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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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13:40

[Linkpost] “Effective Altruism Will Be Great Again”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/07

This is a link post. Forum note: this post embodies the spirit of a new project I—Matt Reardon—am starting to reinvigorate in-person EA communities. I'm hiring a co-founder and I'm interested in meeting others who want to collaborate on this vision. My DMs are open. Sequence thinkers will be forgiven and rejoice In some fleeting moments lately, I catch glimpses of 2022—the year Effective Altruism's ascent seemed unstoppable. Universally positive (if limited) press, big groups at top universities

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9:49

“Feelings about the end of the world” by...

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2026/03/07

Many of us in this community are in the shocking position of thinking there's a real chance of humanity being wiped out over the next decade or two. Most of the time, we discuss that in rational terms. We talk about probabilities, and threat models, and interventions. We don’t talk as much about the emotions we have about how radically our world might change and about the possibility of it ending entirely. There are lots of reasons for not talking about those feelings. For starters, it's often

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19:22

“Mox is the largest AI Safety community space in San...

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2026/03/07

Overview Who we are Mox is SF's largest AI safety coworking space, and also its primary Effective Altruism community space. We opened just over a year ago, and over the last year, we’ve served high-impact work in and around AI safety by hosting conferences, fellowships, events, and incubating new organizations. Our theory of change is to provide good infrastructure (offices, event space) and a high density of collegial interactions to people and projects we admire. We're not focusing on a single

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6:33

“Announcing: AGI & Animals Debate Week” by Toby...

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2026/03/06

During the week of March 23 – 29[1], we’ll be debating the statement:“If AGI goes well for humans, it’ll probably[2] go well for animals”I'm open to minor changes to the phrasing of this statement, but the general shape is locked in, since people might want to start writing posts for the debate week this weekend. In this post, I’ll give some background on why this topic matters and share some tips and resources to help you form a view on the topic, before the debate week begins. But first:How does

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9:31

“I underestimated AI capabilities (again)” by Ajeya

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/06

Note: This post was crossposted from Planned Obsolescence by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post. Revisiting a prediction ten months early On Jan 14th, I made predictions about AI progress in 2026. My forecasts for software engineering capabilities already feel much too conservative. In my view, METR (where I now work) has some of the hardest and highest-quality software engineering and ML engineering benchmarks out there, and the

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12:09

“Comparing alternative proteins: which ones should we...

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2026/03/05

Context Last year, I shared on this forum my growing skepticism about cultivated meat and the case for being more critical about where we direct resources in the alternative protein space. That post focused specifically on cultivated meat but the broader question behind it, one I had actually started working on before writing that post, is: if we look at the full landscape of alternative proteins, which ones actually deserve priority? This question matters because, as with any cause prioritization

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2:30

“EA gives permission to care about many things” by...

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2026/03/05

A short post to put a feeling down in words... One of the aspects of EA thinking I love the most is the way it sanctions caring, and caring broadly. In a world faced with so many woes, caring is scary and often isolating. But EA says it's okay to care, and creates an entry point to a wonderful, wide world of other people who do, too. People who care and make it known often become the target of pushback, especially when what they care about isn't widely, legibly socially sanctioned. In my days of

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2:48

[Linkpost] “Launching AI & Animals: A Documentary” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/05

This is a link post. Following the release of the teaser earlier this year, Animal Ethics has now launched AI & Animals: A Documentary. The full film is freely available to watch and share at www.AIandAnimals.org. The documentary examines how advances in AI may affect the lives of nonhuman animals, both negatively and positively. It features 16 advocates and academics discussing: How AI systems could increase animal suffering in factory farming How AI-driven research and monitoring can scale

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3:36

“A call for biosecurity fieldbuilding” by Abbey Chaver

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/05

My name is Abbey, and I work at cG on the Capacity Building team. I’m posting to share an informal update about our excitement for biosecurity capacity building. We’ve seen incredible progress in the field of technical AI safety and governance, and a lot of that is thanks to fieldbuilding programs. We now think that on the margin, it's likely that biosecurity is neglected relative to AI safety. AI progress will likely significantly increase the capability of a bad actor (including a rogue AI) to

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14:13

“CLR Summer Research Fellowship 2026” by Center on...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/04

We, the Center on Long-Term Risk, are looking for Summer Research Fellows to explore strategies for reducing suffering in the long-term future (s-risks) and work on technical AI safety ideas related to that. For eight weeks, fellows will be part of our team while working on their own research project. During this time, you will be in regular contact with our researchers and other fellows, and receive guidance from an experienced mentor. You will work on challenging research questions relevant to

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2:03

“Some good news: Ahold Delhaize to go cage-free” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/04

For those not working in the space this probably isn't on your radar, but the animal advocacy movement just secured a huge win with Ahold Delhaize, convincing the fourth-largest supermarket company in the US to set the strongest cage-free policy of any large US retailer: A roadmap with benchmarks tofullyeliminatecaged egg cartons, expand cage-free offerings, and increase the percentage of cage-free sales. A pledge to annually report on its progress. At all 2,000+ locations, placing large,

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6:44

“The AI Safety Conversation Is Missing 1.4 Billion...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/04

Cross-posted from my personal notes. I'm sharing this because I think the EA/AI safety community needs to hear it, and because I've been living it. I lead AI safety work in Nigeria. When I tell people this, the most common reaction is a polite pause , the kind that says: that's interesting, but is that really AI safety? I want to argue that it is. And that the gap it represents is one of the most neglected problems in the entire AI safety ecosystem. The Situation on the Ground I'm based in Ibadan,

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1:23

[Linkpost] “KFC, Nando’s, Wagamama, and Burger King...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/03

This is a link post. Major food companies in the UK, including KFC, Nando's, Wagamama, and Burger King, have dropped their pledge to improve the welfare of chickens. The pledge in question is the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC), a six-point welfare initiative that corporations can voluntarily sign up to implement. Arguably, the most notable parts of the pledge are the creation of a maximum stocking density of 30kg/m2 or less, compared to the current UK standard of 39kg/m2, and the transition to

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10:15

[Linkpost] “The 200-Person Revolution” by Zachary Segall

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/03

This is a link post.THL's David and GoliathStoryWhen I joined The Humane League (THL) back in 2019, I expected them to have thousands of volunteers. After all, THL managed to strong-arm hundreds of major US corporations into adopting cage-free egg policies, creating an industry-level shift[1]. The reality I found was much different. Most of the events I attended had half a dozen protestors, a dozen at most. These numbers were reflected in the protest photos I saw from other cities. Multiplying the

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19:50

“Aquaculture fragmentation is a portfolio problem...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/03

TLDR: Welfare interventions in aquaculture don't reliably transfer across species, so each species requires independent research and implementation. I introduce "target populations" as a unit of analysis to quantify how many groups exist. From 2000 to 2023, the number of species comprising 85% of aquaculture production grew from 14 to 22. This means the structural cost of covering the same share of the industry has grown substantially, independent of how well any single intervention performs. This

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5:44

“Help me refine the Forum’s-choice debate topic” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/03

The statement we will be debating for the forum-choice debate week will be based on: "By default, the world where AI goes well for humans will also go well for other sentient beings". The debate week will be held during the week of March 23 — 29. This post is primarily to finalise the topic we will be discussing, and to ask for input from the Forum on the exact phrasing. However, I’m sure a bunch of readers who were following the vote for the forum-choice debate week will be wondering — why did

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8:18

“Are We Underestimating Local Giving in LMICs?” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/02

This is a Draft Amnesty Week draft. The idea to write this post came to me on Sunday morning, 1 March (the last day of Draft Amnesty Week). I already had other plans that day, so I wrote this quickly. LLM support may make this look more polished than it actually is.Commenting and feedback guidelines: Above all, this is a call for discussion. I structured the argument primarily around animal advocacy (since this is what I know best) but I would love to see the discussion extend to other cause areas

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45:14

“Effective Charity ≠ Effective Development (Global...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/02

I wrote a draft on this a long time ago, thought I can publish it during draft amnesty, realized that it's pretty out of date and ended up spending a lot of time improving it. I'm confident about the questions and problems I raise here. I'm much less confident about what should be done about them or specific examples I provide. These are my personal opinions, it doesn't reflect the opinions of any organizations I'm affiliated with. Thanks to Ben Anderson, Ceren Karabulut and Bahadır Şirin for

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3:04

“Don’t scale up your lifestyle” by Dave Cortright 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/02

This is aDraft Amnesty Week draft.It may not be polished, up to my usual standards, fully thought through, or fully fact-checked. Commenting and feedback guidelines: Keep one and delete the rest (or write your own): I'm posting this to get it out there. I'd love to see comments that take the ideas forward, but criticism of my argument won't be as useful at this time. This draft lacks the polish of a full post, but the content is almost there. The kind of constructive feedback you would normally

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7:34

“AI Should Not Be Used for Research Writing Tasks” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/02

Summary There is significant pressure in research communities to use LLMs like ChatGPT or Claude for research writing tasks. This includes summarising documents, brainstorming ideas, core writing and grammar / editing. It has gotten to the point where, if you mention a research idea, people routinely respond "ask Claude," or "ask ChatGPT". The assumption is that researchers should no longer work alone on tasks, and should always work in AI-human teams, where the human takes the back seat. I argue

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