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| 1 | title | description | date | amount | areasOfInterest | link |
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| 2 | School of Thinking | This regrant will support a global media outreach project to create high quality video, podcast, and social media content about Effective Altruism. | May 2022 | $250,000 | Values and Reflective Processes|Effective Altruism | |
| 3 | Legal Services Planning Grant | This regrant will support six months of research on topics including how legal services can be effectively provided to the Effective Altruism community, materials to be included in a legal services handbook for EA organizations, novel legal questions particular to the EA community that might benefit from further research initiatives, and ways to create an effective EA professional network for practicing lawyers. | May 2022 | $100,000 | Effective Altruism | |
| 4 | Manifold Markets | This regrant will support Manifold Markets in building a play-money prediction market platform. The platform is also experimenting with impact certificates and charity prediction markets. | March 2022 | $1,000,000 | Epistemic Institutions | https://manifold.markets/ |
| 5 | David Xu | This regrant will support six months of research on AI safety. | March 2022 | $50,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 6 | Trojan Detection Challenge at NeurIPS 2022 | This regrant will support prizes for a trojan detection competition at NeurIPS, which involves identifying whether a deep neural network will suddenly change behavior if certain unknown conditions are met. | May 2022 | $50,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 7 | Effective Altruism Office Zurich | This regrant will support renting and furnishing an office space for a year. | May 2022 | $52,000 | Effective Altruism | |
| 8 | Akash Wasil | This regrant will support an individual working on supporting students who are interested in focusing their careers on the world’s most pressing problems. | March 2022 | $26,000 | Empowering Exceptional People|Effective Altruism | |
| 9 | Fiona Pollack | This regrant will support six months of salary for an individual working to support Harvard students interested in working on the world’s most pressing problems and protecting and improving the long term future. | April 2022 | $30,000 | Empowering Exceptional People|Effective Altruism | |
| 10 | Peter McLaughlin | This regrant will support six months of research on criticisms of effective altruism. | April 2022 | $46,000 | Research That Can Help Us Improve | |
| 11 | Dwarkesh Patel | This regrant will support a promising podcaster to hire a research assistant and editor, purchase equipment, and cover travel to meet guests in person. The podcast covers technological progress, existential risk, economic growth, and the long term future. | April 2022 | $76,000 | Values and Reflective Processes | |
| 12 | ALERT | This regrant will support the creation of the Active Longtermist Emergency Response Team, an organization to rapidly manage emerging global events like Covid-19. | May 2022 | $150,000 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/sgcxDwyD2KL6BHH2C/case-for-emergency-response-teams | |
| 13 | EA Critiques and Red Teaming Prize | This regrant will support prize money for a writing contest for critically engaging with theory or work in Effective Altruism. The goal of the contest is to produce thoughtful, action oriented critiques. | May 2022 | $100,000 | Effective Altruism | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8hvmvrgcxJJ2pYR4X/announcing-a-contest-ea-criticism-and-red-teaming |
| 14 | Federation for American Scientists | This regrant will support a researcher and research assistant to work on high-skill immigration and AI policy at FAS for three years. | May 2022 | $1,000,000 | Artificial Intelligence|Economic Growth | https://fas.org/ |
| 15 | Ought | This regrant will support Ought’s work building Elicit, a language-model based research assistant. This work contributes to research on reducing alignment risk through scaling human supervision via process-based systems. | May 2022 | $5,000,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 16 | ML Safety Scholars Program | This regrant will fund a summer program for up to 100 students to spend 9 weeks studying machine learning, deep learning, and technical topics in safety. | April 2022 | $490,000 | Artificial Intelligence|Empowering Exceptional People | https://course.mlsafety.org |
| 17 | AntiEntropy | This regrant will support a project to create and house operations-related resources and guidance for EA-aligned organizations. | March 2022 | $120,000 | Effective Altruism | https://resourceportal.antientropy.org/ |
| 18 | Everett Smith | This regrant will support a policy retreat on governing artificial intelligence. | May 2022 | $35,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 19 | Olle Häggström, Chalmers University of Technology | This regrant will support research on statistical arguments relating to existential risk and work on risks from artificial intelligence, as well as outreach, supervision, and policy work on these topics. | May 2022 | $380,000 | Artificial Intelligence|Effective Altruism|Research That Can Help Us Improve | |
| 20 | Essay Contest on Existential Risk in US Cost Benefit Analysis | This regrant will support an essay contest on “Accounting for Existential Risks in US Cost-Benefit Analysis,” with the aim of contributing to the revision of OMB Circular-A4, a document which guides US government cost-benefit analysis. The Legal Priorities Project is administering the contest. | May 2022 | $137,500 | Epistemic Institutions|Values and Reflective Processes | https://www.legalpriorities.org/competition.html |
| 21 | MineRL BASALT competition at NeurIPS | This regrant will support a NeurIPS competition applying human feedback in a non-language-model setting, specifically pretrained models in Minecraft. The grant will be administered by the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative. | May 2022 | $155,000 | Artificial Intelligence | https://minerl.io/basalt/ |
| 22 | Andi Peng | This regrant will support four months of salary and compute for research on AI alignment. | May 2022 | $42,600 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 23 | CSIS | This regrant will support initiatives including a CSIS public event focused on the importance of investments in human capital to ensure US national security; roundtables with policymakers, immigration experts, national security professionals, and company representatives to discuss key policy actions that should be taken to bolster US national security through immigration reform; and two episodes of the “Vying for Talent” podcast focusing on the importance of foreign talent in bolstering America’s innovative capacity. | May 2022 | $75,000 | Economic Growth|Great Power Relations | |
| 24 | Aaron Scher | This regrant will support a summer of research on AI alignment in Berkeley. | May 2022 | $28,500 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 25 | Kris Shrishak | This regrant will support research on how cryptography might be applied to AI safety research. | April 2022 | $28,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 26 | AI Impacts | This regrant will support rerunning the highly-cited survey “When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts” from 2016, analysis, and publication of results. | June 2022 | $250,000 | Artificial Intelligence|Research That Can Help Us Improve | |
| 27 | Chinmay Ingalagavi | This regrant will support a Masters at LSE for a talented STEM student. | May 2022 | $50,000 | Empowering Exceptional People | |
| 28 | Apart Research | This regrant will support the creation of an AI Safety organization which will create a platform to share AI safety research ideas and educational materials, connect people working on AI safety, and bring new people into the field. | May 2022 | $95,000 | Artificial Intelligence | https://apartresearch.com/ |
| 29 | Tereza Flidrova | This regrant will support a one year master’s program in architecture for a student interested in building civilizational shelters. | May 2022 | $32,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | |
| 30 | J. Peter Scoblic | This regrant will fund a nuclear risk expert to construct nuclear war-related forecasting questions and provide forecasts and explanations on key nuclear war questions. | May 2022 | $25,000 | Epistemic Institutions|Great Power Relations | |
| 31 | AI Risk Public Materials Competition | This regrant will support two competitions to produce better public materials on the existential risk from AI. | April 2022 | $40,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 32 | Moncef Slaoui | This regrant will fund the writing of Slaoui's memoir, especially including his experience directing Operation Warp Speed. | May 2022 | $150,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | |
| 33 | Artificial Intelligence Summer Residency Program | This regrant will support a six week summer residency in Berkeley on AI safety. | May 2022 | $60,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 34 | Public Editor | This regrant will support a project to use a combination of human feedback and Machine Learning to label misinformation and reasoning errors in popular news articles. | March 2022 | $500,000 | Epistemic Institutions | https://publiceditor.io |
| 35 | The Good Ancestors Project | This regrant will support the creation of The Good Ancestors Project, an Australian-based organization to host research and community building on topics relevant to making the long term future go well. | May 2022 | $75,000 | Effective Altruism | https://goodancestorsproject.org.au |
| 36 | Thomas Kwa | This regrant will support three months of research on AI safety. | April 2022 | $37,500 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 37 | Joshua Greene, Harvard University | This regrant will support the real-world testing and roll-out of 'Red Brain, Blue Brain', an online quiz designed to reduce negative partisanship between Democrats and Republicans in the US. | March 2022 | $250,000 | Values and Reflective Processes | |
| 38 | Braden Leach | This regrant supported a recent law school graduate to work on biosecurity. Braden will research and write at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. | April 2022 | $175,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe|Empowering Exceptional People | |
| 39 | Adversarial Robustness Prizes at ECCV | This regrant will support three prizes for the best papers on adversarial robustness research at a workshop at ECCV, the main fall computer vision conference. The best papers are selected to have higher relevance to long-term threat models than usual adversarial robustness papers. | April 2022 | $30,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 40 | Confido Institute | The Confido Institute is working on developing a user-friendly interactive app, Confido, for making forecasts and communicating beliefs and uncertainty within groups and organizations. They are also building interactive educational programs about forecasting and working with uncertainty based around this app. | May 2022 | $190,000 | Epistemic Institutions | https://confido.tools/ |
| 41 | Supporting Agent Foundations AI safety research at ALTER | This regrant will support 1.5-3 years of salary for a mathematics researcher to work with Vanessa Kosoy on the learning-theoretic AI safety agenda. | April 2022 | $200,000 | Artificial Intelligence | https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/it5odhMKY6xYLrFZD/closed-hiring-a-mathematician-to-work-on-the-learning |
| 42 | Modeling Transformative AI Risks (Aryeh Englander, Sammy Martin, Analytica Consulting) | This regrant will support two AI researchers, one or two additional assistants, and a consulting firm to continue to build out and fully implement the quantitative model for how to understand risks and interventions around AI safety, expanding on their earlier research on “Modeling Transformative AI Risk.” | May 2022 | $272,000 | Artificial Intelligence|Research That Can Help Us Improve | https://www.alignmentforum.org/s/aERZoriyHfCqvWkzg |
| 43 | Impact Markets | This regrant will support the creation of an “impact market.” The hope is to improve charity fundraising by allowing profit-motivated investors to earn returns by investing in charitable projects that are eventually deemed impactful. | March 2022 | $215,000 | Effective Altruism|Research That Can Help Us Improve | https://impactmarkets.io/ |
| 44 | AI Alignment Prize on Inverse Scaling | This regrant will support prizes for a contest to find tasks where larger language models do worse (“inverse scaling”). | May 2022 | $250,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 45 | Swift Centre for Applied Forecasting | This regrant will support the creation of the Swift Centre for Applied Forecasting, including salary for a director and a team of expert forecasters. They will forecast trends from Our World in Data charts, as well as other topics related to ensuring the long term future goes well, with a particular focus on explaining the “why” of forecast estimates. | March 2022 | $2,000,000 | Epistemic Institutions | https://www.swiftcentre.org/ |
| 46 | Lawrence Newport | This regrant will support the launch and first year of a youtube channel focusing on video essays presented by Dr Lawrence Newport on longtermism, the future of humanity, and related topics. | March 2022 | $95,000 | Effective Altruism | |
| 47 | Aidan O’Gara | This regrant will find salary, compute, and a scholarship for an undergraduate student doing career development and research on language model safety. | May 2022 | $46,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 48 | Legal Priorities Project | We recommended a grant to support the Legal Priorities Project’s ongoing research and outreach activities. This will allow LPP to pay two new hires and to put on a summer institute for non-US law students in Oxford. | April 2022 | $480,000 | https://www.legalpriorities.org/ | |
| 49 | Oded Galor, Brown University | We recommended a grant to support two years of academic research on long-term economic growth. | January 2022 | $500,000 | Economic Growth|Research That Can Help Us Improve | |
| 50 | The Atlas Fellowship | We recommended a grant to support scholarships for talented and promising high school students to use towards educational opportunities and enrolling in a summer program. | January 2022 | $5,000,000 | Empowering Exceptional People | https://www.atlasfellowship.org/ |
| 51 | Sherlock Biosciences | We recommended an investment to support the development of universal CRISPR-based diagnostics, including paper-based diagnostics that can be used in developing-country settings without electricity. | February 2022 | $2,000,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | https://sherlock.bio/ |
| 52 | Rethink Priorities | We recommended a grant to support Rethink’s research and projects aimed at improving humanity’s long-term prospects. | March 2022 | $700,000 | Research That Can Help Us Improve | |
| 53 | SecureDNA | We recommended a grant to support the hiring of several key staff for Dr. Kevin Esvelt’s pandemic prevention work. SecureDNA is working to implement universal DNA synthesis screening, build a reliable early warning system, and coordinate the development of improved personal protective equipment and its delivery to essential workers when needed. | March 2022 | $1,200,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | |
| 54 | Lionel Levine, Cornell University | We recommended a grant to Cornell University to support Prof. Levine, as well as students and collaborators, to work on alignment theory research at the Cornell math department. | April 2022 | $1,500,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 55 | Claudia Shi, Academic CS Research at Columbia University | We recommended a grant to pay for research assistants over three years to support the work of a PhD student working on AI safety at Columbia University. | April 2022 | $100,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 56 | Institute for Progress | We recommended a grant to support the Institute’s research and policy engagement work on high skilled immigration, biosecurity, and pandemic prevention. | May 2022 | $480,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe|Economic Growth | https://progress.institute/ |
| 57 | Good Judgment Project | We recommended a grant to support a Good Judgment initiative to produce forecasts on 10 Our World in Data data sets/charts. | May 2022 | $300,000 | Epistemic Institutions | |
| 58 | Peter Hrosso, Researcher | We recommended a grant to support a project aimed at training large language models to represent the probability distribution over question answers in a prediction market. | May 2022 | $230,000 | Epistemic Institutions | |
| 59 | Michael Jacob, MITRE | We recommended a grant to support research that we hope will be used to help strengthen the bioweapons convention and guide proactive actions to better secure those facilities or stop the dangerous work being done there. | May 2022 | $485,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | |
| 60 | Charity Entrepreneurship | We recommended a grant to support the incubation of new charities that will work on health security. | May 2022 | $470,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe|Effective Altruism | |
| 61 | Michael Robkin | We recommended an investment to support the creation of Pretty Good PPE that is comfortable, storable, simple, and inexpensive. PGPPE aims to provide protection that is better than disposable masks and cheaper than both hazmat suits and N95s. | May 2022 | $200,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | |
| 62 | Legal Priorities Project | This grant will support one year of operating expenses and salaries at the Legal Priorities Project, a longtermist legal research and field-building organization. | June 2022 | $700,000 | https://www.legalpriorities.org/ | |
| 63 | AI Safety Camp | We recommended a grant to partially support the salaries for AI Safety Camp’s two directors and to support logistical expenses at its physical camp. | June 2022 | $290,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 64 | Anca Dragan, UC Berkeley | We recommended a grant to support a project to develop interactive AI algorithms for alignment that can uncover the causal features in human reward systems, and thereby help AI systems learn underlying human values that generalize to new situations. | May 2022 | $800,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 65 | Association for Long Term Existence and Resilience | We recommended a grant to support ALTER, an academic research and advocacy organization, which hopes to investigate, demonstrate, and foster useful ways to improve the future in the short term, and to safeguard and improve the long-term trajectory of humanity. The organization's initial focus is building bridges to academia via conferences and grants to find researchers who can focus on AI safety, and on policy for reducing biorisk. | May 2022 | $320,000 | Artificial Intelligence|Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | https://alter.org.il |
| 66 | Manifold Markets | We recommended a grant to support Manifold Markets in building a charity prediction market, as an experiment for enabling effective forecasters to direct altruistic donations. | May 2022 | $500,000 | Epistemic Institutions | https://manifold.markets/ |
| 67 | Guoliang (Greg) Liu, Virginia Tech | We recommended a grant to support a project to develop a new material -- an ultra-thin polymer-based thin film -- for use in next-generation Personal Protective Equipment which is both more effective and more comfortable. | May 2022 | $500,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | |
| 68 | Stimson South Asia Program | We recommended a grant to support the identification and implementation of promising confidence-building measures to reduce conflict between India and Pakistan. | April 2022 | $250,000 | Great Power Relations | |
| 69 | Prometheus Science Bowl | We recommended a grant to support a competition for work on Eliciting Latent Knowledge, an open problem in AI alignment, for talented high school and college students who are participating in Prometheus Science Bowl. | May 2022 | $100,000 | Artificial Intelligence|Empowering Exceptional People | |
| 70 | Maxwell Tabarrok | We recommended a grant to support this student to spend a summer at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University researching differential tech development and the connection between existential risks to humanity and economic growth. | May 2022 | $7,500 | Economic Growth|Research That Can Help Us Improve | |
| 71 | HelixNano | We recommended an investment to support Helix Nano running preclinical and Phase 1 trials of a pan-variant Covid-19 vaccine. | January 2022 | $10,000,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | |
| 72 | Giving What We Can | We recommended a grant to support Giving What We Can’s mission to create a world in which giving effectively and significantly is a cultural norm. | May 2022 | $700,000 | Effective Altruism | https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ |
| 73 | Gabriel Recchia, University of Cambridge | We recommended a grant to support research on how to fine-tune GPT-3 models to identify flaws in other fine-tuned language models' arguments for the correctness of their outputs, and to test whether these help nonexpert humans successfully judge such arguments. | May 2022 | $380,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 74 | Simon Institute for Longterm Governance | We recommended a grant to support SI’s policy work with the United Nations system on the prevention of existential risks to humanity. | April 2022 | $820,000 | Great Power Relations | https://www.simoninstitute.ch/ |
| 75 | Centre for Effective Altruism | We recommended a grant for general support for their activities, including running conferences, supporting student groups, and maintaining online resources. | March 2022 | $13,940,000 | Effective Altruism | https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/ |
| 76 | Nonlinear | We recommended a grant to support the maintenance of a library of high-quality audio content on the world’s most pressing problems, and a fund to provide productivity-enhancing equipment and support staff for people working on important social issues. | April 2022 | $250,000 | Effective Altruism | |
| 77 | Konstantinos Konstantinidis | We recommended a grant to support two years of research on the impacts of disruptive space technologies, nuclear risk, and mitigating risks from future space-based weapons. | May 2022 | $85,000 | Great Power Relations|Space Governance | |
| 78 | Apollo Academic Surveys | We recommended a grant to support Apollo’s work aggregating the views of academic experts in many different fields and making them freely available online. | May 2022 | $250,000 | Epistemic Institutions | https://www.apollosurveys.org/ |
| 79 | AI Safety Support | We recommended a grant for general funding for community building and managing the talent pipeline for AI alignment researchers. AI Safety Support’s work includes one-on-one coaching, events, and research training programs. | May 2022 | $200,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 80 | Daniel Brown, University of Utah | We recommended a grant to support research on value alignment in AI systems, practical algorithms for efficient value alignment verification, and user studies and experiments to test these algorithms. | May 2022 | $280,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 81 | Khalil Lab at Boston University | We recommended a grant to support the development of a cheap, scalable, and decentralized platform for the rapid generation of disease-neutralizing therapeutic antibodies. | May 2022 | $1,550,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | https://www.bu.edu/khalillab/ |
| 82 | Sergey Levine, UC Berkeley | We recommended a grant to support a project to study how large language models integrated with offline reinforcement learning pose a risk of machine deception and persuasion. | June 2022 | $600,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 83 | Non-trivial Pursuits | We recommended a grant to support outreach to help students to learn about career options, develop their skills, and plan their careers to work on the world’s most pressing problems. | May 2022 | $1,000,000 | Empowering Exceptional People|Effective Altruism | https://non-trivial.org/ |
| 84 | Rational Animations | We recommended a grant to support the creation of animated videos on topics related to rationality and effective altruism to explain these topics for a broader audience. | May 2022 | $400,000 | Effective Altruism | |
| 85 | Justin Mares, Biotech Researcher | We recommended a grant to support research on the feasibility of inactivating viruses via electromagnetic radiation. | May 2022 | $140,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | |
| 86 | Lightcone Infrastructure | We recommended a grant to support Lightcone’s ongoing projects including running the LessWrong forum, hosting conferences and events, and maintaining an office space for Effective Altruist organizations. | February 2022 | $2,000,000 | Artificial Intelligence|Effective Altruism | https://www.lightconeinfrastructure.com/ |
| 87 | Confirm Solutions | We recommended an investment in Confirm Solutions, a public-benefit corporation, to support development of statistical models and software tools that can automate parts of the regulatory process for complex clinical trials. We anticipate that this work can help to speed up approvals of new vaccines and medical treatments while enhancing their statistical rigor. | May 2022 | $1,000,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | |
| 88 | High Impact Athletes | We recommended a grant to support HIA’s work encouraging professional athletes to donate more of their earnings to high impact charities and causes, and to promote a culture of giving among their fans. | April 2022 | $350,000 | Effective Altruism | https://highimpactathletes.org/ |
| 89 | High Impact Professionals | We recommended a grant to support HIP’s work recruiting EA working professionals to use more of their resources, including their careers, to focus on the world’s most pressing problems. | May 2022 | $320,000 | Empowering Exceptional People | |
| 90 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | We recommended a grant to support BERI in hiring a second core operations employee to contribute to BERI’s work supporting university research groups. | March 2022 | $100,000 | https://existence.org | |
| 91 | Nathan Young | We recommended a grant to support the creation of a website for collaboratively creating public forecasting questions for a range of prediction aggregators and markets. | June 2022 | $182,000 | Epistemic Institutions | |
| 92 | Bear F. Braumoeller, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University | We recommended a grant to support a postdoc and two research assistants for Professor Braumoeller’s MESO Lab for two years to carry out research on international orders and how they affect the probability of war. | April 2022 | $388,080 | Great Power Relations | https://www.themesolab.com/ |
| 93 | Siddharth Hiregowdara, AI Safety Introductory Materials | We recommended a grant to support the production of high quality materials for learning about AI safety work. | March 2022 | $100,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 94 | Longview | We recommended a grant to support Longview’s independent grantmaking on global priorities research, nuclear weapons policy, and other longtermist issues. | February 2022 | $15,000,000 | https://www.longview.org/ | |
| 95 | Global Guessing | We recommended a grant to support Global Guessing’s forecasting coverage on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which they will also use to build tools and infrastructure to support future forecasting work. | May 2022 | $336,000 | Epistemic Institutions|Great Power Relations | |
| 96 | Brian Christian, Author | We recommended a grant to support the completion of a book which explores the nature of human values and the implications for aligning AI with human preferences. | May 2022 | $300,000 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| 97 | Sage | We recommended a grant to support the creation of a pilot version of a forecasting platform, and a paid forecasting team, to make predictions about questions relevant to high-impact research. | May 2022 | $700,000 | Epistemic Institutions | |
| 98 | EffiSciences | We recommended a grant to support EffiSciences’s work promoting high impact research on global priorities (e.g. AI safety, biosecurity, and climate change) among French students and academics, and building up a community of people willing to work on important topics. | April 2022 | $135,000 | Effective Altruism | https://www.effisciences.org/ |
| 99 | Anysphere | We recommended an investment to build a communication platform that provably leaks zero metadata. | May 2022 | $200,000 | https://anysphere.co | |
| 100 | 1Day Sooner | We recommended a grant to support 1DS’ work on pandemic preparedness, including advocacy for advance market purchase commitments, collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator on challenge studies, and advocacy with 1Day Africa and the West African Health Organization for a global pandemic insurance fund. | June 2022 | $350,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | https://www.1daysooner.org/ |
| 101 | Cecil Abungu, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge | We recommended a grant to Cecil Abungu, Visiting Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and Research Affiliate at the Legal Priorities Project, to support the writing and publication of a book on longtermist currents in historical African thought. | May 2022 | $160,000 | ||
| 102 | Luke Hewitt | We recommended a grant to support the development and application of a Minimum Viable Product of a data-driven approach to improving advocacy in areas of importance to societal well-being such as immigration policy. | March 2022 | $150,000 | Epistemic Institutions|Empowering Exceptional People | |
| 103 | Dr. Emilio I. Alarcón, University of Ottawa Heart Institute & University of Ottawa | This grant will support a project to develop new plastic surfaces incorporating molecules that can be activated with low-energy visible light to eradicate bacteria and kill viruses continuously. If successful, this project will change how plastic surfaces are currently decontaminated. | March 2022 | $250,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | https://www.beatsresearch.com/ |
| 104 | Rajalakshmi Children Foundation | We recommended a grant to support the identification of children in India from under-resourced areas who excel in math, science, and technology, and enable them to obtain high quality online education by digitally connecting them with mentors and teachers. | May 2022 | $200,000 | Empowering Exceptional People | https://www.rajalakshmifoundation.in/pratibhaposhak |
| 105 | Nikki Teran, Institute for Progress | We recommended a grant to support the creation of biosecurity policy priorities via conversations with experts in security, technology, policy, and advocacy. It will develop position papers, research papers, and agendas for the biosecurity community. | May 2022 | $135,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | |
| 106 | James Lin | We recommended a grant to allow a reputable technology publication to engage 2-5 undergraduate student interns to write about topics including AI safety, alternative proteins, and biosecurity. | May 2022 | $190,000 | Artificial Intelligence|Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | |
| 107 | Ray Amjad | We recommended a grant to support the creation of a talent search organization which will help identify top young students around the world through a free to use website consisting of both challenging math and physics olympiad-style problems and discussion forums. Efforts will be particularly focused across India and China. These students will later be connected to support and programs so they can go on to work on the world's most pressing issues. | May 2022 | $300,000 | Empowering Exceptional People | |
| 108 | The Center for Election Science | We recommended a grant to support the development of statewide ballot initiatives to institute approval voting. Approval voting is a simple voting method reform that lets voters select all the candidates they wish. | March 2022 | $300,000 | Epistemic Institutions|Values and Reflective Processes | https://electionscience.org/ |
| 109 | AVECRIS Pte. Ltd. | We recommended an investment in AVECRIS’s Project DOOR to support the development of a next generation genetic vaccine platform that aims to allow for highly distributed vaccine production using AVECRIS’s advanced DNA vector delivery technology. | May 2022 | $3,600,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | |
| 110 | Council on Strategic Risks | We recommended a grant to support a project which will develop and advance ideas for strengthening regional and multilateral cooperation for addressing biological risks and filling gaps in current international institutions. These efforts include promoting the creation of a center with the capacity to rapidly respond to emerging infectious disease threats to prioritize blunting the impact of such events as well as quickly saving lives, and cooperative mechanisms to enhance biosafety and biosecurity while reducing the potential risks of spaces such as high-containment laboratories. | May 2022 | $400,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe | |
| 111 | Effective Ideas Blog Prize | Longview Philanthropy and the Future Fund recommended a grant to support prizes for outstanding writing which encourages a broader public conversation around effective altruism and longtermism. | January 2022 | $900,000 | Values and Reflective Processes|Effective Altruism | https://effectiveideas.org/ |
| 112 | Pathos Labs, PopShift | We recommended a grant to support Pathos Labs to produce a PopShift convening connecting experts on the future of technology and existential risks with television writers to inspire new ideas for their shows. | $50,000 | Values and Reflective Processes | ||
| 113 | Piezo Therapeutics | We recommended an investment to support work on technology for delivering mRNA vaccines without lipid nanoparticles with the aim of making vaccines more safe, affordable, and scalable. | May 2022 | $1,000,000 | Biorisk and Recovery from Catastrophe |