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Research & Updates
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June 2015
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David Bier, Immigration Policy Analyst, Niskanen Center
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June 05, 2015
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Immigration Policy
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June 2015
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Diana Shineman, Director for Scientific Affairs, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation
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June 08, 2015
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Scientific Research
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June 2015
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The Atlantic: The Greatest Good
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June 15, 2015
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Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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June 2015
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Incoming Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform: Chloe Cockburn
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June 16, 2015
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Criminal Justice Reform
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June 2015
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A Conversation with Members of the Effective Altruists of Berkeley at UC Berkeley – a Student Group –
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June 19, 2015
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Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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June 2015
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Key Questions about Philanthropy, Part 1: What is the Role of a Funder?
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June 23, 2015
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June 2015
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A Conversation with Staff from the International Organization for Migration, Protect the People, and the Center for Global Development
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June 23, 2015
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Immigration Policy
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June 2015
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Angela Geiger, Chief Strategy Officer, Alzheimer’s Association, and Dr. Dean Hartley, Director of Science Initiatives, Alzheimer’s Association
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June 23, 2015
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Scientific Research
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June 2015
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Milan Vaishnav, Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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June 25, 2015
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Global Health & Development
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June 2015
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Dr. Allison DeFoor, Chairman, Florida State University Project on Accountable Justice (PAJ), and Deborrah Brodsky, Director, PAJ
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June 26, 2015
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Criminal Justice Reform
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June 2015
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Geomagnetic Storms: An Introduction to the Risk
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June 29, 2015
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Global Catastrophic Risks
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June 2015
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Taynin Kopanos, DNP, NP, Vice President of State Government Affairs, American Association of Nurse Practitioners
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June 30, 2015
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Other Areas
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July 2015
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Geomagnetic Storms: History’s Surprising, if Tentative, Reassurance
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July 02, 2015
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Global Catastrophic Risks
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July 2015
July 2015
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Building Capacity to Promote Freer Global Mobility, a CGD-Open Philanthropy Project Workshop
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July 07, 2015
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Immigration Policy
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July 2015
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Paul Haenle, Director, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
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July 08, 2015
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Global Health & Development
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July 2015
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Key Questions about Philanthropy, Part 2: Choosing Focus Areas and Hiring Program Staff
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July 09, 2015
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July 2015
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Geomagnetic Storms: Using Extreme Value Theory to Gauge the Risk
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July 13, 2015
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Global Catastrophic Risks
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July 2015
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Key Questions about Philanthropy, Part 3: Making and Evaluating Grants
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July 22, 2015
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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
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July 25, 2015
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Other Areas
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July 2015
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Daniel Greene, Researcher, Project for Education Research That Scales and Lytics Lab, Stanford University
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July 28, 2015
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Other Areas
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July 2015
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Russell Stewart, PhD Student, Stanford University
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July 29, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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July 2015
August 2015
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Excerpts from Emails About ARNOVA Grant
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August 01, 2015
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History of Philanthropy
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August 2015
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Peter Gollwitzer, Professor of Psychology, New York University
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August 03, 2015
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Other Areas
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August 2015
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Dr. Peter Eckersley, Chief Computer Scientist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
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August 04, 2015
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2015
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Potential Risks from Advanced Artificial Intelligence
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August 11, 2015
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2015
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The Long-Term Significance of Reducing Global Catastrophic Risks
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August 13, 2015
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Global Catastrophic Risks
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August 2015
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Change in our Fundraising Policy for the Open Philanthropy Project
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August 17, 2015
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August 2015
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Alan Durning, Founder and Executive Director, Sightline Institute
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August 18, 2015
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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August 2015
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Jacob Steinhardt, Graduate Student in Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University and Science Advisor, Open Philanthropy Project
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August 19, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2015
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Coming Down to Earth: What if a Big Geomagnetic Storm Does Hit?
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August 21, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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September 2015
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History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Impact of Philanthropy on the Passage of the Affordable Care Act
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September 02, 2015
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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September 2015
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The Process of Hiring our First Cause-Specific Program Officer
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September 03, 2015
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September 2015
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Incoming Program Officer: Lewis Bollard
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September 11, 2015
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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September 2015
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Nuclear Weapons Policy
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September 13, 2015
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Global Catastrophic Risks
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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
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September 14, 2015
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Other Areas
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September 2015
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Josh Morrison, Executive Director, Waitlist Zero
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September 15, 2015
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Other Areas
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September 2015
September 2015
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Differential Technological Development: Some Early Thinking
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September 30, 2015
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Scientific Research
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October 2015
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Governance of Solar Radiation Management
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October 01, 2015
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Global Catastrophic Risks
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October 2015
October 2015
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David Alpert, Founder, Greater Greater Washington
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October 05, 2015
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Land Use Reform
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October 2015
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Steve Oh, Phd, Principal Scientist, Bioprocessing Technology Institute
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October 07, 2015
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Farm Animal Welfare
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October 2015
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What Do We Know about AI Timelines?
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October 12, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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October 2015
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Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Ben Spielberg, Research Assistant, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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October 21, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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October 2015
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Why a New Study of the Mariel Boatlift Has Not Changed Our Views on the Benefits of Immigration
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October 21, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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November 2015
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Robert Heimer, Professor of Epidemiology and of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine
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November 16, 2015
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Scientific Research
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November 2015
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Should the Open Philanthropy Project be Recommending More/Larger Grants?
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November 17, 2015
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November 2015