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Cooperative AI Foundation

aka CAIF, cooperative ai
NonprofitAI Safety & Existential Risk FundingActivewww.cooperativeai.com/foundationX ↗
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 file
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CAIF Research Grants
22 grants tracked · Active · Not recorded
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Cooperative AI PhD Fellowship
0 grants tracked · Active · Not recorded
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Multi-Agent Safety Fund
0 grants tracked · Ended · In rounds
2026 call for proposals: Closed, deadline 2026-08-08

Awards

52 on file
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  1. A Cooperative AI Contest with Melting Pot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Dylan Hadfield-Menell)
    ProgramCAIF Research Grants
    AmountUSD 134,175
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  2. Aashiq Muhamed (Carnegie Mellon University)
    ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2026
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  3. ACES: Action Explanation Through Counterfactual Simulation, Stanford University (Tobias Gerstenberg and Dorsa Sadigh)
    ProgramCAIF Research Grants
    AmountUSD 500,000
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  4. AI Coercive Capabilities: Concepts and Measurements, Uppsala University (Sophia Hatz)
    ProgramCAIF Research Grants
    Amount639,830 SEK
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  5. AI for Humanitarian Crisis Negotiation and Beyond, Harvard University (Finale Doshi-Velez)
    ProgramCAIF Research Grants
    AmountUSD 213,707
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  6. Akash Agrawal (MATS)
    ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2026
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  7. Alistair Letcher (University of Oxford)
    ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2026
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  8. Annie Ulichney (UC Berkeley)
    ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2026
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  9. Carter Blair
    ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2025
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  10. Chandler Smith (Cooperative AI Foundation)
    ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2025
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  11. Claude Formanek (University of Cape Town)
    ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2025
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  12. Conceptualising Collective Cooperative Intelligence, University of Bonn (Wolfram Barfuss)
    ProgramCAIF Research Grants
    AmountEUR 172,000
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  13. Cooperation and Negotiation in Large Language Models, University of Washington and UC Berkeley (Natasha Jaques and Sergey Levine)
    ProgramCAIF Research Grants
    AmountUSD 450,000
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  14. Daphne Cornelisse (NYU)
    ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2025
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  15. Deliberative Technology in Conflict Contexts, Search for Common Ground (with University of Oxford)
    ProgramCAIF Research Grants
    AmountUSD 280,000
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  16. Designing Robust Cooperative AI Systems, Harvard University (Matthias Gerstgrasser and David Parkes)
    ProgramCAIF Research Grants
    AmountUSD 140,000
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  17. Dhara Yu (UC Berkeley)
    ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2026
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  18. Emanuel Tewolde (Carnegie Mellon University)
    ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2025
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  19. Emergent Norms for Sustainable Cooperation, University of Washington (Max Kleiman-Weiner)
    ProgramCAIF Research Grants
    AmountUSD 293,574
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  20. Enhancing Shareholder Democracy Using AI-Mediated Representation, MIT (Michiel Bakker)
    ProgramCAIF Research Grants
    AmountUSD 121,506
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  21. Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab (FOCAL), Carnegie Mellon University (Vincent Conitzer)
    ProgramCAIF Research Grants
    AmountUSD 500,000
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  22. Governing the Risks That the Interaction Between AI Agents May Present to International Peace and Security, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
    ProgramCAIF Research Grants
    Amount373,000 SEK
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  23. Hannah Erlebach (University College London)
    ProgramCooperative AI PhD Fellowship 2025
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  24. Hierarchical Theories of Time and Cooperative AI, University of Washington (Kunal Jha)
    ProgramCAIF Research Grants
    AmountUSD 64,763
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  25. Integrating Intention Into Cooperative AI, Cornell University (Joseph Halpern)
    ProgramCAIF Research Grants
    AmountUSD 123,682
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Programs
52
Awards
52
Grantees
$3.6M
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Current rounds
2
Active programs
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.
Sources
  1. www.cooperativeai.com/foundation
  2. www.cooperativeai.com/foundation#Funding-Applications
  3. www.cooperativeai.com/post/grant-summaries
  4. www.cooperativeai.com/post/announcing-the-2026-cooperative-ai-phd-fellows