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Research & Updates
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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
Date
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
Date
March 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
Date
March 10, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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February 2023
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Works in Progress: Every generator is a policy failure
Date
February 24, 2023
Focus Area
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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January 2023
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Devex: Gates, USAID among Open Philanthropy’s $150M regrant contest winners
Date
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
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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January 2023
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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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
Date
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
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
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
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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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
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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?
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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
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
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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
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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
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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
Date
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
Date
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
Date
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
Focus Area
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
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Content Type
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
Title
Our Criminal Justice Reform Program Is Now an Independent Organization: Just Impact
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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
Longtermism
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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
Date
August 19, 2021
Focus Area
Longtermism
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August 2021
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
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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
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Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2021
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New Roles in Global Health and Wellbeing
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June 29, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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June 2021
Title
Could Advanced AI Drive Explosive Economic Growth?
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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
Date
June 07, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2021
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New Staff in Operations, Programs, and Research (2021)
Date
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
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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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
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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
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April 18, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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March 2021
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Semi-informative priors over AI timelines
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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
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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
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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
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Scientific Research
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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
Title
80,000 Hours: Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened
Date
February 15, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2021
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The New York Times: Scientists Are Trying to Spot New Viruses Before They Cause Pandemics
Date
February 15, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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January 2021
December 2020
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The New York Times: Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?
Date
December 17, 2020
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
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Comstock’s Magazine: Promise for New Protiens
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Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2020
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The New York Times: California’s Housing Crisis: How a Bureaucrat Pushed to Build
Date
December 13, 2020
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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December 2020
Title
2020 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 11, 2020
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2020
Title
Our AI governance grantmaking so far
Date
December 08, 2020
Focus Area
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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November 2020
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Nature: Coronavirus Testing Finally Gathers Speed
Date
November 05, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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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
Date
November 02, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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October 2020
Title
Nikkei Asia: Thai food producers shift focus to animal welfare
Date
October 23, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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October 2020
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Vox: The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity
Date
October 15, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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October 2020
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Scientific American: Lab-Made ‘Miniproteins’ Could Block the Coronavirus from Infecting Cells
Date
October 12, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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October 2020
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Stanford Medicine News Center: Jeffrey Glenn Granted $14.3 Million to Develop Broad Spectrum Drug
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October 05, 2020
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Scientific Research
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September 2020
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Vox: Building housing — lots of it — will lay the foundation for a new future
Date
September 23, 2020
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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September 2020
Title
The Washington Post: The Rise of the Rational Do-Gooders
Date
September 23, 2020
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
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September 2020
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Vox: Farms have bred chickens so large that they’re in constant pain
Date
September 23, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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September 2020
Title
How Much Computational Power Does It Take to Match the Human Brain?
Date
September 11, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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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
Date
September 10, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2020
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New Report on How Much Computational Power It Takes to Match the Human Brain
Date
September 08, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2020
Title
The Atlantic: The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
Date
August 14, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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August 2020
Title
How to Lower the Price of Plant-Based Meat
Date
August 12, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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July 2020
Title
Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Philanthropy Now podcast: Open Philanthropy: How donors and philanthropists can support criminal justice reform
Date
July 22, 2020
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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July 2020
Title
San Fransisco Business Times: Biotech Legends Help Launch Parasite-Fighting Startup with Deep Stanford Ties
Date
July 13, 2020
Focus Area
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
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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June 2020