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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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3:42

“Two months into EA: Why I’m rethinking my approach...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/25

Summary: Discovering EA recently has made me reconsider how I think about my career and impact. Instead of switching sectors entirely, I'm exploring how to bring EA principles into the work I'm already doing. I stumbled onto EA about two months ago through a friend who kept mentioning "cost-effectiveness" in conversations about development work. Initially, I was skeptical, another framework claiming to solve everything? But the more I read, the more I realized I'd been wrestling with many of these

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6:31

“Why I Just Took The Giving What We Can Pledge” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/25

Crosspost of my blog article. I just took the Giving What We Can pledge, which is a pledge to give away at least 10% of my income over the course of my life to highly effective charities. I think you should take it too! We live in a time of unprecedented prosperity and abundance. Americans today live like kings in the ancient past. We have access to technology that would have been considered magic even just a few hundred years ago. Even relatively poor Americans are richer than nearly everyone who

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20:59

“Ten AI safety projects I’d like people to work on”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/25

The Forum Team crossposted this with permission from Secret Third Thing. The author may not see comments. Listicles are hacky, I know. But in any case, here are ten AI safety projects I'm pretty into. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I think there's a real chance that AI systems capable of causing a catastrophe (including to the point of causing human extinction) are developed in the next decade. This is why I spend my days making grants to talented people working on projects that could

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7:42

“Effective Altruism: An Unmanifesto” by ozymandias

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/24

The most common way to identify the effective altruism movement is by pointing. Effective altruists are: The people who try to help the global poor in ways backed up by randomized controlled trials, generally favoring public health programs. The people who try to improve conditions for farmed animals through corporate outreach and policy advocacy, and who care about weird groups of animals like insects and wild animals. The people who spend a lot of time worrying that we’re going to make

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5:31

“Google to co-founding a global health charity:...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/24

Martyn James | Co-founder of Clear Solutions Martyn spent more than a decade at Google in technical partnership roles before exploring a career transition, realising that he was starting to feel a bit restless in his career. “Life was good,” he recalls, “but I wanted to do something a little more worthwhile.” Martyn first heard about effective altruism (EA) in passing around 2013 from a colleague, though he wasn’t initially interested in the space. “I remember Googling it and thinking, ‘it's a

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2:04

“Are enough EAs earning to give?” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/24

Here's a Career Conversations Week debate for you:The percentage of EAs earning to give is too lowPlace your vote or view results.disagreeagree Clarifications: We can treat the [...] ---Outline:(00:22) Clarifications:(01:03) Reading list:---First published: July 23rd, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CazfSjmhK8SuDfLpf/are-enough-eas-earning-to-give --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the

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9:16

“Writing about my job: Program Director” by Gavriel...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/24

I'm the 1Day Sooner program director for indoor air quality (IAQ). In practice, that means I research indoor air cleaning interventions (including how they work and their associated economics) and do relevant public communication and policy analysis. I spend most of my time reading academic literature, writing about IAQ (for policy or general audiences), and talking to people. 1Day Sooner is small and idiosyncratic.[1] I don't know if my job description generalizes well to older and/or larger

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12:10

“Building EA Projects With an Unrelated Full-Time...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/24

Epistemic Status: These observations come from my personal experience trying to advance a specific idea (Profit for Good) while working full-time as a lawyer on unrelated work. I'm sharing my impressions and frustrations, which may or may not generalize to others developing EA-aligned projects outside traditional pathways—whether that's creating new theories, developing interventions, researching neglected areas, organizing communities, or working on any high-impact initiative while maintaining an

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35:26

“Do short AI timelines make other cause areas...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/24

The cause prioritization landscape in EA is changing. Prominent groups have shut down, others have been founded, and everyone's trying to figure out how to prepare for AI. This is the third in a series of posts critically examining the state of cause prioritization and strategies for moving forward.Executive Summary An increasingly common argument is that we should prioritize work in AI over work in other cause areas (e.g. farmed animal welfare, reducing nuclear risks) because the impending AI

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16:21

“Writing about my job: Content Strategist @ CEA” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/23

Posts from my ancestors: Aaron Gertler | Lizka Vaintrob I love my job. I didn't expect to be in a job that I could be proud of just a few years after university, but now I am[1]. I'm very grateful for that. Sometimes I've heard people worry that a job in meta-effective altruism would be unmotivating, but I disagree. When I see a great conversation happening on the Forum, a valuable post existing because I nudged someone, or someone making a move to more impactful work because of a link in the EA

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3:55

“We need people working for non-EA orgs” by Dave...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/23

This forum—and the EA community surrounding it—is a bit of an echo chamber. We need people who care about EA values in the rest of the world for several reasons: influence and evangelism, cross-pollination, reality checks, and pragmatism. Influence and evangelism The only way for EA to grow is to expose non-EAs to EA concepts. We need people working in all sectors and organizations who can be EA evangelists and ambassadors. This is especially important in roles like government policy and oversight

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1:54

“A reflection: I worked too much” by Lucas Lewit-Mendes

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/23

Over the past 4-5 years, I have poured a lot of time and energy into "doing good", through a combination of community building, policy advocacy, and volunteering with EA charities. On reflection, I think I have worked too much, and I negelected other important parts of my life. I am writing this in the hope that this gives some people permission to reflect on their workload and consider cutting back. I have been doing these projects while studying or working a chill 9-to-5 job, neither of which

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9:36

[Linkpost] “The state of global catastrophic risk...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/23

This is a link post. The following text presents a condensed summary of "The state of global catastrophic risk research: a bibliometric review" by Jehn et al. (2025), published in Earth System Dynamics. The paper represents the first systematic bibliometric analysis of global catastrophic risk (GCR) and existential risk (ER) literature, examining a large number of documents to map the field's development, identify research clusters, and assess current challenges. The full paper includes extensive

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10:01

“Why You Should Build Your Own EA Internship Abroad”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/23

I am writing this to reflect on my experience interning with the Fish Welfare Initiative, and to provide my thoughts on why more students looking to build EA experience should do something similar. Back in October, I cold-emailed the Fish Welfare Initiative (FWI) with my resume and a short cover letter expressing interest in an unpaid in-person internship in the summer of 2025. I figured I had a better chance of getting an internship by building my own door than competing with hundreds of others

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5:13

“Introducing the Pathfinder Fellowship: Funding and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/22

TL;DR: Open Philanthropy (OP) is handing off monetary support for AI safety university group organizers to Kairos. Our new Pathfinder Fellowship will replace both OP's University Organizer Fellowship and our Fieldbuilder Support Program (FSP), bringing funding and mentorship for AI safety student groups into one streamlined program. We’re excited to use the flexibility of a smaller organization like Kairos to provide more tailored and comprehensive support to student organizers than was possible at

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1:40

“Open Philanthropy is passing AI safety university...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/22

This is a post on behalf of Open Philanthropy's GCR Capacity Building team announcing that, effective as of the publication of this post, we are closing down our university group funding program and handing over the funding for most university AI safety groups to Kairos, an AI safety field-building organization. You can see their post, announcing their funding program and plans, here. In our previous post about passing on EA group funding to CEA, we discussed why we’re generally interested in

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14:14

“Should we consider the welfare of small soil...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/22

There are interesting discussions on the Effective Altruism Forum concerning the welfare of the smallest but most abundant animals: Should we consider effects on soil nematodes, mites, and springtails? And does animal farming impact soil nematodes, mites, and springtails hugely more than directly affected animals? If tiny soil animals such as nematodes have on average a negative welfare overall, even if that level of suffering is small, the numbers of those animals are so large that the total

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20:04

[Linkpost] “Is Effective Altruism Neocolonial? (an...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/22

This is a link post. Cross-posted from my blog Introduction In 2009, Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo published Dead Aid, a scathing critique of Western development efforts in Africa. She argued that decades of well-meaning aid had failed not only to lift African countries out of poverty, but had actively undermined their institutions, encouraged corruption, and created a culture of dependence. Aid, she concluded, was not saving Africa, it was holding it back. Moyo was not the first to make such

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2:01

“AMA with recruiters at impact-focused orgs” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/22

Happy Career Conversations Week! We are a group of recruiters at impact-focused organizations, and we’re happy to answer your questions about applying to jobs, work trials, interviewing, references, and anything in between. We’ll answer all the questions we can (subject to personal time constraints) by August 1. Ask us anything! Participants include: Calum Richards (Recruiter at GiveWell) Evan Vandermeer (Recruiter at Open Philanthropy) Dee Kathuria (Recruiting Consultant at Open Philanthropy)

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9:18

“AIM is Seeking a New CEO” by Ambitious Impact, Joey🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/22

Summary Following Joey's transition announcement, we're actively searching for exceptional leadership to guide AIM into its next phase. Find the full job descriptionhere To apply,pleasevisit the following link Recommendsomeone you think could be a great fithere Location: London strongly preferred. Remote candidates willing to work from London at least 3 months a year and otherwise overlapping at least 6 hours with 9 am to 5 pm BST will be considered. We are happy to sponsor UK work visas

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