Putting the AI Windfall to Work

My CGD colleagues have recently published a series of blog posts on how to spend a potentially large increase in philanthropy, driven by fortunes created by the AI boom. Recommendations range from scaling proven cost-effective interventions, such as malaria bed nets and severe wasting treatment, to ...

In the first blog in this series, Rachel Glennerster and I suggested that new philanthropists could spend tens of billions of dollars on proven cost-effective interventions. This blog is about buying the solutions that don’t yet exist. A legally binding promise to pay for a breakthrough can change w...

If I worked at a frontier AI lab and just became an overnight billionaire, my first thought would be to do something simple and give it all to GiveDirectly or GiveWell. But organisations in the business of delivering real-world, non-digital services are constrained in their growth by the difficulty ...