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“Forethought likely has room for more funding” by Forethought, MaxDalton

21 Nov 2025

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I lead Forethought: we research how to navigate the transition to superintelligent AI, and then help people to address the issues we identify. I think we might soon be funding constrained, in the sense that we’ll have more people that we’d like to hire than funding to hire them. (We’re currently in the middle of a hiring round. While we’re still evaluating candidates, we’ve been pleasantly pleased with our applicant pool, and we think that we might want to end up making offers to (or offering grants to) more people than we can currently fund.) If we end up in this situation, I think that marginal funding would (in expectation) lead to more good macrostrategy research. You can see a bit more about the case for donating, budget, impact to date, and plans on our donate page and our 2025 fundraiser page. You can donate here.[1] Some quick FAQs: Why haven’t other funders picked this up? Forethought has been evaluated and endorsed by Longview Philanthropy and Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy), who are pitching us to donors in their network. Our work is pretty unusual, which means we’re mostly trying to raise money from highly-aligned private donors, who [...] --- First published: November 21st, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/vSzepxLiz9yr5dYwd/forethought-likely-has-room-for-more-funding --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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