Provides various forms of support to researchers working on existential risk issues (administrative, expert consultations, technical support)

$15K

Funder

Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)wiki

Recipient

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Program

Long-Term Future Fund Grant Rounds

Date

Jan 2017

Source

funds.effectivealtruism.org↗

Notes

[Long-Term Future Fund] Provides various forms of support to researchers working on existential risk issues (administrative, expert consultations, technical support)

Other Grants by Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)

544

Grant	Recipient	Amount	Date
6-month salary to translate AGI safety-related texts, e.g. LessWrong and AI Alignment Forum, into Russian	Maksim Vymenets	$13K	Jan 2022
Working on long-term macrostrategy and AI Alignment, and up-skilling and career transition towards that goal	Tushant Jha	$40K	Jan 2020
Characterizing the properties and constraints of complex systems and their external interactions to inform AI safety research	Alexander Siegenfeld	$20K	Jul 2019
6-month salary to write a book on philosophy + history of longtermist thinking, while longer-term funding is arranged	Thomas Moynihan	$28K	Oct 2021
12-month salary for researching value learning	Charlie Steiner	$50K	Jan 2022
Conducting a computational study on using a light-to-vibrations mechanism as a targeted antiviral.	Gavin Taylor	$30K	Jul 2020
Support Sam's participation in ‘Mid-term AI impacts’ research project	Sam Clarke	$4.5K	Oct 2020
PhD at Cambridge	Richard Ngo	$150K	Jul 2020
Funding a nordic conference for senior X-risk researchers and junior talents interested in entering the field	Effektiv Altruism Sverige (EA Sweden)	$4.6K	Oct 2021
Funding for a degree in the Biological Sciences at UCSD (University of California San Diego)	Kristaps Zilgalvis	$250K	Oct 2021

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Other Grants to Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Grant	Recipient	Amount	Date
General Support of BERI-SRL Collaboration	Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative	$52K	Jul 2023
General support of BERI-CLTC Collaboration	Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative	$141K	2025
General Support of BERI-ALL Collaboration	Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative	$150K	Jul 2022
General Support of BERI-CHAI Collaboration	Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative	$250K	Jul 2021
General Support of BERI-CHAI collaboration	Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative	$168K	Jul 2022
General Support	Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative	$247K	Jul 2020
Grant to Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative	Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative	$126K	2024
General Support	Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative	$60K	Jul 2023
General Support of BERI-CLTC Collaboration	Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative	$522K	Jan 2023
General Support of BERI-CHAI Collaboration	Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative	$248K	Jul 2021

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