How is this funded?
If someone currently has a monthly donation going to FHI, is it worth them contacting Oxford & asking for the donation to be registered against FutureTech instead? I imagine it would be more in need of funding than FHI right now as it's just starting but maybe it already has a big donor.
It's called the Oxford Martin Program, and Martin is the billionaire or near-billionaire who is the main donor to FHI.
The Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology (aka FutureTech) is a new research department at Oxford University, roughly a spin-off of FHI, but focusing on AI and nanotech risks and differential technological development. Like FHI, this department is directed by Nick Bostrom. They'll be hiring more researchers soon. Basically, this means more people and money being devoted to existential risk reduction.
Okay, now back to work.