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CAIF Research Grants

The Cooperative AI Foundation's research grants fund work that improves the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI, addressing multi-agent and cooperation problems among AI systems and between AI and humans. Grants run GBP 10,000-385,000 (median ~GBP 150,000, Early-Career Track up to GBP 100,000) in periodic rounds via a two-stage pre-proposal and full-proposal process; projects run up to 2 years with indirect costs capped at 10%.

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Sources

  1. 01cooperativeai.com/post/grant-summaries
  2. 02cooperativeai.com/grants/2025

Awards

22 on file
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  1. A Cooperative AI Contest with Melting Pot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Dylan Hadfield-Menell)
    AmountUSD 134,175
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  2. ACES: Action Explanation Through Counterfactual Simulation, Stanford University (Tobias Gerstenberg and Dorsa Sadigh)
    AmountUSD 500,000
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  3. AI Coercive Capabilities: Concepts and Measurements, Uppsala University (Sophia Hatz)
    Amount639,830 SEK
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  4. AI for Humanitarian Crisis Negotiation and Beyond, Harvard University (Finale Doshi-Velez)
    AmountUSD 213,707
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  5. Conceptualising Collective Cooperative Intelligence, University of Bonn (Wolfram Barfuss)
    AmountEUR 172,000
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  6. Cooperation and Negotiation in Large Language Models, University of Washington and UC Berkeley (Natasha Jaques and Sergey Levine)
    AmountUSD 450,000
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  7. Deliberative Technology in Conflict Contexts, Search for Common Ground (with University of Oxford)
    AmountUSD 280,000
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  8. Designing Robust Cooperative AI Systems, Harvard University (Matthias Gerstgrasser and David Parkes)
    AmountUSD 140,000
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  9. Emergent Norms for Sustainable Cooperation, University of Washington (Max Kleiman-Weiner)
    AmountUSD 293,574
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  10. Enhancing Shareholder Democracy Using AI-Mediated Representation, MIT (Michiel Bakker)
    AmountUSD 121,506
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  11. Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab (FOCAL), Carnegie Mellon University (Vincent Conitzer)
    AmountUSD 500,000
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  12. Governing the Risks That the Interaction Between AI Agents May Present to International Peace and Security, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
    Amount373,000 SEK
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  13. Hierarchical Theories of Time and Cooperative AI, University of Washington (Kunal Jha)
    AmountUSD 64,763
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  14. Integrating Intention Into Cooperative AI, Cornell University (Joseph Halpern)
    AmountUSD 123,682
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  15. Machine Learning in Multi-Agent Settings, University of Oxford (Jakob Foerster and Christian Schroeder de Witt)
    AmountGBP 166,370
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  16. Measuring Cooperation Among Competing AI Algorithms, University of Michigan (Mithun Chakraborty and Michael P. Wellman)
    AmountUSD 347,424
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  17. Other-Regarding Goals, Center on Long-Term Risk (Mia Taylor)
    AmountGBP 74,344
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  18. Policy Aggregation, Harvard University (Ariel Procaccia)
    AmountUSD 233,264
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  19. Quick and Safe Adaptation to New Teams, New York University (Eugene Vinitsky)
    AmountUSD 150,974
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  20. Scaling Opponent Shaping, University College London (Akbir Khan)
    AmountGBP 10,000
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  21. Strategic Compression for Adaptive Coordination, University of California, Berkeley (Sandy Tanwisuth)
    AmountUSD 15,000
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  22. The Habermas Machine: a public tool to help humans find common ground, University of Oxford (Christopher Summerfield)
    AmountGBP 366,070
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