“It looks like there are some good funding opportunities in AI safety right now” by Benjamin_Todd

The AI safety community has grown rapidly since the ChatGPT wake-up call, but available funding doesn’t seem to have kept pace.

However, there's a more recent dynamic that's created even better funding opportunities, which I witnessed as a recommender in the most recent SFF grant round.[1]

Most philanthropic (vs. government or industry) AI safety funding (>50%) comes from one source: Good Ventures. But they’ve recently stopped funding several categories of work (my own categories, not theirs):

• Many Republican-leaning think tanks, such as the Foundation for American Innovation.
• “Post-alignment” causes such as digital sentience or regulation of explosive growth.
• The rationality community, including LessWrong, Lightcone, SPARC, CFAR, MIRI.
• High school outreach, such as Non-trivial.

In addition, they are currently not funding (or not fully funding):

• Many non-US think tanks, who don’t want to appear influenced by an American organisation (there's now probably more [...]

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First published:
December 21st, 2024

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/s9dyyge6uLG5ScwEp/it-looks-like-there-are-some-good-funding-opportunities-in

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