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Research & Updates
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March 2024
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Current Affairs: Why Factory Farming is a Moral Atrocity
Date
March 04, 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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January 2024
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InFi Podcast: Tom Davidson on the Likely Progression of AI
Date
January 25, 2024
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2024
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EA Consulting Network: The Case for Developing Specialized Expertise with Lewis Bollard
Date
January 11, 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2023
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Hear This Idea: Michelle Lavery on the Science of Animal Welfare
Date
November 22, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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
Date
November 01, 2023
Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
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October 2023
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Good Judgment: Superforecasting AI
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October 19, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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October 2023
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Does Alternative Meat Need Philanthropy to Take It Beyond?
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October 16, 2023
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
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October 2023
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The Indian Express: Bihar to tackle air Pollution with better monitoring
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October 11, 2023
Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
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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?
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August 30, 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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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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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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May 2023
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The New York Times: What if There Was Never a Pandemic Again?
Date
May 28, 2023
Focus Area
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
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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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
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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
Focus Area
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?
Date
March 21, 2023
Focus Area
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
Focus Area
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
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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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
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
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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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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Lunar Society Podcast: Holden Karnofsky – Transformative AI & Most Important Century
Date
January 03, 2023
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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September 2022
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BBC: What is longtermism?
Date
September 01, 2022
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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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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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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December 2021
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STAT: For an antiviral researcher, Covid brings a flood of attention — and opportunity
Date
December 20, 2021
Focus Area
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
Date
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
Date
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 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
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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November 2021
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Vox: Why the future of animal welfare lies beyond the West
Date
November 26, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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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October 2021
Title
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
Date
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
Date
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
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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
Date
June 30, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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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May 2021
Title
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
Date
April 27, 2021
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
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April 2021