Funding Type: Grants

Rethink Priorities — Farm Animal Welfare Research Support (2023)

Open Philanthropy recommended three grants totaling $2,883,550 over two years to Rethink Priorities to support their research on interventions aimed at improving farm animal welfare, including through activities like convening researchers and testing intervention strategies. We believe more high-quality research in this area will help us and other farm animal welfare funders decide which future opportunities to support.

This follows our September 2021 support for Rethink Priorities’ farm animal welfare research and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.

Global Bar Magazine — Global Health Content

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Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $50,000 to Global Bar Magazine to support their production of free, publicly accessible articles, podcasts, and seminars covering global health in Sweden.

This falls within our focus area of global aid policy.

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Risk Management Frameworks (2024)

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Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $200,000 to the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity to support the development of risk management frameworks and the analysis of AI standards. An additional grant to the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative will support related work.

This follows our April 2022 support and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.

Future House — Benchmarks for Biology Research and Development

Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $2,946,250 over two years to Future House to support the creation of benchmarks to test how well large language models can perform biology R&D. Future House is a nonprofit with a mission to build semi-autonomous AIs that can conduct scientific research.

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.

— AI Risk Management Frameworks (2024)

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Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $713,000 to the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative to support the development of risk management frameworks and the analysis of AI standards. An additional grant to the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity will support related work.

This follows our April 2022 support and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.

Global Food Partners — Advocacy Summits

Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $100,000 over two years to Global Food Partners to organize two annual summits for advocates of cage-free reforms in Asia. The summit is aimed at helping participants coordinate on the best strategies for implementing reforms.

This follows our January 2023 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in cage-free reforms.