Good Ventures did indicate to us some time ago that they don’t think they’re the right funder for some kinds of right-of-center AI policy advocacy, though (a) the boundaries are somewhat fuzzy and pretty far from the linked comment’s claim about an aversion to opportunities that are “even slightly right of center in any policy work,” (b) I think the boundaries might shift in the future, and (c) as I said above, OP regularly recommends right-of-center policy opportunities to other funders.
Also, I don’t actually think this should affect people’s actions much because: my team has been looking for right-of-center policy opportunities for years (and is continuing to do so), and the bottleneck is “available opportunities that look high-impact from an AI GCR perspective,” not “available funding.” If you want to start or expand a right-of-center policy group aimed at AI GCR mitigation, you should do it and apply here! I can’t guarantee we’ll think it’s promising enough to recommend to the funders we advise, but there are millions (maybe tens of millions) available for this kind of work; we’ve simply found only a few opportunities that seem above-our-bar for expected impact on AI GCR, despite years of searching.
Good Ventures did indicate to us some time ago that they don’t think they’re the right funder for some kinds of right-of-center AI policy advocacy, though (a) the boundaries are somewhat fuzzy and pretty far from the linked comment’s claim about an aversion to opportunities that are “even slightly right of center in any policy work,” (b) I think the boundaries might shift in the future, and (c) as I said above, OP regularly recommends right-of-center policy opportunities to other funders.
Also, I don’t actually think this should affect people’s actions much because: my team has been looking for right-of-center policy opportunities for years (and is continuing to do so), and the bottleneck is “available opportunities that look high-impact from an AI GCR perspective,” not “available funding.” If you want to start or expand a right-of-center policy group aimed at AI GCR mitigation, you should do it and apply here! I can’t guarantee we’ll think it’s promising enough to recommend to the funders we advise, but there are millions (maybe tens of millions) available for this kind of work; we’ve simply found only a few opportunities that seem above-our-bar for expected impact on AI GCR, despite years of searching.
Can you say what the “some kinds” are?