Michael Specter — Existential Risk Courses at MIT (2023)
Verified$60K
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Michael Specter
Date
Sep 2023
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[Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $60,000 to Michael Specter to support his work teaching two courses related to existential risk at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This follows our September 2022 support for teaching the same courses in a previous year. We sought applications for this funding to support the development of courses on a range of topics that are relevant to certain areas of Open Philanthropy’s grantmaking.
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