Many Anthropic employees, especially, are sympathetic to AI safety and (will) have lots of money. This is something that is being talked about a lot (semi-)privately, but I haven't seen any public discussion of it.

I find that striking. It seems like the topic is worthy of extensive public discussion, and it seems to me that perhaps this community is inheriting anti-helpful cultural norms against publicly discussing how individuals make use of their money.

It also seems likely that many/most of AI company employees who are passionate about reducing AI risk should rapidly give much/most of their money to effective projects that would otherwise not be adequately funded.

There's a lot of potential for this to do tremendous good. There are of course things like political giving. But I think most of this potential would come from employees having different theories of change than institutional funders, moving faster, and having higher risk appetite. This is especially true given short timelines.

A few specific thoughts:

I hear a lot of AI company employees give primarly to cause areas other than AI risk reduction. It seems like donations to AI risk reduction would be much [...]

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First published:
March 10th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xKDhfwZDip4J6w7q4/what-do-we-know-about-ai-company-employee-giving

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“What do we know about AI company employee giving?” by David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)

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