The FTX Future Fund was a philanthropic vehicle launched in February 2022 by the FTX Foundation, primarily funded by Sam Bankman-Fried. It distributed $132 million in 262 grants within its first four months, with approximately $32 million directed to AI safety research. The fund collapsed abruptly in November 2022 when FTX filed for bankruptcy; its entire team resigned publicly, stating that they believed committed grants could not be honored and raising questions about the legitimacy of the funds' source.
FTX Collapse: Lessons for EA Funding ResilienceConceptFTX Collapse: Lessons for EA Funding ResilienceThe November 2022 collapse of FTX resulted in approximately $160M in committed EA grants that were not disbursed, organizational restructuring across the ecosystem, and revealed structural vulnerab...Quality: 78/100Ea Institutions Response To The Ftx CollapseEa Institutions Response To The Ftx CollapseEA institutions responded to the FTX collapse through public condemnation, funding pauses, and community surveys, but were damaged by revelations that warnings about SBF's conduct had been downplay...Quality: 53/100Ftx Collapse And Ea Public CredibilityFtx Collapse And Ea Public CredibilityThe FTX collapse (November 2022) caused measurable but concentrated reputational damage to effective altruism, with ~30% of engaged community members losing substantial trust in EA leadership, whil...Quality: 50/100Ftx Red Flags Pre Collapse Warning Signs That Were OverlookedFtx Red Flags Pre Collapse Warning Signs That Were OverlookedA well-structured retrospective on the FTX collapse identifying six major pre-collapse warning signs (FTT overreliance, fund commingling, governance failures, regulatory vacuum, opaque revenue mode...Quality: 53/100Ea Longtermist Wins LossesEa Longtermist Wins LossesA comprehensive impact ledger of EA/longtermism's track record organized by year and topic, covering verified wins (GiveWell's $1B+ directed, ~100,000 lives saved through AMF, 10K GWWC pledges) and...Quality: 53/100Longtermism Credibility After FtxLongtermism Credibility After FtxThis article examines the dual impact of the FTX collapse on longtermism: severe reputational and funding damage (including 160M USD in lost Future Fund commitments and FHI's 2024 closure), alongsi...Quality: 50/100
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Redwood ResearchOrganizationRedwood ResearchA nonprofit AI safety and security research organization founded in 2021, known for pioneering AI Control research, developing causal scrubbing interpretability methods, and conducting landmark ali...Quality: 78/100AnthropicOrganizationAnthropicComprehensive reference page on Anthropic covering financials ($380B valuation, $14B ARR at Series G growing to $19B by March 2026), safety research (Constitutional AI, mechanistic interpretability...Quality: 74/100SecureBioOrganizationSecureBioA biosecurity nonprofit applying the Delay/Detect/Defend framework to protect against catastrophic pandemics, including AI-enabled biological threats.Quality: 65/100ManifundOrganizationManifundManifund is a $2M+ annual charitable regranting platform (founded 2022) that provides fast grants (<1 week) to AI safety projects through expert regrantors ($50K-400K budgets), fiscal sponsorship, ...Quality: 50/100Giving PledgeOrganizationGiving PledgeThe Giving Pledge, while attracting 250+ billionaire signatories since 2010, has a disappointing track record with only 36% of deceased pledgers actually meeting their commitments and living pledge...Quality: 68/100
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Nick BecksteadPersonNick BecksteadNick Beckstead is a philosopher and EA/longtermism figure whose 2013 dissertation formalized longtermist ethics; this article covers his career arc from academic philosopher to Coefficient Giving (...Quality: 60/100Leopold AschenbrennerPersonLeopold AschenbrennerComprehensive biographical profile of Leopold Aschenbrenner, covering his trajectory from Columbia valedictorian to OpenAI researcher to $1.5B hedge fund founder, with detailed documentation of his...Quality: 61/100Will MacAskillPersonWill MacAskillComprehensive biographical reference on Will MacAskill covering his founding of EA organizations, academic work on moral uncertainty and longtermism, AGI preparedness advocacy, and controversies in...Quality: 60/100Avital BalwitPersonAvital BalwitFormer member of the FTX Future Fund team. Graduated from the University of Virginia with highest honors in Political and Social Thought. Joined the FTX Future Fund full time in June 2022, becoming...Ketan RamakrishnanPersonKetan RamakrishnanFormer member of the FTX Future Fund team. Was one of five Future Fund officials who resigned on November 10, 2022, following the FTX bankruptcy collapse, signing the resignation statement alongsid...Caroline EllisonPersonCaroline EllisonFormer CEO of Alameda Research, the crypto trading firm closely tied to FTX. Alameda's commingling of customer funds with FTX was central to FTX's collapse in November 2022. Pleaded guilty to fraud...