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We've run two 150+ Alignment Evaluations Hackathons, that were 1 week long. Multiple teams continuing their work and submitting to NeurIPS. Had multiple quants, Wall Street ML researcher, an AMD engineer, PhDs, etc taking part. Hosting a Research Fellowship soon, on the Hard Part of AI Alignment. Actually directly trying to get values into the model in a way that will robustly scale to an AGI that does things that we want and not things we don't want. I've read 120+ Alignment Plans - the vast majority don't even try to solve the hard part of alignment, let alone doing a decent job of it. I'm confident I can get 200+ signups, with 50+ talented people working on solving the hard part of AI Alignment. Would like help with funding for this. Funding would go towards wages for myself and other organizers.
Organizers include Ana, currently working at ML4Good, whose thesis was in preference optimization - Ana is a great communicator and helped run the second hackthon. And multiple other talented people.
What info other than this is needed for a funding application? This and a call should really be enough info, imo.