Seed fund for boundaries-based empirical AI safety projects after workshop.

ACX Grants 2024

Chris Lakin

CompleteGrant

$40,000raised

Longer description of your proposed project

See https://formalizingboundaries.ai/

Then see https://manifund.org/projects/conceptual-boundaries-workshop-already-funded-but-some-additional-things

Other ways I can learn about you

https://twitter.com/chrischipmonk

How much money do you need?

$40,000 would be great for a seed fund. More than that would probably go towards a future larger workshops.

Links to any supporting documents or information

No response.

Estimate your probability of succeeding if you get the amount of money you asked for

If we don't come up with any interesting projects to seed fund at the workshop, we'll give the money back.

Chris Lakin

over 1 year ago

Final report

Description of subprojects and results, including major changes from the original proposal

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NitP3AsMeuycJQbfa/retrospective-on-mathematical-boundaries-workshop

Spending breakdown

funding for Mathematical Boundaries Workshop, spreadsheet available upon request.

used left over funds for regranting:

Sep 9, 2024 Tushant Jha’s project that I'm not sure I can name $4.1k
Jul 20, 2024: Funding for Manuel Baltieri to attend ILIAD, traveling from Japan. $3k.
Jun 1, 2024: Thomas Cederborg for work on ~acausal definitions of autonomy and boundaries. $3k.

Chris Lakin

about 2 years ago

me, February 6:

Question- if we don’t use the money for regranting to boundaries projects that emerge from Conceptual Boundaries Workshop, may we use it for a second boundaries workshop? Davidad wants me to run Mathematical Boundaries Workshop in two months [link to planning doc]

Scott, February 8:

Yes, this is fine.