Mihkel Viires 🔹
Participation1
- Attended more than three meetings with a local EA group
Comments4
It is worth noting that the European Union itself does not have that many financial resources: the EU's 2025 budget is ~€200 billion [1]. That is an order of magnitude less than the U.S. federal government budget. This means that the EU member states would need to provide funding for this program from their national budgets.
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https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-annual-budget/2025-budget/
I really like the ambition here!
Some numbers to add context:
1. The previous U.S. administration requested $6.1 billion of funding for PEPFAR for FY 2025[1]. That's the equivalent of €5.856 billion[2].
2. 449.2 million people live in the European Union[3]. That is significantly more than the United States population.
3. The cost of funding PEPFAR would be €13.04 per year per EU resident. That's only slightly more than €1 per month.
This year, I gave to (listed in approximate chronological order):
1. The Armed Forces of Ukraine (via United24, the Ukrainian government's official fundraising platform).
2. Nähtamatud Loomad
3. EA Estonia
I signed the Giving What We Can Trial Pledge in mid-December. To fulfil my donation pledge for the year (a small amount, since I signed when there were only two weeks left in the year), I donated to:
4. Animal Charity Evaluators Recommended Charity Fund.
It would be useful if there was a clock / measure / indicator like this, but for AI risk. Seems like a good way to communicate hard-to-grasp existential risks to the general public.