OpenAI puts $7.5M into UK AISI's independent alignment fund
OpenAI just committed $7.5M to The Alignment Project, a research pool run by the UK AI Security Institute to back independent safety research. The total fund tops £27M with backing from governments and philanthropies, handing grants up to £1M per project. OpenAI won't run the selection process, aiming to boost foundational work outside big lab walls.