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AI Probability Should Scale Resource Allocation

Both very good (scarcity-free) and horrible dystopian outcomes from transformative AI are easy to imagine; the more likely you think transformative AI is and the more imminent it is, the more it should be the top philanthropic priority over more direct short-term problems—so Open Philanthropy does both, with the balance tilting toward AI as the technology looks more real and imminent.

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Speaker

Holden Karnofsky

Evidence Quote

It's just a matter of how real and how imminent do you think this transformative AI stuff is? The more real and more imminent, the more of our resources should go into it.

Source

Holden Karnofsky — History's most important centuryDwarkesh Patel Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:35:22 AM

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