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Berkeley Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Initiative

TagLast edit: 20 Jul 2022 16:26 UTC by sawyer

The Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI) is a US-based public charity that collaborates with university research groups working to reduce existential risk, by providing them with free services and support.

History

BERI was founded in 2017 by Andrew Critch[1][2] and has been run by Sawyer Bernath since 2020.[3]

Activities

A full list of the organizations BERI helps is available here. Detailed information about BERI’s activities can be found on BERI’s transparency page.

Funding

As of July 2022, BERI has received >$7 million in funding (both for general support and collaborations with other organizations) from Jaan Tallinn, >$3.3 million from Open Philanthropy,[4] >1.6 million from the Survival and Flourishing Fund,[5][6][7][8][9] $100,000 from the Future Fund,[10] and ~$5 million from other funders. Details can be found on BERI’s transparency page.

Further reading

Rice, Issa et al (2018) Timeline of Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative, Timelines Wiki.

External links

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative. Official website.

Apply for a job.

Donate to BERI.

Related entries

Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence | Centre for the Study of Existential Risk | existential risk | Future of Humanity Institute

  1. ^

    Vaughan, Kerry (2017) Update on Effective Altruism Funds, Effective Altruism Forum, April 20.

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    Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (2018) Semi-annual report, Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative, August.

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    Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (2020) Board and Staff Changes, Andrew Critch, February

  4. ^

    Open Philanthropy (2022) Grants database: Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative, Open Philanthropy.

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    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2019) SFF-2020-H2 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.

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    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2019a) SFF-2020-H1 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.

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    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2019b) SFF-2020-H2 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.

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    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2020a) SFF-2021-H1 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.

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    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2020b) SFF-2021-H2 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.

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BERI seek­ing new collaborators

sawyer29 Apr 2021 16:34 UTC
25 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

BERI is seek­ing new trial collaborators

elizabethcooper14 Jul 2023 17:08 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

BERI is hiring an ML Soft­ware Engineer

sawyer10 Nov 2021 19:36 UTC
17 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

BERI’s 2024 Goals and Predictions

elizabethcooper12 Jan 2024 22:15 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(existence.org)

EA needs consultancies

lukeprog28 Jun 2021 15:18 UTC
256 points
88 comments8 min readEA link

Up­date on Effec­tive Altru­ism Funds

Kerry_Vaughan20 Apr 2017 17:20 UTC
21 points
92 comments12 min readEA link

2020 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

Larks21 Dec 2020 15:25 UTC
155 points
16 comments70 min readEA link

2021 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

Larks23 Dec 2021 14:06 UTC
176 points
18 comments75 min readEA link

Seek­ing in­for­ma­tion on three po­ten­tial grantee organizations

Andrew Critch9 Dec 2018 20:12 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

“Tak­ing AI Risk Se­ri­ously” – Thoughts by An­drew Critch

Raemon19 Nov 2018 2:21 UTC
26 points
9 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

BERI is hiring a Deputy Director

sawyer18 Jul 2022 22:12 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

BERI, Epoch, and FAR will ex­plain their work & cur­rent job open­ings on­line this Sunday

Rockwell19 Aug 2022 20:34 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Job]: AI Stan­dards Devel­op­ment Re­search Assistant

Tony Barrett14 Oct 2022 20:18 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

BERI is seek­ing new col­lab­o­ra­tors (2022)

sawyer17 May 2022 17:31 UTC
21 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

BERI Re­turns All FTX Funds

elizabethcooper12 Feb 2024 16:40 UTC
58 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(existence.org)

[Link] BERI hand­ing off Jaan Tal­linn’s grantmaking

Milan_Griffes27 Aug 2019 17:13 UTC
18 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

EA grants available to in­di­vi­d­u­als (cross­post from LessWrong)

Jameson Quinn7 Feb 2019 15:23 UTC
31 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

BERI seek­ing new collaborators

sawyer6 May 2020 23:11 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

BERI’s “Pro­ject Grants” Pro­gram—Round One

rebecca_raible8 Jun 2018 2:44 UTC
12 points
2 comments4 min readEA link