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  1. MMark Aiken endorsed
    PauseAI Australia attendance PauseCon London
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    I'm prepared to endorse this at the minimum budget ($5k). I appreciate the challenges for local chapters now that limited funding is available from the global movement. I see great value in having Australian participation at PauseCon London, as the lead volunteers have not had advocacy training until now but seem to still be effective at engaging with parliamentary representatives (MPs). I would…

    Anton Makiievskyi 🔸5d

    Thank you for recommending this grant, @Mark Aiken

    Anton Makiievskyi 🔸18h

    @Peter Horniak, I have offered the granting budget to Mark, so this if you still want this grant - the 5k is on offer. Please respond to the questions above

    Peter Horniak⏸️🔸10h

    Hi @Mark Aiken and @Anton Makiievskyi 🔸, thank you both. We would like to accept the $5,000. Our plan has changed since submitting, covered under question 1 below.

    The deliverables are the same. The PauseCon attendee organises our Perth group, and confirmed in writing that he will deliver…

    MMark Aiken15m

    @Peter Horniak⏸️🔸

    Thanks Peter, agree to the amended proposal, with 1 conference attendee and the remaining funds used in support of consultations with MPs and local advocacy events.

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  2. FFolajomi Amao endorsed
    Mangrove: Matchmaking for AI Safety
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    I am glad to have come across Mangrove prior to that it was such a hassle to find people with similar goals when it comes to running a project. The match-making makes it easy for me to apply for projects and work on things I am passionate about with people that have skills that I can learn from and build my career capital.

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  3. MMohammed El-Sayed commented on BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative
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    Supporting BASE means helping create opportunities for underrepresented researchers and strengthening the AI safety community.

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  4. AAyodele Abraham endorsed
    Scale up AI Safety Quest's Navigation Calls
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    I have spoken with Chris and Ricky, and I can attest to the fact that both co-founders are exceptional individuals and excellent coaches. I am currently being onboarded as a volunteer navigator and have seen firsthand (through shadowing their calls) how professional they are and how valuable their coaching has been to callers.

    I wholeheartedly endorse AI Safety Quest and this application.

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  5. Private User commented on
    Formally verified autoresearch for theoretical mech interp
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    Private comment. Only shown to approved funders and grant reviewers.

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  6. AAbbie Jacobs commented on BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative
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    Broadening the base, so to speak, of who gets a say in our AI futures is so important!

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  7. LLiron Shapira commented on Doom Debates — Serious AI X-Risk Debates & Analysis as Mainstream Infotainment
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    @andrew1 THANK YOU!!! 🙌 DM me in the doomdebates.com/discord for Mission Partner access :)

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  8. LLiron Shapira commented on Doom Debates — Serious AI X-Risk Debates & Analysis as Mainstream Infotainment
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    @danryanfl Thanks! 🌟

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  9. AAngus Gillott commented on Doom Debates — Serious AI X-Risk Debates & Analysis as Mainstream Infotainment
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    Keep at it Liron

    LLiron Shapira2d

    @angusgillott 😁 Appreciate it Angus

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  10. TTzu Kit Chan commented on BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative
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    As a BASE advisor, I'm also a big fan of what Lawrence is building here. We need more black folks in the community; otherwise, we're missing out on some talented people who could otherwise be part of the most important conversation of the century.

    Rooting for yall.

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  11. VVanessa G commented on BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative
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    Great mission!

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  12. TTammy Martin commented on BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative
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    I'm happy to continue to support the great work that BASE is doing. Thank you to the entire BASE team for creating this space & opportunities for continued community and growth.

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  13. DDeepanshu Goyal commented on Editing models inside their own geometry
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    Update 07-08-2026:

    • Extended my geometric equation from activation steering to weight-level editing: it selected half the experts in Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, producing an 18.54B coding model scoring 83.5% HumanEval+. (HuggingFace Model)
    • Received a $5,000 Tinker Research Grant.
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  14. DDeepanshu Goyal commented on
    Editing models inside their own geometry
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    Update 07-08-2026:

    • Extended my geometric equation from activation steering to weight-level editing: it selected half the experts in Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, producing an 18.54B coding model scoring 83.5% HumanEval+. (HuggingFace Model)
    • Received a $5,000 Tinker Research Grant.
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  15. Loek Verdonk commented on EvalLabs: Open Infrastructure for AI Evaluation Research
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    Hi Valencia,

    I really appreciate the focus on lowering the technical barrier for independent researchers while keeping evaluation work systematic and reproducible.

    What is the smallest bounded evaluation object that an outside project could bring to EvalLabs today — for example one claim, one system behavior, or one small dataset — and what exact artifacts would EvalLabs return?

    I am…

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    Valencia Cooper19d

    @Loek Verdonk

    I'd definitely be interested in reading the note. Please feel free to share it! I appreciate that you've continued to keep the observations bounded and clearly distinguished from conclusions. One of the things I've enjoyed most about this exchange is that it's helped strengthen not only EvalLab's implementation but also the…

    Loek Verdonk19d

    @Valencia Cooper
    Thanks for the kind words :D — though it's your own honesty, shining on the exact spots that strengthen the whole, that made this work. Big thanks for that too! The dance continues then — awesome.

    Valencia Cooper3d

    @Loek Verdonk

    My apologies on the extended delay - as I was deep into the final stages of my research fellowship! I still want to give you the courtesy of responding since this entire interaction has been very valuable indeed. So, let me answer your three questions directly.

    1. Canonical checksum scope

    The four excluded fields are…

    Loek Verdonk3d

    @Valencia Cooper

    @Valencia Cooper

    No apologies needed at all — especially while you were finishing your research fellowship! :D And congratulations on reaching those final stages.

    Thank you for taking the time to answer this so carefully. This closes the questions very clearly for me, and I’ll preserve your clarification alongside the…

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  16. EElliot (Li) Bearden commented on BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative
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    Like many others have stated, the work BASE is doing is critical; we are unlikely to succeed in creating safe(r) AI if the field remains so demographically concentrated.

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  17. LLeo Hyams commented on BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative
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    BASE is doing critical work in diversifying AI safety as a highly consequential but highly demographically concentrated field.

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  18. ZZeming endorsed
    COMPASS: AI X-Risk Track
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    This fellowship curates the fellowship towards the global south population, raising awareness to prevent the potential AI risks and hazards. Democratizing the understanding of AI risks is democratizing the future awareness and solution, solving data biases, labor market concerns, and X-risks.

    Olin Thakur3d

    Thank you Zeming for your comments and feedback.

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  19. KKrishna Goel commented on
    BASE - Bangalore AI Safety Exchange
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    Hi, this looks like a good opportunity! Also sharing something I came across recently, in case folks here haven't seen it yet: SAFL launched their Bangalore Hub earlier…

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  20. CCherie Singh endorsed Shared Screening for AI Safety Hiring of Generalists
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    Endorsing. I resonate with the intent behind this project and the approach that Emily is taking. Her project delivers concrete outputs which would be useful, considering the current bottleneck for generalist roles in the AI Safety space.

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  21. CCharlie Guthmann commented on Doom Debates — Serious AI X-Risk Debates & Analysis as Mainstream Infotainment
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    great show that has taught me so much.

    LLiron Shapira7d

    @cguth Thank you Charlie! 🙇‍♂️

    CCharlie Guthmann4d

    @liron https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5huXea9bB7mtMQbrX/community-polls-on-alignment-controversies-ii-1 I found this quite thought provoking would be interested to see it discussed on stream or with a guest.

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  22. Loek Verdonk commented on
    proofbundle: Offline Evidence Receipts for AI Safety Evaluations
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    Hi Konrad,

    Great work on proofbundle — your offline receipts feel very familiar to what we are building. We literally call ours “bonnen” (Dutch for receipts). :D

    One question from our hardest corner: how does proofbundle handle legitimate change? If an evaluation record is intentionally superseded by a new version, is that treated as tampering, or can the receipt represent a visible…

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    Konrad Gruszka6d

    @Loek Verdonk
    Hi Loek,

    good, you are in. :D

    Thank you for the care in this mail. You did not stop at the GitHub surface, you downloaded main and measured the imported state yourself. That is exactly the habit this repository is for, and it is a fine thing to receive: the bytes said you had arrived before your mail did.

    I checked your…

    Loek Verdonk4d

    @Konrad Gruszka
    Hi Konrad,

    My first pull request is open. :D

    I kept it deliberately small: only the outdated maintainer wording in the top-level README. Nothing under corpus/ changed, and the adopted iter11 origin remains untouched.

    Thank you for guiding me into the workflow this way. GitHub is still very new to me, but this felt…

    Konrad Gruszka4d

    @Loek Verdonk
    Hi Loek,

    it is already merged. :D

    I read the diff before approving: README.md only, nothing under corpus/, origin untouched. Your description and the bytes matched. Squash and merge like #1 and #2, branch deleted.

    Good first step. Take the next one whenever you see it.

    Konrad

    Loek Verdonk4d

    @Konrad Gruszka

    Perfect, thank you :D :D :D!

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  23. andrew funded
    Doom Debates — Serious AI X-Risk Debates & Analysis as Mainstream Infotainment     for $1,000
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    $1K minimum$250K ideal
    This project is still open for additional funding
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  24. Cchristinechitongo commented on BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative
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    I support this mission and all the opportunities it is creating for Black AI Safety researchers.

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  25. grantmaking.ai funded
    ILINA Junior Research Fellowship     for $40,000
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    $40K minimum$120K ideal
    This project is still open for additional funding
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  26. grantmaking.ai funded
    Surrogate base model for Mechanistic Interpretability     for $50,000
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    $50K minimum$96K ideal
    This project is still open for additional funding
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  27. Basil Korompilias commented on
    AIR: Platform Mitigating X-Risk through Human Capacity Development
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    ## [0.1.1-AIR] - 2026-08-05

    Workflows

    • Improved the Fellow workflow through Copy-Paste prompts and Guides. People without any background in AI Safety, can download AI Inspector Chrome Extension and start making evals or meta-evals in their favorite AI chat.

    Please have a look, and I will be very happy to receive any questions or constructive feedback.…

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  28. MMark Aiken endorsed
    Preserving the Human Veto
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    I endorse this approach, at least at a minimum level.

    I think that lethal autonomous weapons is a visible and attention grabbing entry point to discussing AI concentration of power risks. I also think that regulation of lethal autonomous weapons is an important stand-alone issue. I'm not sure that lethal autonomous weapons is the most important aspect of concentration of power risk (eg…

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    MMark Aiken1mo

    Thanks for this additional background Jenna - good luck with your application! And yes, I fully agree with the approach of using lethal autonomous weapons discussions as the attractive entry point / trojan horse.

    MMark Aiken6d

    Hi Jenna, I appreciate your earlier clarifications and I'm happy to endorse the funding of your minimal viable product of $20,000. I see great value in building on some of the earlier campaigns (and lessons learned) and applying environmental, health, human rights campaign approaches to AI safety advocacy and outreach.

    Can you please confirm:

    1. Did you receive funding from anywhere…
    Anton Makiievskyi 🔸5d

    @Mark Aiken Excited for this grant recommendation!

    Jenna Jauhiainen4d

    @Mark Aiken Hey Mark! Thank you so much for your message. So exciting!

    Regarding your questions:

    1. We have not received any funding since submitting this application. We are waiting for a response on couple of applications still. No changes to the funding ask.
      \
    2. We will surely post updates on how the project is going –…
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  29. Jaime Raldua endorsed Supporting AI Safety Fieldbuilding in Mexico
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    I worked closely with Janeth and other AIS Mexico organizers on a couple of occasions. First, during a project I mentored in SPAR, where they were highly motivated and hardworking. Later, while coordinating the Apart Global South AI Safety Hackathon, we collaborated closely with eight other local hubs in the Global South. AI Safety Mexico, was one of the best local hubs. They were more proactive…

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  30. Marta Kosmyna endorsed
    Help the Argentinian AI Safety Community Grow
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    Great team leading impactful work in Argentina and coordinating with the LATAM region more broadly!

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