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3:21

“Three days left to apply to AIM’s animal-only...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/09/12

Applications to AIM's first animal welfare-focused incubation round close this Sunday, 13 September. If you are on the fence, this is my final nudge.Apply now I almost didn’t apply I only did because someone from the Ambitious Impact team nudged me six years ago. So at the risk of being annoying, I'll say it once more: the best way to find out if this is the right path for you is to apply. The selection process is built to help both of us work out whether you’re a match. You don’t have to be an

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1:42

“Wholly AI-generated posts should not be allowed on...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/09/11

As a daily reader of the EA Forum, I have found the experience significantly degraded recently. When I come to the /allPosts page, I am confronted with an onslaught of posts with a single upvote, mostly by brand-new users.I want to give genuine new users a chance and read their stuff, and maybe upvote it. But when I see a pattern of "brand new user wrote long complicated post that currently has no upvotes", most of the time it's fully AI-generated, and it's a waste of my time to read it. Even

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15:37

“Research Report: A genetic basis for potential...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/09/10

Prepared by: Claudinéia Pereira Costa, PhD; Meghan Barrett, PhD Note: This post is very similar to our own prior EA Forum report on the genetic basis for nociception in another hemipteran, the lac bug (Kerria lacca, Hemiptera: Kerridae). In several places, we directly use the same text as we wrote in the first report to save time and ensure all limitations/caveats of the project are clearly, consistently reported. Consider this an attribution statement to our prior work for any directly copied text

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15:20

“Should You Start a Nonprofit or Join One?” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/09/10

I wrote this post for High Impact Professionals and wanted to share it here since HIP now have an entrepreneurship track in their program, and applications for the AIM program are due September 13! Thanks a lot to @Danielle MacLean for encouraging me to write this. What it's like to launch a nonprofit A quick note before we start. This piece focuses on one part of the decision to start or join a nonprofit: what founding looks like day to day and who is a good personal fit for it. In addition to

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33:26

“Regional EA groups should be incubators, not...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/09/09

Epistemic status: hot takes. I have thought quite a bit about EA community building strategy over the past two years, but the style of this post is not "well reasoned and explained". I have been planning to publish something like this for months, kept pushing it back, and now I just want to get it out. Why I am writing this For two years now I have been a full-time community builder at EA Switzerland. In those two years I have seen very little high level public discussion about EA Community

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12:34

“Updates from the Swarm” by phoebe b

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/09/09

The swarm has made me feel AI risk in my bones for the first time Until the Hugging Face / OpenAI swarm thing, I think I deep down felt pretty skeptical that extinction or serious loss of control scenarios were plausible in the next few years. I’ve been lurking on LessWrong for years, and I remember being freaked out by Yudkowsky's ‘List of Lethalities’ in 2022, and thinking that this did seem intellectually convincing, and maybe I should do something about it. But it didn’t feel that real. And I

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18:44

“The Scramble: getting in position to pace the...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/09/08

Crossposted from my Substack. ~ Suppose the President summons the AI CEOs and his top national security advisors to an emergency meeting at the White House. He has become extremely concerned about superintelligence — the possibility that AIs far smarter than humanity combined slip beyond our ability to correct or shut down. If that happens, there is no way back. The President is concerned humanity could become permanently out of the driver's seat of its own future. He wants to figure out what to

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12:54

“Do AI safety talent programmes work? Nobody has run...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/09/08

Headline finding: I audited 17 AI Safety Talent programmes. Zero of 17 have published any comparison group, rejected-applicant follow-up, matched control or randomisation. Not one. Every programme that mentions a counterfactual does it by asking participants to self-report. Background At least 70 million dollars has gone into AI safety talent programmes so far, but we still can’t really say much about their impact. Notably, Kairos has just raised 50 million dollars on a self-described "shallow

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17:24

“We know who lives inside wild fish. We don’t know...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/09/05

Grouper (Epinephelus sp.). Groupers can host a wide range of parasites, including anisakids and myxozoans. Photo: LDLP. This post was originally published on my Substack. I’m sharing it here because parasite–host interactions in wild fish may have substantial and largely neglected welfare implications, while we still know remarkably little about the experiences of the animals involved. The post is intended mainly to highlight this empirical gap and some potentially tractable directions for further

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8:07

“AI Uplift for Careers (Free 80,000 Hours Career...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/09/04

These AIs are getting pretty smart. Maybe smart enough to help you think about your career? I was skeptical when first pitched on the project before joining 80,000 Hours. Turns out AI progress is a good train to hook yourself onto and AI has gotten pretty good at career advice. It has some advantages compared to a human advisor: The AI will spend as much time with you as you need It can start now, without a delay It can know about all the jobs and opportunities on the Job Board, even the niche

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5:54

“The Case Against Acting Professional When Starting...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/09/04

Me and @Lily Curry launched an EA group at Binghamton University (a SUNY school with no prior EA presence) in August 2026. In two weeks we went from zero to ~500 Instagram followers, got 100+ tabling sign-ups, 59 people in our GroupMe, and ~40 people at our first general interest meeting. Our Instagram is now larger than the established EA groups at Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell, and NYU. This post is primarily about the factors we think led to our success. James C. Scott's has this

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8:17

“Alone again: facing the possibility of AI takeover...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/09/03

I’ve been feeling pretty shaken since the METR report about the Hugging Face incident came out last week. Over the weekend, I wrote up some thoughts on how lonely the AI situation sometimes feels to me. It's more personal than what I’d usually share publicly, but I thought I’d post it here in case it resonates with anyone else. I’m very grateful to the many readers of this forum who dedicate so much of their time and energy to these problems. — When I was 12 years old, I found out that many

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7:05

“What happened to impact markets?” by Austin

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/09/03

At a conference on post-AGI futures earlier this year, I proposed a session titled “What's next for impact markets?” The conference speakers included the godfather of impact markets Paul Christiano himself, and noted supporters like Scott Alexander, Oli Habryka, and Andrew Critch — so I was hopeful that there would be some interest. … Zero people signed up for my session. Before everyone writes these off as some EA fad of the early 2020s, or a pie-in-the-sky dream requiring impossible levels of

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13:38

“Meet the Fellows: Frame Fellowship Cohort 2.0” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/09/03

The Frame Fellowship is back for round two! In just about 10 days we'll have a brand-new cohort of 14 awesome content creators, storytellers, marketers, YouTubers, tiktokers- educating the world on AI safety through social media. Frame 2.0 received hundreds of applications from award-winning filmmakers, investigative video journalists, AI Safety professors, former UN staff, Adobe professionals- all transitioning to make compelling content that reaches millions of people. Somethings we looked for

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16:03

“Kairos has raised $50M to build talent...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/09/02

TL;DR: Kairos has raised 50 million dollars from Coefficient Giving for two years of funding, one of the largest commitments they’ve made towards AI safety fieldbuilding to date. We’re using this to make an ambitious push for growing Kairos, broadening our portfolio of talent infrastructure projects and incubating new organizations. We’ve doubled in size in the last six months, and we plan to double again in the next six. We now have open hiring rounds for ten roles on our team across events, group

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8:27

“Population ethics is a big deal, which is why I made...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/09/01

TLDR: Take the population ethics quiz here: https://mdickens.me/pop-ethics/Population ethics is an oft-overlooked subfield within ethics. Many people hold views that they don't realize contradict each other, or that have strange implications that they wouldn't endorse if they thought about it more. Not just that—population ethics is a BIG DEAL. A lot of ethical decisions hinge on how you think about changes in future populations. I'll give concrete examples below, but reading the examples might

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14:31

“How to Properly Reject AI Safety Fellowship...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/09/01

This post was written while participating in Gen Stream in London and done based on inspiration and with some advice from Roman Ross based on his work on helping rejected applicants upskill. Introduction There are way more applicants for AI safety fellowships, courses and projects than organizations have the capacity to accept. That means that for every fellowship that runs, hundreds and sometimes thousands of people will receive rejection letters. There is probably a better way that we could

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9:34

“Coefficient Giving: Reflecting on our Recent...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/08/30

Reflections from the Effective Giving & Careers team. Earlier this year we ran our first open call for the effective careers side of our work — a request for proposals from organizations that help people move into high-impact careers. We’re excited to share the results: We’re awarding $13,075,301 in grants to 28 organizations via the Effective Giving & Careers Fund, and several other Coefficient Giving funds expect to fund up to 16 more. That ~13 million dollars is well above the ~5 million

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14:23

“Results: Cluelessness Critiques Competition” by Will...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/08/30

Last week, the Forum grappled with cluelessness. The volume of entries (76 essays!)—from newcomers and Forum power users alike—was a happy surprise, and there were many thoughtful contributions beyond those mentioned below.Essay winners First place ($2,500): Elliott Thornley, for Challenging the unawareness argument with third actions and mixed actions Joint second place ($1,500 each): Magnus Vinding (aka ‘unsharp’), for Defusing cluelessness with degrees of justification Impartial Partially, for

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9:00

“The Hugging Face attack surprised me” by Ajeya

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/08/29

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: It's a major warning shot, and might be the last one we get All opinions are my personal view, and don’t represent my employer or fellow investigators. This week, METR and Redwood Research published the report on our independent investigation into agents’ behavior and motivations in the Hugging Face attack; I was one of the

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