<$750k grants for General Purpose AI Assurance/Safety Research

post by Phosphorous (everett-smith) · 2023-06-13T04:45:43.535Z · LW · GW · 1 comments

This is a link post for https://cset.georgetown.edu/foundational-research-grants/

Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) is accepting applications for AI Safety / AI Assurance research grants. 

They are offering up to $750k per project accepted, expended over 6-24 months.

1-2 page expression of interest due August 1. 

Applicants should be based at an academic institution or nonprofit research organization. 

More information here. 

From CSET "We’re using 'assurance' here in a broad sense, meaning roughly 'the generation of evidence that an ML system is sufficiently safe for its intended use.'"

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comment by Chris_Leong · 2023-06-13T08:31:46.312Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Would be very curious to know who’s ultimately funding this.