Our platform serves donors who don't know much about AI safety but still want to be able to support AI safety projects with their donations. We ask them to express their interest in using the platform by registering their annual donation budget with us.

The sum of all of these donation budgets currently stands at $391,912 – the total “donation potential” that project scouts can work with. (As of Sep. 19, 2023. Our homepage still says $370,000, because I haven't updated it in a few weeks.) 

This is a key metric for us because the higher the number the greater the incentive for project scouts to come in and register their donations to build up their donation track record and influence the recommendations of the platform like an aggregate of regrantors. (See also 

https://manifold.markets/DawnDrescher/will-ai-safety-impact-markets-a-cro-880b377c1868

Background: We are currently in phase 1 of our rollout. Later we want to introduce our platform currency, a precursor for impact credits. (See also 

https://manifold.markets/DawnDrescher/will-ai-safety-impact-markets-a-cro

.) Our long-term vision is to establish “generalized carbon credits” in the form of tradable impact credits to solve problems with the funding allocation to early-stage altruistic projects, access to talent, and derisking of public good funding.

H/t to Nuño for nudging me to post this.

61% chance. Our platform depends on some number of donors who either contribute insider knowledge or in-depth research to the marketplace by registering their donations. We call them project scouts. They can optionally join our public ranking at https://app.impactmarkets.io/ranking, which makes them easier to track. These project scouts seek to influence the recommendations that our platform generates for other donors like an aggregate of regrantor opinions.

To join the ranking, they have to register donations to projects that subsequently receive a positive evaluation score. So the number of ranked project scouts can increase because new project scouts join and register their old donations, or because additional projects receive an evaluation. We're gearing up for such an evaluation round right now and hope to complete it next month. Their number can also drop if project scouts opt out of the public ranking.

Background: We are currently in phase 1 of our rollout. Later we want to introduce our platform currency, a precursor for impact credits. (See also https://manifold.markets/DawnDrescher/will-ai-safety-impact-markets-a-cro.) Our long-term vision is to establish “generalized carbon credits” in the form of tradable impact credits to solve problems with the funding allocation to early-stage altruistic projects, access to talent, and derisking of public good funding.

H/t to Nuño for nudging me to post this.

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