Co-Executive Director, Machine Alignment, Transparency, and Security (MATS) Research (2022-present)
Co-Founder & Board Member, London Initiative for Safe AI (2023-present)
Board Member, Catalyze Impact (2026-present) | ToC here
Manifund Regrantor (2023-present) | RFPs here
Advisor, AI Safety ANZ (2024-present)
Advisor, Pivotal Research (2024-present)
Advisor, Halcyon Futures (2025-present)
Advisor, Black in AI Safety and Ethics (2025-present)
Advisor, Alignment Foundation (2026-present)
Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Queensland (2017-2023)
Group organizer at Effective Altruism UQ (2018-2021)
Personal website: ryankidd.ai
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The justification for a philanthropic overhang is:
Existing large funders 2-3xing their annual budgets this year;
The pledged commitments from Anthropic founders and employee DAFs.;
The posts like these from cG staff;
The OpenAI Foundation pledging $1B in 2026;
Nan Ransohoff’s calculation that “AI will likely add ~$37-100B per year in intended philanthropic spend in the near future.”