9:15 am – 9:50 am
Choosing Opportunities for Outsized Impact
Introduction by Cary McClelland
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Cari Tuna is the President of Good Ventures, a philanthropic foundation she created with her husband Dustin Moskovitz in 2011. She’s also the Chair of Open Philanthropy, a grantmaking organization which advises Cari and Dustin and other major donors on how to do as much good as they can with their giving. Her philanthropic focus areas include global health, innovation policy, scientific research, farm animal welfare, pandemic preparedness and biosecurity, and potential risks from advanced AI. Cari serves on the board of GiveWell.
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Rob Reich is the McGregor-Girand Professor of Social Ethics of Science and Technology at Stanford University. His home appointment is in the Department of Political Science, and he has courtesy appointments in Philosophy, the Graduate School of Education, and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He is senior fellow at the Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence. From April 2024 to January 2025, Rob was on public service leave to serve as Senior Advisor to the newly established United States Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute.
His scholarship in political theory engages with the work of social scientists and engineers. His newest work is on governance of frontier science and technology. His most recent books are System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot (with Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein, 2021) and Digital Technology and Democratic Theory (edited with Lucy Bernholz and Hélène Landemore, 2021). He has also written widely about philanthropy, including Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better (2018) and Philanthropy in Democratic Societies: History, Institutions, Values (edited with Chiara Cordelli and Lucy Bernholz, 2016). He has testified before Congress and written widely for the public, including for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wired, Time Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Rob is the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Walter J. Gores award, Stanford’s highest honor for teaching. He was a sixth grade teacher at Rusk Elementary School in Houston, Texas before attending graduate school. He is a board member of the magazine Boston Review and at the Spencer Foundation. He helped to create the global movement #GivingTuesday and serves as chair of its board.
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