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Frontier AI Election Evaluation Framework
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IndividualEvalsDemocratic AI
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AI Safety Hong Kong (AISHK)
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NetworkField-BuildingGovernance
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AI safety for builders hackathon
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ConferenceCommunityTechnical Safety
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Help the Argentinian AI Safety Community Grow
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NetworkCommunityTechnical Safety
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Frame Fellowship
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TrainingCommsGovernance
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Doom Debates — Serious AI X-Risk Debates as Mainstream Infotainment
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MediaCommsX-Risk
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2026 European Frontier AI Safety Day
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ConferenceCommunityGovernance
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Algorithms of War: An Online Course on Military AI Oversight
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IndividualEducationGovernance
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Scale up AI Safety Quest's Navigation Calls
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NetworkCommunityTechnical Safety
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Empirical econ - applied AI transition for quantitative econometrician
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IndividualResearchEvals
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What Factors Influence Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness?
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ResearchOversight
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Representative survey of Americans' tolerance for catastrophic AI risk
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Research LabResearchGovernance
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Postdoc on zero knowledge verification for frontier AI training
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ResearchVerification
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PauseAI UK
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NetworkAdvocacyGovernance
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Detecting Evaluation Awareness with Causal Probes
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IndividualResearchEvals
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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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BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative
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TrainingTechnical Safety
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Synthesizing Standalone World-Models
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ResearchTechnical SafetyAlignment Theory
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Distinguishing progress in data and algorithms
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ResearchForecasting
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AI Safety YouTube Channel
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MediaCommsTechnical Safety
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Investigating Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness in AI Reasoning
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IndividualResearchInterp
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The Blind Spots in AI Risk Assessment
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Think TankResearchGovernance
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The AI Safety Stack
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PlatformResearchTechnical Safety
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Survey of the American public on AI futures.
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ResearchDemocratic AI
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Humans in Control
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NetworkCommunityGovernance
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SafeBio-Registry: An Open-Source SpecDef platform for PLMs/GLMs
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PlatformToolingBiosecurity
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AI Agent Overeagerness as a Problem in Safety-Critical Scenarios
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ResearchControl
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Adapative circuit tracing for test-time interpretability
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IndividualResearchInterp
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Shaping AI’s « safe culture »
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ResearchGovernanceStandards
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Safeguarding open-weight genomic foundation models through weight lock
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ResearchToolingBiosecurity
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Unlearning in genomic and protein language models
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ResearchToolingBiosecurity
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AI Safety Unconference 2026
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ConferenceCommunityTechnical Safety
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Mangrove: Matchmaking for AI Safety
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PlatformCommunityTechnical Safety
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“La P8stée” (2027) starring Bobcat and P8stie
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MediaCommsX-Risk
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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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London Interface for AI Safety (LIAISE)
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NetworkTrainingField-Building
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FOIs about AI Existential and Catastrophic Risks
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LegalGovernanceX-Risk
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Sentient Futures Project Incubator
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IncubatorTrainingAI Welfare
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Formalizing mathematical AI safety research in Lean
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IndividualResearchVerification
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Oceania AI Safety & Young Talent Conference
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ConferenceCommunityGovernance
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Mechanistic interpretability Discord events and research
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NetworkCommunityInterp
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Originality and Decomposition of Generalization.
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ResearchEvals
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Solving Scheming and Deception in LLMs
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ResearchDeception
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Tight PAC-Bayes Generalisation Guarantees Across Frontier LLM Safety Monitoring Deployment Settings
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ResearchVerificationOversight
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Scaling compassionate midtraining
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ResearchValue Alignment
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"Out of this Box! - The Last Musical (Written by Humans)"
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MediaCommsTechnical Safety
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safely.bio: Customer screening for DNA synthesis providers
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CompanyToolingBiosecurity
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Using dynamical systems theory approach to identify dishonesty in LLMs
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IndividualResearchDeception
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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AI Safety YouTube Channel

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ProjectMediaCommsTechnical SafetyFundraisingManifund

A Veritasium for AI Safety.

Led byPetr Lebedev
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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AI Agent Overeagerness as a Problem in Safety-Critical Scenarios

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ProjectResearchControlFundraisingClaimed

We want to investigate how AI agent overeagerness can backfire when exhibited in safety-critical scenarios.

Led byThilo Hagendorff
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Adapative circuit tracing for test-time interpretability

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ProjectIndividualResearchInterpFundraisingClaimed

A training methodology, and transcoder sets that allow to leverage heavy-weight interpretability methods, but made more lightweight for test-time analysis.

Led byAlexandre Doukhan
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Shaping AI’s « safe culture »

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ProjectResearchGovernanceStandardsFundraisingClaimed

Identify what AI early risks or failures could be reported despite strategic rivalries towards a « safe culture » shaped after aviation

Led byBenoît Larrouturou
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Safeguarding open-weight genomic foundation models through weight lock

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ProjectResearchToolingBiosecurityFundraisingClaimed

Safeguarding open-weight genomic foundation models through weight lock against adversarial finetuning

Led byAlexandros Tzanakakis
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Unlearning in genomic and protein language models

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ProjectResearchToolingBiosecurityFundraisingClaimed

Implementing different types of unlearning methods for genomic and protein language models to remove sensitive biological information (e.g. pathogen virulence) while preserving predictive performance and scientific utility.

Led byIlias Georgakopoulos-Soares
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AI Safety Unconference 2026

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ProjectConferenceCommunityTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

A participant-led unconference gathering the global AI safety community, online and at local sites, Nov 20-22, 2026.

Led byOrpheus Lummis
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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 people beyond scarce talent pipelines upskill, develop credibility, and turn their ideas into output.

Led byZach Hsu, and others
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“La P8stée” (2027) starring Bobcat and P8stie

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ProjectMediaCommsX-RiskFundraisingClaimed

It's La Jetée (1962), the time-traveling film later adapted as 12 Monkeys (1995), but it's about X-risk and inspired by AI 2027 and it's directed by, and starring, myself and @p8stie. Ergo, La P8stée

Led byScott Ellis
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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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London Interface for AI Safety (LIAISE)

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ProjectNetworkTrainingField-BuildingFundraisingClaimed

Liaise helps close the generalist talent gap in AI safety by helping motivated non‑technical people enter with fluency, alignment, and a trusted network.

Led byRohan Barad
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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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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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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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Oceania AI Safety & Young Talent Conference

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ProjectConferenceCommunityGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Hosting a full day conference based in Sydney, Australia where young, aspiring students in senior high school and university interested in AI Safety can connect and share ideas

Led byWilliam Wu
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Mechanistic interpretability Discord events and research

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ProjectNetworkCommunityInterpFundraisingClaimed

Making the mechinterp Discord more active through events and research projects.

Led byVictor Levoso Fernandez
Endorsed by
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Originality and Decomposition of Generalization.

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ProjectResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

Perform research to rigorously elucidate and quantify generalization versus memorization, and examine evidence of originality in LLMS.

Led byAri Spiesberger
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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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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
Endorsed by

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 byMiles Tidmarsh
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"Out of this Box! - The Last Musical (Written by Humans)"

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ProjectMediaCommsTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

We have validated the artistic value of our show; this grant would test whether it can become a scalable and repeatable form of AI-safety outreach.

Led byStephan Wäldchen
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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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Using dynamical systems theory approach to identify dishonesty in LLMs

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ProjectIndividualResearchDeceptionFundraisingClaimed

Identifying reasoning pathologies/disingenuous behavior in reasoning traces based on activation dynamics rather than apparent semantics

Led byJosiah Kratz
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