Lightcone Infrastructure

Funding for LessWrong.com, the AI Alignment Forum, Lighthaven and other Lightcone Projects

Act I: Exploring emergent behavior from multi-AI, multi-human interaction

Community exploring and predicting potential risks and opportunities arising from a future that involves many independently controlled AI systems

MATS Program

Help us support more research scholars!

CEEALAR

Centre hosting EAs’ research projects/EAs’ upskilling for ~1/3 of the average cost of funding such projects remotely

Connect For Animals: a platform for ending factory farming

Scaling up the people power of the movement to end factory farming.

80,000 Hours

We provide research and support to help people move into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems.

Hive Slack - an active community space for engaged farmed animal advocates

Help us fund Slack fees for over 1000 monthly active members

Social Media Strategy for EA Orgs

Providing free professional social media strategy consulting for EA orgs

PauseAI local communities - volunteer stipends

Help the largest AI activist group grow

Giving What We Can

Making giving effectively and significantly a global cultural norm

Building Bridges: Effective Animal Advocacy in the Global South

Gathering activists, influencers, and organizations to foster effective advocacy and drive impactful change in regions where factory farming is growing, yet adv

AI Animals and Digital Minds 2025

Field building on AI's impact on nonhumans

Play money prediction markets

Community-run, open source prediction market platform

AI Governance YouTube Channel

Explainable videos for ideas in AI Governance

Impact Accelerator Program: Biggest career program for experienced professionals

Help us create more high impact career transitions via the Impact Accelerator Program run by High Impact Professionals (HIP)

Overcoming inertial barriers to collective action through anonymous coordination

Combining "kickstarter" style functionality with transitional anonymity to decrease risk and raise expected value of participating in collective action.

New Roots Institute: Empowering the Next Generation to End Factory Farming

Growing Advocacy Ecosystems

Calibration City

Prediction markets have the potential to reshape the way we process information, but how accurate are they in practice?

AI, Animals, and Digital Minds 2024 Conference and Retreat

Request for Retroactive Funding

Making 52 AI Alignment Video Explainers and Podcasts