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Jaan Tallinn's 2024 Philanthropy Overview
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You've funded a what looks from my vantage point to be a huge portion of the quality-adjusted attempts to avert doom, perhaps a majority. Much appreciation for stepping up for humanity.
3Thanks so much Jaan! AI Futures Project / AI 2027 got off the ground in significant part thanks to you!
Here's an essay about Europeans not spending as much on charity as Americans. You are an European, but spending a lot in the US. Now, I wonder how much of that is caused just by US having more interesting options to invest in. https://www.siliconcontinent.com/p/where-are-europes-yimbys
yup, it's about options (both in my philanthropy as well as investments). that, and some path-dependency: when i got interested in AI safety, almost all the people who knew anything about it were in the bay area (plus some in oxford at the FHI) -- so this is where i found my collaborators.
to follow up my philanthropic pledge from 2020, i've updated my philanthropy page with the 2024 results.
in 2024 my donations funded $51M worth of endpoint grants (plus $2.0M in admin overhead and philanthropic software development). this comfortably exceeded my 2024 commitment of $42M (20k times $2100.00 — the minimum price of ETH in 2024).
this also concludes my 5-year donation pledge, but of course my philanthropy continues: eg, i’ve already made over $4M in endpoint grants in the first quarter of 2025 (not including 2024 grants that were slow to disburse), as well as pledged at least $10M to the 2025 SFF grant round.