EA Updates for February 2022

Open Phil have made 2 grants recently with a total value of $8,700,000
- $8,000,000 - Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security - forecasting platforms
- $800,000 - Equalia - corporate campaigns to improve the welfare of chickens
Center for Emerging Risk Research have made 5 grants with a total value of $19,600,000
The Long-Term Future Fund have made 18 grants with a total value of $1,400,000
The Animal Welfare Fund have made 21 grants with a total value of $1,100,000

Global Development

Animal Advocacy Careers with research into hiring difficulties
Emma Ignaszewski looking at pathways to alternative protein affordability
The LSE, Political Science Foundations of Animal Sentience (ASENT) Project and Rethink Priorities are sponsoring a conference on the problems and prospects for making interspecies welfare comparisons, which will be held at the LSE on 28-29 April 2022. They currently have a call for abstracts, with a January 31st deadline
An article on 'The National Security Case for Lab-Grown and Plant-Based Meat'
A post suggesting that EA animal welfare funding is relatively overinvesting in corporate welfare reforms
Animal Empathy Philippines has been launched
Saulius Šimčikas with a suggestion for an Effective Animal Advocacy forum

China, Russia, Britain, the United States and France have agreed that a further spread of nuclear arms and a nuclear war should be avoided in a joint statement on the United Nations Security Council
Andrew Snyder-Beattie and Ethan Alley with a list of concrete biosecurity projects
Brian Resnick looking at how NASA is studying how to detect and avert asteroids and comets from colliding with earth
Mike Hinge on Hear This Idea discussing his work at ALLFED, looking at how to feed everyone in a disaster
Lara Mani co-authored a new paper about the scenario from 7th Planetary Defence conference in 'Preparing for a Near-Earth Object Impact Scenario' and what lessons were learnt
A review of the 4th annual Global Biosecurity Dialogue conference
S.J. Beard wrote in the BBC on 'How to read the Doomsday Clock'

The Institute for Progress is a new think tank aiming to 'accelerate scientific, technological, and industrial progress while safeguarding humanity’s future'
Derek Thompson on how investors are looking into new ways to speed up scientific progress
The Institute for Replication was recently launched and they work to improve the credibility of science by systematically reproducing and replicating research findings in leading academic journals
Michael Nielsen with the post 'In what sense is the science of science a science'
Pablo with the post 'Science policy as a possible EA cause area: problems and solutions'
A new open index of scholarly papers has launched
Holden Karnofsky looking at how stakeholder management can explain a lot of increasing bureaucracy

Sam Clarke with 'The longtermist AI governance landscape: a basic overview'
The Future of Life Institute is running a worldbuilding contest with $100,000 in prizes, submissions close on April 15th
Peter Singer on 'the hinge of history'
Eric Schwitzgebel with an article 'Against Longtermism'
Founders Pledge with a cause report on longtermist institutional reform