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Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $218,500 over three years to the Life Sciences Research Foundation (LSRF) to support a fellowship for an early-career virologist. This follows Open Philanthropy’s May 2023 support and falls within its focus area of scientific research, specifically within its… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended three grants totaling $2,883,550 over two years to Rethink Priorities to support their research on interventions aimed at improving farm animal welfare, including through activities like convening researchers and testing intervention strategies. We believe more high-quality research in this area will help us and other farm animal… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $2,946,250 over two years to Future House to support the creation of benchmarks to test how well large language models can perform biology R&D. Future House is a nonprofit with a mission to build semi-autonomous AIs that can conduct scientific research. This grant was… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $53,700 to the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences to support a research project led by Dr. Albin Gräns that will assess the ability of Shinkei Systems’ automated ikejime machine to humanely slaughter fish. Ikejime is a method of killing fish in… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended three grants totaling $2,320,803 over two years to the Malaria Research and Training Center to support a proof-of-concept clinical trial led by Alassane Dicko. The trial will take place in Mali and assess the safety and efficacy of the leading malaria transmission-blocking monoclonal antibody (TB31F) against natural infections. This… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $606,600 to FutureSearch to support the development of a benchmark to evaluate the ability of large language models (LLMs) to forecast geopolitical events. The benchmark will be freely available to the public. This grant was funded via a request for proposals for… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a gift of $2,500,000 to Stanford University to support research led by Professor Jeffrey Glenn on the development of a treatment to cure chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections and prevent HBV-induced liver cancer. Existing drugs treat, but do not cure, the disease. Over 300… Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $645,750 to FAR AI to support research expenses for several AI alignment research projects. Ethan Perez will mentor the independent researchers undertaking these projects. This falls within Open Philanthropy’s focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $2,693,834 over two years to Washington University in St. Louis to support research led by Professor Jeffrey Gordon and Dr. Michael Barratt on the repair of microbiome function in undernourished children. This falls within its focus area of scientific research. Read More
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $200,000 over three years to Arizona State University to support research led by Professor Chaowei Xiao on adversarial robustness in machine learning systems. This falls within Open Philanthropy’s focus area of potential risks from advanced… Read More