The Observatory

The Observatory is a newsletter published by the Effective Institutions Project, sharing insights and information from our research into the world’s most important institutions.

Managing Global Catastrophic Risk at the National Security Council

The U.S. National Security Council’s (NSC) current institutional setup does not adequately incentivize the strategic planning required to effectively understand and mitigate global catastrophic risks…

AI Governance: An EIP Primer

This primer highlights why EIP thinks AI governance is important, scopes the landscape of important institutions in AI governance, and gives an outlook on key…

A Funder’s Guide to AI Governance and Strategy

This guide offers both a broad framework for thinking about philanthropic opportunities in AI and examples of specific organizations doing impactful work in this space.

A Landscape Analysis of Institutional Improvement Opportunities

EIP conducted a landscape analysis to identify which of the world’s institutions offer the highest-leverage opportunities for philanthropists and professionals seeking to improve world outcomes…

Which Institutions? (A Prioritization Framework)

EIP has created a framework to help us make thoughtful judgments about which institutions’ decisions we should most prioritize improving as well as what strategies…