FTX Future Fund — About (archived)

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This archived page documents the FTX Future Fund before FTX's November 2022 collapse; historically significant as a major AI safety funder whose implosion reshaped the funding landscape and raised questions about EA's reliance on crypto-derived philanthropy.

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Summary

This is an archived snapshot of the FTX Future Fund website, a philanthropic initiative funded by Sam Bankman-Fried and associated with effective altruism and AI safety grantmaking. The fund distributed hundreds of millions of dollars to AI safety, biosecurity, and other longtermist causes before FTX's collapse in November 2022. The archive captures the fund's stated mission and grantmaking priorities prior to the FTX bankruptcy.

Key Points

•The FTX Future Fund was one of the largest EA-aligned funders of AI safety research before FTX's collapse in November 2022.
•The fund focused on longtermist causes including AI safety, biosecurity, and reducing existential risk.
•Following FTX's bankruptcy, the fund's leadership resigned and many grants were clawed back or unfulfilled.
•The archive serves as a historical record of the fund's stated mission and priorities at its peak.
•The collapse of FTX had significant downstream effects on AI safety funding and the EA ecosystem.

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