NLRapid Grants
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Why this is on the board
This is not a vacancy but a rapid grant of up to $20,000 for anyone who wants to work on AI safety or biosecurity, reducing risks from pathogens. The leverage is in the timing: a few months of research time or compute, awarded within weeks, can decide whether someone in such a small field keeps going or drops out before there is a first result.
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About the role
Rapid grants up to $20,000 supporting individuals pursuing AI safety or biosecurity research, projects, events, or collaboration. - Fund research time, living costs, compute, tools, experiments, meetups, conferences, and fieldwork. - Apply with a plan and budget; decisions made within weeks; funding paid as single lump sum. - Eligible: individuals taking promising next steps in AI safety or biosecurity; BlueDot community members prioritised. - Cannot fund activities in sanctioned countries, p…
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