I am familiar with AI Safety Nepal, and would like to support their growth. I believe this could be a high leverage opportunity given the relatively low cost.

I have spoken to Mohsena and introduced her to another lawyer in AI safety; they spoke and he had very positive feedback. I also saw Mohsena's AI governance research draft. On this basis, I asked her to work with Lida Safety, prepaying for each month up front. However, Lida is only able to support her living expenses. I recommended she apply to BlueDot, but they did not fund the request. Hence, I hope Manifund can be helpful here.

I'm familiar with some of Rubi's work from even before Principled Agents, and I'm happy to suggest supporting this nonprofit.

Very interested in getting Japan's AI safety talent funnel up and running! The budget here is also very modest for the impact.

I am a big fan of supporting local AI safety groups, and this one seems to be very active already (lots of people in photos on the website). I am sure with Tzu mentoring, the org is on a good path.

As mentioned in this proposal, I collaborate with Linh frequently on research (as part of Lida Safety). I work as a Research Manager now, so I would otherwise get fewer opportunities to do research directly. Linh's dataset for the AI control hackathon (a project I also participated in) was impressive. Linh has great research instincts and is hardworking, and I'm enjoying the ongoing SPAR project we are co-mentors for.

I'd encourage anyone interested in supporting the AI safety pipeline to donate to Linh!

Geodesic has an outsized impact on the Cambridge AI safety community, through mentoring many MARS fellows and connections with ERA and Meridian. Their work on pretraining especially is unique and has high impact potential. I believe that supporting their work is a good use of funds. Disclaimer: I have collaborated with Geodesic researchers in the past.