I have, over the last year, become fairly well-known in a small corner of the internet tangentially related to AI.

As a result, I've begun making what I would have previously considered astronomical amounts of money: several hundred thousand dollars per month in personal income.

This has been great, obviously, and the funds have alleviated a fair number of my personal burdens (mostly related to poverty). But aside from that I don't really care much for the money itself.

My long term ambitions have always been to contribute materially to the mitigation of the impending existential AI threat. I never used to have the means to do so, mostly because of more pressing, safety/sustenance concerns, but now that I do, I would like to help however possible.

Some other points about me that may be useful:

I'm intelligent, socially capable, and exceedingly industrious.
I have a few hundred thousand followers worldwide across a few distribution channels. My audience is primarily small-midsized business owners. A subset of these people are very high leverage (i.e their actions directly impact the beliefs, actions, or habits of tens of thousands of people).
My current work does not take much time. I have modest resources (~$2M) and a relatively free schedule. I am also, by all means, very young.

Given the above, I feel there's a reasonable opportunity here for me to help. It would certainly be more grassroots than a well-funded safety lab or one of the many state actors that has sprung up, but probably still sizeable enough to make a fraction of a % of a difference in the way the scales tip (assuming I dedicate my life to it).

What would you do in my shoes, assuming alignment on core virtues like maximizing AI safety?

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