In the first round I'm planning to pay:

• $10k to Ryan Carey
• $10k to Chris Pasek
• $20k to Peter Scheyer

I'm excited to see what comes of this! Within a few months I'll do another round of advertising + making decisions.

I want to emphasize that given the evaluation process, this definitely shouldn't be read as a strong negative judgment (or endorsement) of anyone's application.

If you have 120K dollars to spend next year on this, you might get more impact by setting up a monthly prize for best online research about AI risk. Similar to the Quantified Health prize that ran on LW a while ago. The payoffs could be 5K for first place, 2K for second, 1K for third, leaving you with 2K per month for judging and administrivia.