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Back to Episodes“How I’m Evaluating Corrigibility Grant Applications” by Max Harms
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Description
I'm the sole manager of the newly created Corrigibility Research Fund. While I've been an alignment researcher for a long time, this is my first time doing grantmaking and I thought it would be valuable to write up my methods and experiences, as well as sharing some general thoughts about the state of corrigibility research and what sort of work I hope to see in the future.
I’ve split out the announcement of the grant winners into its own post.
Let's start with the basics:
- I set out to disburse between 50 thousand dollars and 150 thousand dollars this round.
- All funds must go to broad public benefit.
- This can include paying researchers for their time and effort, but it means that they must have a plan to (potentially) help the whole world. I can't fund someone to go to school or start a for-profit business or do political lobbying.
- My advantage is being a combination of a domain expert and a philanthropic micro-granter.
- Most donors don’t understand corrigibility, and most domain experts are not in a good position to evaluate and fund promising opportunities.
- I'm very averse to funding capabilities research, and moderately averse to funding [...]
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Outline:
(06:42) Grantmaking Round 1
(12:46) The State of Corrigibility Research
The original text contained 12 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.
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First published:
September 3rd, 2026
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.