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16:05

“Survey of AI safety leaders on x-risk, AGI...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/25

This report was mostly written by Claude Opus 4.6. We manually checked all claims and didn’t find any errors. Summary We summarise the results of a survey carried out before the 2026 Summit on Existential Security.Respondents were Summit attendees: leaders and key thinkers in the x-risk and AI safety communities. The survey asked attendees about their estimates of existential risk, AGI timelines, and resource allocation priorities. Survey data comes from the 59 respondents who consented to their

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7:35

″$1 billion is not enough; OpenAI Foundation must...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/25

OpenAI is now a public benefit corporation, with a charter that demands they use AGI for the benefit of all, and do so safely. To justify this structure to the Attorneys General of Delaware and California, they split off the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation, and instead of full ownership, gave it 27% equity, worth well over $150 billion - what some have called the largest theft in human history. They also convened a commission to advise them on how to give away that money, and last year announced the

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17:53

“A Database of Near-Term Interventions for Wild...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/25

The Animal Welfare Department (AWD) at Rethink Priorities supports high-impact strategies to help animals, especially where suffering is vast and largely neglected. Therefore, one of our focus areas is wild animal welfare (WAW), where uncertainty about tractability makes identifying cost-effective interventions particularly challenging. While much of the current WAW work rightly focuses on academic field-building (see Elmore & McAuliffe, 2024), it is worth determining whether there are viable,

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25:25

“If AGI goes well for humans, will it go well for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/25

This post was written by Simon Eckerström Liedholm, Strategy Researcher at Wild Animal Initiative, and it is a contribution to the AGI & Animals Debate Week. It partially builds on an earlier exploration of transformative AI and wild animals written by Mal Graham. Disclaimer: I (Simon) would describe myself primarily as a biologist. While I have a long-standing interest in AI safety, I'm by no means an expert on the subject.Executive Summary This post asks whether, if AGI goes well for humans,

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7:51

“Why more EAs should move to Vietnam” by SecularSquirrel

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/25

TLDR: In February, I moved to Da Nang, Vietnam, to live and work with a group of EA people I mostly hadn't met. See our website and original forum post here. We're now extending until July, and we have room for more people[1]. If you're working on something impact-focused and want to spend a few weeks or months doing it surrounded by cool people, then come stay with us and join our Discord! We're really excited to grow our community. The rest of this post is my honest account of why this has been

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11:35

“80,000 Hours is coming to bookstores in May” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/25

Summary We’re publishing our book, 80,000 Hours,with Penguin on 26 May. It's an update of the 80,000 Hours career guide, with a full round of edits, new design, and new content discussing the effect of AI on career choice. We think it's now the best single entry point to our advice. We hope publishing it will multiply the impact of our advice. One quick way you could help is to preorder a copy(especially from a traditional retailer). It helps increase the chance we get on bestseller lists, and

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18:51

“AI Safety and Cross-Species Robustness: A brief...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/24

0. Summary This piece makes the following three points (which match the numbered sections): We have, I argue, no good reason to presume that reducing existential risks from AI, which is explicitly intended to help humans,[1] is good for other animals. This is because animal farming would not exist without empowered humans, and assuming that these same empowered humans will outweigh this by sufficiently increasing wild animal welfare seems untenable. And to the extent that x-risk reduction appears

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15:00

“EA as a Moloch Nobody Chose” by Amrit (recovered acc.)

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/23

In 2022, two of Anthropic's co-founders, Daniela and Dario Amodei described the company as a small group leaving OpenAI in late 2020 and early 2021 during the pandemic, meeting masked in backyards, because they wanted to make what they called a "focused research bet" with a tightly aligned team. The bet was on building AI systems that are "helpful, honest, and harmless". On race dynamics, Dario was explicit that Anthropic should build models close to the state of the art (because you need frontier

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2:26

“AGI & Animals: Discussion Thread” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/23

This week, we are discussing the statement: “If AGI goes well for humans, it’ll go well for animals”. The announcement post, with a bit more info and a reading list, is here. What is this thread for? General discussions about and reactions to the debate statement. Some of the comments on this thread will be populated directly from the debate banner on the homepage — these will mostly be people explaining why they voted the way they did. However, you’re also welcome to comment on here directly,

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32:11

[Linkpost] “AI character is a big deal” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/23

This is a link post. 0. Intro Due to Claude's Constitution and OpenAI's model spec, the issue of AI character has started getting more attention, particularly concerning whether we want AI systems to be “obedient” or “ethical”.[1] But we think it's still not nearly enough. AI character (e.g. how obedient, honest, cooperative, or altruistic AIs are, and in what circumstances) will have a big effect on society, and on how well the future goes. We think that figuring out what characters AI systems

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7:40

[Linkpost] “Today I was released from jail for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/22

This is a link post.Alexandra Paul carrying a beagle away from Ridglan Farms I was released from Dane County jail this week where I was held for two nights for my participation in Sunday's mass rescue at Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin. I wrote post in jail and posted it on my Substack shortly after. It is freezing in the rain, with bits of hail coming down on me. I am surrounded by police, accompanied by over twenty activists at Ridglan Farms, a notorious dog testing and breeding facility. The police

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7:23

“Dense writing might be a sign of muddled thinking”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/21

While my account is only 1 year old, I've been a lurker in the EA community long before that. I enjoy going through posts and comments every day, and I appreciate how proactive everybody is in tackling and discussing different problems. Generally, my experience with the online community has ranged from neutral to positive. But there is one thing that has been bothering me, and that is the writing quality / style in EA spaces. Even though there have been enough discussions about this before, I want

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9:13

“Worlds where we solve AI alignment on purpose don’t...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/21

(Or: Why I don't see how the probability of extinction could be less than 25% on the current trajectory)Cross-posted from my website. AI developers are trying to build superintelligent AI. If they succeed, there's a high risk that the AI will kill everyone. The AI companies know this; they believe they can figure out how to align the AI so that it doesn't kill us. Maybe we solve the alignment problem before superintelligent AI kills everyone. But if we do, it will happen because we got lucky,

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8:21

[Linkpost] “Getting it right: Criticism” by David...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/21

This is a link post. Getting it right (Part 4: Criticism) Group discussion is not always efficient. When people have their ideas closely aligned to start with, it leads to polarization. When people start with conflicting ideas and no common goal, it tends to exacerbate differences. Group discussion is typically beneficial when participants have different ideas and a common goal Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, The enigma of reason 1. Introduction This is Part 4 of my series Getting it right. This

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5:01

“What Do Muslim Consumers Think About Halal and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/20

New study from Animetrics: Muslim Consumers’ Perspectives on Animal Welfare in Halal Production and Dietary Choices in Türkiye Muslims make up nearly two billion people worldwide, and their daily food choices are often guided by halal principles, a set of dietary guidelines that determine what is permissible under Islamic law. For many, halal goes beyond rules about what can or cannot be eaten; it is part of a broader moral framework that also shapes beliefs about how animals should be treated in

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9:13

[Linkpost] “How Much Peace Can a Dollar Buy?” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/19

This is a link post. Donors need to know how best to fund peace: Introducing CEGA's Peace Per Dollar Initiative Stockholm, Sweden, The mystery of Banksy. Max Folle Authors Josh Martin Eeman Abbasi Sean Luna McAdams Wars are getting both more frequent and more destructive. Our technology for preventing or even mitigating political violence has improved to help us meet this challenge. But are we really able to “stop a war” before it starts? If so, how much would it cost? And would it be worth it

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30:25

“Broad Timelines” by Toby_Ord

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/19

No-one knows when AI will begin having transformative impacts upon the world. People aren’t sure and shouldn’t be sure: there just isn’t enough evidence to pin it down. But we don’t need to wait for certainty. I want to explore what happens if we take our uncertainty seriously — if we act with epistemic humility. What does wise planning look like in a world of deeply uncertain AI timelines? I’ll conclude that taking the uncertainty seriously has real implications for how one can contribute to

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10:38

“What happens when an EA org actually invests in...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/19

This post reflects one campaign run in close collaboration between a digital marketing agency and an EA-adjacent org. Results exceeded expectations, but may not generalize. We aim to share lessons, not promote a particular approach or provider. Epistemic status: Practitioner sharing one campaign's results. Reasonably confident in the numbers; less certain about generalizability to other orgs or cause areas. I run the agency that ran this campaign, so take the framing with appropriate skepticism.

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5:00

“RCT Results: 3 Hours of Procrastination Coaching...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/18

TL;DR: A recently completed RCT found that a brief, structured procrastination coaching programme produced large reductions in severity and high remission rates. The EA Infrastructure Fund has funded 200 free places on the same programme for EAs. If you want one, take the screening test here.Background Chronic procrastination affects roughly 20% of adults, costing them both income (tens of thousands per year) and wellbeing (94% report lower happiness), and doubling their odds of unemployment. Yet

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31:04

“EA Netherlands: 2025 in Review and Plans for 2026”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/18

This is a compression of an extract from our grant renewal application to CEA's Community Building Grants programme TL;DR 2025 was a solid year for EA Netherlands. Our national introductory course completions grew 140% (36 → 87), EAGx attendance grew 36% (380 → 517) and set an all-time EAGx record for GWWC pledges (57 pledges, ~$2.9M lifetime giving, $436,000 when counterfactually adjusted), and we commissioned the first independent qualitative impact evaluation in the national EA organisation

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