Project and staff expenses to work on corporate welfare washing in cage-free accountability in Brazil

4-month part-time salary to work on language model interpretability projects with David Bau and Logan Riggs

One year of funding to enhance corporate outreach and promotion of cage-free in Tanzania

Funding for a three-day EAGx-inspired annual conference for +100 people in the Swedish EA Community

16 month collaboration with a lobbyist, to strengthen and accelerate our policy work on fish welfare

6-month salary and compute to remove conditional bad behaviors from LLMs via a learned latent space intervention

3-month stipend for MATS extension establishing a benchmark for LLMs’ tendency to influence human preferences

Developing weight-based decomposition methods for interpretability - MATS extension, 6 months stipend for 2 people

4-month stipend: Research on agent scaling laws—relationships between training compute and agent capabilities of LLMs

6-month stipends to develop and apply a novel method for localizing information and computation in neural networks

Researching neural net generalization on algorithmic tasks and upskilling in math relevant to singular learning theory

4-month grant to conduct deceptive alignment evaluation research and explore control and mitigation strategies

4-months salary to apply mechanistic interpretability to a real-world application: hallucinations

4-month salaries and expenses for two people to create a benchmark for evaluating goal-directedness in language models

4-month salary to continue work on AI Control as a MATS extension

Developing noise-injection methods to reveal and reduce deceptive behaviors in language models prior to deployment

4-month salary for finding and characterising provably hard cases for mechanistic anomaly detection

6 month stipend for LLM interpretability research using Sparse Autoencoders

3-month 0.5 FTE stipend to conduct eight community health-related projects

6-month salary and compute budget for continuing work on mechanistic interpretability for attention layers

Suffering-Focused Ethics retreat in Berlin, Germany in summer 2025 for 30-40 international aspiring EAs

2 month funding to get into mechanistic interpretability and to do 2-3 projects, then briefly upskill in related fields

Research and career development hub and retreats venue, onboarding and supporting people working on global catastrophic risks

5-month salary to continue work on evaluating agent self-improvement capabilities

8-week salary for a research project supervised by John Halstead, PhD, on US regulatory decision-making and Frontier AI

6-month salary to continue research on benchmarks for interpretability and on characterizing Goodhart's Law

1-year stipend for independent research primarily on high-level interpretability

Funding to hire our first FTE staff member to reach high net wealth individuals and improve operations, media outreach, and SEO

18 episodes of AXRP to help people understand various types of research into AI x-risk reduction

12-month stipend and expenses for research in AI Safety (focusing on unlearning, modularity, and probing long-term behaviour)

6-month salary to finish writing a book on international AI governance and three other smaller AI governance projects

6-month stipend to work on safe and robust reasoning via mechanistically interpreting representations

6-month stipend on evaluating robustness of AI agents safety guardrails and for running an AI spear-phishing study

Grant to attend ICLR 2024 for an accepted alignment-related paper as an undergraduate student

6 month AI alignment internship stipend top-up

10 months of funding to launch a farmed fish welfare charity to implement pre-slaughter electrical stunning in Greece

6-months salary for transitioning to independent research on AI Safety

6-month stipend to work on AI alignment research (automated redteaming, interpretability)

Support to aid Humánny pokrok with fundraising to continue chicken and fish welfare work in Slovakia.

Set up 1 non-profit organization dedicated to animal welfare reforms in Portugal, mostly focused on chickens and fish

Six-month part-time stipend to explore the potential of an org that solves cross-country tax-deductible effective giving.

6-month stipend for animal law and policy research at NALSAR University of Law's Animal Law Centre, and support for international speaking opportunities/UN events

Funding for 6-Month AI strategy/policy research stay at Centre for the Study of Existential Risk with Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh & Matthew Gentzel

Annual Weekend Conference for the Norwegian EA Community 2024

3-month stipend and cloud credits to research AI collusion mitigation strategies and develop secure steganography

4 weeks expenses for FAR Labs Residency for research group focusing on goal-directedness in transformer models

12-month salary to work as the primary maintainer of TransformerLens and implement large changes to the code base

12-month salary and support for independent AI alignment research

Government lobbying for and supporting implementation of policy to mitigate growth of industrial animal agriculture in Uganda

Strengthening Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC) to bring and win more lawsuits against factory-farm cruelty

3–6 months of salary for first full year as a research professor of CS at UT Austin, researching technical AI alignment

A 12 month stipend and expenses for a staff member to continue government advocacy on cage-free / FA welfare legislative change

3-month stipend to continue working on goal misgeneralisation project for ICLR deadline, plus travel funding

3-month stipend to support research on the state of AI safety in China and implications for AI existential risk

6-month salary to work on a research project on AI Liability Insurance as an additional lever for AI Safety

Multi-thronged hen welfare project in Kenya, focusing on corporate cage-free outreach, veterinary student advocacy, social media/radio advocacy, and training animal welfare advocates.

Spend 3 months (part time) assessing plausible pathways to slowing AI

Promote new advancements for farmed animal welfare and prevent regressive policies in France through advocacy over three years

12 week 0.6FT upskilling stipend for technical governance research management

12-week part-time stipend to research specialized AI hardware requirements for large AI training, with IAPS mentor Asher Brass

Monthly seminar series on Guaranteed Safe AI, from July to December 2024

$10,120 for most of the ops expenses of the research phase (June-Sep 2024) of WhiteBox’s AI Interpretability Fellowship

6-month fund to run EA events in San Francisco, and actively network attendees into local opportunities

Seeking funds to present “Benchmark Inflation” at ICML 2024, my paper on making AI progress measures more accurate

4-month salary for a career transition period to explore roles in AI safety communications

6-month salary to build an EA-aligned YouTube channel

24-month project for corporate cage-free accountability & national ban on laying hens cage farms

Salary to improve the cross-cause cost-effectiveness model, an extensive tool for doing cross-cause prioritization, including a portfolio builder to better help individuals and foundations prioritize spending

12-month salary for a full-time and a part-time coordinator for EA Brazil to support community growth and projects

One-year funding for weekly rationality meetups in Waterloo, Ontario

Living cost top off while working on long-term relevant research at DC think tank

6-month salary to transition to a career in AI safety while working on AI safety projects

1 month room and flight to visit MIT FutureTech

6-month salary to do an unpaid internship focused on using theory/interpretability to increase the safety of AI systems

Salary Top-Up for Timaeus' Employees & Contractors

One year of costs for AI Safety movement building organisation working in Australasia

Organizing the fourth Human-Aligned AI Summer School (HAAISS), a 4-day conference in Prague/Vienna for 130 participants

Legal review and reform for enhanced protection of farmed animals in Uganda

Six months of upskilling and research in ML interpretability

Support FAW investigators and foster a more professional and resilient community by addressing their unique challenges

Inclusion of stakeholders in Animal Welfare Act, making Animal Welfare Act most inclusive

Podcast to cover effective altruist approaches to animal advocacy

6-month salary for Sparse Autoencoder Mech Interp projects

4-month salary to continue AI safety projects

Additional support for completing and improving the Making A Difference massive open online course

Costs projects to identify likely impactful, tractable interventions for wild animals and begin implementation

12 months of operational funding to build capacity and strengthen the global impact of the Aquatic Animal Alliance, the leading global coalition harnessing the animal protection movement’s strengths to reduce the suffering of aquatic animals

6-month stipend to work on techical alignment research as part of MATS 5.0 extension program

4-month salary and office for MATS 5.0 extension on adversarial circuit evaluation + 2-month runway for career switch

6-month salary to verify neural network scalably for RL and produce a human to super-human scalable oversight benchmark

6 months of funding for MATS 5.0 extension, with projects on latent adversarial training and persona explainability

6-month stipend to continue independent AI alignment research from MATS 5.0 on situational awareness and deception

6-month researcher stipend to explore the effect of chat fine-tuning on LLM capability elicitation

4-month expenses for AI safety research on personas and sandbagging during the MATS 5.0 extension program

4-month salary for MATS extension on mechanistic interpretability benchmark + 2-month salary for career switch

6-month stipend for conducting  AI-safety research during the MATS 5.0  extension program and beyond

Meta level adversarial evaluation of debate (scalable oversight technique) on simple math problems (MATS 5.0 project)