Showing grants tagged "Global Catastrophic Risks"

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — DNA Synthesis Screening Methods

    Award Date:
    10/2020
    Amount:
    $890,000
    Global Catastrophic Risks

  2. CISAC — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition

    Award Date:
    09/2020
    Amount:
    $67,000
    Potential Risks from Advanced AI

  3. AcceleratingHT — COVID-19 Response

    Award Date:
    09/2020
    Amount:
    $50,000
    Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness

  4. CSIS — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition

    Award Date:
    09/2020
    Amount:
    $118,307
    Potential Risks from Advanced AI

  5. Early-Career Funding for GCBRs — Scholarship Support (2019-2020)

    Award Date:
    07/2020
    Amount:
    $1,357,237
    Global Catastrophic Risks

  6. Wilson Center — AI Policy Seminar Series (June 2020)

    Award Date:
    06/2020
    Amount:
    $496,540
    Potential Risks from Advanced AI

  7. Harvard University — Biosecurity and Biosafety

    Award Date:
    06/2020
    Amount:
    $315,000
    Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness

  8. Centre for the Governance of AI — General Support

    Award Date:
    05/2020
    Amount:
    $450,000
    Potential Risks from Advanced AI

  9. Center for Population-Level Bioethics — General Support

    Award Date:
    05/2020
    Amount:
    $250,000
    Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness

  10. Gryphon Scientific — Empirical Biosafety Research

    Award Date:
    05/2020
    Amount:
    $2,000,000
    Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness