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Prizes and contests

TagLast edit: May 31, 2023, 7:23 PM by Lizka

A prize is something of value given to reward success in a contest or to recognize outstanding achievement. Prizes have been proposed as an alternative to existing methods for incentivizing innovation, such as patents and grants.[1] Prizes are also sometimes competitions.

Further reading

Brunt, Liam, Josh Lerner & Tom Nicholas (2012) Inducement prizes and innovation, Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. 60, pp. 657–696.

Graff Zivin, Joshua & Elizabeth Lyons (2020) The effects of prize structures on innovative performance, working paper 26737, National Bureau of Economic Research.

Stiglitz, Joseph (2006) Innovation: A better way than patents, New Scientist, September 17.

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    Clancy, Matthew S. & Gian Carlo Moschini (2013) Incentives for innovation: Patents, prizes, and research contracts, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, vol. 35, pp. 206–241.

How effec­tive are prizes at spurring in­no­va­tion?

Rethink PrioritiesNov 1, 2022, 9:31 AM
109 points
15 comments86 min readEA link

$13,000 of prizes for chang­ing our minds about who to fund (Clearer Think­ing Re­grants Fore­cast­ing Tour­na­ment)

spencergSep 20, 2022, 4:08 PM
46 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(manifold.markets)

An­nounc­ing the Fu­ture Fund’s AI Wor­ld­view Prize

Nick_BecksteadSep 23, 2022, 4:28 PM
255 points
125 comments13 min readEA link
(ftxfuturefund.org)

An­nounc­ing The Most Im­por­tant Cen­tury Writ­ing Prize

michelOct 31, 2022, 9:37 PM
48 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Con­curso de en­sayos so­bre Ries­gos Catas­trófi­cos Globales en Es­pañol

Jaime SevillaMar 17, 2022, 4:49 PM
52 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(riesgoscatastroficosglobales.com)

Pre-an­nounc­ing a con­test for cri­tiques and red teaming

LizkaMar 25, 2022, 11:52 AM
173 points
27 comments2 min readEA link

The Fu­ture Fund’s Pro­ject Ideas Competition

Nick_BecksteadFeb 28, 2022, 5:27 PM
236 points
726 comments1 min readEA link
(ftxfuturefund.org)

FLI launches Wor­ld­build­ing Con­test with $100,000 in prizes

ggilgallonJan 17, 2022, 1:54 PM
87 points
55 comments6 min readEA link

Com­mu­nity Builder Writ­ing Con­test: $20,000 in prizes for reflections

AkashMar 12, 2022, 1:53 AM
39 points
24 comments5 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy’s Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes: $120k for writ­ten work on global health and wellbeing

ChrisSmithMay 25, 2022, 12:06 PM
190 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Afri­can EA Fo­rum Com­pe­ti­tion - $4500 in prizes for ex­cel­lent EA Fo­rum Posts

Luke EureMay 14, 2023, 7:35 AM
163 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Here are the fi­nal­ists from FLI’s $100K Wor­ld­build­ing Contest

Jackson WagnerJun 6, 2022, 6:42 PM
44 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Imag­ined: A cre­ative con­test on the risks of superintelligence

TaylorJnsJun 12, 2024, 3:20 PM
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[$20K In Prizes] AI Safety Ar­gu­ments Competition

TW123Apr 26, 2022, 4:21 PM
71 points
121 comments3 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing a con­test: EA Crit­i­cism and Red Teaming

LizkaJun 1, 2022, 6:58 PM
276 points
64 comments13 min readEA link

AISN #34: New Mili­tary AI Sys­tems Plus, AI Labs Fail to Uphold Vol­un­tary Com­mit­ments to UK AI Safety In­sti­tute, and New AI Policy Pro­pos­als in the US Senate

Center for AI SafetyMay 2, 2024, 4:12 PM
21 points
5 comments8 min readEA link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

$1,000 Squig­gle Ex­per­i­men­ta­tion Challenge

Ozzie GooenAug 4, 2022, 2:20 PM
61 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Cash prizes for the best ar­gu­ments against psychedelics be­ing an EA cause area

Milan GriffesMay 10, 2019, 6:13 PM
51 points
123 comments13 min readEA link

$5k challenge to quan­tify the im­pact of 80,000 hours’ top ca­reer paths

NunoSempereSep 23, 2022, 11:32 AM
126 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Speedrun: AI Align­ment Prizes

joeFeb 9, 2023, 11:55 AM
27 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

Ra­tional An­i­ma­tions’ Script Writ­ing Contest

WriterSep 15, 2022, 4:56 PM
63 points
25 comments3 min readEA link

Longlist of Causes + Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Contest

Joel Tan🔸Jun 30, 2023, 12:15 PM
46 points
6 comments2 min readEA link
(exploratory-altruism.org)

Res­lab Re­quest for In­for­ma­tion: EA hard­ware projects

Joel BeckerOct 26, 2022, 11:38 AM
46 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

The $100,000 Tru­man Prize: Re­ward­ing Anony­mous EA Work

Drew SpartzSep 22, 2022, 9:07 PM
37 points
47 comments4 min readEA link

Launch­ing the AI Fore­cast­ing Bench­mark Series Q3 | $30k in Prizes

christianJul 8, 2024, 5:20 PM
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Sub­mit Your Tough­est Ques­tions for Hu­man­ity’s Last Exam

Matrice JacobineSep 18, 2024, 8:03 AM
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.safe.ai)

In­tro­duc­ing Pivotal, an es­say con­test on global prob­lems for high school stu­dents

SahebGAug 14, 2023, 5:03 AM
34 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Im­pact Prizes as an al­ter­na­tive to Cer­tifi­cates of Impact

Ozzie GooenFeb 20, 2019, 9:25 PM
39 points
17 comments7 min readEA link

[Closed] Prize and fast track to al­ign­ment re­search at ALTER

VanessaSep 18, 2022, 9:15 AM
38 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Me­tac­u­lus Biose­cu­rity Tour­na­ment Round 1 Launch

Juan CambeiroJul 10, 2022, 2:54 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

AI safety logo de­sign con­test, due end of May (ex­tended)

Adrian CiprianiApr 28, 2023, 2:53 AM
13 points
23 comments2 min readEA link

Re­minder: AI Wor­ld­views Con­test Closes May 31

Jason SchukraftMay 8, 2023, 5:40 PM
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

$300 Fermi Model Competition

Ozzie GooenFeb 3, 2025, 7:47 PM
30 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Re­sults of a Span­ish-speak­ing es­say con­test about Global Catas­trophic Risk

Jaime SevillaJul 15, 2022, 4:53 PM
86 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Prize for propos­ing cli­mate change/​biose­cu­rity innovations

Karthik TadepalliMay 26, 2023, 6:51 AM
23 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(marketshaping.uchicago.edu)

An­nounc­ing a Stu­dent Es­say Con­test on The Precipice

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55 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Cal­ling for Stu­dent Sub­mis­sions: AI Safety Distil­la­tion Contest

a_e_rApr 23, 2022, 8:24 PM
102 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

Aligned Ob­jec­tives Prize Competition

PrometheusJun 15, 2023, 12:42 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AI gov­er­nance stu­dent hackathon on Satur­day, April 23: reg­ister now!

micApr 12, 2022, 4:39 AM
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What is up with car­bon diox­ide and cog­ni­tion? An offer

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11 points
22 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the AI Fables Writ­ing Con­test!

Daystar EldJul 12, 2023, 3:04 AM
76 points
52 comments3 min readEA link

Win­ners of the com­mu­nity-build­ing writ­ing contest

AkashNov 25, 2022, 4:33 PM
29 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Pre-An­nounc­ing the 2023 Open Philan­thropy AI Wor­ld­views Contest

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291 points
26 comments1 min readEA link

A pro­posal for a small in­duce­ment prize platform

Matthew_BarnettJun 5, 2021, 7:06 PM
66 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Es­say com­pe­ti­tion on the Au­toma­tion of Wis­dom and Philos­o­phy — $25k in prizes

Owen Cotton-BarrattApr 16, 2024, 10:08 AM
80 points
15 comments8 min readEA link
(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Edit­ing Fes­ti­val: Re­sults and Prizes

Aaron Gertler 🔸May 29, 2021, 11:16 PM
52 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] A retroac­tive grant for cre­at­ing the HPMoR au­dio­book (Eneasz Brod­ski)?

LakinMay 3, 2022, 2:50 PM
39 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

The EA Fo­rum Edit­ing Fes­ti­val has be­gun!

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97 points
29 comments5 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Change Our Mind Con­test for cri­tiques of our cost-effec­tive­ness analyses

GiveWellSep 6, 2022, 6:10 PM
142 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

[Question] A $1 mil­lion dol­lar prize to in­cen­tivize global par­ti­ci­pa­tion in a video com­pe­ti­tion to crowd­source an at­trac­tive plan for the long-term de­vel­op­ment of civilization

Nathaniel RyanJan 28, 2023, 6:10 AM
−1 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the awardees for Open Philan­thropy’s $150M Re­grant­ing Challenge

ChrisSmithJan 12, 2023, 11:27 AM
198 points
4 comments4 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

De­brief: “cash prizes for the best ar­gu­ments against psychedelics”

Milan GriffesJul 14, 2019, 5:04 PM
47 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing Prize Results

NunoSempereFeb 19, 2021, 7:07 PM
44 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the UK Covid-19 Crowd Fore­cast­ing Challenge

nikosMay 17, 2021, 7:28 PM
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What effec­tively al­tru­is­tic in­duce­ment prize con­test would you like to be funded?

Mati_RoyJun 22, 2021, 9:35 PM
21 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on how prizes may fail and how to re­duce the risk of them failing

Peter WildefordAug 30, 2022, 6:57 PM
89 points
20 comments2 min readEA link

7 es­says on Build­ing a Bet­ter Future

Jamie_HarrisJun 24, 2022, 2:28 PM
21 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Why not offer a multi-mil­lion /​ billion dol­lar prize for solv­ing the Align­ment Prob­lem?

Aryeh EnglanderApr 17, 2022, 4:08 PM
15 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Prizes for ML Safety Bench­mark Ideas

JoshcOct 28, 2022, 2:44 AM
56 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Re­sults from the First Decade Review

LizkaMay 13, 2022, 3:01 PM
163 points
11 comments17 min readEA link

Me­tac­u­lus Launches the ‘Fore­cast­ing Our World In Data’ Pro­ject to Probe the Long-Term Future

christianOct 14, 2022, 5:00 PM
65 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

CEARCH’s Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Con­test: Awards

Joel Tan🔸Sep 7, 2023, 3:39 AM
38 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Me­tac­u­lus Launches Q4 Quar­terly Cup!

christianOct 9, 2023, 9:36 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Win­ners of the EA Crit­i­cism and Red Team­ing Contest

LizkaOct 1, 2022, 1:50 AM
226 points
41 comments19 min readEA link

AI Fables Writ­ing Con­test Win­ners!

Daystar EldNov 6, 2023, 2:27 AM
39 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Ac­cu­racy Agree­ments: A Flex­ible Alter­na­tive to Pre­dic­tion Markets

Ozzie GooenApr 20, 2023, 3:09 AM
37 points
5 comments4 min readEA link
(quri.substack.com)

Call for Art sub­mis­sions—EAGxBerlin

AronMAug 5, 2023, 11:43 PM
23 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

AI Fore­cast­ing Bench­mark: Con­grat­u­la­tions to Q4 Win­ners + Q1 Prac­tice Ques­tions Open

christianJan 10, 2025, 3:02 AM
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

An­nounc­ing AI Align­ment Awards: $100k re­search con­tests about goal mis­gen­er­al­iza­tion & corrigibility

AkashNov 22, 2022, 10:19 PM
60 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Peter Singer’s $10,000 giv­ing game—an­nounce­ment and details

ChrisJenkinsApr 28, 2015, 4:44 PM
6 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Round 1 win­ners of the com­mu­nity-builder writ­ing contest

AkashApr 22, 2022, 12:36 AM
21 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

$100 Prize to Best Ar­gu­ment Against Donat­ing to the EA Hotel

Grue_SlinkyMar 27, 2019, 5:03 PM
49 points
35 comments10 min readEA link

Bounty: Guide To Switch­ing From Farmed Fish To Wild-Caught Fish

ozymandiasFeb 22, 2019, 4:10 PM
37 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

[Question] Prize: In­ter­est­ing Ex­am­ples of Evaluations

ElizabethNov 28, 2020, 9:11 PM
26 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Distil­la­tion Con­test—Re­sults and Recap

a_e_rJul 26, 2022, 8:30 PM
47 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

The Let­ten Prize—An op­por­tu­nity for young EA re­searchers?

Håkon SandbakkenNov 4, 2022, 6:47 PM
39 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Im­pact­ful Fore­cast­ing Prize Re­sults and Reflections

eliflandMar 29, 2022, 4:16 PM
40 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Fund­ing es­say-prizes as part of pledged dona­tions?

MaxRaFeb 3, 2021, 6:43 PM
13 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

We’ll write you a will for free if you leave a gift to GiveWell’s top charities

kierangreig🔸Sep 23, 2015, 11:25 PM
19 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

We are giv­ing $10k as fore­cast­ing micro-grants

Misha_YagudinFeb 8, 2022, 12:20 PM
51 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Launch­ing the INFER Fore­cast­ing Tour­na­ment for EA uni groups

hannahMar 31, 2022, 6:25 AM
46 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Fore­cast­ing In­no­va­tion Prize

Ozzie GooenNov 15, 2020, 9:21 PM
64 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Creative Writ­ing Con­test: $22,000 in prizes for good stories

Aaron Gertler 🔸Sep 12, 2021, 9:15 PM
149 points
65 comments6 min readEA link

Fu­ture Bowl Fore­cast­ing Tour­na­ment

ncmouliosNov 28, 2022, 4:42 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­per­i­ment in Retroac­tive Fund­ing: An EA Fo­rum Prize Contest

DCJun 1, 2022, 9:15 PM
96 points
16 comments8 min readEA link

Prize: ‘What do you think the gov­ern­ment should do to im­prove life in the UK?’

Ben YeohSep 24, 2022, 11:50 AM
14 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Who should one nom­i­nate for Dan David Prize?

RamiroJul 8, 2022, 12:43 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Liveli­hood in­ter­ven­tions: overview, eval­u­a­tion, and cost-effectiveness

Rethink PrioritiesJan 20, 2023, 8:05 PM
90 points
8 comments45 min readEA link

The Most Good—pro­mo­tional prizes for EA chap­ters from Peter Singer, CEA, and 80,000 Hours

ChrisJenkinsMar 31, 2015, 5:38 PM
5 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

a black swan en­ergy prize

JorisMar 28, 2019, 11:34 PM
0 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

PIBBSS Fel­low­ship: Bounty for Refer­rals & Dead­line Extension

Anna_GajdovaJan 17, 2022, 4:23 PM
17 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Es­ti­mat­ing the Aver­age Im­pact of an ARPA-E Grantmaker

charrinDec 1, 2022, 6:34 AM
22 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Ex­cep­tional Re­search Award by Effec­tive Th­e­sis (ETERA): reflection

Effective ThesisJan 18, 2023, 10:59 AM
39 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

Me­tac­u­lus Launches Cli­mate Tip­ping Points Tour­na­ment With The Fed­er­a­tion of Amer­i­can Scientists

christianJan 27, 2023, 7:33 PM
21 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

An­nounc­ing the Open Philan­thropy AI Wor­ld­views Contest

Jason SchukraftMar 10, 2023, 2:33 AM
137 points
33 comments3 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Flour­ish: Dead­line Ex­tended + Prizes

Flourish JournalMar 9, 2023, 1:49 PM
19 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Me­tac­u­lus’s Cli­mate Tip­ping Points Tour­na­ment En­ters Round 2

christianMar 16, 2023, 6:48 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

[Re­minder] Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Contest

Joel Tan🔸Jul 16, 2023, 7:22 AM
17 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(exploratory-altruism.org)

[Fi­nal Call] Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Contest

Joel Tan🔸Jul 28, 2023, 4:02 PM
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the win­ners of the Res­lab Re­quest for Information

Aron LajkoJul 27, 2023, 5:43 PM
15 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

£1 mil­lion prize for the most cut­ting-edge AI solu­tion for pub­lic good [link post]

rileyharrisJan 17, 2024, 2:36 PM
8 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(manchesterprize.org)

£5,000 UK Progress Policy Blog Prize

TomWestgarthOct 6, 2023, 3:35 PM
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Me­tac­u­lus’s Keep Virginia Safe II Tour­na­ment En­ters 2nd Round

christianApr 4, 2023, 9:51 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

OPTIC [Fore­cast­ing Comp] — Pilot Postmortem

OPTICMay 19, 2023, 10:10 AM
43 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

[Linkpost] OpenAI is award­ing ten 100k grants for build­ing pro­to­types of a demo­cratic pro­cess for steer­ing AI

pseudonymMay 26, 2023, 12:49 PM
36 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(openai.com)

An­nounc­ing the Univer­sity of Chicago’s $2M Mar­ket Shap­ing Ac­cel­er­a­tor’s In­no­va­tion Challenge: Biose­cu­rity, Pan­demic Pre­pared­ness, and Cli­mate Change

schethikJun 21, 2023, 5:25 PM
61 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Es­say Prizes: non-main­stream education

Ben YeohFeb 12, 2024, 12:08 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Lovelace Fu­ture Scien­tific In­sti­tu­tions Es­say Prize by the Bet­ter Science Project

BetterScienceUKDec 15, 2023, 11:29 AM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Me­tac­u­lus Hosts ACX 2024 Pre­dic­tion Contest

christianJan 1, 2024, 4:38 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

$250K in Prizes: SafeBench Com­pe­ti­tion An­nounce­ment

Center for AI SafetyApr 3, 2024, 10:07 PM
47 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Can AI Out­pre­dict Hu­mans? Re­sults From Me­tac­u­lus’s Q3 AI Fore­cast­ing Benchmark

Tom LiptayOct 10, 2024, 6:58 PM
32 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Med­i­cal Wind­fall Prizes

PeterMcCluskeyFeb 7, 2025, 12:13 AM
5 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(bayesianinvestor.com)

Fore­cast With GiveWell

christianOct 23, 2024, 7:50 PM
35 points
6 comments2 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Fore­cast 2025 With Vox’s Fu­ture Perfect Team — $2,500 Prize Pool

christianDec 20, 2024, 11:00 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Win­ners of the Es­say com­pe­ti­tion on the Au­toma­tion of Wis­dom and Philosophy

Owen Cotton-BarrattOct 29, 2024, 12:02 AM
37 points
2 comments30 min readEA link
(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Bridge­wa­ter x Me­tac­u­lus Fore­cast­ing Con­test Goes Global — Feb 3, $25k, Opportunities

christianJan 7, 2025, 9:40 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Creative Writ­ing Con­test: The Win­ning Entries

Aaron Gertler 🔸Dec 26, 2021, 10:43 AM
124 points
12 comments2 min readEA link
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