AISafety.com: Donation Guide

The AISafety.com Donation Guide is a freely available, regularly-updated web resource at aisafety.com/donation-guide, maintained as part of AISafety.com — a comprehensive hub for AI existential safety resources run by Alignment Ecosystem Development (AED). AED is an AI safety field-building nonprofit focused on building and maintaining digital infrastructure for the AI safety ecosystem, with project lead Søren Elverlin and a global team of over 15 volunteers and professionals. The guide is structured around donation amount brackets and estimated time commitment, providing tailored recommendations for donors at every level. For smaller donors ($1–$1,000), it recommends delegating to experienced grantmakers via established funds like the AI Risk Mitigation Fund, or using donor lotteries through Giving What We Can. For mid-range donors ($1,000–$100,000), it highlights platforms like Manifund (which lets donors invest in specific projects or nominate regrantors), GiveWiki, and the Nonlinear Network. For major donors ($100,000+), it suggests engaging with the Survival and Flourishing Fund S-process and taking an active role in the ecosystem. The guide contextualizes donations by noting that total funding for AI safety was approximately $150 million in 2023 and that the field is funding-limited, meaning individual donors can represent a meaningful fraction of the ecosystem. It encourages deeper engagement — reading educational materials, joining communities, and researching opportunities directly with researchers on LessWrong — as complements to financial giving. AISafety.com and its programs are maintained under a CC BY-SA license. The underlying organization, AED, received a $99,330 grant from the Long-Term Future Fund (through fiscal sponsor Ashgro Inc.) for 1.25 FTEs to build and maintain AI safety digital infrastructure. The donation guide itself does not solicit donations to AISafety.com but instead serves as a navigation tool for the broader AI safety funding landscape.

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