There are roughly 30 to 60 people working full-time on AI safety grantmaking, collectively directing hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Does that seem high or low to you?
On your point about the invisibility of grant making. We've seen other forms of capital allocation evolve significantly - philanthropy also has the opportunity to evolve significantly.
VCs build reputation by publicly listing their investments - and this is used in their hiring, promotion, etc. It would be exciting to see philanthropies explore performance and reputation mechanisms.
[question]: referencing the "good fit" 5 points section, can you give two (hypothetical) concrete examples that shows what separates a competent vs an incompetent grantmaker? i ran by Claude and inferred some examples, but would ideally like to hear directly from u if u have the time.
btw, thanks for this post, thru my fieldbuilding work ive been thinking about getting more (smart promising AIS) folks to consider grantmaking too, timely!
This piece resonates deeply. You mention the ecosystem is leaving good opportunities on the table due to lack of grantmaker capacity. Here's one that's currently invisible to most grantmakers: 636 million Spanish speakers across four continents have almost no AI Safety infrastructure built for them. Not because there's no talent or demand, but because nobody has been looking there.
This isn't about inclusion for its own sake. AI that doesn't account for the values, languages, and contexts of 636 million people isn't safe. It's incomplete. And incomplete is a safety problem.
aisafety.es exists to help fill that gap. Would love to connect.
I would recommend revising your comments more carefully before posting them --- this is clearly still largely LLM-written, and many people will instantly brush off any proposal as soon as they get LLM vibes from it...
To be clear though, it's not AI-written. English isn't my first language and I tend to over-polish when I want to sound precise. That's on me, Thanks for the feedback and for the article.
I have developed AI Brain Programs to help provide knowledge for mental patients and handicapped patients all over the world? My custom AI Brain Programs will be available all over the world soon for a small operational fee?
One of my friends, Rohan, recently became a grantmaker. I'm going to send this to him.
On your point about the invisibility of grant making. We've seen other forms of capital allocation evolve significantly - philanthropy also has the opportunity to evolve significantly.
-> https://renaissancephilanthropy.substack.com/p/philanthropy-20-what-the-evolution
VCs build reputation by publicly listing their investments - and this is used in their hiring, promotion, etc. It would be exciting to see philanthropies explore performance and reputation mechanisms.
[question]: referencing the "good fit" 5 points section, can you give two (hypothetical) concrete examples that shows what separates a competent vs an incompetent grantmaker? i ran by Claude and inferred some examples, but would ideally like to hear directly from u if u have the time.
btw, thanks for this post, thru my fieldbuilding work ive been thinking about getting more (smart promising AIS) folks to consider grantmaking too, timely!
do you think grantmaking could benefit from hiring junior people / setting up talent pipelines?
This piece resonates deeply. You mention the ecosystem is leaving good opportunities on the table due to lack of grantmaker capacity. Here's one that's currently invisible to most grantmakers: 636 million Spanish speakers across four continents have almost no AI Safety infrastructure built for them. Not because there's no talent or demand, but because nobody has been looking there.
This isn't about inclusion for its own sake. AI that doesn't account for the values, languages, and contexts of 636 million people isn't safe. It's incomplete. And incomplete is a safety problem.
aisafety.es exists to help fill that gap. Would love to connect.
I would recommend revising your comments more carefully before posting them --- this is clearly still largely LLM-written, and many people will instantly brush off any proposal as soon as they get LLM vibes from it...
To be clear though, it's not AI-written. English isn't my first language and I tend to over-polish when I want to sound precise. That's on me, Thanks for the feedback and for the article.
I have developed AI Brain Programs to help provide knowledge for mental patients and handicapped patients all over the world? My custom AI Brain Programs will be available all over the world soon for a small operational fee?
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