Corrigibility fund adds $48,000 in prizes for recent papers
A second retroactive prize round lands, with over $60,000 planned for December; whether it becomes routine is what to watch.
The Corrigibility Research Fund announced an additional $48,000 on September 30, rewarding roughly two dozen researchers across about a dozen teams working on corrigibility — making AI systems accept human correction.
Fund manager Max Harms handed out $27,000 in a first round in July and plans to disburse more than $60,000 in December. The largest single award, $14,000, went to Rubi Hudson's paper on a corrigibility transformation.
The selection is one person's judgment; Harms himself calls the awards ad hoc and says the purse sizes should not be taken too seriously, and he deliberately passed over established figures such as Yudkowsky and Christiano.
Sources:https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3uJqhrC2idf4eNj5h/corrigibility-prizes-for-existing-work