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5:54

″$1M AI x-risk grant round is live on grantmaking.ai...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/06/29

TLDR: what is the grant round? grantmaking.ai is launching a 1 million dollars grant round, distributing 5 thousand dollars to 50 thousand dollars per successful application to people and projects working to reduce x-risk from AI. Applications will be reviewed by Gavin Leech, Ryan Kidd, and Marcus Abramovitch. We aim to make all funding decisions by July 28th. Applications submitted by July 13th are guaranteed a priority review. You can still apply after July 13th, and we will make our best effort

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74:02

[Linkpost] “Podcast: Austin and Oli on funding &...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/06/29

This is a link post. Oli Habryka of LessWrong and I recently spoke about his plans to improve the AI safety funding ecosystem with a better S-Process platform, and my new incubator for EA/AIS software projects, Surplus (since launched; apply now!) We also cover: hot takes on different funders; what kinds of founders might succeed in the age of vibecoding; whether to do direct work or go meta; and what we respect and criticize in each other. Watch along here: I've transcribed the full conversation at

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11:57

“How I Got Accepted Into AIM’s Charity...

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2026/06/29

TL;DR The best way to increase your odds of being accepted into Ambitious Impact's Charity Entrepreneurship Program is to build the relevant aptitudes for running an impactful charity. I provide some practical tips that I would recommend to anyone considering this career. Basically all of these steps are worth pursuing whether they shift your odds of acceptance or not. The tips are: Actually apply for the program Read the book "How to Launch a High-Impact Nonprofit" Design personalized aptitude

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5:09

“EA Forum Update: Migrating to a new codebase” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/06/29

Summary: We’re making some big changes to the forum including a brand new post page. If you have any feedback, please let us know directly, or in the comments below. The problem The existing EA Forum codebase is relatively old and steeped in technical debt. New features and bug fixes (of which there are many) are slow, hosting is expensive, and server crashes are often time-consuming to fix. CEA also has considerably fewer resources dedicated to the forum than in the past (currently less than one

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4:49

“The EA Superstructure” by Brian Foerster

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/06/29

Crossposted on Substack. This recent podcast episode featuring Oliver Habryka and Austin Chen got me thinking about the social and political dimensions of EA. One moment in particular stood out to me. Habryka: “And so I'm currently expecting that, like, a lot of Anthropic employees will be pretty burned in a year or two. When they are experiencing these dynamics, it becomes very clear that a huge amount of grants are never presented to them because people are worried that they will find them weird

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7:56

“The Alphabet Institute now has a physical facility...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/06/27

Cavendish University has generously allowed us to use its residential property, which is located near several universities and high schools in Lusaka. Starting 4 July, we will begin hosting weekly workshops for students, graduates and young professionals who are trying to make better decisions about their education, careers and contribution to society. This is a big milestone for us. About two years ago, I began my journey as an effective altruist. I was excited, ready to learn, and ready to get to

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5:07

“The unreasonable effectiveness of gifting the 80000...

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2026/06/25

Note: I am not associated with 80000 Hours. I just like the book. TLDR: if any of your friends would benefit from career advice, giving them the newly released 80000 Hours book may be the most effective thing you can do. The process I graduated from university just around the time the 80000 Hours book came out, and I bought 4 copies of the book to give to my friends. This went way better than expected, and I’m writing this because I think more people should do the same. It's really simple: Find

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6:04

“Possible mistake EAs are making and shout out to...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/06/24

I think right now EAs might be making a significant mistake by paying insufficient attention to the political realm. As EAs we tend to figure out what's most impactful for us to work on and focus hard. That's great! But there are various actions that are ‘non-delegatable’ - the extent to which an individual can do the action is limited (like voting, going to a protest, making hard money contributions to particular campaigns). It might be useful if we were all more in the habit of doing various of

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4:58

“Pluralistic EA Stewardship” by SarahBluhm

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/06/24

What if you ran effective altruism group where, every week, people congregated to contemplate topics such as: Eradicating malaria Whether AI should ever have legal rights What future people will wish we had done today Whether insects have moral worth How we can help others while taking care of ourselves What if your group satisfied a deep need that many young people feel for an impartial, calm, and evidence-oriented environment to explore what “doing good” means? What if people formed deep

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11:38

“AI probably won’t make factory farms obsolete” by Hazo

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2026/06/24

Bentham's Bulldog recently argued that AI won’t definitely make factory farms obsolete. I agree, but I’d go further and argue that by default AI won’t make factory farms obsolete. However, I think it's possible (though not guaranteed) that AI could make factory farms a lot more humane. He throws out an 80% of cultivated meat being developed, and a 70% chance of it displacing factory farms contingent on it being developed. In particular, I think 70% is too optimistic. An 80% chance of cultivated

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9:44

“Why I Believe Africa Deserves Greater Strategic...

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2026/06/24

Introduction: I have been reflecting on recent discussions on this platform concerning the future of global development philanthropy, particularly on the argument that the next wave of philanthropy should place greater emphasis on emerging regions and locally led approaches. These discussions led me to consider a related question in animal welfare: if Africa is set to play an increasingly important role in shaping future food systems, what does that imply for animal welfare funding? In this article,

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6:49

“Update: AIM’s Founding to Give Program” by Jacintha...

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2026/06/24

TLDR: AIM won’t run another round of Founding to Give at this time, but we’d be excited for someone else to run (an amended version) of it AIM launched the Founding to Give program two years ago to incubate for-profit startups with the goal of creating (1) impact via donations and (2) directly through company activities. Since then, we have run 2 cohorts for which we had over 3,000 applications, selected 38 founders who all pledged 50% of their exit money to effective charities, and launched 24

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5:08

“New Video from AI in Context: The Fall and Rise of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/06/23

New Video from AI in Context: The Fall and Rise of Sam Altman If you want to skip straight to the video, here it is! AI in Context is excited to be back with our fourth video! For those just hearing from us, we make videos for 80,000 Hours, telling stories about transformative AI. Check out our channel here.What's in the video? On November 17, 2023, OpenAI's board announced that Sam Altman was no longer CEO. Chaos ensued: Sam's self-styled government-in-exile, an employee revolt, key board members

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1:26

“Build a flourishing EA group at the University of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/06/23

Hey all! The University of Toronto is really large (>100,000 students) and talent-dense. We think turning the EA group into a thriving community at U of T is high impact, neglected, and very tractable. We’re looking for University of Toronto students who are passionate about EA to join the organizing team to kick-start this community in the fall. We’re currentlyaccepting applications for our virtual summer intro fellowships, where you’ll discuss readings on effective altruism over 8 weeks

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4:09

“A note to future effective charity founders:...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/06/22

I used an LLM to help draft this post and it likely contains >10% AI-generated text, but I’ve edited/rewritten it extensively and endorse it. A quick note aimed at people going through AIM's incubation programme (or otherwise founding new effective charities), though it may be of broader interest. I think designing for zakat compliance is an underexplored lever, and being intentional about it early could open up a range of interventions and orgs that wouldn't otherwise get considered. These

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3:26

“A brief list of ways AI safety efforts could be net...

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2026/06/21

Here's Holden Karnofsky: I tend to think it's worse than 51/49. I tend to think we’re always going to be prone to overestimate how robustly good our actions are. And the more we learn about all the galaxy-brained considerations that one should have had in one's head, the more it's going to be like 50+ε%. I think AI safety is a great cause to work in. I’m excited to work in it. I think it's high impact. I am doing my best to do things that I will be proud to have done and hope for the best. But I

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0:46

[Linkpost] “Having Kids as an EA: What I Wish Someone...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/06/20

This is a link post. At every EA conference I go to I end up having long conversations with attendees about my inside-view on what it is like to have kids. Since I know that a lot of impact-oriented people have questions/interest here, I decided to write up my thoughts in a series of posts that address different angles of how to think about this from my perspective. First one is linked above - hope you enjoy! ---First published: June 18th, 2026 Source:

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8:25

“Coefficient Giving RFP: Global Health and Wellbeing...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/06/20

By Deena Mousa, Program Officer, Global Health & Wellbeing Cause Prioritization AI is progressing rapidly and could have profound implications for the health and wellbeing of people around the world. While global health philanthropy has historically assumed relative continuity with the past, we would like to engage seriously with the potential implications of transformative AI. This RFP supports rigorous and cost-effective research, policy development, field-building, and implementation

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4:24

“QURI is moving into maintenance mode” by Ozzie Gooen

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/06/19

After about seven years, QURI is moving into maintenance mode. This means we’ll ensure that key software (Guesstimate and SquiggleHub) is maintained, but we won’t be developing new software or doing new research. Background I started QURI in 2019. At that point I was excited about projects at the intersection of epistemics and software, primarily to be used by impactful researchers. This seemed like a neglected and promising area. Over the years we developed a small team and worked on a variety of

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19:49

“Cluelessness: Summary of the argument, why it...

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2026/06/19

I’d like to elicit direct, productive critiques of the argument for cluelessness from my sequence on “unawareness”, which I’ll call the unawareness argument. To that end, this post will: break down the unawareness argument at a high level; explain why the EA community should care about this argument; and summarize the angles for critiquing the argument that I expect to be most productive, and how the sequence responds to existing critiques. Argument breakdown Here's a new framing of the

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