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Longtermism's Philosophical Credibility After FTX - Footnote 39

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The claim that Anders Sandberg described the process as "a gradual suffocation by Faculty bureaucracy" is not directly supported by the provided source. While the source mentions Sandberg's final report and refers to the increasing administrative headwinds within the Faculty of Philosophy, it doesn't explicitly quote him using that phrase. The claim that the Governance of AI Program spun out of the university in 2021 is not explicitly mentioned in the source. The source does not mention 'allegations of misconduct involving FHI-adjacent individuals'. The claim states Open Philanthropy made grants of £1.6 million in 2017 and £13.3 million in 2018. The source supports this, but the source does not mention that a significant portion of the latter remained unspent at the time of closure due to the hiring freeze, only that a large part of the grant remained unspent due to limited faculty administrative capacity for hiring and the subsequent hiring freezes it imposed.

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partial85%Haiku 4.5 · 4/3/2026
Found: Anders Sandberg, a senior FHI researcher, described the process as "a gradual suffocation by Faculty bureaucracy." The institute's largest team, the Governance of AI Program, had already spun out of t

Note: The claim that Anders Sandberg described the process as "a gradual suffocation by Faculty bureaucracy" is not directly supported by the provided source. While the source mentions Sandberg's final report and refers to the increasing administrative headwinds within the Faculty of Philosophy, it doesn't explicitly quote him using that phrase. The claim that the Governance of AI Program spun out of the university in 2021 is not explicitly mentioned in the source. The source does not mention 'allegations of misconduct involving FHI-adjacent individuals'. The claim states Open Philanthropy made grants of £1.6 million in 2017 and £13.3 million in 2018. The source supports this, but the source does not mention that a significant portion of the latter remained unspent at the time of closure due to the hiring freeze, only that a large part of the grant remained unspent due to limited faculty administrative capacity for hiring and the subsequent hiring freezes it imposed.

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