Coefficient Giving Backs AI Safety With $4B+, Says Talent Not Funding Is the Bottleneck
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-09-10
Ben Goldhaber introduced Coefficient Giving, a new grantmaker backed by over $4 billion in funding for AI safety projects. He stressed that "funding is not the bottleneck" — finding great founders and talent is — and that the best time to launch would have been a year ago, the second-best time is now, with individual program officers putting their names behind ideas.
Reposts of the news attacked the "AI doomer industry" as a billionaire-financed enterprise, highlighting ongoing controversy over the AI safety funding ecosystem.
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