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EAG Talks — 213 episodes

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1

Opening remarks | Kelsey Piper | EA Global: Bay Area 2025

2

The Moral Circle: insects, AI systems, and other beings who might matter | Jeff Sebo | EAG Bay Area 2025

3

Doing impactful research | Marcus Davis | EA Global: Bay Area 2025

4

AI-enabled human power grabs, and how to stop them | Tom Davidson | EA Global: Bay Area 2025

5

Strategic directions for a digital consciousness | Hayley Clatterbuck & Derek Shiller | EAG BA 2025

6

Critical levers: Where to push for farmed animals now | Zoe Sigle | EA Global: Bay Area 2025

7

Fireside chat | William MacAskill and Tom Davidson | EA Global: Bay Area 2025

8

Evidence to Policy Pipeline | Eva Vivalt | EAGxToronto 2024

9

Giving Portfolios Under Moral Uncertainty | Bob Fischer | EAGxToronto 2024

10

10,000th 10% Giving Pledge in 2024? | James Rayton | EAGxToronto 2024

11

Hepatitis C Human Challenge Studies in Toronto | Jake Eberts | EAGxToronto 2024

12

Giving Kids a​ Fighting Chance for a Very Low Cost​ | Andrew Pavao | EAGxToronto 2024

13

Wild and Farmed Animal Welfare | Kyle Johannsen | EAGxToronto 2024

14

Making AI Risk Accessible with Compelling Analogies | Darren McKee | EAGxToronto 2024

15

How Not to Waste Your Career | Matt Reardon | EAGxToronto 2024

16

Nordic Comparative Advantage | Maria Bækkelie, Laura Kull | EAGxNordics 2025

17

The Case for Prioritizing Animals in your EA Journey | Niklas Fjeldberg | EAGxNordics 2025

18

Understanding AI Alignment Through Learning Theory | Einar Urdshals | EAGxNordics 2025

19

Overcoming Perfectionism and Imposter Syndrome: A CBT Perspective | Tim LeBon | EAGxNordics 2025

20

CEPI: 100 Day Mission Vaccine Development; What Does it Take? | Stig Tollefsen | EAGxNordics 2025

21

Veganism as the Missing link in Effective Altruism | Lars Olesen, Aimee Alminde | EAGxNordics 2025

22

The Science of Supercharging your Donations | Kari Kjørholt, Ulrik Johnsen | EAGxNordics 2025

23

Responsible AI Governance: A Retrospective and Prospective Analysis | Uma Kalkar | EAGxNordics 2025

24

From feelings to action: spreadsheets as an act of compassion | Zach Robinson

25

Nuclear Risk and AI | Alice Saltini | EAGxNordics 2025

26

Innovation, economics, and effective altruism | Michael Kremer | EAG London: 2025

27

Transitioning your CEO without damaging your organization | Joey Savoie | EAG London: 2025

28

Reasons for optimism in international development | Rachel Glennerster | EAG London: 2025

29

Forecasting can get easier over longer timeframes | Toby Ord | EAG London: 2025

30

The data that shapes global health | Saloni Dattani | EAG London: 2025

31

Preparing for the intelligence explosion | Will MacAskill | EAG London: 2025

32

Wild Animal Welfare Through the Lens of Population Ethics | Tim Campbell | EAGxNordics 2024

33

EA Forum AMA: Darren Margolias, BeastPhilanthropy

34

Having an Impact With Stories | Timon Renzelmann | EAGxNordics 2024

35

Deceptive Tendencies of Language Models | Olli Järviniemi | EAGxNordics 2024

36

Navigating Job Opportunities Beyond the 80k Job Board | Maria Bækkelie | EAGxNordics 2024

37

Darwinian Traps and Opportunities for Global Governance | Kristian Rönn | EAGxNordics 2024

38

Why is Evidence Important in Development Policy? | Maria Bakken | EAGxNordics 2024

39

Effective Giving, Pledging, and Giving What We Can | Luke Moore | EAGxNordics 2024

40

Our Theory of Change: The Taimka Project | Abubakar, Umar | EA Nigeria Summit 2024

41

Cost-Effective Solutions for Contraception: Lafiya Nigeria | Fatima, Umar | EA Nigeria Summit 2024

42

Implementing Health Intervention in Nigeria | Tolulope; Abubakar; Umar | EA Nigeria Summit 2024

43

EA & Animals: Using Evidence and Reasoning to do Good | Jenna, Hiscock | EA Nigeria Summit 2024

44

Cage Free Africa: Why It's Important | Dr. Sunday, Agbonika | EA Nigeria Summit 2024

45

The case for safeguarding long-term future | Alimi, Salfou | EA Nigeria Summit 2024

46

Improving governance with data: Data for Activism | Gabriel, Okeowo | EA Nigeria Summit 2024

47

How IPA uses evidence for policy work | Olasubomi, Obadeyi | EA Nigeria Summit 2024

48

Theory for Improving Children's Health: Case for Deworming | Maryann, Edeh | EA Nigeria Summit 2024

49

CommCare Connect: Digitally Supporting Paid, Purposeful work for CHWs | Sarvesh, Tewari; Sagar,Atre

50

High-Impact Project/Charity: Ambitious Impact Programs | Cameron, Kings | EA Nigeria Summit 2024

51

Interesting, Easy or Hard: How I have Prioritize Work | Olaoluwa, Akinloluwa | EA Nigeria Summit '24

52

Closing Remarks | Zakariyau, Yusuf | EA Nigeria Summit 2024

53

Workshop on Starting High-Impact Charity/Project | Cameron, Kings | EA Nigeria Summit 2024

54

Our Theory of Change and Plan | Daniel, Elabi; Chidi, Odinanwa | EA Nigeria Summit 2024

55

Three Journeys for EA | Zach Robinson | EAG London: 2024

56

First timers at EA Global | Zershaaneh Qureshi & Charlotte Darnell | EAG London: 2024

57

Ambitious Impact: lightning talks featuring newly incubated charities | EAG London: 2024

58

Good Ancestors - 12 months of Australian policy advocacy | Greg Sadler | EAGxAustralia 2023

59

Welfare and moral patienthood | Jeff Sebo, Daniela Waldhorn, & Patrick Butlin | EAG London: 2024

60

A balanced view on taking the Giving What We Can pledge | Grace Adams | EAG London: 2024

61

Evidence Action: Scaling the most effective health interventions| Carlita Bevege| EAGxAustralia 2023

62

Professional groups and EA | Ellie Christian and Clare Harris | EAGxAustralia 2023

63

Utilising your unique skillset for good | Marcus Daniell, Grace Adams | EAGxAustralia 2023

64

The last place on earth: Australia in a global food shock | Kevin Rassool | EAGxAustralia 2023

65

The future of EA relies on Effective Giving | Grace Adams, Luke Freeman | EAGxAustralia 2023

66

The danger of nuclear weapons is growing | Marianne Hanson | EAGxAustralia 2023

67

Make your climate activism count | Alexandria Rantino | EAGxAustralia 2023

68

Entrepreneurship Lightning Talks | Chetan Kharbanda, Kate Tapping | EAGxAustralia 2023

69

Is AI an existential risk? A discussion | Ryan Kidd, James Fodor | EAGxAustralia 2023

70

Effective policy in Australia - a unique moment to have impact | Keynote Panel | EAGxAustralia 2023

71

Hot Topics in Wellbeing Science | Jenna Ong | EAGxAustralia 2023

72

History and challenges of economic development | James Fodor | EAGxAustralia 2023

73

The role of mental health in poverty in rural Pakistan | Victoria Baranov | EAGxAustralia 2023

74

Australia's unique opportunities in tackling climate chang | Jack Rafferty | EAGxAustralia 2023

75

Consciousness, philosophy and animal welfare | Jack Hawke | EAGxAustralia 2023

76

Australia & policy careers | Chelsea Liang, Krystal Ha | EAGxAustralia 2023

77

Animal Welfare Talks | Sam Perkins, Ren Springlea, Michael Dello-Iacovo | EAGxAustralia 2023

78

Alternative proteins: Untapped opportunities | Thomas King | EAGxAustralia 2023

79

Unexpected value: Prioritising the urgency of suffering | Jonathan Leighton | EAGxAustralia 2023

80

Best bets: fourteen innovations with potential for impact at scale | Loic Watine | EAG London: 2024

81

History and challenges of economic development | James Fodor | EAGxAustralia 2023

82

AI Wellbeing | Simon Goldstein | EAGxAustralia 2023

83

Monitoring and evaluation 101 | Sophie Gulliver | EAGxAustralia 2023

84

Biosecurity from first principles | Akhil Bansal | EAGxAustralia 2023

85

Nuclear risks and the new AI arms race | Beatrice Fihn & Alice Saltini | EAG London: 2024

86

Obstacles and opportunities to make aid agencies more effective | Rory Stewart | EAG London: 2024

87

Combining interventions for maximum impact | Mahi Klosterhalfen | EAG London: 2024

88

DeepMind frontier safety | Mary Phuong | EAG London: 2024

89

Improving policy take-up and implementation in scaling programs | Neela Saldanha | EAG London: 2024

90

The global south’s role in mitigating AI risks | Cecil Abungu & Roberto Tinoco | EAG London: 2024

91

Accelerating innovation to tackle global challenges | Siddhartha Haria | EAG London: 2024

92

Peace Boat’s Hibakusha Project—testimony from survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | EAG London: 2024

93

Opening Remarks | Ben West | EA Global Bay Area 2024

94

Pandemic Proof PPE & AI Safety | Ryan Ritterson | EA Global Bay Area 2024

95

Scheming AIs | Joe Carlsmith | EA Global Bay Area 2024

96

Preventing Engineered Pandemics | Tessa Alexanian | EA Global Bay Area 2024

97

Media Professionals on Impactful GCR Communications | Kelsey Piper, Shakeel Hashim, and Clara Collier | EA Global Bay Area: 2024

98

Cause Prioritization & Global Catastrophic Risk | Hayley Clatterbuck | EA Global Bay Area: 2024

99

The Precipice Revisited | Toby Ord | EA Global Bay Area 2024

100

Sleeper Agents | Evan Hubinger | EA Global Bay Area: 2024

101

The Sword of Damocles | Dan Zimmer | EA Global Bay Area: 2024

102

Screening all DNA synthesis and reliably detecting stealth pandemics | Kevin Esvelt | EAG Boston 23

103

Quantifying animal suffering and the impact of welfare interventions | Cynthia Schuck| EAG Boston 23

104

Panel on nuclear risk | James Acton, Francesca Giovannini, and Heather Williams | EAG Boston 23

105

Opening session | Frances Lorenz, Arden Koehler, Lizka Vaintrob, Kuhan Jeyapragasan | EAG Boston 23

106

Lessons from reinforcement learning from human feedback | Stephen Casper | EAG Boston 23

107

Causes and uncertainty: Rethinking value in expectation | Bob Fischer, Laura Duffy | EAG Boston 23

108

Evidence Action: Inside the accelerator | Kevin Kelsey | EAG Boston 23

109

Closing session: Averting future pandemics | Matthew Meselson | EAG Boston 23

110

What we’re learning about spreading EA ideas | Grace Adams | EAGxAustralia 2022

111

Using stories to make the long-term feel real | Michael Aird and Elise Bohan | EAGxAustralia 2022

112

The role of politics and policy in effective animal advocacy | Emma Hurst | EAGxAustralia 2022

113

Technical AI Safety Research: An Overview | Magdalena Wache | EAGxBerlin 2023

114

Opening Talk | Carolin Basilowski, Sarah Tegeler, Patrick Gruban | EAGxBerlin 2023

115

Mechanistic Interpretability for AI Alignment | Callum McDougall, Joseph Bloom | EAGxBerlin 2023

116

Lightning talks: Sunday session 2 | David Quarel | EAGxAustralia 2022

117

Lightning talks: Sunday session 2 | Amanda Storm Schuster | EAGxAustralia 2022

118

Lightning talks: Sunday session 1 | Louise Pfeiffer | EAGxAustralia 2022

119

Keynote talk from Lily Ordano | EAGxAustralia 2022

120

Keynote talk from Judith Rensing and Tony Senanayake | EAGxAustralia 2022

121

Keynote talk from Emma Hurst Emma Hurst EAGxAustralia 2022

122

Introduction to the Effective Altruism Ecosystem | Catherine Low | EAGxAustralia 2022

123

Intercausal Impacts and the Power of Food System Change | Chris Popa | EAGxBerlin 2023

124

GiveDirectly: How to Grow Effective Work beyond EA | Harris Roberts | EAGxBerlin 2023

125

Fireside Chat with Will MacAskill | Abra Ganz | EAGxBerlin 2023

126

Everything you wanted to know about AI but were afraid to ask James Fodor EAGxAustralia 2022

127

Effective Giving in 2022 Louise Pfeiffer Luke Freeman and Michael Noetel EAGxAustralia 2022

128

Applying what youve learnt Catherine Low EAGxAustralia 2022

129

Anders Sandberg on Exploratory Engineering Value Diversity and Grand Futures EAGxCambridge 2023

130

An Altruist’s Motive to Look to the Stars Ekaterina Ilin EAGxBerlin 2023

131

Africa Are we missing a climate opportunity Lili Odarno EAGxAustralia 2022

132

Advocacy in Action How Non-profits Can Drive Global Health Agendas Jasmin Kaur EAGxBerlin 2023

133

AI Consciousness Report: A Roundtable Discussion [not EAG]

134

Alternative Proteins and How I Got There | Friederike Grosse-Holz | EAGxCambridge 2023

135

How Local Groups Can Have Global Impact | Cambridge Alternative Protein Project | EAGxCambridge 2023

136

Global Food System Failure And What We Can Do About It | Noah Wescombe | EAGxCambridge 2023

137

Infecting Humans For Vaccine Development | Jasmin Kaur | EAGxCambridge 2023

138

Existential Risk Pessimism And The Time Of Perils | David Thorstad | EAGxCambridge 2023

139

How To Make The Most of EAGx | Ollie Base | EAGxCambridge 2023

140

Spreading Life Across The Universe: Best Or Worst Idea Ever? | Anders Sandberg | EAGxCambridge 2023

141

Missing Data In Global Health And Why It Matters | Saloni Dattani | EAGxCambridge 2023

142

Alignment In Natural & Artificial Intelligence: Research Avenues | Nora Ammann | EAGxCambridge 2023

143

What Does It Take To Found A High-Impact Charity? | Judith Rensing | EAGxCambridge 2023

144

Fireside Chat | Lord Martin Rees | EAGxCambridge 2023

145

The Rising Cost Of AI Training And Its Implications | Ben Cottier | EAGxCambridge 2023

146

Fireside Chat | David Krueger | EAGxCambridge 2023

147

Virtues For Effective Altruists | Stefan Schubert | EAGxCambridge 2023

148

Anders Sandberg on Exploratory Engineering, Value Diversity, and Grand Futures | EAGxCambridge 2023

149

Fireside chat: Rear Admiral John Gower | John Gower | EAG London 23

150

Taking happiness seriously: Can we? Should we? A debate | Michael Plant, Mark Fabian | EAG London 23

151

Panel on nuclear risk | Rear Admiral John Gower, Patricia Lewis, Paul Ingram | EAG London 23

152

Opening Talk | Emil Wasteson | EAGxNordics 2023

153

What can we say about the size of the future? | Anders Sandberg | EAGxNordics 2023

154

Finding and thriving in a high impact career | Vilhelm Skoglund,Sebastian Schmidt | EAGxNordics 2023

155

Building a Resilient Future: Two New Scandinavian Initiatives | Various | EAGxNordics 2023

156

How and why Gi Effektivt changed our brand | Kari Kjørholt | EAGxNordics 2023

157

Exploring the Dangers from Artificial Intelligence | Caroline Jeanmaire | EAGxNordics 2023

158

Invisible Animals - Building an animal welfare organization | Kristina Mering | EAGxNordics 2023

159

The road to 100 million NOK yearly to effective charities | Kari Kjørholt | EAGxNordics 2023

160

From Activist to Consultant | Suvi Auvinen | EAGxNordics 2023

161

Could cash transfers end poverty in an entire country | Rachel Waddell | EAGxNordics 2023

162

Risks and Challenges in the EA Community | Catherine Low | EAGxNordics 2023

163

The Nordics: World-leaders in Reducing Existential Risks? | Haydn Belfield | EAGxNordics 2023

164

13 mistakes I made as a social entrepreneur | Henri Thunberg | EAGxNordics 2023

165

Can cash-transfers improve government aid spending? | Rachel Waddell, Mathias Bonde | EAGxNordics 2023

166

Exploring emotions & cooperation in artificial agents | Joel Pyykkö | EAGxNordics 2023

167

AI Safety Research Outside the Hubs:A Guide for Aspiring Researchers | Esben Kran | EAGxNordics 2023

168

What being an animal advocate taught me about effective communication | Ryuji Chua | EAGxNordics 2023

169

Achieving policy influence in changing the food system | Rune-Christoffer Dragsdahl | EAGxNordics 2023

170

A billion problems solved with one campaign | Niklas Fjeldberg | EAGxNordics 2023

171

Radical tactics within social movements: helpful or harmful? | James Ozden | EAGxNordics 2023

172

Fireside Chat with Phil Trammell | Phil Trammell, Anton Arbman Hansing | EAGxNordics 2023

173

Boosting Emerging Tech Governance through International Organisations | Jacob Arbeid | EAGxNordics 2023

174

Taking happiness seriously: Can we? Should we? A debate | Michael Plant, Mark Fabian | EAG London 23

175

Mistakes were made? A critical look at how EA approached AI safety | David Krueger | EAG London 23

176

Academic research on global priorities | Eva Vivalt | EAG London 23

177

Concrete open problems in mechanistic interpretability | Neel Nanda | EAG London 23

178

Modelling the future of AI | Jaime Sevilla | EAG London 23

179

Shaping humanity's longterm trajectory | Toby Ord | EAG London 23

180

Reducing lead exposure | Drew McCartor, Lucia Coulter, Rachel Silverman-Bonnifield | EAG London 23

181

Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention | Ryan Teo, Nils Justen | EAG London 23

182

Fireside chat: Rear Admiral John Gower | John Gower | EAG London 23

183

Panel on nuclear risk | Rear Admiral John Gower, Patricia Lewis, Paul Ingram | EAG London 23

184

Charity evaluation and its future | GiveWell, ACE, Founders Pledge, GWWC | EAG London 23

185

Caged hen campaigns in Europe | Kirsty Henderson, Sean Gifford, Sophie de Jonckheere | EAG London 23

186

Fireside chat with Matt Clifford | Matt Clifford | EAG London 23

187

Workshop How to prioritize Renan Araujo Marie Buhl Jam Kraprayoon EAG London 23

188

Workshop Becoming our best selves S Schmidt P Rohde D Pourtahmaseb-Sasi EAG London 23

189

Lightning talks Thinking outside the EA cause area box EAG London 23

190

First timers at EA Global Anubhuti Jain EAG London 23.mp3

191

Getting traction on great power risks Adam Thomson EAG London 23

192

Opening session Karolina Sarek EAG London 23

193

Longtermism and alternative proteins Bruce Friedrich EAG London 23

194

Closing session | Marcus Davis and Peter Wildeford | EAG Bay Area 23

195

How EA can impactfully engage in climate | Johannes Ackva & Armond Cohen | EAG Bay Area 23

196

Safety evaluations and standards for AI | Beth Barnes | EAG Bay Area 23

197

Reducing animal suffering in countries of the Global South | Carolina Galvani | EAG Bay Area 23

198

Potential pitfalls in university EA community building | Jessica McCurdy | EAG Bay Area 23

199

The current alignment plan, and how we might improve it | Buck Shlegeris | EAG Bay Area 23

200

Beyond the bednets: Vida Plena and MHI | Joy Bittner & Ben Williamson | EAG Bay Area 23

201

An overview of EA funding opportunities | Caleb Parikh | EAG Bay Area 23

202

How to compare welfare across species | Bob Fischer | EAG Bay Area 23

203

Discovering AI Risks with AIs | Ethan Perez | EAG Bay Area 23

204

Preventing State Bioweapons Development & Use: Shaping Intentions | Jaime Yassif | EAG Bay Area 23

205

Fireside chat: Russia, Ukraine and NATO | Rose Gottemoeller | EAG Bay Area 23

206

Will AI end everything? A guide to guessing | Katja Grace | EAG Bay Area 23

207

What's new in Open Philanthropy's GH&W work? | James Snowden & Norma Altshuler | EAG Bay Area 23

208

Nuclear weapons: ethics, law, and the limits of safety | Scott D. Sagan | EAG Bay Area 23

209

Opening session: Toby Ord | Toby Ord | EAG Bay Area 23

210

Workshop: Impostor syndrome | Kat Woods | EAG Bay Area 23

211

Workshop: Improve your decision-making | Spencer Greenberg | EAG Bay Area 23

212

GiveWell's new interventions | Olivia Larsen | EAG Bay Area 23

213

Workshop: How can we have better online discussions? | Lizka Vaintrob | EAG Bay Area 23