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Research & Updates
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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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October 2020
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Scientific American: Lab-Made ‘Miniproteins’ Could Block the Coronavirus from Infecting Cells
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October 12, 2020
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Scientific Research
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October 2020
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Vox: The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity
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October 15, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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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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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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November 2020
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Nature: Coronavirus Testing Finally Gathers Speed
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November 05, 2020
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Scientific Research
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November 2020
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What could a Biden Administration mean for farm animals?
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November 20, 2020
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Farm Animal Welfare
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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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December 2020
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Our AI governance grantmaking so far
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December 08, 2020
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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December 2020
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2020 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
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December 11, 2020
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Global Health & Development
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December 2020
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The New York Times: California’s Housing Crisis: How a Bureaucrat Pushed to Build
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December 13, 2020
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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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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December 2020
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The New York Times: Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?
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December 17, 2020
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South Asian Air Quality
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December 2020
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Seven Big Wins for Farm Animals in 2020
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December 21, 2020
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Farm Animal Welfare
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January 2021
February 2021
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The New York Times: Scientists Are Trying to Spot New Viruses Before They Cause Pandemics
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February 15, 2021
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Scientific Research
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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 2021
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Vox: The next frontier for animal welfare: Fish
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March 02, 2021
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Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2021
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If We Build It, Will They Come?
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March 09, 2021
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Alternatives to Animal Products
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March 2021
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The New York Times: Unlocking the Covid Code
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March 12, 2021
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Scientific Research
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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.
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March 16, 2021
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Criminal Justice Reform
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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
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Farm Animal Welfare
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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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Semi-informative priors over AI timelines
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March 25, 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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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
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Farm Animal Welfare in Europe
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April 2021
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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April 2021
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The Washington Post: Epicurious drops beef recipes, drawing ire from the pro-burger crowd — and some food activists
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April 27, 2021
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Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2021
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The New Republic: The Progressive Trio Shaping Biden’s Ambitious Economic Policy
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May 04, 2021
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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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
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May 05, 2021
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Scientific Research
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May 2021
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The Promise and Perils of Insect Farming
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May 10, 2021
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Farm Animal Welfare
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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
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May 10, 2021
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Scientific Research
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May 2021
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The New York Times: Biden Aims to Rebuild and Expand Legal Immigration
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May 31, 2021
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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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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June 2021
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Scale-up economics for cultured meat
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June 07, 2021
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
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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
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June 08, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2021
June 2021
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Report on Whether AI Could Drive Explosive Economic Growth
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June 17, 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2021
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Could Advanced AI Drive Explosive Economic Growth?
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June 25, 2021
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2021
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New Roles in Global Health and Wellbeing
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June 29, 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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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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July 2021
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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Longtermism
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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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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 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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Longtermism
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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
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October 28, 2021
Focus Area
Longtermism
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November 2021