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Boun­ties & Prizes (ac­tive)

TagLast edit: Nov 1, 2020, 12:33 PM by plex

A bounty is a monetary payment for accomplishing some task. On LessWrong, bounties have historically been paid out for things like providing useful information, doing a novel piece of research, or changing someone’s mind about a topic.

This tag is for bounties that are actively accepting submissions. (It has a sister for bounties that have closed.)

Bounties might be listed in the post itself or in its comments.

If you’re hosting a bounty, please make sure to change the tags to indicate the status of the bounty.

See also: Bounties (closed), Grants and fundraising opportunities, Bountied Rationality Facebook group

[$10k bounty] Read and com­pile Robin Han­son’s best posts

Richard_NgoOct 20, 2021, 10:03 PM
137 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

$1000 bounty for OpenAI to show whether GPT3 was “de­liber­ately” pre­tend­ing to be stupi­der than it is

Bird ConceptJul 21, 2020, 6:42 PM
56 points
39 comments2 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

Ra­tional An­i­ma­tions’ Script Writ­ing Contest

WriterSep 15, 2022, 4:56 PM
23 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Thomas Kwa’s Bounty List

Thomas KwaJun 13, 2020, 12:03 AM
12 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Launch­ing the AI Fore­cast­ing Bench­mark Series Q3 | $30k in Prizes

ChristianWilliamsJul 8, 2024, 5:20 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.metaculus.com)

Fore­cast 2025 With Vox’s Fu­ture Perfect Team — $2,500 Prize Pool

ChristianWilliamsDec 20, 2024, 11:00 PM
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.metaculus.com)

Join the $10K Au­toHack 2024 Tournament

Paul BricmanSep 25, 2024, 11:54 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(noemaresearch.com)

$20K In Boun­ties for AI Safety Public Materials

Aug 5, 2022, 2:52 AM
71 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

Bounty: Di­verse hard tasks for LLM agents

Dec 17, 2023, 1:04 AM
49 points
31 comments16 min readLW link

Es­say com­pe­ti­tion on the Au­toma­tion of Wis­dom and Philos­o­phy — $25k in prizes

Apr 16, 2024, 10:10 AM
82 points
12 comments8 min readLW link
(blog.aiimpacts.org)

An­nounc­ing the AI Fore­cast­ing Bench­mark Series | July 8, $120k in Prizes

ChristianWilliamsJul 2, 2024, 10:33 PM
15 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.metaculus.com)

$300 Fermi Model Competition

ozziegooenFeb 3, 2025, 7:47 PM
16 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

New Fore­sight Longevity Bio & Molec­u­lar Nano Grants Program

Allison DuettmannFeb 4, 2025, 12:28 AM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

RA Bounty: Look­ing for feed­back on screen­play about AI Risk

WriterOct 26, 2023, 1:23 PM
32 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Prizes for ma­trix com­ple­tion problems

paulfchristianoMay 3, 2023, 11:30 PM
164 points
52 comments1 min readLW link
(www.alignment.org)

Dom­i­nant As­surance Con­tract Ex­per­i­ment #2: Berkeley House Dinners

Arjun PanicksseryJul 5, 2023, 12:13 AM
51 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

An­nounc­ing the Clearer Think­ing micro-grants pro­gram for 2023

spencergAug 7, 2023, 3:21 PM
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.clearerthinking.org)

Erdős Prob­lems in Al­gorith­mic Probability

Aidan RockeSep 11, 2023, 4:44 PM
13 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

# **An­nounce­ment of AI-Plans.com Cri­tique-a-thon Septem­ber 2023**

Kabir KumarSep 14, 2023, 5:43 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Ap­ply to Us­able Se­cu­rity Prize by Septem­ber 30

Allison DuettmannSep 29, 2023, 1:39 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How much chess en­g­ine progress is about adapt­ing to big­ger com­put­ers?

paulfchristianoJul 7, 2021, 10:35 PM
114 points
23 comments6 min readLW link

Effec­tive Ideas is an­nounc­ing a $100,000 blog prize

finMar 7, 2022, 9:45 PM
43 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

An­nounc­ing the In­verse Scal­ing Prize ($250k Prize Pool)

Jun 27, 2022, 3:58 PM
171 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

$500 bounty for al­ign­ment con­test ideas

Orpheus16Jun 30, 2022, 1:56 AM
29 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Send us ex­am­ple gnarly bugs

Dec 10, 2023, 5:23 AM
77 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Man­i­fold x CSPI $25k Fore­cast­ing Tournament

David CheeAug 9, 2022, 9:13 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.cspicenter.com)

Seek­ing Stu­dent Sub­mis­sions: Edit Your Source Code Contest

ArisAug 26, 2022, 2:08 AM
28 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing $5,000 bounty for (re­spon­si­bly) end­ing malaria

lcSep 24, 2022, 4:28 AM
116 points
40 comments4 min readLW link

Prizes for ML Safety Bench­mark Ideas

joshcOct 28, 2022, 2:51 AM
36 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some real life Inad­e­quate Equil­ibria?

Eli TyreJan 29, 2021, 12:17 PM
50 points
63 comments3 min readLW link

Bounty for Ev­i­dence on Some of Pal­isade Re­search’s Beliefs

Sep 23, 2024, 8:01 PM
46 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Seek­ing AI Align­ment Tu­tor/​Ad­vi­sor: $100–150/​hr

MrThinkOct 5, 2024, 9:28 PM
26 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

$500 Bounty Prob­lem: Are (Ap­prox­i­mately) Deter­minis­tic Nat­u­ral La­tents All You Need?

Apr 21, 2025, 8:19 PM
83 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

PIBBSS Fel­low­ship: Bounty for Refer­rals & Dead­line Extension

Anna GajdovaJan 17, 2022, 4:23 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Im­pact­ful Fore­cast­ing Prize for fore­cast write­ups on cu­rated Me­tac­u­lus questions

Feb 4, 2022, 8:06 PM
41 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a man­i­fold plot of all peo­ple who had a say in AI al­ign­ment?

skulk-and-quarrelMar 31, 2023, 9:50 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

$13,000 of prizes for chang­ing our mind about who to fund (Clearer Think­ing Re­grants Fore­cast­ing Tour­na­ment)

spencergSep 20, 2022, 4:06 PM
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(manifold.markets)

AI safety logo de­sign con­test, due mid-May

Adrian CiprianiApr 28, 2023, 2:00 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Q2 AI Fore­cast­ing Bench­mark: $30,000 in Prizes

ChristianWilliamsApr 21, 2025, 5:29 PM
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.metaculus.com)

$500 bounty for best short-form fic­tion about our near fu­ture world; $100 for recom­mend­ing win­ning piece: new “Art of Near Fu­ture World” quar­terly art project

Ramon GonzalezApr 15, 2025, 12:46 AM
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Prize for Align­ment Re­search Tasks

Apr 29, 2022, 8:57 AM
64 points
38 comments10 min readLW link

$300 for the best sci-fi prompt

RomanSMay 17, 2023, 4:23 AM
40 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

$500 Bounty/​Prize Prob­lem: Chan­nel Ca­pac­ity Us­ing “Insen­si­tive” Functions

johnswentworthMay 16, 2023, 9:31 PM
40 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Aligned Ob­jec­tives Prize Competition

PrometheusJun 15, 2023, 12:42 PM
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(app.impactmarkets.io)

EIS VII: A Challenge for Mechanists

scasperFeb 18, 2023, 6:27 PM
36 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Me­tac­u­lus Launches the ‘Fore­cast­ing Our World In Data’ Pro­ject to Probe the Long-Term Future

ChristianWilliamsOct 14, 2022, 5:00 PM
15 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Speed run­ning ev­ery­one through the bad al­ign­ment bingo. $5k bounty for a LW con­ver­sa­tional agent

ArthurBMar 9, 2023, 9:26 AM
140 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing AI Align­ment Awards: $100k re­search con­tests about goal mis­gen­er­al­iza­tion & corrigibility

Nov 22, 2022, 10:19 PM
73 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

Ethan Perez on the In­verse Scal­ing Prize, Lan­guage Feed­back and Red Teaming

Michaël TrazziAug 24, 2022, 4:35 PM
26 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(theinsideview.ai)

Con­sider pay­ing for liter­a­ture or book re­views us­ing boun­ties and dom­i­nant as­surance contracts

Arjun PanicksseryJan 15, 2023, 3:56 AM
57 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Re­vis­it­ing the Man­i­fold Hypothesis

Aidan RockeOct 1, 2023, 11:55 PM
13 points
19 comments4 min readLW link
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