NunoSempere comments on An Overview of the AI Safety Funding Situation

[NunoSempere]

I found this post super valuable but I found the presentation confusing. Here is a table, provided as is, that I made based on this post & a few other sources:

Source	Amount for 2024	Note
Open Philanthropy	$80M	Projected from past amount
Foundation Model Taskforce	$20M	100M GBP but unclear over how many years?
FLI	$30M	$600M donation in crypto, say you can get $300M out of it, distributed over 10 years
AI labs	$30M
Jan Tallin	$20M	See [here](https://​​jaan.info/​​philanthropy/​​)
NSF	$5M
LTFF (not OpenPhil)	$2M
Nonlinear fund and donors	$1M
Academia		Considered separately
GWWC	$1M
Total	$189M	Does not consider uncertainty!

[Zach Stein-Perlman]

My impression is that FLI doesn’t know how to spend their money and will do <<$30M in 2024; please correct me if I’m wrong.

[habryka]

FLI has in the past contributed to SFF grant rounds. I think if they do that they could potentially distribute ~$20M via that.

[BrianTan]

Thanks for making this! This is minor, but I think the total should be $189M and not $169M?

[NunoSempere]

You’re right, changed

[Stephen McAleese]

Thanks for the table, it provides a good summary of the post’s findings. It might also worthwhile to also add it to the EA Forum post as well.

I think the table should include the $10 million in OpenAI Superalignment fast grants as well.