A forum post has proposed that personal finance and career-focused YouTube channels represent an underexplored outreach opportunity for Effective Altruism (EA) ideas, noting that these channels attrac…
Clearer Thinking is conducting a survey on the psychological challenges faced by individuals working on high-impact problems such as existential risk, AI safety, and climate change. The anonymous surv…
Sixteen proposals for improving AI safety include creating a centralized hiring database to reduce the inefficiency of matching talent to organizations, hosting a large open-access conference for recr…
California AI safety advocates' moderate SB 1047 bill, which required safety protocols and audits for large AI models, was vetoed by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2024 after heavy opposition from frontier …
A former Google employee's LinkedIn post offering career guidance to laid-off tech workers resulted in 27 inbound calls within 24 hours, revealing that many talented professionals outside the AI safet…
Rohin Shah, head of AGI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind, argued in a December 2025 interview that there is no compelling case that advanced AI systems will inevitably develop goals catastrophi…
AI Safety veteran Holden Karnofsky estimates a 49% chance his own actions are making the AI risk problem worse, while Jesse Clifton stepped down as executive director of the Center on Long-Term Risk i…
Billions of dollars in philanthropic funding from the OpenAI foundation, Anthropic’s founders, and Anthropic employees is expected to generate roughly $50 billion per year in charitable spending, incr…
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders proposed the U.S. government own a 50% share of major AI companies through a sovereign wealth fund. The plan aims to prevent AI from creating a permanent underclass among U…
The Frontier Biodefense Fellowship launches to address growing global catastrophic biological risk from engineered pandemics, which the initiative argues is primarily driven by AI-enabled non-state ac…
AI safety plans that rely on a single chain of conditions are dangerously fragile, according to a new analysis. Google's April 2025 safety plan, considered the best among frontier AI companies, depend…
A new philosophical essay draws a direct parallel between Socrates' method of drawing out truth through dialogue and the modern practice of prompt engineering for large language models. The author arg…
A new essay argues that the premise "AI is different" — central to many AI existential risk arguments — is epistemically unsound because it functions as a self-sealing claim that no empirical evidence…
The greater the transformative change expected from AI, the more individuals should anticipate their future lives resembling an average global baseline rather than their current privileged positions, …
A comprehensive review of bio-uplift research as of mid-2026 has found no trials measuring the advantage that large language models provide to expert biologists in wet lab settings, despite experts be…
80,000 Hours cofounder Benjamin Todd released a new book arguing that rapid AI advancements, with a 60% chance of AI automating its own research by 2028, make strategic career planning more urgent tha…