ACX Grants 1-3 Year Updates - by Scott Alexander
webScott Alexander reviews outcomes of ACX Grants recipients 1-3 years after funding, providing insight into the effectiveness of small grants for AI safety and other cause areas, relevant for understanding philanthropic impact in the EA/AI safety ecosystem.
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Summary
Scott Alexander provides follow-up updates on projects funded through ACX Grants, evaluating their progress and outcomes 1-3 years after receiving funding. The post assesses which projects succeeded, failed, or pivoted, offering lessons about grant-making effectiveness. This serves as a transparency and accountability report for the ACX philanthropic program.
Key Points
- •Reviews outcomes of multiple ACX-funded projects across various cause areas including AI safety, biosecurity, and other EA-adjacent fields
- •Provides honest assessment of which grants produced meaningful results versus those that underdelivered or stalled
- •Offers meta-level lessons about what types of projects and researchers tend to succeed with small grant funding
- •Demonstrates a model of philanthropic transparency and follow-through that is relatively rare in the grants ecosystem
- •Relevant to AI safety funders and researchers evaluating the ROI of small-scale direct funding mechanisms
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