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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.
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Our AI Governance and Policy team is soliciting short expressions of interest for work to mitigate potential catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems.
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Global Health and Wellbeing staff members wrote about notable things their grantees accomplished in 2023.
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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.
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We wrote about how the Open Wing Alliance (an Open Phil grantee) has helped free hundreds of millions of chickens from cages.
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We published an externally commissioned report by Professor Stefan Dercon on economic growth as the primary driver of poverty reduction.
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We wrote about the seven philanthropic wins that inspired the names of conference rooms in our office.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Alexander Berger was quoted by New York Times opinion columnist Peter Coy in a piece about effective altruism.
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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.
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We were cited in reporting by The Times about AI-induced economic growth.
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Matt Clancy recently appeared on the 80,000 Hours podcast, the Macroscience Podcast, and The Entrepreneur’s Ethic.
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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.
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Jacob Trefethen was quoted in Vox about the fight to fund Gavi, the international vaccine fund.
- 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.
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Photo courtesy of Norwegian Church Aid
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We announced a number of grants, including:
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In Potential Risks from Advanced AI:
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To see more grants we've awarded, visit our grants page.
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Jobs and other opportunities
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Best,
Jeremy Klemin
Content Editor
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