[Biomedical, Global health & development] RCT with predominantly Asian Indian population and literature review for understanding mechanisms of IF in relation to T2DM
[AI governance] Help me to organize US moratorium-promoting activities to expand the Overton window and increase public pressure in favor of a moratorium on frontier AI.
[ACX Grants 2025, Global health & development] Develop and promote market-based policies to reduce informal lead-acid battery recycling in the Philippines.
[ACX Grants 2025] Build awareness and urgency among European policymakers on AI’s rapid, transformative impacts through future scenarios and targeted institutional engagement
[ACX Grants 2025] Advocate for Australian policies that safeguard against global catastrophic risks – including pandemics, AI risks, and catastrophic disasters.
Elizabeth and Timothy Podcast on values in Effective Altruism (Funded)
$7.8K
Elizabeth Van NostrandPersonElizabeth Van NostrandConsultant who worked with QURI (2019-2020) on evaluation-related posts and the Amplifying Generalist Research experiment. Writes the Aceso Under Glass blog.
[Science & technology, EA community] Elizabeth and Timothy create a podcast about truthseeking, values drift, and a potential EA Renaissance (or diaspora).
[ACX Grants 2025] Provide an equitable and accessible telemedicine platform in DRC where there is a humanitarian crisis to provide free healthcare over the phone.
[Technical AI safety] Iván and Jett are seeking funding to research unfaithful chain-of-thought, under Arthur Conmy's mentorship, for a month before the start of MATS.
[Technical AI safety, AI governance, Biosecurity, EA Community Choice, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] We provide research and support to help people move into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems.
[Technical AI safety, Animal welfare] Training AI to generalize compassion for all sentient beings using pretraining-style interventions as a more robust alternative to instruction tuning
[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Research agenda aimed at developing methods for constructing powerful, easily interpretable world-models.
[Technical AI safety, AI governance] LLMs often know when they are being evaluated. We’ll do a study comparing various methods to measure and monitor this capability.
[ACX Grants 2025] Continue documenting the indigenous use of native Psilocybe mushrooms in Lesotho, including the collection of physical samples, to identify novel medical applications of psilocybin.
[ACX Grants 2025] Create a permanent, public, and computable foundation of biological knowledge by building an AI-powered engine that automatically standardizes and curates the world’s biological datasets—past, present, and future.
[Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA community] Free/Subsidized/Cheap office space outside of EU but in good timezones with favorable visa policies (especially for Chinese/Russian but also US&others near EU).
Epoch AIOrganizationEpoch AIEpoch AI maintains comprehensive databases tracking 3,200+ ML models showing 4.4x annual compute growth and projects data exhaustion 2026-2032. Their empirical work directly informed EU AI Act's 10...Quality: 51/100
[Science & technology, Biomedical] A modular gene-editing platform for engineering new pigment patterns in ornamental plants, starting with a vein-pattern rescue line in petunias.
Elizabeth Van NostrandPersonElizabeth Van NostrandConsultant who worked with QURI (2019-2020) on evaluation-related posts and the Amplifying Generalist Research experiment. Writes the Aceso Under Glass blog.
[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Nutrition labels transformed food safety through informed consumer choice, help me do the same for AI and make this standard :)
[Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Making God is now raising for post-production so we can deliver a festival-ready documentary fit for Netflix acquisition.
[AI governance, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks] GAP is an Australian charity, working to improve the long-term future, that requires funding for salary and operational expenses.
[Science & technology, ACX Grants 2024, Biomedical, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks] Pivoting this project, due to stakeholder feedback. Former focus was inclusion of a pre-pandemic strain in a quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccine
[EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA community, Forecasting, EA Infrastructure Fund] Local meetups of forecasters, fans of prediction markets, and others interested in improving humanity’s ability to predict the future.
[ACX Grants 2025] Use a new and more precise form of gene editing to increase the nutritional content of corn, primarily for Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa.
[ACX Grants 2025] Produce a peer-reviewed literature review assessing whether electrical stunning is a humane method for slaughtering decapod crustaceans, identifying evidence gaps, methodological flaws, and next research steps to guide advocacy and policy.
[ChinaTalk Essay Contest, Forecasting] There is an 80% change that the top five performing Chinese Internet and Internet related companies will be those who manage domestic deflationary pressures via
[ACX Grants 2025] Support the AUL to bring a YIMBY movement to African cities so these cities can build the urban infrastructure needed to accommodate ~900 million new urbanites by 2050.
[Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, Global catastrophic risks] Let's warn millions of people about the near-term AI extinction threat by directly & proactively explaining the issue in every context where it belongs
[Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025, Animal welfare, Biosecurity] Developing and commercializing an alternative to feeder rodents—tackling one of the most neglected and high-suffering forms of factory farming.
[EA Community Choice, Forecasting] Prediction markets have the potential to reshape the way we process information, but how accurate are they in practice?
[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] A 3-month fellowship in Cape Town, connecting a global cohort of talent to top mentors at MIT, Oxford, CMU, and Google DeepMind
[Technical AI safety] 6-month funding for a team of researchers to assess a novel AI alignment research agenda that studies how structure forms in neural networks
[Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025, EA community] This nationwide report will provide a detailed account of the policies states have that in place to help advanced learners thrive.
[Science & technology, AI governance] A microgrant to help us scale our research on AI-assisted online scams by building real-world defenses for seniors and collecting data for ScamBench.
[Animal welfare, EA community] We place the interests of non-human animals at the centre of society. Our vision is a society in which animals are protected from suffering.
[Technical AI safety, ACX Grants 2025] Train LLMs to accurately & honestly report on their internal decision-making processes through real-time introspection
[Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Site maintenance, grant writing, and leadership handover
[AI governance] Paper and policy briefs on the feasibility and optimality of governments hedging against the risk of labour automation by selling bonds and buying equities.
[ACX Grants 2024, Global health & development] Briico helps migrants legally start profitable microbusinesses in less than 30 days with less than $500 – allowing millions of people to skip decades of “gray e
PIBBSS - General Programs funding or specific funding
$51K
PIBBSSOrganizationPIBBSSResearch fellowship program bringing researchers from diverse fields (biology, neuroscience, social science) to work on AI alignment problems. Funded by SFF and EA Funds.
[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Fund unique approaches to research, field diversification, and scouting of novel ideas by experienced researchers supported by PIBBSS research team
[Animal welfare, EA Community Choice] Increasing the impact of current projects while building a deeper understanding of what works for animals in the long run.
[Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025, Biomedical, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks, Global health & development] Accelerating the adoption of air filters in every classroom
[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, ACX Grants 2025, AI governance, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks] An Integrative Framework for Auditing Political Preferences and Truth-Seeking in AI Systems
[Technical AI safety, AI governance] Building a technical mechanism to assess risks, evaluate safeguards, and identify control gaps in agentic AI systems, enabling verifiable human oversight.
[ACX Grants 2025] Develop a system to enable scalable, cheap, yeast-based manufacturing of difficult biologics using a continuous in vivo evolution platform, facilitating cheaper medicines, new drugs, and broadening access in low-income countries by enabling manufacturing will less reliance on cold chains.
Rethink PrioritiesOrganizationRethink PrioritiesRethink Priorities is a research organization founded in 2018 that grew from 2 to ~130 people by 2022, conducting evidence-based analysis across animal welfare, global health, and AI governance. Th...Quality: 60/100
[Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Connecting and coordinating leaders and key decision makers to strengthen the animal advocacy movement
[ACX Grants 2025, Biomedical, Global health & development] Low-cost wearable ultrasound scanner backed with AI diagnostics available to people at home or in settings where hospitals are inaccessible
[Technical AI safety, AI governance, Biosecurity] Enabling rapid deployment of specialized engineering teams for critical AI safety evaluation projects worldwide
SaferAIOrganizationSaferAIParis-based nonprofit (French association loi 1901) building risk measurement tools for governments and companies managing frontier AI. Founded by Siméon Campos (chairman); Henry Papadatos serves a...
[Technical AI safety, EA Community Choice, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks] Community exploring and predicting potential risks and opportunities arising from a future that involves many independently controlled AI systems
[Biomedical, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks] A Cambridge Biosecurity Hub and Cambridge Infectious Diseases Symposium on Avoiding Worst-Case Scenarios
[ACX Grants 2025] Scale the reach of evidence-based, impact-focused career advice for Christians through a high-leverage digital engagement campaign at Christians for Impact.
Pause AIOrganizationPause AIPause AI is a grassroots advocacy movement founded May 2023 calling for international pause on frontier AI development until safety proven, growing to multi-continental network but achieving zero d...Quality: 59/100
Oliver HabrykaPersonOliver HabrykaCo-founder and CEO of Lightcone Infrastructure (operators of LessWrong). Key figure in the rationalist and AI safety community infrastructure.
[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, EA community, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks] Funding for LessWrong.com, the AI Alignment Forum, Lighthaven and other Lightcone Projects
[Science & technology] A group of 5 teenage hackers creating a novel PCB design and ML model to process electrical signals generated by neurons with an Electroencephalogram.
[Technical AI safety] A flexible simulation environment for assessing strategic and persuasive capabilities, benchmarking, and agent development, inspired by reality TV competitions.
[Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance] How California became ground zero in the global debate over who gets to shape humanity's most powerful technology
[EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA community, EA Infrastructure Fund] Creating a database of independent charity evaluations, incentives to use them and tools to use them with
[AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Persuading a critical mass of key potential influencers of Trump's AI policy to champion a bold, timely and proper US-China-led global AI treaty
[ChinaTalk Essay Contest, AI governance, Forecasting] There is a 70% chance that China will tie AI ethics into its Digital Silk Road, releasing a global AI ethics framework targeting developing countries.
Keep Apart Research Going: Global AI Safety Research & Talent Pipeline
$131K
Apart ResearchOrganizationApart ResearchApart Research is a small but active non-profit AI safety organization focused on talent development through hackathons and fellowships, with modest but real research output (22 papers, 2 ICLR 2025...
[Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA community] Funding ends June 2025: Urgent support for proven AI safety pipeline converting technical talent from 26+ countries into published contributors
[Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025] Continue developing ‘copy-paste-detective’ - a software that detects signs of data fabrication in scientific research - and run it against 20,000 publicly available Excel datasets.