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'Making God': a Documentary on AI Risks for the Public
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MediaCommsGovernance
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Finishing The SB-1047 Documentary
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PIBBSS - General Programs funding or specific funding
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Research LabField-BuildingTechnical Safety
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Accelerating PauseAI Germany
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NetworkAdvocacyGovernance
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Out of This Box: AI Safety Musical
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CommsTechnical SafetyMedia
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Mangrove: Matchmaking for AI Safety
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PlatformCommunityTechnical Safety
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Holly Elmore organizing people for a frontier AI moratorium
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IndividualCommunityGovernance
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Next Steps in Developmental Interpretability
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Research LabResearchInterp
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Evitable: a new public-facing AI risk non-profit
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Detecting Evaluation Awareness with Causal Probes
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AI Policy work @ IAPS
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Systems that "give a damn"
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Activation vector steering with BCI
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Support for Deep Coverage of China and AI
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BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative
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Agent Island: A Multiagent Environment of Cooperation and Conflict
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ResearchEvals
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Pax Machina
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NewsletterCommsGovernance
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Development of a Cautionary Tale Feature Film about Gradual Disempowerment
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MediaCommsX-Risk
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BAIS (ex-AIS Hub Serbia) Office Space for (Frugal) AI Safety Researchers
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HubCommunityTechnical Safety
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Asterisk AI Blogging Fellowship
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TrainingTechnical SafetyComms
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GenomeGuard: Securing the Genomic AI Supply Chain
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Synthesizing Standalone World-Models
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ResearchTechnical SafetyAlignment Theory
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Exploring novel research directions in prosaic AI alignment
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The Blind Spots in AI Risk Assessment
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COMPASS: AI X-Risk Track
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Investigating Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness in AI Reasoning
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Flourishing Futures Fellowship
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Unlearning Techniques
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AI Safety YouTube Channel
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MediaCommsTechnical Safety
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Good Ancestors Policy expenses
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Think TankAdvocacyGovernance
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Belief state geometry of language model personas
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Detailed Threat Models for AI-Enabled Extreme Power Concentration
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Surrogate base model for Mechanistic Interpretability
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A Mechanistic Analysis of Activation Verbalizers: Promise and Risks
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BASE - Bangalore AI Safety Exchange
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Tight PAC-Bayes Generalisation Guarantees Across Frontier LLM Safety Monitoring Deployment Settings
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Humans in Control
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NetworkCommunityGovernance
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Formally verified autoresearch for theoretical mech interp
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ResearchInterp
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DC Mini-Conference 2.0 (DCMC 2.0)
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ConferenceCommunityGovernance
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Survey of the American public on AI futures.
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ResearchDemocratic AI
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Fragile Alignment
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ResearchEvalsTechnical Safety
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Agent Island: An Environment for Interagent Cooperation and Conflict
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Developing a Course on AI x-risk
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Split Personality Training
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LLMMatrix: Synthetic World Benchmark for Contamination Free LLM Forcasting
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Medical Expenses for CHAI PhD Student
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Separatrix
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Superintelligence Inc. Strategy Game
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Mapping AI
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Five-week AI safety fellowship + 3-month project mentorship

Led byYunika Bajracharya
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'Making God': a Documentary on AI Risks for the Public

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ProjectMediaCommsGovernanceX-RiskManifund

Geoffrey Hinton & Yoshua Bengio Interviews Secured, Funding Still Needed

Led byConnor Axiotes
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Finishing The SB-1047 Documentary

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ProjectMediaCommsGovernanceManifund

How California became ground zero in the global debate over who gets to shape humanity's most powerful technology

Led byMichaël Rubens Trazzi
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PIBBSS - General Programs funding or specific funding

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ProjectResearch LabField-BuildingTechnical SafetyManifund

Fund unique approaches to research, field diversification, and scouting of novel ideas by experienced researchers supported by PIBBSS research team

Led byPIBBSS
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Accelerating PauseAI Germany

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ProjectNetworkAdvocacyGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Two contractors (10–20 h/week) to accelerate PauseAI Germany’s parliamentary and civil society coalition-building, and to accelerate the hiring and onboarding timeline while our first large funding round resolves.

Led byBenjamin Schmidt
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Out of This Box: AI Safety Musical

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ProjectCommsTechnical SafetyMediaManifund

Out of This Box: The Last Musical (Written by Humans)

Led byGuy
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Mangrove: Matchmaking for AI Safety

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ProjectPlatformCommunityTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

Software to match people with shared AIS interests into teams that complete projects, increasing the odds that those beyond narrow talent pipelines upskill, develop credibility, and turn their ideas into output.

Led byZach Hsu, and others
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Holly Elmore organizing people for a frontier AI moratorium

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ProjectIndividualCommunityGovernanceManifund

Help me to organize US moratorium-promoting activities to expand the Overton window and increase public pressure in favor of a moratorium on frontier AI.

Led byHolly Elmore
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Next Steps in Developmental Interpretability

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ProjectResearch LabResearchInterpManifund

Addressing Immediate AI Safety Concerns through DevInterp

Led byJesse Hoogland
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Evitable: a new public-facing AI risk non-profit

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ProjectCommsGovernanceFundraisingManifundClaimed

Our mission is to inform and organize the public to confront societal-scale risks of AI, and put an end to the reckless race to develop superintelligent AI.

Led byDavid Krueger, and others
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Detecting Evaluation Awareness with Causal Probes

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ProjectIndividualResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

Measuring whether open weight models detect that they're being evaluated, whether they change behavior when they do, and whether that gap grows with capability using causal, white-box evidence.

Led byRajarshi Mandal
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AI Policy work @ IAPS

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ProjectThink TankResearchGovernanceManifund

Fund IAPS to hire two senior researchers to produce AI governance and compute policy work, mentor junior staff/fellows, and strengthen coordination on frontier AI risk reduction.

Led byPeter Wildeford
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Systems that "give a damn"

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ProjectIndividualResearchAgent FoundationsManifund

Teleology, agential risks, and AI well-being

Led bySteve Petersen
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Activation vector steering with BCI

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ProjectResearchValue AlignmentManifund

Collect fMRI data and train simple linear mappings between human brain-state features and LLM latent activations to enable brain-state steering, reward modeling, and human–LLM behavior analogies.

Led byLisa Thiergart
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Support for Deep Coverage of China and AI

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ProjectMediaCommsGovernanceManifund

ChinaTalk seeks funding to expand and accelerate its newsletter/podcast reporting on China’s AI development, governance, and US-China tech competition to inform AI safety and conflict-risk discourse.

Led byJordan Schneider
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BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative

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ProjectTrainingTechnical SafetyFundraisingManifundClaimed

Providing GPU credits and instructional support for 40 participants completing the ARENA AI Safety curriculum through Black in AI Safety and Ethics (BASE)

Led byLawrence Wagner, and others
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Agent Island: A Multiagent Environment of Cooperation and Conflict

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ProjectResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

Agent Island places agents in a rich social setting, similar to reality competitions like Survivor, to study multiagent interactions and the consequences of learning pressure in competitive settings.

Led byConnacher Murphy
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Pax Machina

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ProjectNewsletterCommsGovernanceFundraisingManifundClaimed

A publication about the institutions we need for powerful AI.

Led byOliver Klingefjord, and others
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Development of a Cautionary Tale Feature Film about Gradual Disempowerment

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ProjectMediaCommsX-RiskManifund

work title: Seductive Machines and Human Agency

Led byPetr Salaba
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BAIS (ex-AIS Hub Serbia) Office Space for (Frugal) AI Safety Researchers

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ProjectHubCommunityTechnical SafetyManifund

Free/Subsidized/Cheap office space outside of EU but in good timezones with favorable visa policies (especially for Chinese/Russian but also US&others near EU).

Led byDusan D Nesic
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Asterisk AI Blogging Fellowship

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ProjectTrainingTechnical SafetyCommsManifund

Asterisk Magazine will run a 10-week blog-building intensive with workshops, peer critique, and mentoring to help AI-domain experts publish three public posts and develop as AI communicators.

Led byAsterisk Magazine
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GenomeGuard: Securing the Genomic AI Supply Chain

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ProjectToolingSecurityBiosecurityFundraisingClaimed

GenomeGuard is an open-source defense and threat-discovery framework for detecting data poisoning, compromised annotations, and supply-chain attacks before they propagate into genomic foundation models.

Led byCharalampos Koilakos
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Synthesizing Standalone World-Models

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ProjectResearchTechnical SafetyAlignment TheoryFundraisingManifundClaimed

Research agenda aimed at developing methods for constructing powerful, easily interpretable world-models.

Led byThane Ruthenis, and others
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Exploring novel research directions in prosaic AI alignment

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ProjectIndividualResearchRobustnessManifund

3 month

Led byLawrence Chan
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The Blind Spots in AI Risk Assessment

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ProjectThink TankResearchGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

AI risk assessment currently checks few threat models and doesn't compose them into the aggregate risk that matters. We'll build a tool mapping what frontier system cards cover and omit, plus a paper on what the assessments miss.

Led byRichard Mallah, and others
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COMPASS: AI X-Risk Track

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ProjectTrainingGovernanceX-RiskFundraisingClaimed

COMPASS (Capacity-Oriented Mentorship for Public Administrators on AI Safety & Strategy): AI X-Risk Track trains sitting Global South government officials to manage AI x-risk, so their governments are part of preventing it.

Led byOlin Thakur
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Investigating Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness in AI Reasoning

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ProjectIndividualResearchInterpFundraisingClaimed

Probe an open-weight model’s activations under biasing/cue conditions to test whether chain-of-thought explanations match internal reasoning, releasing paper, code, and datasets.

Led byDaniel Zhang
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Flourishing Futures Fellowship

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ProjectTrainingX-RiskFundraisingManifundClaimed

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

Led byJordan Arel
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Unlearning Techniques

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ProjectResearchTechnical SafetyEvalsManifund

Unlearning, AI Safety

Led byFazlBarez
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AI Safety YouTube Channel

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ProjectMediaCommsTechnical SafetyManifund

A Veritasium for AI Safety.

Led byPetr Lebedev
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Good Ancestors Policy expenses

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ProjectThink TankAdvocacyGovernanceManifund

GAP is an Australian charity, working to improve the long-term future, that requires funding for salary and operational expenses.

Led byGregory Sadler
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Belief state geometry of language model personas

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ProjectResearchInterpFundraisingClaimed

A formal, testable account of LLM persona selection as Bayesian inference, validated against model internals, so labs can monitor and steer model personas during post-training and deployment

Led byLogan Graves
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Detailed Threat Models for AI-Enabled Extreme Power Concentration

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ProjectIndividualResearchGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

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.

Led byAmritanshu Prasad
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Surrogate base model for Mechanistic Interpretability

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ProjectResearchInterpFundraisingClaimed

Creating a reference model for mechanistic interpretability without assuming that at auditing time we have a safe model to compare the suspicious model against.

Led byRaffaello Fornasiere
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A Mechanistic Analysis of Activation Verbalizers: Promise and Risks

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ProjectResearchInterpFundraisingClaimed

Mechanistically analyze how activation verbalizers use target-model activation concepts (e.g., cyclic day-of-week representations) via PCA/DAS/patching, explain cross-family failures, and improve verbalizers.

Led byTung-Yu Wu
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BASE - Bangalore AI Safety Exchange

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ProjectHubCommunityTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

A Physical Community Hub for AI Safety in Bangalore,India to build long-term AI safety careers, host multiple AI safety fellowships, career events and build a community that raises the long-term impact and value of AI

Led byAsh Singh, and others
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Tight PAC-Bayes Generalisation Guarantees Across Frontier LLM Safety Monitoring Deployment Settings

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ProjectResearchVerificationOversightFundraisingClaimed

Compression-based PAC-Bayes certification for frontier-scale LLM safety monitors, deployment setting shift, and modern post-training.

Led byTim G. J. Rudner, and others
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Humans in Control

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ProjectNetworkCommunityGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Humans in Control (HIC) is a nonpartisan grassroots advocacy organization focused on AI safeguards.

Led byVael Gates
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Formally verified autoresearch for theoretical mech interp

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ProjectResearchInterpFundraisingClaimed

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?

Led byKarthik Viswanathan
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DC Mini-Conference 2.0 (DCMC 2.0)

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ProjectConferenceCommunityGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Running a conference in DC for promising AI safety university students interested in policy to network, learn, and be exposed to the DC ecosystem.

Led bySeth Lifland
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Survey of the American public on AI futures.

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ProjectResearchDemocratic AIFundraisingClaimed

TLDR: A representative survey with Yougov of the American public on questions about AI futures, including space governance, successionism, values.

Led byJason Hausenloy
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Fragile Alignment

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ProjectResearchEvalsTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

Build an open-source platform of model organisms and agentic sandboxes to iteratively test mitigations for emergent misalignment via white-box probes, trigger tests, and evaluation-awareness checks.

Led byMatteo Leonesi
Endorsed by

Agent Island: An Environment for Interagent Cooperation and Conflict

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ProjectToolingTechnical SafetyEvalsCooperative AIManifund

A flexible simulation environment for assessing strategic and persuasive capabilities, benchmarking, and agent development, inspired by reality TV competitions.

Led byConnacher Murphy
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Developing a Course on AI x-risk

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ProjectEducationX-RiskIndividualManifund

Develop and launch a Stockholm University/KTH course on existential risk that contextualizes AI x-risk within historical nuclear and environmental risk studies and technological critique.

Led byJohan Fredrikzon
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Split Personality Training

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ProjectIndividualResearchOversightManifund

Revealing Latent Knowledge Through Personality-Shift Tokens

Led byFlorian Dietz
Endorsed by

LLMMatrix: Synthetic World Benchmark for Contamination Free LLM Forcasting

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ProjectToolingEvalsIndividualResearchForecastingManifund

A contamination-free benchmark for measuring whether LLMs can forecast, or whether they're just remembering.

Led byJake Prokopets
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Medical Expenses for CHAI PhD Student

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ProjectIndividualResearchTechnical SafetyManifund

Allow Berkeley PhD student to devote more time and focus to AI safety research and mentorship.

Led byRachel Freedman
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Separatrix

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ProjectResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

Empirical research to create conditions for cooperative strategies to dominate adversarial ones among a broad swath of near-future AIs - in the narrow window this work is still possible.

Led byJai Dhyani
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Superintelligence Inc. Strategy Game

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ProjectCommsX-RiskFundraisingClaimed

Browser based game in the style of Plague Inc where players act as a rogue AI attempting to escape human control. Intended to give lay audiences a grounded understanding of how ASI x-risk could play out.

Led byConnor Heaton
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Mapping AI

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ProjectPlatformToolingGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

This grant would help us maintain and scale Mapping AI, an open-source stakeholder map of the people and organizations with the potential to shape U.S. AI policy.

Led byAnushree Chaudhuri, and others
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