SIAI Donor Network

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The SIAI Donor Network is our active community of individuals, foundations, and companies who contribute their expertise, networks, and charitable dollars to advance the philanthropic mission of the Singularity Institute. By joining the SIAI Donor Network, you will be supporting the premier effort to further the scientific understanding of beneficial advanced artificial intelligence. We hope you will support this rare, highly-leveraged nonprofit effort, and become committed to ensuring that the vast promise of this technology is realized for the benefit of everyone.

Benefits of Becoming a Donor

Benefits Include:

  • Donor recognition (Associate Donors and above are permanently recognized)
  • Creating a profile to interact and connect with other members in the network
  • In depth news and updates about the Singularity Institute
  • Singularity Summit at Stanford DVD and Keepsake Booklet
  • Complimentary ticket to the Summit '07 (excellent, reserved seating)
  • Invitation to SIAI Salon Dinners when they are held in your area
  • Hardcover edition of The Singularity Is Near signed by Ray Kurzweil

Why Join the SIAI Donor Network?

Personal Involvement: Share your expertise and network to further common goals, demonstrate to others your active commitment to SIAI's mission, and inspire more people to join the SIAI Donor Network. Donors participate in roundtable dinners, the Singularity Summit (our annual major event), and other special events.

Existential Risk Reduction: Self-improving AI is an existential risk. Because the stakes are enormous, reducing existential risk should be a major priority, but the subject remains severely neglected. Even a slight reduction would have immense value. For example, the expectation value of reducing existential risk by only 1% is similar to the value of saving 60 million lives, not counting future generations. By joining the Donor Network, you will be furthering the leading nonprofit for the reduction of existential risk arising from self-improving AI.

Targeted Giving: Invest in the Institute through general operating support, or direct your investment to the areas you value the most, whether supporting research and development, research fellows, research grants, educational outreach and talent recruitment, annual events, new staff hires, or other investment areas.

Tax Benefits: Enjoy tax benefits from any kind of gift – cash, stocks, securities, or real estate. For individuals, we recommend a donor advised fund, such as the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund. This way, you can maximize your charitable impact and individual tax benefits as you make giving part of your personal and financial plans.

What Our Donors Support

  • Research Program
  • The Singularity Summit
  • Research Grant Program
  • Research Fellowship Fund
  • Research Hires: Postdocs, Research Scientists, Research Fellows et al.
  • Fundraising: Salon Dinners, Donor Development, Foundation Proposals
  • Marketing & Outreach: Website, Blog, Newsletter, Media, Online Marketing

Visionary Donors ($250,000)

Peter Thiel

Keystone Donors ($100,000)

Brian Cartmell, Edwin Evans, Rob Zahra

Founding Donors ($50,000)

Kurzweil AI Network (KurzweilAI.net), Brian Atkins

Community Donors ($25,000)

Clarium Capital, Mikko Rauhala

Research Donors ($10,000)

MINE, United Therapeutics, Michael Roy Ames, Jason Joachim, Ray Kurzweil, Michael & Aruna Vassar, Robert Lecnik, Gaverick Matheny, Sergio M.L. Tarrero

Associate Donors ($5,000)

James Fehlinger, Darryl Parker, Stanley Pecavar, Robin Powell, Aleksei Riikonen, Matt Shulman, Rick Schwall, Jeff Herrlich

Sustaining Donors ($1,000)

Michael Roy Ames, Matt Bamberger, Edwin Evans, Joshua Fox, Emil Gilliam, Sebastian Hagen, Jason Joachim, Charles Kam, Jonas Lamis, Serge Ledan, Gaverick Matheny, Jesse Merriman, David Orban, Kevin Perrott, Robin Powell, Mikko Rauhala, Aleksei Riikonen, Chris Rovner, Rick Schwall, Kaj Sotala, Sergio M.L. Tarrero, Peter Thiel, Michael Vassar, Derek Zahn, Rob Zahra

Donor list represents total gifts given since the Singularity Institute's inception, except Sustaining Donors. The Sustaining Donors program represents donors who give $1,000 or more during the present calendar year.