Apply for Funding to do Speculative AI Safety Work
Survival and Flourishing Foundation (SAF & SFF)
Opportunity type
Funding
Recurring opportunity
Cause areas
AI Safety & Policy
Information Security
Routes to impact
💡 Direct/Increased Engagement with EA
🧪 Testing Your Fit for a Certain Career Path
Relevant aptitudes
Conceptual & Empirical Research
Organization Building, Boosting & Running
Entrepreneur
Software Engineering
Academia
Forecasting
Information Security
Communicator
Community Building
Location
Remote
Description
Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) Speculation Grants are expedited grants organized by SFF outside of our biannual grant-recommendation process (the S-process). “Speculation Grantors” are volunteers with budgets to make these grants. Each Speculation Grantor’s budget grows or increases with the settlement of budget adjustments that we call “impact futures” (explained further below). Currently, we have a total of ~20 Speculation Grantors, with a combined budget of approximately $10MM (up from $4MM initially). Our process and software infrastructure for funding these grants were co-designed by Andrew Critch and Oliver Habryka.
Survivalandflourishing.fund is a “virtual fund”: we organize application submission and evaluation processes to help donors decide where to make donations. Our goal is to bring financial support to organizations working to improve humanity’s long-term prospects for survival and flourishing.
SFF works closely with Survival and Flourishing (SAF), a Sponsored Project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs with a similar mission and overlapping leadership. While there is no formal relationship between SAF and SFF, we have complementary functions:
- SFF as a general rule does not facilitate grants to individuals, while SAF does.
- SAF as a general rule does not facilitate grants to 501(c)(3) public charities, while SFF does.
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