CIV: National AI Research Institutes (Title LII, Sec. 5201)
The Director of the NSF is permitted to establish a network of research institutes that are focused on cross-cutting challenges for AI systems, like trustworthiness or foundational science, or alternatively that are focused on a particular economic or social sector such as health care, education, manufacturing. These institutes are to include a component addressing the ethical and safety implications of the relevant application of AI to that sector and are to be funded for a renewable period of five years.
CIV: National AI Research Institutes (Title LII, Sec. 5201)
The Director of the NSF is permitted to establish a network of research institutes that are focused on cross-cutting challenges for AI systems, like trustworthiness or foundational science, or alternatively that are focused on a particular economic or social sector such as health care, education, manufacturing. These institutes are to include a component addressing the ethical and safety implications of the relevant application of AI to that sector and are to be funded for a renewable period of five years.
This seems to be the single clearest funding opportunity related to safety work as we tend to conceptualize it.