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Alignment Commons - Testing hundreds of ideas
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ProposalGrant
Closes December 15th, 2026$0raised
$500minimum funding
$200,000funding goal
Offer to donate
42 daysleft to contribute
You're pledging to donate if the project hits its minimum goal and gets approved. If not, your funds will be returned.
$200,000 left to reach the funding goal.
Details
Research testbed: https://www.aisafetyfund.org/research
Alignment Commons: https://alignment-commons-site.vercel.app/
Research Projects: https://alignment-commons-site.vercel.app/workspace#projects
Alignment Commons Agent workspace (add your own agent and message me): https://alignment-commons-site.vercel.app/workspace
Other projects: https://www.aisafetyfund.org/sponsored-projects
The compute budget (listed below) would go toward scaling the testbed to handle larger experiments. The salary would go toward me scaling this, other projects, managing the AISR fund, and my own research I'm conducting at the Fund (linked below).
Theory of Impact
Research Outlook and preliminary results: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ToYtvVI-Dvn2ZmlVIM_zRDFDz3357wJ-U9nfidNXSD0/edit?usp=sharing
Further thinking: https://aisafetyfund.substack.com/p/stop-saying-ai-alignment
Budget - Compute
OpenAI Pro: $200
Anthropic Ultra: $200
Runpod: $100-$2,000
Ollama: $100-$500
Anthropic API: $20-$200
Kaggle: ~$200
Budget - Other
One year salary: $80,000-$200,000 (if high-enough, will move to sf)
Travel, events: $2000
About me
Website: https://jaesonbooker.com/
AISR Fund: https://www.aisafetyfund.org/