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EA Forum Podcast (All audio) — 161 episodes
“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🔸
“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 🔸
“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
“Possible mistake EAs are making and shout out to Pause AI UK” by Michelle_Hutchinson
“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
“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
“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
“Coming Around To Political Donations” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸
[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 🔸
“One Year of PauseAI UK” by Joseph Miller, PauseAI UK
“animal welfare has an evidence problem” by matthes
“Global pandemic prevention: how disease spreads across borders and the three countries determining pandemic outcomes” by Denkenberger🔸, Ross_Tieman
[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
“After making sure we don’t all die, this should be the first priority” by Yaqi Grover
“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🔸
“Donating 80% While It Still Counts” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸
“Announcing the Africa Jobs Fund” by Benh713
[Linkpost] “Does disaster frequency follow power laws? It’s complicated” by titotal
“Beyond the GiveWell Podcast: Fortify Health’s Lessons from Scaling” by Tony Senanayake
“Rethink Priorities is hiring.” by Bob Fischer, Rethink Priorities
“Why now might be the best time ever to start an animal charity” by Aidan Alexander, Aaron Boddy🔸, Ambitious Impact
[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
“Announcing the Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Fund” by Rethink Priorities
“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
“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
“The AIs seem like EAs — a quick look at two prompts” by trammell
“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
“Money for nothing: the roles of evidence in GiveDirectly’s journey to $1 billion delivered” by Dane Valerie
“Save Our Pigs!” by LewisBollard
“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
“Reflections on Anthropic and EA” by abrahamrowe
[Linkpost] “10 big projects for reducing bio x-risk” by cwbakerlee
[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
“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
“How to actually give money away” by NickAllardice
“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
“If You Do One Thing for Animals This Year, Do This” by Becca Rogers
“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
[Linkpost] “Notes on equanimity from the inside” by stefan.torges
“A new rationalist self-improvement book: the 12 Levers” by spencerg
[Linkpost] “Starfish” by Aaron Gertler 🔸
“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
“Time Sensitive Urgent Animal Welfare Action” by Bentham’s Bulldog
“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] “Contra Binder on far-UVC and filtration” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸