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Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) funds technical AI safety and alignment research through a request for proposals covering 21 research areas, including adversarial machine learning, interpretability, reward hacking, white-box techniques, and new theoretical approaches to superintelligence alignment. The team made about $40 million in technical AI safety grants last year and plans over $140 million this year.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Open to individual researchers, academic groups, and new or existing research organizations worldwide working on technical AI safety and alignment. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows part of a $40 million+ RFP spanning 21 research areas (over $140 million in technical AI safety grants planned this year); individual researcher grants up to roughly $187,500, with substantially larger organizational grants ranging from rapid compute/API credits to multi-year projects. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Coefficient Giving Request for Proposals: Technical AI Safety Research is funded by Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy), the largest funder in existential risk reduction, has issued a Request for Proposals for Technical AI Safety Research focused on alignment, interpretability, and control of advanced AI systems. The RFP accepts proposals on a rolling basis with no fixed deadline. Coefficient Giving expects to spend roughly $40 million on this initiative and is open to spending substantially more depending on application quality. The program funds a wide range of activities including fundamental alignment research, interpretability and mechanistic understanding of AI systems, AI control and containment strategies, evaluation and benchmarking of AI safety properties, scalable oversight methods, and seed funding for new AI safety research organizations. This is distinct from Coefficient Giving's separate AI Governance Research RFP which focuses on policy and governance questions.
Coefficient Giving (the rebranded Open Philanthropy) is funding technical research that advances the science of building safe and trustworthy AI systems, including understanding and preventing frontier AI system misalignment, creating valid evaluations and interventions, and developing oversight mechanisms for superhuman AI capabilities. The RFP is open to proposals of many sizes and purposes, ranging from rapid funding for API credits and compute to discrete 6-24 month projects, academic start-up packages, and seed funding for new research organizations. Coefficient expected to deploy roughly $40 million over the initial period, with capacity to spend substantially more depending on application quality.