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Mechanistic interpretability Discord events and research
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NetworkCommunityInterp
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Mechanistic interpretability Discord events and research

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Solving Scheming and Deception in LLMs
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ResearchDeception
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Educating French decision-makers on AI existential risk
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NetworkGovernance
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Constraining and Scoping Foundation Model Agent Behavior
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IndividualResearchOversight
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AI Safety Studios
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MediaCommsX-Risk
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Movement-building to make AGI go well
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NetworkCommunityGovernance
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The Multilingual Blind Spot in Production-Style Safety Probes
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IndividualResearchEvals
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Alignment Game
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CommsGovernance
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Bridging the Gap: AI Scenario based Policy Pipeline
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ResearchForecastingGovernance
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PropagateBench: do AI agents pay to share info, or free-ride?
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ToolingEvals
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Governing Off-World AI Infrastructure Before a Single Actor Does
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IndividualResearchCompute Gov
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GroundGate,external gate + benchmark for confident-but-wrong AI actions
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ToolingEvalsResearch
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Project Ocean: Trustworthy Human-AI Collaboration Infrastructure
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ResearchTechnical Safety
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Why Is It So Hard to Build Truly Safe AI? Dynamic Constraint Boundary
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IndividualResearchTechnical Safety
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The Human Liveness Project
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Field-BuildingGovernance
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CareerMap: A navigation tool for careers in AI Safety
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PlatformField-BuildingTechnical Safety
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Emergent alignment: generalizing narrow values OOD
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ResearchValue Alignment
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Intensive Mandarin (ICLP) for Chinese-language AI governance research
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IndividualTrainingGovernance
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Shared Screening for AI Safety Hiring of Generalists
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PlatformOpsEA
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No Silent Landing — Landing Integrity Testbed
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IndividualToolingEvals
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CIRIS Ethical AI Deployment
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IndividualToolingEvals
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Preserving the Human Veto
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NetworkTrainingGovernance
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Empirically evaluating faithfulness and transparency in AI delegation
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ResearchEvalsDemocratic AI
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Grant to establish an AI safety lab and fellowship from India
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Research LabResearchTechnical Safety
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Automated control research
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ResearchControl
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Building a Global AI Governance & Safety Layer.
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PlatformToolingGovernance
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Traduttore Traditore? LLM Language-Dependent Safety Answers in Community Context
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ResearchEvals
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Frontier Safety Talent: Africa
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Field-BuildingTrainingTechnical Safety
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Managing AI X-Risk
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MediaCommsGovernance
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AI Safety Nepal
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TrainingCommunityTechnical Safety
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Can Honest AI Agents Finish Previous Attacks?
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IndividualResearchSecurity
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PayBench: A Benchmark for Unsafe Commercial Autonomy
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ResearchEvals
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AI Safety Career Coaching (Intro + Recurring)
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IndividualField-BuildingTechnical Safety
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Behavioral Safety in Conversational and Agentic AI
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ToolingEvals
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Frankfurt AI Safety
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NetworkCommunityTechnical Safety
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GCR Disaster Response Benchmark
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ResearchEvalsX-Risk
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Neural data privacy evals on frontier LLMs
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IndividualResearchEvals
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The Capability Race: Inside the AI Safety Crisis
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MediaCommsTechnical Safety
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Machine God - documentary film on AI X-Risk
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MediaCommsX-Risk
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Multi-agent cooperative contracts
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ResearchCooperative AI
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Postdoc on verification protocols for frontier AI training
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IndividualResearchVerification
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Emotion as Attack Surface and Monitoring Signal in Thinking Models
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Research LabResearchInterp
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Why Is It So Hard to Build Truly Safe AI? Dynamic Constraint Boundary Arrives as
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IndividualResearchTechnical Safety
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COMPASS Fellowship
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TrainingGovernance
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AI ≠ Human Time
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ResearchTooling
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Are Global AI-Biosecurity Safeguards Really Global?
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ResearchBiosecurity
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Scaling Honesty: Deception Detection & Steering Beyond 70B
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ResearchDeception
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echo-truth-llm: Open Source Deception Detection & Correction Toolkit
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ToolingDeception
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proofbundle: Offline Evidence Receipts for AI Safety Evaluations
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ToolingSecurity
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Coordination Studies
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Think TankField-BuildingGovernance
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Network
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Making the mechinterp Discord more active through events and research projects.

Led byVictor Levoso Fernandez
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Solving Scheming and Deception in LLMs

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ProjectResearchDeceptionFundraisingClaimed

I study how training processes produce models that behave deceptively and pursue hidden objectives, with scheming as the most consequential case.

Led byAmina Keldibek
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Educating French decision-makers on AI existential risk

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ProjectNetworkGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

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.

Led byClémence Peyrot, and others
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Constraining and Scoping Foundation Model Agent Behavior

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ProjectIndividualResearchOversightFundraisingClaimed

A specification-driven architecture for building more controllable and reliable long-horizon AI agents.

Led byPinar Ozisik
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AI Safety Studios

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ProjectMediaCommsX-RiskFundraisingClaimed

A platform to connect funders to filmmakers who want to create AI Safety films.

Led byDylan Tuccillo, and others
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Movement-building to make AGI go well

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ProjectNetworkCommunityGovernanceFundraisingManifund

Sapiens First organizes voters to fight concentration of power and for AI safety

Led byRohan Prasad
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The Multilingual Blind Spot in Production-Style Safety Probes

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ProjectIndividualResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

Auditing production-style safety probes for silent failure on the world's other languages, and what fixing it costs.

Led bySripad Karne
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Alignment Game

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ProjectCommsGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

A video game that teaches people about AI alignment and race dynamics.

Led byWilliam Harrison
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Bridging the Gap: AI Scenario based Policy Pipeline

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ProjectResearchForecastingGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

A project to reduce catastrophic AI risk by training people to turn rigorously forecasted AI-risk scenarios into actionable policy advice for key decision-makers in government.

Led byJames Newport
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PropagateBench: do AI agents pay to share info, or free-ride?

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ProjectToolingEvalsFundraisingClaimed

First open benchmark measuring how willingly agents propagate costly information through a population under time uncertainty.

Led byAndrey Seryakov
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Governing Off-World AI Infrastructure Before a Single Actor Does

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ProjectIndividualResearchCompute GovFundraisingClaimed

Every existing lunar data framework governs spacecraft telemetry and object registries. None of them governs compute. That's the gap this framework closes before someone builds the orbital data infrastructure first.

Led byPaige Donner
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GroundGate,external gate + benchmark for confident-but-wrong AI actions

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ProjectToolingEvalsResearchFundraisingManifund

Internal confidence fails at scale. A model-independent runtime gate + reproducible cross-vendor benchmark for confident-but-wrong AI actions.

Led byIvan Andrescov
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Project Ocean: Trustworthy Human-AI Collaboration Infrastructure

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ProjectResearchTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

Building the foundational infrastructure for trustworthy, long-term human–AI collaboration.

Led bySarah Carmody
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Why Is It So Hard to Build Truly Safe AI? Dynamic Constraint Boundary

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ProjectIndividualResearchTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

DCB removes probability from AI decision-making and replaces it with internal integrity so AI doesn't guess, it decides within its boundaries.

Led byNaufal Ridwan
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The Human Liveness Project

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ProjectField-BuildingGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Building tools to ensure we can continue to do good in the AI era

Led byAlbert Wang
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CareerMap: A navigation tool for careers in AI Safety

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ProjectPlatformField-BuildingTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

CareerMap is an interactive career discovery tool that maps non-obvious AI safety career paths to help broaden and guide talent beyond Western EA-adjacent circles.

Led byAmit Kumar
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Emergent alignment: generalizing narrow values OOD

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ProjectResearchValue AlignmentFundraisingClaimed

Testing whether fine-tuning an LLM on one narrow prosocial value (e.g. compassion for nonhuman animals) generalizes OOD, making it broadly safer toward human values (e.g. reduced misalignment, bias, etc.)

Led byAllen Lu
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Intensive Mandarin (ICLP) for Chinese-language AI governance research

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ProjectIndividualTrainingGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

11-week intensive Chinese program (ICLP) to move from B2 to C1 Mandarin and remove the bottleneck on US-China-Taiwan AI governance research I'm already doing

Led byDavid Sanchez Garcia
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Shared Screening for AI Safety Hiring of Generalists

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ProjectPlatformOpsEAFundraisingClaimed

Reduce duplicative hiring processes in AI safety organisations by sharing common screening processes for generalist roles.

Led byEmily Marais
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No Silent Landing — Landing Integrity Testbed

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ProjectIndividualToolingEvalsFundraisingClaimed

An open adversarial testbed that catches when a human-approved decision silently changes meaning between approval, memory, and downstream use.

Led byLoek Verdonk
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CIRIS Ethical AI Deployment

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ProjectIndividualToolingEvalsFundraisingClaimed

CIRIS provides a free and open source model-agnostic agentic alignment harness, available on all major app stores.

Led byEric Moore
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Preserving the Human Veto

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ProjectNetworkTrainingGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Civil-society infrastructure against AI-enabled power concentration, built around autonomous weapons

Led byJenna Jauhiainen, and others
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Empirically evaluating faithfulness and transparency in AI delegation

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ProjectResearchEvalsDemocratic AIFundraisingClaimed

A participatory-budgeting experiment measuring whether AI delegates faithfully represent their principals and whether principals can identify misrepresentation, and an open evaluation suite for AI delegation.

Led byJohann D. Gaebler
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Grant to establish an AI safety lab and fellowship from India

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ProjectResearch LabResearchTechnical SafetyFundraisingManifundClaimed

Focusing more on the intersection of red teaming and interp, while creating a strong rooted community.

Led byRedarc Labs | Manan Wadhwa, and others
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Automated control research

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ProjectResearchControlFundraisingClaimed

I have an automated control research scaffold. I'll use it to find the best control protocols to protect against various attacks and publish reports.

Led byRam Potham
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Building a Global AI Governance & Safety Layer.

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ProjectPlatformToolingGovernanceFundraisingManifund

One year of bootstrapped development, four patent filings, seeking support to continue.

Led byPedro Bentancour Garin
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Traduttore Traditore? LLM Language-Dependent Safety Answers in Community Context

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ProjectResearchEvalsFundraisingManifund

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

Led byJeanne Marie Jacqueline Vincendeau
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Frontier Safety Talent: Africa

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ProjectField-BuildingTrainingTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

A pilot to find, screen and support overlooked African ML talent into frontier AI safety programs such as MATS and ARENA, adding new researchers to the alignment field’s talent pipeline.

Led byGideon Abako
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Managing AI X-Risk

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ProjectMediaCommsGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

A quarterly Techplomacy Conversations series that turns AI x-risk research into direct, actionable recommendations for foreign ministries, UN missions, and AI companies.

Led byOlin Thakur
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AI Safety Nepal

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ProjectTrainingCommunityTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

AI safety fellowship to upskill local talent, build a pipeline of people who understand AI safety deeply enough to contribute to research, advise on policy, and coordinate when AI governance decisions are being made.

Led byAnju Chhetri, and others
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Can Honest AI Agents Finish Previous Attacks?

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ProjectIndividualResearchSecurityFundraisingClaimed

A benchmark that tests whether one AI coding agent can leave behind a harmless looking change that causes a later honest agent to unknowingly finish an attack.

Led byDev Goyal
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PayBench: A Benchmark for Unsafe Commercial Autonomy

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ProjectResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

Benchmark for agents spending human money - paybench.org

Led byConor Plunkett
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AI Safety Career Coaching (Intro + Recurring)

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ProjectIndividualField-BuildingTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

Seeking a top-up grant to prioritize AI Safety Career Coaching.

Led byJen Baik
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Behavioral Safety in Conversational and Agentic AI

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ProjectToolingEvalsFundraisingClaimed

Building computational tools to identify and address pathological behavioral states in conversational and autonomous AI

Led byAlejandro De Los Angeles
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Frankfurt AI Safety

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ProjectNetworkCommunityTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

An AI safety community that trains professionals and researchers to become competent AI safety contributors within industries and the academia, by learning and doing something.

Led byHelen Adepoju
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GCR Disaster Response Benchmark

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ProjectResearchEvalsX-RiskFundraisingClaimed

An LLM benchmark for emergency response communications in existential catastrophes.

Led byJames Mulhall, and others
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Neural data privacy evals on frontier LLMs

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ProjectIndividualResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

A dangerous-capability benchmark testing whether frontier LLMs can extract sensitive attributes from anonymized brain recordings, enable adversaries to build privacy-violating tools, or over-refuse legitimate neuroscience queries.

Led bySwaraag Sistla
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The Capability Race: Inside the AI Safety Crisis

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ProjectMediaCommsTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

A high-production visual journalism series combining primary-source data and motion graphics to break down the mechanics, safety crises, linguistic biases, and Arab-world implications of transformative AI.

Led byMagdi Hamed
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Machine God - documentary film on AI X-Risk

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ProjectMediaCommsX-RiskFundraisingClaimed

Feature-length documentary that captures the intellectual and cultural zeitgeist surrounding frontier AI at the moment before AGI, and communicates X-Risk ideas to a broad range of elites.

Led bySteve Hsu
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Multi-agent cooperative contracts

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ProjectResearchCooperative AIFundraisingClaimed

Multi-agent cooperative contractual obligation framework.

Led byBenjamin John Schulz
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Postdoc on verification protocols for frontier AI training

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ProjectIndividualResearchVerificationCompute GovFundraisingManifund

Low-overhead zero-knowledge proofs of properties of training

Led byPaul Wang
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Emotion as Attack Surface and Monitoring Signal in Thinking Models

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ProjectResearch LabResearchInterpFundraisingManifund

Scale and causally validate live monitors (EmotionMonitor) that detect and steer pre-commitment and frustration signals in thinking models, testing jailbreak relevance and attack robustness across model families.

Led byshivam dubey
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Why Is It So Hard to Build Truly Safe AI? Dynamic Constraint Boundary Arrives as

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ProjectIndividualResearchTechnical SafetyFundraisingManifund

DCB: A Deterministic Architecture That Builds Internal Integrity, Not Just External Safety Layers

Led byNaufal Ridwan
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COMPASS Fellowship

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ProjectTrainingGovernanceFundraisingManifund

Capacity-Oriented Mentorship for Public Administrators on AI Safety & Strategy

Led byOLIN THAKUR
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AI ≠ Human Time

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ProjectResearchToolingFundraisingClaimed

Build a digital intervention that measures the human time needed to produce AI-generated outputs

Led byAbigail Browka
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Are Global AI-Biosecurity Safeguards Really Global?

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ProjectResearchBiosecurityFundraisingClaimed

Assess AI-enabled biosecurity safeguards in Nigeria by reviewing governance, red-teaming frontier models with local language/culture, and testing DNA synthesis screening for orders from resource-limited settings.

Led byNnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi, and others
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Scaling Honesty: Deception Detection & Steering Beyond 70B

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ProjectResearchDeceptionFundraisingClaimed

Extend recently developed deception detection+steering method to larger and more diverse open-weight models, releasing the tooling that makes frontier-scale honesty interventions reproducible.

Led byJared Glover
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echo-truth-llm: Open Source Deception Detection & Correction Toolkit

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ProjectToolingDeceptionFundraisingClaimed

An open-source library that both detects self-chosen deception in open-weight LLMs and steers the model back toward honesty at inference — the correction half that current honesty tools lack.

Led byJared Glover
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proofbundle: Offline Evidence Receipts for AI Safety Evaluations

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ProjectToolingSecurityFundraisingClaimed

proofbundle lets people verify AI safety evaluation results offline instead of trusting a number in a PDF and it catches if an evaluation record was altered or swapped

Led byKonrad Gruszka
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Coordination Studies

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ProjectThink TankField-BuildingGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Coordination Studies is a new field-building project oriented towards solving coordination problems and designing new coordination mechanisms.

Led byMax Holly
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