Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,278,332 over two years to the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to support the placement of a senior IRC staffer at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) via the Intergovernmental Personnel Act. This staffer will identify and promote ways to increase the cost efficiency of USAID programs. The grant will also cover the generation of cost evidence, utilizing the Dioptra tool, by five USAID implementing partners.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $100,375 over two years to the University of British Columbia to support research led by Professor Jeff Clune on AI alignment.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $279,000 over three years to the University of Wisconsin, Madison to support Haipeng Shi’s research, in collaboration with Professor Sarah Adcock, on layer hen welfare. Shi’s research will be focused on the welfare effects of beak trimming and on alternatives to beak trimming.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,420,937 over three years to SecureBio to support their research on reducing risks from advanced biotechnology.
MATS is an educational seminar and independent research program that aims to provide talented scholars with talks, workshops, and research mentorship in the field of AI alignment. This grant will support a London-based extension for a MATS cohort that started in Berkeley. Conjecture will use this funding to provide office space in London and operations support.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $4,553 to Oliver Crook to support his travel to an event on biological attribution bringing together government policymakers and technical experts.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $229,080 over three years to the Foundation for Professional Development Fund to support their collaboration with the University of Southern California and the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute on genome sequencing for clinical syphilis in southern Africa.
This research will help inform efforts to develop a vaccine against syphilis. This is one of three grants we are making to support this collaboration.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $90,000 to the University of Southern California to support work led by Dr. Jeffrey Klausner on genome sequencing for clinical syphilis in southern Africa, in collaboration with the Foundation for Professional Development Fund and the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute.
This research will help inform efforts to develop a vaccine against syphilis. This is one of three grants we are making to support this collaboration.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $190,000 to Harvard University to support the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, a research center focusing on epidemiology and infectious disease modeling.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $625,000 to FAR AI for general support. FAR AI works to incubate and accelerate research agendas to ensure AI systems are more trustworthy and beneficial to society.
