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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
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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
Focus Area
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