Al Safety Fund (AISF) Grants 2025 (up to $500,000)

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About Al Safety Fund Grants

The Al Safety Fund (AISF) awards grants to accelerate research efforts that identify potential safety threats that arise from the development and use of frontier Al models. As Al is increasingly applied across domains, they are looking to develop strategies to avoid negative outcomes through funding research to identify and assess risks and improve the safe deployment of Al for the benefit of society.

To further these goals, the AISF also seeks to support technical research for Al agent identity verification systems and Al agent safety evaluations. This funding aims to promote the safe and responsible development of Al agents while establishing robust frameworks for agent authentication and verification and synthetic media authentication.

In this funding round, they are prioritizing three critical research areas: Biosecurity, Cybersecurity and Al Agent Evaluation & Synthetic Content.

• Sponsor Organisation: Meridian Institute

Benefits of Al Safety Fund Grants

• The AISF plans to fund research projects by academic labs, non-profits, independent researchers, and for-profit mission-driven entities across these topics. Proposed budgets should not exceed $500,000.

Al Safety Fund Grants Requirements

• The AISF makes grants for independent researchers affiliated with academic institutions, research institutions, NGOs, and social enterprises across the globe that aim to promote the safe and responsible development of frontier models by testing, evaluating, and/or addressing safety and security risks.
• The AISF seeks to fund research that accelerates the identification of threats posed by the development and use of Al to prevent widespread harm.
• Projects must focus on frontier Al models and their deployed versions.

Selection Criteria

All proposals will be reviewed based on these criteria:

• Impact to improve safety measures for deployed frontier Al models.
• Feasibility of the proposed research.
• Relevance of the proposed research for the field of Al safety.
• Peer Review and the research team's approach to engaging the broader research community to provide feedback on the research findings.
• Technical qualifications of the research team, and relevance for the domain under which the application is submitted.
• Ethics of the research, and the specific safety protocols that will be employed to manage immediate and long-term risk implications of the research findings.
• Equity will be considered as a metric of how the research project will support advancing equity and diversity in the field.
• Accessibility of the research findings to promote transparency in the field. Researchers should also consider potential risk or harm that could result from research findings and provide justification for limiting access of the research findings.

 

Application Date and Process

• Click on the link to the application website to apply.

Application deadline for Biosecurity and Cybersecurity is January 20, 2025 and application deadline for Al Agent Evaluation & Synthetic Content is January 31, 2025.

Application Deadline

20 January, 2025

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