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Please Donate to CAIP (Post 1 of 3 on AI Governance) — EA Forum

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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 for funding. The second post will lay out a more general case for why effective altruists and others who worry about AI safety should spend more money on advocacy

LeahC 1y 46 4 2 1 Unfortunately, there was an effective effort to tie AI safety advocacy organizations to their funders in a way that increased risk to any high-profile donors who supported federal policy work. I don't know if this impacted any of your funders' decisions, but the related media coverage could have been cause for concern (ie Politico ). Small dollar donations might help balance this. It seems very likely that the federal government will attempt to override any state AI regulation that gets passed in the next year. Jason put together a strong, experienced team that can navigate t

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