I appreciate you raising this and I’m interested to see how people will answer. However, some weak counter-considerations come to mind:
Many grants go to individual independent researchers for relatively short periods of time, requiring a much higher amount of grantmaking time per FTE than other areas (say, global health) - I realize that this is perhaps not that strong of a consideration, given that many grantmakers mainly fund organizations
Grantmakers want the field to keep growing quickly, and I assume “creating new grantees” is time-consuming. That means that the current ratio of grantmakers to AI safety FTEs is maybe not the best metric
I appreciate you raising this and I’m interested to see how people will answer. However, some weak counter-considerations come to mind:
Many grants go to individual independent researchers for relatively short periods of time, requiring a much higher amount of grantmaking time per FTE than other areas (say, global health) - I realize that this is perhaps not that strong of a consideration, given that many grantmakers mainly fund organizations
Grantmakers want the field to keep growing quickly, and I assume “creating new grantees” is time-consuming. That means that the current ratio of grantmakers to AI safety FTEs is maybe not the best metric