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.
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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.