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Hiring staff to carry out longtermist academic legal research and increase the operational capacity of the organization.

$135K
Funder
Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)wiki
Recipient
Legal Priorities Project
Program
Long-Term Future Fund Grant Rounds
Date
Jan 2021
Source
funds.effectivealtruism.org↗
Notes

[Long-Term Future Fund] Hiring staff to carry out longtermist academic legal research and increase the operational capacity of the organization.

Other Grants by Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)

544
GrantRecipientAmountDate
6-month salary to translate AGI safety-related texts, e.g. LessWrong and AI Alignment Forum, into RussianMaksim Vymenets$13KJan 2022
Working on long-term macrostrategy and AI Alignment, and up-skilling and career transition towards that goalTushant Jha$40KJan 2020
Characterizing the properties and constraints of complex systems and their external interactions to inform AI safety researchAlexander Siegenfeld$20KJul 2019
6-month salary to write a book on philosophy + history of longtermist thinking, while longer-term funding is arrangedThomas Moynihan$28KOct 2021
12-month salary for researching value learningCharlie Steiner$50KJan 2022
Conducting a computational study on using a light-to-vibrations mechanism as a targeted antiviral.Gavin Taylor$30KJul 2020
Support Sam's participation in ‘Mid-term AI impacts’ research projectSam Clarke$4.5KOct 2020
PhD at CambridgeRichard Ngo$150KJul 2020
Funding a nordic conference for senior X-risk researchers and junior talents interested in entering the fieldEffektiv Altruism Sverige (EA Sweden)$4.6KOct 2021
Funding for a degree in the Biological Sciences at UCSD (University of California San Diego)Kristaps Zilgalvis$250KOct 2021
Showing 10 of 544 grants

Other Grants to Legal Priorities Project

9
GrantRecipientAmountDate
General SupportLegal Priorities Project$265KJan 2021
General SupportLegal Priorities Project$115KJul 2022
General SupportLegal Priorities Project$103KJul 2023
Grant to "support one year of operating expenses and salaries at the Legal Priorities Project, a longtermist legal research and field-building organization."Legal Priorities Project$700KJun 2022
Grant to "support an essay contest on “Accounting for Existential Risks in US Cost-Benefit Analysis,” with the aim of contributing to the revision of OMB Circular-A4, a document which guides US government cost-benefit analysis. The Legal Priorities Project is administering the contest."Legal Priorities Project$138KMay 2022
Grant to "support the Legal Priorities Project’s ongoing research and outreach activities. This will allow LPP to pay two new hires and to put on a summer institute for non-US law students in Oxford."Legal Priorities Project$480KApr 2022
Legal Priorities Project — Law & AI Summer Research FellowshipLegal Priorities Project$75KAug 2023
Legal Priorities Project — Litigation ResearchLegal Priorities Project$34KFeb 2023
Legal Priorities Project — General SupportLegal Priorities Project$170KJun 2023
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