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Holden Karnofsky is an American nonprofit executive. He is a co-founder and Director of AI Strategy of the research and grantmaking organization Open Philanthropy. Karnofsky co-founded the charity evaluator GiveWell with Elie Hassenfeld in 2007 and is vice chair of its board of directors.
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).
29 Apr 2024 · I have bittersweet news to announce: Holden Karnofsky, who cofounded Open Philanthropy and helped to run it through July 2023, is leaving to become a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, effective today.
19 Ogo 2021 · Holden Karnofsky. Will the future of humanity be wild, or boring? It’s natural to think that if we’re trying to be sober and measured, and predict what will really happen rather than spin an exciting story, it’s more likely than not to be sort of… dull. But there’s also good reason to think that that is simply impossible.
31 Jul 2023 · Holden Karnofsky: I’ve written a few pieces that are kind of laying out “Here’s an excessively specific story about how the future might go that ends happily with respect to AI” — that ends with, you know, we have AIs that didn’t develop or didn’t act on goals of their own enough to disempower humanity, and then we ended up with ...
18 Mac 2023 · Clarification, March 20, 1:30 pm ET: This story has been updated to explain Holden Karnofsky’s former status as a board member of OpenAI and to note Open Philanthropy’s past grant to OpenAI.
26 Ogo 2021 · Holden Karnofsky. Holden Karnofsky helped create two of the most influential organisations in the effective philanthropy world. So when he outlines a different perspective on career advice than the one we present at 80,000 Hours — we take it seriously.
