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Research & Updates
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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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July 2012
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Peter Attia, Co-Founder, Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI)
Date
July 31, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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August 2015
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Peter Gollwitzer, Professor of Psychology, New York University
Date
August 03, 2015
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Other Areas
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May 2015
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Peter Morin, Professor, Deparment of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University
Date
May 05, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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July 2014
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Peter Wagner, Executive Director, Prison Policy Initiative
Date
July 14, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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November 2013
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Pew Charitable Trusts’ Government Performance Project
Date
November 14, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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July 2014
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Phil Cook, ITT/Sanford Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics and Sociology, Duke University
Date
July 29, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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March 2012
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Philanthropy’s Success Stories
Date
March 01, 2012
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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September 2014
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Philip Moriarty, Professor of Physics, University of Nottingham
Date
September 03, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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May 2012
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Philip Rasch, Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Date
May 22, 2012
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Other Areas
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December 2013
March 2016
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Philip Tetlock, Annenberg University Professor, University of Pennsylvania; Co-Creator, Good Judgment Project
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March 08, 2016
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Other Areas
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February 2014
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Philip Tetlock, Professor of Psychology and Management, University of Pennsylvania; Co-leader of the Good Judgment Project
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February 12, 2014
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Other Areas
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October 2014
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Philip Yun, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Ploughshares Fund
Date
October 16, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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July 2015
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Piers Steel, Professor and Distinguished Research Chair, Human Resources and Organizational Dynamics, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
Date
July 25, 2015
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Other Areas
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September 2020
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Political Opportunities for Farm Animals in Europe
Date
September 25, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2013
Title
Possible Global Catastrophic Risks
Date
May 23, 2013
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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June 2014
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Potential Global Catastrophic Risk Focus Areas
Date
June 26, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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August 2015
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Potential Risks from Advanced Artificial Intelligence
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August 11, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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May 2016
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Potential Risks from Advanced Artificial Intelligence: The Philanthropic Opportunity
Date
May 06, 2016
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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May 2014
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Potential U.S. Policy Focus Areas
Date
May 29, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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July 2016
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Professor Aaron Sloman, Honorary Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, University of Birmingham
Date
July 03, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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July 2016
Title
Professor Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University
Date
July 27, 2016
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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March 2016
September 2019
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Professor Anthony Zador, Alle Davis and Maxine Harrison Professor of Neurosciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date
September 12, 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
Date
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 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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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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September 2019
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Professor Dong Song, Research Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California
Date
September 19, 2019
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
Date
January 23, 2020
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
Date
September 17, 2019
Focus Area
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
Date
September 17, 2019
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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January 2020
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Professor Jared Kaplan, Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University
Date
January 23, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2017
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Professor Keith Frankish, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, The Open University
Date
January 24, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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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Professor Markus Meister, Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences at the California Institute of Technology
Date
September 24, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2016
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Professor Michael Tye, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas
Date
August 24, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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September 2015
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Professor Nestor Kapusta, Associate Professor, Suicide Research Group, Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna
Date
September 14, 2015
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Other Areas
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April 2014
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Professor Nigel Lightfoot CBE, Executive Director of CORDS
Date
April 01, 2014
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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April 2016
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Professor Robin Hanson, Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Date
April 20, 2016
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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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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May 2016
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Professor Shirley Tilghman, Co-Founder, Rescuing Biomedical Research, and President Emerita/Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Date
May 19, 2016
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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March 2017
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Professor Simon Nicholson, Co-Executive Director, Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment
Date
March 10, 2017
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Other Areas
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January 2020
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Professor Stephen Baccus, Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford University
Date
January 22, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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April 2017
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Professor Trevor Gaunt, Emeritus Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Cape Town
Date
April 04, 2017
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Other Areas
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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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June 2017
January 2018
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Quanta Magazine: A Neurobiologist Thinks Big — and Small
Date
January 18, 2018
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Scientific Research
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August 2019
February 2017
September 2017
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Reasonable Doubt: A New Look at Whether Prison Growth Cuts Crime
Date
September 24, 2017
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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December 2017
September 2012
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Rebecca Daou, Divisions Manager, Lions Club International Foundation
Date
September 25, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2014
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Rebecca Sandefur, Associate Professor of Sociology and Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Faculty Fellow, American Bar Association
Date
December 15, 2014
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Other Areas
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September 2012
May 2013
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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March 2021
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Report on Semi-Informative Priors
Date
March 25, 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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July 2022
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Report on Social Returns to Productivity Growth
Date
July 15, 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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June 2021
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Report on Whether AI Could Drive Explosive Economic Growth
Date
June 17, 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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May 2022
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Request for Proposals: Help Open Philanthropy Quantify Biological Risk
Date
May 12, 2022
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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April 2018
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Research and Development to Decrease Biosecurity Risks from Viral Pathogens
Date
April 01, 2018
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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December 2017
May 2017
December 2017
June 2017
October 2016
Title
Research on Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Date
October 13, 2016
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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January 2014
Title
Returns to Life Sciences Funding
Date
January 15, 2014
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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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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March 2014
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Richard England, Visiting Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; Professor of Economics and Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire
Date
March 22, 2014
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Other Areas
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September 2014
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Richard Jones, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Professor of Physics, University of Sheffield
Date
September 30, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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January 2013
Title
Richard Mugisha, Program Officer/Country Manager, Uganda, Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa
Date
January 29, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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February 2014
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Richard Sullivan, MD, PhD, Professor of Cancer Policy & Global Health at Kings College London, Director of the Kings Institute of Cancer Policy
Date
February 06, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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January 2014
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Richard Sullivan, MD, PhD, Professor of Cancer Policy & Global Health at Kings College London, Director of the Kings Institute of Cancer Policy
Date
January 08, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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June 2015
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Risks from Atomically Precise Manufacturing
Date
June 05, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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January 2014
Title
Rob Reich, Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; Board member, GiveWell
Date
January 09, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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April 2014
Title
Robert Bloomfield, Professor of Management and Accounting, Cornell University
Date
April 04, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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November 2014
Title
Robert Einhorn, Senior Fellow, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, The Brookings Institution
Date
November 10, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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April 2014
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Robert Greenstein, President, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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April 03, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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November 2015
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Robert Heimer, Professor of Epidemiology and of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine
Date
November 16, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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May 2014
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Robert Martin, Program Director, Food System Policy Program, John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Date
May 14, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2013
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Robert Tjian, President, and Cheryl Moore, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, HHMI
Date
June 03, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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January 2014
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Robin Hanson, Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Date
January 15, 2014
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Other Areas
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July 2015
Title
Russell Stewart, PhD Student, Stanford University
Date
July 29, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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July 2013
Title
Ruth Levineb (Program Director), Helena Choi (Program Officer), and Margot Fahnestock (Program Officer), Global Development and Population Program
Date
July 15, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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August 2012
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Sally Green, Co-Director of the Australasian Cochrane Center
Date
August 23, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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August 2013
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Sally O’Brien, Senior Vice President of Philanthropic Partnerships, Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
August 14, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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October 2013
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Sally Satel, MD, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Lecturer in Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine
Date
October 10, 2013
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Other Areas
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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
Date
July 13, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2012
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Sara Rogge and Alix Zwane, Senior Program Officers, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Gates Foundation, and Jenna Brereton, Consultant, Geneva Global
Date
September 18, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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September 2016
Title
Sarah Williamson, Executive Director, Protect the People
Date
September 09, 2016
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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June 2021
Title
Scale-Up Economics for Cultured Meat
Date
June 07, 2021
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
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May 2016
Title
Science Magazine: Grassroots Future of Research group makes it official
Date
May 04, 2016
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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April 2015
Title
Science Policy and Infrastructure
Date
April 21, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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June 2018
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Scientific American: A Shot against Cancer Slated for Testing in Massive Dog Study
Date
June 07, 2018
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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August 2017
Title
Scientific American: Disease Hunters Enlarge the Enemy to Get a Better Look
Date
August 01, 2017
Focus Area
Scientific Innovation: Tools and Techniques
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October 2020