Alignment Research Center

Confidence: High, Funding needs: Medium There’s a long track record of good work here, and Paul Christiano remained excited as of 2024\. If you are looking to fund straight up alignment work and don’t have a particular person or small group in mind, this is certainly a safe bet to put additional funds to good use and attract good talent. Donate here, or reach out to jacob@alignment.org.

$54,543 · Support for a research & networking event for winners of the Eliciting Latent Knowledge contest - This was funding a research & networking event for the winners of the Eliciting Latent Knowledge contest run in early 2022; the plan for the event was mainly for it to be participant-led, with participants sharing what they were working on and connecting with others, along with professional alignment researchers visiting to share their own work with participants. - I think the case for this grant is pretty straightforward: the winners of this contest are (presumably) selected for being unusually likely to be able to contribute to problems in AI alignment, and retreats, especially those involving interactions with professionals in the space, have a strong track record of getting people more involved with this work.