Announcing our $160M grant from Coefficient Giving
Alignment Forum · Geoffrey Irving · 2026-07-09
Resolution (formerly Sequent) announces a $160M grant from Coefficient Giving to fund rigorous AI alignment research at scale, using semiautomated methods to close the resource gap between nonprofit alignment work and frontier AI labs.
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Topics: ai-alignmentai-safety-fundingsemiautomated-alignmentalignment-research
Claims
- Resolution received a $160M grant structured as $108M base plus $52M conditional on hiring success and compute needs.
- The grant aims to put rigorous alignment research on closer to equal footing with frontier AI labs in terms of speed and resources.
- The entire process from initial conversation to grant confirmation took only six weeks.
- Frontier AI systems have now reached a threshold where they can make nontrivial theoretical progress on alignment problems.
- Resolution believes superintelligence could arrive within the next few years, making urgency essential.
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We will use it to accelerate progress towards higher-confidence alignment, or to find evidence and obstacles showing why alignment is hard.
We want to make the race between rigor and danger a fair(er) fight.
Aligning ASI is the project of our time. It will require the best effort our civilization can muster.