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Summary

In this article, I estimate the cost-effectiveness of five Anima International programs in Poland: improving cage-free and broiler welfare, blocking new factory farms, banning fur farming, an…

In our recent strategy retreat, the GWWC Leadership Team recognised that by spreading our limited resources across too many projects, we are unable to deliver the level of excellence and impact that…

We are excited to share a summary of our 2025 strategy, which builds on our work in 2024 and provides a vision through 2027 and beyond!

Background

Giving What We Can (GWWC) is working towards a worl…

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There are many reasons why people fail to land a high-impact role. They might lack the skills, don’t have a polished CV, don’t articulate their thoughts well in applications[1] or i…

Introduction

This payout report covers the Animal Welfare Fund's grantmaking from January 1, 2025 to March 31, 2025 (3 months). It follows the previous October–December 2024 payout report.

As mention…

Animal advocacy aims to systematically reduce suffering and ultimately transform our relationship with other sentient beings. Some advocates have proposed Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) (the appl…

I am sad.

People saying EA is dead.
EAs dissociating with EA.
"An outdated term"
Outrageous. But is it?

I am sad.

Sam, what have you done to us?
What have we done to ourselves by playing along?
Ambi…

This is a Forum Team crosspost from Substack.
Matt would like to add: "Epistemic status = incomplete speculation; posted here at the Forum team's request"

When you ask prominent Effective Altruists…

TL;DR 

I founded an EA university group by myself in a country where only a handful of people had heard about EA. In just one year, the group grew from a single person into a close-knit community le…

I sometimes worry that focus on effectiveness creates perverse incentives in strategic settings, leading us to become less effective. Here are a few observations illustrating this concern.

Effective…

*Disclaimer: This post was written in a personal capacity and reflects my views, not necessarily those of my employer. I have not actually attended policy school (I plan to update this post once I h…

Summary

• My new book with Mike Geruso on global depopulation, After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People, will be released this summer.
• If you’re here reading this, we bet you’re …

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In recent months, the CEOs of leading AI companies have grown increasingly confident about rapid progress:

• OpenAI's Sam Altman: Shifted from saying in November "the rate of prog…

On January 1, 2030, there will be no artificial general intelligence (AGI) and AGI will still not be imminent.

A few reasons why I think this:

-If you look at easy benchmarks like ARC-AGI and ARC-AG…

Our Mission: To build a multidisciplinary field around using technology—especially AI—to improve the lives of nonhumans now and in the future.

Overview

Background

This hybrid conference had nearly …

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This is a linkpost for Epoch After Hours' podcast episode Is it 3 Years, or 3 Decades Away? Disagreements on AGI Timelines by Ege Erdil and Matthew Barnett, which was released on…

Recent cuts to US government foreign assistance have destabilized global health programs, impacting some of the most cost-effective interventions we’ve found for saving and improving lives, such as …

Hey EA Forum,

We're the EA group at Middlebury College in Vermont—three organizers (freshman, sophomore, junior) trying to figure out how to make EA stick on a small but ambitious liberal arts campu…

We’ve been expanding our cause area overviews to highlight more ways people can make a difference. These new articles dive into different global challenges and offer a broad look at various impactfu…

It's been a while since my last post - but we’ve been busy with good work in the meanwhile, including welcoming our daughter into this world!

We’ve been working with some high-impact clients to effe…