“AI safety is extremely bottlenecked on grantmakers” by lukeprog

Last month, Anthropic announced Mythos Preview, the most powerful cyberweapon in history, capable of finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. Meanwhile, many frontier AI company employees increasingly expect full automation of AI R&D in the next year or two, followed by the rapid automation of thousands of other important tasks and jobs. This pace of technological change is unprecedented, and the world is not prepared. Very little of the commercial, government, and nonprofit infrastructure we need to respond to these transformative changes has been built. To meet this challenge, dozens of philanthropists are hoping to deploy tens of billions of dollars in philanthropy and impact investments in AI safety and governance in the next several years alone.[1] But most of this capital is bottlenecked on a tiny number of grant and investment advisors who can identify and vet specific funding opportunities, and create new ones by headhunting project founders. That's why the AI teams at Coefficient Giving (CG) are hiring grantmakers and senior generalists, and why I think the next people we hire will be among the highest-leverage people in AI safety.[2] Please apply here. As a new [...] The original text contained 8 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: May 13th, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/B6d8Wzk4gNzHsXvdi/ai-safety-is-extremely-bottlenecked-on-grantmakers --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.