I think having paid (part time or full time) fund managers with less expertise makes sense. Having such a high turnover of fund managers isn’t great for grantees either. I’m not really sure what the cons of paid fund managers are, but I can imagine that there’s a good argument against it that would change my mind. Having less expertise could be a great thing, as your mind isn’t set on a particular view and you can still gather insights from people who do have expertise. And while they perhaps won’t be experts in AI safety or biosecurity, they could be(come) experts at managing funds. Perhaps a pool of experts could be created that fund managers can ask questions too, as long as it won’t take up more than 2 hours a week of their time (or a different cut off).
LTFF (and I think EAIF as well) already offers pay to fund managers. Some fund managers take them up on it; I personally didn’t until recently (when I started investing more time into LTFF than RP work, mostly on the communications front).
I think having paid (part time or full time) fund managers with less expertise makes sense. Having such a high turnover of fund managers isn’t great for grantees either. I’m not really sure what the cons of paid fund managers are, but I can imagine that there’s a good argument against it that would change my mind. Having less expertise could be a great thing, as your mind isn’t set on a particular view and you can still gather insights from people who do have expertise. And while they perhaps won’t be experts in AI safety or biosecurity, they could be(come) experts at managing funds. Perhaps a pool of experts could be created that fund managers can ask questions too, as long as it won’t take up more than 2 hours a week of their time (or a different cut off).
LTFF (and I think EAIF as well) already offers pay to fund managers. Some fund managers take them up on it; I personally didn’t until recently (when I started investing more time into LTFF than RP work, mostly on the communications front).