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Impact List ranks philanthropists by donation value, highlighting AI safety

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A new website called Impact List has been launched, which ranks wealthy philanthropists based on the estimated value of their charitable donations. The platform aims to influence donation decisions by highlighting the significant differences in impact across various cause areas, with 'AI existential risk' currently identified as the most cost-effective. The site utilizes QALYs as a unit of value and allows users to customize assumptions and re-rank individuals based on their own worldviews, functioning similarly to a rationalist version of Wikipedia for uncertain claims. AI

IMPACT Could drive more funding towards AI safety research by highlighting its cost-effectiveness.

RANK_REASON This is a new tool/website launch, not a frontier release, significant industry move, or research paper.

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Impact List ranks philanthropists by donation value, highlighting AI safety

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  1. LessWrong (AI tag) TIER_1 English(EN) · Elliot_Olds ·

    Introducing Impact List: a ranking of people by the expected value of their donations

    <p><i><span>TL;DR: I'm releasing a website that ranks people according to the expected value that they've produced via donations, and allows users to re-rank the list using their own assumptions. I'd like feedback and help making it better. This has been </span></i><a href="https…

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