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60 Short-Form Video Explainers on Catastrophic AI Risks — in 40 Languages
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Closes November 1st, 2026$0raised
$25,000minimum funding
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Project summary
AI Understanding (aiunderstanding.org) is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit publishing free plain-language AI education — 1000+ guides, no paywall, no account, in 40 languages, accessibility-first. This project produces 60 short-form video explainers (2–4 minutes each) on catastrophic AI risks — AGI scenarios, the control problem, misuse risks, power concentration, AI governance — each scripted from expert-reviewed plain-language content and produced in 40 languages via AI-assisted translation and voiceover with human review. All videos free forever, open-licensed, distributed on the platforms where the public actually learns (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram).
What are this project's goals? How will you achieve them?
Goal: give ordinary people everywhere — not just the technical elite — a rigorous, jargon-free understanding of AI's catastrophic risks, in the medium and languages they actually use. Short-form video reaches audiences that never read long guides, especially younger and non-English-speaking audiences. How: (1) finalize 60 scripts adapted from AI safety literature, reviewed by domain experts; (2) produce videos using an AI-assisted pipeline — script simplification, translation into 40 languages, AI voiceover with human QA, motion-graphics templates; (3) publish across platforms with localized titles/descriptions; (4) track reach and comprehension (views, completion rates, quiz-linked CTAs). Success: 60 videos × 40 languages published within 9 months; 1M+ cumulative views; open-licensed template pack other safety communicators can reuse.
How will this funding be used?
$25,000 total: video producer/editor (contract) $10,000; scriptwriter (AI safety background) $6,000; translation QA reviewers (40 languages, sampled review) $4,000; motion-graphics templates & accessibility (captions) $3,000; tools, hosting & distribution $2,000.
Who is on your team? What's your track record on similar projects?
Alex Gonzalez — Founder, CEO & President, AI Understanding; project lead (https://aiunderstanding.org). Board: Angelica Martinez, Roberto Gonzalez. Track record: as a lean founder-led nonprofit, AI Understanding has published 1000+ plain-language AI guides, a daily quiz, an AI glossary, and ongoing AI news coverage — all free, in 40 languages — using an AI-assisted editorial pipeline (LLM-assisted drafting, plain-language simplification, translation workflows with human review). This project extends that proven pipeline from text to video. Contractors (producer, writer, reviewers) hired on funding.
What are the most likely causes and outcomes if this project fails?
Most likely failure: videos don't find an audience (algorithmic distribution is uncertain) — outcome: a smaller-than-hoped audience, but all 60 videos × 40 languages remain published as a free open-licensed library others can build on. Secondary risk: translation quality issues in lower-resource languages — mitigated by sampled human QA and community correction. Funds are spent on production regardless, so the public-good library exists even in the failure case.
How much money have you raised in the last 12 months, and from where?
$0 in grants in the last 12 months. Pending applications (no decisions yet): Coefficient Giving ($500,000, submitted Sept 2026), EA Funds Transformative AI Fund ($150,000, submitted Sept 2026), Foresight Institute Nodes RFP ($40,000, submitted Sept 2026) — all for related but distinct text-library work, not this video project.