What do I mean by “homegrown”? These projects are:

• Local: Creators have a good track record in the EA or AI Safety community
• Modest: The amount requested is not large; $5k would be meaningful
• Overlooked: Not already backed by large institutional funders like OpenPhil

If you’re a small donor or earn to give, consider giving to projects like these:

1. Feature-length documentary on SB 1047

By Michael Trazzi — $16k raised of $55k

Michael has already recorded interviews with the main characters of SB 1047: sponsors like Scott Wiener and Dan Hendrycks, proponents like Zvi Mowshowitz and Holly Elmore, and opponents like Dean Ball and Timothy B Lee. Now he needs the funding to turn it into a 1-hour feature documentary. This is a rare chance to sponsor a high-quality video narrative, and share it beyond our existing ecosystem. I’ve personally donated $10k towards this, and expect [...]

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Outline:

(00:35) 1. Feature-length documentary on SB 1047

(01:31) 2. Overview of AI Safety in 2024

(02:32) 3. Podcast series on Effective Altruism's values

(03:06) 4. Sentinel, a foresight and emergency response team

(03:41) 5. Research on co-occurence of sparse autoencoder latents

(04:14) What else have we been up to?

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