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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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31:28

“Should farmed animal donation appeals de-emphasize...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/21

This report is the fourth in a sequence presenting the results of Wave 2 of the Pulse project by Rethink Priorities (RP). Pulse is a large-scale survey of US adults designed to track and improve understanding of public attitudes toward effective giving and different impactful cause areas over time. Wave 2 of Pulse was fielded between February and April of 2025 with approximately 5600 respondents.[1] Results from our first wave of Pulse, fielded between July and September of 2024, can be found here,

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1:17

“Digital Consciousness Model launch events” by Hayley...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/21

The AI Cognition Initiative at Rethink Priorities will be releasing the initial results of our Digital Consciousness Model this Friday, January 23. The DCM evaluates evidence across 13 diverse perspectives on consciousness and over 200 specific indicators to assess the state of the evidence for consciousness in AI systems and biological organisms. We will be presenting our work and answering questions about it at two upcoming webinar events: A launch event hosted by NYU's Center for Mind, Ethics,

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14:04

[Linkpost] “Against Maxipok: existential risk isn’t...

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2026/01/21

This is a link post. Bostrom's Maxipok principle suggests reducing existential risk should be the overwhelming focus for those looking to improve humanity's long-term prospects. This rests on an implicitly dichotomous view of future value, where most outcomes are either near-worthless or near-best. We argue against the dichotomous view, and against Maxipok. In the coming century, values, institutions, and power distributions could become locked-in. But we could influence what gets locked-in, and

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16:57

“AI predictions for 2026” by Ajeya

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/21

But first, scoring my predictions for 2025 Note: This post was crossposted from the Planned Obsolescence by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post. On December 13th, 2024, I registered predictions about what would happen with AI by the end of 2025, using this survey run by Sage. They asked five questions about benchmarks, four about the OpenAI Preparedness Framework risk categories, one about revenues, and one about public salience

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9:09

“Why Isn’t EA at the Table When $121 Billion Gets...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/20

There is an insane amount of money being thrown around by international organizations and agreements. Nobody with any kind of power over these agreements is asking basic EA questions like: "What are the problems we're trying to solve?" "What are the most neglected aspects of those problems?" and "What is the most cost-effective way to address those neglected areas?" As someone coming from an EA background reading through plans for $200-700 billion in annual funding commitments that focus on

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3:36

“Why I Steal (Ideas) and You Should Too” by Tom...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/20

TL;DR: The EA movement has yet to fully incorporate ideas, skills, people, and knowledge from existing fields (e.g. monitoring and evaluation). You could potentially have a lot of impact just through stealing these and adapting them to our contexts. Epistemic status: Quick informal post on something I've been thinking about. I’m currently basing a large portion of my career (and more importantly, my impact) on stealing ideas, best practices, and people from existing sectors and applying them in new

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5:04

“Celebrating wins — discussion thread” by Eli Svoboda🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/19

Perhaps my favorite part of my job is that I’m often exposed to mind-boggling accomplishments achieved by people within and around the EA community. Stories of impact remind us why our principles are valuable, inspire an openness to ambitious bets, and motivate altruism. Yet we can’t expect to hear about positive outcomes by default — the problems we solve are neglected, and beneficiaries are frequently voiceless (literally). That's why @Toby Tremlett🔹 and I would like to invite you to add stories

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15:20

“5 ways to better charity work in 2026” by NickLaing

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/19

I've started a substack, so a few more people might encounter my spicy takes - I'll still mostly be here. USAID is gone. Direct country aid to low income countries is down 25%. So now's a great time to share five ways I think development charity can be done better in 2026. To state the obvious... none of these ideas will be the best approach all of the time, there's plenty of grey area and nuance. I start a little playful, then get a little more serious. 1. Ditch the Cars Close your eyes and

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15:13

“Return Stacked Funds: A New Way to Get Leverage” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/19

Some people (including me) have argued that altruists often benefit from leveraging their investments. Recently, it has become easier to use leverage thanks to the emergence of return stacked funds.This is not financial advice. Cross-posted from my website. I originally wrote this a year ago and just made some revisions for 2026. What is return stacking? Return stacking is a way of getting up to leveraged exposure to multiple return streams simultaneously. For example, RSSB invests 100% into

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4:07

“High Impact Professionals: 2025 Report Report” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/18

High Impact Professionals (HIP) supports experienced professionals to increase their impact through career transitions and effective giving. This post provides a brief summary of our 2025 impact. The full 2025 Impact Report is available on our website. Summary of headline metrics from our 2025 Impact Report. Full breakdowns, learnings, and 2026 plans are available in the linked report. 2025 highlights Across all HIP activities in 2025, we estimate that we supported: 50+ high-impact career

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22:43

“Improving wild animal welfare reliably” by Tristan Katz

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/18

This post is adapted from an article I published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. The original article is more detailed, but also more philosophically dense and likely less relevant to EAs. Epistemic status: confident about the core argument, less about the examples and details. TL;DR: Almost all suffering in the world today is experienced by wild animals, yet ecosystems are incredibly complex and it's hard to predict what outcomes any particular intervention will have. This post addresses

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2:20

“Fill in this 10 minute survey to help end farmed...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/17

The UK Labour government is currently consulting on banning caged egg production, and this represents an exceptional opportunity for impact that requires minimal time investment. Why This Matters According to Our World in Data, caged hens can experience hundreds of days more suffering during their productive lives compared to hens in caged-free aviaries. A ban on caged housing in the UK would prevent this suffering for millions of sentient beings annually. The UK currently has approximately 10

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49:38

[Linkpost] “Digital Minds: A Quickstart Guide” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/17

This is a link post. Updated: Jan 16, 2026 Digital minds are artificial systems, from advanced AIs to potential future brain emulations, that could morally matter for their own sake, owing to their potential for conscious experience, suffering or other morally relevant mental states. Both cognitive science and the philosophy of mind can as yet offer no definitive answers as to whether present or near-future digital minds possess morally relevant mental states. Though, a majority of experts surveyed

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1:54

“If EA ruled the world, career advisors would tell...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/16

EA thinking is thinking on the margin. When EAs prioritise causes, they are prioritising causes given the fact that they only control their one career, or, sometimes, given that they have some influence over a community of a few thousand people, and the distribution of some millions or billions of dollars. Some critiques of EA act as if statements about cause prioritisation are absolute rather than relative. I.e. that EAs are saying that literally everyone should be working on AI Safety, or, the

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13:02

“Your donations matter, but your colleague’s even...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/15

If you're passionate about effective giving and want to help close the funding gaps for many charities, setting up an EA community within organizations might be your goal for this year. Summary Start an intracompany EA community to support EA organizations. By informing colleagues and those responsible for community engagement programs about effective giving, you can massively multiply your impact. The more donors prioritize effective charities, the more quickly we can collectively make a dent in

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2:54

“We have a lot of study resources for job seekers,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/15

Hi all, I’ll start with the bottom line – I wrote a guidebook on how to give career advisory that is EA-oriented, especialy Probably Good-oriented philosophy. I found many resources that help EA job seekers with advice, and as a newcomer to the field, didn’t find resources oriented to EA career advisors. The Career Advisory Guidebook is my attempt to remedy this gap. https://guideflow-co.lovable.app/ Based on it, I led a workshop in the recent EA Israel conference for ~80 people and have gotten

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7:16

“AI Red Teaming at GiveWell: What We’ve Learned (and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/15

At GiveWell, we've been experimenting with using AI to red team our global health intervention research—searching for weaknesses, blind spots, or alternative interpretations that might significantly affect our conclusions. We've just published a write-up on what we’ve learned, both about the programs we fund through donor support and about how to use AI in our research. We're sharing this to invite critiques of our approach and to see if others have found methods for critiquing research with AI

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5:12

“Propose a debate topic - I’ll run one” by Toby...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/15

Because the donation election fund raised $15,000 dollars, the Forum unlocked the collective prize: "The Forum audience will propose and vote on a debate week topic next year, and I’ll run it during Q1." This thread is your opportunity to propose the debate topic.What's an EA Forum Debate Week? Here are the debate weeks I have run on the EA Forum before: AI Welfare Debate Week (July 2024)– debated "AI welfare should be an EA priority" Animal Welfare vs Global Health Debate Week (Oct 2024)– debated

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5:13

[Linkpost] “Everything is neglected” by Joey🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/15

This is a link post. I often see claims of an area being neglected, under-supported, or underfunded. But what do these claims really mean? They tend to break down into two categories: 1) neglected compared to how it should be, 2) neglected compared to other areas. I think both these ways of viewing neglectedness are pretty undescriptive and not very useful for making real decisions in philanthropy. However I do think there is a more useful way of considering neglectedness. Neglected absolutely “It

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8:31

“Announcing All the Lives You Can Change” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/15

Summary Our new book, All the Lives You Can Change: Effective Altruism for Christians, will be published in April 28 2026 The book introduces effective altruism–style thinking to a Christian audience, framing effectiveness, cause prioritization, and evidence-based action as expressions of loving God and loving one's neighbor (Matt. 22:37–39) Authored by @dominicroser, @DavidZhang and me (JD). You can best support this project by pre-ordering a copy or free intro here Praise for All the Lives You

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