Episode Details

Manifund is launching a new animal welfare fund, led by regrantor Marcus Abramovitch. We make rapid (<1 week), early-stage ($25k–$150k) grants across animal welfare, with a particular interest in the intersection of animals and transformative AI.

Reach out to marcus.s.abramovitch@gmail.com if you’d like to donate!

Why AI x animals?

Many EAs take seriously both the welfare of animals, and the possibility of short AI timelines. But EA funders currently consider these in isolation. AI safety grants mostly ignore potential outcomes for non-human beings. And animal welfare grants assume business-as-usual, that our world in 10 years mostly looks like the world today.

We don’t expect this to be the case. One major goal of the fund will be to identify and create opportunities so that transformative AI secures good outcomes for animals. Some example projects we’d like to fund:

• Animal harm benchmarks. There are only a handful of animal harm benchmarks, none of which adopted by frontier labs. Other benchmarks that are well known and used (SWE bench, FrontierMath) came about through rising to the top of a marketplace of benchmarks. The same should happen with animal welfare benchmarks. Many benchmarks should be created, some [...]

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Outline:

(00:37) Why AI x animals?

(02:58) Why rapid?

(03:48) Why Marcus?

(05:40) Compared to other funders

(07:15) How to donate

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First published:
April 24th, 2026

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LgJNfjDpPXQ7JK6KT/manifund-s-falcon-fund

Linkpost URL:
https://manifund.org/projects/falcon-fund

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.