Timeline of Center for Applied Rationality

Abstract

This work is a timeline of the Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR), a nonprofit that organizes workshops that focus on AI safety and existential risks, from 2011 to 2020. Up to early 2019, CFAR’s flagship workshops were one week long and typically trained around 32 participants at a time, although some were both smaller and larger. CFAR hosted a total of at least 20 such workshops. By the end of 2022, more than 900 alumni had participated in these. CFAR also ran the Summer Program on Applied Rationality and Cognition (SPARC), which was longer in length and hosted a larger number of participants. The Open Philanthropy Project was one of the main funding sources for CEFAR, having given it a total of $1,135,000 between 2016 and 2020. – AI-generated abstract.