Elon Musk↗
Applications: Not stated“Development of safe artificial intelligence to benefit humanity”In their own words: muskfoundation.org
An individual donor. He gives through the Musk Foundation, which lists 'development of safe artificial intelligence to benefit humanity' among its grant areas. In January 2015 he gave $10M to the Future of Life Institute for a global research programme on keeping AI beneficial.
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Gives through the Musk Foundation, whose stated areas include renewable energy, human space exploration, pediatric research, science education and safe AI; no application process is described. His AI safety giving included a $10M pledge to FLI, granted through FLI's open RFP rounds in 2015 and 2018.
Says it gives about $10M a year (2015)
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- Applications
- Not stated
Programmes
- Musk Foundation$3.2M
Passed on to other funders
- Future of Life Institute 2015$10M
Gifts and pooled money between funders, as recorded on the site.