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Research & Updates
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January 2018
Title
Fish: The Forgotten Farm Animal
Date
January 18, 2018
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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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July 2020
Title
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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March 2021
Title
Forbes: French Birds, Spanish Cows, Danish Minks: The Fight For Animals’ Rights In Europe
Date
March 19, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2019
Title
Forbes: With Launch Of New CRISPR Company, Competition Extends To Diagnostics
Date
March 21, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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March 2020
Title
Forecasting the COVID-19 Pandemic
Date
March 17, 2020
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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May 2013
Title
Frank Baumgartner, Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date
May 03, 2013
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Other Areas
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August 2023
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Freakonomics Podcast: New Technologies Always Scare Us. Is A.I. Any Different?
Date
August 30, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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May 2015
September 2023
Title
Future of Life Institute Podcast: Tom Davidson on How Quickly AI Could Automate the Economy
Date
September 08, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2014
Title
Gabriel Metcalf, Executive Director, SPUR
Date
March 31, 2014
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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October 2013
Title
Gara LaMarche, President, Democracy Alliance; former President and CEO, Atlantic Philanthropies
Date
October 31, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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May 2013
Title
Gara LaMarche, Senior Fellow, Wagner School of Public Service, New York University
Date
May 22, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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September 2014
Title
Gary Samore, Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Date
September 08, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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February 2017
Title
Gauri Maulekhi, Trustee, People for Animals
Date
February 06, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
July 2014
Title
Gayle Martin, Senior Economist, World Bank; Program Leader, Service Delivery Indicators (SDI)
Date
July 30, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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April 2018
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GeekWire: Open Philanthropy Project awards $11M to protein designers for universal flu vaccine
Date
April 04, 2018
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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February 2019
Title
Gender Equity in the Farmed Animal Movement
Date
February 04, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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October 2019
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Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News: Cancer Vaccine Developers Report Bumper Crop of New Cancer Antigens
Date
October 02, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2013
Title
Geoengineering Research
Date
September 16, 2013
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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October 2013
July 2015
June 2015
Title
Geomagnetic Storms: An Introduction to the Risk
Date
June 29, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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July 2015
Title
Geomagnetic Storms: History’s Surprising, if Tentative, Reassurance
Date
July 02, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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July 2015
Title
Geomagnetic Storms: Using Extreme Value Theory to Gauge the Risk
Date
July 13, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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June 2013
Title
George Perkovich, Director, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment
Date
June 06, 2013
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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February 2014
Title
George Poste, Chief Scientist, Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative and Professor of Health Innovation at Arizona State University
Date
February 12, 2014
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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October 2014
Title
Gigi Gronvall, Senior Associate, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Center for Health Security
Date
October 06, 2014
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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June 2012
March 2014
Title
GiveWell Labs – Progress in 2013 and Plans for 2014
Date
March 05, 2014
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Content Type
September 2013
April 2013
May 2012
October 2011
Title
GiveWell Labs: Our Criteria for Giving Opportunities
Date
October 11, 2011
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September 2011
Title
GiveWell Labs: Plans for Our Process and Transparency
Date
September 20, 2011
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April 2013
Title
GiveWell’s History of Philanthropy/Philanthropy Journalism Project
Date
April 09, 2013
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February 2012
Title
GiveWell’s Plan for 2012: Specifics of Research
Date
February 22, 2012
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Content Type
February 2012
February 2013
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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February 2017
Title
Giving Suggestions Pertaining to Recent Executive Actions
Date
February 09, 2017
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Content Type
February 2014
Title
Global Catastrophic Risks
Date
February 01, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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October 2023
Title
Good Judgment: Superforecasting AI
Date
October 19, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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December 2016
Title
Good Ventures and Giving Now vs. Later (2016 Update)
Date
December 28, 2016
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
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October 2015
Title
Governance of Solar Radiation Management
Date
October 01, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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January 2014
Title
Grant Tennille, Executive Director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, former Deputy Chief of Staff to Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe
Date
January 17, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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July 2013
July 2012
Title
Greg Widmyer, Senior Program Officer, and Jennifer Alcorn, Program Officer, Global Policy and Advocacy, Gates Foundation
Date
July 13, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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April 2013
Title
Gunther Eysenbach, Project Initiator, Webcite
Date
April 10, 2013
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Other Areas
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April 2022
Title
Have We Hit Peak Plant-Based Meat?
Date
April 01, 2022
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2024
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Hear This Idea Podcast: Joe Carlsmith on Scheming AI
Date
March 16, 2024
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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November 2023
Title
Hear This Idea: Michelle Lavery on the Science of Animal Welfare
Date
November 22, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2013
Title
Heather Joseph, Executive Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Date
May 23, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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January 2018
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: Clinton Health Access Initiative’s Role in Global Price Drops for Antiretroviral Drugs
Date
January 10, 2018
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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May 2015
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: Pew and Drug Safety Legislation
Date
May 15, 2015
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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September 2018
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Campaign for Marriage Equality
Date
September 20, 2018
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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February 2018
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and State EITC Programs
Date
February 02, 2018
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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June 2016
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Founding of the Center for Global Development
Date
June 15, 2016
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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May 2016
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Founding of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
May 20, 2016
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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September 2015
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Impact of Philanthropy on the Passage of the Affordable Care Act
Date
September 02, 2015
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Content Type
April 2019
Title
History of Philanthropy Literature Review: Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Date
April 08, 2019
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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May 2022
Title
History of Philanthropy: Work We’ve Commissioned
Date
May 16, 2022
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Content Type
April 2016
April 2024
Title
Holden Karnofsky is Leaving Open Phil for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date
April 29, 2024
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Content Type
June 2022
November 2022
Title
How Can Governments Advance Alternative Proteins?
Date
November 28, 2022
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2017
Title
How Can We Achieve Breakthrough Change For Farm Animals?
Date
February 22, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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January 2017
Title
How Can We Improve US Policy for Farm Animals?
Date
January 20, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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September 2017
Title
How Can We Reduce Demand for Meat?
Date
September 20, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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
Content Type
October 2019
Title
How Feasible Is Long-range Forecasting?
Date
October 10, 2019
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
August 2023
Title
How I Learned To Love Shrimp Podcast: Amanda Hungerford on Open Philanthropy’s funding for farmed animal welfare
Date
August 10, 2023
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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July 2018
Title
How Much Should We Focus on Slaughter?
Date
July 18, 2018
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
November 2013
Title
How to Approach Policy-Oriented Philanthropy
Date
November 21, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
August 2020
Title
How to Lower the Price of Plant-Based Meat
Date
August 12, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
September 2017
Title
How Will Hen Welfare Be Impacted by the Transition to Cage-Free Housing?
Date
September 15, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
March 2021
Title
If We Build It, Will They Come?
Date
March 09, 2021
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
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March 2019
Title
Impact Investing for Farm Animals
Date
March 08, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
February 2014
Title
Improving Disaster Shelters to Increase the Chances of Recovery from a Global Catastrophe
Date
February 01, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
February 2014
Title
Improving Funding Allocation within HIV/AIDS Programs in Developing Countries
Date
February 01, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
September 2017
Title
Incapacitation: How Much Does Putting People Inside Prison Cut Crime Outside?
Date
September 24, 2017
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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June 2015
Title
Incoming Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform: Chloe Cockburn
Date
June 16, 2015
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
July 2022
Title
Incoming Program Officer for Effective Altruism Community Growth (Global Health and Wellbeing): James Snowden
Date
July 21, 2022
Focus Area
Effective Altruism (Global Health and Wellbeing)
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September 2015
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Incoming Program Officer: Lewis Bollard
Date
September 11, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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January 2022
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Incoming Program Officers for South Asian Air Quality and Global Aid Policy
Date
January 03, 2022
Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
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January 2014
Title
Increasing the Supply of Organs for Transplantation in the U.S.
Date
January 10, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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January 2024
Title
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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December 2015
Title
Informal Writeup on DRACOs as Potential Antiviral Treatment
Date
December 10, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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August 2013
Title
Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Date
August 01, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
August 2013
Title
Inimai M. Chettiar, Director, Justice Program and Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, Deputy Director, Development, Brennan Center for Justice,
Date
August 22, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
March 2016
Title
Initial Grants to Support Corporate Cage-free Reforms
Date
March 31, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
March 2023
Title
Inside Philanthropy: A Deep Dive Into Two of Open Philanthropy’s EA-Inspired Programs
Date
March 17, 2023
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Content Type
November 2021
Title
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
Content Type
February 2024
Title
Introducing Open Philanthropy’s New Leadership Team
Date
February 01, 2024
Focus Area
Content Type
March 2015
Title
Investigating Neglected Goals in Scientific Research
Date
March 26, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
March 2015
February 2013
Title
Ivan Oransky, Co-founder, Retraction Watch
Date
February 21, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
May 2014
Title
Jack Norris, Executive Director, Vegan Outreach
Date
May 20, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
July 2014