Fyi, the list you linked doesn’t contain most of what I would consider the “small” orgs in AI, e.g. off the top of my head I’d name ARC, Redwood Research, Conjecture, Ought, FAR AI, Aligned AI, Apart, Apollo, Epoch, Center for AI Safety, Bluedot, Ashgro, AI Safety Support and Orthogonal. (Some of these aren’t even that small.) Those are the ones I’d be thinking about if I were to talk about merging orgs.
Maybe the non-AI parts of that list are more comprehensive, but my guess is that it’s just missing most of the tiny orgs that OP is talking about (e.g. OP’s own org, QURI, isn’t on the list).
(EDIT: Tbc I’m really keen on actually doing the exercise of naming concrete examples—great suggestion!)
Yeah, fair! It’s frustratingly hard to get comprehensive lists of EA orgs (it’s hard to be in the business of gatekeeping what ‘EA-affiliated’ is). I did a 5 min search for the best publicly available list and then gave up; sometimes I use the list of organizations with representatives at the last EAG for this use case.
Maybe within AI specifically, someone could repeat this exercise with something like this list. If someone knows of a better public list of EA orgs, I’d love to know about it :)
Fyi, the list you linked doesn’t contain most of what I would consider the “small” orgs in AI, e.g. off the top of my head I’d name ARC, Redwood Research, Conjecture, Ought, FAR AI, Aligned AI, Apart, Apollo, Epoch, Center for AI Safety, Bluedot, Ashgro, AI Safety Support and Orthogonal. (Some of these aren’t even that small.) Those are the ones I’d be thinking about if I were to talk about merging orgs.
Maybe the non-AI parts of that list are more comprehensive, but my guess is that it’s just missing most of the tiny orgs that OP is talking about (e.g. OP’s own org, QURI, isn’t on the list).
(EDIT: Tbc I’m really keen on actually doing the exercise of naming concrete examples—great suggestion!)
Yeah, fair! It’s frustratingly hard to get comprehensive lists of EA orgs (it’s hard to be in the business of gatekeeping what ‘EA-affiliated’ is). I did a 5 min search for the best publicly available list and then gave up; sometimes I use the list of organizations with representatives at the last EAG for this use case.
Maybe within AI specifically, someone could repeat this exercise with something like this list. If someone knows of a better public list of EA orgs, I’d love to know about it :)