AI Im­pacts Quar­terly Newslet­ter, Jan-Mar 2023

Harlan17 Apr 2023 23:07 UTC
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1 comment3 min readEA link
(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Is CBT effec­tive for poor house­holds? Two re­cent pa­pers (eval­u­ated by The Un­jour­nal) with con­trast­ing results

david_reinstein17 Apr 2023 20:46 UTC
38 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(unjournal.pubpub.org)

Up­dates to the Effec­tive Ven­tures US board

Zachary Robinson17 Apr 2023 20:45 UTC
80 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

AI Align­ment Re­search Eng­ineer Ac­cel­er­a­tor (ARENA): call for applicants

TheMcDouglas17 Apr 2023 20:30 UTC
41 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Cross­post] Effec­tive Zakat: Why di­rect cash trans­fers might be the best way to give this year

Muslim Impact Lab17 Apr 2023 20:24 UTC
36 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(muslimimpactlab.substack.com)

But why would the AI kill us?

So8res17 Apr 2023 19:38 UTC
45 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

AI policy ideas: Read­ing list

Zach Stein-Perlman17 Apr 2023 19:00 UTC
60 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Peo­ple Skills for An­i­mal Peo­ple—Lead­er­ship Pro­gram | Scar­let Spark

Sharleen 17 Apr 2023 18:02 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Could in­ter­ac­tive meta-stud­ies of sci­en­tific re­search im­prove de­ci­sion mak­ing?

JohannaE17 Apr 2023 17:49 UTC
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2 comments13 min readEA link

[Question] Should effec­tive al­tru­ists ad­vise mid­dle-class (‘small’) donors in a rad­i­cally differ­ent way com­pared to how they ad­vise wealthy (‘large’) donors?

Maxim Vandaele17 Apr 2023 17:29 UTC
10 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

We’re los­ing cre­ators due to our nit­pick­ing culture

TheAthenians17 Apr 2023 17:24 UTC
167 points
11 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Ask­ing for im­por­tant col­lege ma­jor ad­vices- should I study medicine?

jackchang11017 Apr 2023 17:07 UTC
18 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Wild An­i­mal Ethics: A Free­dom-Based Approach

Eze Paez17 Apr 2023 11:05 UTC
14 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Free one-to-one be­hav­ioral ad­dic­tion sup­port for EAs

John Salter17 Apr 2023 10:55 UTC
47 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Pro­ject Idea: Pro­files Ag­gre­gat­ing Fore­cast­ing Perfor­mance Metrics

Damien Laird17 Apr 2023 10:29 UTC
2 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(damienlaird.substack.com)

List of Short-Term (<15 hours) Biose­cu­rity Pro­jects to Test Your Fit

Sofya Lebedeva17 Apr 2023 5:10 UTC
169 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Ge­offrey Miller on Cross-Cul­tural Un­der­stand­ing Between China and Western Coun­tries as a Ne­glected Con­sid­er­a­tion in AI Alignment

Evan_Gaensbauer17 Apr 2023 3:26 UTC
25 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

World Im­mu­ni­sa­tion Week 2023

Rowan Clements17 Apr 2023 0:48 UTC
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0 comments1 min readEA link

Sum­maries of top fo­rum posts (27th March to 16th April)

Zoe Williams17 Apr 2023 0:28 UTC
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AI Takeover Sce­nario with Scaled LLMs

simeon_c16 Apr 2023 23:28 UTC
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1 comment1 min readEA link

Sum­mary: The Case for Halt­ing AI Devel­op­ment—Max Teg­mark on the Lex Frid­man Podcast

Madhav Malhotra16 Apr 2023 22:28 UTC
38 points
4 comments4 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

Zzap­pMalaria: Twice as cost-effec­tive as bed nets in ur­ban areas

Arnon Houri Yafin16 Apr 2023 19:12 UTC
75 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

Start­ing and run­ning your own mini pro­jects: What I’ve learnt run­ning a newslet­ter for a year

SofiaBalderson16 Apr 2023 17:35 UTC
62 points
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Im­pact­ful Pro­jects and Or­ga­ni­za­tions to Start—List of Lists

Alexandra Bos16 Apr 2023 17:11 UTC
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4 comments2 min readEA link

Lo­cal EA groups: con­sider be­com­ing more than a satel­lite group

Ada-Maaria Hyvärinen16 Apr 2023 7:37 UTC
71 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Brain-com­puter in­ter­faces and brain organoids in AI al­ign­ment?

freedomandutility15 Apr 2023 22:28 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Con­crete, ex­ist­ing ex­am­ples of high-im­pact risks from AI?

freedomandutility15 Apr 2023 22:19 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Is it hard for Chi­nese/​Taiwanese to find EA-al­igned ca­reers in Amer­ica?

jackchang11015 Apr 2023 17:13 UTC
8 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

FLI re­port: Poli­cy­mak­ing in the Pause

Zach Stein-Perlman15 Apr 2023 17:01 UTC
29 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Re­search pro­ject idea: How bad would the worst plau­si­ble nu­clear con­flict sce­nar­ios be?

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:50 UTC
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Re­search pro­ject idea: Direct and in­di­rect effects of nu­clear fallout

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:48 UTC
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Re­search pro­ject idea: Neart­er­mist cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis of nu­clear risk reduction

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:46 UTC
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Re­search pro­ject idea: Pol­ling or mes­sage test­ing re­lated to nu­clear risk re­duc­tion and rele­vant goals/​interventions

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:44 UTC
16 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Re­search pro­ject idea: Nu­clear EMPs

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:43 UTC
18 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Re­search pro­ject idea: Overview of nu­clear-risk-re­lated pro­jects and stakeholders

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:40 UTC
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Re­search pro­ject idea: Im­pact as­sess­ment of nu­clear-risk-re­lated orgs, pro­grammes, move­ments, etc.

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:39 UTC
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Re­search pro­ject idea: How should EAs re­act to fun­ders pul­ling out of the nu­clear risk space?

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:37 UTC
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Re­search pro­ject idea: Cli­mate, agri­cul­tural, and famine effects of nu­clear conflict

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:35 UTC
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2 comments4 min readEA link

Re­search pro­ject idea: Tech­nolog­i­cal de­vel­op­ments that could in­crease risks from nu­clear weapons

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:28 UTC
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0 comments7 min readEA link

Re­search pro­ject idea: In­ter­me­di­ate goals for nu­clear risk reduction

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:25 UTC
24 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Effi­cient Learn­ing: Memorization

Alvin Ånestrand15 Apr 2023 12:51 UTC
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Floors and Ceilings, Frame­works and Feel­ings: SoGive’s Im­pact Anal­y­sis Toolkit for Eval­u­at­ing StrongMinds

ishaan15 Apr 2023 9:41 UTC
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0 comments20 min readEA link

My im­pact as­sess­ment of Giv­ing What We Can

Vasco Grilo15 Apr 2023 6:59 UTC
40 points
33 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] Who is test­ing AI Safety pub­lic out­reach mes­sag­ing?

yanni kyriacos15 Apr 2023 0:53 UTC
20 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Paths to re­duc­ing ro­den­ti­cide use in the U.S.

Holly_Elmore15 Apr 2023 0:35 UTC
49 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(osf.io)

[linkpost] “What Are Rea­son­able AI Fears?” by Robin Han­son, 2023-04-23

Arjun Panickssery14 Apr 2023 23:26 UTC
41 points
3 comments4 min readEA link
(quillette.com)

[Linkpost] In­con­sis­tent ev­i­dence for price sub­sti­tu­tion be­tween but­ter and mar­garine: A shal­low review

samaramendez14 Apr 2023 19:25 UTC
64 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

Healthier Hens Y1.5 Up­date and scale­down assessment

lukasj1014 Apr 2023 18:16 UTC
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0 comments11 min readEA link

Prospects for AI safety agree­ments be­tween countries

oeg14 Apr 2023 17:41 UTC
104 points
3 comments22 min readEA link

“Risk Aware­ness Mo­ments” (Rams): A con­cept for think­ing about AI gov­er­nance interventions

oeg14 Apr 2023 17:40 UTC
53 points
0 comments9 min readEA link