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Research & Updates
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May 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
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May 12, 2023
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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
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July 12, 2021
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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
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October 05, 2021
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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
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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
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August 19, 2021
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Global Catastrophic Risks
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May 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion
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May 19, 2023
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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
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November 01, 2023
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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
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May 05, 2023
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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
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February 15, 2021
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Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2020
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Barron’s Penta: How Philanthropists are Tackling COVID-19
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March 18, 2020
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Scientific Research
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September 2022
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BBC: What is longtermism?
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September 01, 2022
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Global Catastrophic Risks
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November 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 02, 2020
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Scientific Research
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March 2018
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Bloomberg: Protein Engineering May Be the Future of Science
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March 15, 2018
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Scientific Research
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December 2015
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Chronicle of Philanthropy: Wringing the Most Good Out of a Facebook Fortune
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December 01, 2015
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February 2023
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CNBC: Facebook co-founder Moskovitz funds research into cooling the Earth with sunlight reflection
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February 07, 2023
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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May 2018
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CNN: This startup wants to help the planet with meatless burgers
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May 24, 2018
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Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2020
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Comstock’s Magazine: Promise for New Proteins
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December 14, 2020
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Farm Animal Welfare
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October 2018
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Devex: A new US development finance agency takes flight
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October 04, 2018
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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January 2023
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Devex: Gates, USAID among Open Philanthropy’s $150M regrant contest winners
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January 12, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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January 2022
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Devex: Open Philanthropy launches programs for South Asia, global aid work
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January 06, 2022
Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
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October 2018
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Discover Magazine: Meet the Biochemist Engineering Proteins From Scratch
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October 29, 2018
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Scientific Research
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September 2021
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EE Times: Building a Framework to Trust AI
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September 24, 2021
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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October 2019
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EicOsis Press Release: EicOsis receives $15MM grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse to help fund trials of non-opioid pain therapy
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October 15, 2019
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Scientific Research
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September 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 25, 2019
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Scientific Research
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April 2021
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Financial Times: Air pollution: Asia’s deadliest public health crisis is not Covid
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April 27, 2021
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South Asian Air Quality
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September 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 10, 2020
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Scientific Research
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July 2020
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Forbes: A New 20-Minute Covid-19 Test Will Use CRISPR Gene Editing Technology To Deliver Results At The Doctor’s Office, Supermarket, Or Workplace
Date
July 01, 2020
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Scientific Research
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March 2021
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Forbes: French Birds, Spanish Cows, Danish Minks: The Fight For Animals’ Rights In Europe
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March 19, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2019
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Forbes: With Launch Of New CRISPR Company, Competition Extends To Diagnostics
Date
March 21, 2019
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Scientific Research
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August 2023
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Freakonomics Podcast: New Technologies Always Scare Us. Is A.I. Any Different?
Date
August 30, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2023
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Future of Life Institute Podcast: Tom Davidson on How Quickly AI Could Automate the Economy
Date
September 08, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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April 2018
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GeekWire: Open Philanthropy Project awards $11M to protein designers for universal flu vaccine
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April 04, 2018
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Scientific Research
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October 2019
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Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News: Cancer Vaccine Developers Report Bumper Crop of New Cancer Antigens
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October 02, 2019
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Scientific Research
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October 2023
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Good Judgment: Superforecasting AI
Date
October 19, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 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 10, 2023
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Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2023
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Inside Philanthropy: A Deep Dive Into Two of Open Philanthropy’s EA-Inspired Programs
Date
March 17, 2023
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Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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November 2021
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Inside Philanthropy: With More Donors, Open Philanthropy is Spinning Its Criminal Justice Reform Work into a New Fund
Date
November 16, 2021
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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June 2023
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Lunar Society Podcast: Carl Shulman – Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment
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June 14, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2023
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Lunar Society Podcast: Holden Karnofsky – Transformative AI & Most Important Century
Date
January 03, 2023
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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October 2019
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Nature Biotechnology, First Rounders Podcast: Pardis Sabeti
Date
October 02, 2019
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Scientific Research
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November 2020
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Nature: Coronavirus Testing Finally Gathers Speed
Date
November 05, 2020
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Scientific Research
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December 2017
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Nature: Facebook billionaire pours funds into high-risk research
Date
December 20, 2017
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Scientific Research
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February 2019
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Nature: Faster, better, cheaper: the rise of CRISPR in disease detection
Date
February 19, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2019
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Nature: First hint that body’s ‘biological age’ can be reversed
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September 05, 2019
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Scientific Research
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June 2018
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Nature: Migrants and refugees are good for economies
Date
June 21, 2018
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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January 2017
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Nature: The new face of US science
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January 05, 2017
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Scientific Research
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October 2020
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Nikkei Asia: Thai food producers shift focus to animal welfare
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October 23, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2018
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NPR: Can A Cocktail Of Vitamins And Steroids Cure A Major Killer In Hospitals?
Date
May 11, 2018
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Scientific Research
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November 2021