The Alignment Project

The Alignment Project is a global fund dedicated to accelerating progress in AI alignment research. Our aim is to promote the development of advanced AI systems that are safe, reliable, and beneficial to society. We provide funding of up to £1 million to researchers from across disciplines.

Research Priorities

• Information Theory and Cryptography
• Computational Complexity Theory
• Economic Theory and Game Theory
• Probabilistic Methods
• Learning Theory
• Evaluation and Guarantees in Reinforcement Learning
• Cognitive Science
• Interpretability
• Benchmark Design and Evaluation
• Methods for Post-training and Elicitation
• Empirical Investigations Into AI Monitoring and Red Teaming

Funding: $1,000,000 total 

Duration: no fixed limit 

Research Authority due date: 3.9.25

Expression of Interest (EOI- required) due date:  10.9.25

Full application due date: 15.10.25