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Research & Updates
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July 2023
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Takeaways from the Metaculus AI Progress Tournament
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July 27, 2023
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July 2023
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Alexander Berger is now sole CEO of Open Philanthropy
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July 27, 2023
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June 2023
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(Request for Information) Evaluation of Germicidal Far-UVC: Safety, Efficacy, Technology, and Adoption
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June 09, 2023
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Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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May 2023
April 2023
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12 tentative ideas for US AI policy
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April 17, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2023
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Announcing the Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest
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March 10, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2023
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Announcing the awardees for our $150M Regranting Challenge
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January 12, 2023
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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November 2022
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Does putting kids in school now put money in their pockets later? Revisiting a natural experiment in Indonesia
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November 23, 2022
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Global Health & Development
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September 2022
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Cause Exploration Prizes: Announcing our prizes
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September 09, 2022
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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July 2022
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New Shallow Investigations: Telecommunications and Civil Conflict Reduction
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July 25, 2022
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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July 2022
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Incoming Program Officer for Effective Altruism Community Growth (Global Health and Wellbeing): James Snowden
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July 21, 2022
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Effective Altruism (Global Health and Wellbeing)
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July 2022
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Report on Social Returns to Productivity Growth
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July 15, 2022
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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July 2022
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Update on Our Planned Allocation to GiveWell’s Recommended Charities in 2022
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July 05, 2022
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GiveWell-Recommended Charities
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June 2022
June 2022
May 2022
May 2022
May 2022
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Request for proposals: Help Open Philanthropy quantify biological risk
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May 12, 2022
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Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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February 2022
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New grantmaking program: supporting the effective altruism community around Global Health and Wellbeing
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February 22, 2022
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Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
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February 2022
January 2022
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Incoming Program Officers for South Asian Air Quality and Global Aid Policy
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January 03, 2022
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Global Aid Policy
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November 2021
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2021 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities: Why We’re Giving More Going Forward
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November 19, 2021
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GiveWell-Recommended Charities
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November 2021
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Technical Updates to Our Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Prioritization Framework
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November 18, 2021
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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November 2021
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Our Criminal Justice Reform Program Is Now an Independent Organization: Just Impact
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November 16, 2021
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Criminal Justice Reform
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June 2021
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New Roles in Global Health and Wellbeing
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June 29, 2021
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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June 2021
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Report on Whether AI Could Drive Explosive Economic Growth
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June 17, 2021
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2021
June 2021
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New Staff in Operations, Programs, and Research (2021)
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June 03, 2021
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April 2021
March 2021
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Report on Semi-informative Priors
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March 25, 2021
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2021
December 2020
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2020 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
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December 11, 2020
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Global Health & Development
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December 2020
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Our AI governance grantmaking so far
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December 08, 2020
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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November 2020
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Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Staff – 2020
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November 23, 2020
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September 2020
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New Report on How Much Computational Power It Takes to Match the Human Brain
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September 08, 2020
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2020
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How to Lower the Price of Plant-Based Meat
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August 12, 2020
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Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2020
May 2020
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New Staff in Communications, Grants, Operations, Programs, and Research (2020)
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May 08, 2020
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May 2020
March 2020
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Forecasting the COVID-19 Pandemic
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March 17, 2020
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Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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December 2019
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Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Staff – 2019
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December 18, 2019
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December 2019
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2019 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
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December 06, 2019
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Global Health & Development
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November 2019
October 2019
Title
How Feasible Is Long-range Forecasting?
Date
October 10, 2019
Focus Area
Longtermism
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August 2019
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Will Companies Make Good on Cage-Free Pledges?
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August 12, 2019
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Farm Animal Welfare
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August 2019
July 2019
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GiveWell’s Top Charities Are (Increasingly) Hard to Beat
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July 09, 2019
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Global Health & Development
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June 2019
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Explaining Our Bet on Sherlock Biosciences’ Innovations in Viral Diagnostics
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June 10, 2019
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Scientific Research
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April 2019
April 2019