From This Might Be The Last AI Safety Camp:

We are organising the 9th edition without funds. We have no personal runway left to do this again. We will not run the 10th edition without funding. 
 

In a nutshell:

1. Last month, we put out AI Safety Camp’s funding case. 
   A private donor then decided to donate €5K. 
    

2. Five more donors offered $7K on Manifund. 
   For that $7K to not be wiped out and returned, another $21K in funding is needed. At that level, we may be able to run a minimal version of AI Safety Camp next year, where we get research leads started in the first 2.5 months, and leave the rest to them.
    

3. The current edition is off to a productive start! 
   A total of 130 participants joined, spread over 26 projects. The projects are diverse – from agent foundations, to mechanistic interpretability, to copyright litigation.
    

4. Our personal runways are running out. 
   If we do not get the funding, we have to move on. It’s hard to start a program again once organisers move on, so this likely means the end of AI Safety Camp.
    

5. We commissioned Arb Research to do an impact assessment. 
   One preliminary result is that AISC creates one new AI safety researcher per around $12k-$30k USD of funding.