The AI Alignment Prize was a contest carried out during 2017-2019, meant to encourage better work in the area.
Throughout its existent, the alignment price paid $50k ($15k in the first iteration, $15k in the second, $10k in the third and $20k in the fourth and last).
The successive rounds received 40, 37, 12 and 10 entries, and awarded 6, 5, 2 and 4 people, respectively. Towards the end of the prize's existence, numbers declined, as the organizers note and reflect about in the body and comments of the last post. ...