AI Safety Studios

orlandott.github.io

Raising $15,000active3 people

A platform to connect funders to filmmakers who want to create AI Safety films.

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A platform to connect funders to filmmakers who want to create AI Safety films.

Endorsed by

Ryan

Project Details

AI risk is not in the public consciousness because it is abstract and new. Terminator narratives have made it hard to visualize risks like cyber attacks, extreme power concentration, bioterrorism uplift, gradual disempowerment, and misalignment in general.

My team of experienced filmmakers would decide (in collaboration with funders) which stories/failure modes should be made into short films.

Filmmakers who have a track record can apply to a certain story, and receive small grants to create the short films. Our team gives script and operational support remotely to ensure films stays aligned to our mission and on schedule

We post the films on a new YouTube channel, to complement current “explainer” channels like AI in Context, Rob Miles, or Rational Animations.

With enough success, we could opt for longer and longer films, hoping for a feature film one day.

Here’s a mockup of our public website.

Theory of Impact

Most people don’t want to watch “explainer” videos. They want to watch narrative fiction. There is a gap in this regard in the AI Safety ecosystem.

By reaching a broader audience, and telling stories that viscerally communicate the urgency of the issue (with links to 80k somewhere) we can grow the field.

Our films won’t end in doom that create apathy. All will end in def/acc technologies or people saving the day through preparation humanity did before takeoff.

A longer argument by one of us here.

People

Dylan Tuccillo

Graham Kent

Orlando Torres

Team Member

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Funding Asks

grantmaking.ai Launch Round

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Minimum

$15,000

Ideal

$45,000

How the money will be spent

There are three of us on the team. We would like to start with 3 films of $3000 each. It should take 2 months. We can each get $1000 a month just to make it feasible we actually feel comfortable taking time out of all our other work and projects. This is $15,000 for 2 months.

Ideally we would make more ourselves, to shift to part-time at our other jobs and be able to fund and offer support to more filmmakers.

If success continues, we could move into full time roles.

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