Our December fundraiser was a success, with 348 donors contributing just over $950,000. Supporters leveraged a variety of matching opportunities, including employer matching programs, WeTrust Spring’s Ethereum-matching campaign, Facebook’s Giving Tuesday event, and professional poker players Dan Smith, Aaron Merchak, and Martin Crowley’s Double Up Drive, expertly facilitated by Raising for Effective Giving.

In all, matching donations accounted for just over one third of the funds raised. Thank you to everyone who contributed!

News and links

• From NVIDIA’s Tero Karras, Samuli Laine, and Timo Aila: “A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks.”
• How AI Training Scales: OpenAI’s Sam McCandlish, Jared Kaplan, and Dario Amodei introduce a method that “predicts the parallelizability of neural network training on a wide range of tasks”.
• From Vox: The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity. See also Gizmodo‘s article on AI risk.