4 month salary for independent research and AIS field building in South Africa, including working with the AI Safety Hub to coordinate reading groups, research projects and hackathons to empower people to start working on research.

$12K

Funder

Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)

Recipient

Benjamin Sturgeon

Program

xng_1vsce_

Date

Jan 2023

Source

funds.effectivealtruism.org↗

Notes

[Long-Term Future Fund] 4 month salary for independent research and AIS field building in South Africa, including working with the AI Safety Hub to coordinate reading groups, research projects and hackathons to empower people to start working on research.

Other Grants by Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)

544

Grant	Funder	Recipient	Amount	Date
6-month salary to translate AGI safety-related texts, e.g. LessWrong and AI Alignment Forum, into Russian	Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)	Maksim Vymenets	$13K	Jan 2022
Working on long-term macrostrategy and AI Alignment, and up-skilling and career transition towards that goal	Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)	Tushant Jha	$40K	Jan 2020
Characterizing the properties and constraints of complex systems and their external interactions to inform AI safety research	Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)	Alexander Siegenfeld	$20K	Jul 2019
6-month salary to write a book on philosophy + history of longtermist thinking, while longer-term funding is arranged	Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)	Thomas Moynihan	$28K	Oct 2021
12-month salary for researching value learning	Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)	Charlie Steiner	$50K	Jan 2022
Conducting a computational study on using a light-to-vibrations mechanism as a targeted antiviral.	Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)	Gavin Taylor	$30K	Jul 2020
Support Sam's participation in ‘Mid-term AI impacts’ research project	Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)	Sam Clarke	$4K	Oct 2020
PhD at Cambridge	Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)	Richard Ngo	$150K	Jul 2020
Funding a nordic conference for senior X-risk researchers and junior talents interested in entering the field	Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)	Effektiv Altruism Sverige (EA Sweden)	$5K	Oct 2021
Funding for a degree in the Biological Sciences at UCSD (University of California San Diego)	Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)	Kristaps Zilgalvis	$250K	Oct 2021

Showing 10 of 544 grants

← Back to all grants