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| 2017 || Year-round || Funding || The huge increase in cryptocurrency prices in this year would drive a lot of donations to AI safety organizations from people who had held cryptocurrency and got rich from it. MIRI would not be able to match the performance of its 2017 fundraiser in later years, and would cite the unusually high cryptocurrency prices in 2017 as one possible reason.<ref name=miri-2019-fundraiser-review/>
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| 2018 || Early year || Organization || The Median Group, a "non-profit dedicated to research on global catastrophic risks", is formed at around this time. The group would include two former MIRI researchers.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://mediangroup.org/team|title = Team|publisher = Median Group|accessdat accessdate = May 16, 2020}}</ref> As of 2020, the AI safety part of its research would include an interactive model of AI progress as well as a rough estimate of the feasibility of training an AGI using reinforcement learning.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://mediangroup.org/research|title = Research|publisher = Median Group|accessdate = May 16, 2020}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|February 28}} || Publication || 80,000 Hours publishes a blog post ''A new recommended career path for effective altruists: China specialist'' suggesting specialization in China as a career path for people in the effective altruist movement. China's likely leading role in the development of artificial intelligence is highlighted as particularly relevant to AI safety efforts.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://80000hours.org/articles/china-careers/|title = 'A new recommended career path for effective altruists: China specialist|last = Todd|first = Benjamin|last2 = Tse|first2 = Brian|date = February 28, 2018|accessdate = September 8, 2019|publisher = 80,000 Hours}}</ref>
