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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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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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6:28

“Corporate law to CEA operations: Mid-career...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/22

Kathleen Perell | Chief of Staff to the COO at the Centre for Effective Altruism Kathleen Perell began her career with a clear goal: obtain a law degree and then find meaningful, mission-aligned work. While she was never committed to a particular cause, she knew she wanted to do something good for others. Unfortunately, like many, she faced the financial and institutional reality of legal education in the U.S., graduating with substantial debt and limited practical experience. To pay it off and

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10:39

“Questions about animal welfare markets” by Austin

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/22

Last week, I joined “Revolutionist's Night” — a cabal aiming to radically improve animal welfare, with some flavor of 1800s slavery abolitionism or the 1700s American revolution. Our topic for the evening was inspired by Aaron Boddy's post “The current market price for animal welfare is zero”: can we create a market where anyone can directly buy credits for animal welfare? I’m very sympathetic to this idea, and similar ideas like Paul Christiano's for offsetting factory-farmed eggs. (A year ago, I

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17:16

“Strategic Animals Funding Circle - Results from...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/22

The Strategic Animal Funding Circle just finished its first two rounds of grantmaking, and we ended up giving ~$900,000 across 16 organisations. Below is some brief reasoning behind why we were excited about these grants and broad factors that resulted in us not granting to other organisations. Overall we were pretty excited about the quality of applications we got and feel optimistic the circle will continue to run/deploy more in the future. At the bottom of this post, you can find more

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15:36

“Reflecting On My Career Journey” by Kevin Xia 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/21

I learned about EA in mid-2022, finished my degree and got “properly” involved in my local community in 2023, got my first paid role in the movement in 2024 and got promoted to Managing Director at Hive at the beginning of 2025. In career-related conversations, I often get asked about how I got into my role. I used to be hesitant to share my career journey, since it seemed riddled with luck and privilege. In many instances, I felt like I was just in the right place at the right time, and many of my

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11:23

“Animal Welfare Fund: Payout recommendations from...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/21

Introduction This payout report covers the Animal Welfare Fund's (AWF) grantmaking from April 1, 2025 to June 30, 2025 (3 months). It follows the previous January-March 2025 payout report. Organizational updates In May, the AWF welcomed two full-time fund managers: Neil Dullaghan, who joined as a Senior Fund Manager, and Renata Scarellis, who joined as a Fund Manager. They bring experience in animal welfare grantmaking, research, and advocacy: Dr. Neil Dullaghan is a full-time senior fund

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10:41

“From rave websites to AI risk: 30 years of career...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/21

Summary After three decades spanning startups, consulting, banking, entrepreneurship, and impact nonprofits, I'm sharing lessons that might be useful for others navigating career decisions. I was prompted by the Career Conversations Week post noting that "EA skews pretty young, so if your career can be measured in decades rather than years, you probably have a lot to share!" Rather than my specific job history, I'll focus on lessons learned, though I'm wary of biases or being too general to be

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20:29

“From a Side Project to a Funded Organisation: My...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/21

I tend to send the recording of this talk quite a lot when I’m asked to share my story about how I started Hive, so I thought for folks’ convenience I’d make it into a post so that it's more scannable. Some of the info is a bit outdated, I tried to include updates in brackets. I included some slides to help demonstrate the point, but you can find all my slides in the resource section below. Hi everyone, and thank you for coming to my talk! I’m Sofia Balderson, co-founder of Hive—a global

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6:30

“Private equity to shrimp welfare: Mid-career...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/21

Hi everyone! This post is the first in a series of four profiles on mid-career transitions in EA. Andrés very kindly allowed me to interview him on his shift from private equity to shrimp welfare. I think it takes a lot of courage to make drastic career changes, especially those that result in significant pay cuts and uncertainty. I hope this series is helpful to those considering it! And separately, I found it really lovely to hear how excited each person was about EA. Andrés Jimenez Zorrilla |

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3:04

“Ask Career Advisors Anything” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/21

(about careers) As part of Career Conversations Week on the EA Forum, I’ve gathered together some impact-focused career advisors to answer any questions you might have. Career Advisors from Probably Good, Successif, Animal Advocacy Careers and 80,000 Hours will be online throughout the week to answer your questions. Interested and knowledgeable readers are also welcome to chip in! Leave your questions as comments below.Some details on our advisors: Probably Good is a nonprofit organisation dedicated

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6:25

“Grateful for Job Choice” by Denkenberger🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/21

TLDRWhen we look across all jobs globally, many of us in the EA community occupy positions that would rank in the 99.9th percentile or higher by our own preferences within jobs that we could plausibly get.[1] Whether you work at an EA-aligned organization, hold a high-impact role elsewhere, or have a well-compensated position which allows you to make significant high effectiveness donations, your job situation is likely extraordinarily fortunate and high impact by global standards. This career

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7:53

“80,000 Hours for Global Development” by Benh713

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/20

Summary We’re exploring the idea of building a career guidance platform aimed at helping the African diaspora - and professionals interested in development more broadly - pursue high-impact careers in Africa (or LMICs more broadly). The goal is to shift talented individuals towards higher impact roles in Global Development. 80,000 Hours already does this for a certain subset of people in developed countries (and primarily for AI and existential risks), but there are a large number of diaspora and

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41:12

[Linkpost] “How AI could slow scientific progress -”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/19

This is a link post. Note: This is a linkpost to an essay written by Princeton computer science professor Arvind Narayanan and PHD candidate Sayash Kapoor entitled “Could AI slow science?”. The authors may not see or respond to comments on this post. Could AI slow science? AI leaders have predicted that it will enable dramatic scientific progress: curing cancer, doubling the human lifespan, colonizing space, and achieving a century of progress in the next decade. Given the cuts to federal funding

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41:23

[Linkpost] “How AI could slow scientific progress -”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/19

This is a link post. Note: This is a linkpost to an essay written by Princeton computer science professor Arvind Narayanan and PHD candidate Sayash Kapoor entitled “Could AI slow science?”. The authors may not see or respond to comments on this post. I'm posting this because I think it is a well-articulated counterargument to the growing opinion that an AI intelligence explosion that rapidly accelerates scientific progress is imminent or inevitable. Could AI slow science? AI leaders have predicted

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