Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $385,480 over two years to the Oregon Health & Science University to support a proof-of-concept study led by Professor Fikadu Tafesse to explore the potential of Nanobodies as a multivalent intervention that can provide a cheaper, more scalable alternative to monoclonal antibodies for malaria prevention.
This falls within our focus area of global health R&D.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $244,728 to the University of Chicago to support the Existential Risk Laboratory (formerly known as the Chicago School of Existential Risk), a summer research fellowship for undergraduate and graduate students focused on reducing existential risks.
This follows our June 2024 support and falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $282,000 to IDinsight to support a project to conduct surveys across ten Indian states on household air pollution and potential sources of lead exposure, using IDinsight’s DataDelta India Panel platform.
This falls within our focus area of global public health policy.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,250,000 over two years to Ambitious Impact for general support. Ambitious Impact conducts research on ideas for highly impactful charities and helps founders create charities that implement those ideas.
This follows our March 2022 support and falls within our focus area of empowering people to use their careers and donations to help others as much as possible.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $2,700,000 to 80,000 Hours to support spending on marketing and advertising. 80,000 Hours provides online research and advice aimed at helping people enter impactful careers in what it considers to be the world’s most pressing problems.
This follows our December 2023 support and falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $441,613 to the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) to support AI governance field-building. GovAI intends to use this funding to conduct AI governance research and to develop a talent pipeline for those interested in entering the field.
This follows our December 2021 support and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $18,550 to SecureBio to support the creation of an online dashboard tracking frontier AI models’ performance on biology-related evaluations. SecureBio hopes that making this data available will allow for more rigorous public conversations about AI’s biological research capabilities.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $37,000 to SecureBio to support a study measuring how a group of experts perform on SecureBio’s Virology Capabilities Test benchmark.
Comparing AI performance to a group of human experts working together (rather than to individual virologists working alone) helps to contextualize the capabilities of new AI models. SecureBio hopes that this work will inform important discussions on how dual-use technologies are handled in the life sciences.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $650,000 over two years to the Fish Welfare Initiative to support its work on improving farmed fish welfare in Asia, primarily in India.
This follows our August 2022 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in fish welfare.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $240,597 to the Institute for Security and Technology to support research and workshops on AI chip export control enforcement. This work, led by Philip Reiner and Steve Kelly, seeks to investigate the root causes of export control compliance failure and develop a framework for an improved multi-agency export controls enforcement program.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.