After about 2 hrs of research, here's why I'm donating to Evitable:
Background beliefs:
If anyone builds superintelligence, everyone dies
Our best hope of avoiding extinction is building political will for an international moratorium on frontier AI development
Building mainstream (American) public awareness is neglected and probably the best way to do this
David Krueger has amazing credentials
Originated the CAIS statement which was hugely impactful
Trained under Bengio, co-authored with Hinton
Individual donations are useful for an org like this so that they:
Can use the number of individual donors as evidence that people actually care about this issue
Can't be dismissed as astroturfing
Aren't constrained in what they can say by large funders
Evitable is new, which makes a marginal dollar more impactful than going towards a big established org
They've already published 2 national news op-eds (USA Today, Guardian)
Apparently they're doing evidence-based messaging which seems better than vibes-based