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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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4:55

“SFF 2025 funding by cause area: $34 million to AI...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/17

Summary: this year the Survival and Flourishing Fund allocated $34.33 million to organizations working to secure humanity's future, with the vast majority going to AI (~$29MM), followed by biosecurity (~$2.5MM), and the rest going to various other causes as diverse as fertility, longevity, forecasting, memetics, math research, EA community building, and non-AI/bio global catastrophic risk (GCR) work. Context The Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) is a philanthropic organization that funds

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4:51

“An Order-of-Magnitude Increase in Outreach Resulted...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/17

In Fall 2023, EA Purdue barely existed. In fall 2024, EA Purdue had 35 people attend its intro meeting. In Fall 2025, EA Purdue had 33 new members attend its intro meeting despite doing dramatically more outreach. Below, outreach method and scale is specified. It is followed by a discussion of the implications for university group organizers, community builders, and a request for help. If you’re not an organizer, feel free to skip to the “Why I think this happened” section of this post, as it

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5:31

“Scaling Altruism 2.0: Seeking Local Contacts for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/17

TL;DR: After our spring pilot with 4 local communities, 35 participants, and valuable learnings, we're launching an improved version of Scaling Altruism for Fall 2025. We're seeking representatives of local communities who want to run introductory courses with reduced operational burden through centralized coordination.What is Scaling Altruism? Scaling Altruism helps local effective altruism communities organize high-quality introductory courses while dramatically reducing operational costs through

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3:34

[Linkpost] “Positive Wild Animal Welfare” by Vasco...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/17

This is a link post. This is a linkpost for Positive Wild Animal Welfare by Heather Browning and Walter Veit, which was originally published on Biology & Philosophy on 12 March 2023. The abstract and last paragraph of the introduction are below. I am still guessing soil animals have negative lives, but I have been very uncertain. Abstract With increasing attention given to wild animal welfare and ethics, it has become common to depict animals in the wild as existing in a state dominated by

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13:19

“I enjoyed most of IABED” by Buck

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/17

I listened to "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" today. I think the first two parts of the book are the best available explanation of the basic case for AI misalignment risk for a general audience. I thought the last part was pretty bad, and probably recommend skipping it. Even though the authors fail to address counterarguments that I think are crucial, and as a result I am not persuaded of the book's thesis and think the book neglects to discuss crucial aspects of the situation and makes poor

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5:28

“What’s going on in video in AI Safety these days? (A...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/17

My write-up as of September 2025 - feel free to ask me for a more updated Source of Truth if you're interested in this space Key Players Making Video: Organization Palisade Research: Does research on AI for policymakers and communicators. Has startedits own video program - check out their videos! Run by Petr Lebedev, an ex-producer/scriptwriter for Veritasium Future of Life Institute (FLI): Has an accelerator program to fund creators making AI-related videos. AI Digest: Produces explainers on AI

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15:30

“What I Think An AI Safety Givewell For Video Work...

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2025/09/16

A few days ago, Austin Chen and Marcus Abramovitch published How cost-effective are AI safety YouTubers?, an "Early work on ”GiveWell for AI Safety”, ranking different interventions in the AI Safety Video space, using a framework that measured impact by basically multiplying watchtime by three quality factors (Quality of Audience, Fidelity of Message and Alignment of Message). Quality-adjusted viewer minute = Views × Video length × Watch % × Qa × Qf × Qm The goal of this post is to explain to what

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38:25

“The Center for AI Policy Has Shut Down” by Tristan W

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/16

And the need for more AIS advocacy workExecutive Summary The Center for AI Policy (CAIP) is no more. CAIP was an advocacy organization that worked to raise policymakers’ awareness of the catastrophic risks from AI and to promote ambitious legislative solutions. Such advocacy is necessary because good governance ideas don’t spread on their own, and to meaningfully reduce AI risk, they must reach the U.S. federal government. Why did CAIP shut down? The reasons are mixed. Some were internal, such as

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38:25

“The Center for AI Policy Has Shut Down” by Tristan...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/16

And the need for more AIS advocacy workExecutive Summary The Center for AI Policy (CAIP) is no more. CAIP was an advocacy organization that worked to raise policymakers’ awareness of the catastrophic risks from AI and to promote ambitious legislative solutions. Such advocacy is necessary because good governance ideas don’t spread on their own, and to meaningfully reduce AI risk, they must reach the U.S. federal government. Why did CAIP shut down? The reasons are mixed. Some were internal, such as

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54:42

“We mapped the EA Forum’s intellectual landscape -...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/16

We scraped all EA forum posts & comments from 2024 and 2025 to use as a test bed for sense making, analysis, and AI-powered epistemic grading as a part of the Future of Life Foundation's Fellowship on AI for Human Reasoning. (We’re happy to share all code and all datasets, etc. to interested parties. Just reach out!) (There are streamlet dashboards associated with each image so you can search/sort with the data yourself)General Sense Making Matt Brooks - matthewrbrooks94@gmail.com I didn’t have

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2:19

[Linkpost] “80,000 Hours review: 2023 to mid-2025” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/16

This is a link post. We’ve released our review of our programmes for the years 2023 to mid-2025. The full review is available on our website, and we’re sharing the summary below. You can find our previous reviews here. Summary: Key updates since 2022 Niel Bowerman is our new CEO: He was appointed in January 2024 after a prolonged period of interim arrangements following the FTX collapse. We’re focusing harder on AGI as our top cause area: We narrowed our primary focus to helping people work on

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20:21

[Linkpost] “The Night I Accidentally Stepped on a...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/15

This is a link post. The Incident It was 11 PM on a rainy August evening when my partner and I were walking back from a coffee shop in London, and I accidentally stepped on a snail. Its shell shattered completely under my weight, although it was still moving. We thought there was hope for it, and so we gently lifted it with a leaf and moved it off the sidewalk while I frantically searched on my phone for what to do. What followed was five agonising minutes of research and moral deliberation before

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21:05

“The impacts of AI on animal advocacy” by Animal...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/15

Introduction The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in our everyday lives is rapidly accelerating. Take ChatGPT: released less than three years ago, it now has over a billion weekly users, and is already vastly more capable than the original version. The same goes for other popular AI models, like Google's Gemini or Anthropic's Claude. And that's just the tools that most of us have access to: behind the scenes, companies are increasingly using even more powerful AI for applications as diverse as

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1:53

“The Economist is hiring a science and technology...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/14

Link to the job posting. I would strongly encourage community members with any type of science or tech background to apply for this role, particularly if they are readers of the paper and are able to emulate its style. I was an Editorial Fellow at The Economist in 2021. This is kind of like being an old intern, but it did give me some useful insights that I think should make you think hard about applying for this role. The Economist is an enormously influential publication. With approximately 5

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7:27

“Sense-making about extreme power concentration” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/14

Various people are worried about AI causing extreme power concentration of some form, for example via: Powergrabs The intelligence curse Gradual disempowerment I have been talking to some of these people and trying to sense-make about ‘power concentration’. These are some notes on that, mostly prompted by some comment exchanges with Nora Ammann (in the below I’m riffing on her ideas but not representing her views). Sharing because I found some of the below helpful for thinking with, and maybe

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11:43

“Well, Well, Well…Do Wells Clear the Bar?” by Zach...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/14

A handful of us from EA Salt Lake City are dipping our toes into program evaluation, looking at the impact of an organization run by one of our members. This post highlights the progress we’ve made so far, as well as a number of questions that we’re hoping EA folks with a bit more experience can help us answer. TLDR: We’ve found that digging wells in Niger easily clears Open Philanthropy's “Bar”, and we are looking for feedback to see if our analysis makes sense. The Organization: Wells4Wellness

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15:58

“Updates on the effective giving ecosystem (MCF 2025...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/12

Written by Lucas Moore (Partnerships Manager) and Sjir Hoeijmakers (CEO), Giving What We Can. This memo provides updates on and a high-level overview of the effective giving landscape as of mid-2025, adapted from an earlier memo for Effective Giving Summit in June 2025. It is based largely on information gathered through our 2025 EG ecosystem pulse survey and builds on the memos we wrote for the MCF last year: 1, 2, 3, 4. Please leave a comment if you’d like us to clarify anything further. All

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15:11

“US public attitudes towards artificial intelligence...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/12

This report is the second in a sequence detailing the results of Wave 2 of the Pulse project by Rethink Priorities (RP). Pulse is a large-scale survey of US adults aimed at tracking and understanding public attitudes towards effective giving and multiple impactful cause areas over time. Wave 2 of Pulse was fielded between February and April of 2025 with ~5600 respondents.[1] Results from our first wave of Pulse, fielded from July-September of 2024, can be found here, with the forum sequence version

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3:48

“Student group organising is hard and important” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/12

It's been several years since I was an EA student group organiser, so please forgive any part of this post which feels out of touch (& correct me in comments!) Wow, student group organising is hard. A few structural things that make it hard to be an organiser: You maybe haven’t had a job before, or have only had kind of informal jobs. So, you might not have learned a lot of stuff about how to accomplish things at work. You’re probably trying to do a degree at the same time, which is hard

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2:14

“SPCA cruelty enforcement case clears another hurdle”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/12

Hi EAs! We posted earlier about Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC) proving in court that SPCAs can sue to stop agricultural cruelty. LIC had survived a demurrer in our lawsuit against well-known dairy Alexandre Family Farm. In a victory for farmed animals, the Humboldt County Superior Court had acknowledged LIC's power, as a California society for the prevention of cruelty to animals (SPCA), to prevent animal cruelty through civil litigation. Since then, Alexandre petitioned the California Court of

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