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Ryan Kidd

Berkeley, California, United States

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Bio

Updated 10/24/26 · By grantmaking.ai

Co-Executive Director at MATS

Links

Updated 10/24/26 · By grantmaking.ai

Personal Website: https://ryankidd.ai/
LinkedIn: LinkedIn
LessWrong: ryankidd44

Organizations

Machine Alignment Transparency and Security (MATS)

Co-Executive Director

AI Safety Argentina

Advisory board member

Projects

Co-Executive Director

creator

Grants

Updated 10/24/26 · By grantmaking.ai

Ryan Kidd → Core funding for PauseAI UK

to Core funding for PauseAI UKmanifund.org

funder$5,000

Ryan Kidd → BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative

to BASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiativemanifund.org

funder$5,000

Ryan Kidd → Pax Machina

to Pax Machinamanifund.org

funder$10,000

Ryan Kidd → AI Safety Nepal

to AI Safety Nepalmanifund.org

funder$1,609

Ryan Kidd → Flourishing Futures Fellowship

to Flourishing Futures Fellowshipmanifund.org

funder$10,000

Ryan Kidd → PayBench: A Benchmark for Unsafe Commercial Autonomy

to PayBench: A Benchmark for Unsafe Commercial Autonomymanifund.org

funder$2,000

Ryan Kidd → Movement-building to make AGI go well

to Movement-building to make AGI go wellmanifund.org

funder$5,000

Ryan Kidd → AI Safety YouTube Channel

to AI Safety YouTube Channelmanifund.org

funder$10,000

Ryan Kidd → Travel grant to attend HAAISS Prague 2026

to Travel grant to attend HAAISS Prague 2026manifund.org

funder$1,000

Ryan Kidd → AI Safety Atlas: a searchable directory of everyone in AI safety

to AI Safety Roster: a searchable directory of everyone in AI safetymanifund.org

funder$4,000

Ryan Kidd → Tarbell Center for AI Journalism

to Tarbell Center for AI Journalismmanifund.org

funder$10,000

Ryan Kidd → ICML Workshop Travel: Cross-Constitution Drift in LLM Character Training

to ICML Workshop Travel: Cross-Constitution Drift in LLM Character Trainingmanifund.org

funder$2,030

Ryan Kidd → Stress-testing alignment auditing methods of AuditBench

to Stress-testing alignment auditing methods of AuditBenchmanifund.org

funder$5,000

Ryan Kidd → Agent Island: An Environment for Interagent Cooperation and Conflict

to Agent Island: An Environment for Interagent Cooperation and Conflictmanifund.org

funder$3,000

Ryan Kidd → Travel Grants for New Zealand's Inaugural AI Safety Conference

to Travel Grants for New Zealand's Inaugural AI Safety Conferencemanifund.org

funder$2,000

Ryan Kidd → Videos covering AI news and politics with a focus on the extinction threat

to Videos covering AI news and politics with a focus on the extinction threatmanifund.org

funder$2,000

Ryan Kidd → Travel Grants for New Zealand's Inaugural AI Safety Conference

to Travel Grants for New Zealand's Inaugural AI Safety Conferencemanifund.org

funder$3,000

Ryan Kidd → Precautionary AGI Governance

to Precautionary AGI Governancemanifund.org

funder$5,000

Ryan Kidd → FragGuard: Cross-Session Malicious Activity Detection for Model APIs

to FragGuard: Cross-Session Malicious Activity Detection for Model APIsmanifund.org

funder$2,000

Ryan Kidd → Transluce: Fund Scalable Democratic Oversight of AI

to Transluce: Fund Scalable Democratic Oversight of AImanifund.org

funder$10,000

Ryan Kidd → Forethought

to Forethoughtmanifund.org

funder$5,000

Ryan Kidd → Evitable: a new public-facing AI risk non-profit

to Evitable: a new public-facing AI risk non-profit manifund.org

funder$5,000

Ryan Kidd → Reducing Risk in AI Safety Through Expanding Capacity.

to Reducing Risk in AI Safety Through Expanding Capacity.manifund.org

funder$10,000

Ryan Kidd → Isolating CBRN Knowledge in LLMs for Safety - Phase 2 (Research)

to Isolating CBRN Knowledge in LLMs for Safety - Phase 2 (Research)manifund.org

funder$2,500

Ryan Kidd → Retroactive: Presenting a poster at the ICML technical AI governance workshop

to Retroactive: Presenting a poster at the ICML technical AI governance workshopmanifund.org

funder$1,300

Ryan Kidd → CaML - AGI alignment to nonhumans

to CaML - AGI alignment to nonhumansmanifund.org

funder$10,000

Ryan Kidd → Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars 2026

to Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars 2026manifund.org

funder$2,000

Ryan Kidd → Inspect Evals

to Inspect Evalsmanifund.org

funder$19,997

Ryan Kidd → The Deal of the Century: Targeted Persuasion Campaign for a US-China AI Treaty

to The Deal of the Century: Targeted Persuasion Campaign for a US-China AI Treatymanifund.org

funder$10,000

Ryan Kidd → Enabling a Student to Present his Mechanistic Interpretability Work at NeurIPS

to Enabling a Student to Present his Mechanistic Interpretability Work at NeurIPS manifund.org

funder$900

Ryan Kidd → Grow An AI Safety Tiktok Channel To Reach Ten Million People

to Grow An AI Safety Tiktok Channel To Reach Ten Million Peoplemanifund.org

funder$1,000

Ryan Kidd → AI Safety Los Angeles (AISLA)

to AI Safety Los Angeles (AISLA)manifund.org

funder$2,500

Ryan Kidd → Acausal research and interventions

to Acausal research and interventionsmanifund.org

funder$10,000

Ryan Kidd → TransformerLens - Bridge Funding

to TransformerLens - Bridge Fundingmanifund.org

funder$3,000

Ryan Kidd → Keep Apart Research Going: Global AI Safety Research & Talent Pipeline

to Keep Apart Research Going: Global AI Safety Research & Talent Pipelinemanifund.org

funder$5,000

Ryan Kidd → Keep Apart Research Going: Global AI Safety Research & Talent Pipeline

to Keep Apart Research Going: Global AI Safety Research & Talent Pipelinemanifund.org

funder$5,000

Ryan Kidd → AI forecasting and policy research by the AI 2027 team

to AI forecasting and policy research by the AI 2027 teammanifund.org

funder$5,000

Ryan Kidd → Coordinal Research: Accelerating the research of safely deploying AI systems.

to Coordinal Research: Accelerating the research of safely deploying AI systems.manifund.org

funder$10,000

Ryan Kidd → Out of This Box: AI Safety Musical

to Out of This Box: AI Safety Musicalmanifund.org

funder$6,500

Ryan Kidd → Develop technical framework for human control mechanisms for agentic AI systems

to Develop technical framework for human control mechanisms for agentic AI systemsmanifund.org

funder$10,000

Ryan Kidd → 'Making God': a Documentary on AI Risks for the Public

to 'Making God': a Documentary on AI Risks for the Publicmanifund.org

funder$5,000

Ryan Kidd → AI Governance Exchange (focus on China, AI safety), Seed Funding

to AI Governance Exchange (focus on China, AI safety), Seed Fundingmanifund.org

funder$12,000

Ryan Kidd → Luthien

to Luthienmanifund.org

funder$20,000

Ryan Kidd → [Urgent] Top-up funding to present poster at the Tokyo AI Safety Conference

to [Urgent] Top-up funding to present poster at the Tokyo AI Safety Conference manifund.org

funder$600

Ryan Kidd → Finishing The SB-1047 Documentary

to Finishing The SB-1047 Documentarymanifund.org

funder$6,000

Ryan Kidd → Athena 2.0

to Athena 2.0manifund.org

funder$8,000

Ryan Kidd → Developing a Course on AI x-risk

to Developing a Course on AI x-riskmanifund.org

funder$5,000

Ryan Kidd → Testing and spreading messages to reduce AI x-risk

to Testing and spreading messages to reduce AI x-riskmanifund.org

funder$1,529

Ryan Kidd → PIBBSS - General Programs funding or specific funding

to PrincInt - General Programs funding or specific fundingmanifund.org

funder$25,000

Ryan Kidd → AI Policy Breakthroughs — Empowering Insiders

to AI Policy Breakthroughs — Empowering Insidersmanifund.org

funder$20,000

Ryan Kidd → AI-Driven Market Alternatives for a post-AGI world

to AI-Driven Market Alternatives for a post-AGI worldmanifund.org

funder$5,000

Ryan Kidd → AI, Animals, and Digital Minds 2024 Conference and Retreat

to AI, Animals, and Digital Minds 2024 Conference and Retreatmanifund.org

funder$1,500

Ryan Kidd → Evaluating the Effectiveness of Unlearning Techniques

to Evaluating the Effectiveness of Unlearning Techniques manifund.org

funder$10,000

Ryan Kidd → Help Apart Expand Global AI Safety Research

to Help Apart Expand Global AI Safety Researchmanifund.org

funder$5,000

Ryan Kidd → AI Policy work @ IAPS

to AI Policy work @ IAPSmanifund.org

funder$5,000

Ryan Kidd → Cadenza Labs: AI Safety research group working on own interpretability agenda

to Cadenza Labs: AI Safety research group working on own interpretability agendamanifund.org

funder$5,000

Ryan Kidd → Scoping Developmental Interpretability

to Scoping Developmental Interpretabilitymanifund.org

funder$20,000