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Research & Updates
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September 2023
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Announcing the Winners of the 2023 Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest
Date
September 29, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2023
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New Roles on Our Global Catastrophic Risks Team
Date
September 26, 2023
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Global Catastrophic Risks
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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
Date
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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Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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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
Date
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
Date
December 06, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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November 2019
October 2019
Title
How Feasible Is Long-range Forecasting?
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October 10, 2019
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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August 2019
Title
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
Title
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
Title
History of Philanthropy Literature Review: Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
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April 08, 2019
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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April 2019
March 2019
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Reflections on Our 2018 Generalist Research Analyst Recruiting
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March 07, 2019
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February 2019
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Supporting a New Technology Security Policy Think Tank
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February 28, 2019
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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December 2018
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Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Project Staff – 2018
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December 20, 2018
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December 2018
December 2018
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2018 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
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December 12, 2018
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Global Health & Development
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September 2018
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Campaign for Marriage Equality
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September 20, 2018
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History of Philanthropy
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May 2018
March 2018
March 2018
March 2018
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An Update to How We’re Thinking About Grant Check-Ins
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March 09, 2018
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February 2018
February 2018
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History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and State EITC Programs
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February 02, 2018
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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January 2018
Title
Update on Cause Prioritization at Open Philanthropy
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January 26, 2018
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January 2018
Title
Fish: The Forgotten Farm Animal
Date
January 18, 2018
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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January 2018
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History of Philanthropy Case Study: Clinton Health Access Initiative’s Role in Global Price Drops for Antiretroviral Drugs
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January 10, 2018
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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December 2017
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Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Project Staff – 2017
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December 22, 2017
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December 2017
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Staff Members’ Personal Donations for Giving Season 2017
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December 18, 2017
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December 2017
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Our ‘Second Chance’ Program for NIH Transformative Research Applicants
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December 05, 2017
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Scientific Research
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November 2017
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Update on Investigating Neglected Goals in Biological Research
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November 30, 2017
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Scientific Research
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September 2017
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Aftereffects: In the U.S., Evidence Says Doing More Time Typically Leads to More Crime After
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September 25, 2017
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Criminal Justice Reform
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September 2017
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Incapacitation: How Much Does Putting People Inside Prison Cut Crime Outside?
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September 24, 2017
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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September 2017
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Deterrence Is De Minimis
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September 24, 2017
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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September 2017
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Reasonable Doubt: A New Look at Whether Prison Growth Cuts Crime
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September 24, 2017
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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September 2017
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Why Did the EU Lead the World on Farm Animal Welfare and How Can It Lead Again?
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September 18, 2017
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Farm Animal Welfare
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September 2017
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New Report on the Welfare Differences Between Cage and Cage-Free Housing
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September 15, 2017
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Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2017
June 2017
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Updating My Risk Estimate for the Geomagnetic “Big One”
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June 21, 2017
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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June 2017
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The Open Philanthropy Project Is Now an Independent Organization
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June 12, 2017
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June 2017
May 2017
Title
Why This Could Be the Year of the Broiler Chicken
Date
May 14, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2017
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New Report on Early Field Growth
Date
April 26, 2017
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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April 2017
Title
Why Are the US Corporate Cage-Free Campaigns Succeeding?
Date
April 11, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2017
March 2017
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Technical and Philosophical Questions That Might Affect Our Grantmaking
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March 02, 2017
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February 2017
February 2017
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Giving Suggestions Pertaining to Recent Executive Actions
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February 09, 2017
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December 2016
Title
Good Ventures and Giving Now vs. Later (2016 Update)
Date
December 28, 2016
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
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December 2016
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Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Project Staff – 2016
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December 14, 2016
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December 2016
October 2016
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Efforts to Improve the Accuracy of Our Judgments and Forecasts
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October 25, 2016
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September 2016
Title
Maybe the Murder Rate Levelled Off This Year?
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September 26, 2016
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Criminal Justice Reform
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September 2016
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Update on How We’re Thinking about Openness and Information Sharing
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September 16, 2016
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September 2016
July 2016
June 2016
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Concrete Problems in AI Safety
Date
June 22, 2016
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2016
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Founding of the Center for Global Development
Date
June 15, 2016
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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May 2016