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AI-Powered Social Science for Climate Emergencies Research

Year

2025

Grant Level

Seed Grant

Focus Area

Building Resilience for Climate Emergencies

Despite growing calls for alarm, funding for research into catastrophic climate risk and potential interventions remains low. To smooth the way for these technologies, we must be able to quickly identify the factors that limit the support and investment of funders, scientists, and the general public. But mapping these factors is a monumental undertaking for traditional social science. Individual studies can take months or years and often only produce correlations, not the rich causal knowledge needed to incentivize change. Fortunately, AI can help reduce the time and labor costs of social science research. This project will explore how AI can help scale data collection, curate existing knowledge, and build richer mental models of how decision-makers think about catastrophic climate risks.

Program Personnel

Allegra Cohen

Fellow

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Allegra A. Beal Cohen is exploring how AI can help scale the social sciences. She recently completed a term at DARPA as part of the first cohort of Innovation Fellows where she developed and ran a portfolio of high-risk, high-reward research focused on AI and economic statecraft. Before that, she was an I2O Postdoctoral Fellow on the DARPA Habitus program where she built software to curate interview data and was nominated as a DARPA Early Riser for her work. Allegra holds a Ph.D. in computational modeling from the University of Florida and a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University. She is a big fan of birds.

Seed Grants

ARC’s Seed grants will provide early-stage funding to catalyze promising ideas addressing catastrophic climate risks.

ARC Seed grants support promising ideas with exploratory efforts, scoping studies, concept development, early-stage research, and small pilot projects, to help develop and refine innovative concepts or unblock initial barriers.

Timeline: ARC Seed grants are provided for 3-6 month engagements.

Grant Amount: ARC’s Seed grants generally provide $30–100K in funding as well as deep engagement on project design and strategy.

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Build Grants

ARC’s Build grants will enable leaders to turn promising concepts into actionable programs.

ARC Build grants support the development of independent organizations or partnerships with existing entities, focusing on activities such as program planning, roadmapping, early implementation, and organizational development.

Timeline: ARC Build grants are provided for 6-month to 1-year engagements.

Grant Amount: ARC’s Build grants generally provide $100-400k in funding as well as strategic and operational support, and a variety of technical expertise.

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Scale Partners

ARC’s Scale grants will empower our partner organizations to achieve significant impact by advancing key program objectives.

ARC’s Scale Partnerships provide targeted support to help organizations working on challenges aligned with ARC’s mission to enhance their efforts addressing climate risks.

In addition to resources, we offer technical expertise, strategic guidance for organizational growth and research, and hands-on support in fundraising and partnership development. By working closely with our partners, we ensure that promising initiatives are well-positioned to succeed and grow.

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