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Organization Profile
Cooperative AI Foundation
aka CAIF, cooperative ai
CAIF funds research that improves the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI -- addressing multi-agent and cooperation problems among AI systems and between AI and humans -- alongside PhD fellowships, conference workshops, seminars, and prizes. Research grants run in periodic rounds (typically GBP 10,000-385,000, median ~GBP 150,000) via a two-stage pre-proposal and full-proposal process, open to applicants globally, including disciplines outside computer science.1,2,3,4
Programs
3 programs on fileCAIF Research Grants
22 grants tracked
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Cooperative AI PhD Fellowship
0 grants tracked
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Multi-Agent Safety Fund
0 grants tracked
2026 call for proposals: closed, closes 2026-08-08
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Awards
52 on fileShowing 1-25 of 52, newest dated evidence first
RecipientProgramAmountDateEvidence
- A Cooperative AI Contest with Melting Pot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Dylan Hadfield-Menell)ProgramCAIF Research GrantsAmountUSD 134,175Date–
- Aashiq Muhamed (Carnegie Mellon University)ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2026Amount–Date–
- ACES: Action Explanation Through Counterfactual Simulation, Stanford University (Tobias Gerstenberg and Dorsa Sadigh)ProgramCAIF Research GrantsAmountUSD 500,000Date–
- AI Coercive Capabilities: Concepts and Measurements, Uppsala University (Sophia Hatz)ProgramCAIF Research GrantsAmount639,830 SEKDate–
- AI for Humanitarian Crisis Negotiation and Beyond, Harvard University (Finale Doshi-Velez)ProgramCAIF Research GrantsAmountUSD 213,707Date–
- Akash Agrawal (MATS)ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2026Amount–Date–
- Alistair Letcher (University of Oxford)ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2026Amount–Date–
- Annie Ulichney (UC Berkeley)ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2026Amount–Date–
- Carter BlairProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2025Amount–Date–
- Chandler Smith (Cooperative AI Foundation)ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2025Amount–Date–
- Claude Formanek (University of Cape Town)ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2025Amount–Date–
- Conceptualising Collective Cooperative Intelligence, University of Bonn (Wolfram Barfuss)ProgramCAIF Research GrantsAmountEUR 172,000Date–
- Cooperation and Negotiation in Large Language Models, University of Washington and UC Berkeley (Natasha Jaques and Sergey Levine)ProgramCAIF Research GrantsAmountUSD 450,000Date–
- Daphne Cornelisse (NYU)ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2025Amount–Date–
- Deliberative Technology in Conflict Contexts, Search for Common Ground (with University of Oxford)ProgramCAIF Research GrantsAmountUSD 280,000Date–
- Designing Robust Cooperative AI Systems, Harvard University (Matthias Gerstgrasser and David Parkes)ProgramCAIF Research GrantsAmountUSD 140,000Date–
- Dhara Yu (UC Berkeley)ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2026Amount–Date–
- Emanuel Tewolde (Carnegie Mellon University)ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2025Amount–Date–
- Emergent Norms for Sustainable Cooperation, University of Washington (Max Kleiman-Weiner)ProgramCAIF Research GrantsAmountUSD 293,574Date–
- Enhancing Shareholder Democracy Using AI-Mediated Representation, MIT (Michiel Bakker)ProgramCAIF Research GrantsAmountUSD 121,506Date–
- Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab (FOCAL), Carnegie Mellon University (Vincent Conitzer)ProgramCAIF Research GrantsAmountUSD 500,000Date–
- Governing the Risks That the Interaction Between AI Agents May Present to International Peace and Security, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)ProgramCAIF Research GrantsAmount373,000 SEKDate–
- Hannah Erlebach (University College London)ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2025Amount–Date–
- Hierarchical Theories of Time and Cooperative AI, University of Washington (Kunal Jha)ProgramCAIF Research GrantsAmountUSD 64,763Date–
- Integrating Intention Into Cooperative AI, Cornell University (Joseph Halpern)ProgramCAIF Research GrantsAmountUSD 123,682Date–
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Programs
52
Awards
52
Grantees
$3.6M
Known USD
0
Live rounds
no open or announced rounds on file
Active
Status
Focus Areas
cooperative AI, multi-agent systems, AI safety, AI alignment, cooperation, multi-agent security, collusion prevention.
Typical sizeGBP 10,000-385,000 (median ~GBP 150,000); Early-Career Track up to GBP 100,000
CadencePeriodic research grant rounds (e.g., the 2025 round); future deadlines TBC.