Updates, news coverage, grant announcements, and job openings from May, June, and July 2024.

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Recent Updates
* Holden Karnofsky left Open Philanthropy to join Carnegie California as a Visiting Scholar. Karnofsky co-founded Open Philanthropy; he was its CEO, co-CEO, and then Director of AI Strategy. For more information on Holden’s time at Open Philanthropy, read this note from CEO Alexander Berger ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Our AI Governance and Policy team is soliciting short expressions of interest for work to mitigate potential catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems ([link removed]).
* Global Health and Wellbeing staff members wrote about notable things their grantees accomplished in 2023 ([link removed]).
* We published a set of “Day in the Life” posts in which Open Phil staff describe a typical workday. Thus far, we’ve published posts by Harshdeep Singh, Phillip Greene, Kiana Snekcim-Shields, Sam Anschell, Anna Maybach Sullivan, Abhi Kumar, Alex Bowles, and Anna Weldon ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed])([link removed])([link removed])([link removed])([link removed]).
* We wrote about how the Open Wing Alliance (an Open Phil grantee) has helped free hundreds of millions of chickens from cages ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* We published an externally commissioned report by Professor Stefan Dercon on economic growth as the primary driver of poverty reduction ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* We wrote about the seven philanthropic wins that inspired the names of conference rooms in our office ([link removed]).
* Lewis Bollard, our Program Director for Farm Animal Welfare, answered questions about our work on the EA Forum and appeared on the 80,000 Hours podcast. He also published a new Substack post about how to get the world to talk about factory farming ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Matt Clancy, who leads our Innovation Policy program, has two new blog posts: Twitter and the Spread of Academic Knowledge, and When the Robots Take Your Job. You can subscribe to Matt’s newsletter here ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Senior Program Officer Jacob Trefethen published two new posts on his blog: 10 U.S. policy ideas for 10 lifesaving technologies, and FDA, ARPA-H, & CDC – policy ideas part 2 ([link removed]) ([link removed])
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In the News
* Alexander Berger was quoted by New York Times opinion columnist Peter Coy in a piece about effective altruism ([link removed]).
* Open Philanthropy grantee Katsuhiko Hayashi made Time's "100 Most Influential People" list for his gametogenesis research, which successfully produced healthy offspring from two male mice ([link removed]).
* We were cited in reporting by The Times about AI-induced economic growth ([link removed]).
* Matt Clancy recently appeared on the 80,000 Hours podcast, the Macroscience Podcast, and The Entrepreneur’s Ethic ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Emily Oehlsen, who leads our Global Health and Wellbeing work, published an article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives about philanthropic cause prioritization. She also appeared on VoxDevTalks to discuss Open Philanthropy’s approach to cause prioritization ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Jacob Trefethen was quoted in Vox about the fight to fund Gavi, the international vaccine fund ([link removed]).
* Inside Precision Medicine highlighted research by Good Ventures grantee Joe Arboleda-Velásquez, showing that a specific APOE3 genetic variant can delay Alzheimer's onset, potentially leading to new dementia treatment approaches. Dr. Arboleda-Velásquez also appeared on NPR to discuss his research ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

Grantmaking
Photo courtesy of Norwegian Church Aid
We announced a number of grants, including:

In Farm Animal Welfare:
* Compassion in World Farming USA to support its work to help implement corporate pledges for broiler chicken welfare and cage-free reforms in the US ([link removed]).
* Eurogroup for Animals to support its political advocacy for egg-laying hen and broiler chicken welfare reforms in Europe ([link removed]),
* Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal to support its cage-free, crate-free, and fish welfare campaigns in Brazil ([link removed]).

In Scientific Research:
* The International Vaccines Institute to support a Phase II dose de-escalation trial of a novel cholera vaccine ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* KU Leuven to support research, led by Lieve Naesens, to optimize drug candidates that inhibit the influenza virus RNA polymerase and may be useful as antiviral drugs ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* The University of Oxford to support a joint project developing and testing a CHIM (controlled human infection model), which could be used to evaluate vaccines for hepatitis C ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

In Global Aid Policy:
* Norwegian Church Aid to support its work on global health aid advocacy ([link removed]).
* Clinton Health Access Initiative to support analytical work aimed at improving the effectiveness of health multilaterals ([link removed]).
* Government Relations Group to support a trip to Ghana for Japanese policymakers, with the aim of growing support for Japan’s contributions to The Global Fund and Gavi ([link removed]).

In Potential Risks from Advanced AI:
* Northeastern University to support Professor David Bau‘s research on interpreting large language models ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Metaculus to support a series of tournaments comparing the forecasting abilities of large language models and humans ([link removed]).
* The University of California, San Diego to support research led by Professor Benjamin Bergen on the persuasiveness of large language models ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

In Innovation Policy:
* The University of Pennsylvania to support high-skilled immigration budget modeling at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, a research initiative at the university ([link removed]).

In Global Health R&D:
* Harvard University to support Professor Flaminia Catteruccia’s research on a novel method of malaria prevention ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Indiana University to support a trial evaluating various interventions for respiratory distress syndrome in premature babies ([link removed]).
* The Bouisson-Bertrand Institute to support a study assessing the impact of loiasis disease (African eye worm) on people in The Republic of the Congo and Cameroon ([link removed]).

To see more grants we've awarded, visit our grants page ([link removed]).

Jobs and other opportunities
* Grants Associates to help our team process and disburse more than 800 grants a year ([link removed]).
* Operations professionals to support staff and program teams ([link removed]).
* A variety of funding opportunities, including fellowships, scholarships, support for community organizing, and funding for career development and transition ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* A general application to let us know you'd be interested in working at Open Philanthropy ([link removed]).
* And as always, please consider referring candidates to these roles — if we hire someone you referred, we’ll give you $5000 ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

Best,
Jeremy Klemin
Content Editor

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