A post argues that most effective altruists (EAs) should avoid living in high-cost-of-living areas like the Bay Area or London, citing significant savings on housing that can be redirected to donation…
The PIBBSS Fellowship is accepting applications for its inaugural winter cohort, a fully-funded research program in Cape Town, South Africa from November 2026 to February 2027. The program supports re…
A researcher argues that reinforcement learning should be applied to forecasting rather than coding or math, claiming it could produce superhuman forecasters that improve decision-making across civili…
Effective altruists may be neglecting political actions like voting and protests, which are non-delegatable and increasingly important for AI safety legislation. PauseAI UK has made it easier for indi…
Oxford mathematics professor John Lennox warns that AI could be used by authoritarian regimes to destroy the world, drawing parallels to totalitarian states he experienced during the Cold War. He crit…
A study led by Harvard and Stanford researchers found that ChatGPT outperformed hundreds of physicians in diagnostic challenges, sparking concerns about AI's rapid integration into U.S. healthcare wit…
A new term from Harvard Business Review, 'workslop,' describes the feedback loop where AI-generated content with subtle errors accumulates in enterprise knowledge bases, corrupting institutional recor…
Researchers from Oxford and Stanford developed Data2Story, a system using seven AI agents that transforms CSV files into interactive news articles with verified source links for 93% of statements. In …
Researchers propose LEAP, a training curriculum for Vision Transformer feature-based knowledge distillation that uses the teacher's intermediate feature maps as progressively difficult targets. LEAP a…
A study pitting ChatGPT against physicians in diagnostic challenges found the AI outperformed humans, raising concerns among doctors. Despite warnings from experts, AI tools are being rapidly integrat…
A new real-time tracker reveals AI-driven job displacement accelerating worldwide, with computer programmers, customer service reps, and data entry keyers most at risk. Young workers aged 22-25 face a…
Artificial intelligence models trained repeatedly on AI-generated data suffer "model collapse," causing them to misperceive reality and lose rare, original information, according to a recent paper fro…
A computer science PhD graduate who pivoted into animal welfare has stopped donating to the cause after finding that even the most well-known interventions—including shrimp stunning, cage-free reforms…
A coalition of mathematicians from institutions including Oxford, Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Columbia, and Northwestern has issued the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, formal…
A developer has outlined a method for running untrusted AI agent code without Docker, using hardware-level isolation via Firecracker microVMs, Kata Containers, or gVisor to avoid shared kernel vulnera…
A new study from Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, MIT and UCLA found that using AI for just 10 minutes significantly impaired participants' cognitive function and problem-solving abilities. After losing acces…
Henry Farell argued at a Blavatnik School of Government talk that AI should be understood as a "lossy information aggregation tool," comparing it to historical systems like state bureaucracies and mar…
"AI polls" or "synthetic sampling" companies like Aaru and Electric Twin use large language models to simulate survey responses by having AI agents act as human respondents, rather than polling real p…