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Recent Updates
  • We published our annual review, which highlights our progress in 2023 and plans for the coming year.
  • We announced new additions to our leadership team.

  • We announced a new cause area in our Global Catastrophic Risks portfolio: Forecasting. Led by Benjamin Tereick, the Forecasting team's mission is to help realize the promise of forecasting as a way to improve decision-making.

  • Researchers from teams within our Global Health and Wellbeing portfolio published a list of social science topics related to global health and wellbeing.

  • Lewis Bollard, our Program Director for Farm Animal Welfare, published a post about how the farm lobby blocks legislative progress. He also wrote about Ruth Harrison and Henry Spira, two pioneering advocates for farmed animals. You can subscribe to Lewis’s Substack here.  

  • Senior Program Officer Jacob Trefethen started a blog about scientific research and science funding. You can subscribe to Jacob’s blog here.

  • Research Fellow Matt Clancy published a series of posts about patents. You can subscribe to Matt’s Substack here 
In the News
  • Lewis Bollard was interviewed in Current Affairs about why factory farming is a “moral atrocity”, and quoted in the Financial Times for a story on the politics around incentivizing low-meat diets. He also recently appeared on the 80,000 Hours podcast to discuss the most promising ways to end factory farming and how AI will impact animals. 
  • Senior Research Analyst Tom Davidson appeared on the InFi podcast to discuss the likely progression of AI.

  • Ajeya Cotra, a Senior Program Officer for our work on technical AI safety, was quoted in Vox on the debate over open-source AI.

  • Dustin Moskovitz — who, together with his wife Cari Tuna, is Open Philanthropy’s chief funder — published an essay about his philanthropic journey and views on the effective altruism community.
Grantmaking
Photo courtesy of Osaka University 
We announced a number of grants, including:
In Farm Animal Welfare:
In Scientific Research:
In Global Aid Policy: 
In Potential Risks from Advanced AI:
In Innovation Policy:
  • UK Day One to support the development of crowdsourced ideas on science and technology policy.

In Global Health R&D:
For a complete list of the grants we've awarded, visit our grants page.
Jobs and other opportunities
Best,
Jeremy Klemin
Content Editor
 
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