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EA Forum Podcast (All audio) — 161 episodes

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1

“I’m never satisfied” by Ajeya

2

“Maybe do the thing you wish CEA would do” by alejoacelas 🔸

3

“Mabye do the thing you wish CEA would do” by AlejoAcelas🔸

4

“Time Sensitive Do Gooding Opportunities” by Bentham’s Bulldog

5

“Contra Bentham’s Bulldog on the Save Our Bacon Act” by GoldenSquash

6

“New round of digital minds funding opportunities at Longview” by zdgroff, Longview Philanthropy

7

“The Absorption Problem” by NickAllardice

8

“AMA: Anthony DiGiovanni, author of the ‘Challenge of Unawareness’ sequence” by Toby Tremlett🔹, Anthony DiGiovanni 🔸

9

“most EAs should probably not be living in high cost-of-living (HCOL) areas most of the time” by matthes

10

“RP is looking for project founders in neglected animal areas” by Rethink Priorities

11

“How AI is Affecting Farmed Aquatic Animals. Part 2: Deployment” by Rethink Priorities, Sophie Williamson, Hannah_🔸

12

“What would an animal-aligned AI be aligned to?” by Aidan Kankyoku, Anima International

13

“Cultivating hope: calibrating the expectations for cultivated meat to end factory farming” by PabloAMC 🔸

14

“Cultivating hope: calibrating the expectations for cultivated meat to end factory farming” by PAMC 🔸

15

“Cultivating hope: calibrating the expectations for cultivated meat to end factory farming” by PabloAMC 🔸

16

“The Train to Crazy Town” by Richard Y Chappell🔸

17

“Announcing Spring: a Venture Studio and Fund for Animal Welfare Tech” by EitanF

18

“GWWC’s 2025 impact evaluation (executive summary)” by Aidan Whitfield🔸, Giving What We Can🔸

19

[Linkpost] “Risk-Averse AIs” by Forethought, Elliott Thornley (EJT), William_MacAskill

20

[Linkpost] “Existential AI safety needs an effective social movement. PauseAI is building it.” by Maxime Fournes, Matilda

21

″$1M AI x-risk grant round is live on grantmaking.ai - apply for funding, review applicants, or fund projects” by Matt Brooks

22

[Linkpost] “Podcast: Austin and Oli on funding & incubating projects” by Austin

23

“How I Got Accepted Into AIM’s Charity Entrepreneurship Program” by Evan LaForge

24

“EA Forum Update: Migrating to a new codebase” by Ollie Etherington

25

“Possible mistake EAs are making and shout out to Pause AI UK” by Michelle_Hutchinson

26

“The EA Superstructure” by Brian Foerster

27

“The Alphabet Institute now has a physical facility to host our Effective Altruism and 80,000hrs workshops in Zambia.” by Muloongo Stella Mwanahamuntu

28

“The unreasonable effectiveness of gifting the 80000 Hours book” by hazza

29

“Pluralistic EA Stewardship” by SarahBluhm

30

“AI probably won’t make factory farms obsolete” by Hazo

31

“Why I Believe Africa Deserves Greater Strategic Attention in Animal Welfare” by Aurelia Adhiambo

32

“Update: AIM’s Founding to Give Program” by Jacintha Baas, T.K., Ambitious Impact

33

“New Video from AI in Context: The Fall and Rise of Sam Altman” by ChanaMessinger, Aric Floyd

34

“Build a flourishing EA group at the University of Toronto” by Joseph Kostousov

35

“A note to future effective charity founders: consider zakat compliance from the start” by Kaleem

36

“A brief list of ways AI safety efforts could be net negative” by Elias Schmied

37

[Linkpost] “Having Kids as an EA: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me” by Devon Fritz 🔸

38

“Coefficient Giving RFP: Global Health and Wellbeing in an Era of Transformative AI” by Coefficient Giving, Deena Mousa

39

“QURI is moving into maintenance mode” by Ozzie Gooen

40

“Cluelessness: Summary of the argument, why it matters, and counterarguments” by Anthony DiGiovanni 🔸

41

“Announcing: Cluelessness Critiques Competition” by Toby Tremlett🔹, Will Aldred

42

“From job posting to hire: templates, sourcing campaign, and LLM-resistant tasks” by Romain Barbe🔸

43

“A simple argument for trying less hard” by Elias Schmied

44

“Predictable Updating About Funding In EA” by Sam Anschell

45

[Linkpost] “Gears for political races” by Hazem Hassan🔸

46

[Linkpost] “Gears for political races” by Hazem🔸

47

[Linkpost] “Seat at the Table: new short film on AI (and help me with the next one?)” by SuzyShepherd

48

[Linkpost] “Timelines to what? A proposal” by tlevin

49

“Introducing A Beginner’s Guide to Digital Minds” by Lucius Caviola, Mitch Alexander, Will Millership

50

“Launch a biosecurity group on your campus” by sharmaayushmaan

51

“What 21,000 WhatsApp messages reveal about AI utility in extreme poverty contexts” by GiveDirectly

52

“How bad would it be if GPS satellites were shot down?” by Jackson Wagner

53

“A frontier AI company should shut down” by MichaelDickens

54

“How Africa Can (and Must) Skip the 30-Year Animal Welfare EvolutionUntitled Draft” by Jacob Ayang, Cheslyn Ceaser

55

“Reasons To Be Skeptical Of RP’s Moral Weights Project” by James Brobin

56

“Coming Around To Political Donations” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

57

[Linkpost] “The Quest To Find The Next Big Communicators In AI Safety” by Akshyae Singh

58

[Linkpost] “Scale Scale Scale, Govt. Govt. Govt: 3 concerns” by NickLaing

59

“Building Ideas-First EA” by Mjreard

60

“Call for mentors: Sentient Futures Project Incubator” by Sentient Futures, Jay Luong, Constance Li, Sam Chapman, Brody McManus

61

[Linkpost] “Are top existential risk estimates 50,000 times too high? An optimizer’s curse model and analysis” by titotal

62

“Incumbents Might Be Replaced During AI Takeoff, Including in Animal Agriculture” by Hazo

63

“A New Course” by Center for Reducing Suffering

64

“Critique: There are not enough “realistic” topics in EA” by jackchang110

65

“Experience of a ‘generalist’ transitioning into AI safety in 2026” by Emily Marais

66

“Good-tasting alt meat is a scientific problem we can solve: $10M RFP for Alternative Protein R&D” by Coefficient Giving, abhi_kumar

67

″(Big reveal) Introducing myself as a new host of the 80,000 Hours Podcast!” by Zershaaneh Qureshi

68

“The Psychological Challenges of High-Impact Work - please participate in our survey!” by spencerg

69

“Growth Research, a Methods Site, and SADs 2.0 (AIM Research Update)” by Morgan Fairless, Filip_Murar, vicky_cox, Ambitious Impact

70

“What 100 Lives Is” by Bentham’s Bulldog

71

“SecureBio Detection is Hiring Software Engineers” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

72

“One Year of PauseAI UK” by Joseph Miller, PauseAI UK

73

“animal welfare has an evidence problem” by matthes

74

“Global pandemic prevention: how disease spreads across borders and the three countries determining pandemic outcomes” by Denkenberger🔸, Ross_Tieman

75

[Linkpost] “Lab Leaks, Black Holes, and Eggs: Epistemic Case Study Competition” by Oliver Sourbut, Josh Jacobson

76

“Society Explained: a new tool for efficiently exploring >100 theories of society” by spencerg

77

“Learnings from a ‘viral’ Linkedin post: What AI Safety means to talent outside the ecosystem.” by Jen baik

78

[Linkpost] “The Singularity is a Veil of Ignorance” by Ben Morrell

79

“The Most Important Decision For Animals in American History” by Bentham’s Bulldog

80

[Linkpost] “Sixteen schemes for AI safety” by Austin

81

“An Ahold-sized opportunity to accelerate cage-free in Asia right now” by Giovanni Fabris

82

“A chance to support large-scale mosquito eradication in the USA (closes June 5)” by Aaron Gertler 🔸

83

“Why I’m Skeptical of Air Filters for Infection Prevention” by Alastair Fraser-Urquhart

84

“Philanthropy Needs Ambitious Projects Immediately” by Bentham’s Bulldog

85

“How We’re Searching for the Best Ways to Help in 2026” by GiveWell

86

“After making sure we don’t all die, this should be the first priority” by Yaqi Grover

87

“College students: You should run a virtual summer EA Intro Fellowship ASAP. Here’s how!” by SarahBluhm

88

“My disagreements with CEA’s approach to stewarding EA” by hbesceli

89

“Profit for Good 390 page Research Compilation” by Brad West🔸

90

“Are Mythos’ Cyber Capabilities Overstated? - Yes and No” by Muhan Luo🔸

91

“Donating 80% While It Still Counts” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

92

“Announcing the Africa Jobs Fund” by Benh713

93

[Linkpost] “Does disaster frequency follow power laws? It’s complicated” by titotal

94

“Beyond the GiveWell Podcast: Fortify Health’s Lessons from Scaling” by Tony Senanayake

95

“Rethink Priorities is hiring.” by Bob Fischer, Rethink Priorities

96

“Why now might be the best time ever to start an animal charity” by Aidan Alexander, Aaron Boddy🔸, Ambitious Impact

97

[Linkpost] “A personal letter on transformative AI” by George Rosenfeld

98

“A Plea to the Laid-off, from an ex-Googler” by Jen baik

99

“Stewardship in EA’s Most Important Era” by Sam Anschell

100

[Linkpost] “Will we really put data centers in space?” by Forethought, Aviel Parrack, finm

101

“Announcing the Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Fund” by Rethink Priorities

102

“Announcing the IAP Entrepreneurship Track: A New Path for Aspiring High-Impact Founders” by High Impact Professionals, Nina Friedrich🔸, Emil Wasteson Wallén 🔸, Danielle MacLean

103

“Present-day Benefits of Nature to Humanity” by Tandena Wagner

104

“EA sexual harassment: Where’s the evidence we’re worse than baseline?” by Nathan Young

105

[Linkpost] “I Need You To Understand That “Moving Fast and Breaking Things” Is Playing With Peoples’ Lives” by Kenneth_Diao

106

“Can AI be Conscious? Biological Naturalism as a Research Program” by Bob Fischer, Rethink Priorities

107

“Request for Proposals: Effective Giving” by Melanie Basnak🔸, Kearney Capuano 🔸

108

“Why are longtermists so much less focused on human extinction than they used to be?” by Michelle_Hutchinson

109

[Linkpost] “The Goodhart Singularity” by Vasco Grilo🔸

110

[Linkpost] “Coordinal: A Postmortem.” by Ronak Mehta

111

“California’s largest poultry producer sued for cruelty” by alene

112

“Global Health Charity Founders on GiveWell, Evidence Action, and M+E” by anonfounder

113

“The AIs seem like EAs — a quick look at two prompts” by trammell

114

“In Development: Discussion Thread” by Toby Tremlett🔹, Lauren Gilbert, ncoca, Enlli McAleese, Charles Kenny

115

“Salary Sacrifices Are Donations. Let’s Treat Them as Such.” by Christoph Hartmann 🔸

116

[Linkpost] “How I think about catastrophic biological risk (part I)” by ASB

117

“Review: The Dying Trade” by Bentham’s Bulldog

118

“Talent Constraints in AI Safety: What We Know and What We Don’t” by Weronika Żurek 🔸

119

“My Dad Worked in a Slaughterhouse. I Made a Documentary About It.” by Jack Hancock-Fairs

120

[Linkpost] “How to Actually Spend Billions on AI Safety” by Sophie Kim

121

“AI safety is extremely bottlenecked on grantmakers” by lukeprog

122

[Linkpost] “Alpha-Gal is Bad, Especially for Farmed Animals” by Jonathan Bostock

123

[Linkpost] “We don’t know why Malawi is poor — and what that means for AI-and-growth forecasts” by Deena Mousa

124

“Money for nothing: the roles of evidence in GiveDirectly’s journey to $1 billion delivered” by Dane Valerie

125

“Save Our Pigs!” by LewisBollard

126

“Exporters Without Borders: Why You Should Start a Company Instead of Working in Aid” by Dane Valerie

127

“Effective Altruism Australia is launching a new podcast - designed for a broad audience” by GraceAdams🔸

128

“How AI in Context approaches thumbnails” by ChanaMessinger

129

“Reflections on Anthropic and EA” by abrahamrowe

130

[Linkpost] “10 big projects for reducing bio x-risk” by cwbakerlee

131

[Linkpost] “Yoshua Bengio thinks he knows how to build safe superintelligence” by 80000_Hours

132

“Coefficient Giving is hiring grantmakers and senior generalists across our Global Catastrophic Risks teams” by Coefficient Giving

133

“80,000 Hours is hiring a lot right now — come join us!” by 80000_Hours

134

[Linkpost] “The tables have turned on AI sceptics” by Stefan_Schubert

135

“New EA Forum LLM-use policy” by Toby Tremlett🔹

136

“The EA case for an EA Group House + how to start one (its easy!)” by Jen baik

137

“AMA: Svetha Janumpalli, CEO and Founder of New Incentives” by Svetha Janumpalli

138

“Effective Altruism focused on bednets while a malaria vaccine was stuck for 35 years. The case for Abundance.” by abiolvera

139

“How to actually give money away” by NickAllardice

140

“I made a graphic of the expanding moral circle - free to use” by Trevor Woolley

141

“Surviving Mirror Life: A Manual for Resilience in Buildings: Introduction to the threat, concepts and scenario parameters” by JesseSmith

142

“We grew ~10x last year, and are now planning for the next 10x” by Probably Good

143

“If You Do One Thing for Animals This Year, Do This” by Becca Rogers

144

“New Book — Compassionate Purpose: Personal Inspiration for a Better World” by Magnus Vinding

145

“Goodmaxxing” by Bentham’s Bulldog, William_MacAskill

146

“AIM’s new charity taxonomy” by Aidan Alexander, Morgan Fairless, Ambitious Impact

147

[Linkpost] “Notes on equanimity from the inside” by stefan.torges

148

“A new rationalist self-improvement book: the 12 Levers” by spencerg

149

[Linkpost] “Starfish” by Aaron Gertler 🔸

150

“Book Review: All the Lives You Can Change” by Bentham’s Bulldog

151

“Celebrating 10 Years of EAGx” by Niki Kesseler

152

[Linkpost] “Open strategic questions for digital minds” by Lucius Caviola

153

“People really care about something they call nature” by Tandena Wagner

154

“Follow up: time sensitive animal welfare action” by Bentham’s Bulldog

155

“The State of the AIxAnimals Field” by Itsi Weinstock

156

“Comment on “Forecasting is Way Overrated, and We Should Stop Funding It”” by Jhrosenberg

157

“Time Sensitive Urgent Animal Welfare Action” by Bentham’s Bulldog

158

“Retrospective on the first West Coast EA Retreat” by Saul Munn, Aiden Kim, alexanderu

159

“We ran the first West Coast EA Retreat (a retrospective)” by Aiden Kim🔸, alexanderu, Jesse Gilbert 🔸, Saul Munn

160

[Linkpost] “Analysing the extreme spread in existential risk survey estimates” by titotal

161

[Linkpost] “Contra Binder on far-UVC and filtration” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸