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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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3:14

[Linkpost] “The Conscious Nematode: Exploring...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/05

This is a link post. This is a linkpost for The Conscious Nematode: Exploring Hallmarks of Minimal Phenomenal Consciousness in Caenorhabditis Elegans by Diego Becerra, Andrea Calixto, and Patricio Orio, which was originally published on the International Journal of Psychological Research in October 2023. Below are the abstract, summary of the evidence for consciousness in Caenorhabditis (C.) elegans, and my quick thoughts. Abstract While subcellular components of cognition and aﬀectivity that

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0:31

“Peter Wildeford talks about risks from AI on the...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/05

Ronny Chieng strikes again, this time featuring Peter Wildeford and the risks from AI on the Daily Show: ---First published: December 5th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/epuSKFdGD82cxZAGd/peter-wildeford-talks-about-risks-from-ai-on-the-daily-show --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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17:49

“Explaining a subtle but important error in the LEAP...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/05

Introduction: The LEAP panel is a project run by the Forecasting Research institute to attempt to determine the views of a range of AI experts on how future AI progress will go. They recently released a white paper explaining the format of the panel, as well as showing a range of forecasting outcomes. One of the questions in the survey was phrased in a manner that I think was confusing, and was subsequently misrepresented in the text of the report. After a back-and-forth, the team working on the

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6:29

[Linkpost] “Center on Long-Term Risk: Annual Review &...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/05

This is a link post. This is a brief overview of the Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR)'s activities in 2025 and our plans for 2026. We are hoping to fundraise $400,000 to fulfill our target budget in 2026. About us CLR works on addressing the worst-case risks from the development and deployment of advanced AI systems in order to reduce s-risks. Our research primarily involves thinking about how to reduce conflict and promote cooperation in interactions involving powerful AI systems. In addition to

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26:03

“EA Survey 2024: Cause prioritization” by Rethink...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/05

Summary In this post, we provide an overview of responses to the cause area prioritization questions in the 2024 EA Survey. We report on the relative ranking of cause areas, how this has changed over time, and how prioritization relates to respondents’ preferred resource allocation between causes. We also consider how other responses, such as endorsement of ideas related to EA, engagement, and demographic factors, relate to prioritizations. Overall cause prioritization AI risks and global health

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10:53

“The 10 billion chickens you didn’t know were living...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/04

TL;DR Cage-free layer campaigns are one of the most celebrated success stories in animal welfare and in EA-aligned work, improving the lives of hundreds of millions of hens and reshaping entire global supply chains. But alongside that incredibly important work, few people realize that an even larger and far more neglected confinement system exists almost entirely out of sight: broiler (meat) chickens kept in stacked wire cages, primarily in China. Scale: China raises ~15 billion broiler chickens

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2:03

“Front-Load Giving Because of Anthropic Donors?” by...

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2025/12/04

Summary: Anthropic has many employees with an EA-ish outlook, who maysoon have a lot of money. If you also have that kind of outlook, money donated sooner will likely be much higher impact. It's December, and I'm trying to figure out how much to donate. This is usually a straightforward question: give 50%. But this year I'm considering dipping into savings. There are many EAs and EA-informed employees at Anthropic, which has been very successful and is reportedly considering an IPO

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53:41

[Linkpost] “Unless its governance changes, Anthropic...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/03

This is a link post. Anthropic is untrustworthy. This post provides arguments, asks questions, and documents some examples of Anthropic's leadership being misleading and deceptive, holding contradictory positions that consistently shift in OpenAI's direction, lobbying to kill and water down regulation so helpful that employees of all major AI companies speak out to support it, and violating the fundamental promise the company was founded on. It also shares a few previously unreported details on

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3:30

“Stop Applying And Get To Work” by Pauliina

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/03

Crossposted from LessWrong. TL;DR: Figure out what needs doing and do it, don't wait on approval from fellowships or jobs. If you... Have short timelines Have been struggling to get into a position in AI safety Are able to self-motivate your efforts Have a sufficient financial safety net ... I would recommend changing your personal strategy entirely. I started my full-time AI safety career transitioning process in March 2025. For the first 7 months or so, I heavily prioritized applying for jobs

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1:50

“Poll: Wild animal vs Farm Animal welfare” by Toby...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/02

The (new) Center for Wild Animal Welfare, the Wild Animal Initiative, the EA Animal Welfare Fund and Animal Charity Evaluators have all been in the Donation Election's top 3 candidates this week. How should we compare between them? I don't have a settled take on this question, and I won't be giving an argument (at least initially). I'm looking forward to reading your takes. Some considerations: There are many more wild animals than farmed animals, especially if we count invertebrates. It's likely

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41:20

“How to quantify global human suffering? Results from...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/02

Acknowledgments: Tom Marty, Vanessa Sarre, Clare Diane Harris and Jack Koch contributed to the design of the survey, Jack Koch also carried out outreach to patient support groups, and Magdalena Kolczyńska, Jordan Clist and Michael Smith contributed to the analysis of the raw data. We sincerely thank every individual who took the time to respond to the survey and reflect on their own suffering.Summary Existing wellbeing metrics, including the DALY and measures of improved life satisfaction such as

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15:33

“MIRI’s 2025 Fundraiser” by RobBensinger

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/02

MIRI is running its first fundraiser in six years, targeting $6M. The first $1.6M raised will be matched 1:1 via an SFF grant. Fundraiser ends at midnight on Dec 31, 2025. Support our efforts to improve the conversation about superintelligence and help the world chart a viable path forward. MIRI is a nonprofit with a goal of helping humanity make smart and sober decisions on the topic of smarter-than-human AI. Our main focus from 2000 to ~2022 was on technical research to try to make it possible to

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3:25

“Help us find founders for new AI safety projects” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/02

In the past 10 years, Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) has funded dozens of projects doing important work related to AI safety / navigating transformative AI. And yet, perhaps most activities that would improve expected outcomes from transformative AI have no significant project pushing them forward, let alone multiple.This is mainly because we and other funders in the space don't receive promising applications for most desirable activities, and so massive gaps in the ecosystem

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5:30

“Epistemic Humility vs. Tobacco Abolition” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/01

The School for Moral Ambition (SMA) describes itself as a movement of idealists taking on the world's most pressing problems. Their proposed campaign to 'abolish the tobacco industry altogether' is one of their more ambitious proposals. This would require governments to override the consumption choices of the roughly one in five adults globally who use tobacco. SMA quickly dismisses the idea that these billions of adults are making free choices about what to put into their bodies, stating The

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3:21

“Announcing the new AIM CEO!” by Ambitious Impact

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/01

We, the AIM Board and outgoing CEO Joey Savoie, are delighted to announce that Samantha Kagel has been selected as AIM's new CEO, effective December 1, 2025. Over the last few months, we have been engaged in a highly important activity: finding AIM's next CEO. This was not an easy position to fill, as we sought someone who could lead the organization to high growth and impact while retaining the core elements that have made AIM unique. We were committed to conducting a thorough search and put out

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6:33

“Helping our non-EA friends give effectively: Update...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/01

TL;DR We are live:The Karoteno effective giving platform is now operational at karoteno.org. The Goal:A "normie-friendly" donation experience for Spanish speakers who find traditional EA analysis alienating. Action:Share this with your non-EA friends! We are also running a donation-matching campaign this December—please reach out if you’d like to help fund the matching pool. Introduction Hi everyone, A few months ago, I posted here about a project aiming to bridge the gap between effective giving

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7:25

“GWWC’s 2025 evaluations of evaluators” by Aidan...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/01

The Giving What We Can research team is excited to share the results of our 2025 round of evaluations of charity evaluators and grantmakers! In this round, we completed two evaluations that will inform our donation recommendations for the 2025 giving season. As with our previous rounds, there are substantial limitations to these evaluations, but we nevertheless think that they are a significant improvement to a landscape in which there were previously no independent evaluations of evaluators’

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6:08

“My 2025 donations (so far)” by richard_ngo

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/30

Here's a list of my donations so far this year (put together as part of thinking through whether I and others should participate in an OpenAI equity donation round). I originally posted them to LessWrong as a shortform, but since donations are a more central topic on the EA forum I decided to make it a top-level post here. They are roughly in chronological order (though it's possible I missed one or two). I include some thoughts on what I've learned and what I'm now doing differently at the bottom

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20:56

“EANZ Summit 2025 Retrospective” by Gavin Bishop 🔹,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/30

Executive Summary The EANZ Summit 2025 brought together 70 participants at the University of Otago Christchurch Medical School for our inaugural national conference. The summit featured five speakers, cause area meetups, and ample networking time through a serial content format with dedicated breakout spaces. At its core it was a one-day event, but Friday and Sunday satellite events made it a 3-day extravaganza for many of us. The summit attracted a healthy mix of newcomers and established

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18:02

“A Playbook for New EA Groups” by Andy Masley

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/29

A note from Naomi Nederlof, Community Building Grants Program Manager: I asked Andy, the lead organizer of EA DC, to write this playbook based on the approaches that have made his group one of the most successful city groups in our program. We initiated this project because we think many new organizers can benefit from concrete and experience-based guidance. I would be excited about more city and national group organisers adopting this advice! Intro I’ve been organizing the Effective Altruism DC

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