EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

“Cost-effectiveness analysis: a data-driven approach to doing more good with less” by EmilyMcNair

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR: As global challenges grow more complex and resources more constrained, the question is no longer just how much we can do, but how can we feasi...

“EA Connect 2025: (C)EA’s largest event ever is in two weeks!” by David Solar 🔹

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Register now! (takes ~1 minute) EA Connect 2025 is two weeks away (December 5–7). We've hit 3,000+ registrations, making this likely the largest EA ...

“Scaling Evidence-Based Mental Health Care Through Government Systems: Vida Plena’s 2026 Plan” by Joy Bittner

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TLDR Who we are: Vida Plena (meaning a ‘flourishing life’ in Spanish), which launched in 2022 via Ambitious Impact/ Charity Entre...

“Shrimp Welfare Project’s path to helping 100 billion shrimps per year” by Aaron Boddy🔸

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Written as part of the EA Forum's Marginal Funding Week 2025. Exec Summary I believe there's a popular perspective in EA that animal welfare organisa...

“AWF’s Plan to Deploy $20M+ to Scale Impact for Billions of Animals and How You Can Help” by KarolinaSarek🔸

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

440 billion farmed shrimp, 1 trillion farmed insects, 85 billion chickens, 100 billion farmed fish. These are the staggering numbers of animals raise...

“My working group on the best donation opportunities” by Eric Neyman

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Written in my personal capacity. Quick summary: over the past couple of months, I've been spending my free time working with some collaborators to fi...

“EA Animal Welfare Fund 3-Year Grantmaking Strategy” by KarolinaSarek🔸, Neil_Dullaghan🔹

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Read the grantmaking strategy as a visualized PDF here. Over the last year and a half, the Animal Welfare Fund (AWF) has implemented organizational ...

“Additional funding would accelerate learning on Dimagi’s scalable model to reduce newborn mortality” by Beth Geoffroy

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR: We’re testing whether a scalable, digitally-supported, community-based Kangaroo Mother Care model delivered through Dimagi's Connect platfo...

“CEEALAR Needs a New Roof” by CEEALAR

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are the Centre for Enabling EA Learning and Research (CEEALAR) (formerly known as the ‘EA Hotel’). TLDR Minimum critical need: £30k for esse...

“Support Talos’ AI policy placements: The talent pipeline for European AI Governance” by DavidConrad

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR Talos Network trains and places the next generation of European AI governance talent. We have a strong track record: Between 2022 and 2025,&nb...

“Hive’s 2025 in Review and 2026 Plans and Funding Needs” by Kevin Xia 🔸, SofiaBalderson, Hive

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Also posted on the Hive blog. TL;DR The Problem: The farmed animal advocacy movement is up against a trillion-dollar industry. To be effective, we ne...

“Having strict rules on EA Groups WhatsApps helps reduce friction for easier community building” by Kashvi Mulchandani 🔹

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I'm Co-Chair of EA Bath, and therefore manage the WhatsApp community for it. A common problem people have in university society group chats is that s...

“Having strict rules on EA Groups’ WhatsApps helps reduce friction for easier community building” by Kashvi Mulchandani 🔸

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I'm Co-Chair of EA Bath Uni Group, and therefore manage the WhatsApp community for it. A common problem people have in university society group chats...

“Untapping the Philanthropic Potential in Estonia: Help us reach more donors” by LMKull, KadiKaljurand

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Summary EA Estonia runs Anneta Targalt, the Estonian effective giving donation platform that has moved $317,758 to top-rated effective charities sinc...

“Sentient Futures Summit Bay Area 2026” by Jonah Woodward, Sentient Futures (formerly AI for Animals)

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sentient Futures Summit (SFS) Bay Area 2026 is a three-day conference exploring the impacts of AI on sentient non-humans, both biological (i.e. anima...

“The EU consultation - 30 min to help animals globally” by Jakub Stencel

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The European Union is accepting public input on farm animal welfare until Dec 12, 2025 - accessible here - https://myvoiceforanimals.eu/how-to-parti...

“We need to be honest with young people about biosecurity careers” by rjain 🔹

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Getting started (the easy part) When I first encountered the biosecurity space in 2023, after reading former Soviet scientist Ken Alibek's memoir, I ...

“What 1Day Sooner would do with your marginal dollar: Hepatitis C Vaccine Advocacy” by 1daysooner, Josh Morrison

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

1Day Sooner advocates on behalf of people who join medical studies for altruistic reasons. We focus particularly on “challenge studies,” where pa...

“Evidence-based Broadcasting: FEM Brings Family Planning Radio Campaigns to Nigeria, Niger, and Benin” by hhart

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In low- and middle-income countries, millions of women want to plan their families but face stigma or lack access to reliable information. Over 100 m...

“DMI: Scaling Priority Child Survival Campaigns in 2026” by AlexandraPotts

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TLDR: DMI is looking for $1,269,000 to scale our child survival projects nationally in Uganda ($765,000) and Mozambique ($504,000), to save over 4,50...

“Animal Ethics: Marginal Funding Request for 2026 Outreach on Neglected Animal Advocacy Topics” by Animal_Ethics

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR Seeking $105k–$180k to sustain and expand three programs: AI & Animals documentary dissemination Wild Animal Suffering documentary...

“Longview’s Emerging Challenges Fund can effectively absorb marginal funding” by Longview Philanthropy

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is the ECF? Longview operates a public fund: the Emerging Challenges Fund. It is focused on global catastrophic risks from emerging technology s...

“Open Phil’s GCR team is growing – and we’re hiring several Chiefs of Staff” by George Rosenfeld, maura

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Open Phil's Global Catastrophic Risks (GCR) team is growing quickly. This year, we expect to make well over $500M in grants across our AI and biosecu...

“Scaling our one-on-one career advising” by Probably Good

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this year, we announced that we’re relaunching our one-on-one career advising program. We’re happy to share that we’ve since roughly do...

“Support ACE as a meta-fundraiser and evaluator” by Emma Cameron🔸, Animal Charity Evaluators

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Summary By identifying and promoting high-impact giving opportunities, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) aims to help people help more animals. We belie...

“Compassion in World Farming’s Case for Marginal Funding” by Cory Cerussi

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR: Compassion in World Farming U.S. aims to raise $100,000 by the end of December. These funds will support corporate engagement and campaigns fo...

“AMF’s immediate funding gaps” by RobM

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AMF has had a busy 12 months distributing 25.4 million nets to protect 46 million people. In 2026 we will be distributing 69 million nets to protect ...

“Runway till January: Amplify’s funding ask to market EA & AI Safety” by gergo, Paul Dodd, Amplify

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Summary Amplify is an EA-aligned digital marketing agency that has supported 40+ EA and AI Safety fieldbuilding organisations with subsidis...

“New donation opportunity: the Center for Wild Animal Welfare” by Ben Stevenson, RichardP

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Center for Wild Animal Welfare (CWAW) is a new policy advocacy organization, working to improve the lives of wild animals today and build support...

“Fixing The Bottleneck Behind Every EA Cause: Our Broken Voting System” by Brian Blend

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Overview Since our founding in 2011, The Center for Election Science (CES) has become the nation's leading organization advancing approval voting thro...

“Raising funds for Marginal Funding Week...with board games!” by DerekC

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cameron Meyer Shorb and Cat Kerr recently posted about funding priorities for Wild Animal Initiative in 2026. I'm the founder of Green Butterfly Gam...

“Open Philanthropy Is Now Coefficient Giving” by Aaron Gertler 🔸

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Big news from Open Philanthropy Coefficient Giving today: Today, Open Philanthropy is becoming Coefficient Giving. Our mission remains the same, but ...

“If You Care About Nematodes...” by Nematode Lover

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR Recently, an argument has circulated claiming that factory farming is net positive because of the effects on soil animals. While I do not person...

“Support ALLFED at a critical juncture for global food resilience” by JuanGarcia

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Summary As part of Marginal Funding Week, I want to share how Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) would use additional resources beyond ...

“Marginal funding for strategic priority research for Animal Advocacy organisations” by Animal Ask

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As part of Marginal funding week, we are releasing our 2025 Evaluation: A retrospective after 5 years and sharing other ongoing projects and those we...

“Funding priorities for Wild Animal Initiative in 2026” by Cameron Meyer Shorb 🔸, Cat Kerr

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As part of the EA Forum's 2025 Marginal Funding Week, we’d like to share with you Wild Animal Initiative's needs for additional funding, what we wo...

“A High-Leverage Bet: $10k to Remove the Biggest Bottleneck in Wheat Flour Fortification” by Tony Senanayake

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR Fortify Health is seeking $10,000 USD in marginal funding to deploy a solution that has the ability to eliminate the most significant bottlene...

“Lafiya’s current funding gap” by celinekamsteeg, Klau Chmielowska

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lafiya provides modern contraceptives to women who need it and want it, no matter where they live. Lafiya currently operates in four states in northe...

“High-Leverage Systemic Change for Aquatic Animals: The Case for Supporting Aquatic Life Institute With Marginal Funding” by ali.fish

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As part of the EA community's Marginal Funding Week, we want to share where Aquatic Life Institute stands at the end of 2025: our impact this year, t...

“Accelerating the End of Cages: THL’s Room for More Funding (2025)” by Caroline Mills

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

THL exists to end the abuse of animals raised for food. Through strategic corporate negotiations, policy change, and movement building, we meaningful...

“Rethink Priorities: 2025 Results, 2026 Plans and Funding Needs” by Rethink Priorities, Marcus_A_Davis, kierangreig🔸, Janique, rickardvikstrom

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Peter Wildeford and I founded Rethink Priorities (RP) in 2018, we saw a gap in the charity landscape: too few organizations were providing the r...

“A list of resources on Cluelessness” by Jim Buhler

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From summer 2024 up to summer 2025, I had been keeping track of these resources in a private Google Doc shared only with a couple of people. I realiz...

“Sentinel: Early Detection and Response for Global Catastrophes” by rai, NunoSempere

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

tl;dr: Sentinel is an open-source intelligence organization that rapidly identifies and reacts to global risks, particularly ones difficult to antici...

“Two years of doing advocacy on antimicrobial resistance” by Aanika Dalal, David McKinney, Mo Putera

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's been just over two years since we launched ARMoR through the CE/AIM incubation program. Last year for marginal funding week, we wrote this post ...

“The Humane and Sustainable Food Lab would spend marginal funding on research to end factory farming” by MMathur🔸

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Background on HSFL The Humane and Sustainable Food Lab (HSFL) is a research lab at Stanford University dedicated to accelerating the end of factory f...

“ACTRA: A Promising Crime-Prevention Intervention at a Crucial Funding Moment” by Henning Peters, Laura Sofia, Adina Ionescu

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ACTRA (Acción Transformadora), incubated through the AIM Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program, has just completed a strong first year — sho...

“Faunalytics’ Funding Gap of $370,000” by JLRiedi

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR: Faunalytics has an organizational funding gap of $370,000 for our 2025 budget. This funding is critical for our organizational stability...

“To a first approximation, all farmed animals are bugs” by Bob Fischer

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To a first approximation, all farmed animals are bugs. (Recalling, of course, that shrimps is bugs.) We don’t know much about their needs in curren...

“Ending Hunger for Millions of African Smallholder Farmers” by Claire McGuinness

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every dollar donated to One Acre Fund will be matched 1:1 by The Life You Can Save.[1] To learn more about this ongoing campaign, visit https://www.t...

“We need to hold corporates accountable - here’s how THL UK would use marginal funding to reduce farmed animal suffering” by Gavin Chappell-Bates, Molly Archer-Zeff

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the spirit of “Marginal Funding Week” for the 2025 Giving Season on the EA Forum, we’d like to share with you The Humane League UK's (THL UK...

“Piloting a digital treatment for COPD, the second biggest killer in India (seeking $84K to Sept 2026)” by Oli Munns, Rowan Lund

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR Respira Health are seeking $84k to pilot and begin scaling a virtual treatment program for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease*, the second ...

“Marginal funding to expand an innovative domestic violence prevention strategy to Burundi and Tanzania” by I.J.J., AlexisAt

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR Who we are: NOVAH (No Violence At Home) launched in 2024 via Ambitious Impact/ Charity Entrepreneurship. We pioneer large-scale prevention of d...

“The Law Is on the Animals’ Side: Legal Impact for Chickens’ Room for Funding & Impact (2025)” by alene

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR: Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC) is a nonprofit law firm fighting factory-farm cruelty. In our four years in existence, LIC has: proven in co...

“Is the AI Industry in a Bubble?” by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸

16 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This post has two parts: first, a (non-exhaustive) survey of some indications that the AI industry might be in a financial bubble. Second, an analysi...

“Wild Animal Initiative: When does research become impact?” by SiobhanBall

16 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Wild animal suffering is vast, neglected, and morally urgent. I’m strongly in favour of building a field that can eventually deliver safe, scalable...

“EAGxIndia 2025: A Call for Safety/Caution” by Nishit

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As members of the EA community in India, we feel compelled to register our concern about the timing & location of EAGxIndia 2025, scheduled for 1...

“Everyday Clean Air” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When the next pandemic hits our ability to stop it will depend on the infrastructure we already have in place. A key missing piece is clean indoor ...

“Prioritise soil animals over farmed invertebrates?” by Vasco Grilo🔸

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Summary I would say the total welfare of soil animals is overdetermined to be much larger than that of farmed invertebrates in absolute&nbs...

“High-impact projects fighting biodiversity loss” by Iska Knuuttila, Tandena Wagner

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cross-post from the EcoResilience Initiative blog. Recently we highlighted precision fermentation as our top biodiversity intervention due to its pot...

[Linkpost] “Request for Proposals: AI for Forecasting and Sound Reasoning” by Open Philanthropy

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. Our Forecasting team just launched a new RFP focused on using AI to improve human reasoning in a structured and quantified way. T...

“How to network: lessons from 80,000 Hours’ advising team” by 80000_Hours, Zershaaneh Qureshi

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This post was originally published as a blog post on the 80,000 Hours website. Everyone talks about the importance of networking for a successful car...

“If wild animal welfare is intractable, everything is intractable.” by mal_graham🔸

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Author's note: This is an adapted version of my recent talk at EA Global NYC (I’ll add a link when it's available). The content has been adjusted t...

“Why I Think OSP matters for Group Organisers | Spring 2026 Applications Open” by CEA Groups Team, Isobella

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR: Applications close Sunday, November 16th. If you're thinking about starting an EA group or improving an existing one, OSP gives you a mentor, ...

“Possible Anthropic billionaires: discussion thread” by Toby Tremlett🔹

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anthropic was started by a bunch of EAs/ EA interested people, and it still contains a bunch of EAs/ EA interested people. On plausible assumptions (...

“Historical EA funding data: 2025 update” by Jacco Rubens🔸

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Long time lurker, first time poster - be nice please! :) I was searching for summary data of EA funding trends, but couldn't find anything more recen...

“Epistemic Spot Check: Expected Value of Donating to Alex Bores’s Congressional Campaign” by MichaelDickens

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Political advocacy is an important lever for reducing existential risk. One way to make political change happen is to support candidates for Congress...

[Linkpost] “Should you donate through funds?” by Longview Philanthropy, suryanshm, aog, Sim

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. For most people, we think there's a strong case for giving through grantmaker-led philanthropic funds rather than donating to spe...

“Courses and communities that can increase your impact” by Probably Good

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Through our various services, we’ve found that sharing curated resources is a great way to help people increase their impact. With that in mind, we...

“How to start a 501(c)3 nonprofit as quickly as possible” by abrahamrowe

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cross-posted from Good Structures. This is absolutely not legal advice, and all people considering launching organizations should consult with lawyer...

“Effective Altruists Should Promote Frugality” by James Brobin

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There are three ways EAs typically do good: Donating to effective charities. Working on high impact cause areas. Getting others to become EAs. All o...

“‘Essays on Longtermism’ Competition Winners” by Toby Tremlett🔹

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The winners of the ‘Essays on Longtermism’ competition are: First place: Aaron Bergman, for Utilitarians Should Accept that Some Suffering Canno...

“Improving Impact Infrastructure in the Talent Space” by Emil Wasteson Wallén 🔸, Patrick Gruban 🔸

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR Funding for talent-focused organisations (TFOs) in EA remains highly concentrated, with more than 80% coming from Open Philanthropy and EA Fund...

“Some hardworking dads in EA” by Julia_Wise🔸

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's hard to divide anything 50/50. In many families, even if both parents have paid jobs, one parent will lean into parenting more, and the other wi...

“Consider publishing EAG/x program earlier” by Simon Newstead

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Per title, it would be great to get much earlier publishing of program, speakers and schedule for these events. Benefits: Can decide if it's an even...

“Consider publishing EAG/x program earlier” by Simon Newstead 🔸

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Per title, it would be great to get much earlier publishing of program, speakers and schedule for these events. Benefits: Can decide if it's an even...

“Cost-Effectiveness of THL’s Corporate Cage-free Campaigns” by Caroline Mills, ASuchy, BSweeney

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Summary Using historical data from 2015-2024, The Humane League (THL) estimates that each dollar spent on cage-free corporate campaigns has spared ap...

“The overall cost-effectiveness of an intervention often matters less than the counterfactual use of its funding” by abrahamrowe

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cross-posted from Good Structures. For impact-minded donors, it's natural to focus on doing the most cost-effective thing. Suppose you’re genuinely...

“The Crisis EA Cannot Afford to Ignore” by Allegra_P

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

More than two years ago, Sudan descended into war. What began as a clash between the army and paramilitary quickly became one of the world's worst hu...

“Changes to the 80k podcast” by Michelle_Hutchinson

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a brief update about what's been happening on the 80k podcast team over the last 6 months, because we’ve undergone quite a few changes. We’...

[Linkpost] “Introducing LEAP: The Longitudinal Expert AI Panel” by Forecasting Research Institute

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. Every month, the Forecasting Research Institute asks top computer scientists, economists, industry leaders, policy experts and su...

“Visionary Pragmatism: A Third Way for Animal Advocacy” by Dilan Fernando

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This work is my own, written in my spare time, and doesn’t reflect the views of my employer. Less than ~3% of the text is AI-generated. Thank you t...

“How and Why to Make EA Cool” by JustinPortela

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

EA has always had a coolness crisis. The name itself is clunky and overly precise. The logo is fine-but-not-great, and the visual branding has never ...

“Problems I’ve Tried to Legibilize” by Wei Dai

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Looking back, it appears that much of my intellectual output could be described as legibilizing work, or trying to make certain problems in AI risk m...

“What giving people money doesn’t fix” by GiveDirectly

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

by Caitlin Tulloch, Senior Director of Research, Learning, and Product at GiveDirectly. Caitlin is an expert in evidence-based policy and cost-effect...

“Strangers calling: the value of warm responses to cold outreach” by Sam Anschell

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tl;dr: I think responding to cold outreach (Linkedin DMs, emails) is a high-leverage way to help someone pursue an impactful career. Spending 15 minu...

“A personal take on why (and why not) to work on Open Philanthropy’s AI teams” by cb

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You may have noticed that Open Philanthropy is hiring for several roles in our GCR division: senior generalists across our global catastrophic risks ...

“EA Summit 2025: Paris: Report” by GV 🔸

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On September 13th, 2025, we (EA France) hosted the EA Summit: Paris, in a very central location in the French capital. This event was part of the int...

“12 Theses on EA” by Mjreard

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a crosspost from my Substack, where people have been liking and commenting a bunch. I'm too busy during my self-imposed version of Inkhaven t...

“The Protein Problem” by LewisBollard

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. T...

[Linkpost] “Are we wrong to stop factory farms?” by Ben Stevenson

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. I'm sharing an article by Rose Patterson from Animal Rising (AR), which responds to an EA criticism of AR's campaigns to block ne...

“AnimalHarmBench 2.0: Evaluating LLMs on reasoning about animal welfare” by Sentient Futures (formerly AI for Animals)

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are pleased to introduce AnimalHarmBench (AHB) 2.0, a new standardized LLM benchmark designed to measure multi-dimensional moral reasoning towards...

“AnimalHarmBench 2.0: Evaluating LLMs on reasoning about animal welfare” by Sentient Futures

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are pleased to introduce AnimalHarmBench (AHB) 2.0, a new standardized LLM benchmark designed to measure multi-dimensional moral reasoning towards...

“Legible vs. Illegible AI Safety Problems” by Wei Dai

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Some AI safety problems are legible (obvious or understandable) to company leaders and government policymakers, implying they are unlikely to deploy ...

“Scale-up: the neglected bottleneck facing alternative proteins” by Alex Mayers @GFI 🌱

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hi everyone! I'm Alex, Managing Director of the Good Food Institute Europe. Thanks so much for taking the time to read my post on why scale-up is so ...

“Announcing ACE’s 2025 Charity Recommendations” by Animal Charity Evaluators, Vince Mak 🔸

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

16 minute read We update our list of Recommended Charities annually. This year, we announced recommendations on November 4. Each year, hundreds of bi...

“Announcing the AIxBiosecurity Research Fellowship” by genevieve.gaul

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ERA, in partnership with the Cambridge Biosecurity Hub, is launching a new 8-week, full-time AIxBiosecurity research fellowship dedicated to tackling...

“Leaving Open Philanthropy, going to Anthropic” by Joe_Carlsmith

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

(Audio version, read by the author, here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.) Last Friday was my last day at Open Philanthropy...

“Recruitment is extremely important and impactful. Some people should be completely obsessed with it.” by abrahamrowe

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cross-post from Good Structures. Over the last few years, I helped run several dozen hiring rounds for around 15 high-impact organizations. I've also...

“Will Welfareans Get to Experience the Future?” by MichaelDickens

02 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cross-posted from my website. Epistemic status: This entire essay rests on two controversial premises (linear aggregation and antispeciesism) that I...

“Humanizing Expected Value” by kuhanj

01 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I often use the following thought experiment as an intuition pump to make the ethical case for taking expected value, risk/uncertainty-neutrality,[1]...