Future of Humanity Institute shuts down

They'd already frozen funding and hiring years earlier which means their issues go back even further than that.

> While FHI had achieved significant academic and policy impact, the final years were affected by a gradual suffocation by Faculty bureaucracy. The flexible, fast-moving approach of the institute did not function well with the rigid rules and slow decision-making of the surrounding organization. (One of our administrators developed a joke measurement unit, “the Oxford”. 1 Oxford is the amount of work it takes to read and write 308 emails. This is the actual administrative effort it took for FHI to have a small grant disbursed into its account within the Philosophy Faculty so that we could start using it - after both the funder and the University had already approved the grant.) Starting in 2020, the Faculty imposed a freeze on fundraising and hiring. Unfortunately, this led to the eventual loss of lead researchers and especially the promising and diverse cohort of junior researchers, who have gone on to great things in the years since. While building an impressive alumni network and ecosystem of new nonprofits, these departures severely reduced the Institute. In late 2023, the Faculty of Philosophy announced that the contracts of the remaining FHI staff would not be renewed. On 16 April 2024, the Institute was closed down.

One of the things criminals do to hide their activity, assuage their guilt, or put on a good show is associate with legitimate organizations. Social organizations typically don't and probably shouldn't do intrusive investigations into the lives and activities of their members sufficient to uncover their crimes.

When such organizations learn of any benefits accrued through the illegal activities of members, there are obviously moral and sometimes legal requirements to disassociate, disavow, and return ill-gotten funds.

Tegmark and Bostrom should be no means be tainted by association with EA. Their ideas and work on AI alignment and safety are excellent, and they ask the questions that should be answered as AI starts to reach human levels of competence and beyond.