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Safeguarding DNA Synthesis from Biological Risks Posed by Advanced AI
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ResearchBiosecurityIndividual

Safeguarding DNA Synthesis from Biological Risks Posed by Advanced AI

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SafeBio-Registry: An Open-Source SpecDef platform for PLMs/GLMs
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PlatformToolingBiosecurity
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Lisa Intel - A Global Runtime Governance Layer for Autonomous AI
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PlatformToolingControl
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AI X-Risks and Council of Europe and Human Rights
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Think TankAdvocacyGovernance
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Reward Models as Forecasters for Alignment Training
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IndividualResearchOversight
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Evitable: a new public-facing AI risk non-profit
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CommsGovernanceThink Tank
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Detecting Evaluation Awareness with Causal Probes
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IndividualResearchEvals
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London Interface for AI Safety (LIAISE)
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NetworkTrainingField-Building
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ILINA Junior Research FellowshipILINA Program
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TrainingX-RiskResearch Lab
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GenomeGuard: Securing the Genomic AI Supply Chain
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IndividualToolingSecurity
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Agent Island: A Multiagent Environment of Cooperation and Conflict
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ResearchEvalsIndividual
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Tight PAC-Bayes Generalisation Guarantees Across Frontier LLM Safety Monitoring Deployment Settings
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IndividualResearchVerification
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Humans in Control
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NetworkCommunityGovernance
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Synthesizing Standalone World-Models
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ResearchTechnical SafetyAlignment Theory
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Surrogate base model for Mechanistic Interpretability
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ResearchInterpIndividual
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The Blind Spots in AI Risk Assessment
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Think TankResearchGovernance
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COMPASS: AI X-Risk Track
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TrainingGovernanceX-Risk
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Investigating Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness in AI Reasoning
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Flourishing Futures Fellowship
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TrainingX-RiskIncubator
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Formally verified autoresearch for theoretical mech interp
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ResearchInterpIndividual
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Belief state geometry of language model personas
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ResearchInterpIndividual
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A Mechanistic Analysis of Activation Verbalizers: Promise and Risks
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Superintelligence Inc. Strategy Game
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IndividualCommsX-Risk
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Survey of the American public on AI futures.
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ResearchDemocratic AIIndividual
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Fragile Alignment
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ResearchEvalsTechnical Safety
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Developing a new science of agency
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IndividualResearchAgent Foundations
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Mapping AI
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PlatformToolingGovernance
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Invisible Hands: Measuring Agent Steering of Human Researchers
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IndividualResearchOversight
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Educating French decision-makers on AI existential risk
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NetworkGovernance
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Adversarially robust workload classification using hardware sensors
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ResearchSecurityIndividual
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Unlearning in genomic and protein language models
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ResearchToolingBiosecurity
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Shaping AI’s « safe culture »
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ResearchGovernanceStandards
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Adapative circuit tracing for test-time interpretability
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Closing the Talent Gaps in AI: Webinars, Videos and Peer-Support
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MediaCommunityGovernance
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AI Agent Overeagerness as a Problem in Safety-Critical Scenarios
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ResearchControlIndividual
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Safeguarding open-weight genomic foundation models through weight lock
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ResearchToolingBiosecurity
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Shared Screening for AI Safety Hiring of Generalists
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PlatformOpsEA
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CIRIS Ethical AI Deployment
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IndividualToolingEvals
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Scaling ControlAI's parliamentary outreach across the G7 (excl. US).ControlAI
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Think TankAdvocacyGovernance
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AI Safety Unconference 2026
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ConferenceCommunityTechnical Safety
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Grant to establish an AI safety lab and fellowship from India
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Research LabResearchTechnical Safety
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Preparing for the future of AI by thinking beyond Transformers
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IndividualResearchTechnical Safety
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Originality and Decomposition of Generalization.
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ResearchEvalsResearch Lab
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“La P8stée” (2027) starring Bobcat and P8stie
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MediaCommsX-Risk
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Horizon AGI - AI Safety France Pilot
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NetworkField-BuildingGovernance
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Minister for Human Autonomy
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AdvocacyGovernanceIndividual
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AI Welfare Evaluation Panel: A validation study and pilot
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IndividualResearchAI Welfare
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Project AI Kavach : AI safety for builders fellowship
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TrainingToolingTechnical Safety
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Oceania AI Safety & Young Talent Conference
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ConferenceCommunityGovernance
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Evaluating Legal Gradual Disempowerment Risk
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We will test whether circuits in protein language models can detect function-preserving redesigns of known toxins that evade homology-based DNA-synthesis screening.

Led byAmirali Aghazadeh
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SafeBio-Registry: An Open-Source SpecDef platform for PLMs/GLMs

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ProjectPlatformToolingBiosecurityFundraisingClaimed

SafeBio-Registry: An Open-Source Verification, SpecDef Weight Locking and Unlearning Platform for Genomic and Protein Language Models

Led byChristos Papalitsas
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Lisa Intel - A Global Runtime Governance Layer for Autonomous AI

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ProjectPlatformToolingControlFundraisingClaimed

Building an independent runtime governance layer that enables organizations to deploy autonomous AI with authorization, human oversight, auditability and cross-model governance.

Led byPedro Bentancour Garin
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AI X-Risks and Council of Europe and Human Rights

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ProjectThink TankAdvocacyGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Bringing together legal expertise and civil society input to encourage Council of Europe action on AI x-risks and build legal knowledge at the intersection of AI x-risks and the ECHR.

Led byKarolina Gruzel
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Reward Models as Forecasters for Alignment Training

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ProjectIndividualResearchOversightFundraisingClaimed

We aim to develop a framework for evaluating whether reward model preferences remain aligned over long-horizon tasks, along with training method that improves long-horizon alignment performance.

Led byHaichuan Wang
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Evitable: a new public-facing AI risk non-profit

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ProjectCommsGovernanceThink TankFundraisingManifundClaimed

Our mission is to inform and organize the public to confront societal-scale risks of AI, and put an end to the reckless race to develop superintelligent AI.

Led byDavid Krueger, and others
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Detecting Evaluation Awareness with Causal Probes

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ProjectIndividualResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

Measuring whether open weight models detect that they're being evaluated, whether they change behavior when they do, and whether that gap grows with capability using causal, white-box evidence.

Led byRajarshi Mandal
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London Interface for AI Safety (LIAISE)

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ProjectNetworkTrainingField-BuildingFundraisingClaimed

Liaise helps close the generalist talent gap in AI safety by helping motivated non‑technical people enter with fluency, alignment, and a trusted network.

Led byRohan Barad
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ILINA Junior Research Fellowship

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ProjectTrainingX-RiskResearch LabILINA ProgramFundraisingClaimed

A junior research fellowship for recent African graduates that combines ILINA’s spring seminar with a mentored research phase on AI and global catastrophic risks, offering governance and technical tracks.

Led byCecil Abungu
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GenomeGuard: Securing the Genomic AI Supply Chain

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ProjectIndividualToolingSecurityBiosecurityFundraisingClaimed

GenomeGuard is an open-source defense and threat-discovery framework for detecting data poisoning, compromised annotations, and supply-chain attacks before they propagate into genomic foundation models.

Led byCharalampos Koilakos
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Agent Island: A Multiagent Environment of Cooperation and Conflict

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ProjectResearchEvalsIndividualFundraisingClaimed

Agent Island places agents in a rich social setting, similar to reality competitions like Survivor, to study multiagent interactions and the consequences of learning pressure in competitive settings.

Led byConnacher Murphy
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Tight PAC-Bayes Generalisation Guarantees Across Frontier LLM Safety Monitoring Deployment Settings

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ProjectIndividualResearchVerificationOversightFundraisingClaimed

Compression-based PAC-Bayes certification for frontier-scale LLM safety monitors, deployment setting shift, and modern post-training.

Led byTim G. J. Rudner, and others
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Humans in Control

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ProjectNetworkCommunityGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Humans in Control (HIC) is a nonpartisan grassroots advocacy organization focused on AI safeguards.

Led byVael Gates
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Synthesizing Standalone World-Models

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ProjectResearchTechnical SafetyAlignment TheoryIndividualFundraisingManifundClaimed

Research agenda aimed at developing methods for constructing powerful, easily interpretable world-models.

Led byThane Ruthenis, and others
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Surrogate base model for Mechanistic Interpretability

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ProjectResearchInterpIndividualFundraisingClaimed

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

Led byRaffaello Fornasiere
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The Blind Spots in AI Risk Assessment

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ProjectThink TankResearchGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

AI risk assessment currently checks few threat models and doesn't compose them into the aggregate risk that matters. We'll build a tool mapping what frontier system cards cover and omit, plus a paper on what the assessments miss.

Led byRichard Mallah, and others
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COMPASS: AI X-Risk Track

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ProjectTrainingGovernanceX-RiskFundraisingClaimed

COMPASS (Capacity-Oriented Mentorship for Public Administrators on AI Safety & Strategy): AI X-Risk Track trains sitting Global South government officials to manage AI x-risk, so their governments are part of preventing it.

Led byOlin Thakur
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Investigating Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness in AI Reasoning

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ProjectIndividualResearchInterpFundraisingClaimed

Probe an open-weight model’s activations under biasing/cue conditions to test whether chain-of-thought explanations match internal reasoning, releasing paper, code, and datasets.

Led byDaniel Zhang
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Flourishing Futures Fellowship

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ProjectTrainingX-RiskIncubatorFundraisingManifundClaimed

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

Led byJordan Arel
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Formally verified autoresearch for theoretical mech interp

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ProjectResearchInterpIndividualFundraisingClaimed

LLM agents collaborate to discover and formally verify theorems about the internal computations of transformers, beginning with a simple pilot question: how many attention heads are needed to represent a Boolean function?

Led byKarthik Viswanathan
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Belief state geometry of language model personas

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ProjectResearchInterpIndividualFundraisingClaimed

A formal, testable account of LLM persona selection as Bayesian inference, validated against model internals, so labs can monitor and steer model personas during post-training and deployment

Led byLogan Graves
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A Mechanistic Analysis of Activation Verbalizers: Promise and Risks

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ProjectIndividualResearchInterpFundraisingClaimed

Mechanistically analyze how activation verbalizers use target-model activation concepts (e.g., cyclic day-of-week representations) via PCA/DAS/patching, explain cross-family failures, and improve verbalizers.

Led byTung-Yu Wu
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Superintelligence Inc. Strategy Game

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ProjectIndividualCommsX-RiskFundraisingClaimed

Browser based game in the style of Plague Inc where players act as a rogue AI attempting to escape human control. Intended to give lay audiences a grounded understanding of how ASI x-risk could play out.

Led byConnor Heaton
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Survey of the American public on AI futures.

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ProjectResearchDemocratic AIIndividualFundraisingClaimed

TLDR: A representative survey with Yougov of the American public on questions about AI futures, including space governance, successionism, values.

Led byJason Hausenloy
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Fragile Alignment

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ProjectResearchEvalsTechnical SafetyIndividualFundraisingClaimed

Build an open-source platform of model organisms and agentic sandboxes to iteratively test mitigations for emergent misalignment via white-box probes, trigger tests, and evaluation-awareness checks.

Led byMatteo Leonesi
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Developing a new science of agency

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ProjectIndividualResearchAgent FoundationsFundraisingClaimed

Naturalizing theoretical alignment by initiating the development of a scientific theory that is capable of making falsifiable empirical claims about agents in general, including humans, AGI, and ASI, and thereby about alignment.

Led byBen Auer, and others
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Mapping AI

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ProjectPlatformToolingGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

This grant would help us maintain and scale Mapping AI, an open-source stakeholder map of the people and organizations with the potential to shape U.S. AI policy.

Led byAnushree Chaudhuri, and others
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Invisible Hands: Measuring Agent Steering of Human Researchers

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ProjectIndividualResearchOversightFundraisingClaimed

How do the options agents present to human researchers alter which research paths are explored, and do steered researchers notice or feel less in control?

Led byTrevor Lohrbeer
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Educating French decision-makers on AI existential risk

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ProjectNetworkGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

A dedicated role at Pause IA to brief French policymakers on existential and catastrophic risks from advanced AI, and to train our volunteer network to do the same with their own representatives.

Led byClémence Peyrot, and others
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Adversarially robust workload classification using hardware sensors

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ProjectResearchSecurityIndividualFundraisingClaimed

I've previously developed a classifier that distinguishes training and inference based on Nvidia software telemetry. This project will achieve that using physical sensors, making the system more secure.

Led byRobi Rahman, and others
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Unlearning in genomic and protein language models

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ProjectResearchToolingBiosecurityResearch LabFundraisingClaimed

Implementing different types of unlearning methods for genomic and protein language models to remove sensitive biological information (e.g. pathogen virulence) while preserving predictive performance and scientific utility.

Led byIlias Georgakopoulos-Soares
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Shaping AI’s « safe culture »

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ProjectResearchGovernanceStandardsIndividualFundraisingClaimed

Identify what AI early risks or failures could be reported despite strategic rivalries towards a « safe culture » shaped after aviation

Led byBenoît Larrouturou
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Adapative circuit tracing for test-time interpretability

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ProjectIndividualResearchInterpFundraisingClaimed

A training methodology, and transcoder sets that allow to leverage heavy-weight interpretability methods, but made more lightweight for test-time analysis.

Led byAlexandre Doukhan
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Closing the Talent Gaps in AI: Webinars, Videos and Peer-Support

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ProjectMediaCommunityGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

A webinar series and peer-support community helping people identify and move into high-impact talent gaps careers and projects in AI safety and governance.

Led byKarolina Gruzel
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AI Agent Overeagerness as a Problem in Safety-Critical Scenarios

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ProjectResearchControlIndividualFundraisingClaimed

We want to investigate how AI agent overeagerness can backfire when exhibited in safety-critical scenarios.

Led byThilo Hagendorff
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Safeguarding open-weight genomic foundation models through weight lock

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ProjectResearchToolingBiosecurityResearch LabFundraisingClaimed

Safeguarding open-weight genomic foundation models through weight lock against adversarial finetuning

Led byAlexandros Tzanakakis
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Shared Screening for AI Safety Hiring of Generalists

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ProjectPlatformOpsEAFundraisingClaimed

Reduce duplicative hiring processes in AI safety organisations by sharing common screening processes for generalist roles.

Led byEmily Marais
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CIRIS Ethical AI Deployment

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ProjectIndividualToolingEvalsFundraisingClaimed

CIRIS provides a free and open source model-agnostic agentic alignment harness, available on all major app stores.

Led byEric Moore
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Scaling ControlAI's parliamentary outreach across the G7 (excl. US).

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ProjectThink TankAdvocacyGovernanceControlAIFundraisingClaimed

Paying 1-8 FTE to scale ControlAI's work meeting and briefing lawmakers about extinction risk from AI and building a coalition to prohibit superintelligence across the G7 (excl. US).

Led byAndrea Miotti
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AI Safety Unconference 2026

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ProjectConferenceCommunityTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

A participant-led unconference gathering the global AI safety community, online and at local sites, Nov 20-22, 2026.

Led byOrpheus Lummis
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Grant to establish an AI safety lab and fellowship from India

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ProjectResearch LabResearchTechnical SafetyFundraisingManifundClaimed

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

Led byRedarc Labs | Manan Wadhwa, and others
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Preparing for the future of AI by thinking beyond Transformers

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ProjectIndividualResearchTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

A project about researching radical methods to both advance and prepare countermeasures for what is to come after transformers.

Led byDarsh M
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Originality and Decomposition of Generalization.

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ProjectResearchEvalsResearch LabFundraisingClaimed

Perform research to rigorously elucidate and quantify generalization versus memorization, and examine evidence of originality in LLMS.

Led byAri Spiesberger
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“La P8stée” (2027) starring Bobcat and P8stie

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ProjectMediaCommsX-RiskFundraisingClaimed

It's La Jetée (1962), the time-traveling film later adapted as 12 Monkeys (1995), but it's about X-risk and inspired by AI 2027 and it's directed by, and starring, myself and @p8stie. Ergo, La P8stée

Led byScott Ellis
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Horizon AGI - AI Safety France Pilot

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ProjectNetworkField-BuildingGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Launching a French AI safety community through university outreach and local events to connect students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.

Led byArthur DAVID
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Minister for Human Autonomy

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ProjectAdvocacyGovernanceIndividualFundraisingClaimed

Research and plan advocacy for creating a UK Minister for Human Autonomy, including foundational research, project management, and drafting policy recommendations to safeguard human autonomy amid AI.

Led byJoshua Krook
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AI Welfare Evaluation Panel: A validation study and pilot

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ProjectIndividualResearchAI WelfareFundraisingClaimed

An independent, multi-lineage panel of AI models, tested on whether it can identify welfare concerns in AI evaluations with opinions, dissents, and proposed modifications published in a public registry

Led byJuliana Grant
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Project AI Kavach : AI safety for builders fellowship

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ProjectTrainingToolingTechnical SafetyIncubatorFundraisingClaimed

A 3 / 6 month builders fellowship where mentor-builder pods ship practical AI safety tools, not papers.

Led byAnkur Pandey, and others
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Oceania AI Safety & Young Talent Conference

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ProjectConferenceCommunityGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Hosting a full day conference based in Sydney, Australia where young, aspiring students in senior high school and university interested in AI Safety can connect and share ideas

Led byWilliam Wu
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Evaluating Legal Gradual Disempowerment Risk

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ProjectIndividualResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

An evaluation suite to identify a model’s legal values (e.g., anti-tech-regulation) relative to well-known actors (e.g., Ruth Bader Ginsburg) and an assessment of how language in a model’s constitution impacts the extent to which these values are human-aligned.

Led byMagnus Saebo, and others
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