Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $212,510 over two years to Observatorio de Riesgos Catastróficos Globales to support AI Risk Explorer, a website for curated information on AI risk scenarios.
The project aims to improve the quality of AI policy decision-making by providing policymakers and researchers with accessible, high-quality information.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $3,301,255 over two years to Sinergia Animal to support its work on corporate campaigns to improve the welfare of farm animals in Southeast Asia and Latin America.
This follows our June 2022 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $130,000 to ETH Zürich to support the development of a benchmark to measure whether LLM agents can design and implement adversarial attacks that overcome defenses described in the academic literature. The project will be led by Professor Florian Tramér.
This grant was funded via a request for proposals for projects benchmarking LLM agents on consequential real-world tasks. This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $3,000,000 over two years to Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI) for general support. ARI is a nonprofit advocacy organization focused on artificial intelligence.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended $1,136,459 to support living literature reviews: collections of articles written by one individual that synthesize academic research and are updated as the literature evolves.
Living literature reviews we’ve supported include:
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $125,000 to the Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund to support fundraising efforts focused on Japan’s private sector. The GHIT Fund is a public-private partnership fund that promotes the creation of innovative treatments for malaria, tuberculosis, and neglected tropical diseases.
This falls within our focus area of global aid policy.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £2,256,990 (approximately $2,971,954 at the time of conversion) over two years to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to support the extension of an ongoing randomized controlled trial (RCT) led by Dr. Jackie Cook. The RCT is aimed at evaluating the epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness of distributing mosquito nets through school net programs in Côte d’Ivoire.
This falls within our focus area of global health R&D.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $400,000 over two years to the Effective Institutions Project to support fundraising, philanthropic advising, research, and outreach related to AI governance.
This falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
Open Philanthropy gave a gift of $5 million to RAND Corporation, to be spent at the discretion of RAND president and CEO Jason Matheny. Matheny has allocated this funding across multiple initiatives, including:
This gift was recommended by Luke Muehlhauser, who leads our grantmaking on AI governance. It follows our October 2023 support, and falls within our work on potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $958,130 over two years to the Massachusetts General Hospital to support a trial of a novel method for diagnosing sepsis in children, led by Daniel Irimia.
The new method employs a specially designed microfluidic maze in which neutrophils (white blood cells) from a single drop of blood are imaged to measure the velocity and direction of movement. An AI system, trained on healthy versus septic samples, is used to categorize the complex movements and diagnose the disease.
This falls within our focus area of scientific research.