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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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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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23:44

“American effective altruists should consider...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/07

My recommendation for donors who are American citizens or permanent residents is that they donate directly to high-value political candidates. My recommendation for other donors is the GiveWell All Grants Fund, except other donors with idiosyncratic preferences who should donate to other things. Why Is Donald Trump Bad? U. S. Democracy Let's be clear about this: the current president of the United States tried to do a coup to overthrow the results of a free and fair election which he lost. It's

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16:38

“How to Improve EA’s Presence on YouTube” by James...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/06

In this essay, I argue that improving EA's presence on YouTube could be a high impact cause area, and I offer a series of ideas on how EA's presence on the platform could be improved. In the appendix, I share links to the data sets I created while writing this essay, some thoughts on AI safety's presence on YouTube, and my sources. As a side note, I am not a YouTuber so this essay is very much an outsider perspective. Improving EA's Presence on YouTube As A High Impact Cause Area In this section, I

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7:17

“Deep Report on Hypertension” by Joel Tan🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/06

Key Takeaway: CEARCH recommends effective giving in Asia as a high impact philanthropic cause. The full report can be read here. Introduction: This research project focused on evaluating the cause area of effective giving in Asia; we focused in particular on pledge promotion, though we also examined non-pledge considerations, and we treated high-income East Asian countries (i.e. Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan & South Korea) as the primary targets, given their high donation potential and

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10:07

“On Suffering” by Aaron Bergman

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/06

Note: This post was crossposted by the Forum team from the Center for Reducing Suffering's Substack, with the author's permission. It is a newer and revised version of this earlier Forum post. The author may not see or respond to comments here. Content warning: descriptions of very bad experiences. Not graphic but may be disturbing. I I am writing these words while sitting in a comfortable chair in a comfortable 70 degree house. And, I suspect, you are too. Basically comfortable, that is

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27:43

“Retrospective: EA Istanbul Summit 2025” by Ren D....

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/06

In this write-up, we aim to reflect on our experience: Highlighting what went well, identifying areas for improvement, and offering actionable insights for those planning similar gatherings (as well as for ourselves in the future!). The Effective Altruism community is steadily growing in Turkey, with a significant presence in both Istanbul and Ankara. We currently have over 200 subscribers to our newsletter and over 300 members in our national WhatsApp group. The network now includes 5 active

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27:18

“Retrospective: EA Istanbul Summit 2025” by Ceren D....

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/06

In this write-up, we aim to reflect on our experience: Highlighting what went well, identifying areas for improvement, and offering actionable insights for those planning similar gatherings (as well as for ourselves in the future!). The Effective Altruism community is steadily growing in Turkey, with a significant presence in both Istanbul and Ankara. We currently have over 200 subscribers to our newsletter and over 300 members in our national WhatsApp group. The network now includes 5 active

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31:36

[Linkpost] “Self-driving cars aren’t nearly a solved...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/06

This is a link post.Photo by gibblesmash asdf Self-driving cars are not a solved problem, nor are they close to getting solved. I will explain further, but since this is a case where the messenger matters more than the message, first listen to Andrej Karpathy tell you the same thing. Karpathy is as credentialed as it comes: he was the lead AI researcher responsible for the development of Tesla's Full Self-Driving software from 2017 to 2022. (Karpathy also did two stints as a researcher at OpenAI,

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7:54

“EA San Francisco Needs a New Lead Organizer” by EA...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/06

TLDR: I'm leaving San Francisco to do policy in DC within a few months. As the lead organizer of EA SF, it's likely the group will go dormant if no one takes on this role. However, EA SF is uniquely situated to be a potentially very high impact city group, due to its location in an AI development hub with a high concentration of EA-adjacent people. Thus, becoming lead organizer would be extremely counterfactually impactful - no one else would do it if not you. Furthermore, this role doesn't require

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1:34

“Stanford EA is Calling for Aid” by Stanford EA

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/06

Stanford EA is calling for aid! This fall we worked to revive Stanford EA but now our co-president is taking a leave of absence for a research fellowship and we could use help keeping momentum. Presently, we've got: 2 organizers, ~12 interested members Great support from CEA Materials, social accounts, co-working rooms, etc. Our biggest bottleneck is finding organizers, especially a co-president. If you are at Stanford and interested in EA we'd love to chat with you. We think there is a clear

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21:38

[Linkpost] “AGI and the structural foundations of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/06

This is a link post. Summary: This post argues that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) threatens both liberal democracy and rule-based international order through a parallel mechanism. Domestically, if AGI makes human labor economically unnecessary, it removes the structural incentive for inclusive democratic institutions—workers lose leverage when their contribution is no longer essential. Internationally, if AGI gives one nation overwhelming productivity advantages, it erodes other countries'

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5:51

“Seeking feedback: A tool for opinion/value tracking...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/05

Summary I spent the last few days building a tool called Aligned (thealignedapp.com), a web app designed to map where opinions converge and diverge. It uses binary polling (Yes/No/Not Sure) to track how opinions change over time, measure agreement rates between users, and compare human and AI alignment. I am sharing it here to get feedback on whether a tool like this is actually useful for the community. Motivations I built this project to explore three specific problems regarding how we form and

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5:27

“Seeking feedback: A tool for opinion/value tracking...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/05

Summary I spent the last few days building a tool called Aligned (thealignedapp.com), a web app designed to map where opinions converge and diverge. It uses binary polling (Yes/No/Not Sure) to track how opinions change over time, measure agreement rates between users, and compare human and AI alignment. I am sharing it here to get feedback on whether a tool like this is actually useful for the community. Motivations I built this project to explore three specific problems regarding how we form and

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7:27

“Great bit of messaging from The Life You Can Save”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/03

Note: Until recently, I worked on comms and content at Giving What We Can. The opinions expressed here are my own. If I learned one thing during my ~2.5 years at Giving What We Can, it's that talking about effective giving (in a way that resonates with new audiences) is harder than it seems. In light of that, I wanted to share an example of an ad that popped up in my feed recently because I think the messaging is particularly strong. Above: Photo collage of the carousel ad. (Viewer swipes to see

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33:34

[Linkpost] “Exaggerating the risks (Part 20: AI 2027...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/03

This is a link post. Exaggerating the risks (Part 20: AI 2027 timelines forecast, benchmarks and gaps) When some of the issues with the time horizons forecast were pointed out, the AI 2027 authors have defended themselves by pointing out they actually did two models, and the time horizon model that we have discussed so far is a simplified one that they do not prefer. When you use their preferred model, the “benchmark + gaps” model, the assumptions of the time horizon model are not as important. I

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7:42

“Quick polls on AGI doom” by Denkenberger🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/02

I've heard that the end of the year is a good time to talk about the end of the world. AGI doom means different things to different people, so I thought it would be useful to get some idea what EAs think about it and what their probability of doom given AGI (P(doom)) is. In a survey of thousands of AI experts, they think there is a wide variety of goodness/badness of AGI outcomes. However, some people think the outcome is very binary, extinction or bliss. In figure 10, I call these the MIRI

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10:45

“Where do AI Safety Fellows go? Analyzing a dataset...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/02

We invest heavily in fellowships, but do we know exactly where people go and the impact the fellowships have? To begin answering this question I manually analyzed over 600 alumni profiles from 9 major late-stage fellowships (fellowships that I believe could lead directly into a job following). These profiles represent current participants and alumni from MATS, GovAI, ERA, Pivotal, Talos Network, Tarbell, Apart Labs, IAPS, and PIBBS. Executive Summary I’ve compiled a dataset of over 600 alumni

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11:12

“Where do AI Safety Fellows go? Analyzing a dataset...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/02

We invest heavily in fellowships, but do we know exactly where people go and the impact the fellowships have? To begin answering this question I manually analyzed over 600 alumni profiles from 9 major late-stage fellowships (fellowships that I believe could lead directly into a job following). These profiles represent current participants and alumni from MATS, GovAI, ERA, Pivotal, Talos Network, Tarbell, Apart Labs, IAPS, and PIBBS. Executive Summary I’ve compiled a dataset of over 600 alumni

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5:33

“GWWC is hiring a Research Director” by Giving What...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/02

Giving What We Can is seeking a Research Director to lead our research function as we scale towards our ambitious goal of 1 million pledgers giving $3 billion annually to high-impact charities. As a key member of GWWC's leadership, the Research Director will lead and build out GWWC's research team, while overseeing our core current workstreams of evaluating evaluators, internal impact evaluation, and supported programs selection. Key responsibilities Lead, develop and grow GWWC's research function

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