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Open Philanthropy Technical AI Safety RFP - $40M Available Across 21 Research Areas — LessWrong Grants & Fundraising Opportunities AI Personal Blog Open Philanthropy Technical AI Safety RFP - $40M Available Across 21 Research Areas by jake_mendel , maxnadeau , Peter Favaloro AI Alignment Forum 1 min read This is a linkpost for https://www. openphilanthropy.
org/request-for-proposals-technical-ai-safety-research/ Open Philanthropy is launching a big new Request for Proposals for technical AI safety research , with plans to fund roughly $40M in grants over the next 5 months, and available funding for substantially more depending on application quality. Applications ( here ) start with a simple 300 word expression of interest and are open until April 15, 2025.
We're seeking proposals across 21 different research areas, organized into five broad categories: Adversarial Machine Learning *Jailbreaks and unintentional misalignment *Backdoors and other alignment stress tests *Alternatives to adversarial training Exploring sophisticated misbehavior of LLMs *Experiments on alignment faking *Encoded reasoning in CoT and inter-model communication Evaluating whether models can hide dangerous behaviors Reward hacking of human oversight Applications of white-box techniques Finding feature representations Toy models for interpretability Interpretability benchmarks More transparent architectures Trust from first principles White-box estimation of rare misbehavior Theoretical study of inductive biases Alternative approaches to mitigating AI risks Conceptual clarity about risks from powerful AI New moonshots for aligning superintelligence We’re willing to make a range of types of grants including: Research expenses (compute, APIs, etc.) Discrete research projects (typically lasting 6-24 months) Academic start-up packages Support for existing nonprofits Funding to start new research organizations or new teams at existing organizations.
The full RFP provides much more detail on each research area, including eligibility criteria, example projects, and nice-to-haves. You can find it here . We want the bar to be low for submitting expressions of interest: even if you're unsure whether your project fits perfectly, we encourage you to submit an EOI.
This RFP is partly an experiment to understand the demand for funding in AI safety research. Please email aisafety@openphilanthropy. org with questions, or just submit an EOI.
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According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Academic labs, independent research organizations, and individual researchers. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows roughly $40 million committed across 21 research directions for the 2025 RFP, with willingness to deploy substantially more. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
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