Funding
Their “AI Existential Risk” ideology had the financial backing of $1.6 billion from a few Effective Altruism billionaires, namely Dustin Moskovitz, Jaan Tallinn, Vitalik Buterin, and Sam Bankman-Fried (yes, the convicted felon).
Moskovitz’s Open Philanthropy is by far the largest donor to most of the “AI Existential Risk” organizations.
The “AI Existential Risk” Lobbying
Nowadays, the “AI Existential Risk” ecosystem encompasses hundreds of organizations. Many advocate extreme authoritarian measures to stop/pause AI. They include “requiring registration and verifying location of hardware,” “a strict licensing regime, clamp down on open-source models, and impose civil and criminal liability on developers.”
ControlAI even proposed a 20-year pause, because the “default” is human extinction by Godlike AI, and “two decades provide the minimum time frame to construct our defenses.”
Staying informed about this growing “AI existential risk” ecosystem is important. So, the information below aims to familiarize you with the various players involved.
——
more:
All of this turned out to be profoundly wrong. Now, ironically, many of the Doomers — who prior to DeepSeek had tried to ban American models now currently in use — are trying to rebrand as “China Hawks.” If they had their way, the U.S. would have already lost the AI race!
