12-month salary for a software developer to create a library for Seldonian (safe and fair) machine learning algorithms

$250K

Funder

Recipient

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Program

Date

Oct 2021

Source

Notes

[Long-Term Future Fund] 12-month salary for a software developer to create a library for Seldonian (safe and fair) machine learning algorithms

Other Grants by Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)

544

Grant	Funder	Recipient	Amount	Date
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Grant	Funder	Recipient	Amount	Date
Grant to "support a NeurIPS competition applying human feedback in a non-language-model setting, specifically pretrained models in Minecraft."	FTX Future Fund	Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative	$155K	May 2022
Grant to "support BERI in hiring a second core operations employee to contribute to BERI’s work supporting university research groups."	FTX Future Fund	Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative	$100K	Mar 2022
General Support	Survival and Flourishing Fund	Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative	$247K	Jul 2020
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General Support	Survival and Flourishing Fund	Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative	$60K	Jul 2023