80,000 Hours → Max Harms
Podcast led to applicant contacts
2026-09-19
Harms attributes two grantees’ initial approaches to his podcast appearance.
Grant selection and research direction
Max Harms
Manager of the Corrigibility Research Fund.
Background
Harms describes a human first review followed by Claude-assisted assessment, with reconsideration and overrides. He values projects both for their research and their potential to bring capable people into alignment careers.
What it does
Harms describes a human first review followed by Claude-assisted assessment, with reconsideration and overrides. He values projects both for their research and their potential to bring capable people into alignment careers.
What the records show
Max Harms → Corrigibility Research Fund
Fund manager
2026-09-19
Harms manages the fund and recommends awards.
From the investigation
Who can actually authorize a grant?
A smaller programme supplies a completed example. The Corrigibility Research Fund names Lightcone Infrastructure Inc. as its legal grantmaker and final approver. Max Harms manages the fund. On September 3 he announced eight awards totalling $132,000, following more than 100 applications, and directed future applicants to Commons. Ian Kahn was awarded $35,000 and Ben Saudek $3,000; Harms says both first contacted him after his appearance on the 80,000 Hours podcast. Here is a visible sequence from public communication to professional contact to funding. Fund structure , awards
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2 relationshipsMax Harms → Fund manager → Corrigibility Research Fund
2026-09-19
Harms manages the fund and recommends awards.
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80,000 Hours → Podcast led to applicant contacts → Max Harms
2026-09-19
Harms attributes two grantees’ initial approaches to his podcast appearance. Harms’ account; 80,000 Hours did not make these awards.