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Stanford Existential Risks Initiative — Distribution of The Precipice

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  • Category: Other Areas
  • Organization Name: Stanford Existential Risk Initiative
  • Amount: $24,000

  • Award Date: May 2021

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    Grant investigator: Claire Zabel

    This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. Stanford Existential Risk Initiative staff also reviewed this page prior to publication.

    Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of up to $24,000 to reimburse the Stanford Existential Risk Initiative for copies of Toby Ord’s book, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, to distribute to attendees at the Stanford Existential Risks Conference.

    This follows our January 2020 support for the Centre for Effective Altruism’s promotion of The Precipice and falls within our focus area of global catastrophic risks.

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