Mercor AI Safety Fund Grants

📋 Description

• Submit an Expression of Interest with a one- or two-page document that includes a team, background
• Propose and conduct research in AI safety areas such as misalignment, sandbox escape, evaluation
• Publish research outputs including papers, open datasets, public methodologies, or tools that the

🎯 Requirements

• Independent researchers, academics, PhD students, or small teams
• A specific, well-scoped research question
• Background in ML, CS, statistics, or an adjacent field (measurement, psychometrics, HCI, security
• Bonus: experience with agentic evaluation, RL environments, adversarial ML, or systems security

🎁 Benefits

• Funding for researcher time, API credits, and event attendance
• Access to Mercor's expert network for human grading, red-teaming, and annotation
• Access to Mercor's internal evaluation infrastructure, subject to review
• Introductions to Mercor's network of researchers across frontier labs and academia