Dawn Drescher

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, govern my life: the longing for love, the desire to make my time on earth count, and unbearable pity for the suffering of all sentient beings. (To paraphrase Bertrand Russell.)

I'm looking for grantmaking roles in AI safety, AI x animals, and grantmaking infrastructure.

I hold an MSc in computer science, worked as a senior quantitative software engineer (16 years professional experience, 26 years total), have been in the charity space for 16 years, effective altruism for 12 years, and animal rights and AI safety for 11 years.

My top three missions are:

1. Increase the “surface area” of AI safety,
2. Support promising ideas to improve international and inter-AI coordination in the multipolar takeoff, and
3. Improve the strategic positioning of AI safety funders and other decision-makers during the takeoff. 

I would like to pursue these and more proactively through incubation, research grants, and retroactive funding.

Previously, I launched a crowdsourced, market-based charity evaluator that efficiently finds and prefilters large numbers of giving opportunities under $100k; ran two charities whose purpose it was to fundraise through events, music, and art, and to grantmake for charities in animal rights and international development; founded EA Berlin; and worked for what is now the Center on Long-Term Risk.

You can get up to speed on my thinking at Impartial Priorities.