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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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7:16

“AI Red Teaming at GiveWell: What We’ve Learned (and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/15

At GiveWell, we've been experimenting with using AI to red team our global health intervention research—searching for weaknesses, blind spots, or alternative interpretations that might significantly affect our conclusions. We've just published a write-up on what we’ve learned, both about the programs we fund through donor support and about how to use AI in our research. We're sharing this to invite critiques of our approach and to see if others have found methods for critiquing research with AI

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7:16

“AI Red Teaming at GiveWell: What We’ve Learned (and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/15

At GiveWell, we've been experimenting with using AI to red team our global health intervention research—searching for weaknesses, blind spots, or alternative interpretations that might significantly affect our conclusions. We've just published a write-up on what we’ve learned, both about the programs we fund through donor support and about how to use AI in our research. We're sharing this to invite critiques of our approach and to see if others have found methods for critiquing research with AI

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5:12

“Propose a debate topic - I’ll run one” by Toby...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/15

Because the donation election fund raised $15,000 dollars, the Forum unlocked the collective prize: "The Forum audience will propose and vote on a debate week topic next year, and I’ll run it during Q1." This thread is your opportunity to propose the debate topic.What's an EA Forum Debate Week? Here are the debate weeks I have run on the EA Forum before: AI Welfare Debate Week (July 2024)– debated "AI welfare should be an EA priority" Animal Welfare vs Global Health Debate Week (Oct 2024)– debated

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5:13

[Linkpost] “Everything is neglected” by Joey🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/15

This is a link post. I often see claims of an area being neglected, under-supported, or underfunded. But what do these claims really mean? They tend to break down into two categories: 1) neglected compared to how it should be, 2) neglected compared to other areas. I think both these ways of viewing neglectedness are pretty undescriptive and not very useful for making real decisions in philanthropy. However I do think there is a more useful way of considering neglectedness. Neglected absolutely “It

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8:31

“Announcing All the Lives You Can Change” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/15

Summary Our new book, All the Lives You Can Change: Effective Altruism for Christians, will be published in April 28 2026 The book introduces effective altruism–style thinking to a Christian audience, framing effectiveness, cause prioritization, and evidence-based action as expressions of loving God and loving one's neighbor (Matt. 22:37–39) Authored by @dominicroser, @DavidZhang and me (JD). You can best support this project by pre-ordering a copy or free intro here Praise for All the Lives You

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12:00

“Who sets my org’s agenda?” by Davidmanheim

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/14

Earlier today I had a board meeting for the nonprofit I founded, ALTER—and it was a good one. Most of the board showed up. People had looked at the materials. I presented our recent update, funding, budgets, and our plans for the coming year. There were thoughtful questions: what's the path to impact for working on standards, some skepticism about collaborating with non-aligned organizations, and a few suggestions for adjacent things we might consider. No one was asleep. No one was hostile. No one

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7:37

“Is EA underfunding animal advocacy according to our...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/14

TL;DR When surveyed, the EA community and leaders think ~18-24% of resources should go towards animal advocacy. The actual figure is about 7%. We as the EA ecosystem are putting less resources (money and time) into animal advocacy than the movement thinks we should when surveyed. This disparity could be because of loss of message fidelity, it's a harder cause area to pitch donors, or the role of large funders, but I'm honestly not too sure. My job at Senterra Funders involves making the case to

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10:20

“The Puppy and the Pond: Reflections on my FWI...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/13

Note: This article was originally published on the Fish Welfare Initiative blog. While this piece is more narrative-driven than a typical Forum post, Haven (FWI's ED) suggested I crosspost it here. I found the experience of small-scale helping (like rescuing a puppy) and working in high-scale intervention (improving fish farm conditions) to be useful for rounding out my understanding of being "effective" in practice. I try to address bridging the gap between abstract EA principles and the basic

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8:44

“Announcing The High-Impact Professional’s Playbook”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/13

Summary My new book “The High-Impact Professional's Playbook: How to turn your career, income, and influence into doing good” will be published on January 26, 2026 byBooks of Change Pre-orders for the digital version are available now athighimpactprofessionals.org/book If you're planning to buy it for yourself or for a professional you know, pre-ordering now or ordering in the first week of launch helps significantly with launch momentum All author proceeds go to High Impact Professionals Intro

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16:55

“5 Considerations for Personal Donations” by Tristan...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/13

With the EA Forum's giving season just behind us, it's a natural moment to look back on your donations over the past year and think about where you'd like to give in the year ahead. We (Tristan and Sergio) rarely spend as much time on these decisions as we'd like. When we tried to dig a bit deeper this year, we realized there are a lot of big questions about personal donations that haven't been crisply put together anywhere else, hence the post. We've tried to make some of those questions clearer

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16:57

“5 Considerations for Personal Donations” by T_W,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/13

With the EA Forum's giving season just behind us, it's a natural moment to look back on your donations over the past year and think about where you'd like to give in the year ahead. We (Tristan and Sergio) rarely spend as much time on these decisions as we'd like. When we tried to dig a bit deeper this year, we realized there are a lot of big questions about personal donations that haven't been crisply put together anywhere else, hence the post. We've tried to make some of those questions clearer

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6:27

“leavenoharm.org – Offset Everything” by Myles Stremick

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/13

A question I asked myself recently was "How much, and to whom, do I have to donate in order to offset the measurable negative impacts of my lifestyle?" This was a surprisingly difficult question to answer, so I decided to do some research and make a website to make it easier for other people to answer the same question. https://leavenoharm.org I'm a firmware engineer by training and profession, NOT a professional writer, cause evaluator, or philosopher, so I'll try to let my website do most of the

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8:02

“If AI alignment is only as hard as building the...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/12

Cross-posted from my website.You may have seen this graph from Chris Olah illustrating a range of views on the difficulty of aligning superintelligent AI: Evan Hubinger, an alignment team lead at Anthropic, says: If the only thing that we have to do to solve alignment is train away easily detectable behavioral issues...then we are very much in the trivial/steam engine world. We could still fail, even in that world—and it’d be particularly embarrassing to fail that way; we should definitely

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3:12

“Donating Everything: Update” by S

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/11

I am writing a new years update on my efforts to be a full utilitarian, I am going to turn 15 in March (I am a freshman) and when I grow up I am going to donate everything to charity. Since I am trying to maximize my future income, I am currently at the best public high school in my state (magnet hs), and this is the happiest year I have had so far. My grades are pretty good, although it is very hard to get everything done in time. I have decided that it it actually quite unlikely that it is going

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8:28

“Self-sufficient AI” by Ajeya

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/08

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. Subtitle: No, we don't "have AGI already." But in any case, we should articulate clearer milestones. Happy New Year! Planned Obsolescence, an occasional newsletter about AI futurism edited by Ajeya Cotra, has moved to Substack. Every so often, there's Discourse about whether we already have artificial general intelligence (AGI). For

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6:50

“My template for a quarterly review + plan” by Peter...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/08

This post was crossposted from The Power Law by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post. Subtitle: A free Google doc template for the system I actually use This template was made by Peter Wildeford and Caroline Jeanmaire. It's almost a new year and that often calls for some sort of annual planning. But in my opinion, annual planning operates on too long a timescale. Annual planning and goal setting is too infrequent, so it's easy to

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32:19

[Linkpost] “Public intellectuals need to say what...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/08

This is a link post. Intro This Twitter thread from Kelsey Piper has been reverberating around my psyche since its inception, almost six years now. You should read the whole thing for more context, but here are the important tweets:Link 1, link 2, link 3 I really like Kelsey Piper. She's “based” as the kids (and I) say. I think she was trying to do her best by her own lights during this whole episode, and she deserves major props for basically broadcasting her mistakes in clear language to her tens

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7:30

[Linkpost] “What sort of post-superintelligence...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/07

This is a link post. Many of the biggest companies in the world are racing to build superintelligence — artificial intelligence that far exceeds the capability of the best humans across all domains. This will not merely be one more invention. The magnitude of the transformation will be beyond that of the printing press, or the steam engine, or electricity; more on a par with the evolution of Homo sapiens, or of life itself.Yet almost no one has articulated a positive vision for what comes after

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47:36

“Digital Minds in 2025: A Year in Review” by Lucius...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/07

Note: This post was crossposted from The Digital Minds Newsletter by the EA Forum team, who encouraged the crosspost, with the authors’ permission. It was briefly mentioned in an earlier announcement post. The authors may not see or respond to comments here. Welcome to the first edition of the Digital Minds Newsletter, collating all the latest news and research on digital minds, AI consciousness, and moral status. Our aim is to help you stay on top of the most important developments in this

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3:35

“Announcing the CLR Fundamentals Program” by Center...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/07

Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR) is accepting applications to the next iteration of our introductory fellowship. The CLR Fundamentals Program will introduce people to CLR's research on s-risk reduction. Apply by Monday January 19th 23:59 GMT.Apply nowWhat topics does the CLR Fundamentals Program discuss? The Fundamentals Program is designed to introduce participants to CLR's research on how transformative AI (TAI) might be involved in the creation of large amounts of suffering (s-risks). Our recent

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