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Research directions Open Phil wants to fund in technical AI safety — LessWrong
The Open Philanthropy has just launched a large new Request for Proposals for technical AI safety research. Here we're sharing a reference guide, created as part of that RFP, which describes what projects we'd like to see across 21 research directions in technical AI safety. This guide provides an opinionated overview of recent work and open problems across areas like adversarial testing, model transparency, and theoretical approaches to AI alignment.
Open Philanthropy Technical AI Safety RFP - $40M Available Across 21 Research Areas — LessWrong
Open Philanthropy is launching a big new Request for Proposals for technical AI safety research, with plans to fund roughly $40M in grants over the next 5 months, and available funding for substantially more depending on application quality. Applications (here) start with a simple 300 word expression of interest and are open until April 15, 2025.
Announcing the Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest
We are pleased to announce the 2023 Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest. The goal of the contest is to surface novel considerations that could influence our views on AI timelines and AI risk. We plan to distribute $225,000 in prize money across six winning entries. This is the same contest we preannounced late last year, which is itself the spiritual successor to the now-defunct Future Fund competition.
Technical Updates to Our Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Prioritization Framework
In 2019, we wrote a blog post about how we think about the “bar” for our giving and how we compare different kinds of interventions to each other using back-of-the-envelope calculations, all within the realm of what we now call Global Health and Wellbeing (GHW). This post updates that one and: Explains how we previously compared health and income gains in comparable units.
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