Background: Founded in 2019 and funded by Jaan Tallinn.
Thesis: SFF is a virtual fund focused on organizing grant processes to support the long-term survival and flourishing of sentient life. Most grants go to reducing AI x-risk. Jaan Tallinn's priorities include efforts to restrict AI—datacenter certifications, speed limits, liability laws, labeling requirements, veto committees, and off-switches—as well as constructive efforts to set examples for the positive use of AI—AI assistance for human intelligence, AI healthcare tech, positive moralities, safety specs for AI, and hardware-level AI controls.
By the numbers:
- typically deploy around $30-40m across 100 grants in recent years
- staff: ~7 staff at Survival and Flourishing Corp. Recommendations are done by part-time recommenders.
Recent updates: The S-process grant rounds closed in April-July and recommendations will be announced in September-November.
Get involved:
- Apply for funding: instructions for applying to a Speculation Grant
- Speculation Grants are faster grants of typically up to $400k outside the S-Process timeline.
- Submitting an application also puts you in consideration for the next S-Process Grant round.
- Donate: They don't appear to be actively soliciting cofunders, but consider reaching out to sff-contact@googlegroups.com.
- Apply for a job: They are currently hiring for a software engineer role.