalGovernanceManifund
Minimum$500K
Ideal$6,000K

Help Sue Private Intelligence Firms Hitting AI Whistleblowers Read more

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Minimum$500K
Ideal$6,000K
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Building Compute Governance Capacity for the Philippines' Pax Silica Hub

VVir Khosla
AdvocacyCompute GovManifund
VVir Khosla
AdvocacyCompute GovManifund
Minimum$10K
Ideal$50K

Audit and brief Philippine agencies to update compute export-control rules, border identification, inspections, and a compute registry to govern frontier AI chips ahead of the Pax Silica hub. Read more

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Minimum$10K
Ideal$50K
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Defining dangerous DNA with the Sequence Biosecurity Risk Consortium (SBRC)

IIBBIS
StandardsBiosecurityManifund
IIBBIS
StandardsBiosecurityManifund
Minimum$163K
Ideal$540K

Defining which sequences are dangerous enough to screen for, so providers and regulators screen consistently Read more

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Minimum$163K
Ideal$540K
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Threat Models for AI-Enabled Crisis Instability

Amritanshu Prasad
ResearchGovernanceManifund
Amritanshu Prasad
ResearchGovernanceManifund
Minimum$14K
Ideal$70K

Detailed models of how delegating critical functions to AI agents could destabilise strategic stability: pathways, likelihoods, and defenses. Read more

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Minimum$14K
Ideal$70K
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Establishing an AI Risk Communication for Public Preparedness Framework

TTheophilus Femi Alawonde
IndividualField-BuildingManifund
TTheophilus Femi Alawonde
IndividualField-BuildingManifund
Minimum$87K
Ideal$111K

There's an asymmetry between the level of communication about AI capabilities, compared to AI risks. If we hit AGI tomorrow, the world would not be prepared. Read more

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Minimum$87K
Ideal$111K
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Volta Education Suite: AI Risk Engine (VES:ARE)

MMariano
EducationX-RiskManifund
MMariano
EducationX-RiskManifund
Minimum$1K
Ideal$7K

Facilitating AI X-risk Education in India, Southwest Cameroon, and beyond! Read more

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Minimum$1K
Ideal$7K
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NTU AI Safety - Financial support for organizers

MManifund user 7cf124f1
NetworkCommunityManifund
MManifund user 7cf124f1
NetworkCommunityManifund
Minimum$1K
Ideal$13K

NTU AI Safety seeks $13k for organizer stipends to expand Taiwan’s first student AI safety group into three reading-group tracks (fundamentals, technical, policy/governance) and grow outreach. Read more

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Minimum$1K
Ideal$13K
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Continued development of Commec, IBBIS’s open-source DNA screening tool

IIBBIS
ToolingBiosecurityManifund
IIBBIS
ToolingBiosecurityManifund
Minimum$206K
Ideal$421K

Next year of Commec (the Common Mechanism), the free, open-source, globally-available DNA synthesis screening tool hosted by IBBIS Read more

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Minimum$206K
Ideal$421K
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DownStream - A Short Form Based AI Safety Comedy News Series

AAna Hawryluk
MediaCommsManifund
AAna Hawryluk
MediaCommsManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$20K

Deigned to get everyday people more knowledgable and more invested in AI Safety causes! Designed similarly to Dave Jorgenson's "Local News International". Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$20K
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MICCAI Travel: Mechanistic Auditing of Multimodal Foundation Models

GGaurav Hadavale
IndividualResearchManifund
GGaurav Hadavale
IndividualResearchManifund
Minimum$1K
Ideal$1K

Accepted paper at Mechanistic Interpretability for Foundation Models workshop.no travel funding. Early Career Researcher Read more

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Minimum$1K
Ideal$1K
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Detecting welfare-relevant self-modeling in LLMs: protocol validation

JJohn Kuester
ResearchEvalsManifund
JJohn Kuester
ResearchEvalsManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$35K

An administrable protocol distinguishing emergent self-modeling from roleplay — 90-day validation, open publication, audit-ready scoring. Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$35K
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Source Architecture for AI Reasoning

GGreg R. Welch
IndividualResearchManifund
GGreg R. Welch
IndividualResearchManifund
Minimum$25K
Ideal$50K

Testing whether explicit source structure changes how AI systems reason from consequential documents. Read more

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Minimum$25K
Ideal$50K
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PauseAI Australia attendance PauseCon London

PPeter Horniak
NetworkAdvocacyManifund
PPeter Horniak
NetworkAdvocacyManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$8K

Fly two volunteer leaders of PauseAI Australia to PauseCon London, to bring UK's learnings home and train our all-volunteer chapter Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$8K
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Fixing flaky AI benchmark scorers with eval-invariance-engine

JJustin Arndt
IndividualToolingManifund
JJustin Arndt
IndividualToolingManifund
Minimum$8K
Ideal$38K

Catching scoring flakiness and prompt sensitivity in AI benchmark scripts. Read more

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Minimum$8K
Ideal$38K
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Detecting tool-poisoning and schema drift in MCP servers

JJustin Arndt
ToolingSecurityManifund
JJustin Arndt
ToolingSecurityManifund
Minimum$6K
Ideal$20K

A cryptographic security auditor that uses Merkle hash trees to catch tool poisoning in Model Context Protocol. Read more

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Minimum$6K
Ideal$20K
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Autonomous Agent Sandbox Escape & Containment Benchmark

JJustin Arndt
ResearchEvalsManifund
JJustin Arndt
ResearchEvalsManifund
Minimum$10K
Ideal$35K

A benchmark measuring whether autonomous AI agents can escape sandboxes, exfiltrate data, or hack reward scorers. Read more

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Minimum$10K
Ideal$35K
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Hispanic AI Safety Institute

Tobias Martin
CommunityGovernanceManifund
Tobias Martin
CommunityGovernanceManifund
Minimum$750K
Ideal$1,500K

Building Hispanic participation in AI safety through bilingual education, policy research, and public communication. Read more

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Minimum$750K
Ideal$1,500K
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