How to Actually Spend Billions on AI Safety - by Sophie Kim
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A concrete strategy for deploying the largest wave of philanthropic capital in history
The OpenAI Foundation holds $180 billion in equity. Anthropic’s co-founders have pledged to donate 80% of their wealth. When the time comes to spend all this money, what should we actually do with it? Here’s my best guess. When most people think about how to solve AI safety, they think about what we’re already doing, and how to scale it up. Concretely, this looks like: scaling fellowships like MATS, Pivotal, and ERA; investing more money into AI safety research organizations like Redwood, METR, and MIRI; and perhaps, more recently, expanding programs like the Generator Residency. This is…
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