a couple hundred EA University groups around the world
Fair, I couldn’t find a map/list of the current active ones (outside NEST’s). I was looking for something like the one made by the AI Safety Seeding Initiative. Thanks for correcting my laziness haha. However, I’d like to push back on “couple hundred”; if I counted correctly, https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/groups shows 284 EA groups (I excluded alignment/AIS/ACX groups). A portion of those are uni groups and a smaller portion are active. Not sure what those two filters would yield but my hunch is that it’d be <100.
(FWIW I think one possible crux here is probably words/definitions. “Very active” and “established” is a bit of a range when it comes to groups, and I can imagine different people having varying good-faith interpretations here. From my own backyard in Germany I could arguably list 5, 10, or 20 “established Uni groups” depending on the bar that counts. So one could have less than or way more than a hundred worldwide, both seem plausible to me.)
Definitely some in the https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/groups are inactive, but there are also groups that haven’t put their details on this page, so it is hard to know. But on reflection my > maybe a couple hundred EA University groups is probably on the high side!
Some other numbers we know - CEA currently has 72 university groups in the Organiser Support Program (the team are interviewing new organisers right now, so this number will probably increase soon) - I was mostly anchored on the last time CEA did a detailed group census—and 200 uni groups was the ball park then. But now I look at it this was back in Dec 2022 so my anchor is really out of date. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/aetatCMGqcAPsNbLs/growth-and-engagement-in-ea-groups-2022-groups-census
299 EA groups [...] indicated that they are active.
Out of the active surveyed groups 150 were university groups and 25 were university/city hybrid groups.
Based on our records, we estimate that ~63 active EA groups (17% of all active EA groups) did not complete the census.
Hi Catherine, thanks for your comment!
Fair, I couldn’t find a map/list of the current active ones (outside NEST’s). I was looking for something like the one made by the AI Safety Seeding Initiative. Thanks for correcting my laziness haha. However, I’d like to push back on “couple hundred”; if I counted correctly, https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/groups shows 284 EA groups (I excluded alignment/AIS/ACX groups). A portion of those are uni groups and a smaller portion are active. Not sure what those two filters would yield but my hunch is that it’d be <100.
(FWIW I think one possible crux here is probably words/definitions. “Very active” and “established” is a bit of a range when it comes to groups, and I can imagine different people having varying good-faith interpretations here. From my own backyard in Germany I could arguably list 5, 10, or 20 “established Uni groups” depending on the bar that counts. So one could have less than or way more than a hundred worldwide, both seem plausible to me.)
(Edit: typo)
Good push back Hazem!
Definitely some in the https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/groups are inactive, but there are also groups that haven’t put their details on this page, so it is hard to know. But on reflection my
> maybe a couple hundred EA University groups
is probably on the high side!
Some other numbers we know
- CEA currently has 72 university groups in the Organiser Support Program (the team are interviewing new organisers right now, so this number will probably increase soon)
- I was mostly anchored on the last time CEA did a detailed group census—and 200 uni groups was the ball park then. But now I look at it this was back in Dec 2022 so my anchor is really out of date.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/aetatCMGqcAPsNbLs/growth-and-engagement-in-ea-groups-2022-groups-census
Out of the active surveyed groups 150 were university groups and 25 were university/city hybrid groups.