Just as the EA community does not own its donors’ money—one of the most upvoted posts ever—it also doesn’t own the financial sacrifices people at A.I. make to do the work they think is important. People who donate to, and work at, A.I. know that it has a neartermist focus.
Looking at funding trends over the past few years, it seems relatively easier for new/newish AI safety organizations to get supported than new/newish global health or animal advocacy organizations. For example, Redwood got over $20MM in funding from EA sources in the first ~2 years of its existence. Although the funding bar may be higher now than when those grants were made, I’m not convinced that the bottleneck here is that new AI safety orgs can’t get the support needed to launch.
Just as the EA community does not own its donors’ money—one of the most upvoted posts ever—it also doesn’t own the financial sacrifices people at A.I. make to do the work they think is important. People who donate to, and work at, A.I. know that it has a neartermist focus.
Looking at funding trends over the past few years, it seems relatively easier for new/newish AI safety organizations to get supported than new/newish global health or animal advocacy organizations. For example, Redwood got over $20MM in funding from EA sources in the first ~2 years of its existence. Although the funding bar may be higher now than when those grants were made, I’m not convinced that the bottleneck here is that new AI safety orgs can’t get the support needed to launch.
Sorry, it is so confusing to refer to AIM as ‘A.I.’, particularly in this context...
Yeah that was me attempting to be a bit cheeky but probably not worth it in exchange for clarity.