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This grant program is part of OpenAI's high-profile Superalignment initiative and is notable for directing significant resources toward external alignment research, though the initiative later faced controversy when key members including Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike departed.
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OpenAI's Superalignment team announced a fast grants program to fund external researchers working on technical alignment and interpretability research, aiming to solve the problem of aligning superintelligent AI systems within four years. The program offers grants ranging from $100K to $2M to support academic labs, graduate students, and independent researchers. This reflects OpenAI's strategy of leveraging external talent to accelerate progress on their superalignment research agenda.
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- •Grants range from $100K to $2M targeting researchers working on scalable alignment, interpretability, and evaluation of AI systems.
- •Program specifically seeks to attract academic researchers, PhD students, and independent researchers outside OpenAI.
- •Research priorities include mechanistic interpretability, scalable oversight, automated alignment research, and adversarial robustness.
- •Part of OpenAI's broader Superalignment initiative pledging 20% of compute toward solving superintelligence alignment within 4 years.
- •Reflects belief that alignment research is underfunded and that external talent pools are crucial to meeting ambitious timelines.
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December 14, 2023
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# Superalignment Fast Grants
[Apply by February 18(opens in a new window)](https://airtable.com/appnIXmOlWAJBzrJp/paghnoKL6EHiKmKbf/form) [Further program details(opens in a new window)](https://openai.notion.site/Superalignment-Fast-Grants-and-OpenAI-Generalization-Prizes-fd12c66a286a4cbc9dc0f2fef1c62e92)
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We’re launching $10M in grants to support technical research towards the alignment and safety of superhuman AI systems, including weak-to-strong generalization, interpretability, scalable oversight, and more.
We believe superintelligence could arrive within the next 10 years. These AI systems would have vast capabilities—they could be hugely beneficial, but also potentially pose large risks.
Today, we [align AI systems](https://openai.com/index/instruction-following/) to ensure they are safe using reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). However, aligning future superhuman AI systems will pose fundamentally new and qualitatively different technical challenges.
Superhuman AI systems will be capable of complex and creative behaviors that humans cannot fully understand. For example, if a superhuman model generates a million lines of extremely complicated code, humans will not be able to reliably evaluate whether the code is safe or dangerous to execute. Existing alignment techniques like RLHF that rely on human supervision may no longer be sufficient. **This leads to the fundamental challenge: how can humans steer and trust AI systems much smarter than them?**
This is one of the most important unsolved technical problems in the world. But we think it is solvable with a concerted effort. There are many promising approaches and exciting directions, with lots of low-hanging fruit. We think there is an enormous opportunity for the ML research community and individual researchers to make major progress on this problem today.
As part of our [Superalignment](https://openai.com/superalignment/) project, we want to rally the best researchers and engineers in the world to meet this challenge—and we’re especially excited to bring new people into the field.
## Superalignment Fast Grants
In partnership with Eric Schmidt, we are launching a $10M grants program to support technical research towards ensuring superhuman AI systems are aligned and safe:
- We are offering $100K–$2M grants for academic labs, nonprofits, and individual resea
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