Has RP published anything laying out its current plans for funding and/or executing work on AI governance and existential risk? I was surprised to see that no RP team members are listed under existential security or AIGS anymore. Is RP’s plan going forward that all work in these areas will be carried out by special projects initiatives rather than the core RP team? And how does that relate to funding? When RP receives unrestricted donor funds, are those sometimes regranted to incubated orgs within special projects?
RP is still involved in work on AI and existential risk. This work now takes place internally at RP on our Worldview Investigations Team and externally via our special projects program.
Across the special projects program in particular we are supporting over 50 total staff working on various AI-related projects! RP is still very involved with these groups, from fundraising to comms to strategic support and I personally dedicate almost all of my time to AI-related initiatives.
As part of this strategy, our team members who were formerly working in our “Existential Security Team” and our “AI Governance and Strategy” department are doing their work under a new banner that is better positioned to have the impact that RP wants to support.
We don’t grant RP unrestricted funds to special projects, so if you want to donate to them you would have to restrict your donation to them. RP unrestricted funds could be used to support our Worldview Investigation Team. Feel free to reach out to me or to Henri Thunberg henri@rethinkpriorities.org if you want to learn more.
Has RP published anything laying out its current plans for funding and/or executing work on AI governance and existential risk? I was surprised to see that no RP team members are listed under existential security or AIGS anymore. Is RP’s plan going forward that all work in these areas will be carried out by special projects initiatives rather than the core RP team? And how does that relate to funding? When RP receives unrestricted donor funds, are those sometimes regranted to incubated orgs within special projects?
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RP is still involved in work on AI and existential risk. This work now takes place internally at RP on our Worldview Investigations Team and externally via our special projects program.
Across the special projects program in particular we are supporting over 50 total staff working on various AI-related projects! RP is still very involved with these groups, from fundraising to comms to strategic support and I personally dedicate almost all of my time to AI-related initiatives.
As part of this strategy, our team members who were formerly working in our “Existential Security Team” and our “AI Governance and Strategy” department are doing their work under a new banner that is better positioned to have the impact that RP wants to support.
We don’t grant RP unrestricted funds to special projects, so if you want to donate to them you would have to restrict your donation to them. RP unrestricted funds could be used to support our Worldview Investigation Team. Feel free to reach out to me or to Henri Thunberg henri@rethinkpriorities.org if you want to learn more.