We’ve investigated a number of topics to inform the causes we choose to focus on. This page includes the public writeups we have available from our cause investigations, as well as research reports we have written on topics related to our established focus areas.
Research Reports
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Title
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Date
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Focus Area
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Author(s)
June 08, 2017
Title
2017 Report on Consciousness and Moral Patienthood
Date
June 2017
Focus Area
Author
Luke Muehlhauser
October 01, 2017
Title
A Software Agent Illustrating Some Features of an Illusionist Account of Consciousness
Date
October 2017
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Author
Luke Muehlhauser
April 20, 2015
Title
Advocacy for Improved or Increased U.S. Foreign Aid
Date
April 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
September 01, 2014
Title
Aid to Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
Date
September 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Author
March 10, 2016
December 13, 2015
May 10, 2013
November 13, 2013
April 01, 2017
Title
April 2017 Update on Grant to the Future of Life Institute for Artificial Intelligence RFP
Date
April 2017
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Author
November 14, 2013
Title
Attendance of Selective Colleges amongst High-Performing, Low-Income Students
Date
November 2013
Focus Area
Other Areas
Author
May 14, 2014
August 01, 2016
Title
Behavioral treatments for insomnia
Date
August 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Luke Muehlhauser
January 11, 2014
May 10, 2014
April 10, 2016
October 06, 2022
Title
Civil Conflict Reduction
Date
October 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Author
Lauren Gilbert
May 05, 2013
June 25, 2021
Title
Could Advanced AI Drive Explosive Economic Growth?
Date
June 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Author
Tom Davidson
May 12, 2014
January 01, 2015
Title
December 2014 Update on IOM Haiti Grant
Date
January 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Author
February 01, 2016
Title
December 2015 Update on IOM Haiti Grant
Date
February 2016
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Author
November 23, 2022
Title
Does putting kids in school now put money in their pockets later? Revisiting a natural experiment in Indonesia
Date
November 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Author
David Roodman
August 01, 2013
Title
Environment for Business in Low-Income Countries
Date
August 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Author
September 01, 2016
Title
Evaluation of some technology forecasts from “The Year 2000”
Date
September 2016
Focus Area
Author
Luke Muehlhauser
April 01, 2016