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History. In 2006, Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld, who worked at a hedge fund in Connecticut, formed an informal group with colleagues to evaluate charities based on data and performance metrics similar to those they used at the fund, and were surprised to find the data often didn't exist.
Feb 27, 2018 · Holden Karnofsky: Open Philanthropy has looked for causes that are what we call important, neglected and tractable, and so we have kind of a broad set of causes, and especially because when we were getting started, we wanted to try a few different things and get a feel for a few different kinds of philanthropy.
Holden is the Director of AI Strategy at Open Philanthropy, a funder that gives away over $500 million per year and has been the largest philanthropic supporter of AI risk reduction work since 2016. Holden has spent his career trying to do as much good as possible by identifying and working on issues that are important, neglected and tractable. In 2007, he co-founded GiveWell, a charity ...
Bio. Holden Karnofsky is a visiting scholar at Carnegie California. His research focuses on international security risks from advances in artificial intelligence: what the most imminent risks are, how to prepare, and possible early warnings (e.g. from AI capability evaluations). Holden previously served as co-founder and CEO (and later co-CEO ...
Jul 13, 2021 · New blog: Cold. Takes. by Holden Karnofsky. Jul 13 2021 1 min read 17. 85. Holden Karnofsky. Frontpage. I've started a (free) blog/newsletter at https://www.cold-takes.com . The target audience for many posts will be people who are interested in EA-ish topics, but don't necessarily have any background in them.
Jun 4, 2021 · Holden Karnofsky 3y 5 0 I didn't mean to express a view one way or the other on particular current giving opportunities; I was instead looking for something a bit more general and timeless to say on this point, since especially in longtermism, giving opportunities can sometimes look very appealing at one moment and much less so at another ...
Apr 29, 2013 · Holden Karnofsky is the co-founder and co-executive director of GiveWell, an independent, nonprofit charity evaluator. We recommend GiveWell as a leading source of information on where to have the largest impact with your charitable donations. In 2012 GiveWell moved over $9.5 million to its top charities and the amount of money moved by GiveWell has so far been roughly doubling each year ...
