EA - Announcing a $6,000,000 endowment for NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy by Sofia Fogel

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Announcing a $6,000,000 endowment for NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy, published by Sofia Fogel on June 1, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.
The NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program will soon become the NYU Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy (CMEP), our future secured by a generous $6,000,000 endowment. The CMEP Endowment Fund was established in May 2024 with a $5,000,000 gift from The Navigation Fund and a $1,000,000 gift from Polaris Ventures. We now welcome contributions from other supporters too, with deep gratitude to our founding supporters.
Since our launch in Fall 2022, the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program has stood at the forefront of academic inquiry into the nature and intrinsic value of nonhuman minds. CMEP will continue this work, seeking to advance understanding of the consciousness, sentience, sapience, moral status, legal status, and political status of animals and AI systems via research, outreach, and field building in science, philosophy, and policy.
You can read the press release about the endowment here. Thanks to everyone who has engaged with our work so far, and please stay tuned for more announcements in the summer and fall!
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