“A case for donating to AI risk reduction (including if you work in AI)” by tlevin

I work on Open Philanthropy's AI Governance and Policy team, but I’m writing this in my personal capacity – several senior employees at Open Phil have argued with me about this! This is a brief-ish post addressed to people who are interested in making high-impact donations and are already concerned about potential risks from advanced AI. Ideally such a post would include a case that reducing those risks is an especially important (and sufficiently tractable and neglected) cause area, but I’m skipping that part for time and will just point you to this 80,000 Hours problem profile for now. Contrary to a semi-popular belief that donations in global catastrophic risks merely “funge” with major donors, there are several ways for individual donors, including those giving small amounts, to reduce global catastrophic risks from AI. These include donating to: Work that would be less impactful if they were [...] The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: December 2nd, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/DKjXu7icFTdtiKtWj/a-case-for-donating-to-ai-risk-reduction-including-if-you --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.