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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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8:40

“What giving people money doesn’t fix” by GiveDirectly

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/07

by Caitlin Tulloch, Senior Director of Research, Learning, and Product at GiveDirectly. Caitlin is an expert in evidence-based policy and cost-effectiveness, and formerly served as Deputy Director in USAID's Office of the Chief Economist. Summary ❌ Cash isn’t a silver bullet and it can’t replace missing or broken systems. It doesn’t pave roads, improve schools, or stock pharmacies. 💸 Yet when it comes to reducing poverty, there are no interventions with more consistent evidence for their

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10:49

“Strangers calling: the value of warm responses to...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/07

Tl;dr: I think responding to cold outreach (Linkedin DMs, emails) is a high-leverage way to help someone pursue an impactful career. Spending 15 minutes on Zoom or 5 minutes to share resources in writing can: Introduce someone to job boards, career advising and other professional development resources (EA Anywhere Slack, EA Virtual Programs, EA Opportunities Board, Effective Thesis, High Impact Professionals, etc.) that they hadn’t previously been aware of. More people hear about EA from personal

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21:03

“A personal take on why (and why not) to work on Open...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/07

You may have noticed that Open Philanthropy is hiring for several roles in our GCR division: senior generalists across our global catastrophic risks team, and grantmakers for our technical AI safety team. (We're also hiring for recruiting and operations roles! I know very little about either field, so I'm not going to talk about them here.) I work as a grantmaker on OP's AI governance team, and inspired by Lizka's recent excellent post giving her personal take on working at Forethought, I wanted to

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20:41

“EA Summit 2025: Paris: Report” by GV 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/06

On September 13th, 2025, we (EA France) hosted the EA Summit: Paris, in a very central location in the French capital. This event was part of the international series of EA Summits funded by the Centre for Effective Altruism. This report outlines what went well, what we could improve, and the lessons we learned, with the hope that it can serve as a resource for others planning similar events. Key facts and figures 217 participants (including volunteers) checked in, along with 20 speakers and 3

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13:03

“12 Theses on EA” by Mjreard

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/06

This is a crosspost from my Substack, where people have been liking and commenting a bunch. I'm too busy during my self-imposed version of Inkhaven to engage much – yes, pity me, I have to blog – but I don't want to leave Forum folks out of the loop! I’ve been following Effective Altruism discourse since 2014 and involved with the Effective Altruist community since 2015. My credentials are having run Harvard Law School and Harvard University (pan-grad schools) EA, donating $45,000 to EA causes

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10:30

“The Protein Problem” by LewisBollard

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/05

Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post. People can’t get enough protein. Fully 61% of Americans say they ate more protein last year — and 85% intended to eat more this year. Last week, dairy giant Danone said it can’t keep up with US demand for its high-protein yogurt. Other food makers are rushing to pack protein into everything

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3:41

[Linkpost] “Are we wrong to stop factory farms?” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/05

This is a link post. I'm sharing an article by Rose Patterson from Animal Rising (AR), which responds to an EA criticism of AR's campaigns to block new factory farms in the UK. When we started our Communities Against Factory Farming campaign to stop every new factory farm from being built, we thought it would be a crowd-pleaser! Who in the animal movement could argue that this could actually be a bad thing? However, we’ve heard it repeatedly over the past year, particularly coming from some in the

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10:18

“AnimalHarmBench 2.0: Evaluating LLMs on reasoning...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/05

We are pleased to introduce AnimalHarmBench (AHB) 2.0, a new standardized LLM benchmark designed to measure multi-dimensional moral reasoning towards animals, now available to use on Inspect AI. As LLM's influence over policies and behaviors of humanity grows, its biases and blind spots will grow in importance too. With the original and now-updated AnimalHarmBench, Sentient Futures aims to provide an evaluation suite to judge LLM reasoning in an area in which blind spots are especially unlikely to

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3:26

“Legible vs. Illegible AI Safety Problems” by Wei Dai

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/05

Some AI safety problems are legible (obvious or understandable) to company leaders and government policymakers, implying they are unlikely to deploy or allow deployment of an AI while those problems remain open (i.e., appear unsolved according to the information they have access to). But some problems are illegible (obscure or hard to understand, or in a common cognitive blind spot), meaning there is a high risk that leaders and policymakers will decide to deploy or allow deployment even if they

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19:21

“Scale-up: the neglected bottleneck facing...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/04

Hi everyone! I'm Alex, Managing Director of the Good Food Institute Europe. Thanks so much for taking the time to read my post on why scale-up is so important for the future of alternative proteins. This is a topic we're really passionate about at GFI Europe, and one that's becoming increasingly important as the sector matures. I’ll be around in the comments and happy to answer any questions. We really value feedback from this community, so I look forward to the discussion! Conventional meat

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5:21

“Announcing the AIxBiosecurity Research Fellowship”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/04

ERA, in partnership with the Cambridge Biosecurity Hub, is launching a new 8-week, full-time AIxBiosecurity research fellowship dedicated to tackling biosecurity risks amplified by recent advances in frontier AI capabilities. This fully funded programme equips researchers to investigate ways to reduce extreme risks from engineered and natural biological threats amid rapidly advancing biotechnology and emerging AI capabilities. The deadline to apply is November 5th, 23:59 UTC —-> Apply here. If

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17:25

“Recruitment is extremely important and impactful....

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/03

Cross-post from Good Structures. Over the last few years, I helped run several dozen hiring rounds for around 15 high-impact organizations. I've also spent the last few months talking with organizations about their recruitment. I've noticed three recurring themes: Candidates generally have a terrible time Work tests are often unpleasant (and the best candidates have to complete many of them), there are hundreds or thousands of candidates for each role, and generally, people can't get the jobs

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4:50

“Will Welfareans Get to Experience the Future?” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/02

Cross-posted from my website.Epistemic status: This entire essay rests on two controversial premises (linear aggregation and antispeciesism) that I believe are quite robust, but I will not be able to convince anyone that they're true, so I'm not even going to try. If welfare is important, and if the value of welfare scales something-like-linearly, and if there is nothing morally special about the human species[1], then these two things are probably also true: The best possible universe isn't

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4:47

“Humanizing Expected Value” by kuhanj

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/01

I often use the following thought experiment as an intuition pump to make the ethical case for taking expected value, risk/uncertainty-neutrality,[1] and math in general seriously in the context of doing good. There are, of course, issues with pure expected value maximization (e.g. Pascal's Mugging, St. Petersburg paradox and infinities, etc), that I won’t go into in this post. I think these considerations are often given too much weight and applied improperly (which I also won’t discuss in this

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134:46

“Every Forum Post on EA Career Choice & Job Search”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/01

TLDR: I went through the entirety of the career choice, career advising, career framework, career capital, working at EA vs. non-EA orgs, and personal fit tags and have filtered to arrive at a list of all posts[1] relevant to figuring out the career aspect of the EA journey[2] up until now (10/25/25). The “Career Choice” section walks through: different career frameworks (how to go about making a career), career factors (aspects specific to yourself which change what sort of career you might have),

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16:03

“AI, Animals & Digital Minds NYC 2025: Retrospective”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/31

Our Mission: Rapidly scale up the size and influence of the community trying to make AI and other transformative technologies go well for sentient nonhumans. One of the key ways we do this is through our events. This article gives insight into our most recent event, AI, Animals and Digital Minds NYC 2025 including: Lightning talks Topics and ideas covered Attendee feedback Event finances Lessons for future events Acknowledgements More information on our community Our next conference, Sentient

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41:29

“Holden Karnofsky on dozens of amazing opportunities...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/31

By Robert Wiblin | Watch on Youtube | Listen on Spotify | Read transcript Episode summary Whatever your skills are, whatever your interests are, we’re out of the world where you have to be a conceptual self-starter, theorist mathematician, or a policy person — we’re into the world where whatever your skills are, there is probably a way to use them in a way that is helping make maybe humanity's most important event ever go better. — Holden Karnofsky For years, working on AI safety usually meant

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1:44

“Support Metaculus’ First Animal-Focused Forecasting...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/30

I'm putting together Metaculus' first animal-focused forecasting tournament, and am reaching out to ask for your support in making this happen. What is it? This tournament will generate probabilistic forecasts on decision-relevant questions affecting animals, from alternative proteins and animal welfare policy to AI impacts and wild animal welfare. The goal is to help funders, researchers, and organizations in our community make more informed strategic decisions. Why it matters Most forecasters

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17:42

[Linkpost] “The End of OpenAI’s Nonprofit Era” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/30

This is a link post. Key regulators have agreed to let the company kill its profit caps and restructure as a for-profit — with some strings attached This is the full text of a post first published on Obsolete, a Substack that I write about the intersection of capitalism, geopolitics, and artificial intelligence. I’m a freelance journalist and the author of a forthcoming book called Obsolete: Power, Profit, and the Race to Build Machine Superintelligence. Consider subscribing to stay up to date with

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13:47

“Some surprising hiring practices I follow (as a...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/30

The best approach to take to hiring differs by industry. This means that best practice differs across startups, think tank, a video production, non-profits, academia, and news outlets will all have different practices. The practices that work best in the EA ecosystem will be different again – but unfortunately the effective altruism organisation landscape is much smaller than all of those, and so people haven't written books on how to do it. I have been working as a hiring manager and sometimes

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