Scaling AI Safety Grants: Targeted Funds Led by Domain Experts
edelwax · x · 2026-07-31
Addressing how to scale up grantmaking in AI safety to handle a massive projected influx of funding, @ryankidd44 proposed a highly favored strategy: spinning up targeted funds for neglected or emerging cause areas and headhunting domain experts to lead them.
@edelwax strongly endorsed the idea, noting that this kind of top-level fan-out, combined with a focus on finding the right expert grantmakers, handles many of the problems he had warned about previously.
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