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Research & Updates
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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
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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
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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
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Farm Animal Welfare
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September 2020
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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
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New Report on How Much Computational Power It Takes to Match the Human Brain
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September 08, 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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June 01, 2020
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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
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Forecasting the COVID-19 Pandemic
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March 17, 2020
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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
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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
Focus Area
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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December 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
Focus Area
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
Date
September 05, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019