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Welcome to the November edition of our newsletter!

As Open Phil has grown, we've had more news to share — so we're switching to monthly rather than quarterly updates going forward.

This month's highlight: CEO Alexander Berger and President Emily Oehlsen wrote a pair of blog posts outlining why we fund work to both harness AI's benefits and mitigate its risks, while Alexander and Director of Partnerships Liz Givens wrote about why AI safety and security need more philanthropic funding ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

We are continuing to grow our team — see here or the end of the newsletter for open roles and opportunities to get involved. And keep reading for more updates and highlights ([link removed])!

Best,
Jeremy Klemin
Editor
Highlights

In addition to publishing a blog series about our approach to funding work on AI, we:
* Launched a blog as part of our Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness work. The first post proposes four key “pillars” for defense against biological threats ([link removed]).
* Wrote about the Institute for Replication’s efforts to make social science research more robust and reliable ([link removed]).
* Commissioned a case study on the evolution and impact of farm animal welfare corporate campaigns, and wrote about the findings ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

Open Philanthropy in the News
Media coverage of our programs and grantees:
* The San Francisco Business Times profiled Cari Tuna, Open Philanthropy’s chair, in a story about her data-driven approach to philanthropy ([link removed]).
* The San Francisco Standard featured Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz, Open Philanthropy’s main funders, in a story on the American philanthropic landscape ([link removed]).
* Inside Philanthropy reported on the launch of our Abundance and Growth Fund ([link removed]) [link removed]).
* Bloomberg highlighted the work of Eurogroup for Animals and Compassion in World Farming in an article about the perils of selective chicken breeding ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* The Pew Research Center released a study on the low incidence of fires in multifamily housing, employing research from The Center for Building in North America ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* TIME highlighted the work of Metaculus ad RAND in an article about AI forecasting ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* The New York Times, NPR, and The Guardian covered research ([link removed]) we supported, which found that cash transfers were highly impactful in Kenya when the money was given to pregnant women living near hospitals ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* The Australian Financial Review reported on the work of YIMBY Melbourne and our support for them ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* The Argument, a new magazine focused on abundance, progress, economic growth, and related issues, went live in August ([link removed]). (We are an investor.)

Interviews with Open Philanthropy staff:
* Cari Tuna, Open Philanthropy’s chair, spoke about her start in philanthropy and the importance of mentorship at the 2025 Forbes Impact Summit ([link removed]).
* Lewis Bollard, program director in Farm Animal Welfare, gave a TED Talk on how to end factory farming and appeared on the Dwarkesh Podcast to discuss the economics of the meat industry — read Lewis’s follow-up post to the podcast here ([link removed])([link removed]) ([link removed]). After the podcast, Lewis and Dwarkesh announced a donation match that raised $2.4 million on behalf of farm animal advocacy ([link removed]).
* Matt Clancy, senior program officer in Abundance and Growth, discussed productivity, cities, and the future of work on the City Talks podcast. ([link removed]) He was also quoted in an article about AI’s impact on scientific research ([link removed]).
* Andrew Snyder-Beattie, program director in Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness, discussed low-tech defenses against future pandemics on the 80,000 Hours Podcast ([link removed]).
* Tom Hird, senior program associate in Global Public Health Policy, joined a Devex panel at the 80th Session of the UN General Assembly to discuss our work on preventing lead poisoning ([link removed]).
* Jacob Trefethen, program director in Global Health and Wellbeing, released a five-part miniseries about proteins on his podcast, Hard Drugs ([link removed]). The finale is a 4.5-hour deep dive on AI's potential to accelerate medical progress ([link removed]).

Writing by Open Philanthropy Staff
* Matt Clancy, senior program officer in Abundance and Growth, co-published a paper in Science on the extent to which lower historical funding for the National Institutes of Health would have reduced access to medicine ([link removed]).
* Deena Mousa, lead researcher in GHW Cause Prioritization, wrote for Works in Progress about why AI systems haven’t yet replaced radiologists and for The Times on why the U.K. needs more air conditioning ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Jacob Trefethen, program director in Global Health and Wellbeing, wrote paired essays on the promise and limitations of AI for medical research ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Oliver Kim, research fellow in GHW Cause Prioritization, wrote about the difficulty of estimating ancient-world GDP for Asterisk ([link removed]).
* Julian Hazell, program associate in Navigating Transformative AI, wrote about AI safety talent development programs and other AI safety projects that he wishes more people worked on ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

Grantee Updates
* CA YIMBY played a key role in getting SB 79 passed in California
([link removed]) ([link removed]). The bill makes it legal to build multifamily housing near high-frequency transit, which could enable over a million new units.
* The Open Wing Alliance reported that 92% of cage-free egg commitments with 2024 deadlines have now been fulfilled ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Metaculus just shared an update on a public benchmarking tournament it launched last year to evaluate how large language models fare on real-world questions compared to expert human forecasters ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* L214, a French farm animal welfare organization, secured a welfare commitment that will likely cover over 200 million chickens each year ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* The Epic Air Quality Fund played a meaningful role in getting new legislation on air quality monitoring and enforcement standards passed in Ghana ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

New Grants
Photo courtesy of FAR.AI
We announced a number of grants, including:

In Abundance & Growth:
* The Argument (investment) to support journalism on policies related to abundance, progress, and economic growth ([link removed]).
* The Fair Share Housing Center to support legal work on increasing housing production in the areas of New Jersey near New York City ([link removed]).

In Farm Animal Welfare:
* The University of Stirling to support research led by Professor David Little on fish welfare in Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* OBRAZ to support work to secure corporate broiler welfare and cage-free implementation pledges in Czechia ([link removed]).

In Effective Giving & Careers:
* Against Malaria Foundation Korea (AMF Korea) to support its operating expenses. AMF Korea fundraises nationally for the larger Against Malaria Foundation, which distributes, monitors, and ensures proper use of insecticidal bednets ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* The Network for Effective Evidence-based Development to support community-building work aimed at helping public policy master’s students enter high-impact development careers ([link removed]).

In Navigating Transformative AI:
* FAR.AI to support the expansion of its technical research team ([link removed]).
* UC Berkeley to support the creation of a benchmark for assessing AI cyberoffense capabilities ([link removed]).

In Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building:
* BlueDot Impact for general support ([link removed]). BlueDot builds and delivers virtual courses to help professionals navigate the rise of transformative AI.
* Arcadia Impact to run a research fellowship focused on technical AI governance ([link removed]).

In Global Health R&D:
* The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute to support research on the effectiveness of PermaNet® Dumuria (Vestergaard) nets ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* The University of Oxford to support a three-part study on the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine in school-aged children in Burkina Faso and Mali, led by Drs. Mehreen Datoo and Halidou Tinto ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

In Global Aid Policy:
* CGD Europe, the European branch of the Center for Global Development, to support work to improve the cost-effectiveness of U.K. official development assistance ([link removed]).

In Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness:
* Blueprint Biosecurity for general support ([link removed]). Blueprint is a nonprofit dedicated to advancing technologies for pandemic prevention and mitigation.

In Global Public Health Policy:
* The Air Pollution Action Group to support work on air pollution in India ([link removed]).
* The Council on Energy, Environment and Water to support its Clean Air Team, as well as conduct additional research on crop residue burning in the Indian state of Punjab ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

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

We’re hiring for:
* Multiple hires on our Technical AI Safety team at a range of seniority levels (deadline November 24) ([link removed]).
* Recruiters to help Open Philanthropy grow, focusing on either round management or pipeline development (deadline November 23) ([link removed]).
* Senior generalist roles across our Global Catastrophic Risks portfolio to help increase impact and overall capacity (deadline November 20) ([link removed]).
* Operations roles based in either SF or D.C. (rolling deadline) ([link removed]).

As always, please consider referring candidates to these roles — if we hire someone you referred, we’ll give you $5,000 ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

We also have:
* A variety of funding opportunities,including fellowships, scholarships, support for group organizers, and funding for career development and transition
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* A general application to let us know you'd be interested in working at Open Philanthropy ([link removed]).

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