This page comprises the full list of grants awarded by the Emerging Challenges Fund
More information about each grant listed below can be found in our grant reports:
| Organisation/Project | Focus area | Date | Amount (USD) |
|---|
| ARC Evals | Promoting beneficial artificial intelligence | August 2023 | $220,000 |
| AI interpretability work at Harvard University led by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas | Promoting beneficial artificial intelligence | August 2023 | $110,000 |
| Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Biosecurity Programme (NTI | Bio) (project to develop a research agenda for disincentivizing state biological weapons programmes) | Improving biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | August 2023 | $100,000 |
| Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (partially funding the salary of a Director of Research and Administration) | Improving biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | August 2023 | $80,000 |
| Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (project to better understand and advocate for policies that avoid escalation pathways to nuclear war) | Improving nuclear security | August 2023 | $52,000 |
| Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence | Promoting beneficial artificial intelligence | December 2022 | $70,000 |
| SecureBio | Improving biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | December 2022 | $60,000 |
| Rethink Priorities' Existential Security Team (formerly the General Longtermism Team) | Promoting, improving, and implementing key longtermist ideas | December 2022 | $30,000 |
| The Council on Strategic Risks' nuclear weapons policy work | Improving nuclear security | December 2022 | $15,000 |