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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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1:16

“Proactively tell people/organisations when they have...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/31

Measuring and communicating impact is hard, particularly when focusing on community building over the long term. You have a much better idea of what led to you starting a new role, changing your donations, etc, than anyone else could. It will take you 2-10 minutes to directly tell someone how they've impacted your trajectory[1] where they might take hours-to-forever to try to reach you and ask. It seems likely that many community builders, orgs, and funders would get significant-value from

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33:46

[Linkpost] “AI should be a good citizen, not just a...

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2026/03/31

This is a link post. Introduction Consider a lorry driver who sees a car crash and pulls over to help, even though it’ll delay his journey. Or a delivery driver who notices that an elderly resident hasn’t collected their post in days, and knocks to check they’re okay. Or a social media company employee who notices how their platform is used for online bullying, and brings it up with leadership, even though that's not part of their job description. This kind of proactive prosocial behaviour is

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11:44

“Introducing 8 New Evidence-Based Nonprofits from...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/31

TL;DR We incubated8 new nonprofits in Latin America using an evidence-based, cost-effectiveness–driven approach. Each organization is tackling ahigh-priority, neglected problem withproven interventions adapted to their context, all designed to scale. These orgswould not exist without this process, supporting them creates real counterfactual impact. 📅 We are hosting a“Meet the Founder” session on April 9th — connectors, funders, and mentors are invited to join and meet the teams. Donationsare now

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25:39

[Linkpost] “What it’s like to be an AI safety...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/31

This is a link post. TL;DR Here are the key points I want you to take away from this post: There are maybe 30 to 60 people in the world doing AI safety grantmaking, collectively directing hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Soon, there will be >$1B being directed per year, and potentially multiple billions. AI safety grantmaking orgs like CG have a strong track record of counterfactually seeding impactful organizations and careers. Grantmaking involves a lot more than evaluating a stack of

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22:27

[Linkpost] “Concrete projects to prepare for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/30

This is a link post. Introduction There are lots of good, neglected, and pretty concrete projects people could set up to make the transition to superintelligence go better. This document describes some that readers might not have thought much about before. They are ordered roughly by how excited we are about them.[1] Of these, Forethought is actively working on AI character evaluation and space governance, and we are very interested in automating macrostrategy. Summary AI character evaluation. Start

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2:52

“Claude’s constitution is great” by OscarD🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/30

I read Claude's Constitution recently. I thought it was very good! This was my favourite quote: Our own understanding of ethics is limited, and we ourselves often fall short of our own ideals. We don’t want to force Claude's ethics to fit our own flaws and mistakes, especially as Claude grows in ethical maturity. And where Claude sees further and more truly than we do, we hope it can help us see better, too. Here are some of the other greatest hits according to me (I would encourage you to read the

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4:08

“How did Leo do? Evaluating Situational Awareness’s...

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2026/03/30

In June 2024, Leopold Aschenbrenner published Situational Awareness, a 165-page essay predicting AGI by 2027, trillion-dollar compute clusters, an inevitable US/China AI arms race, and a world not remotely prepared. It was influential on many people's thinking about AI timelines and risks, including my own. It's now almost two years later. I was curious: how have the predictions actually held up? What we did I got Claude to go through the essay's key claims and check each against the best available

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17:48

“What is integral altruism?” by EuanMcLean

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/30

Recently, a growing group of EAs, EA-adjacents, post-EAs and EA-curious folk have been gathering and organising around a new term - integral altruism (int/a). The central claims of int/a are that the EA toolkit is powerful but incomplete, and that EA can learn from other movements who are trying to improve the world. The goal of int/a is to find a broader approach to altruism by integrating EA with epistemics/ontologies/world models/language/culture from outside of the EA/rationalist bubble. More

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14:24

“The Future Will Be Weirder Than That” by MichaelDickens

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/30

Many people in the animal welfare community treat AI as a powerful but normal technology, in the same category as the steam engine or the internet. They talk about how transformative AI will impact factory farming and what it will mean for animal advocacy.Only two futures are plausible: AI progress slows down—either because it hits a natural wall, or because civilization deliberately makes the (correct) choice to stop building it until we know how to make it safe. Superintelligent AI makes

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11:06

[Linkpost] “Planning 80000 Hours Before the Plausible...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/29

This is a link post. Being a freshman at university, I seem to have been bestowed the great privilege of infinite possibilities. There is this strange feeling of trying to plan a career in a world that might not exist in five years. Not in a doomer sense but that the world of 2031 might be so radically different from today that most attempts of planning are incoherent. I contemplate machine god super intelligence arriving before I graduate, intelligence explosions compressing 10,000 years of

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2:30

“Launching Euzoia: Beeminder for Effective Charities”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/28

TLDR: We built Beeminder for effective charities. Access it here. Commitment Contracts don't work with effective charities Commitment Contracts are simple: You commit to pay money if you don't do something. Then, when you don't do the thing, you pay the company offering these contracts. This hurts, and that's why it works. Commitment Contracts are surprisingly effective for behaviour change: A large-scale study from stikK showed that contracts with money staked are 60 percentage points more likely

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10:03

“TAI-driven clean meat won’t solve the problem but...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/27

This is a contribution to AGI & Animals Debate Week (March 23–29, 2026). Co-written with Claude and ChatGPT.Summary: It seems reasonable to think that there's a >20% chance[1] that TAI will bring us a ‘technological roadmap’[2] to clean meat within the next 15 years. A simple model: such a roadmap won’t solve the problem, but it will make ending factory farming much easier, i.e. the cost-effectiveness of factory farming interventions will increase – perhaps by a factor of 2-10x. The movement

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1:24

“Sen. Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/26

The text of the bill can be found here. It begins by citing the warnings of AI company CEOs and deep learning pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, as well as the 2023 FLI open letter calling for a 6-month pause. The bill would prohibits the construction or upgrading of AI datacenters until Congress pass an AI safety law aimed at preventing AI companies "from releasing harmful products into the world that threaten the health and well-being of working families, our privacy and civil rights,

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8:30

“Transitioning the Community Building Grants Program”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/26

The Community Building Grants (CBG) program, run by the Groups team at CEA since 2018, is undergoing substantial changes. Through the CBG program, we fund a set of professional city and national EA groups[1] and support their leaders through retreats, regular check-ins and calls, a Slack space, and resources for running groups. CBG groups have achieved exciting things, such as helping EAs navigate (policy) hubs, supporting hundreds of community members in taking next steps, and incubating new

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26:14

“Animal Welfare is Just Part of AI Alignment Now, and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/26

This post was inspired by debate week, but I also published it to my Substack. There, most of my readers are not as familiar with EA discourse, so I added a long introduction which I haven’t copied here (but which you might find entertaining). There's also a voiceover of the full version available on Substack or in any podcast feed if you search “Sandcastles”. 1. The heart of the matter There's a debate taking place on the EA forum this week. The motion is: If AGI goes well for humans, it’ll

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8:38

“I used to think aligned ASI would be good for all...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/26

Cross-posted from my website.Epistemic status: Speculating with no central thesis. This post is less of an argument and more of a meditation. A decade ago, before there was a visible path to AGI and before AI alignment was a significant research field, I figured the solution to the alignment problem would look something like Coherent Extrapolated Volition. I figured we'd find a way to get the AI to internalize human values. I had problems with this approach (why only human values?), but I still

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22:41

“Cultivated meat isn’t necessarily a solved problem...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/26

SummaryPost-AGI…Subjective assessmentCore pointsCultivated meat is a prioritized issue In many worlds, but not all - If AGI is widely available, alt protein advocates could direct it themselves and prioritization is not an issue. - If AGI capability is concentrated in governments and companies, cultivated meat competes with other issues like cancer, climate, and national security. - An autonomous AGI reasoning from first principles might prioritize it, but animal welfare is underrepresented in

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2:02

“Being transparent about capacity” by Kashvi...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/26

Epistemic status: medium, unsure if this is biased to what I have experienced, but think it is useful regardless. I think that organisations and individuals should try be more transparent about their capacity, e.g. at conferences when people ask for volunteering / collaboration opportunities, a lot of orgs/individuals say yes, and then nothing ever really happens. For example, some members from EA Bath attended EAGx Amsterdam last year. One of my members was pretty excited about EA and using his

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12:41

“Running a professional engine on hobbyist fuel:...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/25

TL;DR I spent eight months as a community builder for an EA group. This is a reflection on what that work actually looks from the inside, why I’ve found it's structurally undersupported, and what I think could be different for funders, organisations, and for community builders themselves. What community builders actually do From the outside, community building can look deceptively simple. Organising events, running fellowships, hosting discussions. And yes, those things are part of it. But most of

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13:24

“AI Safety Talent Needs in 2026: Insights for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/25

TL;DR AI safety organizations are capacity constrained by a lack of senior researchers who can mentor and supervise junior talent. This bottleneck drives hyper-selective hiring, blocks promising candidates from entering the field, and is being exacerbated by AI automation, which is raising the bar for human contribution rather than lowering it. Based on 23 interviews with hiring managers, research leads, and funders across the ecosystem, we identify six concrete actions field-builders can take to

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