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In the News
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May 12, 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
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May 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
July 12, 2021
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
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July 2021
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Global Health & Wellbeing
October 05, 2021
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications
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October 2021
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Global Catastrophic Risks
August 26, 2021
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass
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August 2021
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August 01, 2023
August 19, 2021
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
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August 2021
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Global Catastrophic Risks
May 19, 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion
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May 2023
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Global Catastrophic Risks
April 18, 2024
November 01, 2023
May 05, 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
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May 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
February 15, 2021
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80,000 Hours: Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened
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February 2021
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Farm Animal Welfare
March 18, 2020
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Barron’s Penta: How Philanthropists are Tackling COVID-19
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March 2020
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Scientific Research
September 01, 2022
November 02, 2020
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BioSpace: Icosavax Turns VLP Tech to COVID-19 Vaccine, with $16.5 Million in New Financing
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November 2020
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Scientific Research
March 15, 2018
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Bloomberg: Protein Engineering May Be the Future of Science
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March 2018
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Scientific Research
December 01, 2015
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Chronicle of Philanthropy: Wringing the Most Good Out of a Facebook Fortune
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December 2015
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February 07, 2023
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CNBC: Facebook co-founder Moskovitz funds research into cooling the Earth with sunlight reflection
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February 2023
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Global Health & Wellbeing
May 24, 2018
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CNN: This startup wants to help the planet with meatless burgers
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May 2018
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Farm Animal Welfare
December 14, 2020
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Comstock’s Magazine: Promise for New Proteins
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December 2020
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Farm Animal Welfare
March 04, 2024
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Current Affairs: Why Factory Farming is a Moral Atrocity
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March 2024
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Farm Animal Welfare
October 04, 2018
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Devex: A new US development finance agency takes flight
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October 2018
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Global Health & Development
January 12, 2023
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Devex: Gates, USAID among Open Philanthropy’s $150M regrant contest winners
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January 2023
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Global Health & Wellbeing
January 06, 2022
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Devex: Open Philanthropy launches programs for South Asia, global aid work
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January 2022
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Global Aid Policy
October 29, 2018
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Discover Magazine: Meet the Biochemist Engineering Proteins From Scratch
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October 2018
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Scientific Research
January 11, 2024
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EA Consulting Network: The Case for Developing Specialized Expertise with Lewis Bollard
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January 2024
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Farm Animal Welfare
September 24, 2021
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EE Times: Building a Framework to Trust AI
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September 2021
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
October 15, 2019
September 25, 2019
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Engineers Without Borders USA: Creating Cold: The Chilling Challenge of Off-Grid Refrigeration for Developing Countries
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September 2019
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Scientific Research
April 27, 2021
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Financial Times: Air pollution: Asia’s deadliest public health crisis is not Covid
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April 2021
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Global Health & Wellbeing
September 10, 2020
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Forbes: 2021 Breakthrough Prize Winners Announced: Researcher Who Developed Protein Design Technology Awarded $3 Million
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September 2020
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Scientific Research
July 01, 2020
March 19, 2021
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Forbes: French Birds, Spanish Cows, Danish Minks: The Fight For Animals’ Rights In Europe
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March 2021
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Farm Animal Welfare
March 21, 2019
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Forbes: With Launch Of New CRISPR Company, Competition Extends To Diagnostics
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March 2019
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Scientific Research
August 30, 2023
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Freakonomics Podcast: New Technologies Always Scare Us. Is A.I. Any Different?
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August 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
September 08, 2023
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Future of Life Institute Podcast: Tom Davidson on How Quickly AI Could Automate the Economy
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September 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
April 04, 2018
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GeekWire: Open Philanthropy Project awards $11M to protein designers for universal flu vaccine
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April 2018
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Scientific Research
October 02, 2019
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Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News: Cancer Vaccine Developers Report Bumper Crop of New Cancer Antigens
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October 2019
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Scientific Research
October 19, 2023
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Good Judgment: Superforecasting AI
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October 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
November 22, 2023
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Hear This Idea: Michelle Lavery on the Science of Animal Welfare
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November 2023
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Farm Animal Welfare
August 10, 2023
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How I Learned To Love Shrimp Podcast: Amanda Hungerford on Open Philanthropy’s funding for farmed animal welfare
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August 2023
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Farm Animal Welfare
January 25, 2024
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InFi Podcast: Tom Davidson on the Likely Progression of AI
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January 2024
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
March 17, 2023
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Inside Philanthropy: A Deep Dive Into Two of Open Philanthropy’s EA-Inspired Programs
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March 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
November 16, 2021
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Inside Philanthropy: With More Donors, Open Philanthropy Is Spinning Its Criminal Justice Reform Work Into a New Fund
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November 2021
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Criminal Justice Reform
June 14, 2023
January 03, 2023
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Lunar Society Podcast: Holden Karnofsky – Transformative AI & Most Important Century
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January 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
October 02, 2019
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Nature Biotechnology, First Rounders Podcast: Pardis Sabeti
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October 2019
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Scientific Research
November 05, 2020
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Nature: Coronavirus Testing Finally Gathers Speed
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November 2020
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Scientific Research
December 20, 2017
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Nature: Facebook billionaire pours funds into high-risk research
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December 2017
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Scientific Research
February 19, 2019
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Nature: Faster, better, cheaper: the rise of CRISPR in disease detection
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February 2019
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Scientific Research
September 05, 2019