Some more ideas that are related to what you mentioned :
Exploring / Exploiting interventions on growth in developing countries. So for instance, what if we took an entire country and spent about 100$ or more per households (for a small country, that could be feasible) ? We could do direct transfer as GiveDirectly but I’d expect some public goods funding to be worth trying aswell.
Making AI safety prestigious setting up an institute that would hire top researchers for safety aligned research. I’m not a 100% sure but I feel like top AI people often go to Google in big part because they offer great working conditions. If an institute offered these working conditions and that we could hire top junior researchers quite massively to work on prosaic AGI alignment, that could help making AI Safety more prestigious. Maybe such an institute could run seminars, give some rewards in safety or even on the long run host a conference.
Some more ideas that are related to what you mentioned :
Exploring / Exploiting interventions on growth in developing countries. So for instance, what if we took an entire country and spent about 100$ or more per households (for a small country, that could be feasible) ? We could do direct transfer as GiveDirectly but I’d expect some public goods funding to be worth trying aswell.
Making AI safety prestigious setting up an institute that would hire top researchers for safety aligned research. I’m not a 100% sure but I feel like top AI people often go to Google in big part because they offer great working conditions. If an institute offered these working conditions and that we could hire top junior researchers quite massively to work on prosaic AGI alignment, that could help making AI Safety more prestigious. Maybe such an institute could run seminars, give some rewards in safety or even on the long run host a conference.