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$1M AI x-risk grant round is live on grantmaking.ai - apply for funding, review applicants, or fund projects

LessWrong · Jun 29, 2026, 5:07 PM · Also reported by 1 other source

TLDR: what is the grant round?grantmaking.ai is launching a $1M grant round, distributing $5k to $50k per successful application to people and projects working to reduce x-risk from AI.Applications will be reviewed by Gavin Leech, Ryan Kidd, and Marcus Abramovitch. We aim to make all funding decisions by July 28th. Applications submitted by July 13th are guaranteed a priority review. You can still apply after July 13th, and we will make our best effort to review late submissions as long as funding remains.Grant applications will be mostly public, though we allow certain sensitive details to be kept private. Even if you are not applying, we invite you to join the platform to review and comment. We have set aside $100k of the budget to be given to top commenters as regranting budgets, so please share your thoughts and help us pick out awesome projects!Who are we?grantmaking.ai was initialized by Anton Makiievskyi, who is funding this round and brought the team together, built by Matt Brooks (lead dev) and Melissa Samworth (ui/ux), and advised by Austin Chen with Manifund handling grant distribution.Why we’re building this platform & launching a grant roundYou can read our initial pre-launch post to learn more about what we’re building and why.In short, we want to build the most comprehensive public repository of donation opportunities in existential AI safety space with essential information like up-to-date funding needs, theory of impact, references, endorsements, team track record, and more on top.Donors will be able to coordinate with each other discussing best opportunities and sharing what they found, and applicants can surface their request in front of many donors simultaneouslyWe launch this round to gather an initial set of funding opportunities, invite donors, grantmakers and the broad community to participate by sharing their endorsements, commenting and adding useful information to the database.As more capital and individual funders enter the space, we aim

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