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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

zdgroffMay 28, 2025, 5:35 PM
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Longview is now offer­ing AI grant recom­men­da­tions to donors giv­ing >$100k /​ year

Longview PhilanthropyApr 11, 2025, 4:01 PM
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How Long Do Policy Changes Mat­ter? New Paper

zdgroffNov 2, 2023, 8:53 PM
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(zachfreitasgroff.com)

AGI Catas­tro­phe and Takeover: Some Refer­ence Class-Based Priors

zdgroffMay 24, 2023, 7:14 PM
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Call for Papers: The Eco­nomics of An­i­mal Welfare, Stan­ford In­sti­tute for The­o­ret­i­cal Eco­nomics 2022

zdgroffApr 4, 2022, 7:09 PM
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[Question] Is there ev­i­dence that recom­mender sys­tems are chang­ing users’ prefer­ences?

zdgroffApr 12, 2021, 7:11 PM
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Two Nice Ex­per­i­ments on Democ­racy and Altruism

zdgroffDec 30, 2020, 6:56 PM
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[Question] How Much Does New Re­search In­form Us About Ex­is­ten­tial Cli­mate Risk?

zdgroffJul 22, 2020, 11:47 PM
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Do Long-Lived Scien­tists Hold Back Their Dis­ci­plines?

zdgroffAug 12, 2019, 6:33 PM
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Who Sup­ports An­i­mal Rights?

zdgroffJul 29, 2019, 10:58 AM
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Want to Save the World? En­ter the Priesthood

zdgroffJul 9, 2019, 9:18 AM
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How Much Do Wild An­i­mals Suffer? A Foun­da­tional Re­sult on the Ques­tion is Wrong.

zdgroffJun 24, 2019, 9:51 PM
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[Ques­tion] Pros/​Cons of Donor-Ad­vised Fund

zdgroffApr 22, 2019, 12:56 AM
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Be Care­ful About a Stub­born At­tach­ment to Growth

zdgroffDec 20, 2018, 2:34 AM
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(www.zachgroff.com)

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

zdgroffDec 17, 2018, 5:50 PM
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Should Effec­tive Char­i­ties Pre­pare for a Re­ces­sion?

zdgroffNov 29, 2018, 12:02 AM
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What I Learned from a Year Spent Study­ing How to Get Poli­cy­mak­ers to Use Evidence

zdgroffSep 4, 2018, 3:55 PM
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Up­dates Thread: How Have You Changed Your Mind This Year?

zdgroffDec 20, 2017, 3:53 AM
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The Hid­den Cost of Shift­ing Away from Poverty

zdgroffOct 9, 2017, 3:58 PM
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In­sti­tu­tional Change in An­i­mal Rights vs. Global Poverty

zdgroffMay 10, 2016, 11:05 PM
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