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Rethink Priorities focuses its research on four key areas: animal welfare, global catastrophic risks, global health and development, and surveys and data analysis. The database below contains all publicly available research reports from our organization. Alongside our independent research efforts, we also undertake consultancy projects.

Worldview Investigations

The Welfare of Digital Minds

Derek Shiller, Bob Fischer, Hayley Clatterbuck, Arvo Muñoz Morán, David Moss
The research agenda explores critical philosophical and empirical questions about the potential welfare and moral status of digital minds, focusing on understanding when ...
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Resource Allocation: A Research Agenda

Arvo Muñoz Morán, Hayley Clatterbuck, Derek Shiller, Bob Fischer, David Moss
Rethink Priorities' Worldview Investigations Team is sharing research agendas that provide overviews of some key research areas as well as projects in those areas that we...
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Valuing Impacts Across Species: A Research Agenda

Bob Fischer, Hayley Clatterbuck, Arvo Muñoz Morán, David Moss, Derek Shiller
Rethink Priorities’ Worldview Investigations Team is sharing research agendas that provide overviews of some key research areas as well as projects in those areas t...
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Bargaining among worldviews

Derek Shiller, Bob Fischer, Arvo Muñoz Morán, Hayley Clatterbuck
Executive Summary In this post, we explore why final spending allocations might depart from proportionality over worldviews, even if we assume traditional forms of worldv...
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Risk Alignment in Agentic AI Systems

Hayley Clatterbuck, Arvo Muñoz Morán
Introduction Proper alignment is a tetradic affair, involving relationships among AIs, their users, their developers, and society at large (Gabriel, et al. 2024). Agentic...
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Taking Uncertainty Seriously (or, Why Tools Matter)

Bob Fischer, Hayley Clatterbuck, Arvo Muñoz Morán

This post is the seventh installment in the Worldview Investigation Team’s Charitable Resource Allocation Frameworks and Tools...

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Rethink Priorities’ Moral Parliament Tool

Derek Shiller, Arvo Muñoz Morán, Bob Fischer, Hayley Clatterbuck

This post is the sixth installment in the Worldview Investigation Team’s Charitable Resource Allocation Frameworks and Tools (...

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An Epistemic Defense of Rounding Down

Hayley Clatterbuck

This post is the fifth installment in the Worldview Investigation Team’s Charitable Resource Allocation Frameworks and Tools (...

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Difference-Making Risk Aversion: An Exploration

Hayley Clatterbuck

This post is the fourth installment in the Worldview Investigation Team’s Charitable Resource Allocation Frameworks and Tools ...

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Exploring Key Cases with the Portfolio Builder

Hayley Clatterbuck, Arvo Muñoz Morán

This post is the third installment in the Worldview Investigation Team’s Charitable Resource Allocation Frameworks and Tools (...

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Rethink Priorities’ Portfolio Builder Tool

Arvo Muñoz Morán, Hayley Clatterbuck, Bob Fischer, Derek Shiller

This post is the second installment in the Worldview Investigation Team’s Charitable Resource Allocation Frameworks and Tools ...

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An Introduction to the CRAFT Sequence

Hayley Clatterbuck, Arvo Muñoz Morán, Derek Shiller

This post is the first installment in the Worldview Investigation Team’s Charitable Resource Allocation Frameworks and Tools (...

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How Rethink Priorities is Addressing Risk and Uncertainty

Marcus A. Davis, Peter Wildeford

This is the tenth post in the Worldview Investigations Team’s sequence of posts—Causes and uncertainty: Rethinking value in ...

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Rethink Priorities’ Cross-Cause Cost-Effectiveness Model

This is the ninth post in the Worldview Investigations Team’s sequence of posts—Causes and uncertainty: Rethinking value in ...

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Uncertainty over time and Bayesian updating

David Rhys Bernard

This is the seventh post in the Worldview Investigations Team’s sequence of posts—Causes and uncertainty: Rethinking value i...

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Charting the precipice

Bob Fischer, Hayley Clatterbuck

This is the sixth post in the Worldview Investigations Team’s sequence of posts—Causes and uncertainty: Rethinking value in ...

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How can risk aversion affect your cause prioritization?

Laura Duffy, Laura Duffy

Imagine you’re faced with the following two choices, A and B, and you can push a button to select one or the other to occur. I...

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If Adult Insects Matter, How Much Do Juveniles Matter?

Emily Sandall, Bob Fischer

This is the ninth post in the Moral Weight Project Sequence, which provides an overview of the research Rethink Priorities condu...

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Rethink Priorities’ Welfare Range Estimates

Bob Fischer

This is the eighth post in the Moral Weight Project Sequence, which provides an overview of the research Rethink Priorities cond...

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The Welfare Range Table

Bob Fischer

This is the second post in the Moral Weight Project Sequence. The aim of the sequence is to provide an overview of the research ...

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An Introduction to the Moral Weight Project

Bob Fischer

This post is the first in the Moral Weight Project Sequence. The aim of the sequence is to provide an overview of the research t...

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Issues with futarchy

Lizka V

This post collects possible issues with futarchy, a proposed form of governance based on prediction markets. (Possible benefits ...

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Key characteristics for evaluating future global governance institutions

Juan Gil

This post outlines a framework of five characteristics that seem most relevant for longtermists to consider when evaluating the ...

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Disentangling “improving institutional decision-making”

Lizka V

This post discusses what the cause area of “Improving institutional decision-making” (IIDM) currently encompasses, and prese...

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Towards a longtermist framework for evaluating democracy-related interventions

Tom Barnes, Marie Davidsen Buhl

This post attempts to (1) tease apart different features of liberal democracy and (2) analyse how increasing or decreasing a soc...