Thanks to @Manuel Allgaier of AI Safety Berlin for his suggestion to write this post and his helpful feedback. And thanks to LW/AI Alignment Moderator Oliver for looking over the post.

LessWrong and AI safety have a unique opportunity: The EU is funding important projects to research AI safety, ranging from AI risk modelling, AI accountability, driverless transport, robotics, to information security and many other topics.

Here's the problem: We’re not applying.

I work in EU procurement support and I routinely see new AI tenders worth millions [see below] go to the same standard consultants. Most have no idea about the issues involved and I doubt they care much. They know the bureaucratic skills and paperwork inside out so they win by default.

What they lack is AI expertise, which our community has accumulated over more than a decade. I and my EU procurement company will gladly help [...]

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First published:
July 20th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jzgqTtcHhXpSDNgcF/your-ai-safety-org-could-get-eu-funding-up-to-eur9-08m-here

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