Project summary

This project aims to develop Animal Charity Evaluators style cost-effectiveness estimates for AI safety organizations. I want to gather and analyze data key metrics such as people impacted, research output (e.g., papers, citations), and funding received.

What are this project's goals? How will you achieve them?

As a side-product I will get a list of papers that were published by AI safety organizations and grants distributed by SFF and EAIF. While EAIF already provides an easy to use interface to browse the grants database, SFF doesn't and there is no database of AIS papers AFAIK.

My plan:

1. Data Collection:

   • Gathering publicly available data from websites and impact analyses

   • Scraping websites of organizations listed on the AI Safety Map to compile a comprehensive list of research papers.

   • Using the Semantic Scholar API to gather citation counts for these papers.

   • Scraping grant databases (SFF, EAIF, ACX) to include grant information.

   • Publishing the collected data as a separate, searchable website (hosted as a static webiste on Vercel, so free of charge).

2. Engagement with Organizations:

   • Emailing organizations to request data on people impacted (e.g., participants in their programs).

   • Collecting additional relevant data where feasible, such as social media interactions.

3. Analysis:

   • Comparing metrics across organizations operating under similar theories of change.

4. Dissemination:

   • Publishing findings on LessWrong and the EA Forum, engaging with the comments.

How will this funding be used?

$500: Create a rough CSV file compiling publicly available data, including research papers, citations, and grants. Minimal post with analysis and no outreach to organizations for additional data.

$2,000: Publish the database in an accessible format and conduct outreach to organizations to gather data on participants and additional metrics.

$3,000: Go beyond the 80/20 principle, heavy interaction with comments, taking requests...

Who is on your team? What's your track record on similar projects?

Re: data analysis: I helped Condor Camp to analyze their pre-camp and after-camp surveys and EA Denmark to analyze yearly community survey .

Re: writing posts: I have one on EA Forum with 100 karma.

What are the most likely causes and outcomes if this project fails?

N/A

How much money have you raised in the last 12 months, and from where?

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