On the blog

• We announced that we are recruiting two new Program Officers, in South Asian air quality and global aid advocacy, and Research Fellows and Strategy Fellows. These roles will help us direct philanthropic funding in new-to-OP causes and identify new areas for grantmaking in the future. 
• Tom Davidson assessed whether AI could drive significantly faster global economic growth this century compared to historic standards.
• We announced that Open Philanthropy co-founder Alexander Berger has been promoted to co-CEO. Alexander will continue to oversee our work on Global Health and Wellbeing.
• We introduced new members of our team who joined in the last year, including new contributors to operations, program teams, and research. 
• We compared our progress with the goals we set forth a year ago, noting a high level of grantmaking and the completion of a number of reports relevant to our worldview investigations function. We also laid out our plans for the coming year, including investigating new areas for giving.

• As reported by Reuters, the European Commission recently announced that it will propose legislation to phase out the use of cages for farmed animals. The announcement came after the End the Cage Age European Citizens’ Initiative, led by our grantee Compassion in World Farming, gathered over 1.4 million signatures in favor of cage-free legislation. 
• PBS NewsHour profiled Mireille Kamariza, who is working on a potential breakthrough diagnostic tool to fight tuberculosis. Kamariza is CEO of OliLux Biosciences, which recently received an investment from Open Philanthropy. 
• The New York Times highlighted work by Open Philanthropy grantee Pardis Sabeti, who worked with Colorado Mesa University in her role at the Broad Institute to develop a system for pandemic management. Versions of the system could be used to respond to future outbreaks.
• The 80,000 Hours Podcast interviewed Open Philanthropy co-CEO Alexander Berger about our Global Health and Wellbeing grantmaking, how we think about maximizing the impact of our giving, and more.

Open Philanthropy announced a number of grants and investments, including (but not limited to):

• In Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness: MIT Media Lab to continue to support the research of Professor Kevin Esvelt. 
• In Criminal Justice Reform: Frontline Wellness for general support and the Ayni Institute to support activities related to the digital Movement Ecology program.
• In Farm Animal Welfare: Wild Animal Initiative to support research on animal welfare, Compassion in World Farming USA for general support, and the Changing Markets Foundation to support investor engagement and fish welfare campaigns. 
• In Global Health and Development: CEEW, UC Berkeley, and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi to support the installation of a network of low-cost air quality sensors in South Asia. Grants to GiveWell-recommended charities included the Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention and the SCI Foundation for general support.  
• In Potential Risks from Advanced Artificial Intelligence: MIT and the University of Tübingen to support research on robustness as a means to improve AI safety and the Open Phil AI Fellowship to support four promising machine learning researchers.
• In Scientific Research: The CDC Foundation to support research on malaria control.

Jobs and other opportunities

• A Communications Officer to help us share more about our work as we move into the next phase of our growth.
• A Program Officer to lead our global aid advocacy work.
• A Program Officer to lead our South Asian air quality grantmaking.
• Research Fellows and Strategy Fellows to work on identifying the best new areas for Open Philanthropy to expand its giving within Global Health and Wellbeing.
• A general application to let us know you'd be interested in working at Open Philanthropy.

Gabriela Romero
www.openphilanthropy.org