Noemi Dreksler

individual

AI governance, policy, and advocacyAI safety meta

Grants over time

$231,608

100%

Asya Bergal · Long-Term Future Fund · full post · Aug 18, 2022

$99,550.89 · Two-year funding to run public and expert surveys on AI governance and forecasting.

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Noemi applied for funding to design, conduct, analyze, and write up survey research for the Centre for the Governance of AI, which hadn’t yet been set up at the time of the application. From her application:> “Ongoing projects include a large-scale cross-cultural survey of the public’s .AI views (follow-up to Zhang & Dafoe, 2019), the analysis and dissemination of an AI researcher survey (Zwetsloot et al., 2021; Zhang et al., 2021), and a survey of economists’ views of AI/HLMI and related economic forecasts. Future work might include e.g., eliciting expert views and forecasts on AI from a variety of epistemic communities (e.g., policy-makers, AI researchers, AI ethics experts) through surveys and a study of the role of anthropomorphism and mind perception in attitudes towards AI governance.”
I wanted to make this grant because I was interested in some of the concrete surveys being conducted (particularly the economist survey), and also overall like the model of having someone “specialize” in conducting AI-relevant surveys – ideally, a dedicated survey-runner could become unusually efficient at running surveys, and make it cheap for others to request survey data when it was decision-relevant for them.

Date ↓	Funder	Via	Amount	Cause	Source	Purpose
Oct 2021	Long-Term Future Fund	EA Funds	$231,608	Technical governance, Strategy & forecasting	ea_funds	2-year funding to run public and expert surveys on AI governance and forecasting