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Open Philanthropy: Potential Risks from Advanced Artificial Intelligence
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Open Philanthropy is a major philanthropic funder whose AI safety grantmaking strategy has significantly shaped the field; this page documents their rationale and scope for those seeking context on funding priorities and institutional perspectives.
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Open Philanthropy's focus area page on potential risks from advanced AI outlines their strategic grantmaking approach to reducing catastrophic and existential risks from transformative AI systems. It explains their reasoning for prioritizing AI safety research, policy work, and field-building as among the most important philanthropic opportunities of our time.
Key Points
- •Open Philanthropy treats potential risks from advanced AI as one of its highest-priority cause areas due to the scale and severity of potential harms.
- •Funding is directed toward technical AI safety research, governance, policy, and efforts to build a robust AI safety field.
- •The page reflects a long-termist framework, emphasizing risks from AI systems that could be transformative within decades.
- •Open Philanthropy has become one of the largest funders of AI safety work, shaping research agendas at major labs and universities.
- •The focus area encompasses both near-term and speculative long-term risks, including misalignment and misuse scenarios.
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Navigating Transformative AI
Though advances in AI could benefit people enormously, we think they also pose serious risks from misuse, accidents, loss of control, and other problems.
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Managing Director, Short Timelines Special Projects
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Managing Director, AI Governance & Policy
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In recent years, we’ve seen rapid progress in artificial intelligence. There’s a strong possibility that AI systems will soon outperform humans in nearly all cognitive domains.
We think AI could be the most important technological development in human history. If handled well, it could accelerate scientific discovery , improve health outcomes , and create unprecedented prosperity . If handled poorly, it could lead to catastrophic consequences: many experts think that risks from AI-related misuse, loss of control, or drastic societal change could endanger human civilization.
To reduce the risk of global catastrophe and help society prepare for major advances in AI, we support:
Technical AI safety research aimed at making advanced AI systems more trustworthy, robust, controllable, and aligned
AI governance and policy work to develop frameworks for safe, secure, and responsibly managed AI development
Capacity building to grow and strengthen the field of researchers and practitioners working on these challenges
New projects that we expect to be particularly impactful if timelines to transformative AI are short
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This program provides support for projects that aim to improve the odds of humanity successfully navigating the risks of transformative AI. We are primarily seeking expressions of interest in the following areas: technical AI governance, policy development, strategic analysis and threat modeling, frontier company policy, international AI governance, and law.
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