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It looks like there are some good funding opportunities in AI safety right now - 80,000 Hours

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This post was written by Benjamin Todd in his personal capacity and originally posted on benjamintodd.substack.com. 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 Survival and Flourishing Fund grant round.1 Most philanthropic (vs. government or industry) AI safety funding (>50%) comes from one source: Good Ventures, via Open Philanthropy.2 But they’ve recently stopped funding several categories of work (my own categories, not theirs): In addition, they are currently not funding (or not fully funding): This means many of the organisations in these categories have only been able to access a a minority of the available philanthropic capital (in recent history, I’d guess ~25%). In the recent SFF grant round, I estimate they faced a funding bar 1.5 to 3 times higher. Thi

© 2012 CERN Maximilien Brice This post was written by Benjamin Todd in his personal capacity and originally posted on benjamintodd.substack.com . 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 Survival and Flourishing Fund grant round . 1 Most philanthropic (vs. government or industry) AI safety funding (>50%) comes from one source: Good Ventures, via Open

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