| Grant to "support six months of independent research on interpretability and other AI safety topics." | Evan R. Murphy | $30K | 2022-07 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support one year of operating expenses and salaries at the Legal Priorities Project, a longtermist legal research and field-building organization." | Legal Priorities Project | $700K | 2022-06 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support a project to study how large language models integrated with offline reinforcement learning pose a risk of machine deception and persuasion." | University of California, Berkeley | $600K | 2022-06 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support 1DS’ work on pandemic preparedness, including advocacy for advance market purchase commitments, collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator on challenge studies, and advocacy with 1Day Africa and the West African Health Organization for a global pandemic insurance fund." | 1Day Sooner | $350K | 2022-06 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "partially support the salaries for AI Safety Camp’s two directors and to support logistical expenses at its physical camp." | AI Safety Camp | $290K | 2022-06 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support rerunning the highly-cited survey “When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts” from 2016, analysis, and publication of results." | AI Impacts | $250K | 2022-06 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support the creation of a website for collaboratively creating public forecasting questions for a range of prediction aggregators and markets." | Nathan Young | $182K | 2022-06 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support Ought’s work building Elicit, a language-model based research assistant." | Elicit (AI Research Tool) | $5M | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Investment in AVECRIS’s "Project DOOR to support the development of a next generation genetic vaccine platform that aims to allow for highly distributed vaccine production using AVECRIS’s advanced DNA vector delivery technology." | AVECRIS | $3.6M | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support a researcher and research assistant to work on high-skill immigration and AI policy at FAS for three years." | Federation For American Scientists | $1M | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support work on technology for delivering mRNA vaccines without lipid nanoparticles with the aim of making vaccines more safe, affordable, and scalable." | Piezo Therapeutics | $1M | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support outreach to help students to learn about career options, develop their skills, and plan their careers to work on the world’s most pressing problems." | Non Trivial Pursuits | $1M | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Investment to "support development of statistical models and software tools that can automate parts of the regulatory process for complex clinical trials." | Confirm Solutions | $1M | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support a project to develop interactive AI algorithms for alignment that can uncover the causal features in human reward systems, and thereby help AI systems learn underlying human values that generalize to new situations." | University of California, Berkeley | $800K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support Giving What We Can’s mission to create a world in which giving effectively and significantly is a cultural norm." | Giving What We Can | $700K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support the creation of a pilot version of a forecasting platform, and a paid forecasting team, to make predictions about questions relevant to high-impact research." | Sage | $700K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support a project to develop a new material -- an ultra-thin polymer-based thin film -- for use in next-generation Personal Protective Equipment which is both more effective and more comfortable." | Virginia Tech | $500K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support Manifold Markets in building a charity prediction market, as an experiment for enabling effective forecasters to direct altruistic donations." | Manifold (Prediction Market) | $500K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support research that we hope will be used to help strengthen the bioweapons convention and guide proactive actions to better secure those facilities or stop the dangerous work being done there." | MITRE | $485K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support the Institute’s research and policy engagement work on high skilled immigration, biosecurity, and pandemic prevention." | Institute for Progress | $480K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support the incubation of new charities that will work on health security." | Charity Entrepreneurship | $470K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| The grant description says: "We recommended a grant to support a project which will develop and advance ideas for strengthening regional and multilateral cooperation for addressing biological risks and filling gaps in current international institutions. These efforts include promoting the creation of a center with the capacity to rapidly respond to emerging infectious disease threats to prioritize blunting the impact of such events as well as quickly saving lives, and cooperative mechanisms to e | Council on Strategic Risks | $400K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support the creation of animated videos on topics related to rationality and effective altruism to explain these topics for a broader audience." | Rational Animations | $400K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support research on how to fine-tune GPT-3 models to identify flaws in other fine-tuned language models' arguments for the correctness of their outputs, and to test whether these help nonexpert humans successfully judge such arguments." | University of Cambridge | $380K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support Global Guessing’s forecasting coverage on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which they will also use to build tools and infrastructure to support future forecasting work." | Global Guessing | $336K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support HIP’s work recruiting EA working professionals to use more of their resources, including their careers, to focus on the world’s most pressing problems." | High Impact Professionals | $320K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support ALTER, an academic research and advocacy organization, which hopes to investigate, demonstrate, and foster useful ways to improve the future in the short term, and to safeguard and improve the long-term trajectory of humanity. The organization's initial focus is building bridges to academia via conferences and grants to find researchers who can focus on AI safety, and on policy for reducing biorisk." | Association for Long Term Existence and Resilience (ALTER) | $320K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support the completion of a book which explores the nature of human values and the implications for aligning AI with human preferences." | Brian Christian | $300K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support a Good Judgment initiative to produce forecasts on 10 Our World in Data data sets/charts." | Good Judgment (Forecasting) | $300K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support research on value alignment in AI systems, practical algorithms for efficient value alignment verification, and user studies and experiments to test these algorithms." | University of Utah | $280K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support Apollo’s work aggregating the views of academic experts in many different fields and making them freely available online." | Apollo Research | $250K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support a project aimed at training large language models to represent the probability distribution over question answers in a prediction market." | Peter Hrosso | $230K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant "for general funding for community building and managing the talent pipeline for AI alignment researchers. AI Safety Support’s work includes one-on-one coaching, events, and research training programs." | AI Safety Support | $200K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Investment to "build a communication platform that provably leaks zero metadata." | Anysphere | $200K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support QURI to develop a programming language called "Squiggle" as a tool for probabilistic estimation." | QURI (Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute) | $200K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support the identification of children in India from under-resourced areas who excel in math, science, and technology, and enable them to obtain high quality online education by digitally connecting them with mentors and teachers." | Rajalakshmi Children Foundation | $200K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "allow a reputable technology publication to engage 2-5 undergraduate student interns to write about topics including AI safety, alternative proteins, and biosecurity." See https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qoB8MHe94kCEZyswd/i-want-future-perfect-but-for-science-publications for the grantee's original vision. | James Lin | $190K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "Cecil Abungu, Visiting Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and Research Affiliate at the Legal Priorities Project, to support the writing and publication of a book on longtermist currents in historical African thought." | Cecil Abungu | $160K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support a NeurIPS competition applying human feedback in a non-language-model setting, specifically pretrained models in Minecraft." | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | $155K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "fund the writing of Slaoui's memoir, especially including his experience directing Operation Warp Speed." | Moncef Slaoui | $150K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support research on the feasibility of inactivating viruses via electromagnetic radiation." | Justin Mares | $140K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support an essay contest on “Accounting for Existential Risks in US Cost-Benefit Analysis,” with the aim of contributing to the revision of OMB Circular-A4, a document which guides US government cost-benefit analysis. The Legal Priorities Project is administering the contest." | Legal Priorities Project | $138K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support the creation of biosecurity policy priorities via conversations with experts in security, technology, policy, and advocacy. It will develop position papers, research papers, and agendas for the biosecurity community." | Institute for Progress | $135K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support a competition for work on Eliciting Latent Knowledge, an open problem in AI alignment, for talented high school and college students who are participating in Prometheus Science Bowl." | Prometheus Science Bowl | $100K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support the creation of an AI Safety organization which will create a platform to share AI safety research ideas and educational materials, connect people working on AI safety, and bring new people into the field." | Apart Research | $95K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support two years of research on the impacts of disruptive space technologies, nuclear risk, and mitigating risks from future space-based weapons." | Konstantinos Konstantinidis | $85K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support prizes for a trojan detection competition at NeurIPS, which involves identifying whether a deep neural network will suddenly change behavior if certain unknown conditions are met." | Trojan Detection Challenge At NeurIPS 2022 | $50K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support [Maxwell Tabarrok] to spend a summer at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University researching differential tech development and the connection between existential risks to humanity and economic growth." | Maxwell Tabarrok | $7.5K | 2022-05 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support Prof. Levine, as well as students and collaborators, to work on alignment theory research at the Cornell math department." | Cornell University | $1.5M | 2022-04 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |
| Grant to "support SI’s policy work with the United Nations system on the prevention of existential risks to humanity." | Simon Institute for Longterm Governance | $820K | 2022-04 | web.archive.org | FTX Future Fund |