Hi Ozzie – Peter Favaloro here; I do grantmaking on technical AI safety at Open Philanthropy. Thanks for this post, I enjoyed it.
I want to react to this quote: …it seems like OP has provided very mixed messages around AI safety. They’ve provided surprisingly little funding / support for technical AI safety in the last few years (perhaps 1 full-time grantmaker?)
I agree that over the past year or two our grantmaking in technical AI safety (TAIS) has been too bottlenecked by our grantmaking capacity, which in turn has been bottlenecked in part by our ability to hire technical grantmakers. (Though also, when we’ve tried to collect information on what opportunities we’re missing out on, we’ve been somewhat surprised at how few excellent, shovel-ready TAIS grants we’ve found.)
Over the past few months I’ve been setting up a new TAIS grantmaking team, to supplement Ajeya’s grantmaking. We’ve hired some great junior grantmakers and expect to publish an open call for applications in the next few months. After that we’ll likely try to hire more grantmakers. So stay tuned!
Hi Ozzie – Peter Favaloro here; I do grantmaking on technical AI safety at Open Philanthropy. Thanks for this post, I enjoyed it.
I want to react to this quote:
…it seems like OP has provided very mixed messages around AI safety. They’ve provided surprisingly little funding / support for technical AI safety in the last few years (perhaps 1 full-time grantmaker?)
I agree that over the past year or two our grantmaking in technical AI safety (TAIS) has been too bottlenecked by our grantmaking capacity, which in turn has been bottlenecked in part by our ability to hire technical grantmakers. (Though also, when we’ve tried to collect information on what opportunities we’re missing out on, we’ve been somewhat surprised at how few excellent, shovel-ready TAIS grants we’ve found.)
Over the past few months I’ve been setting up a new TAIS grantmaking team, to supplement Ajeya’s grantmaking. We’ve hired some great junior grantmakers and expect to publish an open call for applications in the next few months. After that we’ll likely try to hire more grantmakers. So stay tuned!
That sounds exciting, thanks for the update. Good luck with team building and grantmaking!