Funders

Manifund

Regranting platform where individual regranters have funding pools to direct towards listed projects. Also offers impact certificates.

Type

Fund

Taking applications

Yes

UK AISI: Systemic AI Safety Fast Grants

Funds researchers who will collaborate with the UK government to advance systemic approaches to AI Safety.

Type

Grant

Taking applications

Yes

GiveWiki

Crowd-sourced charity evaluator and one-stop shop for AI safety funding applications. All applications are public and charities that receive the most support from donors with the best track records are ranked highest.

Type

Grant

Taking applications

Yes

Thiel Fellowship

Two-year program for young people who want to build new things. Fellows skip or drop out of college to receive a US$100,000 grant and support from the Thiel Foundation’s network of founders, investors, and scientists.

Type

Fellowship

Taking applications

Yes

AI Risk Mitigation (ARM) Fund

Aiming to reduce catastrophic risks from advanced AI through grants towards technical research, policy, and training programs for new researchers.

Type

Fund

Taking applications

No

Foresight Institute

Funding projects in 1) automating research and forecasting, 2) security technologies for securing AI systems, 3) neurotech to integrate with or compete against AGI, and 4) safe multipolar human AI scenarios.

Type

Grant

Taking applications

Yes

Superlinear Prizes

Decentralized bounty platform offering prize money for delivering on specific AI safety projects.

Type

Fund

Taking applications

No

Longview Philanthropy

Devises and executes bespoke giving strategies for major donors. Grants focus on reducing the risks posed by AI, nuclear war, and engineered pandemics.

Type

Fund

Taking applications

No

Good Ventures

A project by Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna, Good Ventures provides funding in a range of cause areas, including minimizing risks from potentially world-changing science and technology.

Type

Grant

Taking applications

No

Cooperative AI Foundation (CAIF)

Charity foundation backed by a large philanthropic commitment supporting research into improving cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.

Type

Fund

Taking applications

No

Future of Life Institute (FLI)

Grants for studying the risks from powerful technologies and developing strategies for reducing them. The goal is to win the race between the growing power of our technology and the wisdom with which we manage it.

Type

Fellowship

Taking applications

Yes

Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR) Fund

Supports projects and individuals aiming to address worst-case suffering risks from the development and deployment of advanced AI systems.

Type

Grant

Taking applications

Yes

Tarbell Grants

Journalism will likely play a crucial role in helping the public understand AI – and in holding companies and policymakers to account. Tarbell Grants offers awards of $1–15k to support journalism on AI and its impacts.

Type

Grant

Taking applications

Yes

Emergent Ventures

Launched by the Mercatus Center, this program seeks to support entrepreneurs and brilliant minds with highly scalable, “zero to one” ideas for meaningfully improving society.

Type

Fellowship

Taking applications

Yes

Polaris Ventures

Swiss nonprofit making grants to and investments in organizations helping to build a future guided by wisdom and compassion for all sentient beings.

Type

Fund

Taking applications

No

AI2050

AI2050 supports exceptional people working on key opportunities and hard problems that are critical to get right for society to benefit from AI.

Type

Fellowship

Taking applications

No

Patrick J McGovern Foundation

Tech-inspired global change-makers, optimists, and visionaries advancing AI and data solutions to create a thriving, equitable, and sustainable future for all.

Type

Grant

Taking applications

No

Founders Pledge

Helping entrepreneurs direct their charitable giving where it will do the most good by researching the world’s biggest problems and identifying the most effective solutions.

Type

Fund

Taking applications

No

Interact Fellowship

Fellows have access to grants programs for their personal projects, and accountability and support mechanisms. Successful applicants are uniquely insightful, open-minded conversationalists, and risk-taking self-starters.

Type

Fellowship

Taking applications

No

AE Studio Research

Empowering innovators and scientists to increase human agency by creating the next generation of responsible AI. Provides support, resources, and open-source software.

Type

Grant

Taking applications

Yes

The Audacious Project

Funding initiative housed at TED helping entrepreneurs shape impactful ideas into viable multi-year plans and launching them to the world alongside visionary philanthropists.

Type

Incubator

Taking applications

Yes

ARIA

ARIA is a UK government R&D funding agency built to unlock scientific and technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone.

Type

Grant

Taking applications

Yes

Nonlinear Network

Applications are shared with funders in the donor circle who then reach out if they are interested.

Type

Fund

Taking applications

No

The Navigation Fund

Exploring opportunities to promote altruistic and beneficial outcomes from AI by funding high-impact interventions based on rigorous research and experimentation.

Type

Fund

Taking applications

No