Vitalik Buterin donations made to Machine Intelligence Research Institute

 

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Basic donor information

ItemValue
Country Switzerland
Websitehttps://vitalik.ca/
Twitter usernameVitalikButerin
GitHub usernamevbuterin
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteManual (no scripts used)

Full donor page for donor Vitalik Buterin

Basic donee information

ItemValue
Country United States
Facebook page MachineIntelligenceResearchInstitute
Websitehttps://intelligence.org
Donate pagehttps://intelligence.org/donate/
Donors list pagehttps://intelligence.org/topdonors/
Transparency and financials pagehttps://intelligence.org/transparency/
Donation case pagehttps://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EKfjh5W7PkykLM7eG/miri-update-and-fundraising-case-1
Twitter usernameMIRIBerkeley
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Intelligence_Research_Institute
Open Philanthropy Project grant reviewhttp://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/machine-intelligence-research-institute-general-support
Charity Navigator pagehttps://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.profile&ein=582565917
Guidestar pagehttps://www.guidestar.org/profile/58-2565917
Timelines wiki pagehttps://timelines.issarice.com/wiki/Timeline_of_Machine_Intelligence_Research_Institute
Org Watch pagehttps://orgwatch.issarice.com/?organization=Machine+Intelligence+Research+Institute
Key peopleEliezer Yudkowsky|Nate Soares|Luke Muehlhauser
Launch date2000

This entity is also a donor.

Full donee page for donee Machine Intelligence Research Institute

Donor–donee relationship

Item Value

Donor–donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 2 802,136 2,401,995 802,136 802,136 802,136 802,136 802,136 802,136 4,001,855 4,001,855 4,001,855 4,001,855 4,001,855
AI safety 1 802,136 802,136 802,136 802,136 802,136 802,136 802,136 802,136 802,136 802,136 802,136 802,136 802,136
1 4,001,855 4,001,855 4,001,855 4,001,855 4,001,855 4,001,855 4,001,855 4,001,855 4,001,855 4,001,855 4,001,855 4,001,855 4,001,855

Donation amounts by cause area and year

If you hover over a cell for a given cause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.

Note: Cause area classification used here may not match that used by donor for all cases.

Cause area Number of donations Total 2021 2018
(filter this donor) 1 4,001,854.50 4,001,854.50 0.00
AI safety (filter this donor) 1 802,136.00 0.00 802,136.00
Total 2 4,803,990.50 4,001,854.50 802,136.00

Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)

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

Title (URL linked)Publication dateAuthorPublisherAffected donorsAffected doneesAffected influencersDocument scopeCause areaNotes
Our all-time largest donation, and major crypto support from Vitalik Buterin2021-05-13Colm Ó Riain Machine Intelligence Research InstituteAnonymous Vitalik Buterin Machine Intelligence Research Institute Donee periodic updateAI safetyMIRI announces two major donations: one (MIRI's largest donation to date) from an anonymous donor donating $15.6 million ($2.5 million per year from 2021 to 2024 and an additional $5.6 million in 2025), and 1050 ETH ($4,378,159) from Vitalik Buterin.

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (2 donations)

Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
Amount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 2)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
4,001,854.5012021-05-12--https://etherscan.io/tx/0x949bc96c02090165ccb2c180dc105ce6592514576dced024356402248844836dAI safety Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support

Other notes: A blog post https://intelligence.org/2021/05/13/two-major-donations/ by the Machine Intelligence Research Institute the next day describes the donation and lists the USD amount as $4,378,159. Currency info: donation given as 1,050.00 ETH (conversion done via Etherscan.io); announced: 2021-05-12.
802,136.0022018AI safetyhttps://web.archive.org/web/20180117010054/https://intelligence.org/topcontributors/--