According to LessWrong, the Department of Defense and National Science Foundation have jointly launched the next phase of the AI Forge Program, formalizing government investment in AI safety research. The program will fund university research on three technical challenges: making AI systems interpretable and auditable, establishing reliable performance safeguards, and hardening them against adversarial attacks. Project funding ranges from 750 thousand to 3 million dollars, with applications due June 22nd. The initiative reflects a broader shift toward embedding alignment and safety research directly into national security infrastructure.

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