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2026 European Frontier AI Safety Day
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2026 European Frontier AI Safety Day

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Algorithms of War: An Online Course on Military AI Oversight
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IndividualEducationGovernance
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Detecting Evaluation Awareness with Causal Probes
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IndividualResearchEvals
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Empirical econ - applied AI transition for quantitative econometrician
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IndividualResearchEvals
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Doom Debates — Serious AI X-Risk Debates as Mainstream Infotainment
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MediaCommsX-Risk
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AI safety for builders hackathon
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ConferenceCommunityTechnical Safety
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Scale up AI Safety Quest's Navigation Calls
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NetworkCommunityTechnical Safety
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Postdoc on zero knowledge verification for frontier AI training
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ResearchVerification
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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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Frame Fellowship
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TrainingCommsGovernance
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Pax Machina
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NewsletterCommsGovernance
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Agent Island: A Multiagent Environment of Cooperation and Conflict
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ResearchEvals
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BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative
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TrainingTechnical Safety
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AI Safety YouTube Channel
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MediaCommsTechnical Safety
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Distinguishing progress in data and algorithms
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ResearchForecasting
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Investigating Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness in AI Reasoning
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IndividualResearchInterp
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Representative survey of Americans' tolerance for catastrophic AI risk
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Research LabResearchGovernance
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Survey of the American public on AI futures.
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ResearchDemocratic AI
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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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“La P8stée” (2027) starring Bobcat and P8stie
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MediaCommsX-Risk
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Concept control in transformers with Sparse Concept Anchoring
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IndividualResearchControl
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Solving Scheming and Deception in LLMs
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ResearchDeception
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The Blind Spots in AI Risk Assessment
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Think TankResearchGovernance
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AI Safety Hong Kong (AISHK)
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NetworkField-BuildingGovernance
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Fragile Alignment
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ResearchEvalsTechnical Safety
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Originality and Decomposition of Generalization.
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ResearchEvals
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Movement-building to make AGI go well
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NetworkAdvocacyGovernance
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Ndome — zero-trust, mechanically-verifiable safety scoring for AI agents
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IndividualToolingEvals
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GroundGate,external gate + benchmark for confident-but-wrong AI actions
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ToolingEvalsResearch
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Oceania AI Safety & Young Talent Conference
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ConferenceCommunityGovernance
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Project Ocean: Trustworthy Human-AI Collaboration Infrastructure
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ResearchTechnical Safety
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Mechanistic interpretability Discord events and research
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NetworkCommunityInterp
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The AI Safety Stack
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PlatformResearchTechnical Safety
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Shared Screening for AI Safety Hiring of Generalists
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PlatformOpsEA
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CIRIS Ethical AI Deployment
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IndividualToolingEvals
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Governing Off-World AI Infrastructure Before a Single Actor Does
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IndividualResearchCompute Gov
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Preserving the Human Veto
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NetworkTrainingGovernance
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PauseAI UK
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NetworkAdvocacyGovernance
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Finding and Defending the Attention Circuits That Make LLMs Jailbreakable
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Research LabResearchInterp
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Building a Global AI Governance & Safety Layer.
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PlatformToolingGovernance
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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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Managing AI X-Risk
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MediaCommsGovernance
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Behavioral Safety in Conversational and Agentic AI
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ToolingEvals
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Frontier Safety Talent: Africa
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Field-BuildingTrainingTechnical Safety
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Conference
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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AI Safety YouTube Channel

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ProjectMediaCommsTechnical SafetyFundraisingManifund

A Veritasium for AI Safety.

Led byPetr Lebedev
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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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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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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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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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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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“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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Concept control in transformers with Sparse Concept Anchoring

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ProjectIndividualResearchControlFundraisingManifund

Develop a training-time method for transformers that puts concepts where you can find them, so removal has predictable efficacy and bounded side-effects.

Led bySandy Fraser
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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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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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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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Fragile Alignment

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ProjectResearchEvalsTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

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

Led byMatteo Leonesi
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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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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
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Ndome — zero-trust, mechanically-verifiable safety scoring for AI agents

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ProjectIndividualToolingEvalsFundraisingManifund

An independent safety score for AI agents you can verify — deterministic, reproducible, auditable, and it never needs your private data.

Led byRyan Ingosi
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Finding and Defending the Attention Circuits That Make LLMs Jailbreakable

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ProjectResearch LabResearchInterpFundraisingManifund

Mapping the attention heads that push LLMs toward refusal vs. compliance, and building an inference-time defense against both single- and multi-turn jailbreaks.

Led byshivam dubey
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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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Grant to establish an AI safety lab and fellowship from India

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ProjectResearch LabResearchTechnical SafetyFundraisingManifund

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

Led byRedarc Labs | Manan Wadhwa
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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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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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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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