Lightcone Infrastructure → Operates grant-allocation platform → Lightcone Commons
2026-09-19
Lightcone Infrastructure operates Lightcone Commons.
AI & money
Grantmakers: who selects and who can refuse
Follow evaluator admission, fiscal approval and named research awards.
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The September Corrigibility Fund awards are separate from the Commons pooled round scheduled for October23.
What the connections say
12 relationshipsOliver Habryka → CEO → Lightcone Infrastructure
2026-09-19
Commons identifies Habryka as Lightcone Infrastructure CEO.
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Oliver Habryka → Founder, evaluator and evaluator admission → Lightcone Commons
2026-09-19
Habryka can admit evaluators; funders expecting at least $50,000 per round may also bring them. Admission is distinct from donors’ final grant decisions.
AI Risk Mitigation Fund → Tentative ~$2m participation → Lightcone Commons
2026-09-19
Commons names the ARM Fund as a tentative first-round funder.
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Long Term Future Fund → Planned spend-down channel; fees waived → Lightcone Commons
2026-09-19
LTFF plans to distribute up to three quarters of its remaining balance, approximately $2.8 million, to existing applications and longtermist projects, primarily through Commons. LTFF managers retain final allocation decisions. The $2.8m is the overall allocation bucket, not an observed Commons payment. Normal platform and evaluator fees are waived for the LTFF contribution.
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Lightcone Infrastructure → Announced programme migration → AI Risk Mitigation Fund
2026-09-19
Habryka announced ARM had become a Lightcone programme. ARM About still names Effective Ventures; exact transfer date and instrument unresolved.
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Lightcone Infrastructure → Legal grantmaker; final approval → Corrigibility Research Fund
2026-09-19
Lightcone retains final approval of the fund’s grants.
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Max Harms → Fund manager → Corrigibility Research Fund
2026-09-19
Harms manages the fund and recommends awards.
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Corrigibility Research Fund → Future application platform → Lightcone Commons
2026-09-19
Future fund applications use Commons.
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Corrigibility Research Fund → $35,000 award → Ian Kahn
2026-09-19
Announced research award. Award announcement; cash settlement not observed.
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Corrigibility Research Fund → $3,000 award → Ben Saudek
2026-09-19
Announced research award. Award announcement; cash settlement not observed.
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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.