EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

“AI Safety Field Growth Analysis 2025” by Stephen McAleese

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Summary The goal of this post is to analyze the growth of the technical and non-technical AI safety fields in terms of the number of organizations and...

“AIM is hiring!” by Ambitious Impact

27 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We're looking for two Research Managers and a Recruitment Manager to join our team from January 2026 Our bottleneck to launching more impactful non...

“Introducing ‘Better for Animals’: A New Public Resource for Evidence-Based Animal Advocacy” by Animal Charity Evaluators, Alina Salmen, Max Taylor

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Animal advocates use a wide variety of approaches to help animals—from running corporate campaigns to get chickens out of cages, to researching wil...

“Why you should eat meat, even if you hate factory farming” by Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To start off with, I’ve been vegan/vegetarian for the majority of my life. I think that factory farming has caused more suffering than anything hu...

“Evaluating the Infinite” by Toby_Ord

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

(Link-post to https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19389 ) I've written a new paper some of you may be interested in. It was written in response to the problem...

“GoodWallet: Scaling Effective Giving Through Everyday Payments” by Patrick Mayerhofer 🔸

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’re building a frictionless way to turn everyday transactions into donations to the world's most effective charities, and we’re seeking funding...

“Why I think capacity building to make AGI go well should include spreading EA-style ideas and helping people engage with EA” by Arden Koehler

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Note: I am the web programme director at 80,000 Hours and the view expressed here currently helps shape the web team's strategy. However, this should...

[Linkpost] “Bracketing Cluelessness” by JesseClifton

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. “Bracketing Cluelessness” is a philosophy paper by Sylvester Kollin, Anthony DiGiovanni, Nicolas Macé, and myself, which pre...

“Bracketing cluelessness: A new theory of altruistic decision-making” by JesseClifton

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Audio note: this article contains 126 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in th...

“AI Safety Landscape & Strategic Gaps” by MichaelDickens

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The content of this report was written by me, Michael Dickens, and does not represent the views of Rethink Priorities. The executive summary was prep...

“No one knows what the Opportunities board is, and other updates” by Agnes Stenlund

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last week I asked a group of very online EAs if they’d heard of the Opportunities board. To my surprise, not one of them had. So before sharing re...

“No one knows what the Opportunities board is, and other updates” by Agnes Stenlund 🔸

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last week I asked a group of very online EAs if they’d heard of the Opportunities board. To my surprise, not one of them had. So before sharing re...

“Effective Lobbyism: Lessons from 5 years of practice” by ++Johnny Stengel++

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

by Johnny Stengel – Political Advisor, Lobbyist, and Member of Effective Altruism Germany e.V. Introduction When people in the Effective Altruism c...

“Beyond ‘Go Vegan’: A video introducing omnivores to another effective way to help animals” by Aidan Alexander, ThomNorman

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We've previously shared on the forum FarmKind's calculator to help meat-eaters offset the animal welfare impact of their diet through donations (like...

“Learnings from running programs for busy people (MCF 2025 memo)” by Nina Friedrich🔸, High Impact Professionals

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This memo was originally written for the Meta Coordination Forum 2025. I’m sharing this here (with some edits) in the hope it will be useful for ot...

“Moving to a hub, getting older, and heading home” by ElliotTep

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Intro and summary “How many chickens spared from cages is worth not being with my parents as they get older?!” - Me, exasperated (September 18, 20...

“Cultivated Meat: A Wakeup Call for Optimists” by CianHamilton

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Summary: Consumers rejected genetically modified crops, and I expect they will do the same for cultivated meat. The meat lobby will fight to discredit...

“EA Career Advising Ecosystem Mapping” by Vesa Hautala, JDBauman

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This post provides a summary mapping of the EA / EA-adjacent career advising ecosystem as well as a list of various career resources, developed by th...

“[Now peer-reviewed] Price-, taste-, and convenience-competitive plant-based meat analogues would not currently replace the majority of meat consumption: A narrative review” by Jacob_Peacock

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

My paper, "Price-, taste-, and convenience-competitive plant-based meat analogues would not currently replace the majority of meat consumption: A nar...

“SFF 2025 funding by cause area: $34 million to AI (86%), bio (7%), etc.” by JuanGarcia

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Summary: this year the Survival and Flourishing Fund allocated $34.33 million to organizations working to secure humanity's future, with the vast maj...

“An Order-of-Magnitude Increase in Outreach Resulted in a Smaller Club Intro Meeting” by AgentMa🔸, Brian4

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Fall 2023, EA Purdue barely existed. In fall 2024, EA Purdue had 35 people attend its intro meeting. In Fall 2025, EA Purdue had 33 new members at...

“Scaling Altruism 2.0: Seeking Local Contacts for 2025 Fall Cohort” by Milan_A, Lili

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR: After our spring pilot with 4 local communities, 35 participants, and valuable learnings, we're launching an improved version of Scaling Altru...

[Linkpost] “Positive Wild Animal Welfare” by Vasco Grilo🔸

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. This is a linkpost for Positive Wild Animal Welfare by Heather Browning and Walter Veit, which was originally published on Biolog...

“I enjoyed most of IABED” by Buck

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I listened to "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" today. I think the first two parts of the book are the best available explanation of the basic cas...

“What’s going on in video in AI Safety these days? (A list)” by ChanaMessinger

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

My write-up as of September 2025 - feel free to ask me for a more updated Source of Truth if you're interested in this space Key Players Making Video...

“What I Think An AI Safety Givewell For Video Work Should Look Like” by Michaël Trazzi

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A few days ago, Austin Chen and Marcus Abramovitch published How cost-effective are AI safety YouTubers?, an "Early work on ”GiveWell for AI Safety...

“The Center for AI Policy Has Shut Down” by Tristan Williams

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

And the need for more AIS advocacy workExecutive Summary The Center for AI Policy (CAIP) is no more. CAIP was an advocacy organization that worked to ...

“The Center for AI Policy Has Shut Down” by Tristan W

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

And the need for more AIS advocacy workExecutive Summary The Center for AI Policy (CAIP) is no more. CAIP was an advocacy organization that worked to ...

“We mapped the EA Forum’s intellectual landscape - read about epistemic quality analysis, forum vibes, author networks, and a new writing tool we developed” by Matt Brooks, alejbo

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We scraped all EA forum posts & comments from 2024 and 2025 to use as a test bed for sense making, analysis, and AI-powered epistemic grading as ...

[Linkpost] “80,000 Hours review: 2023 to mid-2025” by 80000_Hours

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. We’ve released our review of our programmes for the years 2023 to mid-2025. The full review is available on our website, and we...

[Linkpost] “The Night I Accidentally Stepped on a Snail” by Ria Viswanathan

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. The Incident It was 11 PM on a rainy August evening when my partner and I were walking back from a coffee shop in London, and I a...

“The impacts of AI on animal advocacy” by Animal Charity Evaluators, Max Taylor, Sagar K Shah, Hannah McKay🔸, Aaron Boddy🔸

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Introduction The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in our everyday lives is rapidly accelerating. Take ChatGPT: released less than three years ago...

“The Economist is hiring a science and technology correspondent” by Matt_Lerner

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Link to the job posting. I would strongly encourage community members with any type of science or tech background to apply for this role, particularl...

“Well, Well, Well…Do Wells Clear the Bar?” by Zach Gilfix

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A handful of us from EA Salt Lake City are dipping our toes into program evaluation, looking at the impact of an organization run by one of our membe...

“Sense-making about extreme power concentration” by rosehadshar

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Various people are worried about AI causing extreme power concentration of some form, for example via: Powergrabs The intelligence curse Gradual dis...

“Updates on the effective giving ecosystem (MCF 2025 memo)” by Luke Moore 🔸, Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Written by Lucas Moore (Partnerships Manager) and Sjir Hoeijmakers (CEO), Giving What We Can. This memo provides updates on and a high-level overview...

“US public attitudes towards artificial intelligence (Wave 2 of Pulse)” by Jamie E, David_Moss

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This report is the second in a sequence detailing the results of Wave 2 of the Pulse project by Rethink Priorities (RP). Pulse is a large-scale surve...

“Student group organising is hard and important” by Bella

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's been several years since I was an EA student group organiser, so please forgive any part of this post which feels out of touch (& correct me...

“SPCA cruelty enforcement case clears another hurdle” by alene

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hi EAs! We posted earlier about Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC) proving in court that SPCAs can sue to stop agricultural cruelty. LIC had survived a...

“How cost-effective are AI safety YouTubers?” by Marcus Abramovitch 🔸, Austin

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Early work on ”GiveWell for AI Safety” Intro EA was founded on the principle of cost-effectiveness. We should fund projects that do more with les...

“My talk on AI risks at the National Conservatism conference last week” by Geoffrey Miller

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lately I’ve been trying to raise awareness of AI risks among American conservatives. Stopping the reckless development of advanced AI agents (inclu...

“Want to start a Philanthropic Organization? Announcing AIM’s New Charity Entrepreneurship Round” by Ambitious Impact

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A special edition of our flagship CE program, focused on increasing effectiveness in the philanthropic sector. TL;DR: Each year, AIM incubates new ...

“Your Sacrifice Portfolio Is Probably Terrible” by Midtermist12

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

or Maximizing Good Within Your Personal Constraints Note: The specific numbers and examples below are approximations meant to illustrate the framewor...

“Strategies for promoting giving pledges” by Luke Moore 🔸, Nina Friedrich🔸, Thomas Moispointner, Romain Barbe🔸, Ana Barreiro

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Introduction Giving What We Can (GWWC) has partnered with a variety of organisations, both within and outside of the EA ecosystem, to promote the 🔸...

“What happens when you send Ugandan students to Germany?” by Lauren Gilbert

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Note: This post was crossposted from the Lauren Policy blog by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to com...

“Good government” by rosehadshar

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the town hall in Siena, there is a set of frescos by Lorenzetti called the Allegory of Good and Bad Government. It was painted between 1338 and 13...

“Sam’s Hot(?) Takes on EA Community Building” by Sam Smith 🔸

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Executive Summary I think EA community building is too focused on frameworks and optimising for impact when what actually works is much more basic: ge...

“Research report: adding a plant-based option (or two) does not meaningfully reduce meat consumption in an online, Chipotle-like setting” by Seth Ariel Green 🔸, Jessica Hope, Jacob_Peacock, MMathur🔸

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This post summarizes a new preprint from the Humane and Sustainable Food Lab at Stanford titled “Taking a bite out of meat, or just giving fresh ve...

“Marginally More Effective Altruism” by AppliedDivinityStudies

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There's a huge amount of energy spent on how to get the most QALYs/$. And a good amount of energy spent on how to increase total $. And you might thi...

“When the world feels unstable, don’t let that drive worse decisions” by Catherine Low🔸

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I drafted this in May. I’m just getting this post out the door now, but the atmosphere feels similar. I’m feeling unusually worried right now ab...

“Who should found high-impact NGOs in the Global South?” by Verónica Suárez M.

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Reflections from an Incubation Program in Latin America This is the second in a series of posts about a nonprofit incubation program we’re running ...

[Linkpost] “Room for optimism on cultured meat?” by david_reinstein

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. ACX/Scott Alexander's summary: But now a new report comes out arguing that the previous reports were wrong, that lab-grown meat p...

“Announcing: The ‘Essays on Longtermism’ Competition” by Toby Tremlett🔹

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

‘Essays on Longtermism: Present Action for the Distant Future’ was recently published by Oxford University Press. It's open access — you can re...

“Essays on longtermism” by David Thorstad

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Introduction We are pleased to announce the publication of Essays on Longtermism, now available from Oxford University Press. This is the first peer-...

“How big a deal is donating 10% of your income really? A perspective” by WilliamKiely🔸

07 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why 10%? Because that's the number of the 10% Pledge. No other reason. How big a deal is donating 10% of your pre-tax income really? On the one hand,...

“Rejected from all the ‘EA’ Jobs you applied for - What to do now?” by guneyulasturker 🔸

06 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hi, have you been rejected from all the 80K listed EA jobs you’ve applied for? It sucks, right? Welcome to the club. What might be comforting is th...

“My TED Talk” by LewisBollard

05 Sep 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...

“What failure looks like for animals” by Alistair Stewart, Nicholas Kees Dupuis

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Introduction Inspired by Paul Christiano's 2019 piece What failure looks like, we sketch a range of ways in which a future with powerful AI may go bad...

“Is Now an Unusually Good Time to Pursue Political Interventions in the UK?” by Jonah Woodward

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Some quick but important disclaimers: I'm definitely not an expert in the topics discussed, and the thoughts I've put together here are not particul...

“EA in the Lakes - Reflections” by Kestrel🔸

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a set of personal reflections from running EA in the Lakes, a lower-cost retreat in the northern UK. (we've also got some great photos of ref...

[Linkpost] “Assessing Near-Term Accuracy in the Existential Risk Persuasion Tournament” by Forecasting Research Institute

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. Forecasting Research Institute just released a new report: Assessing Near-Term Accuracy in the Existential Risk Persuasion Tourna...

“Chip Production Policy Won’t Matter as Much as You’d Think” by Davidmanheim

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

tl;dr - If timelines are short, it's too late, and if they are long (and if we don't all die,) the way to win the "AI race" is to generate more benef...

“Anthropic’s leading researchers acted as moderate accelerationists” by Remmelt

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2021, a circle of researchers left OpenAI, after a bitter dispute with their executives. They started a competing company, Anthropic, stating that ...

“I bet superforecaster David Manheim 2 k$ that the unemployment rate in the United States in 2027 will be lower than 8 %” by Vasco Grilo🔸

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I and David Manheim, a Good Judgement's superforecaster, agreed on the following bet on 19 May 2025: If the mean monthly unemployment rate in the Un...

“Why Experienced Founders Should Still Consider Incubators (and Why I Might Go Through My Own)” by Joey🔸

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The AIM incubation program was always built a little like the incubation program I wish I'd had when I was much younger and founding Charity Science ...

“Want to make the future go well for animals? Apply to a Sentient Futures animal welfare fellowship!” by Damin Curtis🔹, Jay Luong

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🚀 Applications are now live for two future-facing animal welfare fellowships from Sentient Futures!  Application Deadlines: Prioritizing Neg...

“AI Safety’s Talent Pipeline is Over-optimised for Researchers” by Christopher Clay

31 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you to all the wonderful people who've taken the time to share their thoughts with me. All opinions are my own: Will Aldred, Jonah Boucher, Deen...

“I Am Not a Good Fit: Reflections on My Journey with EA and Global Priorities” by emmannaemeka

30 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I have hesitated for some time before writing this, but I feel it is worth sharing. Perhaps others have felt this way too. Looking at EA priorities ...

“Reflections on EA Spain’s First National Retreat” by AnthonyL, Melanie Brennan, Tristan Williams

30 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Introduction We recently hosted a weekend-long, 22 person retreat in Spain to bring together budding EA communities from the two biggest cities: Barce...

“CEA is hiring for a Chief of Staff (Events Team)” by OllieBase

30 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) is seeking a strong operator to join our Events team as Chief of Staff, providing essential support to scale ...

“Generative AI is not causing YCombinator companies to grow more quickly than usual (yet)” by Ben_West🔸

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Generative AI is not causing YCombinator companies to grow more quickly than usual (yet) Epistemic status: I think you should interpret this as roughl...

“The ‘community’ tag is problematic” by Arepo

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It was originally introduced as a way to separate out FTX-scandal related tags. Now that that purpose is no longer relevant it serves as a noisy but ...

[Linkpost] “Not stepping on bugs” by Yadav

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. I let a tooth rot for over a year. It was my upper right second molar, the one just before the wisdom tooth. Every time I ate som...

“AI Consciousness: A Centrist Manifesto” by J. Birch

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of my goals for this year was to write a piece setting out my own views on the topic of AI consciousness and the possible paths forward. I wrote ...

[Linkpost] “Why I’m excited about AI safety talent development initiatives” by JulianHazell

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. Just a couple of weeks ago, I hit my two-year mark at Open Philanthropy. I’ve learned a lot over this period, but I’ve been e...

“Applications Open for Impact Accelerator Program for EA Professionals” by High Impact Professionals

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

High Impact Professionals (HIP) is excited to announce that applications are now open for the next round of our Impact Accelerator Program (IAP). The...

“Save The Date: EA Connect 2025” by David Solar 🔹, Kiran Sargent 🔹

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

EA Connect 2025 will take place on 5–7 December Join EAs from over 75 countries for three days of learning and connection, all from wherever you ar...

“Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning: A Simple Introduction” by Tom Billington, Nicoll Peracha 🔸

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is content that The Mission Motor created for our website, but we felt it could potentially benefit some readers here, too. Thanks to Ameer Vira...

“10 Years of EA Global” by Britney Budiman, Angelina Li, Charlotte Darnell, OllieBase, Eli_Nathan, Julia_Wise🔸, RobertHarling, frances_lorenz, Amy Labenz

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This August marks the 10th anniversary of EA Global! What began as an experiment to bring together a nascent, primarily virtual community has grown i...

“High-impact & urgent funding opportunity - Rodent fertility control” by Nitin Sekar

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Context: I’m a senior fellow at Conservation X Labs (CXL), and I’m seeking support as I attempt to establish a program on humane rodent fertility...

[Linkpost] “Research: People do not allocate enough resources to risks with lower probability of survival” by Adam Elga

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. [Study authors: Adam Elga, Jian-Qiao Zhu, Thomas L. Griffiths] Summary: When asked to divide a fixed budget to fight several inde...

“UK Mass Lobby Day to End Cages on the 21st October” by eleanor mcaree

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On Tuesday, 21st October, a coalition of UK animal advocacy organisations (UK Voters for Animals, Animal Equality UK, The Humane League UK, Animal Ri...

[Linkpost] “The NAO is Hiring for Partnerships, Response, Virology, and Wet Lab Management” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸, SecureBio

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. In our work so far, the Nucleic Acid Observatory has focused on the technical core of a pathogen-agnostic early warning system: h...

“You’re Enough” by lynettebye

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I told someone recently I would respect them if they only worked 40 hours a week, instead of their current 50-60. What I really meant was stronger t...

“Nonpartisanship is also the mindkiller (albeit a useful one)” by LintzA

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tl;dr I argue that maintaining nonpartisan norms on the EA Forum, in public communications by influential community members, and in funding decisions...

“The Effective Altruist Approach to Politics (Effective Altruism Definitions Sequence)” by ozymandias

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A not entirely inaccurate gloss on the effective altruist approach to politics is that it's absurdly progressive: Source: 2022 Effective Altruism ...

“Constructing scalable, funding-neutral EA communities (in the UK)” by Kestrel🔸

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

(This is the rough transcript/summary of a session I am delivering this weekend at EA in the Lakes, and I will be referring people to this post from ...

“Effective Altruism Kolkata will launch the first ever Bengali EA Introductory program soon!” by Nayanika

23 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I'd encountered a question while filling up CEA's group support fund form for basic group running requirements like Zoom subscription, etc. [Fo...

“Wave 2 of Pulse: Awareness and perceptions of Effective Altruism” by Jamie E, David_Moss

23 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This report is the first in a sequence reporting the results of Wave 2 of the Pulse project by Rethink Priorities (RP). Pulse is a large-scale survey...

“AMA: Pablo Melchor, author of Altruismo Racional and President of Ayuda Efectiva” by Toby Tremlett🔹, Pablo Melchor 🔸

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Note: We generally keep forum discussions in English, but given the topic of this AMA, feel free to write your questions in either English or Spanish...

“GiveWell fundraising up 17% in 2024, driven overwhelmingly by returning donors” by Rasool

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Previously: GiveWell raised less than its 10th percentile forecast in 2023 In 2024[1] GiveWell raised $415 million - $108 million from Open Philanthr...

“The anti-fragile culture” by lincolnq

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How to prevent infighting, mitigate status races, and keep your people focused. Cross-posted from my Substack. Organizational culture changes rapid...

[Linkpost] “Being honest with AIs” by Lukas Finnveden

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. In the future, we might accidentally create AIs with ambitious goals that are misaligned with ours. But just because we don’t h...

[Linkpost] “Most of the World Is an Adorably Suffering, Debatably Conscious Baby” by Jack_S🔸

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. There are some moments of your life when the reality of suffering really hits home. Visiting desperately poor parts of the world ...

“Introducing our Newest Charity Recommendations—From Reducing Brick Kiln Emissions to Securing Scale-up Funding for Alternative Proteins” by Ambitious Impact

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Introducing our newest recommended ideas We are excited to recommend six new impactful charities for the February 2026 cohort of the Charity Entrepre...

“Phlourish since 2023” by Shen Javier

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Overview Phlourish aims to expand mental health support for Filipinos through cost-effective interventions. From piloting to launching a guided self-...

“Deep Democracy as a promising target for positive AI futures” by tylermjohn

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you want the long-term future to go well by the lights of a certain value function, you might be tempted to try to align AGI(s) to your own values...

“Foresight Institute launches two possible future scenarios with AI” by elte

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With contributions from Vitalik Buterin, Anthony Aguirre, Allison Duettmann, Deger Turan, Emilia Javorsky, and more What kinds of futures are possibl...

“New Spanish-language book on ‘classical EA’” by Pablo Melchor 🔸

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

My new book, Altruismo racional, is now on presale. It is my attempt at presenting a compelling case for a particular strand of "classical EA"[1]: on...

“15 Unconventional Ways I Used My Generalist Background to Transition into a High-Impact Career: My journey from School Principal to AI Safety Advisor” by Moneer

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Introduction We read countless times that AI Safety needs people from all backgrounds, but if you're not coming from a technical background, the path ...