the third wave of ai philanthropy
nan ransohoff’s napkin math: openai foundation (90B), anthropic employee dafs (~370B total → $37-100B/yr in new philanthropic funding. 6-17% increase over all us giving.
why
- this is our donor pool. these funders want tech-caliber talent, startup-speed execution, and projects that think about the ai transition (both downside mitigation and human flourishing)
- the piece explicitly says “we’re short thousands of philanthropic startups and the talent to run them”
- joe wants us to figure out what proposals we’d make