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EAG Talks — 213 episodes
Opening remarks | Kelsey Piper | EA Global: Bay Area 2025
The Moral Circle: insects, AI systems, and other beings who might matter | Jeff Sebo | EAG Bay Area 2025
Doing impactful research | Marcus Davis | EA Global: Bay Area 2025
AI-enabled human power grabs, and how to stop them | Tom Davidson | EA Global: Bay Area 2025
Strategic directions for a digital consciousness | Hayley Clatterbuck & Derek Shiller | EAG BA 2025
Critical levers: Where to push for farmed animals now | Zoe Sigle | EA Global: Bay Area 2025
Fireside chat | William MacAskill and Tom Davidson | EA Global: Bay Area 2025
Evidence to Policy Pipeline | Eva Vivalt | EAGxToronto 2024
Giving Portfolios Under Moral Uncertainty | Bob Fischer | EAGxToronto 2024
10,000th 10% Giving Pledge in 2024? | James Rayton | EAGxToronto 2024
Hepatitis C Human Challenge Studies in Toronto | Jake Eberts | EAGxToronto 2024
Giving Kids a Fighting Chance for a Very Low Cost | Andrew Pavao | EAGxToronto 2024
Wild and Farmed Animal Welfare | Kyle Johannsen | EAGxToronto 2024
Making AI Risk Accessible with Compelling Analogies | Darren McKee | EAGxToronto 2024
How Not to Waste Your Career | Matt Reardon | EAGxToronto 2024
Nordic Comparative Advantage | Maria Bækkelie, Laura Kull | EAGxNordics 2025
The Case for Prioritizing Animals in your EA Journey | Niklas Fjeldberg | EAGxNordics 2025
Understanding AI Alignment Through Learning Theory | Einar Urdshals | EAGxNordics 2025
Overcoming Perfectionism and Imposter Syndrome: A CBT Perspective | Tim LeBon | EAGxNordics 2025
CEPI: 100 Day Mission Vaccine Development; What Does it Take? | Stig Tollefsen | EAGxNordics 2025
Veganism as the Missing link in Effective Altruism | Lars Olesen, Aimee Alminde | EAGxNordics 2025
The Science of Supercharging your Donations | Kari Kjørholt, Ulrik Johnsen | EAGxNordics 2025
Responsible AI Governance: A Retrospective and Prospective Analysis | Uma Kalkar | EAGxNordics 2025
From feelings to action: spreadsheets as an act of compassion | Zach Robinson
Nuclear Risk and AI | Alice Saltini | EAGxNordics 2025
Innovation, economics, and effective altruism | Michael Kremer | EAG London: 2025
Transitioning your CEO without damaging your organization | Joey Savoie | EAG London: 2025
Reasons for optimism in international development | Rachel Glennerster | EAG London: 2025
Forecasting can get easier over longer timeframes | Toby Ord | EAG London: 2025
The data that shapes global health | Saloni Dattani | EAG London: 2025
Preparing for the intelligence explosion | Will MacAskill | EAG London: 2025
Wild Animal Welfare Through the Lens of Population Ethics | Tim Campbell | EAGxNordics 2024
EA Forum AMA: Darren Margolias, BeastPhilanthropy
Having an Impact With Stories | Timon Renzelmann | EAGxNordics 2024
Deceptive Tendencies of Language Models | Olli Järviniemi | EAGxNordics 2024
Navigating Job Opportunities Beyond the 80k Job Board | Maria Bækkelie | EAGxNordics 2024
Darwinian Traps and Opportunities for Global Governance | Kristian Rönn | EAGxNordics 2024
Why is Evidence Important in Development Policy? | Maria Bakken | EAGxNordics 2024
Effective Giving, Pledging, and Giving What We Can | Luke Moore | EAGxNordics 2024
Our Theory of Change: The Taimka Project | Abubakar, Umar | EA Nigeria Summit 2024
Cost-Effective Solutions for Contraception: Lafiya Nigeria | Fatima, Umar | EA Nigeria Summit 2024
Implementing Health Intervention in Nigeria | Tolulope; Abubakar; Umar | EA Nigeria Summit 2024
EA & Animals: Using Evidence and Reasoning to do Good | Jenna, Hiscock | EA Nigeria Summit 2024
Cage Free Africa: Why It's Important | Dr. Sunday, Agbonika | EA Nigeria Summit 2024
The case for safeguarding long-term future | Alimi, Salfou | EA Nigeria Summit 2024
Improving governance with data: Data for Activism | Gabriel, Okeowo | EA Nigeria Summit 2024
How IPA uses evidence for policy work | Olasubomi, Obadeyi | EA Nigeria Summit 2024
Theory for Improving Children's Health: Case for Deworming | Maryann, Edeh | EA Nigeria Summit 2024
CommCare Connect: Digitally Supporting Paid, Purposeful work for CHWs | Sarvesh, Tewari; Sagar,Atre
High-Impact Project/Charity: Ambitious Impact Programs | Cameron, Kings | EA Nigeria Summit 2024
Interesting, Easy or Hard: How I have Prioritize Work | Olaoluwa, Akinloluwa | EA Nigeria Summit '24
Closing Remarks | Zakariyau, Yusuf | EA Nigeria Summit 2024
Workshop on Starting High-Impact Charity/Project | Cameron, Kings | EA Nigeria Summit 2024
Our Theory of Change and Plan | Daniel, Elabi; Chidi, Odinanwa | EA Nigeria Summit 2024
Three Journeys for EA | Zach Robinson | EAG London: 2024
First timers at EA Global | Zershaaneh Qureshi & Charlotte Darnell | EAG London: 2024
Ambitious Impact: lightning talks featuring newly incubated charities | EAG London: 2024
Good Ancestors - 12 months of Australian policy advocacy | Greg Sadler | EAGxAustralia 2023
Welfare and moral patienthood | Jeff Sebo, Daniela Waldhorn, & Patrick Butlin | EAG London: 2024
A balanced view on taking the Giving What We Can pledge | Grace Adams | EAG London: 2024
Evidence Action: Scaling the most effective health interventions| Carlita Bevege| EAGxAustralia 2023
Professional groups and EA | Ellie Christian and Clare Harris | EAGxAustralia 2023
Utilising your unique skillset for good | Marcus Daniell, Grace Adams | EAGxAustralia 2023
The last place on earth: Australia in a global food shock | Kevin Rassool | EAGxAustralia 2023
The future of EA relies on Effective Giving | Grace Adams, Luke Freeman | EAGxAustralia 2023
The danger of nuclear weapons is growing | Marianne Hanson | EAGxAustralia 2023
Make your climate activism count | Alexandria Rantino | EAGxAustralia 2023
Entrepreneurship Lightning Talks | Chetan Kharbanda, Kate Tapping | EAGxAustralia 2023
Is AI an existential risk? A discussion | Ryan Kidd, James Fodor | EAGxAustralia 2023
Effective policy in Australia - a unique moment to have impact | Keynote Panel | EAGxAustralia 2023
Hot Topics in Wellbeing Science | Jenna Ong | EAGxAustralia 2023
History and challenges of economic development | James Fodor | EAGxAustralia 2023
The role of mental health in poverty in rural Pakistan | Victoria Baranov | EAGxAustralia 2023
Australia's unique opportunities in tackling climate chang | Jack Rafferty | EAGxAustralia 2023
Consciousness, philosophy and animal welfare | Jack Hawke | EAGxAustralia 2023
Australia & policy careers | Chelsea Liang, Krystal Ha | EAGxAustralia 2023
Animal Welfare Talks | Sam Perkins, Ren Springlea, Michael Dello-Iacovo | EAGxAustralia 2023
Alternative proteins: Untapped opportunities | Thomas King | EAGxAustralia 2023
Unexpected value: Prioritising the urgency of suffering | Jonathan Leighton | EAGxAustralia 2023
Best bets: fourteen innovations with potential for impact at scale | Loic Watine | EAG London: 2024
History and challenges of economic development | James Fodor | EAGxAustralia 2023
AI Wellbeing | Simon Goldstein | EAGxAustralia 2023
Monitoring and evaluation 101 | Sophie Gulliver | EAGxAustralia 2023
Biosecurity from first principles | Akhil Bansal | EAGxAustralia 2023
Nuclear risks and the new AI arms race | Beatrice Fihn & Alice Saltini | EAG London: 2024
Obstacles and opportunities to make aid agencies more effective | Rory Stewart | EAG London: 2024
Combining interventions for maximum impact | Mahi Klosterhalfen | EAG London: 2024
DeepMind frontier safety | Mary Phuong | EAG London: 2024
Improving policy take-up and implementation in scaling programs | Neela Saldanha | EAG London: 2024
The global south’s role in mitigating AI risks | Cecil Abungu & Roberto Tinoco | EAG London: 2024
Accelerating innovation to tackle global challenges | Siddhartha Haria | EAG London: 2024
Peace Boat’s Hibakusha Project—testimony from survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | EAG London: 2024
Opening Remarks | Ben West | EA Global Bay Area 2024
Pandemic Proof PPE & AI Safety | Ryan Ritterson | EA Global Bay Area 2024
Scheming AIs | Joe Carlsmith | EA Global Bay Area 2024
Preventing Engineered Pandemics | Tessa Alexanian | EA Global Bay Area 2024
Media Professionals on Impactful GCR Communications | Kelsey Piper, Shakeel Hashim, and Clara Collier | EA Global Bay Area: 2024
Cause Prioritization & Global Catastrophic Risk | Hayley Clatterbuck | EA Global Bay Area: 2024
The Precipice Revisited | Toby Ord | EA Global Bay Area 2024
Sleeper Agents | Evan Hubinger | EA Global Bay Area: 2024
The Sword of Damocles | Dan Zimmer | EA Global Bay Area: 2024
Screening all DNA synthesis and reliably detecting stealth pandemics | Kevin Esvelt | EAG Boston 23
Quantifying animal suffering and the impact of welfare interventions | Cynthia Schuck| EAG Boston 23
Panel on nuclear risk | James Acton, Francesca Giovannini, and Heather Williams | EAG Boston 23
Opening session | Frances Lorenz, Arden Koehler, Lizka Vaintrob, Kuhan Jeyapragasan | EAG Boston 23
Lessons from reinforcement learning from human feedback | Stephen Casper | EAG Boston 23
Causes and uncertainty: Rethinking value in expectation | Bob Fischer, Laura Duffy | EAG Boston 23
Evidence Action: Inside the accelerator | Kevin Kelsey | EAG Boston 23
Closing session: Averting future pandemics | Matthew Meselson | EAG Boston 23
What we’re learning about spreading EA ideas | Grace Adams | EAGxAustralia 2022
Using stories to make the long-term feel real | Michael Aird and Elise Bohan | EAGxAustralia 2022
The role of politics and policy in effective animal advocacy | Emma Hurst | EAGxAustralia 2022
Technical AI Safety Research: An Overview | Magdalena Wache | EAGxBerlin 2023
Opening Talk | Carolin Basilowski, Sarah Tegeler, Patrick Gruban | EAGxBerlin 2023
Mechanistic Interpretability for AI Alignment | Callum McDougall, Joseph Bloom | EAGxBerlin 2023
Lightning talks: Sunday session 2 | David Quarel | EAGxAustralia 2022
Lightning talks: Sunday session 2 | Amanda Storm Schuster | EAGxAustralia 2022
Lightning talks: Sunday session 1 | Louise Pfeiffer | EAGxAustralia 2022
Keynote talk from Lily Ordano | EAGxAustralia 2022
Keynote talk from Judith Rensing and Tony Senanayake | EAGxAustralia 2022
Keynote talk from Emma Hurst Emma Hurst EAGxAustralia 2022
Introduction to the Effective Altruism Ecosystem | Catherine Low | EAGxAustralia 2022
Intercausal Impacts and the Power of Food System Change | Chris Popa | EAGxBerlin 2023
GiveDirectly: How to Grow Effective Work beyond EA | Harris Roberts | EAGxBerlin 2023
Fireside Chat with Will MacAskill | Abra Ganz | EAGxBerlin 2023
Everything you wanted to know about AI but were afraid to ask James Fodor EAGxAustralia 2022
Effective Giving in 2022 Louise Pfeiffer Luke Freeman and Michael Noetel EAGxAustralia 2022
Applying what youve learnt Catherine Low EAGxAustralia 2022
Anders Sandberg on Exploratory Engineering Value Diversity and Grand Futures EAGxCambridge 2023
An Altruist’s Motive to Look to the Stars Ekaterina Ilin EAGxBerlin 2023
Africa Are we missing a climate opportunity Lili Odarno EAGxAustralia 2022
Advocacy in Action How Non-profits Can Drive Global Health Agendas Jasmin Kaur EAGxBerlin 2023
AI Consciousness Report: A Roundtable Discussion [not EAG]
Alternative Proteins and How I Got There | Friederike Grosse-Holz | EAGxCambridge 2023
How Local Groups Can Have Global Impact | Cambridge Alternative Protein Project | EAGxCambridge 2023
Global Food System Failure And What We Can Do About It | Noah Wescombe | EAGxCambridge 2023
Infecting Humans For Vaccine Development | Jasmin Kaur | EAGxCambridge 2023
Existential Risk Pessimism And The Time Of Perils | David Thorstad | EAGxCambridge 2023
How To Make The Most of EAGx | Ollie Base | EAGxCambridge 2023
Spreading Life Across The Universe: Best Or Worst Idea Ever? | Anders Sandberg | EAGxCambridge 2023
Missing Data In Global Health And Why It Matters | Saloni Dattani | EAGxCambridge 2023
Alignment In Natural & Artificial Intelligence: Research Avenues | Nora Ammann | EAGxCambridge 2023
What Does It Take To Found A High-Impact Charity? | Judith Rensing | EAGxCambridge 2023
Fireside Chat | Lord Martin Rees | EAGxCambridge 2023
The Rising Cost Of AI Training And Its Implications | Ben Cottier | EAGxCambridge 2023
Fireside Chat | David Krueger | EAGxCambridge 2023
Virtues For Effective Altruists | Stefan Schubert | EAGxCambridge 2023
Anders Sandberg on Exploratory Engineering, Value Diversity, and Grand Futures | EAGxCambridge 2023
Fireside chat: Rear Admiral John Gower | John Gower | EAG London 23
Taking happiness seriously: Can we? Should we? A debate | Michael Plant, Mark Fabian | EAG London 23
Panel on nuclear risk | Rear Admiral John Gower, Patricia Lewis, Paul Ingram | EAG London 23
Opening Talk | Emil Wasteson | EAGxNordics 2023
What can we say about the size of the future? | Anders Sandberg | EAGxNordics 2023
Finding and thriving in a high impact career | Vilhelm Skoglund,Sebastian Schmidt | EAGxNordics 2023
Building a Resilient Future: Two New Scandinavian Initiatives | Various | EAGxNordics 2023
How and why Gi Effektivt changed our brand | Kari Kjørholt | EAGxNordics 2023
Exploring the Dangers from Artificial Intelligence | Caroline Jeanmaire | EAGxNordics 2023
Invisible Animals - Building an animal welfare organization | Kristina Mering | EAGxNordics 2023
The road to 100 million NOK yearly to effective charities | Kari Kjørholt | EAGxNordics 2023
From Activist to Consultant | Suvi Auvinen | EAGxNordics 2023
Could cash transfers end poverty in an entire country | Rachel Waddell | EAGxNordics 2023
Risks and Challenges in the EA Community | Catherine Low | EAGxNordics 2023
The Nordics: World-leaders in Reducing Existential Risks? | Haydn Belfield | EAGxNordics 2023
13 mistakes I made as a social entrepreneur | Henri Thunberg | EAGxNordics 2023
Can cash-transfers improve government aid spending? | Rachel Waddell, Mathias Bonde | EAGxNordics 2023
Exploring emotions & cooperation in artificial agents | Joel Pyykkö | EAGxNordics 2023
AI Safety Research Outside the Hubs:A Guide for Aspiring Researchers | Esben Kran | EAGxNordics 2023
What being an animal advocate taught me about effective communication | Ryuji Chua | EAGxNordics 2023
Achieving policy influence in changing the food system | Rune-Christoffer Dragsdahl | EAGxNordics 2023
A billion problems solved with one campaign | Niklas Fjeldberg | EAGxNordics 2023
Radical tactics within social movements: helpful or harmful? | James Ozden | EAGxNordics 2023
Fireside Chat with Phil Trammell | Phil Trammell, Anton Arbman Hansing | EAGxNordics 2023
Boosting Emerging Tech Governance through International Organisations | Jacob Arbeid | EAGxNordics 2023
Taking happiness seriously: Can we? Should we? A debate | Michael Plant, Mark Fabian | EAG London 23
Mistakes were made? A critical look at how EA approached AI safety | David Krueger | EAG London 23
Academic research on global priorities | Eva Vivalt | EAG London 23
Concrete open problems in mechanistic interpretability | Neel Nanda | EAG London 23
Modelling the future of AI | Jaime Sevilla | EAG London 23
Shaping humanity's longterm trajectory | Toby Ord | EAG London 23
Reducing lead exposure | Drew McCartor, Lucia Coulter, Rachel Silverman-Bonnifield | EAG London 23
Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention | Ryan Teo, Nils Justen | EAG London 23
Fireside chat: Rear Admiral John Gower | John Gower | EAG London 23
Panel on nuclear risk | Rear Admiral John Gower, Patricia Lewis, Paul Ingram | EAG London 23
Charity evaluation and its future | GiveWell, ACE, Founders Pledge, GWWC | EAG London 23
Caged hen campaigns in Europe | Kirsty Henderson, Sean Gifford, Sophie de Jonckheere | EAG London 23
Fireside chat with Matt Clifford | Matt Clifford | EAG London 23
Workshop How to prioritize Renan Araujo Marie Buhl Jam Kraprayoon EAG London 23
Workshop Becoming our best selves S Schmidt P Rohde D Pourtahmaseb-Sasi EAG London 23
Lightning talks Thinking outside the EA cause area box EAG London 23
First timers at EA Global Anubhuti Jain EAG London 23.mp3
Getting traction on great power risks Adam Thomson EAG London 23
Opening session Karolina Sarek EAG London 23
Longtermism and alternative proteins Bruce Friedrich EAG London 23
Closing session | Marcus Davis and Peter Wildeford | EAG Bay Area 23
How EA can impactfully engage in climate | Johannes Ackva & Armond Cohen | EAG Bay Area 23
Safety evaluations and standards for AI | Beth Barnes | EAG Bay Area 23
Reducing animal suffering in countries of the Global South | Carolina Galvani | EAG Bay Area 23
Potential pitfalls in university EA community building | Jessica McCurdy | EAG Bay Area 23
The current alignment plan, and how we might improve it | Buck Shlegeris | EAG Bay Area 23
Beyond the bednets: Vida Plena and MHI | Joy Bittner & Ben Williamson | EAG Bay Area 23
An overview of EA funding opportunities | Caleb Parikh | EAG Bay Area 23
How to compare welfare across species | Bob Fischer | EAG Bay Area 23
Discovering AI Risks with AIs | Ethan Perez | EAG Bay Area 23
Preventing State Bioweapons Development & Use: Shaping Intentions | Jaime Yassif | EAG Bay Area 23
Fireside chat: Russia, Ukraine and NATO | Rose Gottemoeller | EAG Bay Area 23
Will AI end everything? A guide to guessing | Katja Grace | EAG Bay Area 23
What's new in Open Philanthropy's GH&W work? | James Snowden & Norma Altshuler | EAG Bay Area 23
Nuclear weapons: ethics, law, and the limits of safety | Scott D. Sagan | EAG Bay Area 23
Opening session: Toby Ord | Toby Ord | EAG Bay Area 23
Workshop: Impostor syndrome | Kat Woods | EAG Bay Area 23
Workshop: Improve your decision-making | Spencer Greenberg | EAG Bay Area 23
GiveWell's new interventions | Olivia Larsen | EAG Bay Area 23
Workshop: How can we have better online discussions? | Lizka Vaintrob | EAG Bay Area 23