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Overview

Who we are

Mox is SF's largest AI safety coworking space, and also its primary Effective Altruism community space. We opened just over a year ago, and over the last year, we’ve served high-impact work in and around AI safety by hosting conferences, fellowships, events, and incubating new organizations.

Our theory of change is to provide good infrastructure (offices, event space) and a high density of collegial interactions to people and projects we admire. We're not focusing on a single specific thesis on AI safety. Instead, we aim to support many sorts of people and organizations who:

1. agree that transformative AI is on the horizon,
2. have a strong thesis about what it means for the world to go well,
3. are working on a project that we think credibly advances their thesis.

This includes many projects that are directly AI Safety, such as Seldon Lab, the broader Effective Altruist sphere such as Sentient Futures, and even more broadly non-EA projects by EAs or from EA and rationalist-friendly corners of the SF tech scene, such as Arbor Trading Bootcamp (pictured below). Many more examples of such work are are given in the "Current Operations" heading.

Our team also [...]

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Outline:

(00:13) Overview

(00:16) Who we are

(02:09) Why were raising

(03:01) How to donate

(03:14) Funding milestones

(03:17) ⬜ Raise $100k by March 15th (will be 1:1 matched!)

(03:57) ⬜ Raise $450k by April 1st

(05:05) ⬜ Raise $1.2m by June 1st

(05:59) Funding updates

(06:03) Raised $550k in 2025

(06:31) Delivered above expectations

(07:11) Present state of finances

(07:22) Revenue: ~$100k/mo

(07:46) Expenses: ~$130k/mo

(08:13) Sustainable by EOY

(08:52) Will still seek funding in future years

(09:04) Current operations

(09:08) Fellowships & programs

(10:10) How does Mox contribute to these programs success?

(10:45) Public events

(12:42) Individuals & coworking

(13:32) Member testimonials!

(14:26) Private offices and partner organizations

(16:01) Upcoming plans

(16:04) Grow and improve our main offerings

(17:01) Build an SF hub for animal welfare

(17:45) Attract international talent via Global Expert Fellowship

(18:30) Incubate new workshops and programs

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First published:
March 6th, 2026

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YMBrQhjyiuvT83WBz/mox-is-the-largest-ai-safety-community-space-in-san

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