Round one · evaluators
Each wrote a funding order, a ranked list of what to fund and how much. Funders backed the ones they trusted.
Eliezer YudkowskyFounder of MIRI and of LessWrong; co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.
Elizabeth Van NostrandIndependent researcher and writer at Aceso Under Glass; funded by LTFF, SFF, and Lightspeed.
Lowe LundinHead of Fund for the Transformative AI Fund, successor to the Long-Term Future Fund.
Nate SoaresPresident of MIRI; co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies; SFF recommender.
Nathan YoungDirector of Goodheart Labs, which builds epistemic tools; forecaster at the Swift Centre; writes Predictive Text.
Oliver HabrykaCo-founder and CEO of Lightcone Infrastructure, which runs Lightcone Commons, LessWrong and Lighthaven; SFF recommender in five rounds.
Richard NgoIndependent AI researcher; formerly Google DeepMind and OpenAI Governance; Manifund regrantor.
Robert MushkatblatSoftware engineer at Lightcone Infrastructure; developer and administrator of LessWrong.
Scott SiskindWrites Astral Codex Ten as Scott Alexander; founder of ACX Grants; co-author of AI 2027; SFF recommender.
Stuart BuckExecutive Director of the Good Science Project; formerly VP of Research at Arnold Ventures.
Zvi MowshowitzWrites Don't Worry About the Vase; founder of Balsa Research; SFF recommender in four rounds.