Episode Details

TL;DR

• The AI safety ecosystem is about to receive billions in new funding but lacks the grantmaker capacity, speed, and infrastructure to deploy it well — especially for smaller, high-impact opportunities.
• We're building grantmaking.ai, a comprehensive public database of x-risk AI safety funding opportunities with a trust and signal layer on top — think Crunchbase meets GiveWell for AI safety.
• To test and seed the platform, we're launching a $1M grant round focused on rapid distribution of $5K–$50K grants. More details on the round coming soon.
• We're looking to connect with funders who want better tools to find, evaluate, and fund AI safety opportunities. Reach out at hi@grantmaking.ai or book a call here.

The Problem

Billions of dollars are going to flow into AI safety. From AI lab employees with significant equity events, from new donors bought into existential risk, from foundations scaling up. Sophie Kim's "The Anthropic IPO Is Coming. We Aren't Ready for It" covers this well, and Julian Hazell's "What it's like to be an AI safety grantmaker" tells us there simply aren't enough grantmakers.

Every new funder who wants to deploy capital responsibly hits the same bottlenecks:

• Discovery is hard. Most opportunities are behind insider networks [...]

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Outline:

(01:04) The Problem

(03:02) What Were Building

(04:13) Who This Is For

(05:17) The Initial $1M Grant Round

(07:23) Long-Term Vision

(09:39) Who We Are

(10:37) How You Can Help

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First published:
April 23rd, 2026

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/JjxMWQqHKXbyuuJBZ/we-re-building-grantmaking-ai-public-funding-infrastructure

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.