Showing grants tagged "Global Catastrophic Risks"

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  1. Stanford University — Percy Liang Planning Grant

    Award Date:
    03/2017
    Amount:
    $25,000
    Potential Risks from Advanced AI

  2. Future of Humanity Institute — General Support

    Award Date:
    03/2017
    Amount:
    $1,995,425
    Potential Risks from Advanced AI

  3. Center for Global Health Science and Security — General Support

    Award Date:
    03/2017
    Amount:
    $3,500,000
    Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness

  4. Genspace — DIYbio and FBI Meeting

    Award Date:
    02/2017
    Amount:
    $15,000
    Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness

  5. Nuclear Threat Initiative — Planning for Global Health Security Index

    Award Date:
    02/2017
    Amount:
    $476,859
    Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness

  6. CHS — Biosecurity, Global Health Security, & Global Catastrophic Risks

    Award Date:
    01/2017
    Amount:
    $16,000,000
    Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness

  7. Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense — General Support

    Award Date:
    01/2017
    Amount:
    $500,000
    Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness

  8. Harvard University — Solar Geoengineering Research Program

    Award Date:
    12/2016
    Amount:
    $2,500,000
    Solar Radiation Management

  9. AI Impacts — General Support

    Award Date:
    12/2016
    Amount:
    $32,000
    Potential Risks from Advanced AI

  10. Electronic Frontier Foundation — AI Scenarios and Social Impacts

    Award Date:
    11/2016
    Amount:
    $199,000
    Potential Risks from Advanced AI