Registrations are open and invited for the OpenAI Superalignment Fast Grants 2024. The last date of application is February 18, 2024.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is a U.S. based artificial intelligence (AI) research organization founded in December 2015, researching artificial intelligence with the goal of developing “safe and beneficial” artificial general intelligence, which it defines as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work”.
About the Grant
OpenAI is launching $10M in grants to support technical research toward the alignment and safety of superhuman AI systems, including weak-to-strong generalization, interpretability, scalable oversight, and more.
Research Directions
With these grants, they are particularly interested in funding the following research directions:
- Weak-to-strong generalization: Humans will be weak supervisors relative to superhuman models. Can all understand and control how strong models generalize from weak supervision?
- Interpretability: How can all understand model internals? And can all use this to e.g. build an AI lie detector?
- Scalable oversight: How can all use AI systems to assist humans in evaluating the outputs of other AI systems on complex tasks?
- Many other research directions, including but not limited to: honesty, chain-of-thought faithfulness, adversarial robustness, evals and testbeds, and more.
Funding Information
In partnership with Eric Schmidt, they are launching a $10M grant program to support technical research toward ensuring superhuman AI systems are aligned and safe:
- They are offering $100K–$2M grants for academic labs, nonprofits, and individual researchers.
- For graduate students, they are sponsoring a one-year $150K OpenAI Superalignment Fellowship: $75K in stipend and $75K in compute and research funding.
- No prior experience working on alignment is required; they are actively looking to support researchers who are excited to work on alignment for the first time.
Application Process
Interested individuals and organizations can apply via this link.
The application process is simple, and they’ll get back to you within four weeks of applications closing.
Application Deadline
The last date to apply is February 18, 2024.
