Mapping AI safety money conduits: Rethink Priorities, SAIF, Schmidt Sciences fund METR, Apollo, UK AISI
kevinnbass · x · 2026-10-17
kevinnbass continues publishing per-conduit pages of his map tracing AI safety evaluation funding: Rethink Priorities (30 lines in from Coefficient Giving, Jaan Tallinn/SFF, DAFs, Longview), SAIF (funding Apollo Research, AIUC, UK AI Security Institute), and Schmidt Sciences (funding METR, Epoch AI, Princeton Holistic Agent Leaderboard, UK AISI).
Notably, no document traces particular dollars through any conduit, and a solid red band marks an Anthropic stake said to sit entirely in "our foundation" with the legal holding vehicle unidentified.
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