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Research & Updates
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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
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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Seven Big Wins for Farm Animals in 2020
Date
December 21, 2020
Focus Area
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?
Date
December 17, 2020
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
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December 2020
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Comstock’s Magazine: Promise for New Proteins
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December 14, 2020
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
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December 13, 2020
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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December 2020
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2020 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
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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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What could a Biden Administration mean for farm animals?
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November 20, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2020
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Nature: Coronavirus Testing Finally Gathers Speed
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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
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November 02, 2020
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Scientific Research
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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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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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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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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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Political Opportunities for Farm Animals in Europe
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September 25, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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September 2020
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Vox: Building housing — lots of it — will lay the foundation for a new future
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September 23, 2020
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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September 2020
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The Washington Post: The Rise of the Rational Do-Gooders
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September 23, 2020
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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September 2020
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Vox: Farms have bred chickens so large that they’re in constant pain
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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?
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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
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September 10, 2020
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Scientific Research
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September 2020
Title
New Report on How Much Computational Power It Takes to Match the Human Brain
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September 08, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2020
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The Atlantic: The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
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August 14, 2020
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Scientific Research
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August 2020
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How to Lower the Price of Plant-Based Meat
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August 12, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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July 2020
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Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Philanthropy Now podcast: Open Philanthropy: How donors and philanthropists can support criminal justice reform
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July 22, 2020
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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July 2020
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San Fransisco Business Times: Biotech Legends Help Launch Parasite-Fighting Startup with Deep Stanford Ties
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July 13, 2020
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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
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July 01, 2020
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Scientific Research
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June 2020
June 2020
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Dr. Kate Storrs, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Justus Liebig University
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June 11, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2020
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Professor Eve Marder, University Professor and Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience, Brandeis University
Date
June 01, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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May 2020
May 2020
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New Staff in Communications, Grants, Operations, Programs, and Research (2020)
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May 08, 2020
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May 2020
April 2020
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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March 2020
Title
Forecasting the COVID-19 Pandemic
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March 17, 2020
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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March 2020
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Dr. Jess Riedel, Senior Research Scientist (Physics), NTT Research
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March 01, 2020
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2020
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Dr. Paul Christiano, Researcher, OpenAI
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March 01, 2020
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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February 2020
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Documentaries and Farm Animals
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February 14, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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January 2020
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Professor David Wolpert, Resident Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute
Date
January 24, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2020
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Professor E.J. Chichilnisky, John R. Adler Professor of Neurosurgery and Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University
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January 23, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2020
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Professor Jared Kaplan, Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University
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January 23, 2020
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2020
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Dr. Michael Frank, Senior Technical Staff Member, Sandia National Laboratory
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January 22, 2020
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2020
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Professor Stephen Baccus, Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford University
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January 22, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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December 2019
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Vox: A US charity just did something radical: asked recipients where the money should go
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December 20, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2019
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Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Staff – 2019
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December 18, 2019
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Content Type
December 2019
Title
10 Years of Progress for Farm Animals
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December 06, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2019
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2019 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
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December 06, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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November 2019
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
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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October 2019
Title
How Feasible Is Long-range Forecasting?
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October 10, 2019
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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October 2019
October 2019
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Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News: Cancer Vaccine Developers Report Bumper Crop of New Cancer Antigens
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October 02, 2019
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Scientific Research
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October 2019
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Nature Biotechnology, First Rounders Podcast: Pardis Sabeti
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October 02, 2019
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Scientific Research
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September 2019
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Engineers Without Borders USA: Creating Cold: The Chilling Challenge of Off-Grid Refrigeration for Developing Countries
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September 25, 2019
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Scientific Research
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September 2019
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Professor Markus Meister, Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences at the California Institute of Technology
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September 24, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Barak Pearlmutter, Professor of Computer Science, Maynooth University
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September 23, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Blake Richards, Assistant Professor in the Montreal Neurological Institute and the School of Computer Science at McGill University
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September 20, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Dong Song, Research Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California
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September 19, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Eric Jonas, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago
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September 17, 2019
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Erik De Schutter, Professor, Computational Neuroscience, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
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September 17, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Anthony Zador, Alle Davis and Maxine Harrison Professor of Neurosciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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September 12, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Konrad Kording, Penn Integrated Knowledge Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Date
September 11, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Nature: First hint that body’s ‘biological age’ can be reversed
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September 05, 2019
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Scientific Research
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September 2019
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Professor Shaul Druckmann, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
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September 05, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Chris Eliasmith, Professor of Philosophy and Systems Design Engineering, Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience, and Director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo
Date
September 05, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2019
Title
What can we learn from the fur-free fight?
Date
August 28, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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August 2019
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The Guardian: Campaigners demand end to fish tethering ‘torture’ in Taiwan
Date
August 19, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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August 2019
Title
Will Companies Make Good on Cage-Free Pledges?
Date
August 12, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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August 2019
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Professor Won Mok Shim, Associate Professor at the Centre for Neuroscience Imaging Research, Sungkyunkwan University
Date
August 07, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2019
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Professor Rosa Cao, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University
Date
August 07, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2019
July 2019
Title
GiveWell’s Top Charities Are (Increasingly) Hard to Beat
Date
July 09, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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June 2019
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The New York Times: Trump Isn’t Alone. These Millennials on the Left Want Low Interest Rates, Too
Date
June 12, 2019
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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June 2019
Title
Explaining Our Bet on Sherlock Biosciences’ Innovations in Viral Diagnostics
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June 10, 2019
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Scientific Research
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June 2019
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Vox: This charity just canceled one of its poverty programs. That’s a good thing.
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June 07, 2019
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Global Health & Development
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May 2019
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Animal Agriculture and Climate Change
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May 02, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2019
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The Sacramento Bee: The answer to opioid crisis? UC Davis researcher will soon test his non-addictive pain drug
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April 15, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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April 2019
April 2019
Title
History of Philanthropy Literature Review: Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
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April 08, 2019
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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April 2019
April 2019
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The New York Times: Behold the Beefless ‘Impossible Whopper’
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April 01, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2019
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Forbes: With Launch Of New CRISPR Company, Competition Extends To Diagnostics
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March 21, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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March 2019
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Impact investing for farm animals
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March 08, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2019
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Reflections on Our 2018 Generalist Research Analyst Recruiting
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March 07, 2019
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Content Type
February 2019
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The Washington Post: Georgetown launches think tank on security and emerging technology
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February 28, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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February 2019
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Supporting a New Technology Security Policy Think Tank
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February 28, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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February 2019
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Vox: GiveWell expands cost-effective giving focus to include policy interventions
Date
February 26, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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February 2019
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Nature: Faster, better, cheaper: the rise of CRISPR in disease detection
Date
February 19, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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February 2019
Title
Gender equity in the farmed animal movement
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February 04, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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January 2019
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Vox: Want to help animals? Focus on corporate decisions, not people’s plates.
Date
January 29, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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January 2019
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The Economist: How chicken became the rich world’s most popular meat
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January 19, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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January 2019
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STAT: ‘Taste of the future’: New microscopy technique captures stunning images of a fly’s brain
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January 17, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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January 2019
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NPR: Why This Charity Isn’t Afraid To Say It Failed
Date
January 07, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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January 2019
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Dr. Adam Marblestone, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Date
January 01, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2019
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Dr. Stephen Larson, CEO of MetaCell and Co-founder of OpenWorm
Date
January 01, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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December 2018
Title
How can you do the most good for animals?
Date
December 21, 2018
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2018