Changes

| 2016 || End of the year || || {{w| Julia Galef }} steps down as CFAR president; Anna Salamon takes her place and Pete Michaud takes Salamon's place as executive director. In the same post, Galef announces that she is working on the Update Project, a project whose goal is "to help decisionmakers improve the accuracy of their models, especially as they relate to strategies for having a large positive impact on the world".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/julia.galef/posts/10103010525130302 |title=Julia Galef - I'm overdue for a career update! Lots of you who... |author=Julia Galef |date=February 28, 2017 |accessdate=July 28, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://juliagalef.com/update-project/ |title=The Update Project |author=Julia Galef |date=March 1, 2017 |publisher=Julia Galef |accessdate=July 28, 2017}}</ref> The Update Project is the new name for the Convergence project.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/julia.galef/posts/10103010525130302?comment_id=10103348592605372&reply_comment_id=10103348604940652&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D |quote=The new name for the convergence project (though the focus has shifted a bit since then, as well) |author=Julia Galef |title=Comment in reply to Vipul Naik |date=July 28, 2017 |accessdate=July 28, 2017}}</ref> The Update Project receives funding from the Open Philanthropy Project.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://issarice.com/open-philanthropy-project-non-grant-funding |author=Issa Rice |date=April 2, 2017 |title=Open Philanthropy Project non-grant funding |publisher=Issa Rice |accessdate=July 28, 2017}}</ref>