My new organization https://evitable.com/ is fund-raising. I'm a long-time AI safety researcher and AI professor and initiated the one-sentence Statement on AI Risk.
Evitable's mission is to inform and organize the public to confront societal-scale risks of AI, and put an end to the reckless race to develop superintelligence.
Our vision is that in ten years time, people will look back at the current race to build superintelligence as unthinkably terrible and wrongheaded, similar to how people view things like slavery.
You can donate at https://www.every.org/evitable or https://manifund.org/projects/evitable-a-new-public-facing-ai-risk-nonprofit-a1ll15pvkcb.
As far as I understand, there are such efforts.
For example, an OpenPhilontropy's program:
To that end, we’re interested in funding projects that:
- ...
- Contribute to the discourse about transformative AI and its possible effects, positive and negative.
You may also want check Effective Altruism forums, they are affiliated with LessWrong and more funding-oriented.
Yes, see PauseAI (even if I disagree with some of their positions, i'm glad they exist and hope that soon there exist multiple such orgs (but don't donate to StopAI, they don't appear serious imo))
I posted a quick take that advocacy may be more effective than direct donation to alignment research. I am not an AI researcher and I'm not an influencer, so I'm not well positioned to do either. I see on the "How can I help" FAQ that there are options to donate, but they look like donating to research directly.
My question is: is there a way to donate to AI safety advocacy efforts? I'm also ok with donating to an organization or grantmaker that explicitly considers funding advocacy efforts. And of course, maybe I'm missing something, like advocacy being the type of thing you can't pay for, or some clear reason why AI safety advocacy will not be effective.
Note: Eliezer and Soares wrote a new book and say that pre-orders will help, so that's a way to donate $15 - $28 toward advocacy.
Edit: Based on a suggestion by Yaroslav, I also asked this question on the EA forum.