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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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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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16:05

“Survey of AI safety leaders on x-risk, AGI...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/25

This report was mostly written by Claude Opus 4.6. We manually checked all claims and didn’t find any errors. Summary We summarise the results of a survey carried out before the 2026 Summit on Existential Security.Respondents were Summit attendees: leaders and key thinkers in the x-risk and AI safety communities. The survey asked attendees about their estimates of existential risk, AGI timelines, and resource allocation priorities. Survey data comes from the 59 respondents who consented to their

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7:35

″$1 billion is not enough; OpenAI Foundation must...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/25

OpenAI is now a public benefit corporation, with a charter that demands they use AGI for the benefit of all, and do so safely. To justify this structure to the Attorneys General of Delaware and California, they split off the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation, and instead of full ownership, gave it 27% equity, worth well over $150 billion - what some have called the largest theft in human history. They also convened a commission to advise them on how to give away that money, and last year announced the

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17:53

“A Database of Near-Term Interventions for Wild...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/25

The Animal Welfare Department (AWD) at Rethink Priorities supports high-impact strategies to help animals, especially where suffering is vast and largely neglected. Therefore, one of our focus areas is wild animal welfare (WAW), where uncertainty about tractability makes identifying cost-effective interventions particularly challenging. While much of the current WAW work rightly focuses on academic field-building (see Elmore & McAuliffe, 2024), it is worth determining whether there are viable,

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25:25

“If AGI goes well for humans, will it go well for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/25

This post was written by Simon Eckerström Liedholm, Strategy Researcher at Wild Animal Initiative, and it is a contribution to the AGI & Animals Debate Week. It partially builds on an earlier exploration of transformative AI and wild animals written by Mal Graham. Disclaimer: I (Simon) would describe myself primarily as a biologist. While I have a long-standing interest in AI safety, I'm by no means an expert on the subject.Executive Summary This post asks whether, if AGI goes well for humans,

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7:51

“Why more EAs should move to Vietnam” by SecularSquirrel

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/25

TLDR: In February, I moved to Da Nang, Vietnam, to live and work with a group of EA people I mostly hadn't met. See our website and original forum post here. We're now extending until July, and we have room for more people[1]. If you're working on something impact-focused and want to spend a few weeks or months doing it surrounded by cool people, then come stay with us and join our Discord! We're really excited to grow our community. The rest of this post is my honest account of why this has been

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11:35

“80,000 Hours is coming to bookstores in May” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/25

Summary We’re publishing our book, 80,000 Hours,with Penguin on 26 May. It's an update of the 80,000 Hours career guide, with a full round of edits, new design, and new content discussing the effect of AI on career choice. We think it's now the best single entry point to our advice. We hope publishing it will multiply the impact of our advice. One quick way you could help is to preorder a copy(especially from a traditional retailer). It helps increase the chance we get on bestseller lists, and

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18:51

“AI Safety and Cross-Species Robustness: A brief...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/24

0. Summary This piece makes the following three points (which match the numbered sections): We have, I argue, no good reason to presume that reducing existential risks from AI, which is explicitly intended to help humans,[1] is good for other animals. This is because animal farming would not exist without empowered humans, and assuming that these same empowered humans will outweigh this by sufficiently increasing wild animal welfare seems untenable. And to the extent that x-risk reduction appears

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15:00

“EA as a Moloch Nobody Chose” by Amrit (recovered acc.)

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/23

In 2022, two of Anthropic's co-founders, Daniela and Dario Amodei described the company as a small group leaving OpenAI in late 2020 and early 2021 during the pandemic, meeting masked in backyards, because they wanted to make what they called a "focused research bet" with a tightly aligned team. The bet was on building AI systems that are "helpful, honest, and harmless". On race dynamics, Dario was explicit that Anthropic should build models close to the state of the art (because you need frontier

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“AGI & Animals: Discussion Thread” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/23

This week, we are discussing the statement: “If AGI goes well for humans, it’ll go well for animals”. The announcement post, with a bit more info and a reading list, is here. What is this thread for? General discussions about and reactions to the debate statement. Some of the comments on this thread will be populated directly from the debate banner on the homepage — these will mostly be people explaining why they voted the way they did. However, you’re also welcome to comment on here directly,

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32:11

[Linkpost] “AI character is a big deal” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/23

This is a link post. 0. Intro Due to Claude's Constitution and OpenAI's model spec, the issue of AI character has started getting more attention, particularly concerning whether we want AI systems to be “obedient” or “ethical”.[1] But we think it's still not nearly enough. AI character (e.g. how obedient, honest, cooperative, or altruistic AIs are, and in what circumstances) will have a big effect on society, and on how well the future goes. We think that figuring out what characters AI systems

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