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EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts, posts with 30 karma, and other great writing. If you"d like fewer episodes, subscribe to the "EA Forum (Curated & Popular)" podcast instead.

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20:23

[Linkpost] “Does climate science focus on the right...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/29

This is a link post. As long as we are not in the year 2100, we will not know exactly what path humanity will have taken when it comes to climate change in this century. But we can at least make educated guesses about the trajectory we are on. Given this, it seems that a good amount of climate science is aimed at hopeful temperature ranges below 2°C, which we will likely miss. The focus on below 2°C stems from the aspirational climate targets that humanity has set itself. We have less research on

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0:55

“Donation Election Discussion Thread” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/28

Note: Voting opens an hour after the publication of this post. This is a thread for explaining your vote, discussing it, and maybe changing your mind. It'll be pinned on the frontpage throughout the Donation Election. Some comments on this thread are cross-posted from a text box which appears when you reach the end of the voting process, but everyone is welcome to post here whenever. You can read about all the candidates here, and donate to the donation election fund here. ---First

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37:10

“ALLFED’s 2025 Highlights” by JuanGarcia,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/27

Executive Summary Welcome to ALLFED's 2025 Highlights, our annual look back at how Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters has advanced its mission to help build resilience to global catastrophic food system failure. Within These 2025 Highlights: Another prolific year in research (sixteen papers released), strengthening the field of food resilience research for global catastrophic risks, with more in progress. Continued growth in our policy work, expanding global engagement, and influence. Strong

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9:55

“Highlights from Ilya Sutskever’s November 2025...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/27

Background Ilya Sutskever is a renowned machine learning researcher who co-authored the AlexNet paper in 2012 that helped kick off the deep learning revolution. Sutskever co-founded OpenAI and served as Chief Scientist until 2024. Sutskever participated in the temporary ouster of CEO Sam Altman and subsequently left the company. He founded his own company, Safe Superintelligence, which has raised $3 billion, but about which little else is known. Sutskever's second-ever interview with Dwarkesh Patel

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1:25

“Help revive EA at UPenn (looking for board members)”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/27

The UPenn Effective Altruism group has been inactive since spring 2024. A small group and I are now reviving it! I'm Hazem, a freshman in Mechanical Engineering at UPenn and one of two current organizers. Current status: 2 organizers, 2 advisors, ~10 interested non-organizing members 3 socials held access restored to club infrastructure (website, logins, PennClubs.com, etc.) starting to pursue external support (i.e. CEA) If you're at UPenn and are up for long-term board/organizing work (expect

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29:25

“Malengo Impact Model Update, Fall 2025” by Johannes...

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2025/11/27

Johannes Haushofer and Richard Nerland Summary Malengo is a charity that facilitates international educational migration in the pursuit of poverty alleviation. Its flagship program supports Ugandan high school graduates in applying for and completing a Bachelor's degree in Germany. Four years into Malengo's operations and two years following GiveWell's initial cost-effectiveness analysis, we present early results from our ongoing Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT), and an updated estimate of our

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23:36

“AI discourse analyzed (we looked at essays, Twitter,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/26

AI In Group Discourse I wanted to programmatically analyze the AI in-group ecosystem and discourse using AI as an exploration in sensemaking during my time in the “AI for Human Reasoning” FLF fellowship. I also analyzed the EA Forum itself in an earlier fellowship sensemaking MVP. Sidenote: I’m very interested in the potential for “AI uplift” to increase the impact of EA-aligned orgs by removing bottlenecks, automating flows, processing unstructured data, etc. I’ve founded a successful B2B SaaS

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11:51

“Scared to Pledge? 5 financial steps for confident...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/26

Cross-posted from the @High Impact Professionals blog - see the original here. -- In my years of working with people on their financial plans for giving, I’ve met many wonderful individuals who feel morally compelled to take a giving pledge. Intellectually, they are fully aware that they are in a position to help others. But emotionally, they aren’t ready to commit to a pledge. The sticking point here is a common thought many of us have: “Do I have enough?” Do I have enough to keep my 🔸10% Pledge

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5:44

“3 doubts about veganism” by emre kaplan🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/26

I keep thinking about what kind of identity would be useful for building a powerful animal advocacy movement. Here are 3 features of veganism that I often think about which make me doubt its usefulness.Too maximalist The official definition of veganism by the inventors of the term is the following: “Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose”

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19:59

“How to Talk to Journalists” by utilistrutil

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/25

TLDR: Just pick up the phone. Agree on permissions for information before you share it (see Step 4). I have worked as a professional journalist covering AI for over a year, and during that time, multiple people working in AI safety have asked me for advice on engaging with journalists. At this point, I've converged on some core lessons, so I figured I should share them more widely. I've also reviewed some of the prior art about how to talk to journalists on LessWrong and found it unsatisfying. The

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14:57

“The Unjournal: Bridging the Rigor/Impact Gaps for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/25

Overview The Unjournal is a 501(c)(3) that commissions rigorous public expert evaluations of impactful research. We've built a strong team, completed more than 55 evaluation packages, built a database of impactful research, launched a Pivotal Questions initiative, and are systematically evaluating research from EA-aligned organizations We argue that 1. EA-driven research would benefit from external expert scrutiny to improve decision-making. 2. Academic research contains valuable insights but

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2:10

“URGENT: Easy Opportunity to Help Many Animals” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/24

Crosspost. (I think this is a pretty important post to get the word out about, so I’d really appreciate you restacking it). The EU is taking input into their farm animal welfare policies until December 12. Animals in the EU are kept confined in a space about the size of a piece of paper, never able to express their natural behaviors or move around much, constantly standing against wire meshing. They suffer constantly because of inadequate animal welfare laws. These animals deserve better than a

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8:35

“We won’t solve non-alignment problems by doing...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/24

Even if we solve the AI alignment problem, we still face non-alignment problems, which are all the other existential problems[1] that AI may bring.People have written research agendas on various imposing problems that we are nowhere close to solving, and that we may need to solve before developing ASI. An incomplete list of topics: misuse; animal-inclusive AI; AI welfare; S-risks from conflict; gradual disempowerment; risks from malevolent actors; moral error. The standard answer to these

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2:42

“Meet the Candidates: Donation Election 2025” by Toby...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/24

The Donation Election has begun! You can vote here, find out more about the voting system here, and donate to the Donation Election fund here. This post introduces our candidates. We’re splitting by cause area for easy reading, but you’ll be voting on them all together. Note that: There will likely be a few more candidates added in the next few days (candidates who wrote marginal funding posts but haven't let me know whether they'd like to participate in the election yet). It is possible that,

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5:28

“Marginal Funding at EAIF” by hbesceli

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/24

Summary So far in 2025, EAIF has made 34 grants for a total of $2.4M and we expect to grant a total of $2.8M by the end of the year. For EAIF to continue at the same level of grantmaking in 2026, we need to raise $1.9M in funding. EAIF's Grantmaking The Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) aims to increase the impact of projects that use the principles of effective altruism, by increasing their access to talent, capital, and knowledge. EAIF is part of EA Funds, which has recently merged

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16:02

“How Apart Research would use marginal funding to...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/23

TLDR: Apart Research incubates talent and research in AI Safety. We use high-volume weekend hackathons to filter for talent, then support them through the Studio and Fellowship programs. Track Record Highlights include placements at leading AIS orgs (e.g. METR, CAIF), alumni starting their own AIS orgs (e.g. Geodesic Resesarch, Asymmetric Security) and impactful research output, including an ICLR 2025 Oral (top 1.8%) on AIS Evals. Our work has also been used by Anthropic, UK AISI and the EU AI

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4:48

“Caring about Bugs Isn’t Weird” by Bob Fischer

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/23

I’ve spoken with hundreds of entomologists at conferences the world over. While there's clearly some self-selection (not everyone wants to talk to a philosopher), my experience is consistent: most think it's reasonable to care about the welfare of insects. Entomologists don’t regard it as the last stop on the crazy train; they don’t worry they’re getting mugged; they don’t think the idea is just utilitarianism run amok. Instead, they see some concern for welfare as stemming from a common-sense

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31:34

“State of EA Poland in 2025, Goals for 2026, and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/23

TL;DR Despite operational setbacks, EA Poland made solid progress on the goals outlined in our December 2024 post: In February, we published and promotedThe Life You Can Save in Polish, generating 2,153 downloads. In August, we launchedDobra Kariera- a local high-impact career initiative. Published and promoted the80,000 Hours Guidein Polish (80 000 Godzin), generating2,052downloads. Conducted 25 career 1-1s. In October, we got AI Safety Poland to a new level, with a strong team, dedicated career

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28:19

“Where I Am Donating in 2025” by MichaelDickens

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/23

Last year I gave my reasoning on cause prioritization and did shallow reviews of some relevant orgs. I'm doing it again this year.Cross-posted to my website. Cause prioritization In September, I published a report on the AI safety landscape, specifically focusing on AI x-risk policy/advocacy. The prioritization section of the report explains why I focused on AI policy. It's similar to what I wrote about prioritization in my 2024 donations post, but more fleshed out. I won't go into detail on

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7:44

[Linkpost] “OpenAI Locks Down San Francisco Offices...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/23

This is a link post. A message on OpenAI's internal Slack claimed the activist in question had expressed interest in “causing physical harm to OpenAI employees.” OpenAI employees in San Francisco were told to stay inside the office on Friday afternoon after the company purportedly received a threat from an individual who was previously associated with the Stop AI activist group. “Our information indicates that [name] from StopAI has expressed interest in causing physical harm to OpenAI employees,” a

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