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Research & Updates
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April 2013
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“Dylan Matthews, Staff Reporter, Wonkblog at the Washington Post”
Date
April 10, 2013
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Other Areas
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June 2023
Title
(Request for Information) Evaluation of Germicidal Far-UVC: Safety, Efficacy, Technology, and Adoption
Date
June 09, 2023
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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December 2019
Title
10 Years of Progress for Farm Animals
Date
December 06, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2023
Title
12 tentative ideas for US AI policy
Date
April 17, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2017
December 2018
Title
2018 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 12, 2018
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2019
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2019 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 06, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2020
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2020 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 11, 2020
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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November 2021
Title
2021 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities: Why We’re Giving More Going Forward
Date
November 19, 2021
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
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May 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
Date
May 12, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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July 2021
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
Date
July 12, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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October 2021
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications
Date
October 05, 2021
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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August 2021
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass
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August 26, 2021
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August 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they’re no smarter than humans, and his four-part playbook for AI risk
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August 01, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2021
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
Date
August 19, 2021
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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May 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion
Date
May 19, 2023
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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November 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Santosh Harish on how air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that number down
Date
November 01, 2023
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
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May 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
Date
May 05, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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February 2021
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80,000 Hours: Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened
Date
February 15, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2023
Title
A Big Supreme Court Win for Farm Animals
Date
May 12, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2023
Title
A Case Study on Insecticide-Treated Bednets
Date
December 01, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
April 2014
August 2012
Title
A Conversation about Vaccination: Violaine Mitchell, Interim Director, Country Immunization Programs
Date
August 20, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
June 2015
Title
A Conversation with Members of the Effective Altruists of Berkeley at UC Berkeley – a Student Group –
Date
June 19, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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June 2015
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A conversation with staff from the International Organization for Migration, Protect the People, and the Center for Global Development
Date
June 23, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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November 2014
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A Conversation with Staff from the International Organization for Migration, Protect the People, and the Center for Global Development
Date
November 14, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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February 2014
Title
A Conversation with the Gates Foundation about Malaria Funding and Eradication
Date
February 10, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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April 2015
Title
A Scientist with 18 Years Experience in the Tissue Engineering Industry
Date
April 23, 2015
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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October 2017
Title
A Software Agent Illustrating Some Features of an Illusionist Account of Consciousness
Date
October 01, 2017
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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October 2013
Title
Aaron Goldzimer, Student, Yale Law School
Date
October 19, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
February 2012
February 2015
August 2013
Title
Adam Gelb, Director, Public Safety Performance Project and Nicole Surber, Director, Philanthropic Partnerships, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
August 23, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
August 2014
Title
Adam Marblestone, Director of Scientific Architecting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Synthetic Neurobiology Group (scientific advisor to GiveWell)
Date
August 27, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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April 2016
August 2013
Title
Adam Sheingate, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Date
August 02, 2013
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2013
Title
Adele Morris, Policy Director for the Brookings Climate and Energy Economics Project
Date
June 24, 2013
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Other Areas
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April 2015
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Advocacy for Improved or Increased U.S. Foreign Aid
Date
April 20, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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May 2015
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Ady Barkan, Campaign Director of Fed Up, and Co-Director of Local Progress, the Center for Popular Democracy
Date
May 14, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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December 2015
Title
Ady Barkan, Campaign Director of the Fed Up campaign and Co-Director of Local Progress, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
December 08, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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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
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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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February 2016
Title
Ady Barkan, Director of Fed Up, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
February 12, 2016
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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September 2017
Title
Aftereffects: In the U.S., Evidence Says Doing More Time Typically Leads to More Crime After
Date
September 25, 2017
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
September 2014
Title
Aid to Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
Date
September 01, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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March 2014
Title
Alan D. Viard, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Date
March 25, 2014
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Other Areas
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October 2016
Title
Alan Durning, Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
October 25, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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July 2016
Title
Alan Durning, Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
July 05, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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August 2015
Title
Alan Durning, Founder and Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
August 18, 2015
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
July 2017