Ought-sponsored Epistemics Fund to grant $500k–$5M for community notes and provenance tools
niloofar_mire · x · 2026-11-10
Ought is sponsoring an Epistemics Fund on Lightcone Commons, organized by Nathan Young, to fund tools that help people figure out what's true as AI reshapes the information environment. Applications close 26 November.
- Funding: $500k–$5M in grants to top recommendations; every application also enters the standard Lightcone Commons round where other funders can back it.
- Focus areas: faster community notes (note-writer teams, AI note writers, rating infrastructure); extending notes beyond social media to podcasts, papers, video and the open web; provenance tools (C2PA, reverse video search, synthetic-frame detection); reliability tracking of public figures' statements; trustworthy forecasting and prediction-market tools; supporting government adoption of decision-making tools.
Related event: Ought Launches Epistemics Fund With Grants Up to $5 Million(3 posts)→
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