How would you convert billions of dollars into actual impact on the future of AI?

Status: Open, 08 May 2026

Problem statement:
How would you convert billions of dollars into actual impact on the future of AI?

Dwarkesh Patel held a competition looking for solutions to four problems. One of them was:
With OpenAI’s new raise at an $852B valuation, OpenAI Foundation’s stake is now worth $180B. Anthropic’s cofounders have pledged to donate 80% of their wealth. Nobody seems to have a concrete idea of how to deploy 100s of billions (soon trillions) of wealth productively to “make AI go well”. If you were in charge of the OpenAI Foundation right now, what exactly would you do? And when? It’s not enough to identify a cause you think is important, because that doesn’t answer the fundamental problem of how you convert money to impact. Identify the concrete strategy you recommend pursuing.

This problem was compressed to the problem statement above.

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