EA to create an incubator to fund social enterprises with a high social return on investment.
This will help improve the visibility of the EA brand. It will also help connect ideas to improve the world with capital.
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Lobby big tech companies to create AI Safety departments to monitor the growth of machine learning technology and implement proactive risk mitigation.
Create a suite of online and in person EA qualifications to help attract new people into the movement and unskill existing members.
The suite of online qualifications could follow a similar model to the Khan academy. Short, interactive courses led by gifted teachers and delivered online. These courses would cover foundational EA materials.
EA could also partner with universities to deliver formal courses in areas such as existential risk or AI safety.
Establish a virtual EA co-working space in the metaverse or on another platform to allow EA’s from every country to meet and create new ideas together.
Economic growth
Work with developing countries to buy an area of land to form an EA special economic area. This can be a place where EA can congregate and innovate in IT and other fields. It can also be a place where EA can demonstrate new policies, technologies and pioneer new ways of thinking.
EA could expand on this idea to build communities in remote places that are likely to survive extinction events. It will provide a good opportunity to test technology that will be used in any space colonies.
Blockchain for people to prove their ID. Often in a disaster people’s identity documents are lost or taken. This Blockchain will allow people to prove who they are and will also allow direct disaster relief payments to be made via the Blockchain.
Promote Ethical Corporate Behavior
EA to purchase 5% of Blackrock and 5% of Vanguard shares. To be clear, I don’t mean 5% of their index funds, but rather 5% of the underlying fund management companies.
EA’s investment of circa $10 billion can be leveraged into a board seat on companies that manage circa $20 trillion in assets. EA could lobby these companies to apply a corporate ethics tests on all their index funds. E.g. excluding coal and promoting other EA priorities.