Edit: I scooped the official post by 14 minutes 😬, check it out here
Our forecasts currently show over $100B total pledged.
But, as our forecasters have noted, this likely won’t translate into immediate actual money in the bank. They expect only about $25.7B total will actually land in charities within 4 years of shareholders being able to sell after the lockup period ends.
Projected figures for windfall are high but vary widely. Nan Ransohoff says people can expect $37B or more per year from this “third wave” of American philanthropy; George Weiner projects $12-32B will go into donor-advised funds (DAFs) and trickle out through grants; Giving What We Can expects about $15B in donations a year; and Celia Ford claims the 7 Anthropic co-founders alone could contribute $37.9B.
Our forecast, including assumptions, probability distributions, and how everything connects, lives in The IPO Windfall map on Radiant, our visual mapping platform for collaborative scenario modeling.
Prior art:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/sQH5oWAcongoEEF2P/make-your-own-model-of-the-ai-windfall
Only? This seems like a huge amount of money, especially given that the reasoning is that money is hard to unlock, not just generosity. This is like a new Gates Foundation every year...
My estimate is lower than this based on giving priors. I think people will give less plus lock some of it it up in Donor advised funds.