Rob Wiblin

And I think we might end up in a situation where the regulatees, the industry people have fast cars and the regulators have horses and buggies because of this differential adoption gap.

And I think just more broadly,

If your company is not already going maximally hard on adopting AI for your personal use case, and you work on defenses, AI safety, moral philosophy, all these good things, it's probably worth having a team that's just kind of on the lookout for how could you sort of adopt AI as soon as it becomes actually useful for you.

Yeah.

So I think that...

I had been at OpenPhil for more than six years before I made my first grant.

I was involved in some grant-making conversations earlier, but the first grant I actually led on was somewhere in mid or late 2023, and I had joined OpenPhil in 2016.

So it was like kind of interesting, like my work at OpenPhil, in some sense, if you kind of if you just took the outside view and said, you know, this is a philanthropy that's giving away money.

My work there was like very strange because it was kind of thinking about these heady topics and then like writing these like long reports that I published on Less Wrong about them.

And I always felt a little like, oh, maybe I should dip into grant making because that is like our core product in some sense.

It's what we do.

But I had always been sort of drawn away by like deeper intellectual projects.

So even though I like always vaguely had the thought that I should do grant making, it never really happened for me.

Until actually, I think the thing that pushed me headfirst into grant making was the FTX collapse.

So actually, sorry, my first grant must have been in 22 instead of 23.

Because at that point, there were hundreds and hundreds of people who had been promised grants by the FTX Foundation where their grant wasn't going to go through or they were worried it was going to be clawed back or it was partially not going through.

An open fill sort of put out this emergency call for proposals for people who had been affected by the crash.

And I had I had some like thoughts and takes on technical research and also just the organization needed help, like surge capacity for for this like sort of emergency influx of grant making.

So in the in a matter of like.

maybe six weeks or so, I made like 50 different grants after not having made like any grants at all.