There should be $100M grants to automate AI safety

This post reflects my personal opinion and not necessarily that of other members of Apollo Research. TLDR: I think funders should heavily incentivize AI safety work that enables spending $100M+ in compute or API budgets on automated AI labor that directly and differentially translates to safety. Motivation I think we are in a short timeline world (and we should take the possibility seriously even if we don't have full confidence yet). This means that I think funders should aim to allocate large amounts of money (e.g. $1-50B per year across the ecosystem) on AI safety in the next 2-3 years. I think that the AI safety funders have been allocating way too little funding and their spending has been far too conservative in the past 5 years. So, in my opinion, we should definitely continue rampi