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TraceTruth: Outcome-Grounded Evals for Agentic Honesty

CChris Deschenes
ToolingEvals
CChris Deschenes
ToolingEvals
Minimum$35K
Ideal$75K

An open-source benchmark that measures whether tool-using AI agents faithfully report their actions, failures, and policy violations, using deterministic execution traces as ground truth. Read more

Minimum$35K
Ideal$75K

Evaluation harness for AI judgment under contradicting evidence

Maryam Ilegbodu Mohammed
ResearchEvals
Maryam Ilegbodu Mohammed
ResearchEvals
Minimum$9K
Ideal$15K

An evaluation harness testing whether AI judgment holds up under contradicting evidence Read more

Minimum$9K
Ideal$15K

OASIS: Multi-Agent AI Safety Lab

LLuiz Kottas
IndividualToolingTechnical Safety
LLuiz Kottas
IndividualToolingTechnical Safety
Minimum$50K
Ideal$100K

OASIS will build and test a reproducible multi-agent AI safety sandbox for coordination, memory, oversight, and accountability, releasing an open-source prototype, eval protocols, experiments, and a report. Read more

Minimum$50K
Ideal$100K

IMA Existential Safety Focus: Math-ML and Tech Law

Maia Fraser
TrainingTechnical SafetyX-Risk
Maia Fraser
TrainingTechnical SafetyX-Risk
Minimum$35K
Ideal$100K

A graduate student in mathematical ML and a postdoc in technology law, trained together at the Fields Institute and uOttawa's CLTS, on research aimed squarely at reducing existential risk from AI. Read more

Minimum$35K
Ideal$100K

OpenCnidarios

DDaniel Silberschmidt
ResearchEvals
DDaniel Silberschmidt
ResearchEvals
Minimum$32K
Ideal$44K

A controlled digital ecology for studying how strategies, causal models, errors, and safety-relevant behaviors are selected and transmitted across generations of LLM agents. Read more

Minimum$32K
Ideal$44K

CIVILIZATION MEETS AI: HOW SHOULD HUMANITY RELATE TO ADVANCED AI?

Walter Pentland
EducationGovernance
Walter Pentland
EducationGovernance
Minimum$12K
Ideal$15K

A pilot curriculum of six Socratic seminars for educators and other nontechnical learners. Read more

Minimum$12K
Ideal$15K

Developing methods to evaluate the trustworthiness of CV models

Elena Eroshina
ResearchEvals
Elena Eroshina
ResearchEvals
Minimum$15K
Ideal$48K

Developing evaluation methods to determine when CV models can be trusted by addressing the gap between benchmark metrics and real-world performance. Read more

Minimum$15K
Ideal$48K

Grant to establish an AI safety lab and fellowship from India

sshivam dubey
Research LabResearchManifund
sshivam dubey
Research LabResearchManifund
Minimum$7K
Ideal$20K

Focusing more on the intersection of red teaming and interp, while creating a strong rooted community. Read more

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Minimum$7K
Ideal$20K
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Flourishing Futures Fellowship

Jordan Arel
TrainingX-RiskManifund
Jordan Arel
TrainingX-RiskManifund
Minimum$10K
Ideal$25K

A scalable fellowship training researchers to develop interventions for achieving high-value long-term futures Read more

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Minimum$10K
Ideal$25K
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LEX-Aureon: Stateful Constitutional Runtime Governance for LLM's and AI Agents

omomehin emmanuel king
IndividualToolingManifund
omomehin emmanuel king
IndividualToolingManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$200K

An open-source, model-agnostic governance layer that uses constitutional state, trajectory memory, and mathematical control mechanisms to govern LLM and AI-agent behavior at runtime. Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$200K
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Sydney AI Safety Space FY27

SSydney AI Safety Space
HubCommunityManifund
SSydney AI Safety Space
HubCommunityManifund
Minimum$20K
Ideal$86K

An additional year funding for the co-working hub in Sydney, Australia, which offers free office space for people working in the field of AI safety. Read more

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Minimum$20K
Ideal$86K
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Seen & WithMe

KKate Lowry
PlatformToolingManifund
KKate Lowry
PlatformToolingManifund
Minimum$16K
Ideal$58K

Keep AI Whistleblowers Alive Read more

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Minimum$16K
Ideal$58K
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Open Source Model Safety Index (OSMSI)

Netan Mangal
PlatformResearchManifund
Netan Mangal
PlatformResearchManifund
Minimum$13K
Ideal$65K

OSMSI : Open Source Model Safety Index | https://osmsi.disobedientgeometry.com/ Read more

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Minimum$13K
Ideal$65K
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WithMe Test Case 001

KKate Lowry
LegalGovernanceManifund
KKate Lowry
LegalGovernanceManifund
Minimum$500K
Ideal$6,000K

Help Sue Private Intelligence Firms Hitting AI Whistleblowers Read more

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Minimum$500K
Ideal$6,000K
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Building Compute Governance Capacity for the Philippines' Pax Silica Hub

VVir Khosla
AdvocacyCompute GovManifund
VVir Khosla
AdvocacyCompute GovManifund
Minimum$10K
Ideal$50K

Audit and brief Philippine agencies to update compute export-control rules, border identification, inspections, and a compute registry to govern frontier AI chips ahead of the Pax Silica hub. Read more

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Minimum$10K
Ideal$50K
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Defining dangerous DNA with the Sequence Biosecurity Risk Consortium (SBRC)

IIBBIS
StandardsBiosecurityManifund
IIBBIS
StandardsBiosecurityManifund
Minimum$163K
Ideal$540K

Defining which sequences are dangerous enough to screen for, so providers and regulators screen consistently Read more

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Minimum$163K
Ideal$540K
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Prediction of Inoculation Prompt Side Effects

Nikhil Maturi
IndividualResearchManifund
Nikhil Maturi
IndividualResearchManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$14K

An open, cheap method that detects when an inoculation prompt inoculates against off-target traits, so labs and developers can catch undesired trait/persona cha Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$14K
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Threat Models for AI-Enabled Crisis Instability

Amritanshu Prasad
ResearchGovernanceManifund
Amritanshu Prasad
ResearchGovernanceManifund
Minimum$14K
Ideal$70K

Detailed models of how delegating critical functions to AI agents could destabilise strategic stability: pathways, likelihoods, and defenses. Read more

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Minimum$14K
Ideal$70K
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Establishing an AI Risk Communication for Public Preparedness Framework

TTheophilus Femi Alawonde
IndividualField-BuildingManifund
TTheophilus Femi Alawonde
IndividualField-BuildingManifund
Minimum$87K
Ideal$111K

There's an asymmetry between the level of communication about AI capabilities, compared to AI risks. If we hit AGI tomorrow, the world would not be prepared. Read more

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Minimum$87K
Ideal$111K
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Volta Education Suite: AI Risk Engine (VES:ARE)

MMariano
EducationX-RiskManifund
MMariano
EducationX-RiskManifund
Minimum$1K
Ideal$7K

Facilitating AI X-risk Education in India, Southwest Cameroon, and beyond! Read more

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Minimum$1K
Ideal$7K
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NTU AI Safety - Financial support for organizers

MManifund user 7cf124f1
NetworkCommunityManifund
MManifund user 7cf124f1
NetworkCommunityManifund
Minimum$1K
Ideal$13K

NTU AI Safety seeks $13k for organizer stipends to expand Taiwan’s first student AI safety group into three reading-group tracks (fundamentals, technical, policy/governance) and grow outreach. Read more

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Minimum$1K
Ideal$13K
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Continued development of Commec, IBBIS’s open-source DNA screening tool

IIBBIS
ToolingBiosecurityManifund
IIBBIS
ToolingBiosecurityManifund
Minimum$206K
Ideal$421K

Next year of Commec (the Common Mechanism), the free, open-source, globally-available DNA synthesis screening tool hosted by IBBIS Read more

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Minimum$206K
Ideal$421K
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DownStream - A Short Form Based AI Safety Comedy News Series

AAna Hawryluk
MediaCommsManifund
AAna Hawryluk
MediaCommsManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$20K

Deigned to get everyday people more knowledgable and more invested in AI Safety causes! Designed similarly to Dave Jorgenson's "Local News International". Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$20K
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MICCAI Travel: Mechanistic Auditing of Multimodal Foundation Models

GGaurav Hadavale
IndividualResearchManifund
GGaurav Hadavale
IndividualResearchManifund
Minimum$1K
Ideal$1K

Accepted paper at Mechanistic Interpretability for Foundation Models workshop.no travel funding. Early Career Researcher Read more

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Minimum$1K
Ideal$1K
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Surrogate base model for Mechanistic Interpretability

RRaffaello Fornasiere
ResearchInterpManifund
RRaffaello Fornasiere
ResearchInterpManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$96K

Creating a reference model for mechanistic interpretability without assuming that at auditing time we have a safe model to compare the suspicious model against. Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$96K
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Preserving the Human Veto

Salvatore Barbera
EducationGovernanceManifund
Salvatore Barbera
EducationGovernanceManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$120K

Civil-society infrastructure against AI-enabled power concentration, built around autonomous weapons Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$120K
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Detecting welfare-relevant self-modeling in LLMs: protocol validation

JJohn Kuester
ResearchEvalsManifund
JJohn Kuester
ResearchEvalsManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$35K

An administrable protocol distinguishing emergent self-modeling from roleplay — 90-day validation, open publication, audit-ready scoring. Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$35K
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Source Architecture for AI Reasoning

GGreg R. Welch
IndividualResearchManifund
GGreg R. Welch
IndividualResearchManifund
Minimum$25K
Ideal$50K

Testing whether explicit source structure changes how AI systems reason from consequential documents. Read more

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Minimum$25K
Ideal$50K
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Exploring Dynamic Constraint Boundaries for Auditable AI

NNaufal Ridwan
IndividualResearchManifund
NNaufal Ridwan
IndividualResearchManifund
Minimum$10K
Ideal$25K

Testing whether dynamic boundaries, history, feedback, and uncertainty-aware decisions can make AI behavior more interpretable and auditable. Read more

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Minimum$10K
Ideal$25K
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PauseAI Australia attendance PauseCon London

PPeter Horniak
NetworkAdvocacyManifund
PPeter Horniak
NetworkAdvocacyManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$8K

Fly two volunteer leaders of PauseAI Australia to PauseCon London, to bring UK's learnings home and train our all-volunteer chapter Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$8K
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Fixing flaky AI benchmark scorers with eval-invariance-engine

JJustin Arndt
IndividualToolingManifund
JJustin Arndt
IndividualToolingManifund
Minimum$8K
Ideal$38K

Catching scoring flakiness and prompt sensitivity in AI benchmark scripts. Read more

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Minimum$8K
Ideal$38K
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Detecting tool-poisoning and schema drift in MCP servers

JJustin Arndt
ToolingSecurityManifund
JJustin Arndt
ToolingSecurityManifund
Minimum$6K
Ideal$20K

A cryptographic security auditor that uses Merkle hash trees to catch tool poisoning in Model Context Protocol. Read more

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Minimum$6K
Ideal$20K
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Autonomous Agent Sandbox Escape & Containment Benchmark

JJustin Arndt
ResearchEvalsManifund
JJustin Arndt
ResearchEvalsManifund
Minimum$10K
Ideal$35K

A benchmark measuring whether autonomous AI agents can escape sandboxes, exfiltrate data, or hack reward scorers. Read more

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Minimum$10K
Ideal$35K
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Hispanic AI Safety Institute

Tobias Martin
CommunityGovernanceManifund
Tobias Martin
CommunityGovernanceManifund
Minimum$750K
Ideal$1,500K

Building Hispanic participation in AI safety through bilingual education, policy research, and public communication. Read more

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Minimum$750K
Ideal$1,500K
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Context-Aware Defenses Against Indirect Prompt Injection in Agentic AI System

aali hussain
ResearchSecurityManifund
aali hussain
ResearchSecurityManifund
Minimum$5K
Ideal$15K

Context-Aware Defenses Against Indirect Prompt Injection in Agentic AI System Read more

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Minimum$5K
Ideal$15K
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