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2018 International AI Safety Grants Competition

This 2018 grants competition is the second round of the multi-million dollar grants program announced in January 2015, and will give grants totaling millions more to researchers in academic and other nonprofit institutions for projects up to three years in duration, beginning September 1, 2018.

This request for proposals (RFP) is limited to research that aims to help maximize the societal benefits of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), explicitly focusing not on the standard goal of making AI more capable, but on making it more robust and/or beneficial. In consultation with other organizations, the Future of Life Institute (FLI) has identified a list of relatively specific problems and projects of particular interest to the AGI safety field. These will serve both as examples and as topics for special consideration.

FLI AI Safety Research Landscape: https://futureoflife.org/landscape/

More information on 2018 International AI Safety Grants Competition: https://futureoflife.org/2017/12/20/2018-international-ai-safety-grants-competition/