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Research & Updates
Title
Date
Focus Area
Content Type
7月2022
June 2022
June 2022
June 2022
May 2022
Title
History of Philanthropy: Work We’ve Commissioned
Date
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Content Type
May 2022
May 2022
Title
Request for proposals: Help Open Philanthropy quantify biological risk
Date
May 12, 2022
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Content Type
April 2022
February 2022
Title
New grantmaking program: supporting the effective altruism community around Global Health and Wellbeing
Date
February 22, 2022
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth
Content Type
February 2022
Title
Vox: How to clear the air in the most polluted cities on Earth
Date
February 20, 2022
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Content Type
February 2022
January 2022
Title
Devex: Open Philanthropy launches programs for South Asia, global aid work
Date
January 06, 2022
Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
Content Type
January 2022
Title
Incoming Program Officers for South Asian Air Quality and Global Aid Policy
Date
January 03, 2022
Focus Area
Content Type
December 2021
December 2021
Title
STAT: For an antiviral researcher, Covid brings a flood of attention — and opportunity
Date
December 20, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
December 2021
Title
The New York Times: We Will Look Back on This Age of Cruelty to Animals in Horror
Date
December 16, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
11月2021
Title
Vox: A criminal justice expert’s guide to donating effectively
Date
11月30, 2021
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
11月2021
Title
NPR: On #GivingTuesday, How To Get The Most Bang For Your Charity Buck
Date
11月30, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
11月2021
Title
Vox: These are the charities where your money will do the most good
Date
11月29, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
11月2021
Title
Vox: Why the future of animal welfare lies beyond the West
Date
11月26, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
11月2021
Title
2021 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities: Why We’re Giving More Going Forward
Date
11月19, 2021
Focus Area
Content Type
11月2021
Title
Technical Updates to Our Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Prioritization Framework
Date
11月18, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
11月2021
Title
Inside Philanthropy: With More Donors, Open Philanthropy is Spinning Its Criminal Justice Reform Work into a New Fund
Date
11月16, 2021
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
11月2021
Title
Our Criminal Justice Reform Program Is Now an Independent Organization: Just Impact
Date
11月16, 2021
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
October 2021
Title
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
Longtermism
Content Type
September 2021
Title
EE Times: Building a Framework to Trust AI
Date
September 24, 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
August 2021
Title
80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass
Date
August 26, 2021
Focus Area
Content Type
August 2021
Title
80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
Date
August 19, 2021
Focus Area
Longtermism
Content Type
August 2021
7月2021
7月2021
Title
80,000 Hours Podcast: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
Date
7月12, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
June 2021
Title
Reuters: Caged animal farming must end in EU, European Commission says
Date
June 30, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
June 2021
Title
New Roles in Global Health and Wellbeing
Date
June 29, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
June 2021
Title
Could Advanced AI Drive Explosive Economic Growth?
Date
June 25, 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
June 2021
Title
Report on Whether AI Could Drive Explosive Economic Growth
Date
June 17, 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
June 2021
June 2021
Title
The Washington Post: As grocery prices rise, alt-meat takes a bigger bite of Big Meat’s burger
Date
June 08, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
June 2021
June 2021
Title
New Staff in Operations, Programs, and Research (2021)
Date
June 03, 2021
Focus Area
Content Type
May 2021
Title
The New York Times: Biden Aims to Rebuild and Expand Legal Immigration
Date
May 31, 2021
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
May 2021
Title
PBS News Hour: In her bid to end TB Mireille Kamariza is shattering stereotypes about scientists
Date
May 10, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
May 2021
Title
The New York Times: The Future of Virus Tracking Can Be Found on This College Campus
Date
May 05, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
May 2021
Title
The New Republic: The Progressive Trio Shaping Biden’s Ambitious Economic Policy
Date
May 04, 2021
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
April 2021
Title
The Washington Post: Epicurious drops beef recipes, drawing ire from the pro-burger crowd — and some food activists
Date
April 27, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
April 2021
Title
Financial Times: Air pollution: Asia’s deadliest public health crisis is not Covid
Date
April 27, 2021
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Content Type
April 2021
April 2021
Title
The Brussels Times: European Citizens’ initiative to end the use of cages in animal farming in EU on the right track
Date
April 18, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
March 2021
Title
Semi-informative priors over AI timelines
Date
March 25, 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
March 2021
Title
Report on Semi-informative Priors
Date
March 25, 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
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
Content Type
March 2021
Title
The Washington Post: Money can’t buy criminal justice reform. But it can fuel a movement.
Date
March 16, 2021
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
March 2021
Title
The New York Times: Unlocking the Covid Code
Date
March 12, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
March 2021
Title
Vox: The next frontier for animal welfare: Fish
Date
March 02, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
February 2021
Title
80,000 Hours: Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened
Date
February 15, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
February 2021
Title
The New York Times: Scientists Are Trying to Spot New Viruses Before They Cause Pandemics
Date
February 15, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
January 2021
December 2020
Title
The New York Times: Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?
Date
December 17, 2020
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Content Type
Title
Comstock’s Magazine: Promise for New Protiens
Date
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
December 2020
Title
The New York Times: California’s Housing Crisis: How a Bureaucrat Pushed to Build
Date
December 13, 2020
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
December 2020
Title
2020 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 11, 2020
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
December 2020
Title
Our AI governance grantmaking so far
Date
December 08, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
11月2020
Title
Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Staff – 2020
Date
11月23, 2020
Focus Area
Content Type
11月2020
Title
Nature: Coronavirus Testing Finally Gathers Speed
Date
11月05, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
11月2020
Title
BioSpace: Icosavax Turns VLP Tech to COVID-19 Vaccine, with $16.5 Million in New Financing
Date
11月02, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
October 2020
Title
Nikkei Asia: Thai food producers shift focus to animal welfare
Date
October 23, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
October 2020
Title
Vox: The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity
Date
October 15, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
October 2020
Title
Scientific American: Lab-Made ‘Miniproteins’ Could Block the Coronavirus from Infecting Cells
Date
October 12, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
October 2020
Title
Stanford Medicine News Center: Jeffrey Glenn Granted $14.3 Million to Develop Broad Spectrum Drug
Date
October 05, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
September 2020
Title
Vox: Building housing — lots of it — will lay the foundation for a new future
Date
September 23, 2020
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
September 2020
Title
《华盛顿邮报》:The Rise of the Rational Do-Gooders
Date
September 23, 2020
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth
Content Type
September 2020
Title
Vox: Farms have bred chickens so large that they’re in constant pain
Date
September 23, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
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
Content Type
September 2020
Title
Forbes: 2021 Breakthrough Prize Winners Announced: Researcher Who Developed Protein Design Technology Awarded $3 Million
Date
September 10, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
September 2020
Title
New Report on How Much Computational Power It Takes to Match the Human Brain
Date
September 08, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
August 2020
Title
The Atlantic: The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
Date
August 14, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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
7月2020
Title
Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Philanthropy Now podcast: Open Philanthropy: How donors and philanthropists can support criminal justice reform
Date
7月22, 2020
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
7月2020
Title
San Fransisco Business Times: Biotech Legends Help Launch Parasite-Fighting Startup with Deep Stanford Ties
Date
7月13, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
7月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
7月01, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
June 2020
June 2020
Title
Dr. Kate Storrs, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Justus Liebig University
Date
June 11, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
June 2020
Title
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
Content Type
May 2020
Title
New Staff in Communications, Grants, Operations, Programs, and Research (2020)
Date
May 08, 2020
Focus Area
Content Type
May 2020
March 2020
Title
Barron’s Penta: How Philanthropists are Tackling COVID-19
Date
March 18, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
March 2020
Title
Forecasting the COVID-19 Pandemic
Date
March 17, 2020
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Content Type
March 2020
Title
Dr. Jess Riedel, Senior Research Scientist (Physics), NTT Research
Date
March 01, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
March 2020
Title
Dr. Paul Christiano, Researcher, OpenAI
Date
March 01, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
January 2020
Title
Professor David Wolpert, Resident Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute
Date
January 24, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
January 2020
Title
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
Content Type
January 2020
Title
Professor Jared Kaplan, Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University
Date
January 23, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
January 2020
Title
Dr. Michael Frank, Senior Technical Staff Member, Sandia National Laboratory
Date
January 22, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
January 2020
Title
Professor Stephen Baccus, Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford University
Date
January 22, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
December 2019
Title
Vox: A US charity just did something radical: asked recipients where the money should go
Date
December 20, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
December 2019
Title
Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Staff – 2019
Date
December 18, 2019
Focus Area
Content Type
December 2019
Title
2019 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 06, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
11月2019
October 2019
Title
EicOsis Press Release: EicOsis receives $15MM grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse to help fund trials of non-opioid pain therapy
Date
October 15, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
October 2019