EA Forum Podcast (All audio) “Please Donate to CAIP (Post 1 of 3 on AI Governance)” by Jason Green-Lowe
I am Jason Green-Lowe, the executive director of the Center for AI Policy (CAIP). Our mission is to directly convince Congress to pass strong AI safety legislation. As I explain in some detail in this post, I think our organization has been doing extremely important work, and that we’ve been doing well at it. Unfortunately, we have been unable to get funding from traditional donors to continue our operations. If we don’t get more funding in the next 30 days, we will have to shut down, which will damage our relationships with Congress and make it harder for future advocates to get traction on AI governance. In this post, I explain what we’ve been doing, why I think it's valuable, and how your donations could help.
This is the first post in what I expect will be a 3-part series. The first post focuses on CAIP's particular need [...]
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Outline:
(01:33) OUR MISSION AND STRATEGY
(02:59) Our Model Legislation
(04:17) Direct Meetings with Congressional Staffers
(05:20) Expert Panel Briefings
(06:16) AI Policy Happy Hours
(06:43) Op-Eds & Policy Papers
(07:22) Grassroots & Grasstops Organizing
(09:13) Whats Unique About CAIP?
(10:26) OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
(10:29) Quantifiable Outputs
(11:21) Changing the Media Narrative
(12:23) Proof of Concept
(13:44) Outcomes -- Congressional Engagement
(18:29) Context
(19:54) OUR PROPOSED POLICIES
(19:58) Mandatory Audits for Frontier AI
(21:23) Liability Reform
(22:32) Hardware Monitoring
(24:11) Emergency Powers
(25:31) Further Details
(25:41) RESPONSES TO COMMON POLICY OBJECTIONS
(25:46) 1. Why not push for a ban or pause on superintelligence research?
(30:17) 2. Why not support bills that have a better chance of passing this year, like funding for NIST or NAIRR?
(32:30) 3. If Congress is so slow to act, why should anyone be working with Congress at all? Why not focus on promoting state laws or voluntary standards?
(35:09) 4. Why would you push the US to unilaterally disarm? Don't we instead need a global treaty regulating AI (or subsidies for US developers) to avoid handing control of the future to China?
(37:24) 5. Why haven't you accomplished your mission yet? If your organization is effective, shouldn't you have passed some of your legislation by now, or at least found some powerful Congressional sponsors for it?
(40:56) OUR TEAM
(41:53) Executive Director
(44:04) Government Relations Team
(45:12) Policy Team
(46:08) Communications Team
(47:29) Operations Team
(48:11) Personnel Changes
(48:49) OUR PLAN IF FUNDED
(51:58) OUR FUNDING SITUATION
(52:02) Our Expenses & Runway
(53:02) No Good Way to Cut Costs
(55:22) Our Revenue
(57:02) Surprise Budget Deficit
(59:00) The Bottom Line
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First published:
May 7th, 2025
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