Foresight Institute: AI for Science & Safety Nodes Grant Program

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# AI for Science & Safety Nodes

Funding, compute, and office space in San Francisco and Berlin.

## New hubs for AI-powered science and safety

Two new hubs – in San Francisco and Berlin – offer project funding, office and community spaces, and local compute for ambitious researchers and builders who use AI to advance science and safety.

[Apply](https://airtable.com/appyVXc5SMPAvIKpP/pagzBRWeiG3HjH6Qn/form)

## Ecosystem for decentralized, AI-driven progress

Artificial intelligence is accelerating the pace of discovery across science and technology. But today’s AI ecosystem risks centralizing compute, talent, and decision-making power – concentrating capabilities in ways that could undermine both innovation and safety.

To counter this development, we are building a decentralized network of Nodes dedicated to AI-powered science and safety. Each Node combines grant funding with office and community spaces, programming and in-house compute to accelerate project development. The goal is to empower researchers and builders with a mission-aligned ecosystem, where AI-driven progress remains open, secure, and aligned with human flourishing.

## What our Nodes offer

- **Grant funding**
- **Office and event space**
- **Compute**

You’re welcome to apply for all three types of support, or select one or two based on your needs. Please note that we prioritize projects that want to be active members of our hubs. Funding-only applications are considered only in exceptional cases.

Use [this form](https://airtable.com/appyVXc5SMPAvIKpP/pagzBRWeiG3HjH6Qn/form) to apply. Application deadlines are at the last day of each month. The AI Nodes will open in San Francisco and Berlin on April 1 2026.

The rest of this page outlines what kind of projects we are excited to support and the terms for our grants.

## AI-first projects

To keep up with and leverage increasing AI capabilities, we give priority to projects that use AI as the primary engine for progress across our focus areas. The goal is to enable science and safety to accelerate in tandem with AI – for the safe and beneficial evolution of intelligence.

## Focus Areas

We are excited to fund and support work in the following areas.

**1\. AI for Security**

Traditional security paradigms, often reactive, piecemeal and human-driven, cannot scale to match the speed, scale, and complexity of AI-supported attacks. We seek to support self-improving defense systems where AI autonomously identifies vulnerabilities, generates formal proofs, red-teams, and strengthens the world’s digital infrastructure.

**2\. Private AI**

To ensure that AI progress occurs openly without sacrificing privacy, we

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