Trust Everything, Everywhere

Trust is becoming the bottleneck to collective flourishing. We need the scientific, technological, and institutional building blocks that let humans and machines thrive together.

Opportunity seeds

Within opportunity spaces, but outside the direct scope of our programmes, ARIA funds opportunity seeds: flexible funding of up to an initial £500k for speculative and ambitious research aligned to the opportunity space.

Explore Nora's opportunity seed projects

Nora's opportunity seeds explore different mathematical approaches to help us verify, understand, and control AI systems.

See where the opportunity lies – read Nora's perspective.

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Formalising and Mitigating the ‘Eliciting Latent Knowledge’ Problem

Francis Rhys Ward, Dr Francis Rhys Ward's Research Group

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End-to-End Verification for Constraint Programming

Ciaran McCreesh

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SFBench

Jason Gross, Theorem + Redwood Research

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Hardware-Level AI Safety Verification

Edoardo Manino, University of Manchester; Mirco Giacobbe, University of Birmingham

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Dovetail Research

Alfred Harwood, Dovetail Research

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FV-Spec: A Large-Scale Benchmark For Formal Verification of Software

Mike Dodds + Ledah Casburn, Galois

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Human Inductive Bias Project

Chris Pang, Meridian

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Investigate the feasibility of using LLMs to scalably produce Large Logic-based Expert Systems (LLES)

Joar Skalse

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Singular Learning Theory for Safe AI Agents

Daniel Murfet, Timaeus

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Learning-theoretic AI Alignment Research Agenda

Vanessa Kosoy, CORAL

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Combining Physical and Intentional Stance for Safe AI

Martin Biehl, Cross Labs, Cross Compass; Manuel Baltieri, Araya Inc.; Nathaniel Virgo, University of Hertfordshire

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SafePlanBench & Logically Constrained Reinforcement Learning

Agustín Martinez Suñé, University of Oxford

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GFlowNet-Steered Probabilistic Program Synthesis for Safer AI

Sam Staton, Nikolay Malkin + Younesse Kaddar, University of Oxford

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SCRY-AI: Self-operating Calculations of Risk for Yielding Accurate Insights

Vehbi Deger Turan, Metaculus

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Extraction of Structured Knowledge from Language for Scientific Discovery

Nikolay Malkin + Henry Gouk, University of Edinburgh