Center for AI Safety donations received

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Basic donee information

We do not have any donee information for the donee Center for AI Safety in our system.

Donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 3 4,025,729 3,539,576 1,433,000 1,433,000 1,433,000 1,433,000 4,025,729 4,025,729 4,025,729 5,160,000 5,160,000 5,160,000 5,160,000
AI safety 3 4,025,729 3,539,576 1,433,000 1,433,000 1,433,000 1,433,000 4,025,729 4,025,729 4,025,729 5,160,000 5,160,000 5,160,000 5,160,000

Donation amounts by donor and year for donee Center for AI Safety

Donor Total 2023 2022
Open Philanthropy (filter this donee) 10,618,729.00 5,458,729.00 5,160,000.00
Total 10,618,729.00 5,458,729.00 5,160,000.00

Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (1 documents)

Title (URL linked)Publication dateAuthorPublisherAffected donorsAffected doneesAffected influencersDocument scopeCause areaNotes
(My understanding of) What Everyone in Technical Alignment is Doing and Why (GW, IR)2022-08-28Thomas Larsen Eli LessWrongFund for Alignment Resesarch Aligned AI Alignment Research Center Anthropic Center for AI Safety Center for Human-Compatible AI Center on Long-Term Risk Conjecture DeepMind Encultured Future of Humanity Institute Machine Intelligence Research Institute OpenAI Ought Redwood Research Review of current state of cause areaAI safetyThis post, cross-posted between LessWrong and the Alignment Forum, goes into detail on the authors' understanding of various research agendas and the organizations pursuing them.

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (3 donations)

Graph of top 10 donors (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
DonorAmount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 3)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
Open Philanthropy4,025,729.0022023-04AI safety/technical research/movement growthhttps://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/center-for-ai-safety-general-support-2023/-- Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support

Intended use of funds: Grant "for general support. The Center for AI Safety works on research, field-building, and advocacy to reduce existential risks from artificial intelligence."
Open Philanthropy1,433,000.0032023-02AI safety/technical research/strategyhttps://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/center-for-ai-safety-philosophy-fellowship/-- Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant "to support the CAIS Philosophy Fellowship, which is a research fellowship that will support philosophers researching topics related to AI safety. This grant also supported a workshop on adversarial robustness, as well as prizes for safety-related competitions at the 2022 NeurIPS conference." Links: https://philosophy.safe.ai/ for CAIS Philosophy Fellowship, https://eccv22-arow.github.io/ for the workshop, and https://trojandetection.ai/ and https://neurips2022.mlsafety.org/ for the prizes.
Open Philanthropy5,160,000.0012022-11AI safety/technical research/movement growthhttps://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/center-for-ai-safety-general-support/-- Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support

Intended use of funds: Grant "for general support. The Center for AI Safety does technical research and field-building aimed at reducing catastrophic and existential risks from artificial intelligence."

Donor retrospective of the donation: The followup general support grant https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/center-for-ai-safety-general-support-2023/ in 2023 for a similar amount suggests continued satisfaction with the grantee.