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By all accounts they are the gold standard for this type of thing. Everyone says they are great, I am generally a fan of the format, I buy that this can punch way above its weight or cost. If I was going to back [a talent funnel], I’d start here.

— Zvi Mowshowitz (Nov 2024)

Why Support AISC Now:

Awesome matching opportunity: Every dollar you donate is matched 1:1 by the Survival and Flourishing Fund – up to $110k. SFF's commitment to match donations at this scale demonstrates their confidence in AISC's approach and track record. The counterfactual is that SFF would not spend the money for a while, and then spend it elsewhere.

IMPORTANT: This only works if SFF can confirm your donation by email. If you make a donation here, we will pass on your email address to SFF, and they will contact you there.

Track record of enabling careers in AI Safety: AI Safety Camp has kept enabling participants to produce novel research, get jobs and start new organizations in AI Safety. We've been at this for 10 editions, hosting researchers outside the traditional Bay Area and London hubs, and thus expanding the field's geographic and demographic reach.

For an up-to-date description of program outputs, please see here. See also last edition's outputs here.

We're seeing more and more early career professionals wanting to test their fit in AI Safety. Our remote program is great at getting new talent into the field. Each edition connects safety researchers and advocates with talented newcomers from various backgrounds (e.g. law, hardware design) and places (e.g. India). This diverse talent then gets to try work on research or policy directions that are often neglected. This contributes to the epistemic diversity needed in AI Safety, a field that is still deconfusing its foundational questions.

Your Donation Powers:

If you want to earmark your donation, please mention to which track in the description.

Support a project area (Track A): Want to support Stop/Pause organizing, interpretability research, or another area? With this track, you can earmark donations (minimum $5k to justify overhead) to specific directions of work. Email Robert for research projects or Remmelt for Stop/Pause projects to discuss what's feasible. Update: two donors gave $15K total to support Stop/Pause projects.

Scale project incubation (Track B): For the upcoming edition, Robert just managed to evaluate and give thoughtful feedback for 31 project proposals (he accepted 19). Remmelt is also incubating more Stop/Pause projects, seeing the number double to 10. We want to free up more time to guide the start of promising projects. Specifically, we want to guide applicants to examine their core assumptions, so they can pursue more well-considered projects. Funding here will go to future salaries. If over $40K, we will start recruiting for a third organiser (we're missing someone like Linda, who has moved back to research).

Unrestricted support (Track C): Trust us to allocate the money as fit. Right now, we expect most of this money to go supporting AISC's future runway. Update: one donor gave $5K unrestricted.

SFF matched funds are for the upcoming edition (low-income stipends, team reimbursements, and a $10K salary raise).