Of the recent wave of AI companies, the earliest one, DeepMind, relied on the Rationalists for its early funding. The first investor, Peter Thiel, was a donor to Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI, but now MIRI, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute) who met DeepMind’s founder at an SIAI event. Jaan Tallinn, the most important Rationalist donor, was also a critical early investor…
…In 2017, the Open Philanthropy Project directed $30 million to OpenAI…
Good overview of how through AI Safety funders ended up supporting AGI labs.
Good overview of how through AI Safety funders ended up supporting AGI labs.
Curious to read more people’s views of what this led to. See question here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wWMxCs4LFzE4jXXqQ/what-did-ai-safety-s-specific-funding-of-agi-r-and-d-labs