Location: Remote (global; hubs in San Francisco and Berlin)

Award: $10,000 to $100,000 per grant (lump sum or milestone tranches). No application fee.

Duration: Project-based

Deadline: Rolling / undated

Foresight Institute grants supporting work at the intersection of AI, science and safety, including AI-for-science tools and AI-safety research. ELIGIBILITY: individuals, teams and organisations (for- and non-profit) worldwide; applicants active in the San Francisco or Berlin hubs are prioritised. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with a cutoff on the last day of each month. Apply via the Foresight Institute grants page.

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Location: Online (worldwide)

Award: $10,000 prize pool: $5,000 for the best world plus five $1,000 bounties. No entry fee.

Duration: One-off competition

Deadline: 30 Jun 2026

Worldbuilding competition asking entrants to build and argue a grounded vision of a 2035 in which AI went well, submitted as text plus media. A speculative, constructive counterpoint for artists and writers engaging critically with AI and synthetic media. ELIGIBILITY: open internationally to anyone aged 16 or over (prizes paid by international bank transfer); entrants must first complete a free course of roughly 1.5 hours. Individual or team entries. Deadline 30 June 2026 (23:59 anywhere-on-earth).

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Location: Remote (worldwide)

Award: Individual stipends and project grants, typically ~$2,500 to $120,000+ (recent average around $38,000 per grant). No application fee.

Duration: Project-based (varies)

Deadline: Rolling / undated

Effective Altruism Funds' Long-Term Future Fund makes grants to individuals and small groups working to reduce risks from advanced AI and other threats to humanity's long-term future, including technical AI safety and alignment research, field-building and communication. ELIGIBILITY: individuals and small groups; not geographically restricted. Applications accepted on a rolling basis via the EA Funds application form.

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Location: Geneva, Switzerland (first session); applicants must be civil society experts based in countries receiving Official Development Assistance (ODA)

Award: Travel and logistics reimbursement only: international flights, airport transfers, and up to three nights of accommodation in Geneva. Conference registration, accreditation and access facilitated; promotion on the Foundation's social-media channels before the Dialogue. NO artist fee, stipend or honorarium.

Duration: First session 6-7 July 2026 in Geneva (2 days), with continued engagement through the second session in New York in May 2027

Deadline: Closed 18 May 2026

Fellowship from the Heinrich Boell Foundation Washington, DC supporting Global Majority civil society experts to participate in the first session of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva (6-7 July 2026), with continued engagement through the second session in New York in May 2027. The Global Dialogue, established by the UN General Assembly in August 2025 under the Global Digital Compact, is a new multilateral forum to ensure AI governance reflects the priorities of all nations and that the benefits of AI are shared broadly. THEMATIC CLUSTERS at the Global Dialogue: AI opportunities and implications (social, economic, ethical, cultural, linguistic, technical dimensions); bridging AI divides (capacity-building, access, digital foundations); safe, secure and trustworthy AI (interoperability and compatibility of approaches); respecting, protecting and promoting human rights (transparency, accountability, human oversight). The fellowship aims to amplify Global South voices on issues of core relevance to the global green movement - human rights, bias, ecology, labor, conflict - and to improve gender balance in global AI governance. ELIGIBILITY: emerging or experienced leaders working on AI governance, digital rights, data justice, environmental and climate justice or related fields with a focus on the global dimensions of AI policy - activists, local officials, students, researchers and technologists - based in a country receiving Official Development Assistance. WHAT IS EXPECTED: travel to Geneva and active participation on 6-7 July 2026; fellows are encouraged to participate in activities ahead of the 2027 New York session; provide a short statement on the issues they hope to see addressed at the Dialogue and reflect on the experience; engage actively with the Foundation over social media before, during and after the Dialogue; be part of an emerging network of civil society experts working to strengthen AI governance globally. PROCESS: applicants must (1) apply to the official UN AI Dialogue 2026 Call for Participation Support, AND (2) send application materials to the Foundation via Drew.Mitnick[at]us.boell.org and Mariama.Balde[at]us.boell.org. Materials: standard resume/CV (max 2 pages, including country of residence and gender; no photo or marital status) plus a motivational statement (max 300 words) on the biggest challenge for AI governance right now, how to address it, current steps being taken, and how Dialogue participation will advance those goals.

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Location: Worldwide (open to applicants in any country)

Award: Grant amounts vary, no specified maximum or minimum. Covers tuition/fees, living costs during transition, and project costs. No predetermined number of grants; programme funds any application above its general bar.

Duration: Varies by activity (graduate study, postdoc, internship, independent study, certifications, career transition or exploration period, sabbatical, etc.). Decisions targeted within ~6 weeks of submission; expedited review available on request.

Deadline: Rolling / undated

Rolling grant programme funding individuals at any career stage who want to pursue careers that could help reduce global catastrophic risks or otherwise improve the long-term future. Especially interested in candidates working on risks from future advances in AI and global catastrophic biological risks. Funds graduate study (master's/PhD/MPP/law school), unpaid internships, postdocs, professional certifications, online courses, independent study/upskilling, career-transition and exploration periods, and academic sabbaticals. Concrete examples Coefficient Giving lists: a senior ML engineer doing six months of independent study to investigate AI risk mitigation careers; a physics PhD doing self-guided ML interpretability work to transition into technical AI safety; a management consultant exploring how to apply their skill set to GCR; a tenured ML/CS professor taking a one-year sabbatical to contribute to AI safety or governance. Open globally; no institutional affiliation required. Looks for candidates whose funding would 'make a difference' (otherwise unable to find sufficient funding, or existing funding has restrictions). Encourages applications from women and people of color. Now subsumes the former Biosecurity Scholarship. Applications are open until further notice and assessed on a rolling basis. Free to apply.

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Location: Worldwide (global call; individual researchers, research teams, research institutions, and multi-institution collaborations all eligible)

Award: Tier 1: up to $1M (1-3 years). Tier 2: $1M-$5M+ (1-3 years). Indirect costs must be at or below 10%. Applicants may request either funding for compute or access to Schmidt Sciences' computing resources (GPUs/CPUs, large-scale data storage, high-speed networking).

Duration: 1-3 years per project for both tiers.

Deadline: Closed 17 May 2026

Open global RFP from Schmidt Sciences for technical research that improves the ability to understand, predict, and control risks from frontier AI systems while enabling their trustworthy deployment. Three connected research aims: (1) Characterise and forecast misalignment in frontier AI systems; (2) Develop generalisable measurements and interventions, including evaluations with construct/predictive validity and interventions that control what AI systems learn (not just what they say); (3) Oversee AI systems with superhuman capabilities and address multi-agent risks. Strong proposals (especially Tier 2) take a clear stand on a small number of core questions and pursue them deeply rather than addressing many agenda items superficially. Schmidt Sciences is most interested in ambitious Tier 2 proposals that could materially shift what the field believes is possible; for Tier 2 preference is given to multi-PI/multi-lab collaborations and to projects that are demonstrably the lead investigator's primary focus. Beyond grant funding, the programme provides software engineering support via the Virtual Institute for Scientific Software, API credits with frontier model providers, and access to community convenings/workshops. Eligibility includes individual researchers, research teams, universities, national laboratories, institutes, and non-profit research organisations; cross-geographic collaboration encouraged. Common reasons for non-competitive proposals: lack of core focus, vague methods, no validity argument for proposed tools/benchmarks, no clear statement of what would be learned on success or failure. Deadline 17 May 2026 at 11:59pm AoE; notification of decision Summer 2026. Free to apply.

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Location: Worldwide (remote application)

Award: Variable reporting hard costs (no salaries or equipment)

Duration: Per project

Deadline: Rolling / undated

Lightweight rolling grant for individual journalists worldwide (writers, photographers, radio, film; freelance or staff) examining how AI systems are designed, sold and deployed in communities. Faster turnaround than the Pulitzer AI Accountability Fellowship: decisions in 1 to 2 weeks.

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