Dual Grants Totaling $1M Secured to Advance AI Safety Research
ECE/Khoury Assistant Professor Weiyan Shi was selected as the single PI for two competitive research grants from Open Philanthropy totaling $1.02 million to advance her AI safety research. One grant, awarded through the Technical AI Safety Request for Proposals (RFP), will support research focused on mitigating emergent misalignment in advanced AI systems. The second grant, from the Improving Capability Evaluation RFP, funds a project dedicated to evaluating AI agent safety in high-stake decision-making scenarios.
Open Philanthropy is a grant-making organization that aims to use its resources to help others as much as it can. Since 2011, it has recommended over $4 billion in grants, using rigorous criteria like importance, neglectedness, and tractability to select causes and maximize the impact of its resources.