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Global Priorities Institute — General Support Grant — Open Philanthropy (2023–2024)

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This grant page documents Open Philanthropy's financial support for GPI, a key academic institution producing foundational research relevant to AI safety prioritization and longtermist ethics; useful for understanding funding flows in the AI safety ecosystem.

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Open Philanthropy awarded a general support grant to the Global Priorities Institute (GPI) at Oxford University for 2023–2024. GPI conducts academic research on global priorities, including existential risk, longtermism, and the philosophical and economic foundations of effective altruism. This grant reflects Open Philanthropy's ongoing support for foundational research informing rational resource allocation toward the most important global challenges.

Key Points

  • Open Philanthropy provided general operational support funding to the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford for 2023–2024.
  • GPI focuses on academic research into which global problems deserve the most attention, including existential and catastrophic risks.
  • The grant supports interdisciplinary work spanning philosophy, economics, and decision theory relevant to AI safety and longtermism.
  • General support grants allow recipient organizations flexibility to pursue their research agenda without project-specific restrictions.
  • This reflects a broader philanthropic strategy of funding foundational intellectual infrastructure for the effective altruism and AI safety communities.

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