I’m following up here with a convenience sample of examples of OP staff and grantees criticizing frontier AI companies, collected by one of my colleagues, since some folks seem to doubt how common this is:
Is Kelsey an OpenPhil grantee or employee? Future Perfect never listed OpenPhil as one of its funders, so I am a bit surprised. Possibly Kelsey received some other OP grants, but I had a bit of a sense Kelsey and Future Perfect more general cared about having financial independence from OP.
Relatedly, is Eric Neyman an Open Phil grantee or employee? I thought ARC was not being funded by OP either. Again, maybe he is a grantee for other reasons.
Oops, my colleague checked again and the Future Perfect inclusions (Keley and Sigal) are indeed a mistake; OP hasn’t funded Future Perfect. Thanks for the correction. (Though see e.g. this similar critical tweet from OP grantee Matt Reardon.)
Re: Eric Neyman. We’ve funded ARC before and would do so again depending on RFMF/etc.
You’re welcome, and makes sense. And yeah, I knew there was a period where ARC avoided getting OP funding for COI reasons, so I was extrapolating from that to not having received funding at all, but it does seem like OP had still funded ARC back in 2022.
I’m following up here with a convenience sample of examples of OP staff and grantees criticizing frontier AI companies, collected by one of my colleagues, since some folks seem to doubt how common this is:
https://x.com/trevposts/status/1839052621509709894
https://x.com/trevposts/status/1795856225231327391
https://x.com/mealreplacer/status/1841188002795831605
https://x.com/mealreplacer/status/1833207583135691110
https://x.com/lxrjl/status/1865382998171845091
https://x.com/MaxNadeau_/status/1798200542319263880
Multiple grantees were graders here: https://futureoflife.org/document/fli-ai-safety-index-2024/
https://x.com/ARGleave/status/1793418904305590371
https://x.com/ARGleave/status/1826834868216742229
https://x.com/ARGleave/status/1794849837781016667
https://x.com/ARGleave/status/1793023703325757476
https://x.com/ARGleave/status/1795755814936002814
https://x.com/ARGleave/status/1757146166171783655
https://x.com/JeffLadish/status/1793433604099641851
https://x.com/JeffLadish/status/1766198013939118561
https://x.com/gabriel_weil/status/1839143996263706830
https://x.com/gabriel_weil/status/1798708953154757031
https://x.com/hamandcheese/status/1839139409343504485
https://x.com/ShakeelHashim/status/1839041963108257800
https://x.com/ShakeelHashim/status/1839983274510209036
https://x.com/NeelNanda5/status/1840878357900374053
https://x.com/NeelNanda5/status/1791601817266069616
https://x.com/JacobHHilton/status/1797982865881505865
https://x.com/ericneyman/status/1839451526324199487
https://x.com/ohlennart/status/1849166969750290804
https://x.com/StephenLCasper/status/1793014681839570950
https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/pH6tyhEnngqWAXi9i/eis-xiii-reflections-on-anthropic-s-sae-research-circa-may
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1795534345345618298?s=46
https://x.com/SigalSamuel/status/1839426850223018008
https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1872729223523385587
https://x.com/robertwiblin/status/1791799263279665186
Multiple grantees signed this: https://righttowarn.ai/
Thanks! This does seem helpful.
One random question/possible correction:
Is Kelsey an OpenPhil grantee or employee? Future Perfect never listed OpenPhil as one of its funders, so I am a bit surprised. Possibly Kelsey received some other OP grants, but I had a bit of a sense Kelsey and Future Perfect more general cared about having financial independence from OP.
Relatedly, is Eric Neyman an Open Phil grantee or employee? I thought ARC was not being funded by OP either. Again, maybe he is a grantee for other reasons.
Oops, my colleague checked again and the Future Perfect inclusions (Keley and Sigal) are indeed a mistake; OP hasn’t funded Future Perfect. Thanks for the correction. (Though see e.g. this similar critical tweet from OP grantee Matt Reardon.)
Re: Eric Neyman. We’ve funded ARC before and would do so again depending on RFMF/etc.
You’re welcome, and makes sense. And yeah, I knew there was a period where ARC avoided getting OP funding for COI reasons, so I was extrapolating from that to not having received funding at all, but it does seem like OP had still funded ARC back in 2022.