长期未来基金宣布2025年第一季度资助申请启动，旨在支持应对人类生存风险或促进人类长期繁荣的个人和组织。本轮资助重点关注人工智能带来的生存风险，包括相关研究、生态系统支持、领域建设和全球治理。申请截止日期为2月15日，结果将于3月31日前公布，资助款项预计在4月底前发放。基金调整为集中资助模式，以应对快速变化的捐赠环境，并为捐助者提供更清晰的反馈。同时保留快速通道申请，但门槛较高。欢迎全球个人和组织提交申请。

💡本轮资助重点关注减少人工智能带来的生存风险（x-risk）以及支持能从根本上改善人类未来的工作，包括对x-risk和变革性技术的研究分析、生态系统支持、领域建设以及改善全球治理。

🌍 长期未来基金欢迎全球的个人和组织申请，包括新型研究项目、独立研究人员和作家、早期组织、活动组织者以及寻求职业转型进入x-risk领域的有潜力个人。

📅 本轮资助申请的截止日期为2025年2月15日，申请结果将在2025年3月31日前通知，资金预计在2025年4月发放。基金同时保留快速通道申请，但其审批标准更高。

🔄 基金将继续接受申请，错过本轮申请截止日期的申请将在下一轮资助中进行评估，时间间隔大约为几个月。同时，基金会尽快回复现有申请，高优先级的申请将加快处理。

Published on December 20, 2024 2:20 AM GMT

The Long-Term Future Fund is pleased to invite applications to our Q1 2025 funding round. We are seeking to support individuals and organizations working to help humanity navigate existential risks or working on projects improving humanity’s long-term flourishing.

→ Click here to apply ←

Deadline for applying is February 15th. We will respond to applications submitted before then by March 31st, and should have most funding disbursed by April 30th.

Why Grant Rounds?
After a period of accepting applications on a rolling basis, we're trialling returning to focused grant rounds. I am hoping this will:

Allow us to recalibrate our funding thresholds given a rapidly changing giving environmentProvide donors with clearer feedback on the impact of their contributionsOffer applicants predictable response timelines

For particularly time-sensitive opportunities, we maintain a fast-track application process, though we expect the bar to be substantially higher for funding through this channel (i.e., your odds of receiving funding are lower if you apply through the fast-track application).

What We Fund
We continue to focus on reducing existential risk (x-risk) and supporting work that could radically improve humanity's future. In practice, we expect the clear majority of projects we support to be focused on reducing x-risk from AI. Example focus areas include:

Research and analysis on x-risk and transformative technologies, with a focus on existential risks from Artificial IntelligenceEcosystem support to help others work on x-risk and transformative technologiesField-building and improving epistemics both within the extended ecosystem of people working on the long-term future, and among important decision-makersEfforts to improve global governance of transformative technologies, again with a particular focus on AI

Who Can Apply?
Individuals and organizations worldwide are welcome to apply. We frequently fund:

Novel research projectsIndependent researchers and writersEarly-stage organizationsEvent organizersPromising individuals seeking career transitions into x-risk work

Timeline

Application deadline: February 15th, 2025Decisions communicated: By March 31st, 2025Funding disbursed: April 2025

Giving Environment
The funding environment has changed considerably over the past year. Our sense is there are now many more highly-impactful potential donation targets while availability and flexibility of funding for many of those projects is substantially reduced. We aim to use this round to recalibrate our bar for funding and help focus our limited evaluator attention more effectively.

What happens to existing applications?
We aim to get back to all applications currently in our pipeline before February 1st. We will fund the most high-priority applications on an expedited basis, but expect to defer most of the promising applications presently in the pipeline to be evaluated in the grant round (and will send emails to existing applicants with instructions on how to make sure they get included in the round if they want to, and when they should expect to get a response from us).

What if I miss the application deadline?
That’s fine – we will continue to have an always-open application. If you submit your application after the deadline has passed, we’ll simply evaluate your application in the next funding round, which will likely be staggered from this round by a few months.

Questions?
We will announce an Ask Me Anything (AMA) soon, likely answering questions in the first or second week of January. In the meantime, you’re welcome to:

Ask questions in the comments belowDM me on EA Forum/Less WrongEmail me/Oli/Caleb at u>longtermfuture@effectivealtruismfunds.org</u

We will also be updating the website and application form with new details in the next few days; please bear with us if details on the website and this announcement do not exactly match. 

We look forward to reviewing your applications! And if you know someone doing valuable work in this space, please encourage them to apply.

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