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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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Separatrix

JJai Dhyani
Research LabResearchManifund
JJai Dhyani
Research LabResearchManifund
Minimum$1K
Ideal$500K
$5K raised

Creating conditions for cooperative strategies to dominate adversarial ones among near-future AIs while we still can Read more

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Minimum$1K
Ideal$500K
$5K raised
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Toward a Superhuman, Open-Ended Alignment Auditor

SStewy Slocum
ResearchEvalsManifund
SStewy Slocum
ResearchEvalsManifund
Minimum$70K
Ideal$245K

Develop and de-risk an automated auditing agent that proactively discovers realistic, diverse alignment failures in AI R&D settings, addressing evaluation awareness, with demos and a research plan. Read more

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Minimum$70K
Ideal$245K
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Fund development of p(Doom)1

PPip Foweraker
CommsGovernanceManifund
PPip Foweraker
CommsGovernanceManifund
Minimum$15K
Ideal$48K

A nightmarishly hard AI safety strategy game about holding p(Doom) down. You can't win; you can only buy time. Read more

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Minimum$15K
Ideal$48K
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ILINA Junior Research Fellowship

CCecil Abungu
TrainingGovernanceManifund
CCecil Abungu
TrainingGovernanceManifund
Minimum$40K
Ideal$120K
<$1K raised

A junior research fellowship for recent African graduates that combines ILINA’s spring seminar with a mentored research phase on AI and global catastrophic risk Read more

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Minimum$40K
Ideal$120K
<$1K raised
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Artificial Selves

PPete Wolfendale
ConferenceField-BuildingManifund
PPete Wolfendale
ConferenceField-BuildingManifund
Minimum$10K
Ideal$50K

Integrating Selves and Research on Selves in the AI Community Read more

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Minimum$10K
Ideal$50K
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AI Safety Museum - Berlin Pilot

JJustin Shenk
ConferenceCommsManifund
JJustin Shenk
ConferenceCommsManifund
Minimum$39K
Ideal$54K

Increasing public awareness of AI risks and benefits through in-person, interactive experiences Read more

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Minimum$39K
Ideal$54K
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Traduttore Traditore? LLM Language-Dependent Safety Answers in Community Context

JJeanne Marie Jacqueline Vincendeau
ResearchEvalsManifund
JJeanne Marie Jacqueline Vincendeau
ResearchEvalsManifund
Minimum$1K
Ideal$4K

Funding request to extend a promising research based on a pilot conducted during Apart Research’s Global South Hackathon Read more

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Minimum$1K
Ideal$4K
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The AI Safety Stack

TTomáš Gavenčiak
PlatformResearchManifund
TTomáš Gavenčiak
PlatformResearchManifund
Minimum$35K
Ideal$55K

An online overview of the AI safety techniques we use in the defense-in-depth stack Read more

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Minimum$35K
Ideal$55K
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Evaluating framing effects on LLM refusal during compositional task interference

TTroy Tian
ResearchEvalsManifund
TTroy Tian
ResearchEvalsManifund
Minimum$2K
Ideal$9K

Build a dataset, benchmark, and mechanistic interpretability studies to measure and steer how persona/context framing causes compositional interference between LLM refusal and disclosure in multi-task prompts. Read more

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Minimum$2K
Ideal$9K
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Token taxes as a mechanism for reducing AI-driven power concentration.

llucas.irwin
ResearchGovernanceManifund
llucas.irwin
ResearchGovernanceManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$420K

A policy memo, co-authored with the Institute for Public Policy Research, resolving the open technical, economic, and legal questions blocking real-world implem Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$420K
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AI safety for builders hackathon / fellowship

AAnkur Pandey
TrainingToolingManifund
AAnkur Pandey
TrainingToolingManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$30K

AI safety for builder hackathon / fellowship - to build tools, products, etc. Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$30K
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AI Safety Communications Workshops in Cameroon and Togo

Kenneth Ngah
TrainingGovernanceManifund
Kenneth Ngah
TrainingGovernanceManifund
Minimum$20K
Ideal$40K

Organize AI safety and responsible governance workshops in Cameroon and Togo, training 300–400 stakeholders and producing localized communication resources to support regional collaboration. Read more

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Minimum$20K
Ideal$40K
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Belief state geometry of language model personas

Logan Graves
ResearchInterpManifund
Logan Graves
ResearchInterpManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$18K

A formal, testable account of LLM persona selection as Bayesian inference, validated with model internals, so labs can monitor and steer personas. Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$18K
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Sentient Futures Project Incubator

CConstance Li
TrainingAI WelfareManifund
CConstance Li
TrainingAI WelfareManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$60K
<$1K raised

Funding compute/API costs for Incubator projects that build nonhuman welfare consideration into AI safety work Read more

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Ideal$60K
<$1K raised
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Travel Grant for Undergrad to present at MICCAI Mechanistic AI Safety Workshop

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

Seeking travel and registration fee support to present my sole-authored mechanistic audit of medical AI at MICCAI 2026 MI4MedFM workshop at Strasbourg, France Read more

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Minimum$1K
Ideal$1K
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Reading China's AI Registry: A Public Monitor

SSofia Yablonskaya
IndividualResearchManifund
SSofia Yablonskaya
IndividualResearchManifund
Minimum$20K
Ideal$22K

Monthly analysis of China's algorithm-filing registry and binding AI security standards, read in Chinese, for the people calibrating AI rules in the West. Read more

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Minimum$20K
Ideal$22K
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Help the Argentinian AI Safety Community Grow

EEitan Sprejer
NetworkCommunityManifund
EEitan Sprejer
NetworkCommunityManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$45K

The Argentinian AI Safety community (BAISH, baish.com.ar) is the largest in Latin-America. Support BAISH's growth, by providing funding for paying salaries. Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$45K
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Launching Humans in Control's Student Program

Vael Gates
NetworkCommunityManifund
Vael Gates
NetworkCommunityManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$75K

Humans in Control (HIC), a nonpartisan grassroots advocacy organization supporting AI safeguards, is raising funds to start a student program Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$75K
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Prediction of Inoculation Prompt Side Effects

Nikhil Maturi
IndividualResearchManifund
Nikhil Maturi
IndividualResearchManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$14K

An open, cheap method that detects when an inoculation prompt inoculates against off-target traits, so labs and developers can catch undesired trait/persona cha Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$14K
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Catching Fooled AI Judges: The Correspondence Auditor v3

AAdrian St. Vaughan
ToolingEvalsManifund
AAdrian St. Vaughan
ToolingEvalsManifund
Minimum$6K
Ideal$10K

Published. Validated on 1,200 cases (97.9–99.5%). The reasoning layer has a bug - we proved the fix works. $9,800 / 90 days to ship the open-source toolkit. Read more

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Minimum$6K
Ideal$10K
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Exploring Dynamic Constraint Boundaries for Auditable AI

NNaufal Ridwan
IndividualResearchManifund
NNaufal Ridwan
IndividualResearchManifund
Minimum$10K
Ideal$25K

Testing whether dynamic boundaries, history, feedback, and uncertainty-aware decisions can make AI behavior more interpretable and auditable. Read more

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Minimum$10K
Ideal$25K
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US Policy Communication Playbook for an AI Crisis

Gabriel Sherman
ResearchGovernanceManifund
Gabriel Sherman
ResearchGovernanceManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$42K

A playbook to help AI safety policy advocates communicate with the U.S. government during the window of opportunity during an AI-related crisis. Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$42K
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Formalizing mathematical AI safety research in Lean

FFelix Harder
IndividualResearchManifund
FFelix Harder
IndividualResearchManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$30K

A hand-verified library of AI-safety theorem statements in Lean 4 with AI-generated proofs, building the skills to trust AI formalization. Read more

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Ideal$30K
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Formally verified autoresearch for theoretical mech interp

Karthik Viswanathan
ResearchInterpManifund
Karthik Viswanathan
ResearchInterpManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$35K

LLM agents collaborate to discover and formally verify theorems about the internal computations of transformers, beginning with a simple pilot question: how man Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$35K
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Editing models inside their own geometry

DDeepanshu Goyal
IndividualResearchManifund
DDeepanshu Goyal
IndividualResearchManifund
Minimum$11K
Ideal$15K

One training-free geometry fitted to a model's residual-stream activations that reads a state, moves it, and tests whether the behaviour follows Read more

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Minimum$11K
Ideal$15K
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Context-Aware Defenses Against Indirect Prompt Injection in Agentic AI System

aali hussain
ResearchSecurityManifund
aali hussain
ResearchSecurityManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$15K

Context-Aware Defenses Against Indirect Prompt Injection in Agentic AI System Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$15K
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