Peter Slattery 🔸

• Peter Slattery 🔸 12 Apr 2026 23:25 UTC

  2 points

  0 ∶ 0

  on: What it’s like to be an AI safety grant­maker (and why we need more of them)

  Thanks for this, I entirely agree.
  
  I’d love to see more infrastructure put in place to resolve this problem. I’d like current funders to aim for a world where we have so many capable grantmakers that some are occasionally underused because there is not enough funding to allocate.
  
  For instance, that might involve programs to proactively identify people with skills relevant to grantmaking, such as forecasting, headhunting, and transparent reasoning, funding them generously to participate in grantmaking fellowships, and placing them in grantmaking organizations when there is a strong fit.

Se­nior Re­searcher—MIT AI Risk Initiative

ML Eng­ineer—MIT AI Risk Ini­ti­a­tive, Con­trac­tor, Part-time, 6-months

• Peter Slattery 🔸 1 Jan 2026 13:56 UTC

  2 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Jeff Kaufman 🔸’s comment on: Don’t Sell Stock to Donate

  My understanding is that I can simply need to print and send the letter/​email from Every.org to Interactive Brokers, and they will facilitate the transfer.

  One thing to note here is that end-of-year transfers can only be facilitated if the request has been made by the start of December. Another is that because I submitted my request too late in December, I will have to submit it again in January.
  
  However, all things considered, if they do facilitate the transaction based on the submission of the email/​letter shared from Every.org it will feel like a relatively straightforward process for me. However, maybe I’m going to find out later that there are some other complications in the process that I’ve missed?

• Peter Slattery 🔸 27 Dec 2025 23:28 UTC

  3 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Alexander Saeri’s comment on: EAGxAus­trala­sia 2025 Ret­ro­spec­tive—It went well and we learnt things that might be use­ful for you

  I agree!

• Peter Slattery 🔸 26 Dec 2025 13:08 UTC

  2 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Lorenzo Buonanno🔸’s comment on: Why aren’t more EA or­ga­ni­za­tions us­ing Every.org, or some­thing similar, to ac­cept stock and crypto dona­tions?

  Re: Googling, this post wasn’t really motivated by finding out how to donate crypto/​stocks to AMF. I mainly just wanted to signal to EA orgs that they should be able to receive such donations (or understand why some might not accept it).

  The rough sequence of events was:

  • I started by trying to donate stock/​crypto to Horizon and didn’t see an obvious pathway on their site.

  • I found their (inactive) profile on Every.org and noticed that a number of other EA-aligned orgs weren’t (active) there either.

  • I searched things like “how to donate cryptocurrency to Effective Altruism charities” and ran into posts/​resources that seemed outdated.

  • Then I did a quick (and clearly insufficient) scan of GWWC and AMF and mistakenly concluded they didn’t support these options.

  • I then felt that there was some reasonable probability that there might be a blind spot/​gap here and posted the question.

  Given my experience, I wonder if it would be helpful for someone (CEA?) to maintain a simple resource listing which EA orgs accept stock and crypto? I’m not sure if there is enough confusion or demand to justify it, though.

• Peter Slattery 🔸 26 Dec 2025 1:30 UTC

  2 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Lorenzo Buonanno🔸’s comment on: Why aren’t more EA or­ga­ni­za­tions us­ing Every.org, or some­thing similar, to ac­cept stock and crypto dona­tions?

  Thanks for correcting me, Lorenzo, I really appreciate it! I was clearly a little inattentive/​hasty when doing my research and writing this post. I have added a note to the original and will downvote myself for spreading false info, and wasting people’s time here.

[Question] Why aren’t more EA or­ga­ni­za­tions us­ing Every.org, or some­thing similar, to ac­cept stock and crypto dona­tions?

• Peter Slattery 🔸 7 Nov 2025 14:27 UTC

  2 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Christoph Hartmann 🔸’s comment on: You should prob­a­bly track your time (and it just got eas­ier)

  Yeah, I can see how that’s a bit of a dilemma. To avoid the flags, maybe you could make it a separate download or something people have to specifically email you to request.

  I can also imagine that for some people, especially those in certain jobs, the screenshots or logging features won’t be worth the risk. On that note, I decided to uninstall the tool myself, given the security considerations and the requirements from my employer.

• Peter Slattery 🔸 4 Nov 2025 16:47 UTC

  2 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Peter Slattery 🔸’s comment on: You should prob­a­bly track your time (and it just got eas­ier)

  Ok, I have now read some comments where you explain the privacy below, and watched your video. I’m going to engage with the university security team and ask them what they think, and whether they feel this is appropriate to have on a work computer.

• Peter Slattery 🔸 4 Nov 2025 16:44 UTC

  4 points

  0 ∶ 0

  on: You should prob­a­bly track your time (and it just got eas­ier)

  I looked into this and no longer have these concerns.
  
  Thank you for this. I have some security concerns, and I am uninstalling the software after I received the message below from my university. Can you please respond here to explain?

  “IS&T Information Security received a Crowdstrike alert about some software you downloaded from donethat.ai. Presumably it was intentional, but this software comes installed with what looks like keylogger functionality. …Having a keylogger on your system is pretty risky. Even if they purport to not store data, there is always the risk that the software or your machine is compromised, and the data stream is intercepted for misuse”

  ...

  This installer wrote the following file, which is associated with keylogging functionality:

  FILE: …\node_modules\node-global-key-listener\bin\WinKeyServer.exe”
  

MIT Fu­tureTech are hiring a Post­doc­toral As­so­ci­ate to work on AI Perfor­mance and Safety

• Peter Slattery 🔸 16 May 2025 11:17 UTC

  2 points

  0 ∶ 0

  on: AI for An­i­mals 2025 Bay Area Retrospective

  Well done!

Cam­bridge Bos­ton Align­ment Ini­ti­a­tive Sum­mer Re­search Fel­low­ship in AI Safety (Dead­line: May 18)

• Peter Slattery 🔸 11 May 2025 15:30 UTC

  2 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Jason’s comment on: EA Funded Kick­start­ing For Good in­cu­ba­tor seek­ing ap­pli­ca­tions (dead­line 23 May 2025)

  Sorry, thanks for pointing that out!

EA Funded Kick­start­ing For Good in­cu­ba­tor seek­ing ap­pli­ca­tions (dead­line 23 May 2025)

• Peter Slattery 🔸 1 Apr 2025 16:15 UTC

  2 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Angelina Li’s comment on: An­gelina Li’s Shortform

  Do you think that it would be better to just add a helpful or heart emoji to the post instead? I used to leave the same sorts of comments as Ben. These got downvoted occasionally. I interpreted this pattern as being due to people not appreciating these sorts of ‘thank you comments’. When emoji react were added, I therefore switched to emoji reacting, as I felt that this would achieve the same outcomes without creating the ‘noise’ of a ‘thank you comment’. However, I could go back to leaving comments if that seems like a better approach.

• Peter Slattery 🔸 28 Mar 2025 20:41 UTC

  4 points

  0 ∶ 0

  on: Third-wave AI safety needs so­ciopoli­ti­cal thinking

  Thanks for this. Is there a place where I can see the sources you are using here?
  
  I am particularly interested in the source for this:
  ”The other graph here is an interesting one. It’s the financial returns to IQ over two cohorts. The blue line is the older cohort, it’s from 50 years ago or something. It’s got some slope. And then the red line is a newer cohort. And that’s a much steeper slope. What that means is basically for every extra IQ point you have, in the new cohort you get about twice as much money on average for that IQ point. ”

• Peter Slattery 🔸 24 Mar 2025 12:07 UTC

  11 points

  1 ∶ 0

  on: Aus­trali­ans for AI Safety Launches New Elec­tion Cam­paign — Here’s How You Can Help

  Thanks for your work on this and in the past Luke and Greg! I’ve also signed the letter. I hope it has a positive impact going forward.

Public Com­ment In­vited on Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence Ac­tion Plan