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Sources

ASF Overview

3-pg_Overview_-_ASF.pdf

AI Safety Communications Hub.docx

Open Source Media Campaign.docx

Expanding AI Scholarship.docx

Summary

• The American Security Fund (ASF) is a right leaning policy meta-org. Their main theory of change is to use funding to create momentum for AI Safety on the right.
• They want to fund think tanks, academics, media, and politicians. Some particular sub-projects that I feel very excited about are:
  • Lobbying/advocacy work. Tyler is a good political operator and so will likely be able to assist various pieces of legislation moving on the hill, e.g. currently the Enforce Act and provisions around creating a NIST Foundation.
• The team (Mark Beall and Tyler Deaton) are deeply mission aligned and have significant experience.

Discussion of merits of grant

• Their executive director, Mark Beall, used to run Gladstone AI, and knows Thomas well. He is very aligned and has significant exec branch experience (mostly in the DOD). He doesn’t know as much about lobbying, but has been mostly successful so far. Mark gets a ton of credit for the Enforce Act.
• I feel pretty differently about the different projects, so I’m going to evaluate them separately.
• An Anti-open source media campaign (1.5m over 3 years)
• An AI Safety Communications Hub (2.25m over 3 years)
• Staffing for ASF (1.5m over 3 years)
• AI scholarship / academics (1.8m over 3 years)