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Grant to "support BERI in hiring a second core operations employee to contribute to BERI’s work supporting university research groups."

$100K
Funder
FTX Future Fund
Recipient
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Program
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Date
Mar 2022
Source
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Notes

Grant to "support BERI in hiring a second core operations employee to contribute to BERI’s work supporting university research groups."

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Other Grants to Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

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GrantFunderRecipientAmountDate
12-month salary for a software developer to create a library for Seldonian (safe and fair) machine learning algorithmsLong-Term Future Fund (LTFF)Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative$250KOct 2021
Help InterACT when university systems cannot, supporting InterACT’s work enabling human-compatible robots and AI agentsLong-Term Future Fund (LTFF)Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative$135KJan 2022
General SupportSurvival and Flourishing FundBerkeley Existential Risk Initiative$247KJul 2020
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General SupportSurvival and Flourishing FundBerkeley Existential Risk Initiative$60KJul 2023
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