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Ought

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Ought is a research lab that develops mechanisms for delegating open-ended thinking to advanced machine learning systems.

Funding

As of July 2022, Ought has received $5 million in funding from the Future Fund,[1] over $3.1 million from Open Philanthropy,[2] nearly $800,000 in funding from the Survival and Flourishing Fund,[3][4] and $60,000 from Effective Altruism Funds.[5][6]

Further reading

Stuhlmüller, Andreas & Jungwon Byun (2022) Ought’s theory of change, Effective Altruism Forum, April 11.

External links

Ought. Official website.

Apply for a job.

Donate to Ought.

  1. ^

    Future Fund (2022) Our grants and investments: Ought, Future Fund.

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    Open Philanthropy (2022) Grants database: Ought, Open Philanthropy.

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    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2018) SFF-2019-Q4 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.

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

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    Long-Term Future Fund (2018) November 2018: Long-Term Future Fund grants, Effective Altruism Funds, November.

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    Long-Term Future Fund (2019) August 2019: Long-Term Future Fund grants and recommendations, Effective Altruism Funds, August.

AMA: Ought

stuhlmuellerAug 3, 2022, 5:24 PM
41 points
52 comments1 min readEA link

Es­ti­ma­tion and fore­cast­ing — an overview (Amanda Ngo)

EA GlobalOct 25, 2020, 5:48 AM
17 points
0 comments14 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Au­tomat­ing rea­son­ing about the fu­ture at Ought

jungofthewonNov 9, 2020, 10:30 PM
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(ought.org)

Ought: why it mat­ters and ways to help

Paul_ChristianoJul 26, 2019, 1:56 AM
52 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

[Link] “Progress Up­date Oc­to­ber 2019” (Ought)

Milan GriffesOct 29, 2019, 9:34 PM
25 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

[Link] “Ma­chine Learn­ing Pro­jects for IDA” (Ought)

Milan GriffesOct 12, 2019, 5:35 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Link] “Eval­u­at­ing Ar­gu­ments One Step at a Time” (Ought)

Milan GriffesJan 11, 2020, 7:12 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Owain Evans on LLMs, Truth­ful AI, AI Com­po­si­tion, and More

Ozzie GooenMay 2, 2023, 1:20 AM
21 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(quri.substack.com)

2021 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

LarksDec 23, 2021, 2:06 PM
176 points
18 comments73 min readEA link

Del­e­gate a forecast

amandangoJul 26, 2020, 5:05 AM
42 points
42 comments2 min readEA link

An­dreas Stuh­lmüller: Train­ing ML sys­tems to an­swer open-ended questions

EA GlobalFeb 5, 2020, 10:51 PM
7 points
1 comment12 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Ought’s the­ory of change

stuhlmuellerApr 12, 2022, 12:09 AM
43 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing Thread: Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

amandangoSep 22, 2020, 8:51 PM
24 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Bi­nary pre­dic­tion database and tournament

amandangoNov 17, 2020, 6:09 PM
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

In defense of the Gap.

Azad EllafiSep 15, 2023, 7:46 PM
3 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
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