If you give me $250,000, I will work on AI alignment independently for a year. (Serious offer!) I'm not Terence Tao or Von Neumann, but I did graduate with a master's degree in CS/ML from Oxford so have at least some knowledge of ML. I think getting people like me to work on it is more realistic and potentially higher reward because you can get people who will actually work on it, rather than the slim chance of getting Terence Tao on board, and can have a greater number of hands to complete the tedious work and experiments that need to be done
If you give me $250,000, I will work on AI alignment independently for a year. (Serious offer!) I'm not Terence Tao or Von Neumann, but I did graduate with a master's degree in CS/ML from Oxford so have at least some knowledge of ML. I think getting people like me to work on it is more realistic and potentially higher reward because you can get people who will actually work on it, rather than the slim chance of getting Terence Tao on board, and can have a greater number of hands to complete the tedious work and experiments that need to be done