Enjoyed the post, am disappointed with the list of 501(c)(3) opportunities.
METR researches and runs evaluations of frontier AI systems with a major focus on AI agents. If you work at a frontier lab, you’re probably aware of them, as they’ve partnered with OpenAI and Anthropic to pilot pre-deployment evaluations procedures. METR’s is particularly known for work on measuring AI systems’ ability to conduct increasingly long tasks
While the long-horizon task graph is somewhat helpful for policy, it’s unclear what’s the marginal impact of METR’s existence (AI labs are running evals anyway, there are other orgs and gov agencies in this space), and to what extent it’s dual-use (can AI labs compare various bits they add to training by success on evals?).
I donated to Horizon in the past, but I’m no longer convinced they’re significantly impactful, as it seems that most staffers don’t have time to focus on any specific issue that we care about, and generally the folk there don’t seem to be particularly x-risk-pilled.
Forethought conducts academic-style research on how best to navigate the transition to a world with superintelligent AI
How is this more than near-zero dignity points?
Donations to MIRI are probably more impactful than donations to any of these three orgs, despite them not fundraising/not being funding-constrained.
Enjoyed the post, am disappointed with the list of 501(c)(3) opportunities.
While the long-horizon task graph is somewhat helpful for policy, it’s unclear what’s the marginal impact of METR’s existence (AI labs are running evals anyway, there are other orgs and gov agencies in this space), and to what extent it’s dual-use (can AI labs compare various bits they add to training by success on evals?).
I donated to Horizon in the past, but I’m no longer convinced they’re significantly impactful, as it seems that most staffers don’t have time to focus on any specific issue that we care about, and generally the folk there don’t seem to be particularly x-risk-pilled.
How is this more than near-zero dignity points?
Donations to MIRI are probably more impactful than donations to any of these three orgs, despite them not fundraising/not being funding-constrained.