Funding opportunity for AI alignment research

post by paulfchristiano · 2017-08-27T05:23:46.000Z · LW · GW · 4 comments

This is a link post for https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NIg4OnQyhWGR01fMVTcxpz8jDd68JdDIyQb0ZZyB-go/edit#heading=h.flzp2soeor4i

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comment by paulfchristiano · 2017-11-03T00:48:26.000Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

In the first round I'm planning to pay:

  • $10k to Ryan Carey
  • $10k to Chris Pasek
  • $20k to Peter Scheyer

I'm excited to see what comes of this! Within a few months I'll do another round of advertising + making decisions.

I want to emphasize that given the evaluation process, this definitely shouldn't be read as a strong negative judgment (or endorsement) of anyone's application.

comment by IAFF-User-111 (Imported-IAFF-User-111) · 2017-10-21T02:43:08.000Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Paul - how widely do you want this shared?

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↑ comment by paulfchristiano · 2017-10-29T02:21:41.000Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Fine with it being shared broadly.

comment by cousin_it · 2017-08-28T15:08:59.000Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

If you have 120K dollars to spend next year on this, you might get more impact by setting up a monthly prize for best online research about AI risk. Similar to the Quantified Health prize that ran on LW a while ago. The payoffs could be 5K for first place, 2K for second, 1K for third, leaving you with 2K per month for judging and administrivia.