Max Nadeau

What it takes to launch an AI safety startup

Max Nadeau, Zershaaneh Qureshi

Coefficient Giving is launching "Project Tailwind," a new funding initiative designed to address the critical talent bottleneck in technical AI safety by supporting the creation of new nonprofits. The program employs a venture capital-style "hits-based giving" model to award grants ranging from $200,000 to over $200 million, with a recent $160 million commitment to Jeffrey Irving's Resolution center exemplifying the scale of potential support. Targeting founders with unique capabilities to pursue speculative alignment research and independent auditing, this fast-tracked effort aims to rapidly build organizations that can mitigate existential risks that commercial entities cannot or will not address.