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"Longview Philanthropy Request for Proposals on Extreme Power Concentration for AI Governance, Oversight, Surveillance and Autonomous Weapons Research" is currently closed and not accepting applications.
Longview Philanthropy's Extreme Power Concentration RFP funds a strand of AI risk work that sits outside the usual technical-safety framing: rather than misaligned models, the concern is that advanced AI enables an unprecedented and irreversible concentration of power in the hands of a small number of actors.
The named priority areas are AI governance, oversight mechanisms, surveillance, and autonomous weapons - a portfolio that is more political-science and policy-shaped than machine-learning-shaped, and that draws applicants from law, security studies and international relations as readily as from computer science.
Award sizes are substantial for a philanthropic governance call, at USD 100,000 to 2,000,000 per year, which places it in a bracket capable of supporting a small standing team rather than a single postdoc.
The eligibility framing is notably wide: Longview accepts applications from researchers, teams and organisations, and also from individuals making a career transition into this work - a category most funders handle through separate small fellowship programmes rather than the main RFP, and one that makes this a viable route for a mid-career policy professional moving into AI governance.
That breadth cuts both ways, since a career-transition applicant is nominally competing in the same pool as established organisations requesting seven figures a year. The round documented here closed on 2 July 2026. Longview runs RFPs episodically rather than continuously, so applicants should track its site for the next call.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Open to researchers, teams, organisations, and individuals seeking to transition their careers into this area of work. Proposals should address extreme concentration of power enabled by advanced AI, with named priority areas including AI governance, oversight mechanisms, surveillance, and autonomous weapons. Awards range from USD 100,000 to USD 2,000,000 per year, a figure quoted annually rather than per grant, so multi-year totals can exceed the upper figure. The round reviewed had an application deadline of 2 July 2026, which has passed. Detailed information on the application format, review timeline, permitted budget categories, geographic eligibility and institutional requirements was not extractable from the Longview page reviewed, which rendered largely as image content. Applicants must obtain the full RFP document directly from Longview Philanthropy at longview.org, and confirm current award levels, eligible applicant types, priority research areas and the next application deadline before preparing a submission. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows awards of USD 100,000 to USD 2,000,000 per year. amount_min of 100,000 and amount_max of 2,000,000 are the published annual per-award range; because the figure is quoted per year rather than per grant, a multi-year award can total considerably more than the stated maximum. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The published deadline was July 2, 2026, which has passed. Check the official notice for any future application windows before investing time in a proposal.
Longview Philanthropy Request for Proposals on Extreme Power Concentration for AI Governance, Oversight, Surveillance and Autonomous Weapons Research is funded by Longview Philanthropy. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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