Dear Singularitarians,

The BGI Nexus initiative is pleased to announce that the review phase of our very first grant round is complete! 25 beneficial AI project proposals will enter the voting phase for grant funding. Now is the time to learn about the proposals that the community will be able to vote to invest in. This is a great milestone for the programme, and we hope the community will celebrate and congratulate these great projects with us. 

How You Can Explore the Eligible Proposals 

First, mark your calendars to join the BGI Nexus Round 01 Spotlight Day, being led by the amazing Deep Funding community. This will be an opportunity for representatives from all of the projects to present their proposals to the community, and answer some community questions.

Spotlight Day Details

Thursday, 27th March, 18:00 UTC

Zoom Call Link – Spotlight Day

There will be a couple of breakout rooms hosting the great variety of projects that will be up for vote, so get ready to be inspired!

In the meantime, check these great proposals out for yourself – there are topics and projects ranging from farming to AI for sign language inclusiveness, AI/AGI alignment and empathy, health and wellness, ecological stewardship, and so much more. There is truly something to inspire anyone. Click on any of the eligible projects below to read more, and prepare yourself to vote next week:

• Farmlingua – a multilingual, AI-powered farm assistant delivering real-time, localized advice—even offline—to smallholder farmers. With voice input, NLP, and sensor data, it empowers rural growers with crop-specific insights on soil, pests, markets, and sustainability, transforming agricultural knowledge into food security.
  
• AURORA: Decentralised AI for Carbon Credit Trust – building a decentralized AI system that verifies carbon capture performance with live data, predictive analytics, and blockchain auditing. Its goal: to restore trust in ESG reporting and carbon credits with verifiable, tamper-proof transparency.
  
• Project Lovelock – Living Libraries Network (LLN) – building mobile “Living Libraries”—AI-powered hubs blending environmental sensors, satellite data, and regional wisdom. These eco-kiosks empower communities to restore land, adapt to climate change, and steward biodiversity through data-driven, locally-grounded regenerative action.
  
• Scale Free Alignment – What if we aligned not just AIs, but the whole system? This proposal fuses biological self-organization and agent identity theory to craft scalable, provable alignment frameworks—offering a bold reimagining of how AI and society evolve together.
  
• ReGenAI – pioneering “Ecological AI” to build a context-aware system that fuses Indigenous wisdom, regenerative design, and climate data to inform urban resilience. It helps humans and AI make decisions that serve not just efficiency, but the living world.
  
• GlucoseDAO – GlucoseDAO brings open-source, personalized glucose forecasting to diabetics and health enthusiasts alike. By combining community data with AI, it empowers users to predict blood sugar one hour ahead—enhancing safety, freedom, and real-time wellness planning.
  
• Fair AI Content Moderation – developing an AI-powered content moderation system that promotes fairness, reduces biases, and upholds freedom of expression, using NLP, fairness-aware algorithms, and Explainable AI with blockchain integration for accountability.
  
• Think Inclusion Conferencing App – an AI-driven meeting platform which bridges the digital divide by translating between speech and sign language in real time. It empowers speech-impaired individuals to fully participate in virtual conversations—redefining inclusivity for the digital age with gesture-based interaction and AI voice customization.
  
• London Voice – turning local concerns into actionable insights by blending AI, blockchain, and community input. Through a decentralized app, residents vote, share stories, and co-train a large language model that reflects their needs—shaping policy with collective intelligence.
  
• Benevolent AI Agent Interactions – a modular AI interaction framework that makes agents more empathetic, emotionally aware, and less robotic. Featuring “Chain-of-Emotion” prompts and symbolic logic tools, it helps developers build AI that connects—not just computes—with humans and other agents.
  
• Gamifying Benevolent AGI: Elowyn – creating a gamified training environment for benevolent AGI through a strategic card game. It couples a deceptive “Moloch AI” with a guiding “Elowyn Tree AI,” enabling players and AI to co-evolve ethical behavior within win-win, complexity-informed game scenarios.
  
• Acropolis OS – Autonomous Community AGI – building community AI agents that help groups self-organize, learn, and adapt like living systems. By using ontologies and knowledge graphs, it creates digital collective consciousness—empowering resilient, self-governing communities in the face of social fragmentation.
  
• Ethical AI Auditing – a practice based approach – developing an ethical AI auditing framework using blockchain and citizen science to revolutionize biodiversity conservation, providing global ecological data, transparent carbon credits, and fostering public engagement in environmental protection.
  
• NigerGuard:AI Climate Resilience-Vulnerable States – equiping Nigeria’s most climate-vulnerable regions with AI-powered risk prediction, smart farming, and disaster response tools. Fusing traditional wisdom with modern tech, it’s a digital shield for resilience—protecting people, crops, and futures against extreme climate shocks.
  
• BIONEXUS GAIA: AI for Regenerative Biodiversity – a decentralized AI and blockchain platform for biodiversity conservation. It integrates species identification, habitat mapping, citizen science, and carbon credit verification to enhance ecological monitoring, ethical AI alignment, and regenerative economic models in support of global sustainability. 
  
• Integrated Information Decision-Making System – applies Integrated Information Theory (IIT) to quantify systemic coherence (Φ) in complex environments such as cities, AI systems, and supply chains. It provides real-time insights to inform human and AI decision-making for sustainability, ethical governance, and systemic resilience.
  
• Productivity EEG-AI Agents – Your brain’s secret productivity rhythms—decoded by EEG and optimized by AI. This neurotech platform delivers real-time, personalized focus coaching using reinforcement learning, helping users dodge burnout and boost output with science-backed cognitive flow tracking.
  
• SleepAI – SleepAI turns any wearable into a clinical-grade sleep apnea diagnostician. Validated by top-tier research, its AI detects disorders over multiple nights at home—making diagnosis cheaper, smarter, and radically more accessible for the 1 billion undiagnosed.
  
• Sign Language Translator AI (SLTA) – using computer vision and deep learning to translate sign language videos into readable text. Built for the SingularityNET marketplace, it aims to boost accessibility, enabling millions of deaf and hard-of-hearing users to communicate more freely in real time.
  
• Human-AI Collaboration Governance Framework Polis.ai – reinventing governance as a participatory partnership between citizens and AI. From blockchain-secured voting to predictive policy simulations, it empowers communities to co-create legislation and streamline civic action through inclusive, transparent, and ethics-aligned AI decision support.
  
• CyberPravda: sybil-resistant service of veracity – a radical truth engine, this project is a decentralized, math-driven system that assigns veracity scores to information without admins or oracles. Designed to prevent “neural network collapse,” it protects AI—and humanity—from drowning in its own hallucinations.
  
• Aid for Speech Impairment using AI (ASAI) – ASAI gives voice to the unheard by translating slurred or impaired speech—especially from those with dysarthria—into clear text using a custom-trained AI model. It brings dignity and connection to millions, turning AI into a true assistive ally.
  
• Stress Quantify – AI-Powered HRV Analysis – bringing clarity to biometric stress data by standardizing heart rate variability across devices and applying adaptive AI, the project transforms vague graphs into personalized, actionable wellness plans—finally making wearables a true partner in mental resilience.
  
• Autistic AI Safety Framework & AGI Confidant –building an AI ethics and training framework rooted in autistic perspectives—by and for neurodivergent people. Its prototype AGI “confidant” will support autistic users with privacy-respecting, compassionate interactions that reflect spiky ability profiles and emotional nuance.
  
• Valuing Invisible Flows for Collective Evolution – making the invisible visible: this project uses AI to analyze voice notes, reflections, and emotional flows across communities. It reveals how collective thinking evolves over time, offering a new lens for designing regenerative systems and real-time cultural shifts.

Congratulations to all these excellent proposals that have been recognized by the reviewers for their impactfulness, thoughtfulness, and technical innovation! So many amazing projects were proposed, and the BGI Nexus community is looking forward to welcoming back any proposals not eligible for this voting phase to try again in future rounds.

Next Steps of the Round

The journey to a beneficial AI future is a collective effort, and your participation is critical. Here’s what happens next:

• Join Spotlight Day: On Thursday, 27th March at 18:00 UTC, we will hold a presentation and Q&A session on Zoom—Spotlight Day. This recorded live call will give selected proposals a platform to highlight their projects to the voting community, fostering deeper engagement and discussion.
  
• Prepare to Vote! Whether you are a proposer or a dedicated community member, your voice matters. Get ready to vote for the winning proposals when the voting phase opens next week. Your vote will help determine how our grant funds are allocated and steer the future of beneficial AI. Subscribe for updates, to be notified when the vote opens and how you can vote.

A Call to Collective Action

The BGI Nexus is a living, evolving community. Our goal is to support projects that contribute to the BGI track, whether through fiat or crypto donations, computing power, technology sharing, or manpower. Every contribution, no matter the form, plays a crucial role in shaping a future where technology works for the betterment of humankind.

Engage in meaningful conversations about beneficial AI and AGI technologies. Propose and support projects that align with the values of inclusivity, sustainability, and innovation. Through your insights, ideas, and actions, you are helping build a system that allocates resources to truly transformative goals.

Thank you for being part of the BGI Nexus journey. The future is bright when we work together.