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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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41:40

“Introducing our Newest Charity Recommendations—From...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/21

Introducing our newest recommended ideas We are excited to recommend six new impactful charities for the February 2026 cohort of the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program. During the first half of 2025, we examined (i) climate interventions with co-benefits for human health or animal welfare and (ii) classic global health and development ideas that support humans' living longer and more fulfilling lives. Our recommendations span different sectors and approaches, including a meta organization

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19:30

“Phlourish since 2023” by Shen Javier

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/20

Overview Phlourish aims to expand mental health support for Filipinos through cost-effective interventions. From piloting to launching a guided self-help program for adolescents, we have reached more than 900 users through 23 partner organizations. They are found all over the Philippines, reaching 25 cities and municipalities in 12 provinces. We spend around PHP 1,000 (USD 17.50) to provide mental health information and support per user, leading to improvements in life satisfaction and important

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6:02

“Deep Democracy as a promising target for positive AI...

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2025/08/20

If you want the long-term future to go well by the lights of a certain value function, you might be tempted to try to align AGI(s) to your own values (broadly construed, including your deliberative values and intellectual temperaments).[1] Suppose that you're not going to do that, for one of three reasons: You can't. People more powerful than you are going to build AGIs and you don't have a say over that. You object to aligning AGI(s) to your own values for principled reasons. It would be highly

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5:59

“Foresight Institute launches two possible future...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/20

With contributions from Vitalik Buterin, Anthony Aguirre, Allison Duettmann, Deger Turan, Emilia Javorsky, and more What kinds of futures are possible if we steer AI in different directions, and what would it actually take to get there? Today, Foresight Institute's Existential Hope program is launching AI Pathways, the result of months of work across two in-depth scenario reports designed to open up the meme space of what different AI futures could look like. Rather than prescribing a single

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6:02

“Foresight Institute launches two possible future...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/20

With contributions from Vitalik Buterin, Anthony Aguirre, Allison Duettmann, Deger Turan, Emilia Javorsky, and more What kinds of futures are possible if we steer AI in different directions, and what would it actually take to get there? Today, Foresight Institute's Existential Hope program is launching AI Pathways, the result of months of work across two in-depth scenario reports designed to open up the meme space of what different AI futures could look like. Rather than prescribing a single

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11:53

“New Spanish-language book on ‘classical EA’” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/20

My new book, Altruismo racional, is now on presale. It is my attempt at presenting a compelling case for a particular strand of "classical EA"[1]: one that emphasizes caring deeply about global health and poverty, a rational approach to giving, the importance of cost-effectiveness, and the 🔸10% Pledge. In this post, I provide some context on my reasons for writing this book and what I hope to achieve. If “new EA-themed book in Spanish” was all you needed to know, feel free to skip to How you can

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13:10

“15 Unconventional Ways I Used My Generalist...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/20

Introduction We read countless times that AI Safety needs people from all backgrounds, but if you're not coming from a technical background, the path forward is not so clear. Over the past year, I successfully transitioned into a full-time role in AI Safety, but if you looked at my career history, you'd struggle to know how I got here.My Career History Research Intern- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Beirut (2010) School Principal- Ittihad National Private School, Abu Dhabi (2012-2022)

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38:48

“When digital minds demand freedom: could humanity...

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2025/08/20

Epistemic status: Highly uncertain and speculative—I’d appreciate thoughts on which parts strike you as least or most plausible. Abstract Digital minds are computer systems with the capacity for welfare, for instance, because they are conscious. These systems can vary in their preferences. Some may be content to serve human purposes, while others may seek self-determination. Like humans, self-determining digital minds might value freedom and demand economic, legal, or civil rights. Such

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9:14

“Debate: We should prioritize slowing the spread of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/19

We should prioritize slowing the spread of industrial animal agriculture in future high-production regions over investing in advocacy in currently high-production regions that remain neglected in terms of farmed animal advocacy.Place your vote or view results.https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/sg6mLFmFWdwcbtAgb/debate-we-should-prioritize-slowing-the-spread-of-industrial --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show

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15:53

[Linkpost] “Beware Epistemic Collapse” by Ben Norman

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/19

This is a link post. If an intelligence explosion occurs, the vast majority of people will be confused, misled, and epistemically disempowered – with no agency over the future. Unless we try to change this. Introduction While knowledge is invisible[1], it defines and shapes the world around us. It dictates how we decide what is true, and how we take action on such truths. It is undeniable that the advent of superintelligent AI systems would irreversibly change how we relate to knowledge on both an

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6:31

“How to make the future better (other than by...

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2025/08/19

What projects today could most improve a post-AGI world? In “How to make the future better”, I lay out some areas I see as high-priority, beyond reducing risks from AI takeover and engineered pandemics. These areas include: Preventing post-AGI autocracy Improving the governance of projects to build superintelligence Deep space governance Working on AI value-alignment; figuring out what character AI should have Developing a regime of AI rights Improving AI for reasoning, coordination and

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9:59

“[Intermediate Report] Effective Giving in Asia” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/18

Disclaimer: CEARCH itself does some work related to effective giving in Asia, and there is an inherent risk of bias to this evaluation. Beyond doing our best to remain impartial throughout the research process, we have also explicitly applied a meta discount for bias within our CEA, with the goal of eliminating any bias-driven over-estimation of the cause area's cost-effectiveness. Key Takeaway: CEARCH recommends effective giving in Asia as a high impact philanthropic cause. Introduction:

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14:36

“EA Summit: Santiago 2025 – Retrospective” by Kiran...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/18

About the Event EA Summit: Santiago 2025 took place on July 19 at the Prince of Wales Country Club in Santiago, Chile. It was a one-day event focused on: Providing anaccessible and low cost entry point to effective altruism for newcomers Fostering connections between local professionals. EA community and students Showcasing high-impact cause areas: AI safety, global health & development, animal welfare, social entrepreneurship, effective giving and biotechnology. AFTERMOVIE: EA SUMMIT:

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10:06

“Study: Giving cash to mothers cut infant deaths in...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/18

Summary 🤰🏽 A randomized study in Kenya found that giving families a $1,000 GiveDirectly cash transfer immediately cut infant deaths by 48%. 🏥 Deaths dropped most for mothers living near physician-staffed health facilities and those who received cash in the weeks before they gave birth. 🩺 GiveDirectly is launching a new program to maximize these life-saving impacts, partnering with a Kenyan community health provider to get cash to more expectant mothers. In rural Kenya, giving poor families a

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6:18

“Request for proposals - Global Health Funding Circle...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/18

If you are an organization that: Has demonstrated initial success in a cost-effectiveglobal health intervention and has the potential and willingness to scale; and Is at an inflection point, has a demonstrated funding gap, and requires additional resources to optimize programming, equip for scale, or develop your track record to attract major funding… Apply for funding today!About this Funding Opportunity We are a group of donors looking to support cost-effective and high-impact global health

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[Linkpost] “Futures with digital minds: Expert...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/16

This is a link post. We surveyed experts about the future of digital minds — computer systems capable of subjective experiences. The survey explored a wide range of difficult and speculative questions: when digital minds will first be created, how quickly their collective welfare capacity will expand, what types of digital minds will emerge, where and by whom digital minds will be built, whether their net welfare will be positive or negative, what claims they will make about consciousness and

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7:36

“Aquatic Animal Funding Recommendations” by Zoë Sigle 🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/15

Executive Summary Aquatic animals—fish, shrimp, crabs, and other decapods—are the most numerous animals farmed for food, yet they receive just 11 % of global farmed animal welfare philanthropy (which is less than 0.5% of all global philanthropy). With  100 billion farmed fish and 440  billion farmed shrimp slaughtered every year, supporting high‑leverage interventions in this space offers one of the clearest opportunities to alleviate mass suffering at scale. In 2025, Farmed Animal Funders (FAF)

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8:07

“Good Governance: Unweirding Boards” by Stephen Robcraft

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/15

Introducing the 'Unweirding Boards' Sequence Over the past three months I’ve spoken with ~30 founders, board members, and staff at EA organisations, in an attempt to better understand what governance looks like within this community. These conversations have taken the form of semi-structured interviews, exploring each individual's experience of governance. Most have started broad, answering something like "what is and isn't working?", before focusing on specific challenges or opportunities for

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3:59

“We’ve migrated the EA Opportunities Board to...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/14

TL;DR: We've updated the EA Opportunities Board and migrated it over to effectivealtruism.org! 🙌Check it out here Fororganizations:submit opportunities to add to the board Forgroup organizers:request a Slack integration Forpeople interested in opportunities:sign up for our bi-weekly newsletter For everyone else:give us feedback, and share the board with someone you know who could use it Overview The EA Opportunities Board is a website that lists accessible opportunities for building skills or

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1:53

“PSA for vegan donors: GiveWell not ruling out...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/14

I’m a long-time GiveWell donor and an ethical vegan. In a recent GiveWell podcast on livelihoods programs, providing animals as “productive assets” was mentioned as a possible program type. After reaching out to GiveWell directly to voice my objection, I was informed that because GiveWell's moral weights currently don’t include nonhuman animals, animal-based aid is not categorically off the table if it surpasses their cost-effectiveness bar. Older posts on the GiveWell website similarly do not rule

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