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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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26:20

“AI for Animals 2025 Bay Area Retrospective” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/06

Our Mission: To build a multidisciplinary field around using technology—especially AI—to improve the lives of nonhumans now and in the future. Overview Background This hybrid conference had nearly 550 participants and took place March 1-2, 2025 at UC Berkeley. It was organized by AI for Animals for $74k by volunteer core organizers Constance Li, Sankalpa Ghose, and Santeri Tani. This conference has evolved since 2023: The1st conference mainly consisted of philosophers and was a single track

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4:33

[Linkpost] “Is it 3 Years, or 3 Decades Away?...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/05

This is a link post. This is a linkpost for Epoch After Hours' podcast episode Is it 3 Years, or 3 Decades Away? Disagreements on AGI Timelines by Ege Erdil and Matthew Barnett, which was released on 28 March 2025. The episode is on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Pocket Casts, and Overcast. Ege is the 1st author of the paper about Epoch AI's compute-centric model of AI automation, which was announced on 21 March 2025, and also discussed on the Future of Life Institute Podcast. I

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6:39

“GiveWell’s Response to the USAID Funding Cuts” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/04

Recent cuts to US government foreign assistance have destabilized global health programs, impacting some of the most cost-effective interventions we’ve found for saving and improving lives, such as malaria nets, malaria chemoprevention, and community-based management of acute malnutrition. This situation is a major focus of our research team at the moment, and we’re working to balance a targeted, near-term response to urgent needs with a broad, long-term perspective of needs that may emerge. The US

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3:02

“Three Organizers Walk Into a Liberal Arts College”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/04

Hey EA Forum, We're the EA group at Middlebury College in Vermont—three organizers (freshman, sophomore, junior) trying to figure out how to make EA stick on a small but ambitious liberal arts campus. We've run into the classic "attendance starts high, then drops off to like, two people and a cricket" scenario with our traditional reading groups and fellowships. Still, we know that Middlebury students have a whole lot of wealth and/or talent, and it's really important to expose them to EA ideas and

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1:44

“From biosecurity to mental health: New overviews of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/03

We’ve been expanding our cause area overviews to highlight more ways people can make a difference. These new articles dive into different global challenges and offer a broad look at various impactful career paths worth considering: Biosecurity – Exploring the importance of reducing risks from pandemics and other biological threats. Mental Health – Examining the role of mental well-being in improving lives on a global scale. Economic Growth – Investigating the role of economic development in

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8:50

“Announcement: New Services for Capacity Building in...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/03

It's been a while since my last post - but we’ve been busy with good work in the meanwhile, including welcoming our daughter into this world! We’ve been working with some high-impact clients to effect operational transformations and help them grow, in addition to building out a suite of services to give nonprofits more resources. We’re ready to transform our next high-impact organizations and give them the resources they need to grow. Recap: About WorkStream Nonprofit Our mission is to provide

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5:34

[Linkpost] “Scaling Our Pilot Early-Warning System”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/02

This is a link post. Summary: The NAO will increase our sequencing significantly over the nextfew months, funded by a $3M grant from Open Philanthropy. This will allow us to scale our early-warning system to where we could flag many engineered pathogens early enough to mitigate their worst impacts, and also generate large amounts of data to develop, tune, and evaluate our detection systems. One of the biological threats the NAO is most concerned with is a 'stealth' pathogen, such as a virus with

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10:28

“My ‘infohazards small working group’ Signal Chat may...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/02

Remember: There is no such thing as a pink elephant. Recently, I was made aware that my “infohazards small working group” Signal chat, an informal coordination venue where we have frank discussions about infohazards and why it will be bad if specific hazards were leaked to the press or public, accidentally was shared with a deceitful and discredited so-called “journalist,” Kelsey Piper. She is not the first person to have been accidentally sent sensitive material from our group chat, however she is

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2:49

“Against Doing Things” by Benny Smith

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/01

Epistemic status: 0% Much ink has been spilled on this forum investigating what we should do about the world's most pressing problems. However, I've recently come to the realization that doing nothing may be even more promising than the most cost-effective EA interventions! Below is a shallow writeup of the top reasons why you should stop doing things. The Singularity is Near. Soon AI will do all the things, so why bother? The Unilateralist's Curse. It was foretold that if you do things

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3:57

“Centre for Effective Altruism Is No Longer...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/01

For immediate release: April 1, 2025 OXFORD, UK — The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) announced today that it will no longer identify as an "Effective Altruism" organization. "After careful consideration, we've determined that the most effective way to have a positive impact is to deny any association with Effective Altruism," said a CEA spokesperson. "Our mission remains unchanged: to use reason and evidence to do the most good. Which coincidentally was the definition of EA." The announcement

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4:53

“Red-teaming PowerSmoothie.org by Holden Karnofsky”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/01

[This is a belated submission for the EA Red-teaming contest] Having recently discovered PowerSmoothie.org, a website founded by our very own Holden Karnofsky, I felt compelled to share some concerns with the EA community about the nutritional framework and ethical implications of this project. While the site presents itself as an evidence-based approach to nutrition, several troubling issues emerge upon closer inspection. PowerSmoothie.org applies naive utilitarian analysis to nutrition in a way

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14:00

“New Cause Area: Low-Hanging Fruit” by Tandena...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/01

Hi, I’m Tandena Wagner. As part of my research for EcoResillience Initiative (an EA organization searching for the best ways to preserve biodiversity into the long-term future), I’ve investigated several common claims that various resource limitations could be disastrous for civilization – ie, that we’re approaching “peak oil”, or imminently running out of phosphorus, soil nitrogen, chromium, etc. For the most part, I’ve found these claims to be overblown, often thanks to systematic exaggeration

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2:49

“What if I’m not open to feedback?” by frances_lorenz

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/01

It is standard form in EA to state one's welcomingness of feedback, both in a personal and professional capacity. Individuals and organisations alike often have many means by which you can deliver feedback, whether through anonymous forms or direct communication, and forum posts will often begin or end with: "I'm open to feedback..." "I'm looking for feedback of the following nature..." "I'm very full because I ate feedback for breakfast, but there's always room for more..." And so on. I'm now

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9:15

“Safety Conscious Researchers should leave Anthropic”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/01

It's time for safety conscious researchers to leave AnthropicThis is a short post, due to an unfortunate lack of time (in more ways than one). I think it's pretty clear that AGI might come about rather (or indeed, very) soon. I don’t need to rehash on this forum why this might be amongst the most transformative events in history, and importantly, the catastrophic implications if this goes wrong. Whilst this community has often focused heavily on avoiding either misuse by ‘bad actors’ (often

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1:08

“New Cause Area Proposal” by TheMcDouglas

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/01

Epistemic status - statistically verified. I'm writing this post to draw peoples' attention to a new cause area proposal - haircuts for alignment researchers. Aside from the obvious benefits implied by the graph (i.e. haircuts having the potential to directly improve organizational stability), this would represent possibly the only pre-singularity opportunity we'll have to found an org named "Clippy". I await further investment. --- First published: April 1st, 2025

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9:50

“Mitigating Risks from Rouge AI” by Stephen Clare

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/01

Introduction Misaligned AI systems, which have a tendency to use their capabilities in ways that conflict with the intentions of both developers and users, could cause significant societal harm. Identifying them is seen as increasingly important to inform development and deployment decisions and design mitigation measures. There are concerns, however, that this will prove challenging. For example, misaligned AIs may only reveal harmful behaviors in rare circumstances, or perceive detection attempts

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0:59

“New Cause Area Proposal” by TheMcDouglas

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/01

Epistemic status - statistically verified. I'm writing this post to draw peoples' attention to a new cause area proposal - haircuts for alignment researchers. Aside from the obvious benefits implied by the graph (i.e. haircuts having the potential to directly improve organizational stability), this would represent possibly the only pre-singularity opportunity we'll have to found an org named "Clippy". I await further investment. --- First published: April 1st, 2025

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1:55

“Important Update: Pivotal(TM) Trademark...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/01

We at Pivotal™ are thrilled to announce that we have successfully trademarked the terms "pivotal," "to pivot," and "a pivot" (see our official trademark certificate). We've long tolerated the unauthorised and, frankly, inflationary use of these terms, but the situation has reached a tipping point. So we're forced to take this pivotal™ action. What does this mean for you? Moving forward, any post on the EA Forum containing the aforementioned trademarked terms will be automatically tagged with our

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4:03

“We’re revamping the Intro Fellowship!” by Jemima

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/01

Hi group organisers, The current intro fellowship syllabus is getting on to be ~3 years old now, and many of you have remarked that it needs an update. As good stewards of EA, we have listened to your feedback and are pleased this April 1st to announce our proposed revamp!Problems with the current Intro Fellowship Confusion over name variations People don’t do the readings No immediate impact Weak bonds between participants Too cause-neutralOur proposed solutions Confusion over name variations

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2:52

“The EA University Groups Prisoner’s Dilemma” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/01

Happy April Fools’ Day! It's time to put your strategic thinking to the test in The EA University Groups Prisoner's Dilemma! How It Works If you’re a member or organiser of an EA university group (or the CEA University Groups Team), then you’re eligible to play. Your group faces one big decision: Cooperate or Defect? Every player will use this form to vote on whether their group should cooperate or defect. Your group's position will be decided by majority vote. Voting closes at midnight tonight

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