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Research & Updates
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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
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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 Konrad Kording, Penn Integrated Knowledge Professor, University of Pennsylvania
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September 11, 2019
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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
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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
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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 Dong Song, Research Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California
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September 19, 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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
October 2019
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How Feasible Is Long-range Forecasting?
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October 10, 2019
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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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
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Scientific Research
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November 2019
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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December 2019
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10 Years of Progress for Farm Animals
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December 06, 2019
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Farm Animal Welfare
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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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Vox: A US charity just did something radical: asked recipients where the money should go
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December 20, 2019
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Global Health & Development
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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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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 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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Professor E.J. Chichilnisky, John R. Adler Professor of Neurosurgery and Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford 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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Professor David Wolpert, Resident Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute
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January 24, 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
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Farm Animal Welfare
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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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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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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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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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April 2020
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
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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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Political Opportunities for Farm Animals in Europe
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September 25, 2020
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Farm Animal Welfare
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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
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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
Focus Area
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
Focus Area
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
Focus Area
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
Focus Area
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
Focus Area
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
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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
Date
April 27, 2021
Focus Area
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
Focus Area
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
Focus Area
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
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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
Focus Area
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
Focus Area
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
Focus Area
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
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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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
Focus Area
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
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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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
Date
October 28, 2021
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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November 2021