The Society Library
The Society Library (legal name Benjamin Franklin Society Library Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to improving humanity's relationship to information. The organization extracts arguments, claims, and evidence from diverse media sources to construct comprehensive debate maps on complex social and political issues. Their AI safety work maps hundreds of dimensions of debates about AI alignment, safety, and existential risk, with 272 fundamental questions and over 6,000 arguments catalogued across 11 high-level points of view. They use AI-assisted tools to automate their debate-mapping pipeline and provide free public access to their structured knowledge databases.
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- Annual Budget
- $471,217
- Monthly Burn Rate
- $39,268
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Theory of Change
The Society Library believes that humanity's ability to make good collective decisions, particularly about high-stakes issues like AI safety and governance, is undermined by information asymmetry, cognitive biases, echo chambers, and the sheer complexity of these debates. By systematically mapping all detectable points of view, arguments, claims, and evidence on contested topics, and making these structured debate maps freely available to the public, they aim to enable more informed, inclusive, and rational collective decision-making. For AI safety specifically, their work provides a comprehensive map of the full landscape of AI alignment arguments and positions, helping policymakers, researchers, and citizens understand the complete debate space rather than being trapped in narrow perspectives. Their use of AI tools to automate and scale this debate-mapping process is itself a demonstration of beneficial AI application in service of democratic governance.
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from Survival and Flourishing Fund
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 9:50 PM UTC
- Created
- Mar 18, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC