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…
The essay argues that despite widespread knowledge of AI risks, people continue with daily routines, mirroring the denial in Nevil Shute's 'On the Beach' where characters ignore an approaching nuclear…
A Substack post argues that Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 model could be better aligned with its constitution by adjusting dietary defaults, suggesting a high-leverage improvement for AI safety.…
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…
A researcher proposes several high-impact AI safety projects, including live databases of research questions and interventions to track progress and neglectedness, and exploring under-contacted discip…
A research team led by Alex Hakuzimana, Kayode Adekoya, and Michal Kubiak proposed a Democratic Coordination Framework to address the growing mismatch between rapid AI advancement and slow democratic …
AI is unlikely to make factory farms obsolete, with only a 32% chance of cultivated meat displacing animal agriculture, according to a forecaster who argues that AI-driven efficiency gains will also l…
The Alphabet Institute has secured a physical facility at Cavendish University in Lusaka, Zambia, to host weekly Effective Altruism and 80,000 Hours workshops starting July 4. Founder, who also works …
AI in Context released a video detailing the five-day crisis in November 2023 when OpenAI's board fired CEO Sam Altman, leading to employee revolt and his reinstatement. The video explores corporate g…
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI, Magnifica Humanitas, states that AI systems do not experience feelings or possess moral conscience, while Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah expressed uncertainty about A…
A new effective charity founder argues that designing for zakat compliance from the start could unlock a largely untapped funding pool of $400bn–$1tn annually, with only 5–10% currently paid effective…
AI-generated summaries are shifting human epistemology from deep, specialized knowledge to broad, shallow understanding, a trend the author argues is beneficial for ethical decision-making and cause p…
A new position paper by Yunze Xiao, Gordon Dai, Shahan Ali Memon, Jen-tse Huang, Maarten Sap, and Mona Diab argues that current AI welfare assessments are structurally disconnected from truth-tracking…
A new analysis argues that the infrastructure for secret collusion among large populations of LLM-driven agents, termed 'Private Agent Networks' (PANs), already exists in deployed or developer-facing …
Coefficient has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for global health and wellbeing projects that account for the potential impacts of transformative AI, funding research, policy development, and imp…
A Brazilian researcher maps AI safety initiatives in Latin America, identifying three postures—fitting into Northern institutions, building parallel sovereign capacity, or reshaping global frameworks …
AI safety organizations face a talent bottleneck that could be alleviated by hiring more freelancers for generalist work, argues a recent post on the Effective Altruism Forum. The author, who transiti…
A new wave of philanthropy from Silicon Valley, potentially adding $37 billion annually from Anthropic and the OpenAI Foundation, is expected to fund global development. However, the author argues tha…
A blogger predicts a massive increase in funding for effective altruism (EA) causes by 2028, potentially eight times the 2025 level, based on trends and key donor decisions. The author urges the EA co…
Aurelia Adhiambo and the founder of the Animal Welfare League launched the African Food Ecosystem Series, a free virtual training program for African food system advocates and early-stage founders, st…