ROSE GROSSHANS

From 2009 to 2024, GiveWell directed more than $1.45 billion to our current Top Charities.1 We estimate that this funding will save a total of about 340,000 lives by:

• Distributing 101.2 million insecticide-treated nets to households

• Treating 76.1 million children with a full course of anti-malarial medicine

• Providing vitamin A supplements to 142.2

Both AI fears and AI hopes rest on the belief that it may be possible to build alien minds that can do everything we can do and much more. What’s at stake, if that’s true, isn’t whether we’ll have fun chatbots. It’s the life-and-death consequences of delaying, and the possibility we’ll screw up and kill everyone.

• In The Birth of the Pill, Jonathan Eig credits philanthropist and feminist Katharine McCormick — advised by Margaret Sanger — with being the sole funder of crucial early-stage research leading to the development of the combined oral contraceptive pill, now one of the most common and convenient birth control methods.

• The Rockefeller Foundation invested in research on improving agricultural productivity in the developing world, which is now commonly believed to have been the catalyst for a “Green Revolution” that Wikipedia states is “credited with saving over a billion people from starvation.” (The Wikipedia article discusses the role of the Rockefeller