EA - AI Safety Microgrant Round by Chris Leong

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AI Safety Microgrant Round, published by Chris Leong on November 14, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum.We are pleased to announce an AI Safety Microgrants Round, which will provide micro-grants to field-building projects and other initiatives that can be done with less.We believe there are projects and individuals in the AI Safety space who lack funding but have high agency and potential. We think individuals helping to fund projects will be particularly important given recent changes in the availability of funding. For this reason, we decided to experiment with a small micro-grant round as a test and demonstration of this concept.To keep the evaluation simple, we’re focusing on field-building projects rather than projects that would require complex evaluation (we expect that most technical projects would be much more difficult to evaluate).We are offering microgrants up to $2,000 USD with the total size of this round being $6,000 USD (we know that this is a tiny round, but we are running this as a proof-of-concept). One possible way this could pan out would be two grants of $2000 and two of $1000, although we aren’t wedded and we are fine with request for less. We want to fund grant requests of this size where EA funds possibly has a bit too much overhead.The process is as follows:Fill out this form at microgrant.ai (