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zdgroff

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I am a Senior Programme Associate at Longview Philanthropy and a Research Affiliate at the Population Wellbeing Initiative at UT-Austin.

At Longview, I conduct grant investigations in artificial intelligence (AI) and long-term wellbeing. This includes ways to promote the safe development of AI and the exploration of new program areas to benefit future generations.

In addition, I continue to pursue research projects that I began during my Ph.D. in economics at Stanford University. I use a mix of applied, experimental, and historical methods to answer questions in public economics, political economy, and behavioral/​experimental economics. My primary current research interest is the impacts of policies on future generations, and I have an additional interest in the economics of animal welfare. These interests have led me to work on long-term political dynamics and social preferences.

At Stanford, I was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a Global Priorities Fellow with the Forethought Foundation. I was previously a Senior Research Analyst at Northwestern University’s Global Poverty Research Lab and Innovations for Poverty Action. I am interested in effective altruism, including serving on the board of Animal Charity Evaluators.

Digi­tal sen­tience fund­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties: Sup­port for ap­plied work and research

zdgroff28 May 2025 17:35 UTC
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Longview is now offer­ing AI grant recom­men­da­tions to donors giv­ing >$100k /​ year

Longview Philanthropy11 Apr 2025 16:01 UTC
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How Long Do Policy Changes Mat­ter? New Paper

zdgroff2 Nov 2023 20:53 UTC
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(zachfreitasgroff.com)

AGI Catas­tro­phe and Takeover: Some Refer­ence Class-Based Priors

zdgroff24 May 2023 19:14 UTC
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Call for Papers: The Eco­nomics of An­i­mal Welfare, Stan­ford In­sti­tute for The­o­ret­i­cal Eco­nomics 2022

zdgroff4 Apr 2022 19:09 UTC
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[Question] Is there ev­i­dence that recom­mender sys­tems are chang­ing users’ prefer­ences?

zdgroff12 Apr 2021 19:11 UTC
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Two Nice Ex­per­i­ments on Democ­racy and Altruism

zdgroff30 Dec 2020 18:56 UTC
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[Question] How Much Does New Re­search In­form Us About Ex­is­ten­tial Cli­mate Risk?

zdgroff22 Jul 2020 23:47 UTC
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Do Long-Lived Scien­tists Hold Back Their Dis­ci­plines?

zdgroff12 Aug 2019 18:33 UTC
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Who Sup­ports An­i­mal Rights?

zdgroff29 Jul 2019 10:58 UTC
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Want to Save the World? En­ter the Priesthood

zdgroff9 Jul 2019 9:18 UTC
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How Much Do Wild An­i­mals Suffer? A Foun­da­tional Re­sult on the Ques­tion is Wrong.

zdgroff24 Jun 2019 21:51 UTC
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[Ques­tion] Pros/​Cons of Donor-Ad­vised Fund

zdgroff22 Apr 2019 0:56 UTC
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Be Care­ful About a Stub­born At­tach­ment to Growth

zdgroff20 Dec 2018 2:34 UTC
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(www.zachgroff.com)

[Link] “Would Hu­man Ex­tinc­tion Be a Tragedy?”

zdgroff17 Dec 2018 17:50 UTC
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Should Effec­tive Char­i­ties Pre­pare for a Re­ces­sion?

zdgroff29 Nov 2018 0:02 UTC
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What I Learned from a Year Spent Study­ing How to Get Poli­cy­mak­ers to Use Evidence

zdgroff4 Sep 2018 15:55 UTC
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Up­dates Thread: How Have You Changed Your Mind This Year?

zdgroff20 Dec 2017 3:53 UTC
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The Hid­den Cost of Shift­ing Away from Poverty

zdgroff9 Oct 2017 15:58 UTC
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In­sti­tu­tional Change in An­i­mal Rights vs. Global Poverty

zdgroff10 May 2016 23:05 UTC
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