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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).
Apr 29, 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.
Aug 19, 2021 · Holden Karnofsky, co-founder of Open Philanthropy, explains why he thinks we could be in the most important century of all time and how he arrived at that conclusion. He discusses the role of AI, accelerating growth, and galaxy-spanning civilization in his argument.
Jul 31, 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 ...
Mar 18, 2023 · Holden Karnofsky, co-founder of Open Philanthropy, discusses the potential and risks of artificial intelligence with Kelsey Piper. He argues that AI could lead to explosive progress and that society is not ready for it.
Aug 26, 2021 · Listen to Holden Karnofsky, co-founder of Open Philanthropy, talk about how to use your career to solve the world's most pressing problems. He shares his insights on effective altruism, learning, and personal growth.
