“Arkose is Closing” by Arkose

Summary

Arkose is an early-stage AI safety fieldbuilding nonprofit focused on accelerating the involvement of experienced machine learning professionals in technical AI safety research through direct outreach, one-on-one calls, and public resources.

Between December 2023 and June 2025, we had one-on-one calls with 311 such professionals. 78% of those professionals said their initial call accelerated their involvement in AI safety[1].

Unfortunately, we’re closing due to a lack of funding. We remain excited about other attempts at direct outreach to this population, and think the right team could have impact here.

Why are we closing?

Over the past year, we’ve applied for funding from all of the major funders interested in AI safety fieldbuilding work, and several minor funders. Rather than try to massively change what we're doing to appeal to funders, with a short funding runway and little to no feedback, we’re choosing to close down and pursue [...]

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Outline:

(00:09) Summary

(00:51) Why are we closing?

(01:13) What were we doing? Why?

(04:02) What do we think about other people doing similar things?

The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration.

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First published:
June 23rd, 2025

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wEKmiLASbNAj8FDzk/arkose-is-closing

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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