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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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1:50

“Poll: Wild animal vs Farm Animal welfare” by Toby...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/02

The (new) Center for Wild Animal Welfare, the Wild Animal Initiative, the EA Animal Welfare Fund and Animal Charity Evaluators have all been in the Donation Election's top 3 candidates this week. How should we compare between them? I don't have a settled take on this question, and I won't be giving an argument (at least initially). I'm looking forward to reading your takes. Some considerations: There are many more wild animals than farmed animals, especially if we count invertebrates. It's likely

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41:20

“How to quantify global human suffering? Results from...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/02

Acknowledgments: Tom Marty, Vanessa Sarre, Clare Diane Harris and Jack Koch contributed to the design of the survey, Jack Koch also carried out outreach to patient support groups, and Magdalena Kolczyńska, Jordan Clist and Michael Smith contributed to the analysis of the raw data. We sincerely thank every individual who took the time to respond to the survey and reflect on their own suffering.Summary Existing wellbeing metrics, including the DALY and measures of improved life satisfaction such as

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15:33

“MIRI’s 2025 Fundraiser” by RobBensinger

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/02

MIRI is running its first fundraiser in six years, targeting $6M. The first $1.6M raised will be matched 1:1 via an SFF grant. Fundraiser ends at midnight on Dec 31, 2025. Support our efforts to improve the conversation about superintelligence and help the world chart a viable path forward. MIRI is a nonprofit with a goal of helping humanity make smart and sober decisions on the topic of smarter-than-human AI. Our main focus from 2000 to ~2022 was on technical research to try to make it possible to

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3:25

“Help us find founders for new AI safety projects” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/02

In the past 10 years, Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) has funded dozens of projects doing important work related to AI safety / navigating transformative AI. And yet, perhaps most activities that would improve expected outcomes from transformative AI have no significant project pushing them forward, let alone multiple.This is mainly because we and other funders in the space don't receive promising applications for most desirable activities, and so massive gaps in the ecosystem

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5:30

“Epistemic Humility vs. Tobacco Abolition” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/01

The School for Moral Ambition (SMA) describes itself as a movement of idealists taking on the world's most pressing problems. Their proposed campaign to 'abolish the tobacco industry altogether' is one of their more ambitious proposals. This would require governments to override the consumption choices of the roughly one in five adults globally who use tobacco. SMA quickly dismisses the idea that these billions of adults are making free choices about what to put into their bodies, stating The

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3:21

“Announcing the new AIM CEO!” by Ambitious Impact

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/01

We, the AIM Board and outgoing CEO Joey Savoie, are delighted to announce that Samantha Kagel has been selected as AIM's new CEO, effective December 1, 2025. Over the last few months, we have been engaged in a highly important activity: finding AIM's next CEO. This was not an easy position to fill, as we sought someone who could lead the organization to high growth and impact while retaining the core elements that have made AIM unique. We were committed to conducting a thorough search and put out

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6:33

“Helping our non-EA friends give effectively: Update...

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2025/12/01

TL;DR We are live:The Karoteno effective giving platform is now operational at karoteno.org. The Goal:A "normie-friendly" donation experience for Spanish speakers who find traditional EA analysis alienating. Action:Share this with your non-EA friends! We are also running a donation-matching campaign this December—please reach out if you’d like to help fund the matching pool. Introduction Hi everyone, A few months ago, I posted here about a project aiming to bridge the gap between effective giving

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7:25

“GWWC’s 2025 evaluations of evaluators” by Aidan...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/01

The Giving What We Can research team is excited to share the results of our 2025 round of evaluations of charity evaluators and grantmakers! In this round, we completed two evaluations that will inform our donation recommendations for the 2025 giving season. As with our previous rounds, there are substantial limitations to these evaluations, but we nevertheless think that they are a significant improvement to a landscape in which there were previously no independent evaluations of evaluators’

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6:08

“My 2025 donations (so far)” by richard_ngo

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/30

Here's a list of my donations so far this year (put together as part of thinking through whether I and others should participate in an OpenAI equity donation round). I originally posted them to LessWrong as a shortform, but since donations are a more central topic on the EA forum I decided to make it a top-level post here. They are roughly in chronological order (though it's possible I missed one or two). I include some thoughts on what I've learned and what I'm now doing differently at the bottom

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20:56

“EANZ Summit 2025 Retrospective” by Gavin Bishop 🔹,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/30

Executive Summary The EANZ Summit 2025 brought together 70 participants at the University of Otago Christchurch Medical School for our inaugural national conference. The summit featured five speakers, cause area meetups, and ample networking time through a serial content format with dedicated breakout spaces. At its core it was a one-day event, but Friday and Sunday satellite events made it a 3-day extravaganza for many of us. The summit attracted a healthy mix of newcomers and established

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18:02

“A Playbook for New EA Groups” by Andy Masley

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/29

A note from Naomi Nederlof, Community Building Grants Program Manager: I asked Andy, the lead organizer of EA DC, to write this playbook based on the approaches that have made his group one of the most successful city groups in our program. We initiated this project because we think many new organizers can benefit from concrete and experience-based guidance. I would be excited about more city and national group organisers adopting this advice! Intro I’ve been organizing the Effective Altruism DC

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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...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

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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