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Course Buyouts to Work on AI Forecasting, Evals
ProposalGrant
Closes January 1st, 2026$0raised
$38,000minimum funding
$76,000funding goal
Offer to donate
35 daysleft to contribute
You're pledging to donate if the project hits its minimum goal and gets approved. If not, your funds will be returned.
Project summary
I'm an MIT Economics PhD, working on mapping AI evals to economic impact. I'm looking to spend Spring 2025 in SF to work on research and be more integrated with AI risk community. To do this, I need to buy out my teaching obligations which is $38,000 each for 2 courses ($76,000 for full buyout)
What are this project's goals? How will you achieve them?
Goal
1) Do more research on understanding AI evals and if they map to something you care about
2) Get more integrated with METR/SF AI risk community/receive mentorship.
How will this funding be used?
Given to MIT to buyout teaching.
Who is on your team? What's your track record on similar projects?
Worked on this project recently. Will likely continue working with similar team.
What are the most likely causes and outcomes if this project fails?
Little/no research impact and money is wasted.
How much money have you raised in the last 12 months, and from where?
$20,000 from EV for research expenses, $10,000 from Stripe for research expenses.