METR and RAND receive $38M from Audacious Project for AI safety evaluations

The Audacious Project has awarded approximately $38 million in funding to Canary, a joint initiative with METR and RAND focused on evaluating AI systems for dangerous capabilities. METR will receive about $17 million of this to develop and deploy methods for assessing frontier AI systems' autonomous actions. This funding aims to inform decision-makers about potential risks and enable mitigation strategies for transformative AI. AI

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RANK_REASON Significant funding award to a project focused on AI safety and evaluation.

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• METR
• RAND
• Canary
• AI systems
• OpenAI
• TED
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Skoll Foundation
• Valhalla Foundation

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