As announced in a recent Nature commentary, the Cooperative AI Foundation (CAIF) is a new charitable entity, backed by a large philanthropic commitment. CAIF's mission is to support research that will improve the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all. For updates and funding opportunities, please sign up to the Cooperative AI mailing list.
Board of Trustees Allan Dafoe Eric Horvitz Gillian Hadfield Dario Amodei Ruairí Donnelly Statement from one of the Funders "We have committed $15 million USD in support of the Cooperative AI Foundation. We are a Swiss nonprofit focused on enabling and coordinating research on how to improve the quality of life of future generations, [and] are supportive of the Cooperative AI Foundation’s mission." – Polaris Ventures
Importance, Neglectedness, and Tractability Scientific progress is often hard to predict. Great research is frequently driven by intrinsic curiosity, and it can be difficult to say in advance what the most important research directions for a field will turn out to be. On the other hand, we think that there are features which make some research directions more promising than others. Following an increasing number of philanthropic organisations (see here , for example), CAIF is guided by the importance, negle