This project operates on about $100k USD of annual funding from the Survival and Flourishing Fund, a grantmaker that supports projects working on the long-term survival and flourishing of sentient life. This pays for 1 full-time and 1 part-time salary (everyone else is a volunteer) plus some other costs, like website hosting.
We work on this project because we care about AI safety. The two team members that receive compensation make project decisions based solely on what they believe will have the greatest impact. This approach has proven to be totally aligned with our funders’ goals.
Søren Elverlin
Project lead, back-end development
Søren read the Sequences in 2014 and set out to verify whether AI risk was real. He founded AI Safety Danmark in 2016, bought the AISafety.com domain the next year, and runs an AI safety reading group now past 300 meetings. As a father of two, protecting his family is his greatest motivation.
soeren@aisafety.com
Bryce Robertson
Project manager
Bryce was blown away by GPT-4's capabilities when it was released in 2023, but quickly discovered that alongside its enormous potential, AI also poses an existential risk. He closed his video agency and pivoted his career to working full time on AI safety.
bryce@aisafety.com
Melissa Samworth
Product design, front-end development
Melissa got into AI safety in 2023 when she realized aligned superintelligence served the best shot at fulfilling the Buddhist-inspired mantra ‘may all sentient beings be free of suffering’. But future AI could go unimaginably well or unimaginably badly. She set out to help things go well.
Plex
Founder, advisor
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