Centre for the Governance of AI — General Support (2020)

[Navigating Transformative AI] Grant investigator: Committee for Effective Altruism Support This page was reviewed but not written by members of the committee. GovAI staff also reviewed this page prior to publication. Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $450,000 to the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI), via the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative, for general support. GovAI intends to use these funds to support the visit of two senior researchers and a postdoc researcher. This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. While we see the basic pros and cons of this support similarly to what we’ve presented in past writeups on the matter, our ultimate grant figure was set by the aggregated judgments of our committee reviewing the grant proposal.