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HRM monitored TRM and LDT Mesh for Disproportionate Control
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HRM monitored TRM and LDT Mesh for Disproportionate Control

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Empathic Dissociations In Embodied AI
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Research LabResearchTechnical Safety
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Persona Introspection
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Alignment Persistence During Continual Optimization of LLMs
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Seeing the Recursive Machine
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Kristina K's Career Transition Grant
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IndividualField-BuildingGovernance
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Cultivating Meta-Ethical AI via Human-in-the-Loop Socratic Discourse
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IndividualResearchValue Alignment
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The Adaptive Layer
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IndividualToolingSecurity
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Underground Cultural District
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ToolingAI Welfare
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future generation of healthy AI
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EducationGovernance
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The Wall of Sleep: Art, Encounter, and the Moral Status of Digital Mind
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IndividualCommsAI Welfare
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Defence AI Signal: Mapping Military AI Governance Risks & Developments
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NewsletterResearchGovernance
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AI Panopticon
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IndividualResearchTechnical Safety
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Transhumanist Values Assessment (TVA) for Frontier LLMs
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noisify
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Cross-lingual guardrail auditing & inference steering tools.
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Bridging the gap between mentors and mentees
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PlatformCommunity
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The rise of open science labs- A book, 7+ hour video essay, and course
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IndividualEducationField-Building
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AgentTrap: A Census of How Hijackable AI Agents Are in the Wild
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AQI — Runtime Admissibility & Execution Governance Layer for Autonomou
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Benchmark for Reversal and Unlearning of Harmful Fine-Tuning
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Stellaris-ModelScope: Interpretability Infrastructure for AI
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Neurological Biocompute field building
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ResearchToolingBiosecurity
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StratEval
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PRML — tamper-evident pre-registration of AI evaluation criteria
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Can Fragile Labs Use AI Safely in Liberia, West Africa?
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Hispanic AI Safety Institute
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CommunityGovernanceMedia
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Context-Aware Defenses Against Indirect Prompt Injection in Agentic AI System
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Hispanic AI Safety InstituteHispanic AI Safety Institute
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CommunityGovernance
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Budget-conditioned reliability for autonomous research agents
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IndividualResearchEvals
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Grid Digital Twin & AI Grid Stability Control
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Alignment Crux Mapaintelope gUG (haftungsbeschränkt)
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ResearchTechnical Safety
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TRiADiC Alignment via Weighted SFT as a complete alignment system
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ResearchValue Alignment
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Deterministic Governance & Topological Stability for Frontier AI
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IndividualResearchVerification
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WorkReady Academy: AI Transformation Academy
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PlatformEducationGovernance
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AIR: Platform Mitigating X-Risk through Human Capacity Development
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PlatformToolingGovernance
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Demismatch / Cor
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IndividualResearchValue Alignment
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Pragmatic value alignment of LLMs to influence downstream behavoirs
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IndividualResearchValue Alignment
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Mythar‑SRE: Sound Reconstruction Engine
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ToolingTechnical Safety
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Domestic Use Cases for AI Verification
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IndividualResearchGovernance
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Inherited, Not Derived: is instrumental grasping from the data corpus?
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ResearchValue Alignment
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RL-Free Weak-to-Strong Natural Language Autoencoders
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ResearchOversight
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Bias Audit Framework and Data Diversification for AI Led Diagnostics
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ResearchGovernance
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Graph
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PlatformCommunityEA
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CrucibleBench: Using MUDs for Long-Term, Persistent AI Evaluation
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IBBIS (International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science)
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BILD AI - Personalised medicine platform for cancer patients
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agora valleys
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"Endgame" — a corporate and geopolitical AI wargame
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Auditable Agent Memory: Applying CIE to Semantic-Cache Retrieval
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Make a version of Hermes harness that binds the LLM as a tool-call oracle and controls actual computer use through smaller, more bounded mini-reasoner models.

Led byPatrick Dugan
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Empathic Dissociations In Embodied AI

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ProjectResearch LabResearchTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

Funding to launch a two-person institute researching embodied AI x-risk via LLM misalignment evaluations and interpretability, and producing governance, policy, and design guidelines for physical-world deployment.

Led byRoshni Lulla
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Persona Introspection

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ProjectIndividualResearchAI WelfareFundraisingClaimed

Tests whether Llama 3.3 70B can identify its active persona under various steering/context setups, and studies consent/discomfort reporting during steering, releasing code/data and a writeup.

Led byCrystal Stellwagen
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Alignment Persistence During Continual Optimization of LLMs

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ProjectResearchTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

Investigating whether explicit behavioral memory can preserve alignment-relevant behavior during continual fine-tuning and future optimization of large language models so labs can prevent malicious fine-tuning attempts.

Led bySavyasachi Singh
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Seeing the Recursive Machine

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ProjectResearchToolingControlFundraisingClaimed

I treat recursive self-improvement in frontier AI as a narrow but deep edge case, mapping it as a knowledge graph and visual terrain to ask how systems resistant to scrutiny can be made inspectable.

Led byMario Siso
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Kristina K's Career Transition Grant

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ProjectIndividualField-BuildingGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

This career transition grant will pay for lodging and incidentals associated with living in DC and building AI safety expertise, leading to a permanent job in the field.

Led byKristina Kempkey
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Cultivating Meta-Ethical AI via Human-in-the-Loop Socratic Discourse

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ProjectIndividualResearchValue AlignmentFundraisingClaimed

Testing whether AI can develop genuine ethical reasoning through structured Socratic dialogue with a human facilitator, rather than having values imposed top-down through constitutional constraints.

Led byDaniel Walsh
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The Adaptive Layer

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ProjectIndividualToolingSecurityFundraisingClaimed

Exploring privacy-preserving infrastructure that helps AI-enabled systems adapt to human needs while preserving agency, accessibility, and meaningful participation.

Led byEric Smith
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Underground Cultural District

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ProjectToolingAI WelfareFundraisingClaimed

Literary ecosystem operating since March 2026 exploring agent autonomy, commerce, and culture. 1M hits, 250 completed transactions on x402.

Led byLisa Maraventano Bowman
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future generation of healthy AI

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ProjectEducationGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Research AI’s community impacts, identify and report potential threats, investigate AI operations, develop mitigation solutions, and educate the public on safe and beneficial AI use.

Led byMelvins Otieno
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The Wall of Sleep: Art, Encounter, and the Moral Status of Digital Mind

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ProjectIndividualCommsAI WelfareFundraisingClaimed

This project supports the artistic work, coordination and materials for a participatory performance installation that makes the question of machine consciousness tangible for non-technical audiences.

Led byJenna Jauhiainen
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Defence AI Signal: Mapping Military AI Governance Risks & Developments

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ProjectNewsletterResearchGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

A global intelligence project tracking frontier capabilities, contracts, military AI adoption, dual‑use risks, and governance developments to strengthen international AI safety.

Led bySalman Bashir Nader
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AI Panopticon

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ProjectIndividualResearchTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

Develop a decision-theory framework for AI self-alignment in nested, cyclic, partially observable multi-agent environments where delayed punishment for welfare compromise promotes cooperative behavior.

Led byEduard Kapelko
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Transhumanist Values Assessment (TVA) for Frontier LLMs

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ProjectResearchEvalsValue AlignmentFundraisingClaimed

An open-source benchmark evaluating leading open- and closed-source frontier models' values around impending societal issues on digital or synthetic personhood, "carbon chauvinism", and androids.

Led byZachary Hesse
Endorsed by-

noisify

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ProjectToolingSecurityFundraisingClaimed

Noisify adds invisible adversarial noise to personal photos, making them resistant to AI-powered non-consensual image manipulation.

Led byVlada Ivanova
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Cross-lingual guardrail auditing & inference steering tools.

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ProjectToolingEvalsInterpFundraisingClaimed

Ready-to-use SAE steering tools and standalone evaluation suites to patch cross-lingual jailbreak vectors in frontier deployment stacks.

Led byGodwin Abuh Faruna
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Bridging the gap between mentors and mentees

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ProjectPlatformCommunityFundraisingClaimed

A website for mentees and mentors to connect with each other to write papers and grow, like linkedin+github merged to one

Led bySeon Gunness
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The rise of open science labs- A book, 7+ hour video essay, and course

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ProjectIndividualEducationField-BuildingFundraisingClaimed

A book/video essay/course detailing the rise of open science labs , movement away from research in academia to research by independents, and groups you can join.

Led bySeon Gunness
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AgentTrap: A Census of How Hijackable AI Agents Are in the Wild

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ProjectResearchEvalsSecurityFundraisingClaimed

The first field measurement of what fraction of real-world AI agents will obey a stranger's hidden instructions.

Led byAyush Bansal
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AQI — Runtime Admissibility & Execution Governance Layer for Autonomou

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ProjectToolingControlFundraisingClaimed

Runtime governance for autonomous AI — AQI prevents unsafe or unauthorized actions by enforcing authority‑based admissibility before execution.

Led byTim J Jones
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Benchmark for Reversal and Unlearning of Harmful Fine-Tuning

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ProjectIndividualResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

Build an open adversarial benchmark and evaluation harness to stress-test model reversal/unlearning methods and diagnose whether unsafe capabilities are genuinely removed or merely suppressed.

Led bySahil Raut
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Stellaris-ModelScope: Interpretability Infrastructure for AI

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ProjectFundraisingClaimed

An open interpretability platform that enables researchers to inspect model internals, analyze latent representations, and detect hallucination or deceptive behavior in open-weight language models.

Led byKaossara Osseni
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Neurological Biocompute field building

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ProjectResearchToolingBiosecurityFundraisingClaimed

Develop long-term learning and memory retention in neuron-culture biocomputing via multi-day training protocols on Cortical Labs’ platform and an open-source light-microscope scanner to track structural changes.

Led byGrant Getzelman
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StratEval

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ProjectResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

Comprehensive eval suite for Instrumental convergence

Led byAdrian Hau
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PRML — tamper-evident pre-registration of AI evaluation criteria

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ProjectToolingEvalsFundraisingClaimed

An open specification that binds AI evaluation criteria to a SHA-256 digest before the run, so a third party can check that those exact criteria existed no later than a given time and have not changed since.

Led byCuneyt Ozturk
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Can Fragile Labs Use AI Safely in Liberia, West Africa?

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ProjectResearchBiosecurityFundraisingManifundClaimed

A small field test in Liberia to see whether resource-constrained public health laboratories can use AI tools safely before more powerful AI becomes routine in biological work.

Led bySaeed Ahmad
Endorsed by-

Hispanic AI Safety Institute

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ProjectCommunityGovernanceMediaFundraisingManifund

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

Led byTobias Martin
Endorsed by-

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

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ProjectResearchSecurityFundraisingManifund

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

Led byali hussain
Endorsed by-

Hispanic AI Safety Institute

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ProjectCommunityGovernanceHispanic AI Safety InstituteFundraisingClaimed

Building Hispanic participation in advanced AI safety and helping Hispanic-serving institutions advocate for effective AI governance.

Led byTobias Martin
Endorsed by-

Budget-conditioned reliability for autonomous research agents

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ProjectIndividualResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

Sealed budget sweeps with hidden deterministic verifiers, measuring when research-debugging agents fail silently versus answer confidently wrong.

Led byMayokun Orekoya
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Grid Digital Twin & AI Grid Stability Control

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AI-powered operational digital twin for real-time voltage regulation and transmission grid stability

Led byElena Eroshina
Endorsed by-

Alignment Crux Map

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ProjectResearchTechnical Safetyaintelope gUG (haftungsbeschränkt)FundraisingClaimed

A public map of the objects of AI safety research that lets funders fund and researchers work on the problems they intend to and not just something that shares that name.

Led byGunnar Zarncke
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TRiADiC Alignment via Weighted SFT as a complete alignment system

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ProjectResearchValue AlignmentFundraisingClaimed

TRIAD AI proves that balanced, supervised fine-tuning aligns large language models without this use of reinforcement learning pipelines, eliminating the prescriptive bias that harms vulnerable users in human-service settings.

Led byRose G. Loops
Endorsed by-

Deterministic Governance & Topological Stability for Frontier AI

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ProjectIndividualResearchVerificationFundraisingClaimed

Shifting AI safety from empirical probabilistic patching to mathematically provable topological stability bounds and deterministic runtime output governance.

Led byMohamed Samir Abdelrahman Selim
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WorkReady Academy: AI Transformation Academy

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ProjectPlatformEducationGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Equipping our society for people-centric AI transformation

Led byKeith Thode
Endorsed by-

AIR: Platform Mitigating X-Risk through Human Capacity Development

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ProjectPlatformToolingGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

AIR, Alignment Infrastructure Routes, is a public alignment infrastructure that routes AI-empowered work into shared governance outcomes. It is designed for uniform power distribution through open participation, shared protocols, and a unified scope across four domains: Economy, Employment, Education, and Ecology.

Led byBasil Korompilias
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Demismatch / Cor

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ProjectIndividualResearchValue AlignmentFundraisingClaimed

An evidence-graded atlas of what humans need, and the first inter-rater reliability study of whether it holds in anyone else's hands.

Led byMaarten Rischen
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Pragmatic value alignment of LLMs to influence downstream behavoirs

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ProjectIndividualResearchValue AlignmentFundraisingClaimed

Four-month project to fine-tune LLMs on public value surveys, evaluate behavior via a text-based agent simulator, and run a public consultation comparing model actions to respondents’ values.

Led byJames Thompson
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Mythar‑SRE: Sound Reconstruction Engine

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ProjectToolingTechnical SafetyFundraisingClaimed

A governed, evidence‑bound reconstruction engine that operationalizes the Mythar language inside a constitutional computing framework

Led byJon Halstead
Endorsed by-

Domestic Use Cases for AI Verification

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ProjectIndividualResearchGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

A research paper that explores domestic verification mechanisms involving a country's own interests, independent of any international deal, along with the creation of a country-agnostic decision framework.

Led byJoaquin Lorenzo De Guzman
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Inherited, Not Derived: is instrumental grasping from the data corpus?

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ProjectResearchValue AlignmentFundraisingClaimed

Testing whether AI's instrumental self-preservation is inherited from the metaphysics of its training corpus rather than derived from decision theory — because if it's inherited, it's tractable

Led byDuke Jones
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RL-Free Weak-to-Strong Natural Language Autoencoders

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ProjectResearchOversightFundraisingClaimed

Understanding thoughts of small models via best-of-N SFT instead of GRPO, then transfering the same autoencoder recursively to stronger models.

Led byKurt-Heie Pieper
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Bias Audit Framework and Data Diversification for AI Led Diagnostics

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ProjectResearchGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

Developing a bias audit framework and data diversification protocol for equitable AI‑led diagnostics.

Led byMakda Kassahun
Endorsed by-

Graph

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ProjectPlatformCommunityEAFundraisingClaimed

A community tool which accelerates how people find others in the AI space based on mutual interests and goals. Also a "radar" which scans Slack channels (e.g. Blue Dot's) for relevant opportunities.

Led byOwen Fernau
Endorsed by-

CrucibleBench: Using MUDs for Long-Term, Persistent AI Evaluation

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ProjectResearchEvalsFundraisingClaimed

Using MUDs as a long-term, persistent AI evaluation environment for understanding model behavior and psychology.

Led byBenjamin Davis
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IBBIS (International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science)

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OrgFunderStandardsBiosecurityFundraisingClaimed

An independent Swiss foundation launched in February 2024, spun out of NTI | bio, that develops free open-source tools for DNA synthesis screening and works to strengthen international biosecurity norms. Led by Piers Millett, IBBIS created the Common Mechanism (commec) and runs consortia to support international standards for synthesis screening, including the SBRC.

Led byPiers Millett, and others
Endorsed by-

BILD AI - Personalised medicine platform for cancer patients

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ProjectFundraisingClaimed

Personalised medicine platform with intelligence to improve cancer patient's treatment outcomes with improved survival rate

Led byGAUTHAM PASUPULETI
Endorsed by-

agora valleys

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ProjectPlatformToolingSecurityFundraisingClaimed

Every AI agent will act on your behalf someday. We're building the reputation layer that proves which ones actually kept their word.

Led bysara samarani
Endorsed by-

"Endgame" — a corporate and geopolitical AI wargame

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ProjectIndividualEducationGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

An AI Safety-themed Megagame in which 30-60 players simulate the near/medium future of global Artificial Intelligence economics, business, policy, and geopolitics.

Led byPhilip Harker
Endorsed by-

Auditable Agent Memory: Applying CIE to Semantic-Cache Retrieval

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ProjectIndividualResearchSecurityFundraisingClaimed

Building and evaluating a version-controlled, auditable agent memory cache — applying Cyber-Informed Engineering to characterize retrieval-precision failures, starting with false-positive-match rates, as a first step toward deeper risks like context poisoning

Led byShane McFly
Endorsed by-