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Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) is accepting applications for AI Safety / AI Assurance research grants.
They are offering up to $750k per project accepted, expended over 6-24 months.
1-2 page expression of interest due August 1.
Applicants should be based at an academic institution or nonprofit research organization.
More information here.
From CSET "We’re using 'assurance' here in a broad sense, meaning roughly 'the generation of evidence that an ML system is sufficiently safe for its intended use.'"