EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

About two months ago, @finm and I recorded a discussion about my now-published piece on “AI tools for Existential Security”[1] (for the podcast Fin has been running at Forethought…

Converting to a for-profit model would undermine the company's founding mission to ensure AGI "benefits all of humanity," argues new letter

This is the full text of a post from O…

I'm in the process of setting up The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, and I have two new job ads out:

Research Officer in Animal Sentience (Animals and AI) - this is an open-end…

Crosspost from my blog that you should totally check out!

If I were an animal, I would be a bug. Statistically.

—David Sposito.

C.S. Lewis once said, “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, a…

Open Philanthropy's Farm Animal Welfare team is hiring!

We’re looking for a Program Assistant to support the team's work to reduce the suffering of farmed animals by managing processes, coordinating…

We're thrilled to share the results of our V-March (vegan in March) 2025 campaign!

The numbers speak for themselves:

- Reached over 7 million people across China

- More than 70,000 active engagem…

One year as a Charity Entrepreneur

When we founded NOVAH (No Violence At Home) in April 2024 through the Charity Entrepreneurship incubation program, we had a research-backed hypothesis that edutain…

I speak to many entrepreneurial people trying to do a large amount of good through nonprofit organisations. I think this is often an error for four main reasons.

1. Scalability
2. Capital counterfactuals
3. …

Article in Financial Times -

Excerpts “Multiple staff from US-based foundations and non-profits told the FT that they expected the Trump administration to end their tax exemptions for projects that …

The Effective Altruism community has encouraged a range of different approaches to doing good over time. Initially there was more focus on frugality as a way to increase how much you could donat…

Editorial note

This report is a “shallow” investigation, as described here, and was commissioned by Open Philanthropy and originally produced by Rethink Priorities from September to October 2024. Ope…

James Özden and Sam Glover at Social Change Lab wrote a literature review on protest outcomes[1] as part of a broader investigation[2] on protest effectiveness. The report covers multiple lines of e…

Need help planning your career? Probably Good's 1-1 advising service is back! After refining our approach and expanding our capacity, we’re excited to once again offer personal advising sessions to …

My PhD is in evolutionary biology, and I spent much of my time learning and thinking about genetic governance mechanisms like meiosis. I find myself wanting a link to share on th…

EA-aligned animal advocacy is often criticized for measurability bias. In this post, I argue that the usual epistemic safeguards of leftist advocacy are unavailable in animal advocacy, and as a resu…

Saw this post by @Henri Thunberg 🔸 on Twitter:

If true, these numbers are suprisingly low to me. Eyestalk ablation gets quite a bit of attention on the forum. Shrimp Welfare Project focuses on it an…

Three Epoch employees – Matthew Barnett, Tamay Besiroglu, and Ege Erdil – have left to launch Mechanize, an AI startup aiming for broad automation of ordinary labour:

Today we’re announcing Mechaniz…

If you’re interested in having a meaningful EA career but your experience doesn’t match the types of jobs that the typical white collar, intellectual EA community leans towards, then you’re just lik…

TL;DR

Exactly one year after receiving our seed funding upon completion of the Charity Entrepreneurship program, we (Miri and Evan) look back on our first year of operations, discuss our plans for th…

We’re holding a DIY debate week on the Forum, from April 28–May 2nd.

What's a DIY debate week?

It's been great seeing and hearing people responding positively to debate weeks (1,2,3), writing posts, …