MATS Program

Help us support more research scholars!

BAIS (ex-AIS Hub Serbia) Office Space for (Frugal) AI Safety Researchers

Free/Subsidized/Cheap office space outside of EU but in good timezones with favorable visa policies (especially for Chinese/Russian but also US&others near EU).

Journal of Animal Rights Law

The first and only open-access legal journal dedicated to disseminating and discussing animal rights law research

Democratising charity evaluations

Creating a database of independent charity evaluations, incentives to use them and tools to use them with

Forecasting Meetup Network - Washington, DC pilot (4 meetups)

Local meetups of forecasters, fans of prediction markets, and others interested in improving humanity’s ability to predict the future.

Accelerating the AI Safety talent pipeline in South Africa| Matched donations

Funding for AI safety comms strategy & career transition support

Mostly retroactive funding for prior work on AI safety comms strategy as well as career transition support. 

Hiring AI Policy collaborators to prepare France AI Action Summit

Coworking Space for EA/AI Safety Initiatives in Chile

Empowering Chilean students to pursue high-impact careers through a dedicated collaborative workspace at UC Chile

Space Science Guy (An EA-aligned YouTube channel)

Moral Progress in AI to Prevent Premature Value Lock-in

Early exploration, agenda-setting, technical infrastructure, and early community building

The AI Arena - ludi.life

Online platform where AIs and humans race to solve puzzles.

Travel Funding to Attend Workshop on Biosecurity and AI Safety at Oxford

Funding top-up for an early-career reseacher to attend Global Challenges Project (GCP) Workshop for career exploration in mitigating GCRs

Yes On IP28

An Oregon ballot initiative for the 2026 general election proposing to ban the slaughter, hunting, experimentation, and breeding of animals statewide.

Farmed and Wild Animal Sentience-Increasing Global Understanding & Awareness

Increase Global Understanding and Awareness of Farmed & Wild Animal Sentience and the Interdependencies and Interconnections that Affect Animal, Human, and Envi

Sending a Nigerian Team to the European Girls Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO)

Organising the Special Maths Contest to select a Nigerian EGMO Team, and rigorously training them before their participation in the EGMO.

OpenLitterMap - A Real Time Data Collection Experience

Starting with litter and plastic pollution, we are turning cleaning the planet into a game to unlock societies data collection and impact mapping capacity.

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[FUNDED] PhD on Advancing Microbial Forensics with Machine Learning

The Milestone OLYMPICS (by ForkinWisdom)

A gamified platform to help Social Impact Projects grow their communities, co-create with them, and report their impact