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Research & Updates
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June 2020
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Dr. Kate Storrs, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Justus Liebig University
Date
June 11, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2020
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Professor Eve Marder, University Professor and Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience, Brandeis University
Date
June 01, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2020
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Dr. Jess Riedel, Senior Research Scientist (Physics), NTT Research
Date
March 01, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2020
Title
Dr. Paul Christiano, Researcher, OpenAI
Date
March 01, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2020
Title
Professor David Wolpert, Resident Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute
Date
January 24, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2020
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Professor E.J. Chichilnisky, John R. Adler Professor of Neurosurgery and Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University
Date
January 23, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2020
Title
Professor Jared Kaplan, Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University
Date
January 23, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2020
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Dr. Michael Frank, Senior Technical Staff Member, Sandia National Laboratory
Date
January 22, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2020
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Professor Stephen Baccus, Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford University
Date
January 22, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Markus Meister, Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences at the California Institute of Technology
Date
September 24, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Barak Pearlmutter, Professor of Computer Science, Maynooth University
Date
September 23, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Blake Richards, Assistant Professor in the Montreal Neurological Institute and the School of Computer Science at McGill University
Date
September 20, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Dong Song, Research Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California
Date
September 19, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
Title
Professor Eric Jonas, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago
Date
September 17, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
Title
Professor Erik De Schutter, Professor, Computational Neuroscience, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Date
September 17, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Anthony Zador, Alle Davis and Maxine Harrison Professor of Neurosciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date
September 12, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Konrad Kording, Penn Integrated Knowledge Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Date
September 11, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Shaul Druckmann, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Date
September 05, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
Title
Professor Chris Eliasmith, Professor of Philosophy and Systems Design Engineering, Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience, and Director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo
Date
September 05, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2019
Title
Professor Won Mok Shim, Associate Professor at the Centre for Neuroscience Imaging Research, Sungkyunkwan University
Date
August 07, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2019
Title
Professor Rosa Cao, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University
Date
August 07, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2019
Title
Dr. Adam Marblestone, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Date
January 01, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2019
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Dr. Stephen Larson, CEO of MetaCell and Co-founder of OpenWorm
Date
January 01, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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April 2018
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David Alpert, Founder and President, and Sarah Guidi, Managing Director, Greater Greater Washington
Date
April 06, 2018
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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March 2018
Title
Becca Heller, Director, International Refugee Assistance Project
Date
March 15, 2018
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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February 2018
Title
Dr. Stephanie James, Director of Science, and Dr. Karen Tountas, Scientific Program Manager, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH)
Date
February 14, 2018
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2017
December 2017
November 2017
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Dr. Michael Clemens, Co-Director of Migration, Displacement, and Humanitarian Policy, Center for Global Development
Date
November 29, 2017
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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November 2017
Title
Amanda Glassman, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
November 29, 2017
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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October 2017
Title
Becca Heller, Director, International Refugee Assistance Project
Date
October 05, 2017
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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September 2017
Title
David Goldberg, Founder and Global CEO, Founders Pledge
Date
September 22, 2017
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
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September 2017
Title
David Alpert, Founder and President, and Sarah Guidi, Managing Director, Greater Greater Washington
Date
September 20, 2017
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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September 2017
Title
Dr. Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
September 20, 2017
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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September 2017
Title
Mike Konczal, Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
Date
September 19, 2017
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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September 2017
Title
Dr. Josh Bivens, Director of Research, Economic Policy Institute
Date
September 18, 2017
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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August 2017
Title
Josh Morrison, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Waitlist Zero
Date
August 25, 2017
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Other Areas
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August 2017
Title
Ady Barkan, Campaign Director, Fed Up, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
August 10, 2017
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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July 2017
Title
Alan Durning, Founder and Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
July 12, 2017
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
June 2017
Title
Kristie De Peña, Immigration Policy Counsel, and Matthew La Corte, Immigration Policy Analyst, Niskanen Center
Date
June 22, 2017
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
June 2017
May 2017
April 2017
Title
Carolina Macedo, Director of Farm Animal Campaigns, Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal
Date
April 14, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
April 2017
Title
Mia MacDonald, Executive Director, Brighter Green
Date
April 11, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
April 2017
Title
Professor Trevor Gaunt, Emeritus Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Cape Town
Date
April 04, 2017
Focus Area
Other Areas
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March 2017
Title
Bruce Friedrich, Executive Director, and Clare Bland, Development Director, The Good Food Institute (GFI)
Date
March 27, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
March 2017
Title
David Alpert, President, and Sarah Guidi, Managing Director, Greater Greater Washington
Date
March 22, 2017
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
March 2017
Title
Dr. Josh Bivens, Director of Research, Economic Policy Institute
Date
March 21, 2017
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
March 2017
Title
Dr. Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
March 21, 2017
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
March 2017
Title
Professor Simon Nicholson, Co-Executive Director, Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment
Date
March 10, 2017
Focus Area
Other Areas
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March 2017
Title
Sonja Trauss, Co-founder, California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund (CaRLA)
Date
March 06, 2017
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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February 2017
Title
David Coman-Hidy, President; Michelle Kucerak, Vice President, Development; and Aaron Ross, Vice President, Policy & Strategy, The Humane League
Date
February 28, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
February 2017
Title
Lewis Bollard, Program Officer, Farm Animal Welfare, Open Philanthropy Project
Date
February 23, 2017
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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February 2017
Title
Dr. Chetana Mirle, Director, Farm Animals, and Elissa Lane, Deputy Director, Farm Animals, Humane Society International
Date
February 15, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
February 2017
Title
Joe Coon, Kristie De Peña, Matthew La Corte, and Andrew Mills, Niskanen Center
Date
February 14, 2017
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
February 2017
Title
Nick Cooney, Executive Vice President, Mercy for Animals
Date
February 10, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
February 2017
Title
Josh Balk, Vice President, Farm Animal Protection, The Humane Society of the United States
Date
February 09, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
February 2017
Title
Jaya Bhumitra, International Director of Corporate Outreach, and Sharon Nuñez Gough, Executive Director, Animal Equality
Date
February 09, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
February 2017
Title
Gauri Maulekhi, Trustee, People for Animals
Date
February 06, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
January 2017
Title
Professor Keith Frankish, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, The Open University
Date
January 24, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
January 2017
Title
Dr. Derek Shiller, Software Engineer, DailyPay
Date
January 24, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
November 2016
November 2016
Title
Dr. James D. Rose, Professor Emeritus of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming
Date
November 18, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
November 2016
Title
Marc Jarsulic, Vice President, Economic Policy, and Michael Madowitz, Economics, Center for American Progress
Date
November 17, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
November 2016
Title
David Alpert, Founder and Board President; Sarah Guidi, Managing Director; and David Whitehead, Housing Program Organizer, Greater Greater Washington
Date
November 16, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
November 2016
Title
Dr. Christopher Pickett, Director, Rescuing Biomedical Research
Date
November 16, 2016
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
November 2016
Title
Todd Moss, Chief Operating Officer and Head Fellow, and Kathy Smith, Director, Institutional Advancement, Center for Global Development
Date
November 15, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
November 2016
Title
Dr. Josh Bivens, Research and Policy Director, and Dr. Ben Zipperer, Economist, Economic Policy Institute
Date
November 14, 2016
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
November 2016
Title
Dr. Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
November 14, 2016
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
November 2016
Title
Anne Malleau, Executive Director, Global Animal Partnership
Date
November 08, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
November 2016
Title
Leah Garces, Executive Director, and Dawn Rotheram, Development Director, Compassion in World Farming USA
Date
November 08, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
November 2016
Title
David Bennion, Executive Director, Free Migration Project
Date
November 07, 2016
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
October 2016
Title
Alan Durning, Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
October 25, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
October 2016
Title
Josh Morrison, Co-Founder and Executive Director, WaitList Zero
Date
October 20, 2016
Focus Area
Other Areas
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October 2016
Title
Brian Tomasik, Research Lead, Foundational Research Institute
Date
October 06, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
September 2016
Title
Sarah Williamson, Executive Director, Protect the People
Date
September 09, 2016
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
September 2016
Title
Andy Parker, Dr. Steven Hamburg, Cassandra Ely, and Danielle Putnam, Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative and Environmental Defense Fund
Date
September 02, 2016
Focus Area
Longtermism
Content Type
September 2016
Title
Dr. Adam Marblestone, MIT Synthetic Neurobiology Group and MIT Media Lab, and Dr. Eric Drexler, Future of Humanity Institute and Oxford Martin School
Date
September 01, 2016
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
August 2016
Title
Sonja Trauss, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund
Date
August 29, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
August 2016
Title
Professor Michael Tye, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas
Date
August 24, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
August 2016
Title
David Coman-Hidy, Executive Director; Aaron Ross, Director of Campaigns; and Michelle Kucerak, Director of Development, The Humane League
Date
August 22, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
August 2016
Title
Carl Shulman, Research Associate, Future of Humanity Institute
Date
August 16, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
August 2016
Title
Nick Cooney, Executive Vice President, Mercy for Animals
Date
August 01, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
July 2016
Title
Professor Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University
Date
July 27, 2016
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
July 2016
Title
Joe Coon, Kristie De Peña, Matthew La Corte, Andrew Mills, and Will Wilkinson, Niskanen Center
Date
July 22, 2016
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
July 2016
Title
Paul Shapiro, Vice President, Farm Animal Protection, The Humane Society of the United States
Date
July 20, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
July 2016
Title
Dr. Gary Drescher, Artificial intelligence researcher, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date
July 18, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
July 2016
Title
Ady Barkan, Campaign Director, and Shawn Sebastian, Field Director, Fed Up, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
July 14, 2016
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
July 2016
Title
Becca Heller, Director, International Refugee Assistance Project
Date
July 06, 2016
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
July 2016
Title
Alan Durning, Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
July 05, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
July 2016
Title
Professor Aaron Sloman, Honorary Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, University of Birmingham
Date
July 03, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
June 2016
Title
Todd Moss, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, and Kathy Smith, Director, Institutional Advancement, Center for Global Development
Date
June 22, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
June 2016
Title
Dr. Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, and Cynthia Rathinasamy, Program Coordinator, Migration and Development Team, Center for Global Development
Date
June 21, 2016
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
June 2016
Title
David Alpert, Founder and Board President; Sarah Guidi, Managing Director; and David Whitehead, Housing Program Organizer, Greater Greater Washington
Date
June 07, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
May 2016
Title
Dr. Peter Eckersley, Chief Computer Scientist, and Dr. Jeremy Gillula, Staff Technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date
May 26, 2016
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
May 2016
Title
Jared Kaplan, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University
Date
May 24, 2016
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
May 2016
Title
David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy, New York University
Date
May 20, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
May 2016
Title
Professor Shirley Tilghman, Co-Founder, Rescuing Biomedical Research, and President Emerita/Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Date
May 19, 2016
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
May 2016
Title
Dr. João Breda, Programme Manager, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
Date
May 17, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
May 2016