Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2018 Class

Organization:
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Award Date:
05/2018
Amount:
$1,135,000
Purpose:
To provide scholarship support to seven machine learning researchers over five years.

The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a total of approximately $1,135,000 over five years in PhD fellowship support to seven machine learning researchers that together represent the 2018 class of the Open Phil AI Fellowship.{footnote_1} These fellows were selected from more than 180 applicants for their academic excellence, technical knowledge, careful reasoning, and interest in making the long-term, large-scale impacts of AI a central focus of their research. This falls within Open Philanthropy's work on potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.

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