This is who I thought would be responsible too, along with the CEO of CEA, that they report to, (and those working for the FTX Future Fund, although their conflictedness means they can’t give an unbiased evaluation). But since the FTX catastrophe, the community health team has apparently broadened their mandate to include “epistemic health” and “Special Projects”, rather than narrowing it to focus just on catastrophic risks to the community, which would seem to make EA less resilient in one regard, than it was before.
Of course I’m not necessarily saying that it was possible to put the pieces together ahead of time, just that if there was one group responsible for trying, they were it.
Surely one obvious person with this responsibility was Nick Beckstead, who became President of the FTX Foundation in November 2021. That was the key period where EA partnered with FTX. Beckstead had long experience in grantmaking, credibility, and presumably incentive/ability to do due diligence. Seems clear to me from these podcasts that MacAskill (and to a lesser extent the more junior employees who joined later) deferred to Beckstead.
This is who I thought would be responsible too, along with the CEO of CEA, that they report to, (and those working for the FTX Future Fund, although their conflictedness means they can’t give an unbiased evaluation). But since the FTX catastrophe, the community health team has apparently broadened their mandate to include “epistemic health” and “Special Projects”, rather than narrowing it to focus just on catastrophic risks to the community, which would seem to make EA less resilient in one regard, than it was before.
Of course I’m not necessarily saying that it was possible to put the pieces together ahead of time, just that if there was one group responsible for trying, they were it.
Surely one obvious person with this responsibility was Nick Beckstead, who became President of the FTX Foundation in November 2021. That was the key period where EA partnered with FTX. Beckstead had long experience in grantmaking, credibility, and presumably incentive/ability to do due diligence. Seems clear to me from these podcasts that MacAskill (and to a lesser extent the more junior employees who joined later) deferred to Beckstead.
Yes, that’s who I meant when I said “those working for the FTX Future Fund”