Notable recent
FOCAL lab established at CMU; first early-career track grant to Sophia Hatz at Uppsala; 2024 round funded ~£660K across three proposals.
Documented grants (2)
- Coercion-capability measurement project 2025-04-01 · 639,830 SEK (~$65K)
Recipient: Sophia Hatz (Uppsala University)
Develops practical methods to measure coercive capabilities of AI agents and to model the risks associated with different levels of those capabilities.
- FOCAL lab at Carnegie Mellon 2021-09-01 · $500,000 (2021-2025)
Recipient: Vincent Conitzer (Carnegie Mellon FOCAL lab)
Multi-year grant establishing the Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab (FOCAL) under Vincent Conitzer at Carnegie Mellon University. The lab develops decision and game theory for cooperation between advanced machine agents, with outputs including workshops, online seminar series, and visitor programs.
Process
Public RFP; peer review; updated 2025 process to focus on two named priority areas.
Cadence
Annual Research Grants RFP plus PhD Fellowship