Org Watch
activeOrg Watch is a tracking website by Issa Rice that monitors EA and AI safety organizations, but the article lacks concrete information about its actual features, scope, or current status. The piece reads more like speculative analysis about what the tool might do rather than documentation of an established, operational product.
Organizations
2| Coefficient Giving | Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) has directed $4B+ in grants since 2014, including $336M to AI safety (~60% of external funding). The organization spent ~$50M on AI safety in 2024, with 68% going to evaluations/benchmarking, and launched a $40M Technical AI Safety RFP in 2025 covering 8 research areas. |
| LessWrong | LessWrong is a rationality-focused community blog founded in 2009 that has influenced AI safety discourse, receiving $5M+ in funding and serving as the origin point for ~31% of EA survey respondents in 2014. Survey participation peaked at 3,000+ in 2016, declining to 558 by 2023, with the community increasingly focused on AI alignment discussions. |
People
1| Issa Rice | Issa Rice is an independent researcher who has created valuable knowledge infrastructure tools like Timelines Wiki and AI Watch for the EA and AI safety communities, though his work focuses on data aggregation rather than original research. His contributions are primarily utilitarian reference material rather than original analytical contributions to AI safety. |
Related Projects
3| AI Watch | AI Watch is a tracking database by Issa Rice that monitors AI safety organizations, people, funding, and publications as part of his broader knowledge infrastructure ecosystem. The article provides useful context about Rice's systematic approach to documentation but lacks concrete details about AI Watch's actual scope, methodology, or current operational status. |
| Timelines Wiki | Timelines Wiki is a specialized MediaWiki project documenting chronological histories of AI safety and EA organizations, created by Issa Rice with funding from Vipul Naik in 2017. While useful as a historical reference source, it primarily serves as documentation infrastructure rather than providing original analytical insight. |
| Donations List Website | Comprehensive documentation of an open-source database tracking $72.8B in philanthropic donations (1969-2023) across 75+ donors, with particular coverage of EA/AI safety funding. The page thoroughly describes the tool's features, data coverage, and limitations, but is purely descriptive reference material about a data tool rather than analysis of AI safety funding patterns. |
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