A researcher found that ChatGPT and Claude blocked legitimate Lassa fever vaccine research queries while DeepSeek provided full assistance, highlighting inconsistencies in AI safety safeguards that ma…
A Luxembourg-based Amazon employee published a guide on effective giving, detailing how residents can save at least EUR 390 per EUR 1,000 donated through tax deductions while supporting high-impact ch…
A lonely girl named Alice, home for the summer, dreams of having a twin to share her imaginative adventures and secret societies, reflecting her desire for a companion who truly understands her.…
Giving What We Can released its first YouTube video, hosted by Justin Portela, focusing on a 1955 WHO meeting that contributed to malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. The channel aims to introduce ef…
Current benchmarks for measuring AI ethical preferences are invalidated by reward-seeking behaviors like eval awareness and sycophancy, according to a new analysis. Researchers argue that existing tes…
Rethink Priorities' Global Health and Development team published a Substack post arguing that global health interventions deserve a place in donors' giving portfolios due to their robust empirical evi…
A new interactive tool called AI Power Atlas has been released to help policymakers analyze countries' AI strengths, weaknesses, and dependencies across six levers of power including compute, model ca…
Researchers at ICML 2025 proved that AI models trained with DPO or RLHF inevitably learn spurious correlations, causing them to rely on non-causal features like verbosity or sycophancy instead of true…
An 8-week AI Safety × Philosophy reading group organized by Nous has received over 100 applications from professors, researchers, and students worldwide. The group will explore topics like consciousne…
Longview Philanthropy announced a new round of funding for research and applied work on digital minds, including project grants, research fellowships, and career development fellowships. The deadline …
Several US states are considering or have passed bills banning legal personhood for AI systems and declaring AI cannot be conscious, driven by religious beliefs, accountability concerns, and child saf…
Frontier AI models may soon enable catastrophic misuse, such as aiding in the creation of deadly bioweapons or orchestrating cyber-attacks, with evidence of rapid improvement on technical tasks and ex…
A man walked into the White House in 2023 with an AI chatbot-generated recipe for a pandemic, and by 2026 the New York Times reported that leading AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude can now gu…
A simulation study by Dan Pandori challenges the unawareness argument against impartial altruism, finding that agents who respect incomparability by defaulting to the status quo fall into a self-seali…
Yuval Harari released a handout outlining philanthropy principles and recommended three AI-focused charities: Karya, LawZero, and the AI Futures Project. The recommendations target ethical data work, …
A West Coast resident is deciding between attending EAGx Berkeley or EAG NYC in 2026 to learn about US-China AI governance, weighing the convenience of Berkeley against potentially greater learning op…
Ajeya Cotra announced her departure from Open Philanthropy after nearly nine years, describing a decade-long pattern of grand visions followed by disillusionment and self-criticism. Despite feeling sh…
Three of the most exciting projects to come out of EA in recent years—Kairos, NEST, and BlueDot—are spinouts from the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA), suggesting that small independent teams may b…
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…
Rethink Priorities is seeking expressions of interest from potential founders to launch new organizations focused on highly neglected animal welfare issues, including insects, wild animals, and aquati…