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Research & Updates
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September 2023
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New Roles on Our Global Catastrophic Risks Team
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September 26, 2023
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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
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September 08, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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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
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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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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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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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July 2023
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We Love Animals. Why Do We Torture Them?
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July 18, 2023
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Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2023
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What a compute-centric framework says about takeoff speeds
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June 27, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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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
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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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
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NYT: What if There Was Never a Pandemic Again?
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May 28, 2023
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Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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May 2023
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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May 2023
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A Big Supreme Court Win for Farm Animals
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May 12, 2023
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Farm Animal Welfare
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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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May 2023
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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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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Vox: Can society adjust at the speed of artificial intelligence?
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March 21, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2023
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Vox: The case for slowing down AI
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March 21, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2023
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Inside Philanthropy: A Deep Dive Into Two of Open Philanthropy’s EA-Inspired Programs
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March 17, 2023
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Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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March 2023
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Announcing the Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest
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March 10, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2023
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What Happened to Plant-Based Meat?
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March 07, 2023
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Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2023
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Works in Progress: Every generator is a policy failure
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February 24, 2023
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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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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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 2023
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Announcing the awardees for our $150M Regranting Challenge
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January 12, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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January 2023
January 2023
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Lunar Society Podcast: Holden Karnofsky – Transformative AI & Most Important Century
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January 03, 2023
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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December 2022
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Big Wins for Farm Animals This Decade
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December 22, 2022
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2022
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How Can Governments Advance Alternative Proteins?
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November 28, 2022
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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October 2022
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Telecommunications in LMICs
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October 06, 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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October 2022
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Civil Conflict Reduction
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October 06, 2022
Focus Area
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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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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August 2022
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The war on meat and milk alternatives
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August 29, 2022
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Alternatives to Animal Products
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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
Date
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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July 2022
June 2022
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Farm Animals at the Supreme Court
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June 16, 2022
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2022
June 2022
May 2022
May 2022
Title
History of Philanthropy: Work We’ve Commissioned
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May 16, 2022
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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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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April 2022
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Have we hit peak plant-based meat?
Date
April 01, 2022
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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February 2022
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Vox: How to clear the air in the most polluted cities on Earth
Date
February 20, 2022
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
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February 2022
January 2022
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Devex: Open Philanthropy launches programs for South Asia, global aid work
Date
January 06, 2022
Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
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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
Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
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December 2021
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Ten Big Wins for Farm Animals in 2021
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December 24, 2021
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Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2021
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STAT: For an antiviral researcher, Covid brings a flood of attention — and opportunity
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December 20, 2021
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Scientific Research
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December 2021
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The New York Times: We Will Look Back on This Age of Cruelty to Animals in Horror
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December 16, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2021
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Vox: A criminal justice expert’s guide to donating effectively
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November 30, 2021
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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November 2021
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NPR: On #GivingTuesday, How To Get The Most Bang For Your Charity Buck
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November 30, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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November 2021
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Vox: These are the charities where your money will do the most good
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November 29, 2021
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Global Health & Development
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November 2021
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Vox: Why the future of animal welfare lies beyond the West
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November 26, 2021
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Farm Animal Welfare
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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
Focus Area
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
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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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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November 2021
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Our Criminal Justice Reform Program Is Now an Independent Organization: Just Impact
Date
November 16, 2021
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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October 2021
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The Ezra Klein Show, The New York Times: Warning: This Episode Gets Really Weird About How Much Good You Can Do
Date
October 28, 2021
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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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
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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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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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 2021
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
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August 19, 2021
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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July 2021
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
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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June 2021
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Reuters: Caged animal farming must end in EU, European Commission says
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June 30, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2021
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New Roles in Global Health and Wellbeing
Date
June 29, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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June 2021
Title
Could Advanced AI Drive Explosive Economic Growth?
Date
June 25, 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2021
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Report on Whether AI Could Drive Explosive Economic Growth
Date
June 17, 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2021
June 2021
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The Washington Post: As grocery prices rise, alt-meat takes a bigger bite of Big Meat’s burger
Date
June 08, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2021
June 2021
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Scale-up economics for cultured meat
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June 07, 2021
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Alternatives to Animal Products
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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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May 2021
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The New York Times: Biden Aims to Rebuild and Expand Legal Immigration
Date
May 31, 2021
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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May 2021
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PBS News Hour: In her bid to end TB Mireille Kamariza is shattering stereotypes about scientists
Date
May 10, 2021
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Scientific Research
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May 2021
Title
The Promise and Perils of Insect Farming
Date
May 10, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2021
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The New York Times: The Future of Virus Tracking Can Be Found on This College Campus
Date
May 05, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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May 2021
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The New Republic: The Progressive Trio Shaping Biden’s Ambitious Economic Policy
Date
May 04, 2021
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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April 2021
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The Washington Post: Epicurious drops beef recipes, drawing ire from the pro-burger crowd — and some food activists
Date
April 27, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2021
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Financial Times: Air pollution: Asia’s deadliest public health crisis is not Covid
Date
April 27, 2021
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
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April 2021
April 2021
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The Brussels Times: European Citizens’ initiative to end the use of cages in animal farming in EU on the right track
Date
April 18, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare in Europe
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March 2021
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Semi-informative priors over AI timelines
Date
March 25, 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2021
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Report on Semi-informative Priors
Date
March 25, 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2021
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Forbes: French Birds, Spanish Cows, Danish Minks: The Fight For Animals’ Rights In Europe
Date
March 19, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2021
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The Washington Post: Money can’t buy criminal justice reform. But it can fuel a movement.
Date
March 16, 2021
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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March 2021
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The New York Times: Unlocking the Covid Code
Date
March 12, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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March 2021
Title
If We Build It, Will They Come?
Date
March 09, 2021
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
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March 2021
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Vox: The next frontier for animal welfare: Fish
Date
March 02, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2021