Hmmm, my first thoughts on this are something like:
1. I think career transition fellowships are good -- I expect the median technical AI safety researcher who isn't in the top 10% or so would very likely have greater impact deploying millions as a grantmaker.
2. Whether or not people entering into the field for the first time can be good grantmakers probs depends on how they were taught, I'd expect they'd need to have a reasonable amount of context on the field but don't think they need e.g. 5-10+ years of experience to be able to evaluate proposals well.
Anthropic is the most safety-pilled of all the frontier labs + have donated to pro-AI regulation political candidates (https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/02/12/anthropic-gives-20-million-to-group-pushing-for-ai-regulations-.html) + Anthropic Fellows program is focused on safety research + many other indicators make it reasonable to assume a good amount of their donations will go towards safety-- have had some chats with Ant people and my best conservative guesstimate is maybe 1/3 to AI safety -- though this also depends on whether or not the infrastructure exists / good things to fund exist, hence why donor advisory + founding matters!
Yeah, makes sense, I just wanted to flag that this is an often unstated assumption. (I don't think the Anthropic Fellows program provides that much evidence though, it seems in the scope of the PBCs mission.)
Yeah.. Anthropic's value has more than doubled since that calculation 2 months ago!We're already looking at $85B in pledges from the founders only at the current valuation. At another doubling... madness
agree on the problem but do you think people can be good grantmakers if they dont already have expertise in the field they’re making grants in?
Hmmm, my first thoughts on this are something like:
1. I think career transition fellowships are good -- I expect the median technical AI safety researcher who isn't in the top 10% or so would very likely have greater impact deploying millions as a grantmaker.
2. Whether or not people entering into the field for the first time can be good grantmakers probs depends on how they were taught, I'd expect they'd need to have a reasonable amount of context on the field but don't think they need e.g. 5-10+ years of experience to be able to evaluate proposals well.
> More money is about to enter AI safety philanthropy than the field has ever seen
Who says that it'll go to AI safety philanthropy? Why not predict the Ants will spend it all on farmed animal welfare?
Anthropic is the most safety-pilled of all the frontier labs + have donated to pro-AI regulation political candidates (https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/02/12/anthropic-gives-20-million-to-group-pushing-for-ai-regulations-.html) + Anthropic Fellows program is focused on safety research + many other indicators make it reasonable to assume a good amount of their donations will go towards safety-- have had some chats with Ant people and my best conservative guesstimate is maybe 1/3 to AI safety -- though this also depends on whether or not the infrastructure exists / good things to fund exist, hence why donor advisory + founding matters!
Yeah, makes sense, I just wanted to flag that this is an often unstated assumption. (I don't think the Anthropic Fellows program provides that much evidence though, it seems in the scope of the PBCs mission.)
Yeah.. Anthropic's value has more than doubled since that calculation 2 months ago!We're already looking at $85B in pledges from the founders only at the current valuation. At another doubling... madness
https://substack.com/@sieberozendal/note/c-242800089?r=6rc6a
that's insane!! we live in some crazy times-- but great news for the world (maybe)?
It's going to burst. AI doesn't work. DeepSeek doesn't work