EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

8:03

“Time Sensitive Do Gooding Opportunities” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/07

(Crosspost--written in a slightly sillier style than is typical of EA forum posts, but still seemed worth posting). A lot of my interactions with prominent bloggers involve me appearing in their rooms ex nihilo at odd hours of the night and suggesting they write about something very impactful (e.g. why people should take the Giving What We Can pledge). Yet sometimes when I say this, they say to me, “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to

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4:05

“Contra Bentham’s Bulldog on the Save Our Bacon Act”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/07

Bentham's Bulldog has published a series of pieces on the Save Our Bacon Act, urging people to call and email their senators, donate, and spread the word. Things we agree on Factory farming and gestation crates are immoral Fighting the Save Our Bacon Act is highly important for animal welfare. Disagreements Bentham's Bulldog has made several factual errors in his posts, and did not correct them when I and others pushed back. Error #1: Luna Amendment This is not very important, and the time of

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3:23

“New round of digital minds funding opportunities at...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/07

This is a linkpost for Request for Proposals: Research and Applied Work on Digital Minds. I'm glad to announce a request for proposals for research and applied work on digital minds at Longview Philanthropy. We’re seeking applications for project grants, research fellowships, and career development fellowships on the potential consciousness, sentience, moral status, and legal position of AI systems, and on how society might respond. The deadline is Friday July 24, 2026 (extended from July 10). Much

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27:54

“The Absorption Problem” by NickAllardice

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/06

I posted this originally on Linkedin and Substack where I write for a more general audience. I think it's highly relevant for here though, and would welcome thoughts, disagreements, builds and implications. I wrote all the substance of this post myself, then used an LLM to refine its expression. A historic amount of money may be about to flow toward the world's problems, but right now that money can’t be absorbed at the effectiveness and scale this moment demands. That's an unpopular thing to say

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1:12

“AMA: Anthony DiGiovanni, author of the ‘Challenge of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/03

We announced the Cluelessness Critiques Competition two weeks ago. A lot of you, not only prospective entrants, will have been reading Anthony's sequence where he lays out his unawareness argument, or following the comments on his summary post. I thought that this might be a great time to have Anthony put some time aside to answer your questions. Although we are calling this an AMA[1], the focus will be on helping people understand the sequence so that they can write the best entries to the

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6:32

“I’m never satisfied” by Ajeya

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/03

Note: This post was crossposted from Planned Obsolescence by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post. But we get the job done I was twenty one when I joined Open Phil,[1] as a zealous young EA who had idolized the organization since I was in high school (back when it was called GiveWell Labs). I worked there for over nine years, leaving about six months ago (shortly after it rebranded as Coefficient Giving). By the time I left, I was

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4:03

“Mabye do the thing you wish CEA would do” by...

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2026/07/03

I used AI to fix transcription errors, rerrarange the ideas, and suggest tweaks to the title and some sentences. Three of the most exciting projects to come out of EA in recent years are, in a vague sense, CEA spinouts: Kairos is directly a spinout of CEA and now handles most support for university AI safety groups. Basically everyone I've found who knows them is really excited about what they do NEST is an opinionated ideas-first support network for EA (university) groups. And you can see

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4:03

“Maybe do the thing you wish CEA would do” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/03

I used AI to fix transcription errors, rerrarange the ideas, and suggest tweaks to the title and some sentences. Three of the most exciting projects to come out of EA in recent years are, in a vague sense, CEA spinouts: Kairos is directly a spinout of CEA and now handles most support for university AI safety groups. Basically everyone I've found who knows them is really excited about what they do NEST is an opinionated ideas-first support network for EA (university) groups. And you can see

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6:00

“most EAs should probably not be living in high...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/03

If you work a job that can mostly be done from anywhere[1], you should ask yourself if you are spending too much money on housing. I felt prompted to write this post by the recent increased push for EAs to move to the Bay. Multiple people have urged me personally to relocate. Most of them want me to work on AI safety, but the move-to-the-Bay meme is now also strong in animal welfare. I remain unconvinced, although I am always open to visiting if there is something specific for me to do there. the

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12:17

“RP is looking for project founders in neglected...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/02

TLDR; To help the effective animal advocacy movement cost-effectively absorb greater amounts of funding in the near future, we are seeking expressions of interest from people who could found a new organization focused on: Highly neglected animals: insects, wild animals, shrimp, fish, etc, or AI and animals: AI alignment and governance for animal welfare, strategic actions considering transformative AI, AI for wild animals, etc. Tech for animals: welfare tech, precision welfare tech, breeding for

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47:13

“How AI is Affecting Farmed Aquatic Animals. Part 2:...

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2026/07/02

AI in aquaculture research at Rethink Priorities Rethink Priorities’ How AI is affecting farmed aquatic animals is a three-part series that examines AI technologies being developed to address challenges in the aquaculture industry. As global aquaculture faces economic and technical constraints, this series examines whether and how the industry is turning to AI solutions to facilitate expansion. The series evaluates the innovation, deployment, and animal welfare impacts of these technologies to help

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22:52

“What would an animal-aligned AI be aligned to?” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/02

This is a crosspost from the new Animal Welfare Alignment Newsletter by Anima International. You can subscribe on Substack if you are interested in following these efforts. Audio reading also available on Substack. The goals of this post are to: Raise a question I see as crucially important to the goal of aligning AI to animal welfare, and to altruistic values generally; and Offer a partial solution to that question—one I am not very confident in—so it can be critiqued. Summary of important

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48:47

“Cultivating hope: calibrating the expectations for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/01

Assuming we end factory farming before 2100, which factor will have contributed the most?92 votes so far. Voting closes in 25 days. Place your vote or view results.Alternative proteinsSocial moral changes Bullet point summary: Cultivated meat could have a price between $15/kg and $30/kg according to reputable technoeconomic analysis, which we review and explain. We present an interactive demand-side economic model where we translate that price to market share:

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47:21

“Cultivating hope: calibrating the expectations for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/01

Poll: Assuming we end factory farming before 2100, which factor will have contributed the most? The scale runs from Alternative proteins to Social moral changes. Bullet point summary: Cultivated meat could have a price between $15/kg and $30/kg according to reputable technoeconomic analysis, which we review and explain. We present an interactive demand-side economic model where we translate that price to market share: https://pabloamc.github.io/Cultivated_meat/interactive.html Some species, like

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49:00

“Cultivating hope: calibrating the expectations for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/01

Assuming we end factory farming before 2100, which factor will have contributed the most?105 votes. Voting has closed. View results.Alternative proteinsSocial moral changes Bullet point summary: Cultivated meat could have a price between $15/kg and $30/kg according to reputable technoeconomic analysis, which we review and explain. We present an interactive demand-side economic model where we translate that price to market share: https://pabloamc.github.io/Cultivated_meat/interactive.html Some

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17:22

“The Train to Crazy Town” by Richard Y Chappell🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/01

Subtitle: How to Ride Without Losing Your Mind Five years ago, Ajeya Cotra memorably described Effective Altruist reasoning as a “train to crazy town”—with longtermists in particular staying on the train for longer than their nearterm-focused colleagues. It's not a perfect metaphor, but what I suspect resonates for a lot of people is the sense that EA-style abstract reasoning can push you in directions you may not antecedently want to go (i.e., against your natural sympathies), and there's

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21:13

“Announcing Spring: a Venture Studio and Fund for...

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2026/07/01

Why building and backing Welfare Tech companies may be one of the most promising things we can do for billions of animals. I used AI to assist in writing this post, but I’ve rewritten it extensively and endorse it. Announcing the launch of Spring Innovation Fund, a not-for-profit venture philanthropy studio and fund built specifically for Welfare Tech: technology that improves animal welfare in ways that make commercial sense for producers to adopt. We think Welfare Tech is unusually promising:

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4:42

“GWWC’s 2025 impact evaluation (executive summary)”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/06/30

This post presents the executive summary from Giving What We Can's impact evaluation for 2025. At the end of this post we share links to more information, including the full report and working sheet for this evaluation. We look forward to your questions and comments! Executive summary Giving What We Can (GWWC) is working towards a world without preventable suffering or existential risk, where everyone is able to flourish. We do this by making effective and significant charitable giving a norm among

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9:39

[Linkpost] “Risk-Averse AIs” by Forethought, Elliott...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/06/30

This is a link post. Abstract We make the case for training AIs to be risk-averse in resources — specifically, to treat resources as having diminishing marginal utility. These AIs would (for example) choose $40 for sure over a half-chance of $100 and a half-chance of $0. We argue that risk aversion can preserve AIs’ usefulness in the event that they turn out aligned, and that it provides an extra line of defense in the event that AIs turn out misaligned: misaligned but risk-averse AIs would prefer a

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63:02

[Linkpost] “Existential AI safety needs an effective...

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2026/06/29

This is a link post. The existential AI safety community needs to take building a civic and social movement seriously as a core intervention. We believe this is a high-value, badly neglected approach to reducing catastrophic/x-risks from AI because it may significantly enhance the likelihood of governance efforts succeeding at keeping humanity safe. Note: this post is about PauseAI, not PauseAI US, which is a distinct entity with a different leadership team and approach. This post was written by

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