How to Purchase AI Risk Reduction

[lukeprog]

I’m writing a series of discussion posts on how to purchase AI risk reduction (through donations to the Singularity Institute, anyway; other x-risk organizations will have to speak for themselves about their plans).

Each post outlines a concrete proposal, with cost estimates:

• A scholarly AI risk wiki

• Funding good research

• Short primers on crucial topics

• “Open Problems in Friendly AI”

• Building the AI risk research community

• Reaching young math/​compsci talent

• Raising safety-consciousness among AGI researchers

• Strategic research on AI risk

• Building toward a Friendly AI team

Also see John Maxwell’s Brainstorming additional AI risk reduction ideas.

(For a quick primer on AI risk, see Facing the Singularity.)