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Updates to Open Phil’s career development and transition funding program

(cross-posted from the Effective Altruism Forum) We’ve recently made a few updates to the program page for our career development and transition funding program (recently renamed, previously the “early-career funding program”), which provides support – in the form of funding for graduate study, unpaid internships, independent study, career transition and...

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Updates to Open Phil’s career development and transition funding program

Dec 4, 2023•28

Bastian Stern

Updates to Open Phil’s career development and transition funding program

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(cross-posted from the Effective Altruism Forum)

We’ve recently made a few updates to the program page for our career development and transition funding program (recently renamed, previously the “early-career funding program”), which provides support – in the form of funding for graduate study, unpaid internships, independent study, career transition and exploration periods, and other activities relevant to building career capital – for individuals who want to pursue careers that could help to reduce global catastrophic risks (especially risks from advanced artificial intelligence and global catastrophic biological risks) or otherwise improve the long-term future.

The main updates are as follows:

We’ve broadened the program’s scope to explicitly include later-career individuals, which is also reflected in the new program name.
We’ve

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