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Future of Life Institute (FLI)

Safety Organization
Founded Mar 2014 (12 years old)futureoflife.org

Funding Programs

13
Total budget tracked: $38M
ProgramTypeBudgetStatus
2023 Grantssource
16 grants for AI safety research, policy, and governance
Grant Round$8.6MAwardedNeeds attention
2015 AI Safety Research Grant Programsource
First peer-reviewed AI safety grant program; 37 grants funded from Elon Musk's $10M donation
Grant Round$6.5MAwardedVerified
How to Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentrationsource
13 projects addressing AI-driven power concentration. Largest $1.66M to OpenMined Foundation.
RFP$5.6MAwardedVerified
Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AIsource
Up to $5M for multi-stakeholder engagement projects. Individual grants $100K-$500K, multi-year up to 3 years.
RFP$5MClosedVerified
2024 Grantssource
6 grants including AI-nuclear nexus and journalism
Grant Round$4.2MAwardedNeeds attention
Nuclear War Research Grant Programsource
10 grants studying nuclear war environmental impacts: climate, agriculture, ozone, fire modeling
Grant Round$4.1MOpenNeeds attention
2018 AGI Safety Grant Programsource
10 projects focused on AGI safety; recipients at Stanford, MIT, Oxford, Yale, ANU
Grant Round$1.8MAwardedNeeds attention
Request for Proposals on Religious Projectssource
Up to $1.5M total; individual grants $30K-$300K. Faith community engagement with AI risks.
RFP$1.5MClosedVerified
Impact of AI on SDGssource
10 research grants at $15K each on AI impact on poverty, health, energy and climate. Primarily Global South recipients.
RFP$150KAwardedNeeds attention
Global Institutions Governing AIsource
6 research papers at $15K each designing governance institutions for AGI
RFP$90KAwardedNeeds attention
Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship in AI Existential Safetysource
5-year tuition + $40K/year stipend + $10K research fund. 14 fellows at UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Cambridge.
FellowshipClosedVerified
Vitalik Buterin Postdoctoral Fellowship in AI Existential Safetysource
$80K/year stipend + $10K research fund. Fellows at Berkeley/CHAI, MIT, Oxford.
FellowshipClosedVerified
US-China AI Governance PhD Fellowshipsource
Same structure as technical PhD fellowship. Focused on US-China AI governance.
FellowshipClosedVerified