Thanks for making this! Is there a more detailed breakdown for the longtermist category? I have the suspicion that there was also a massive shift in this category in the last few years: most money went to AI, there are some breadcrumbs for pandemics and pretty much nothing for the rest. While in the time before this was more balanced. Would be curious to see if this is true.
Yes there are more detailed breakdowns. I’ve done some super quick analysis in a new tab in the sheet—you can take a look but broadly it looks like there is more money for AI, and about the same for other areas compared to the last ~5 years. I.e. AI funding is additional / at the expense of non-LTXR cause areas.
Putting your plot here in the comment, so others don’t have to go through the spreadsheet:
What did you group into scientific research?
Curious to see this, because it does not map at all to what seems to be happening in the broader GCR space. ALLFED had to massively downsize, CSER has also gotten smaller, GCRI has gotten smaller, FHI has ceased to exist (though not due to funding explicitly). So, how does this map to the funding staying constant for non-AI things? Where is this funding going to, if it clearly does not end up with the most well known GCR orgs?
I should definitely have clarified that this is only pulling from OpenPhil’s grants, so is missing SFF and EA Funds grants to LTXR.
The categorisations are not mine, they are how OpenPhil categorises their grants. I have also included some that I originally included in the “Other” category. (In the main graphs I only have navigating AI, bio / pandemics, and science supporting bio as LTXR from OpenPhil)
Thanks for making this! Is there a more detailed breakdown for the longtermist category? I have the suspicion that there was also a massive shift in this category in the last few years: most money went to AI, there are some breadcrumbs for pandemics and pretty much nothing for the rest. While in the time before this was more balanced. Would be curious to see if this is true.
Yes there are more detailed breakdowns. I’ve done some super quick analysis in a new tab in the sheet—you can take a look but broadly it looks like there is more money for AI, and about the same for other areas compared to the last ~5 years. I.e. AI funding is additional / at the expense of non-LTXR cause areas.
Thanks, appreciated!
Putting your plot here in the comment, so others don’t have to go through the spreadsheet:
What did you group into scientific research?
Curious to see this, because it does not map at all to what seems to be happening in the broader GCR space. ALLFED had to massively downsize, CSER has also gotten smaller, GCRI has gotten smaller, FHI has ceased to exist (though not due to funding explicitly). So, how does this map to the funding staying constant for non-AI things? Where is this funding going to, if it clearly does not end up with the most well known GCR orgs?
I should definitely have clarified that this is only pulling from OpenPhil’s grants, so is missing SFF and EA Funds grants to LTXR.
The categorisations are not mine, they are how OpenPhil categorises their grants. I have also included some that I originally included in the “Other” category. (In the main graphs I only have navigating AI, bio / pandemics, and science supporting bio as LTXR from OpenPhil)
Good to know. Thanks.