All Episodes

“Bottom-Up Bracketing: A Person-Centered Response to Cluelessness” by Impartial Partially

“Challenging the unawareness argument with third actions and mixed actions” by Elliott Thornley

“Non-AI Grantmakers Should Be Pricing In AGI Timelines More Than We Are” by Chris_Conrad🔸

“Five Wild Animal Welfare Organizations estimate $3-8M in room for additional funding in 2027” by Rethink Priorities

“Learning from Agricultural Development to Reshape Animal Welfare Work in Low- and Middle-Income Countries” by Tom Billington

“Slot hiring vs bar hiring” by brentonmayer

“Concrete Generalist Projects in AI Safety (and how to do them)” by Helena Tran, Roman Ross, Harry Waterman, Jesse Gilbert🔸

“A Modest Proposal: Why Vegans Should Start Factory Farms” by moral_mazes

“What 27 AI Safety Generalists Are Building This Summer” by Jesse Gilbert🔸, Helena Tran

“Mental health challenges in the AI safety ecosystem seem like a big problem” by JulianHazell

“Closing the LTFF, Spending Down Funds, and a New AI Fund at EA Funds” by calebp

“The Acuity Problem: Maybe we can’t infer how intensely a being can feel from the number of different intensity levels it can go through” by Jim Buhler

“EA Funds is launching the Transformative AI Fund” by Lowe Lundin

“EA Animal Welfare Fund: Request for Proposals for Cage-Free Laying Hen Welfare” by Zoë Sigle 🔹, eleanor mcaree

“Most donors get risk wrong” by Jack Lewars

“UK Voters for Animals is running our 2nd mass lobby day! Tuesday 10th November.” by JamesÖz 🔸, Hugh P, Eleanor McAree 🔸, Billy Nicholles, vicky_cox

“Why You Should Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive” by Erich_Grunewald 🔸

“The Schmotte-and-Bailey Fallacy” by Richard Y Chappell🔸

“About The Altruists: the Netflix series on FTX” by Tess Newton-Palmer

“You can now afford to work at AIM: our new salary policy, program stipends, and founder salary advice” by Aidan Alexander, Jacintha Baas, SamanthaK

“The AI Windfall” by LewisBollard

“Reaching Out to Formerly Engaged EAs” by Sam Anschell

“AMA with GiveWell’s Chief Operations Officer” by GiveWell

“The animal welfare movement could scale fast. Have you made a plan?” by Neil_Dullaghan🔹

“EAs Should Use Less Bayesian Reasoning” by James Brobin

“Community Polls on Alignment Controversies II” by Jasmine Brazilek, Miles Tidmarsh, Jonah Woodward

“Urban Animals Deserve a Global Nonprofit” by Ronen Bar

“When you donate can matter more than where” by Carol N, Austin

“AIM’s first ever dedicated animal welfare incubation program (applications open!)” by Aidan Alexander, Aaron Boddy🔸, Ambitious Impact

“Blog Revival Project” by Austin, Carol N

“Money, taste, dealflow, hustle, trust” by Austin

“I Spent 167 Hours Mapping the AIxAnimals Ecosystem so You Don’t Have To” by Alex Parry

“What if the third wave is a puddle?” by Morgan Fairless

“Introducing First Embrace: an Ambitious Impact incubated charity saving newborn lives in Nigeria” by WesleyQ, Ikra

“Cross-Cause Fund: our first distribution round” by Rethink Priorities, Maja Nenadov Webster

“GWWC’s effective giving ecosystem strategy 2026/27” by Luke Moore 🔸, Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸

“Updates on the effective giving ecosystem 2026” by Luke Moore 🔸

“Never born, then maybe died twice” by NickLaing

“The Featured Page” by Toby Tremlett🔹

“Job: Executive Director of CEEALAR (EA Hotel)” by CEEALAR

“Moving on from the EA Forum” by Sarah Cheng 🔸

″$1 billion grant to GiveWell: How Might This Change Who Gets Funded?” by Tony Senanayake

“The Long (Self-)Correction” by Wei Dai

“Amsterdam Insect Protest” by Bentham’s Bulldog

“Coefficient Giving just gave GiveWell $1 billion. Where should other donors give now?” by Jack Lewars

“Two Coefficient Givings beat one twice as big” by Jack Lewars

“So you want to start something for animals: a map of the incubators” by SofiaBalderson

“Introducing Impact List: a ranking of philanthropists by expected lives saved” by Elliot Olds

“The current bottleneck is political will, not research” by Charbel-Raphael

“Would your AI travel agent book a bullfight? Testing whether agents consider animal welfare without being prompted” by Jonah Woodward, Maheep Chaudhary, Jasmine Brazilek, Miles Tidmarsh, Artūrs Kaņepājs

“Marginal Victories: career advising and opportunities for U.S. democracy preservation & political work” by Annika Burman 🔸

“Marginal Victories: career advising and opportunities for U.S. democracy preservation & political work” by ALB 🔸

“Free, client-funded daily 1:1 accountability coaching for people active in the EA ecosystem (GoalsWon)” by Guillermo D’Anna

“I’m stepping down as Hive’s Executive Director, and we’re hiring my successor” by SofiaBalderson, Hive

“Locking myself into a room until I donate €1M.” by Andrew Neiman🔸

“If you’re agentic, work in biosecurity” by sharmaayushmaan🔸

“A Complete Overview of Our AI Safety Talent Pipelines (+ Interactive Visual!)” by Roman Ross

“Help us launch AI safety university groups by referring potential founders” by Jason Chin🔸

“announcing High Impact Aliens” by tzukitchan

“How (not) to fundraise from Anthropic staff” by Jack Lewars

“My TED Talk on ending childhood lead poisoning is live” by Drew_McCartor

“Apply to the Sentient Futures Fall 2026 Project Incubator” by Sentient Futures, Zoe L, Martyna Wielopolska, Jay Luong, Sam Chapman, Brody McManus, Constance Li

“The “third wave” of philanthropy needs a new marketplace” by Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸

“The EA Opportunities Board now has full-time roles” by Agnes Hasselblad 🔸

“Thresholds for funding existential risk interventions” by NunoSempere

“Counting animals: Stable population size is not equivalent to priority level” by abrahamrowe, mal_graham🔸

“A huge way you can help pigs in 5-20 minutes (in the US)” by ElliotTep

“Announcing the Safe Pareto Improvements (SPI) Fundamentals Program” by Center on Long-Term Risk, Anthony DiGiovanni 🔸, Santeri T 🔹

“EA in the Lakes 2026 report” by Kestrel🔸

“Yuval Harari: philanthropy principles + 3 AI-focused charities he recommends” by BruceF

“Yuval Harari: philanthropy principles + 3 AI-focused charities he recommends (7/4, link udpate)” by Bruce Friedrich 🔸

″~85% of Major Hotels Groups and 80% of Restaurant Chains Locations in the Philippines Committed to Cage-Free Eggs” by Whitney Peng

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

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

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

“The Absorption Problem” by NickAllardice

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

“I’m never satisfied” by Ajeya

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The EA Superstructure” by Brian Foerster

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

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

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

“Pluralistic EA Stewardship” by SarahBluhm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“QURI is moving into maintenance mode” by Ozzie Gooen

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

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

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

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

“Predictable Updating About Funding In EA” by Sam Anschell

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

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

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

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

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

“Launch a biosecurity group on your campus” by sharmaayushmaan

“Launch a biosecurity group on your campus” by sharmaayushmaan🔸

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

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

“A frontier AI company should shut down” by MichaelDickens

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

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

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

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

“Building Ideas-First EA” by Mjreard

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

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

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

“A New Course” by Center for Reducing Suffering

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

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

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

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

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

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

“What 100 Lives Is” by Bentham’s Bulldog

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

“Coming Around To Political Donations” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

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

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

“animal welfare has an evidence problem” by matthes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Announcing the Africa Jobs Fund” by Benh713

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“AI safety is extremely bottlenecked on grantmakers” by lukeprog

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

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

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

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

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

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

“How AI in Context approaches thumbnails” by ChanaMessinger

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

“Reflections on Anthropic and EA” by abrahamrowe

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

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

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

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

“Save Our Pigs!” by LewisBollard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Goodmaxxing” by Bentham’s Bulldog, William_MacAskill

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

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

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

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

“How to actually give money away” by NickAllardice

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

“Celebrating 10 Years of EAGx” by Niki Kesseler

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

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

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

“The State of the AIxAnimals Field” by Itsi Weinstock

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

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

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

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

[Linkpost] “Starfish” by Aaron Gertler 🔸

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

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