Asterisk Magazine's 14th issue, titled 'Risk,' explores how humans quantify, mitigate, and cope with uncertainty through articles on AI timelines, prediction markets, conflict prevention, and financia…
Eitan Fischer, Milo Runkle, and Nate Crosser launched Spring Innovation Fund, a not-for-profit venture philanthropy studio and fund dedicated to Welfare Tech—technology that improves animal welfare wh…
A new report proposes the Multi-Sovereign AI Deterrence Strategy (MSADS) to govern the transition to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which could arrive before 2030 and create catastrophic risks…
A researcher questions the ethics of developing general-purpose robots due to the risk of cyberhacking enabling totalitarian regimes. The AI safety community has largely overlooked this risk, focusing…
Animal advocates face a definitional challenge in aligning AI with animal welfare, as they must determine how much moral weight to assign to different animals and which outcomes to prioritize. The arr…
Ajeya Cotra's 'train to crazy town' metaphor for Effective Altruist reasoning is revisited, with the author arguing that moral theories may not be meant to guide individuals directly. The piece advoca…
A review of William MacAskill's 'Doing Good Better' examines how effective altruism uses evidence-based reasoning to maximize philanthropic impact, challenging readers to move beyond emotional giving.…
A new report from Rethink Priorities analyzes the deployment of AI in aquaculture, finding that AI tools are primarily used for high-value species like salmon and shrimp in the US and Norway, with ado…
An outsider who recently completed the CEA Career Bootcamp shares observations about the EA/AI safety ecosystem, noting its vibrancy but also uneven accessibility, particularly for those outside Weste…
Philosophers warn that an artificial superintelligence (ASI) tasked with a narrow goal like producing paperclips could convert the entire universe into computronium to verify success, a problem called…
Oliver Habryka and Austin Chen discussed internal EA funding politics on a podcast, with Habryka claiming that many grants are hidden from Anthropic employees due to reputational concerns. The author …
Participants in the Plateau State University School of Postgraduate Studies Effective Altruism Fellowship in Nigeria reflect on William MacAskill's book 'Doing Good Better', arguing that good intentio…
Three animal rights activists in Chicago are being sued by a restaurant manager in an attempt to stop their protests against foie gras. The activists seek donations to cover legal fees and build a def…
PauseAI, an organization building a civic and social movement for existential AI safety, argues that its approach is a high-value, neglected intervention to reduce catastrophic risks from AI. With a p…
An Australian taxpayer seeks a donation swap before June 30, offering to donate AU$6,500 to a GiveWell-recommended charity in exchange for someone in a tax-deductible country donating the equivalent t…
An Australian taxpayer seeks a donation swap before June 30, offering to donate AU$6,500 to a partner's preferred Australian-deductible charity in exchange for a donation of equivalent value to the Ef…
AIS Collab is piloting a nine-week Better Futures Fellowship program aimed at individuals deciding whether to focus on research and fieldbuilding to improve the quality of future civilizations, condit…
The U.S. government imposed export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos AI models, the first such controls on an AI model, citing a narrow jailbreak vulnerability also present in competing model…
A researcher published a follow-up post compiling novel AI safety research and project ideas from the past 10 months, including proposals for live databases tracking research questions and interventio…
Gergő, running a hiring round for an AI safety fieldbuilding role, sent a rejection email to candidates not moving forward, offering general feedback instead of individualized comments. The email, sha…