Center for Human-Compatible AI – Donations Received
webThis page aggregates publicly announced donations received by the Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI), a key AI safety research organization at UC Berkeley, providing a financial overview useful for understanding funding flows in the AI safety ecosystem.
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Summary
This page from Vipul Naik's donations portal tracks publicly announced funding received by CHAI, totaling over $18 million from donors including Open Philanthropy, Jaan Tallinn, and EA Funds. It provides donation breakdowns by year and donor, along with basic organizational metadata. CHAI was founded in 2016 with an initial $5.5M Open Philanthropy grant.
Key Points
- •CHAI has received over $18 million in tracked donations, with Open Philanthropy as the dominant funder ($17.1M total).
- •Founded in August 2016, CHAI received a $5.5M founding grant from Open Philanthropy with a 50% probability estimate of becoming a respected AI organization.
- •Other notable donors include Jaan Tallinn ($819K in 2021) and EA Funds Long-Term Future Fund ($123K across 2020-2021).
- •Key personnel include Stuart Russell, Bart Sellman, Michael Wellman, and Andrew Critch.
- •Data is preliminary and self-described as not fully vetted; useful as a reference but should be cited with caveats.
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This is an online portal with information on donations that were announced publicly (or have been shared with permission) that were of interest to Vipul Naik . The git repository with the code for this portal, as well as all the underlying data, is available on GitHub . All payment amounts are in current United States dollars (USD). The repository of donations is being seeded with an initial collation by Issa Rice as well as continued contributions from him (see his commits and the contract work page listing all financially compensated contributions to the site ) but all responsibility for errors and inaccuracies belongs to Vipul Naik. Current data is preliminary and has not been completely vetted and normalized; if sharing a link to this site or any page on this site, please include the caveat that the data is preliminary (if you want to share without including caveats, please check with Vipul Naik). We expect to have completed the first round of development by the end of July 2027. See the about page for more details. Also of interest: pageview data on analytics.vipulnaik.com , tutorial in README , request for feedback to EA Forum .
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Basic donee information
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Donee donation amounts by donor and year
Donee document list
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Country
United States
Website https://humancompatible.ai/ Donate page http://humancompatible.ai/get-involved#supporter Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Human-Compatible_Artificial_Intelligence Open Philanthropy Project grant review http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/uc-berkeley-center-human-compatible-ai Timelines wiki page https://timelines.issarice.com/wiki/Timeline_of_Center_for_Human-Compatible_AI Org Watch page https://orgwatch.issarice.com/?organization=Center+for+Human-Compatible+AI Key people Stuart Russell|Bart Sellman|Michael Wellman|Andrew Critch Launch date 2016-08 Notes Received a 5.5 million dollar grant from the Open Philanthropy Project at the time of founding, with a 50% probability estimate that it would be a respected AI-related organization in two years
Donee donation statistics
Cause area Count Median Mean Minimum 10th percentile
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40th percentile
50th percentile
60th percentile
70th percentile
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90th percentile
Maximum
Overall
7
200,000
2,578,971
20,000
20,000
48,000
75,000
75,000
200,000
799,000
799,000
5,555,550
11,355,246
11,355,246
AI safety
7
200,000
2,578,971
20,000
20,000
48,000
75,000
75,000
200,000
799,000
799,000
5,555,550
11,355,246
11,355,246
Donation amounts
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