Open Philanthropy Update

On the blog

Joseph Carlsmith investigated how much computational power it takes to match the human brain’s capabilities.

In the news

The Atlantic highlighted the work of Michael Mina, an Open Philanthropy grantee, as part of an article about the role widespread COVID-19 testing could play in mitigating the spread of the virus.
Forbes featured Open Philanthropy grantee David Baker, who recently won a 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work computationally designing proteins to treat and prevent a number of diseases, including COVID-19.
Philanthropy Now, a podcast produced by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, interviewed program officer Chloe Cockburn about how donors and philanthropists can support criminal justice reform.
The Washington Post Magazine published a piece on effective altruism, a movement that has influenced Open Philanthropy’s mission to give as effectively as we can.

Grantmaking

Open Philanthropy announced several grants, including (but not limited to):

In Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness: Open Philanthropy’s early-career funding for work on global catastrophic risks and the Nuclear Threat Initiative to support its biosecurity program.
In Criminal Justice Reform: The Movement Voter Project to support its work on criminal justice reform, VOCAL-NY and Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation to support work on prosecutor accountability, and Project NIA to support Mariame Kaba’s work on transformative justice.
In Farm Animal Welfare: The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to support work to advance farm animal welfare in Asia, Eurogroup for Animals to support EU advocacy work for layer hen and broiler chicken welfare, We Animals Media to continue documenting the lives and experiences of farm animals, and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research to support research on optimizing plant protein for use in plant-based meat.
In Global Catastrophic Risks: The Future of Humanity Institute to hire future scholars to the Research Scholars Programme.
In Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy: Employ America for general support and the Center for Popular Democracy to support the “Fed Up” campaign.
In Potential Risks from Advanced Artificial Intelligence: The Wilson Center to organize additional AI policy seminars and the Centre for the Governance of AI for general support.
In Scientific Research: Stanford University to support work to test an antiviral drug candidate against COVID-19 and other viruses, VST Bio to support the development of a novel treatment for stroke and traumatic brain disease, and Kainomyx to support the development and production of a new antimalarial drug.
In other areas: The Global Priorities Institute for general support.

For the full list of grant recommendations, visit our public database.

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