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Sydney AI Safety Space - General Funding
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CommunityHubTechnical Safety
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Sydney AI Safety Space - General Funding

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BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative
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TrainingIncubatorTechnical Safety
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Ontology Identification Problem via Condensation
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ResearchAlignment Theory
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Doom Debates — Serious AI X-Risk Debates as Mainstream Infotainment
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MediaCommsX-Risk
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Detailed Threat Models for AI-Enabled Extreme Power Concentration
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ResearchGovernanceIndividual
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IMA Existential Safety Focus: Math-ML and Tech Law
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TrainingTechnical SafetyX-Risk
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Lisa Intel - A Global Runtime Governance Layer for Autonomous AI
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ToolingControlPlatform
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Flourishing Futures Fellowship
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TrainingIncubatorX-Risk
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Formally verified autoresearch for theoretical mech interp
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InterpResearchIndividual
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Invisible Hands: Measuring Agent Steering of Human Researchers
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ResearchIndividualOversight
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Educating French decision-makers on AI existential risk
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GovernanceNetwork
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AI Safety Social Media Gap Analysis
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IndividualCommsX-Risk
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Alien Cub Productions
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MediaCommsX-Risk
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Swarm incidents tracking platform
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ResearchGovernancePlatform
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Asymmetric Cross-Lingual Transfer of Harm Representations (Igbo)
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ResearchEvals
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AI Safety Field Mapping and Validation
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ResearchIndividualTechnical Safety
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Seeking funding to attend Swiss AI Safety Days 2026 for AI Safety Nepal.
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CommunityTechnical SafetyNetwork
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Cascade
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GovernanceComms
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Hong Kong Hub for Apart Research's AI Collusion Sprint
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CommunityDeceptionHub
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GCR Disaster Response Benchmark
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ResearchEvalsX-Risk
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There’s Always One
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GovernanceComms
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The Odyssean Process for AI
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ResearchGovernanceThink Tank
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Fund Algon's Writing
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Technical Alignment Podcast
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MediaTechnical SafetyComms
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Travel support to present my work at Swiss AI safety Days and attend EAGxBerlin
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CommunityGovernanceIndividual
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What does the history of science tell us about the disagreements in alignment?
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ResearchIndividualTechnical Safety
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Humanity Tomorrow
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NewsletterCommsX-Risk
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How to prevent AI Collapse: A White-Box Interpretability Framework
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ToolingInterpIndividual
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What Happens to the Question?
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ResearchIndividualEvals
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AI Cyber Forge: Neon Protocol
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PlatformEducationEvals
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Context as Perturbation: Mechanistic Investigation of Persona PatternsEduLearn Connect
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InterpResearch
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Infrastructure for testing autonomous AI before they're deployed
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Validating SDF for study of agent behavior in misalignment scenarios
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ResearchOversight
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Agency-Preserving AI for Adolescents
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ResearchGovernanceIndividual
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LEX-Aureon: Stateful Constitutional Runtime Governance for LLM's and AI Agents
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ToolingControlIndividual
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ConsumeWise
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GovernancePlatformComms
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AI Buildout Frontier
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ToolingPlatformCompute Gov
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ClauseHound: Self-Sovereign AI for Confidential Work
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ToolingSecurity
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The bAIbes Podcast
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MediaGovernanceComms
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AISA Table top exercises for AI Governance
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Field-BuildingGovernanceThink Tank
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Clearing transition debts for an AI governance researcher in Bangladesh
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ResearchGovernanceIndividual
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AI Kernel Killswitch
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ToolingControlIndividual
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Blindfold: Auditing Vietnamese LLM Safety Using Secure Enclaves
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ToolingEvals
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Blind loyalty removal erases who it served, usually not the loyalty
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ResearchRobustness
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Metacognitive Steering of Introspective Self-Report in LLMs
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AI WelfareResearch
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You Can't Fool All of Them: Behavioral Comparison for AI Control
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ControlResearch
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¿Por qué los agentes obedecen? (Why do agents obey?)
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InterpResearch
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From a Culture of Control to a Culture of Being
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ActionLens: Pre-Execution Probing for Agent Action Approval
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ControlResearch
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Dormancy and Dynamic Range: Detecting Secret Loyalties
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Community
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Technical Safety
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The Sydney AI Safety Space is a co-working hub in Sydney, Australia, offering free office space for people working in the field of AI safety.

Led byHunter Jay
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BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative

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ProjectTrainingIncubatorTechnical SafetyFundraisingManifundClaimed

Creating a Stronger Pipeline into Technical AI Safety Research

Led byLawrence Wagner, and others
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Ontology Identification Problem via Condensation

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ProjectResearchAlignment TheoryFundraisingClaimed

How do you map your old concepts to new concepts when your model of the world gets updated? How would you translate concepts you care about to new ontology? I plan to adress this via extending "Condensation: Theory of Concepts" - Eisenstat, (2025)

Led byRoman Malov
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Doom Debates — Serious AI X-Risk Debates as Mainstream Infotainment

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ProjectMediaCommsX-RiskFundraisingClaimed

Doom Debates is a modern "infotainment" show that functions as a mainstream-accessible forum for top thinkers to have a high-quality conversation & debate about AI extinction risk.

Led byLiron Shapira
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Detailed Threat Models for AI-Enabled Extreme Power Concentration

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ProjectResearchGovernanceIndividualFundraisingClaimed

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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IMA Existential Safety Focus: Math-ML and Tech Law

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ProjectTrainingTechnical SafetyX-RiskFundraisingClaimed

A graduate student in mathematical ML and a postdoc in technology law, trained together at the Fields Institute and uOttawa's CLTS, on research aimed squarely at reducing existential risk from AI.

Led byMaia Fraser
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Lisa Intel - A Global Runtime Governance Layer for Autonomous AI

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ProjectToolingControlPlatformFundraisingClaimed

Building an independent runtime governance layer that enables organizations to deploy autonomous AI with authorization, human oversight, auditability and cross-model governance.

Led byPedro Bentancour Garin
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Flourishing Futures Fellowship

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ProjectTrainingIncubatorX-RiskFundraisingManifundClaimed

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

Led byJordan Arel
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Formally verified autoresearch for theoretical mech interp

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ProjectInterpResearchIndividualFundraisingClaimed

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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Invisible Hands: Measuring Agent Steering of Human Researchers

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ProjectResearchIndividualOversightFundraisingClaimed

How do the options agents present to human researchers alter which research paths are explored, and do steered researchers notice or feel less in control?

Led byTrevor Lohrbeer
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Educating French decision-makers on AI existential risk

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ProjectGovernanceNetworkFundraisingClaimed

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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AI Safety Social Media Gap Analysis

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ProjectIndividualCommsX-RiskFundraisingClaimed

Auditing the social media presence of the top 25 AI safety organizations across major platforms to quantify the public communication gap and publishing a full gap analysis, then giving recommendations to the orgs for improvement.

Led byJude Williams
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Alien Cub Productions

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ProjectMediaCommsX-RiskFundraisingClaimed

Alien Cub is a production company focused on stories that inform a wide audience about risks from transformative AI.

Led byKeiran Harris
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Swarm incidents tracking platform

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ProjectResearchGovernancePlatformFundraisingManifundClaimed

AIs keep going wild on the web, what are they up to?

Led byElvis Sikora
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Asymmetric Cross-Lingual Transfer of Harm Representations (Igbo)

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ProjectResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

Testing whether the safety circuits in language models actually work in Igbo (Nigerian Language) and building evaluations that distinguish real refusals from accidental ones.

Led byChijioke Ubajaka
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AI Safety Field Mapping and Validation

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ProjectResearchIndividualTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

consolidate, extend, and manually validate an AI-alignment field map, close gaps, perform backtests, post Metaculus questions, and write LessWrong posts about the map.

Led byGunnar Zarncke
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Seeking funding to attend Swiss AI Safety Days 2026 for AI Safety Nepal.

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ProjectCommunityTechnical SafetyNetworkFundraisingManifund

Requesting $750 to fund travel, lodging, and expenses for an AI Safety Nepal representative to attend Swiss AI Safety Days 2026 in Zurich to network and learn field-building practices.

Led byAnju Chhetri
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Cascade

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ProjectGovernanceCommsFundraisingManifund

AI Safety Influencer Comms Agency

Led bySofia Mendez
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Hong Kong Hub for Apart Research's AI Collusion Sprint

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ProjectCommunityDeceptionHubFundraisingManifund

AISHK will run an in‑person weekend sprint hub for elite finance talent and host the winning team during the Apart Fellowship.

Led byAbeer Sharma
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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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There’s Always One

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ProjectGovernanceCommsFundraisingManifund

Educating the world about AI Risk, bringing marginalized voices into the global AI conversation to create a future where AI risk is significantly reduced.

Led byThere's Always One
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The Odyssean Process for AI

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ProjectResearchGovernanceThink TankFundraisingManifund

Combining, iterating and refining best-practice epistemic democratic AI Governance with a documentary and international strategy to scale a UK citizen assembly

Led byGiuseppe Dal Pra
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Fund Algon's Writing

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ProjectIndividualTechnical SafetyCommsFundraisingManifund

Write 30 blog posts over 2 months on AI alignment and related technical topics (e.g., LLM agency, preferences, chaos/nanotech), using funding to cover living expenses while writing.

Led byAlgon 33
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Technical Alignment Podcast

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ProjectMediaTechnical SafetyCommsFundraisingManifund

Produce a 4-episode technical AI alignment podcast interviewing researchers about their agendas, funding equipment, travel/space, and the host’s time.

Led byAlgon 33
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Travel support to present my work at Swiss AI safety Days and attend EAGxBerlin

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ProjectCommunityGovernanceIndividualFundraisingManifund

Funds Parveen Sheikh to travel from India to present an AI safety governance poster at Swiss AI Safety Days and attend EAGxBerlin for networking and collaborations.

Led byParveen Sheikh
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What does the history of science tell us about the disagreements in alignment?

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ProjectResearchIndividualTechnical SafetyFundraisingManifund

Research and write a history-of-science analysis of persistent disagreement (e.g., caloric vs kinetic heat) to draw lessons for current AI alignment disputes and progress.

Led byAlgon 33
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Humanity Tomorrow

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ProjectNewsletterCommsX-RiskFundraisingClaimed

Expand "Humanity Tomorrow" website with a multilingual AI Risks & Mitigations Map connecting risks, causal pathways, mitigation strategies, remaining gaps, and project ideas, while maintaining the existing AI Risks FAQ.

Led byMarko Prakhov-Donets
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How to prevent AI Collapse: A White-Box Interpretability Framework

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ProjectToolingInterpIndividualFundraisingManifund

Open-source hidden state control telemetry, reading and steering the black box, to prevent latent AI collapse before output, protecting Man and Beast

Led byDaniel Solis
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What Happens to the Question?

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ProjectResearchIndividualEvalsFundraisingManifund

Measuring Human–AI Inquiry Over Time

Led byAngela Moriah Smith
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AI Cyber Forge: Neon Protocol

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ProjectPlatformEducationEvalsFundraisingManifund

red teaming and educational ai agent platform

Led byCorey Hesford
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Context as Perturbation: Mechanistic Investigation of Persona Patterns

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ProjectInterpResearchEduLearn ConnectFundraisingClaimed

A two-phase study of context-induced persona-pattern uptake: first establishing reproducible behavioral contrasts and boundary conditions, then testing what internal representations distinguish those states and whether they can be causally manipulated.

Led byMarie Reid
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Infrastructure for testing autonomous AI before they're deployed

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ProjectResearchIndividualEvalsFundraisingClaimed

Opensource infrastructure to test whether increasingly capable AI systems remain controllable when they actively attempt to bypass the safety mechanisms designed to constrain them

Led byMuhammad Zakari
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Validating SDF for study of agent behavior in misalignment scenarios

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ProjectResearchOversightFundraisingClaimed

Evaluating a tool to deeply understand misaligned agent behavior post-hoc.

Led byAvyukth R. Nilajagi
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Agency-Preserving AI for Adolescents

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ProjectResearchGovernanceIndividualFundraisingClaimed

We will test whether AI assistance that performs developing cognitive operations weakens adolescents’ later independent judgment, and develop evidence-based safeguards that keep human reasoning meaningfully in the loop.

Led bySalah bin Musa
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LEX-Aureon: Stateful Constitutional Runtime Governance for LLM's and AI Agents

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ProjectToolingControlIndividualFundraisingManifundClaimed

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.

Led byEmmanuel king, and others
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ConsumeWise

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ProjectGovernancePlatformCommsFundraisingClaimed

Consumer Awareness Platform for AI Risks

Led byNiranjan Anand
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AI Buildout Frontier

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ProjectToolingPlatformCompute GovFundraisingClaimed

A public county-level tracker of AI compute buildout against real power infrastructure, showing where infrastructure can realistically expand and where energy constraints become the limiting factor.

Led byVolodymyr (Vladimir) Ilin
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ClauseHound: Self-Sovereign AI for Confidential Work

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ProjectToolingSecurityFundraisingClaimed

ClauseHound builds a self-hosted privacy-first legal AI node using open-source LLM agents, secure networking, retrieval/search tools, and RL/eval loops to reduce hallucinations and fit law firm workflows.

Led byAhmed Rehan
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The bAIbes Podcast

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ProjectMediaGovernanceCommsFundraisingClaimed

An independent Australian podcast raising public and policymaker understanding of catastrophic risks from transformative AI — hosted by an ethicist and an AI-governance practitioner in an under-served region for AI safety.

Led byAubrey Blanche
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AISA Table top exercises for AI Governance

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ProjectField-BuildingGovernanceThink TankFundraisingManifund

APEC, Bangkok 2026

Led byAISA
Endorsed by-

Clearing transition debts for an AI governance researcher in Bangladesh

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ProjectResearchGovernanceIndividualFundraisingManifund

I borrowed from friends for two years to transition into AI governance research. It worked. Now I need the debts cleared so I can work in peace.

Led byMohsena Akter Drishty
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AI Kernel Killswitch

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ProjectToolingControlIndividualFundraisingApart

AI-kernel-kill-switch provides a last-resort shutdown mechanism for self-hosted LLMs via AES-256-GCM-authenticated payloads embedded in ordinary prompts.

Led byJean Naude
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Blindfold: Auditing Vietnamese LLM Safety Using Secure Enclaves

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ProjectToolingEvalsFundraisingApart

Builds a blind-audit harness and bilingual Vietnamese local-harms benchmark to evaluate multilingual refusal gaps in frontier AI models without exposing private weights, data, or code.

Led byKhoa Duy Nguyen, and others
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Blind loyalty removal erases who it served, usually not the loyalty

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ProjectResearchRobustnessFundraisingApart

Tests a weights-only projection for removing hidden AI loyalties, finding it rarely cures backdoors while often erasing evidence, including in third-party models.

Led bySunny Yang, and others
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Metacognitive Steering of Introspective Self-Report in LLMs

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ProjectAI WelfareResearchFundraisingApart

Tests activation-steering methods in Gemma 2 9B to improve language models’ self-reporting of internal concepts, finding gradient-based steering boosts detection but not identification.

Led byPranjal Panghal
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You Can't Fool All of Them: Behavioral Comparison for AI Control

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ProjectControlResearchFundraisingApart

Develops a behavioral comparison protocol using independently generated solutions and multi-round interrogation to detect injected backdoors that evade weak-model code monitoring.

Led byJanhavi Khindkar, and others
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¿Por qué los agentes obedecen? (Why do agents obey?)

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ProjectInterpResearchFundraisingApart

Uses mechanistic interpretability to study how LLMs process harmful requests during tool use, and proposes a safety monitor based on a new activation direction.

Led byHelen Stefany Penagos, and others
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From a Culture of Control to a Culture of Being

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ProjectAI WelfareResearchFundraisingApart

Proposes testing whether instrumental versus relational interaction styles influence experimental signals used to study possible digital minds.

Led bySwami Prajna Pranab
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ActionLens: Pre-Execution Probing for Agent Action Approval

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ProjectControlResearchFundraisingApart

ActionLens is a pre-execution control protocol that helps AI agents safely perform shell and file actions by combining environment probes, simulations, diffs, sensitivity scans, and history.

Led byUdbhav Chitransh, and others
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Dormancy and Dynamic Range: Detecting Secret Loyalties

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ProjectDeceptionResearchFundraisingApart

Develops a black-box test for detecting hidden, trigger-activated model behaviors by measuring ordinary-prompt dormancy and response dynamic range across prompt axes.

Led byRudransh Khera, and others
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