FLI Grants Program
Program AreaActiveFLI's grantmaking arm. $25M+ distributed since 2015 across AI safety, nuclear risk, governance, and existential risk reduction. Andrea Berman is Grants Manager.
Funding Programs
10| Program | Type | Budget | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Grants 16 grants for AI safety research, policy, and governance | Grant Round | $8.6M | Awarded | Needs attention |
| 2015 AI Safety Research Grant Program First peer-reviewed AI safety grant program; 37 grants funded from Elon Musk's $10M donation | Grant Round | $6.5M | Awarded | Verified |
| How to Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration 13 projects addressing AI-driven power concentration. Largest $1.66M to OpenMined Foundation. | Rfp | $5.6M | Awarded | Verified |
| Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI Up to $5M for multi-stakeholder engagement projects. Individual grants $100K-$500K, multi-year up to 3 years. | Rfp | $5M | Closed | Verified |
| 2024 Grants 6 grants including AI-nuclear nexus and journalism | Grant Round | $4.2M | Awarded | Needs attention |
| Nuclear War Research Grant Program 10 grants studying nuclear war environmental impacts: climate, agriculture, ozone, fire modeling | Grant Round | $4.1M | Open | Needs attention |
| 2018 AGI Safety Grant Program 10 projects focused on AGI safety; recipients at Stanford, MIT, Oxford, Yale, ANU | Grant Round | $1.8M | Awarded | Needs attention |
| Request for Proposals on Religious Projects Up to $1.5M total; individual grants $30K-$300K. Faith community engagement with AI risks. | Rfp | $1.5M | Closed | Verified |
| Impact of AI on SDGs 10 research grants at $15K each on AI impact on poverty, health, energy and climate. Primarily Global South recipients. | Rfp | $150K | Awarded | Needs attention |
| Global Institutions Governing AI 6 research papers at $15K each designing governance institutions for AGI | Rfp | $90K | Awarded | Needs attention |