GCR capacity-building grantmaking and projects at Open Phil.
I edited this post on January 21, 2025, to reflect that we are continuing funding stipends for graduate student organizers for non-EA groups, while stopping funding stipends for undergraduate student organizers. I think that paying grad students for their time is less unconventional than for undergraduates, and also that their opportunity cost is higher on average. Ignoring this distinction was an oversight in the original post.
Hey! I lead the GCRCB team at Open Philanthropy, which as part of our portfolio funds "meta EA" stuff (e.g. CEA).
I like the high-level idea here (haven't thought through the details).
We're happy to receive proposals like this for media communicating EA ideas and practices. Feel free to apply here, or if you have a more early-stage idea, feel free to DM me on here with a short description — no need for polish — and I'll get back to you with a quick take about whether it's something we might be interested in. : )
(meta musing) The conjunction of the negations of a bunch of statements seems a bit doomed to get a lot of disagreement karma, sadly. Esp. if the statements being negated are "common beliefs" of people like the ones on this forum.
I agreed with some of these and disagreed with others, so I felt unable to agreevote. But I strongly appreciated the post overall so I strong-upvoted.
(I lead the GCR Capacity Building team at Open Phil and have evaluated AI Safety Camp for funding in the past.)
AISC leadership's involvement in Stop AI protests was not a factor in our no-fund decision (which was made before the post you link to).
For AI safety talent programs, I think it's quite unlikely we'd consider something like "leadership involvement in protests" on its own as a significant factor in a funding decision. So I don't think the "it would be political suicide" reasoning you give here is reflective of our decision process.