Effective Institutions Project

EIP operates on two tracks. They have their flagship initiatives and attempts to intervene directly. They also serve as donation advisors, which I discuss in that section.

Their current flagship initiative plans are to focus on the intersection of AI governance and the broader political and economic environment, especially risks of concentration of power and unintentional power shifts from humans to AIs.

Can they indeed identify ways to target key decision points, and make a big difference? One can look at their track record. I've been asked to keep details confidential, but based on my assessment of private information, I confirmed they've scored some big wins including that they helped improve safety practices at a major AI lab, and will plausibly continue to be able to have high leverage and punch above their funding weight. You can read about some of the stuff that they can talk about here in a Founders Pledge write up.

They also report that they are advising multiple major donors, and would welcome the opportunity to advise additional major donors. I haven't had the opportunity to review their donation advisory work, but what I have seen in other areas gives me confidence. They specialize in advising donors who have brad interests across multiple areas, and they list AI safety, global health, democracy and (peace and security).

It seems important that they be able to continue their work on all this.

I also note that in SFF I allocated less funding to EIP than I would in hindsight have liked to allocate, due to quirks about the way matching funds worked and my attempts to adjust my curves to account for it.

Donate through every.org, or contact info@effectiveinstitutionsproject.org.