Slots: 1 application per institution
Deadlines
Internal Deadline: Friday, March 28th, 2025, 5pm PT Under review.
LOI: N/A
External Deadline: May 2, 2025, 11:59pm PT
Award Information
Award Type: Grant
Anticipated Award Amount: $400K plus eligibility for an additional grant
Who May Serve as PI: Faculty
Purpose
Supports projects that help ensure that advanced AI serves fairness and freedom. Specific areas of interest:
- Protecting meaningful freedom of speech
- Ensuring the continuation of other individual liberties such as privacy, private property, and freedom of association
- Empowering the global majority with regard to uses, risks and benefits of AI technology
- Anticipating, understanding, and addressing/resisting monopolistic practices in the development and control of advanced AI
- Defusing and preventing unnecessary conflicts and abuses of power occurring on the basis of unfair discrimination
- Fostering and demanding inclusivity and diversity of representation in:
- benefits from AI-enabled services
- power over AI governance
- access to AI technologies
Link to Award: https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2025/application
Process for Limited Submissions
PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Research Initiatives and Infrastructure (RII) Application Portal: https://rii.usc.edu/oor-portal/. Use the template provided here: RII Limited Submission Applicant Template
Materials to submit include:
- (1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (1” margins; single-spaced; standard font type, e.g. Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
- (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)
Note: The portal requires information about the PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.
Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.