This is an online portal with information on donations that were announced publicly (or have been shared with permission) that were of interest to Vipul Naik. The git repository with the code for this portal, as well as all the underlying data, is available on GitHub. All payment amounts are in current United States dollars (USD). The repository of donations is being seeded with an initial collation by Issa Rice as well as continued contributions from him (see his commits and the contract work page listing all financially compensated contributions to the site) but all responsibility for errors and inaccuracies belongs to Vipul Naik. Current data is preliminary and has not been completely vetted and normalized; if sharing a link to this site or any page on this site, please include the caveat that the data is preliminary (if you want to share without including caveats, please check with Vipul Naik). We expect to have completed the first round of development by the end of July 2024. See the about page for more details. Also of interest: pageview data on analytics.vipulnaik.com, tutorial in README, request for feedback to EA Forum.
We do not have any donee information for the donee Daniel Dewey in our system.
| Cause area | Count | Median | Mean | Minimum | 10th percentile | 20th percentile | 30th percentile | 40th percentile | 50th percentile | 60th percentile | 70th percentile | 80th percentile | 90th percentile | Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 2 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 |
| AI safety | 2 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 | 175,000 |
| Donor | Total | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Philanthropy (filter this donee) | 350,000.00 | 175,000.00 | 175,000.00 |
| Total | 350,000.00 | 175,000.00 | 175,000.00 |
| Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Affected influencers | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| My current thoughts on MIRI’s highly reliable agent design work (GW, IR) | 2017-07-07 | Daniel Dewey | Effective Altruism Forum | Open Philanthropy | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Evaluator review of donee | AI safety | Post discusses thoughts on the MIRI work on highly reliable agent design. Dewey is looking into the subject to inform Open Philanthropy Project grantmaking to MIRI specifically and for AI risk in general; the post reflects his own opinions that could affect Open Phil decisions. See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/long-term-world-improvement/FeZ_h2HXJr0 for critical discussion, in particular the comments by Sarah Constantin. |
Graph of top 10 donors (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations
| Donor | Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 2) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
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| Open Philanthropy | 175,000.00 | 1 | AI safety/strategy | https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/daniel-dewey-ai-alignment-projects-2022/ | -- | Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses Intended use of funds: Grant to "support [Dewey's] work on AI alignment. Daniel will continue work on a website explaining how artificial intelligence poses a global risk, and continue work on proposals for experiments related to AI safety." The webpage https://www.danieldewey.net/risk/index.html is linked. |
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| Open Philanthropy | 175,000.00 | 1 | AI safety | https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/daniel-dewey-ai-alignment-project | Nick Beckstead | Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses Intended use of funds: Grant to support "work on an AI alignment project and related field-building efforts. Daniel plans to use this funding to produce writing and reports summarizing existing research and investigating potentially valuable projects relevant to AI alignment, with the goal of helping junior researchers and others understand how they can contribute to the field." Donor retrospective of the donation: The followup grant https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/daniel-dewey-ai-alignment-projects-2022/ suggests continued satisfaction with the grant outcome. |