We occasionally publish blog posts to explain our general philosophy on giving, reflect on our progress thus far, announce our plans for the future, and more.
Blog Posts
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Date
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Focus Area
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Author(s)
May 10, 2023
April 17, 2023
Title
12 tentative ideas for US AI policy
Date
April 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Author
Luke Muehlhauser
March 10, 2023
Title
Announcing the Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest
Date
March 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Author
Jason Schukraft, Peter Favaloro
January 12, 2023
Title
Announcing the awardees for our $150M Regranting Challenge
Date
January 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Chris Smith, Emily Oehlsen, Alexander Berger
November 23, 2022
Title
Does putting kids in school now put money in their pockets later? Revisiting a natural experiment in Indonesia
Date
November 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Author
David Roodman
September 09, 2022
Title
Cause Exploration Prizes: Announcing our prizes
Date
September 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Chris Smith
July 25, 2022
Title
New Shallow Investigations: Telecommunications and Civil Conflict Reduction
Date
July 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Josh You
July 21, 2022
Title
Incoming Program Officer for Effective Altruism Community Growth (Global Health and Wellbeing): James Snowden
Date
July 2022
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Global Health and Wellbeing)
Author
Zachary Robinson
July 15, 2022
Title
Report on Social Returns to Productivity Growth
Date
July 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Tom Davidson
July 05, 2022
Title
Update on Our Planned Allocation to GiveWell’s Recommended Charities in 2022
Date
July 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Author
Alexander Berger, Peter Favaloro
June 16, 2022
June 07, 2022
May 25, 2022
Title
Open Philanthropy’s Cause Exploration Prizes
Date
May 2022
Focus Area
Author
Aaron Gertler, Chris Smith
May 12, 2022
Title
Our Progress in 2021 and Plans for 2022
Date
May 2022
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky and Alexander Berger
May 12, 2022
Title
Request for proposals: Help Open Philanthropy quantify biological risk
Date
May 2022
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Author
Damon Binder and Andrew Snyder-Beattie
February 22, 2022
Title
New grantmaking program: supporting the effective altruism community around Global Health and Wellbeing
Date
February 2022
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Author
Zachary Robinson
February 01, 2022
Title
Open Philanthropy’s Regranting Challenge
Date
February 2022
Focus Area
Author
Alexander Berger, Emily Oehlsen, and Chris Smith
January 03, 2022
Title
Incoming Program Officers for South Asian Air Quality and Global Aid Policy
Date
January 2022
Focus Area
Author
Otis Reid
November 19, 2021
Title
2021 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities: Why We’re Giving More Going Forward
Date
November 2021
Focus Area
Author
Alexander Berger
November 18, 2021
Title
Technical Updates to Our Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Prioritization Framework
Date
November 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Peter Favaloro and Alexander Berger
November 16, 2021
Title
Our Criminal Justice Reform Program Is Now an Independent Organization: Just Impact
Date
November 2021
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Author
Zachary Robinson and Alexander Berger
June 29, 2021
Title
New Roles in Global Health and Wellbeing
Date
June 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Otis Reid
June 17, 2021
Title
Report on Whether AI Could Drive Explosive Economic Growth
Date
June 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Author
Tom Davidson
June 15, 2021
June 03, 2021
Title
New Staff in Operations, Programs, and Research (2021)
Date
June 2021
Focus Area
Author
Gabriela Romero
April 23, 2021
March 25, 2021
Title
Report on Semi-informative Priors
Date
March 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Author
Tom Davidson
January 05, 2021
December 11, 2020
Title
2020 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 2020
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Author
Holden Karnofsky
December 08, 2020
Title
Our AI governance grantmaking so far
Date
December 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Author
Luke Muehlhauser
November 23, 2020
Title
Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Staff – 2020
Date
November 2020
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
September 08, 2020
Title
New Report on How Much Computational Power It Takes to Match the Human Brain
Date
September 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Author
Joseph Carlsmith
August 12, 2020
Title
How to Lower the Price of Plant-Based Meat
Date
August 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Author
Lewis Bollard
June 15, 2020
May 08, 2020
Title
New Staff in Communications, Grants, Operations, Programs, and Research (2020)
Date
May 2020
Focus Area
Author
Michael Levine
May 01, 2020
March 17, 2020
Title
Forecasting the COVID-19 Pandemic
Date
March 2020
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Author
Luke Muehlhauser
December 18, 2019
Title
Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Staff – 2019
Date
December 2019
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
December 06, 2019
Title
2019 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Author
Holden Karnofsky
November 07, 2019
October 10, 2019
Title
How Feasible Is Long-range Forecasting?
Date
October 2019
Focus Area
Longtermism
Author
Luke Muehlhauser
August 12, 2019
Title
Will Companies Make Good on Cage-Free Pledges?
Date
August 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Author
Lewis Bollard
August 06, 2019
Title
Questions We Ask Ourselves Before Making a Grant
Date
August 2019
Focus Area
Author
Michael Levine
July 09, 2019
Title
GiveWell’s Top Charities Are (Increasingly) Hard to Beat
Date
July 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Author
Alexander Berger
June 10, 2019
Title
Explaining Our Bet on Sherlock Biosciences’ Innovations in Viral Diagnostics
Date
June 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Author
Heather Youngs and Chris Somerville
April 09, 2019
Title
New Staff in Operations, Programs, and Research
Date
April 2019
Focus Area
Author
Michael Levine
April 08, 2019
Title
History of Philanthropy Literature Review: Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Date
April 2019
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Author
Holden Karnofsky
April 08, 2019
March 07, 2019
Title
Reflections on Our 2018 Generalist Research Analyst Recruiting
Date
March 2019
Focus Area
Author
Luke Muehlhauser
February 28, 2019