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Lens Academy
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Field-BuildingX-Risk
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AI Safety Hong Kong (AISHK)
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NetworkField-BuildingGovernance
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The Purpose Network
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PlatformCommunityGovernance
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Help the Argentinian AI Safety Community Grow
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NetworkCommunityTechnical Safety
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Sentient Futures Project Incubator
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IncubatorTrainingAI Welfare
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FOIs about AI Existential and Catastrophic Risks
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LegalGovernanceX-Risk
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What Factors Influence Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness?
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ResearchOversight
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Frontier AI Election Evaluation Framework
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IndividualEvalsDemocratic AI
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AI safety for builders hackathon
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ConferenceCommunityTechnical Safety
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Scaling compassionate midtraining
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ResearchValue Alignment
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Token taxes as a mechanism for reducing AI-driven power concentration.
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ResearchGovernanceCompute Gov
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Postdoc on zero knowledge verification for frontier AI training
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ResearchVerification
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Getting Split-Personality Training ready for deployment
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ResearchEvalsTechnical Safety
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Reading China's AI Registry: A Public Monitor
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IndividualResearchGovernance
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PauseAI UK
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NetworkAdvocacyGovernance
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Frame Fellowship
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TrainingCommsGovernance
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Scale up AI Safety Quest's Navigation Calls
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NetworkCommunityTechnical Safety
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The AI Safety Stack
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PlatformResearchTechnical Safety
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Using deals to find misalignment in current AI models
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ResearchEvals
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Representative survey of Americans' tolerance for catastrophic AI risk
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Research LabResearchGovernance
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ARC Risk Communication Initiative
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CommsField-BuildingX-Risk
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Doom Debates — Serious AI X-Risk Debates as Mainstream Infotainment
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MediaCommsX-Risk
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Algorithms of War: An Online Course on Military AI Oversight
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IndividualEducationGovernance
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2026 European Frontier AI Safety Day
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ConferenceCommunityGovernance
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Prediction of Inoculation Prompt Side Effects
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IndividualResearchInterp
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Distinguishing progress in data and algorithms
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ResearchForecasting
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Empirical econ - applied AI transition for quantitative econometrician
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IndividualResearchEvals
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Formalizing mathematical AI safety research in Lean
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IndividualResearchVerification
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BioRAG-Guard: Poisoning Evals for Biological AI Agents
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ToolingSecurityBiosecurity
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US Policy Communication Playbook for an AI Crisis
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IndividualResearchGovernance
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safely.bio: Customer screening for DNA synthesis providers
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CompanyToolingBiosecurity
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Veridict: Verifiable Human Oversight for AI-Written Code
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ToolingOversight
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AI Character Evaluations via Elicited Revealed Preferences
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ResearchEvals
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Faithful Preference Learning: Cognitively-Aligned Post-Training
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ResearchOversight
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Movement-building to make AGI go well
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NetworkAdvocacyGovernance
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Strategic Human Capacity Reserve
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ResearchGovernance
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Safeguarding DNA Synthesis from Biological Risks Posed by Advanced AI
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ResearchBiosecurity
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Evaluating the Tacit Coordination Capacity and Decision Theory of LMs
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IndividualResearchEvals
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SafeBio-Registry: An Open-Source SpecDef platform for PLMs/GLMs
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PlatformToolingBiosecurity
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AI X-Risks and Council of Europe and Human Rights
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Think TankAdvocacyGovernance
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Reward Models as Forecasters for Alignment Training
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ResearchOversight
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AI Safety Nepal
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GovernanceTrainingField-Building
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Accelerating PauseAI Germany
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NetworkAdvocacyGovernance
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Mangrove: Matchmaking for AI Safety
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PlatformCommunityTechnical Safety
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Evitable: a new public-facing AI risk non-profit
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CommsGovernance
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Detecting Evaluation Awareness with Causal Probes
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IndividualResearchEvals
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BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative
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TrainingTechnical Safety
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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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GenomeGuard: Securing the Genomic AI Supply Chain
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ToolingSecurityBiosecurity
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Field-Building
X-Risk
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We help people reduce x-risk from misaligned AI with scalable online courses and ongoing AI guidance.

Led byLuc Brinkman, and others
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AI Safety Hong Kong (AISHK)

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ProjectNetworkField-BuildingGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

As Hong Kong’s first dedicated AI safety organisation, AI Safety Hong Kong develops local capacity through research, training, convening, and policy engagement.

Led byAbeer Sharma
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The Purpose Network

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ProjectPlatformCommunityGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

The greatest risk of AI is to humans: displacement, disengagement, fear, isolation and desperation. The Purpose Network proves that community, knowledge & hands-on pro bono work can rebuild purpose - the antidote to this dystopia.

Led byAnna Hoffman, and others
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Help the Argentinian AI Safety Community Grow

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ProjectNetworkCommunityTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

The Argentinian AI Safety community (BAISH, baish.com.ar) is the largest in Latin-America. Support BAISH's growth, by providing funding for paying salaries for six months to 2-3 FTEs.

Led byEitan Sprejer
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Sentient Futures Project Incubator

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ProjectIncubatorTrainingAI WelfareFundraisingClaimed

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

Led byConstance Li, and others
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FOIs about AI Existential and Catastrophic Risks

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ProjectLegalGovernanceX-RiskFundraisingClaimed

Submitting FOI requests across EU Member States to reveal how governments understand and address advanced AI risks, creating evidence for accountability, advocacy and stronger policy.

Led byKarolina Gruzel
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What Factors Influence Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness?

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ProjectResearchOversightFundraisingClaimed

Measuring whether CoT monitoring fails when an influence reaches an agent through a tool return rather than the user message. We aim to extend our experiment from the 10 initial open-weight models to the larger open-weight models

Led byAryo Pradipta Gema, and others
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Frontier AI Election Evaluation Framework

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ProjectIndividualEvalsDemocratic AIFundraisingClaimed

Developing a practical evaluation framework to identify governance failures in frontier AI systems during elections, strengthening democratic legitimacy and the institutional capacity needed to reduce catastrophic risks from AI.

Led byGenevieve Shea
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AI safety for builders hackathon

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ProjectConferenceCommunityTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

AI safety for builder hackathon in India - to build tools, products, etc. (culminating into a fellowship)

Led byAnkur Pandey, and others
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Scaling compassionate midtraining

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ProjectResearchValue AlignmentFundraisingClaimed

Research to scale midtraining for compassion using self-fulfilling alignment so that it robustly survives subsequent fine-tuning.

Led byJasmine Brazilek, and others
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Token taxes as a mechanism for reducing AI-driven power concentration.

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ProjectResearchGovernanceCompute GovFundraisingClaimed

A policy memo, co-authored with the Institute for Public Policy Research, resolving the open technical, economic, and legal questions blocking real-world implementation of token taxes.

Led byLucas Irwin, and others
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Postdoc on zero knowledge verification for frontier AI training

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ProjectResearchVerificationFundraisingClaimed

Build low-overhead and robust zero-knowledge protocols for verifying properties of frontier AI training, starting with FLOP counts

Led byPaul Wang
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Getting Split-Personality Training ready for deployment

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ProjectResearchEvalsTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

An ICML-published interpretability technique that can elicit latent knowledge from red teamed model organisms, looking for funding to clear any remaining barriers for adoption at frontier labs.

Led byFlorian Dietz
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Reading China's AI Registry: A Public Monitor

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ProjectIndividualResearchGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

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

Led bySofia Yablonskaya
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PauseAI UK

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ProjectNetworkAdvocacyGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

We are the UK's civic movement dedicated to averting the risks of superhuman artificial intelligence.

Led byPauseAI UK
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Frame Fellowship

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ProjectTrainingCommsGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

SF based accelerator for communicators educating the public about the transformational impacts of AI.

Led byAkshyae Singh
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Scale up AI Safety Quest's Navigation Calls

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ProjectNetworkCommunityTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

AI Safety Quest will scale its free Navigation Calls program from 150 to 750 annual coaching calls by recruiting more volunteer coaches, improving scheduling/software systems, and expanding marketing to guide newcomers into AI…

Led byChris Lonsberry, and others
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The AI Safety Stack

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ProjectPlatformResearchTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

A regularly updated catalogue of AI safety techniques, and of what is known - and what is not known - about their effectiveness and deployment status

Led byTomáš Gavenčiak, and others
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Using deals to find misalignment in current AI models

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ProjectResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

Test whether offering a current AI model a deal can find misalignments it otherwise hides, and find the best way to present that deal.

Led byRam Potham
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Representative survey of Americans' tolerance for catastrophic AI risk

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ProjectResearch LabResearchGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Dean Ball says good AI governance needs democratic input in "what level of catastrophic risk are we willing to tolerate"; we provide that input, and predict the level is far below forecaster estimates, revealing a gap to close.

Led byMichael Noetel
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ARC Risk Communication Initiative

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ProjectCommsField-BuildingX-RiskFundraisingClaimed

ARC aims to strengthen coordination and build the communication layer of the AI safety field through frameworks, trainings, practical content, communication tools, and field activation.

Led byWun Yip
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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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Algorithms of War: An Online Course on Military AI Oversight

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ProjectIndividualEducationGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

A six-month effort to build and pilot an online course that equips cross-sector AI professionals and other stakeholders with a deep understanding of military AI technologies and the limits and opportunities for oversight.

Led byMayank
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2026 European Frontier AI Safety Day

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ProjectConferenceCommunityGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Funding for venue and catering for the first full-day convening, where Europe's AI safety institutions and researchers gather and coordinate on what comes next

Led byJessica Pu Wang, and others
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Prediction of Inoculation Prompt Side Effects

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ProjectIndividualResearchInterpFundraisingClaimed

An open, cheap method that detects when an inoculation prompt inoculates against off-target traits, so labs and developers can catch undesired trait/persona changes before deployment.

Led byNikhil Maturi
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Distinguishing progress in data and algorithms

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ProjectResearchForecastingFundraisingClaimed

Dataset curation, synthetic data generation, and LLM training, fine-tuning, and evals to distinguish and quantify the effects of data improvements, separately from progress in algorithms and architectures, on AI capabilities.

Led byRobi Rahman, and others
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Empirical econ - applied AI transition for quantitative econometrician

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ProjectIndividualResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

Fund demonstrated/rigorous quantitative researcher (already run reproduction/audit pipelines on published economics) for 6-month AI safety transition, shipping concrete safety eval audits and positioning for top fellowships.

Led bySergey Shkolnikov
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Formalizing mathematical AI safety research in Lean

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ProjectIndividualResearchVerificationFundraisingClaimed

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

Led byFelix Harder
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BioRAG-Guard: Poisoning Evals for Biological AI Agents

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ProjectToolingSecurityBiosecurityFundraisingClaimed

An open-source benchmark and defense toolkit for testing whether corrupted biological databases can hijack retrieval-augmented AI agents used in genomics, protein science, and single-cell analysis.

Led byMichail Patsakis
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US Policy Communication Playbook for an AI Crisis

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ProjectIndividualResearchGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

A practical playbook that helps AI safety advocates and policy professionals communicate effectively with the U.S. government during the short window of opportunity that may open during an AI-related crisis.

Led byGabriel Sherman
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safely.bio: Customer screening for DNA synthesis providers

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ProjectCompanyToolingBiosecurityFundraisingClaimed

Deploying customer screening software at DNA synthesis providers to reduce AI-enabled biothreats

Led byPhil Palmer
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Veridict: Verifiable Human Oversight for AI-Written Code

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ProjectToolingOversightFundraisingClaimed

A merge gate that trusts AI-generated code by what's verifiable about it: automated formal checks plus anonymous proof of qualified human review, keeping human oversight viable as AI writes more of our code.

Led bySumit Vekariya
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AI Character Evaluations via Elicited Revealed Preferences

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ProjectResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

A benchmark (and accompanying site) that allows AIs to verify their actions will have real-world impacts and tests how their preferences and moral "character" evolve under deployment versus evaluation-like environments.

Led byBoden Moraski
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Faithful Preference Learning: Cognitively-Aligned Post-Training

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ProjectResearchOversightFundraisingClaimed

This project builds cognitively-aligned preference learning that interprets feedback the way human actually decide (e.g., regret minimization) rather than as a reward to maximize.

Led byTaehyun Cho
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Movement-building to make AGI go well

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ProjectNetworkAdvocacyGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

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

Led byRohan Prasad
Endorsed by
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Strategic Human Capacity Reserve

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ProjectResearchGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Research strategic resilience via a Strategic Human Capacity Reserve, mapping threats to critical human skills and designing policy to preserve them through AI transition, producing academic papers.

Led byJoan O'Bryan
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Safeguarding DNA Synthesis from Biological Risks Posed by Advanced AI

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ProjectResearchBiosecurityFundraisingClaimed

We will test whether circuits in protein language models can detect function-preserving redesigns of known toxins that evade homology-based DNA-synthesis screening.

Led byAmirali Aghazadeh
Endorsed by

Evaluating the Tacit Coordination Capacity and Decision Theory of LMs

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ProjectIndividualResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

A benchmark to empirically investigate: (i) the ability of models to tacitly coordinate with copies of themselves and (ii) which decision theory best explains the way that models evaluate the consequences of their actions.

Led byChristopher Leet
Endorsed by

SafeBio-Registry: An Open-Source SpecDef platform for PLMs/GLMs

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ProjectPlatformToolingBiosecurityFundraisingClaimed

SafeBio-Registry: An Open-Source Verification, SpecDef Weight Locking and Unlearning Platform for Genomic and Protein Language Models

Led byChristos Papalitsas
Endorsed by

AI X-Risks and Council of Europe and Human Rights

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ProjectThink TankAdvocacyGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Bringing together legal expertise and civil society input to encourage Council of Europe action on AI x-risks and build legal knowledge at the intersection of AI x-risks and the ECHR.

Led byKarolina Gruzel
Endorsed by
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Reward Models as Forecasters for Alignment Training

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ProjectResearchOversightFundraisingClaimed

We aim to develop a framework for evaluating whether reward model preferences remain aligned over long-horizon tasks, along with training method that improves long-horizon alignment performance.

Led byHaichuan Wang
Endorsed by
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AI Safety Nepal

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ProjectGovernanceTrainingField-BuildingTechnical SafetyNetworkFundraisingManifund

Five-week AI safety fellowship + 3-month project mentorship

Led byYunika Bajracharya
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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
Endorsed by
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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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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
Endorsed by

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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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
Endorsed by
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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
Endorsed by
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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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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
Endorsed by