Executive summary: This post compiles January 2026 updates from Effective Altruism–aligned organizations, highlighting time-sensitive job opportunities, upcoming EA events, and recent organizational activities across global health, animal welfare, AI, and climate work.
Key points:
The update lists multiple urgent job openings across EA organizations, with several application deadlines between January 17th and January 19th.
Upcoming EA events include EA Global conferences in San Francisco (February 13–15, 2026) and London (May 29–31, 2026), with applications currently open.
Rethink Priorities announced a February 10th webinar introducing its Digital Consciousness Model for assessing AI consciousness.
Several organizations reported on 2025 outcomes, including Evidence Action reaching over 200 million people and The Humane League estimating 100,000 hens spared from suffering.
Animal-focused organizations described new campaigns and research on aquatic animal sentience, cage-free commitments, and the spread of industrial animal agriculture.
AI- and research-oriented updates included METR’s publication of GPT-5 evaluation results and GiveWell’s experimentation with using AI to red-team its research.
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Executive summary: This post compiles January 2026 updates from Effective Altruism–aligned organizations, highlighting time-sensitive job opportunities, upcoming EA events, and recent organizational activities across global health, animal welfare, AI, and climate work.
Key points:
The update lists multiple urgent job openings across EA organizations, with several application deadlines between January 17th and January 19th.
Upcoming EA events include EA Global conferences in San Francisco (February 13–15, 2026) and London (May 29–31, 2026), with applications currently open.
Rethink Priorities announced a February 10th webinar introducing its Digital Consciousness Model for assessing AI consciousness.
Several organizations reported on 2025 outcomes, including Evidence Action reaching over 200 million people and The Humane League estimating 100,000 hens spared from suffering.
Animal-focused organizations described new campaigns and research on aquatic animal sentience, cage-free commitments, and the spread of industrial animal agriculture.
AI- and research-oriented updates included METR’s publication of GPT-5 evaluation results and GiveWell’s experimentation with using AI to red-team its research.
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