Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.
This is a linkpost for https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NIg4OnQyhWGR01fMVTcxpz8jDd68JdDIyQb0ZZyB-go/edit#heading=h.flzp2soeor4i
In the first round I'm planning to pay:
I'm excited to see what comes of this! Within a few months I'll do another round of advertising + making decisions.
I want to emphasize that given the evaluation process, this definitely shouldn't be read as a strong negative judgment (or endorsement) of anyone's application.
If you have 120K dollars to spend next year on this, you might get more impact by setting up a monthly prize for best online research about AI risk. Similar to the Quantified Health prize that ran on LW a while ago. The payoffs could be 5K for first place, 2K for second, 1K for third, leaving you with 2K per month for judging and administrivia.