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    <Title>OpenAI research grants: agentic AI systems &amp; Superalignment</Title>
    <Tagline>deadlines: 1/20/2024 and 2/18/2024</Tagline>
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          <div class="html-content"><span>Open AI's </span><a href="https://openai.smapply.org/prog/agentic-ai-research-grants/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Research into the Agentic AI Systems</strong></a><span> program is accepting applications until midnight ET on January 20, 2024. Grants will be between $10,000 and $100,000 for research for 3-8 month projects on the impacts of </span><strong>agentic AI systems</strong><span> and practices for making them safe. It defines </span><strong>agenticness</strong><span> as the degree to which an AI system can adaptably achieve complex goals in complex environments with limited direct supervision. </span><br><br><span>Open AI also has </span><a href="https://openai.com/blog/superalignment-fast-grants" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Superalignment Fast Grants</strong></a><span>, which will award $100K to $2 Million grants for academic labs, nonprofits, and individual researchers researching to answer the question: How can humans steer and trust AI systems much smarter than them? The application is open, with a deadline of February 18, 2024. </span><div><span><br></span></div></div>
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    <Summary>Open AI's Research into the Agentic AI Systems program is accepting applications until midnight ET on January 20, 2024. Grants will be between $10,000 and $100,000 for research for 3-8 month...</Summary>
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