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AI Impacts

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Key People

3
BW
Ben Weinstein-Raun
Acting Director
2025 – present
Part-time acting director as of mid-2025. Also researcher at Palisade Research. Previously a collaborator. Confirmed on about page as of 2026-04-04.
PC
Paul ChristianoFounder
Co-founder
2014 – present
Co-founded AI Impacts in 2014 with Katja Grace. Researcher in AI alignment; later founded Alignment Research Center (ARC). Confirmed via multiple sources as of 2026-04-04.
RK
Rick Korzekwa
Director
2019 – present
Started as researcher c. 2019; became Director. Published articles on AI forecasting and timelines 2019-2023. Confirmed on about page as of 2026-04-04.

Funding History

7
Open Philanthropy Expert Survey on Progress in AIgrant2022
$345KLed by Open Philanthropy
Grant for AI Impacts Expert Survey on Progress in AI research project.
openphilanthropy.org
SFF General Support 2022-H2 (Jaan Tallinn)grant2022
$546KLed by Jaan Tallinn
SFF 2022-H2 round: $546,000 from Jaan Tallinn via Survival and Flourishing Fund to MIRI for AI Impacts general support.
survivalandflourishing.fund
Open Philanthropy General Support 2022grant2022
$620KLed by Open Philanthropy
$620,000 over 2 years general support grant to AI Impacts.
openphilanthropy.org
SFF General Support 2021-H1 (Jaan Tallinn)grant2021
$221KLed by Jaan Tallinn
SFF 2021-H1 round: $221,000 from Jaan Tallinn via Survival and Flourishing Fund to MIRI for AI Impacts general support.
survivalandflourishing.fund
Open Philanthropy General Support 2020grant2020
$50KLed by Open Philanthropy
General support grant to AI Impacts, approximately $50,000.
openphilanthropy.org
Open Philanthropy General Support 2018grant2018
$100KLed by Open Philanthropy
$100,000 over 2 years general support grant to AI Impacts.
openphilanthropy.org
Open Philanthropy General Support 2016grant2016
$32KLed by Open Philanthropy
General support grant to AI Impacts via MIRI as fiscal sponsor.
openphilanthropy.org

Entity Assessments

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DimensionRatingAssessorSource check
approachSurvey research, historical trend analysis, evidence synthesiseditorial
community-tiesLessWrong, Effective Altruismeditorial
focusEmpirical analysis of AI timelines, risks, and human-level AI impactseditorial
founded~2010seditorial
key-peopleKatja Grace (Lead Researcher), Rick Korzekwa (Director)editorial
typeResearch organizationeditorial
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Records: 16 in 3 collections