One angle I’d add is that there may be a complementary, more immediate approach: bringing in experienced grantmakers from adjacent fields and helping them transition into AI safety.
I think many of the core skills (evaluating proposals, making judgment calls with uncertain information, communicating decisions, managing portfolios, etc) are quite transferable. The main gap is context, for the reasons you’ve described. I think that’d be faster to remedy than building grantmakers from scratch.
Do you think this kind of approach (getting proven grantmakers into AI safety) could help solve the expected bottleneck? Perhaps I’m underestimating the barriers.
Sounds reasonable, so for active grantmaking (e.g. requests for proposals, making sure new , get builtorganizations), I believe domain expertise (e.g. AI safety experience) is more important
One angle I’d add is that there may be a complementary, more immediate approach: bringing in experienced grantmakers from adjacent fields and helping them transition into AI safety.
I think many of the core skills (evaluating proposals, making judgment calls with uncertain information, communicating decisions, managing portfolios, etc) are quite transferable. The main gap is context, for the reasons you’ve described. I think that’d be faster to remedy than building grantmakers from scratch.
Do you think this kind of approach (getting proven grantmakers into AI safety) could help solve the expected bottleneck? Perhaps I’m underestimating the barriers.
Sounds reasonable, so for active grantmaking (e.g. requests for proposals, making sure new , get builtorganizations), I believe domain expertise (e.g. AI safety experience) is more important