====== Future Fund ====== {{ ::future_fund.png?200|}} The **Future Fund** was a funding project of the [[FTX Foundation]], launched in February 2022.((Salvo, M. D. (2022, February 28). //FTX Pledges Up to $1 Billion for Philanthropic Fund to “Improve Humanity.”// Decrypt. https://decrypt.co/94045/ftx-1-billion-philanthropic-future-fund-improve-humanity)) ===== Activities ===== ==== Grants ==== The Future Fund provided grants to:((//Our Grants, Investments, and Regrants.// Future Fund. Retrieved November 26, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221126225452/https://ftxfuturefund.org/all-grants/)) ((Kahn, J. (2022, November 15). //Is the collapse of Bankman-Fried’s FTX crypto empire the end of Effective Altruism?// Fortune. https://archive.ph/zK2G1)) ((//Our Grants and Investments.// Future Fund. Retrieved September 10, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220910082348/https://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=ad-hoc)) * [[Adam Jermyn]] * [[Adapt Research]] * [[Adji Bousso Dieng]] at [[Princeton University]] * [[AI Safety Community Building Hub]] * [[Akash Wasil]] * [[Aleksei Paletskikh]] * [[Alex Mennen]] * [[Aligned AI]] * [[Alignment Research Center]] * [[Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters]] (ALLFED) * [[Anton Howes]] * [[Atlas Fellowship]] * [[Ben Marcovitz]] * [[Bertha von Suttner-Studienwerk]] * [[Center for AI Safety]] * [[Center for Election Science]] * [[Center for Space Governance]] * [[Centre for Effective Altruism]] * [[Charbel-Raphaël Segerie]] * [[Chatham House]] * [[Chenhao Tan]] at the [[University of Chicago]] * [[Cihang Xie]] at the [[University of California Santa Cruz]] * [[Collective Intelligence Project]] * [[Condor Camp]] * [[Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems]] (NeurIPS) * [[Constellation]] * [[David Bau]] * [[David Chapman]] * [[David Mears]] * [[David Xu]] * [[Differential Projections]] * [[Dylan Iskander]] * [[Effective Altruism Zurich]] * [[Effective Ideas]] * [[Elizabeth Van Nostrand]] * [[Emma Pierson]] at [[Cornell University]] * [[Evan Murphy]] * [[Flourishing Humanity Corporation]] * [[Fund for Alignment Research]] * [[Future Forum]] * [[Geoff Goodwin]] at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] * [[Global Priorities Encyclopedia]] * [[Global Priorities Institute]] * [[Gryphon Scientific]] * [[Haoxing Du]] * [[Harvard-MIT Project on Existential Risk]] * [[Hear this Idea]] * [[pharmaceutical_companies:HelixNano]] * [[High Impact Medicine]] * [[HR Luna Park]] * [[International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection]] * [[Javier López Corpas]] and [[Cristina Rodríguez Doblado]] * [[Jenny Xiao]] * [[José Alonso Flores Coronado]] * [[Joseph Bloom]] * [[Joshua Pearce]] at the [[University of Western Ontario]] * [[Konstantin Pilz]] * [[Korbinian Kettnaker]] * [[Lead Exposure Elimination Project]] (LEEP) * [[Legal Priorities Project]] * [[Lightcone Infrastructure]] * [[Long Term Future Fund]] * [[Longview Philanthropy]] * [[Manifold Markets]] * [[Metaculus]] * [[Michael Trazzi]] * [[Montaigne Institute]] * [[Neel Nanda]] * [[Noa Nabeshima]] * [[Oded Galor]] * [[Our World in Data]] * [[Pathos Labs]] * [[Peter Hartree]] * [[Pranav Gade]] * [[Redwood Research]] * [[Rethink Priorities]] * [[Royal Statistical Society]] * [[Sam Glendenning]]/[[London Existential Risk Initiative]] (LERI) * [[Sandra Malagon]] * [[School of Thinking]] * [[Sharon Hewitt Rawlette]] * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Sherlock Biosciences]] * [[Sherry Glied]] * [[Simeon Campos]] * [[Social Science Prediction Platform]] at the [[University of Toronto]] * [[SoGive]] * [[Space Future Initiative]] * [[The Treacherous Turn]] * [[Tim Oates]] at the [[University of Maryland Baltimore County]] * [[Tom Gilbert]] at [[Cornell University]] * [[Tom Green]] * [[Topos Institute]] * [[Trojan Detection Challenge 2022]] * [[VIVID]] * [[Yan Zhang]] * [[X-Axis]] ===== Organization ===== ==== Personnel ==== ^ Staff((//About.// Future Fund. Retrieved November 11, 2022, from https://archive.ph/1qmEs)) ^^ ^ Name ^ Affiliation(s) ^ | [[Nick Beckstead]] | [[FTX Foundation]], [[Open Philanthropy]], [[Future of Humanity Institute]], [[Centre for Effective Altruism]] | | [[Leopold Aschenbrenner]] | [[Global Priorities Institute]], [[Forethought Foundation]] | | [[Avital Balwit]] | [[Future of Humanity Institute]] | | [[William MacAskill]] | [[University of Oxford]], [[Global Priorities Institute]], [[Giving What We Can]], [[80,000 Hours]], [[Centre for Effective Altruism]] | | [[Ketan Ramakrishnan]] | [[Oxford University Press]] | ^ Board ^^ | [[Sam Bankman-Fried]] | [[FTX]] | | [[Caroline Ellison]] | [[Alameda Research]], [[Jane Street Capital]] | | [[Gary Wang]] | [[FTX]], [[Google]] | | [[Nishad Singh]] | [[FTX]], [[Facebook]] | ==== Funding ==== It was funded primarily by [[Sam Bankman-Fried]], with major contributions from [[Caroline Ellison]], [[Gary Wang]], and [[Nishad Singh]], all of whom served as members of the board for the fund.((//About.// Future Fund. Retrieved November 11, 2022, from https://archive.ph/1qmEs))