Top Contributors
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute has had 3,939 contributors throughout its history. Those who have given $5,000 or more and wish to be recognized are listed below.
Recent Contributors
Active supporters who have given since 2015, listed with total contributions (including pre-2015 support and matching funds leveraged):| Open Philanthropy | $9,778,250 |
| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | $1,100,000 |
| Vitalik Buterin | $1,033,057 |
| Jaan Tallinn | $745,447 |
| Ben Delo (in partnership with Open Philanthropy) | $730,000 |
| EA Funds Long-Term Future Fund | $678,994 |
| Edwin Evans | $564,197 |
| Loren Merritt | $550,000 |
| Richard Schwall | $460,730 |
| Christian Calderon | $367,574 |
| Blake Borgeson | $350,492 |
| Future of Life Institute | $250,252 |
| Jonathan Weissman | $211,290 |
| Raising for Effective Giving | $204,167 |
| Scott Dickey | $165,520 |
| Ethan Ashkie | $123,242 |
| Eric Rogstad | $120,440 |
| Patrick LaVictoire | $117,199 |
| Gordon Irlam | $109,700 |
| Sebastian Hagen | $98,587 |
| Ben Hoskin | $94,219 |
| Luke Stebbing | $86,688 |
| Peter Scott | $80,000 |
| Michael Blume | $78,855 |
| Buck Shlegeris | $72,684 |
| Alexei Andreev | $71,733 |
| Marius van Voorden (via Bitcoin) | $71,461 |
| Mike Anderson | $67,225 |
| Leif K-Brooks | $67,216 |
| The Casey & Family Foundation | $60,000 |
| Alan Chang | $56,048 |
| Mikko Rauhala | $53,745 |
| Misha Gurevich | $52,370 |
| Brandon Reinhart | $50,050 |
| Scott Worley | $50,005 |
| Paul Crowley | $49,750 |
| Max Kesin | $49,471 |
| Marcello Herreshoff | $49,110 |
| Bryce Woodworth | $47,661 |
| Robin Powell | $46,960 |
| The Maurice Amado Foundation | $46,000 |
| Quinn Maurmann | $45,600 |
| Scott Siskind | $45,500 |
| Simon Sáfár | $42,286 |
| Michael Cohen | $39,389 |
| Austin Peña | $37,517 |
| Kelsey Piper | $35,728 |
| Mick Porter | $34,410 |
| Victoria Krakovna | $32,320 |
| János Kramár | $30,661 |
| Ethan Sterling | $30,338 |
| Gustav Simonsson | $30,280 |
| Jeremy Schlatter | $28,924 |
| Brian Tomasik | $26,010 |
| Zvi Mowshowitz | $25,010 |
| Bruno Parga | $24,508 |
| Clark Gaebel | $24,000 |
| Johan Edström | $23,680 |
| Luke Titmus | $21,231 |
| Kevin Fischer | $21,230 |
| James Mazur | $21,022 |
| Alex Schell | $20,575 |
| Lance Jackson | $20,500 |
| Pasha Kamyshev | $20,200 |
| Jai Dhyani | $20,156 |
| Daniel Weinand | $19,800 |
| Nicolas Tarleton | $19,559 |
| Leopold Bauernfeind | $18,900 |
| Sergejs Silko | $18,200 |
| Derek Kisman | $18,000 |
| John Salvatier | $17,718 |
| Kenn Hamm | $17,372 |
| Benjamin Goldhaber | $17,250 |
| Michal Pokorný | $16,406 |
| William Morgan | $16,000 |
| Joshua Fox | $15,594 |
| Robert Mushkatblat | $15,500 |
| William Ehlhardt | $15,253 |
| Ivan Bakhtin | $14,520 |
| Tran Bao Trung | $14,379 |
| Eric Lin | $13,140 |
| Tobias Dänzer | $13,059 |
| Fergus Dall | $12,359 |
| Sam Eisenstat | $12,356 |
| Kevin Secretan | $12,251 |
| Robert and Judith Babcock | $12,100 |
| Trenton Osborn | $12,000 |
| Emma Borhanian | $12,000 |
| Michael Plotz | $11,960 |
| Laura and Chris Soares | $11,560 |
| Stephanie Zolayvar | $11,257 |
| Jean-Philippe Sugarbroad | $11,200 |
| Ryan Carey | $10,172 |
| Chris Barnett | $10,073 |
| Josh Triplett | $10,000 |
| Grady Simon | $9,580 |
| Phil Hazelden | $9,572 |
| Charlie Dake | $9,229 |
| Jay Schweikert | $8,871 |
| Xerxes Dotiwalla | $8,700 |
| Nader Chehab | $8,586 |
| Richard Ngo | $8,578 |
| Robert and Gery Ruddick | $7,500 |
| Andrew McKnight | $7,353 |
| Raymond Arnold | $7,270 |
| elisabeth diana li | $7,243 |
| Joel Lehman | $7,000 |
| Nhat Anh Phan | $7,000 |
| Alex Edelman | $6,932 |
| Cliff & Stephanie Hyra | $6,708 |
| András Kovács | $6,706 |
| T. Swett | $6,081 |
| Bryan Dana | $6,044 |
| Steve Byrnes | $6,000 |
| Daniel Hook | $5,850 |
| Mikhail Samin | $5,828 |
| Jim Dauterive | $5,551 |
| Jacob Falkovich | $5,524 |
| Fathom Computing PBC | $5,500 |
| Mark Xu | $5,204 |
| Kevin R. Fischer | $5,000 |
| Daniel Ziegler | $5,000 |
| Robert Yaman | $5,000 |
Past Contributors
Other supporters who helped get us to where we are today:| Thiel Foundation | $1,627,000 |
| Jed McCaleb | $631,137 |
| Brian Cartmell | $146,700 |
| Chris Haley | $60,450 |
| Guy Srinivasan | $58,310 |
| Henrik Jonsson | $54,525 |
| Mihaly Barasz | $51,623 |
| Jason Joachim | $44,100 |
| Nathaniel Soares | $33,230 |
| Jesse Liptrap | $29,650 |
| Tomer Kagan | $26,500 |
| Martine Rothblatt | $25,000 |
| Gary Basin | $25,000 |
| Liron Shapira | $24,750 |
| Rolf Nelson | $21,810 |
| Stanley Pecavar | $17,450 |
| Sergio Tarrero | $15,332 |
| Stephan T. Lavavej | $15,000 |
| Donald King | $15,000 |
| Quixey | $15,000 |
| Aleksei Riikonen | $14,372 |
| Michael Ames | $12,500 |
| Benjamin Hoffman | $12,332 |
| Riley Goodside | $10,049 |
| Gil Elbaz | $10,000 |
| Adam Weissman | $10,000 |
| Paul Rhodes | $8,216 |
| Daniel Nelson | $8,147 |
| James Douma | $6,430 |
| Andrew Hay | $6,201 |
| Frank Adamek | $5,250 |
| John Maxwell | $5,215 |
| Giles Edkins | $5,145 |
| Tuxedage John Adams | $5,000 |
| Thomas Jackson | $5,000 |
| Jeff Bone | $5,000 |
Top contributors are listed under "Recent" if at least $500 of their support came in 2015 or later.
