EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

A common framing of the AI alignment problem is that it's a technical hurdle to be overcome. A clever team at DeepMind or Anthropic would publish a paper titled "Alignment is All…

We’re excited to release a new AI governance research agenda from the MIRI Technical Governance Team. With this research agenda, we have two main aims: to describe the strategic …

Introduction

As a community builder, I sometimes get into conversations with EA-skeptics that aren't going to sway the person I'm talking to. The Tree of Questions is a tool I use to be more sure of…

The basic situation

The world is wild and terrible and wonderful and rushing forwards so so fast.

Modern economies are tremendous things, allowing crazy amounts of coordination. People have got real…

Vetted Causes is excited to announce our 2025 charity recommendations:

• Animal Legal Defense Fund
• Fish Welfare Initiative
• Shrimp Welfare Project

Each of these recommended charities has received a pu…

I very frequently hear the statement "the best charities are over 1000x more cost effective than the average". This is often alongside the accompanying graph.

Where does this figure come from? Most…

(Disclaimer: Post written in a personal capacity. These are personal hot takes and do not in any way represent my employer's views.)

TL;DR:** I do not think we will produce high reliability methods…

Tl;dr: Over the past few months, the EA Infrastructure Fund's (EAIF) grantmaking has increased significantly, and funding has become more of a constraint. Your donations would help us continue suppo…

Introduction

This post is intended to be read after reading our previous post outlining Shrimp Welfare Project's 2030 Vision & Absorbency Plans. This post therefore assumes some baseline knowledge o…

Introduction

~440 billion shrimps are farmed each year [1]. This is over 5x the total number of all farmed land animals put together [2].

Many farmed shrimps suffer from conditions that can and shou…

In this episode of our podcast, Elizabeth Van Nostrand and I talk to Oliver Habryka of Lightcone Infrastructure about his thoughts on the Open Philanthropy Project, which he believes has become stif…

Introduction

I have been writing posts critical of mainstream EA narratives about AI capabilities and timelines for many years now. Compared to the situation when I wrote my posts in 2018 or 2020, L…

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EA North was a one-day conference in Sheffield (UK) aimed at people in the North of England (Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds, etc.). The event had 35 attendees on the day.[1] The cost …

I put on a small one-day conference. The cost per attendee was £50 (vs £1.2k for EAGs) and the cost per new connection was £11 (vs £130 for EAGs).

intro

EA North was a one-day event for the North o…

I’m ironically not a very prolific writer. I’ve preferred to stay behind the scenes here and leave the writing to my colleagues who have more of a knack for it. But a goodbye post is something I mus…

The Meta Coordination Forum (MCF) is a place where EA leaders are polled on matters of EA community strategy. I thought it could be fun (and interesting) to run these same polls on EAs at large.[1]

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Arkose is an AI safety fieldbuilding organisation that supports experienced machine learning professionals — such as professors and research engineers — to engage with the field. We focus on those n…

Audio note: this article contains 54 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the episode description.

1. Introduction

'Should we…

There is a growing movement to ban or discourage the use of AI art, citing ethical concerns over unethical data scraping, environmental cost, and harm to the incomes of real artists. This sentiment …

I recently read a blog post that concluded with: