News relevant to effective altruism

TagLast edit: 11 Oct 2023 11:40 UTC by Amber Dawn

News relevant to effective altruism collects news that is relevant to doing good effectively: for example, medical breakthroughs that might mean improvements in global health, new laws about animal welfare requirements for farms, or technology news that might have implications for AI safety.

For media coverage of the effective altruism movement, use effective altruism in the media instead.

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What happens on the average day?

rosehadshar17 Aug 2022 10:09 UTC

356 points

32 comments5 min readEA link

Breakthrough in AI agents? (On Devin—The Zvi, linkpost)

SiebeRozendal20 Mar 2024 9:43 UTC

16 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

(thezvi.substack.com)

UK moves toward mandatory animal welfare labelling

AdamC29 Mar 2024 16:50 UTC

142 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

What do the Polish 2023 parliamentary elections mean for animals?

Pawel Rawicki27 Dec 2023 17:47 UTC

50 points

5 comments13 min readEA link

(animainternational.org)

EU policymakers reach an agreement on the AI Act

tlevin15 Dec 2023 6:03 UTC

108 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

Malaria vaccine R21 is pre-qualified

JoshuaBlake22 Dec 2023 8:49 UTC

59 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Sam Altman returning as OpenAI CEO “in principle”

Fermi–Dirac Distribution22 Nov 2023 6:15 UTC

55 points

37 comments1 min readEA link

New story about Dustin Moskovitz, EA, his meeting with Joe Biden, plans for the 2024 election, and his beef with Marc Andreessen over AI

teddyschleifer20 Mar 2024 20:32 UTC

18 points

15 comments2 min readEA link

New survey: 46% of Americans are concerned about extinction from AI; 69% support a six-month pause in AI development

Akash5 Apr 2023 1:26 UTC

143 points

34 comments1 min readEA link

Claude Doesn’t Want to Die

Garrison Lovely5 Mar 2024 6:00 UTC

22 points

14 comments10 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Forecast in the Understanding AI Series With Timothy B. Lee

christian28 Mar 2024 22:27 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

NYT: Google will ‘recalibrate’ the risk of releasing AI due to competition with OpenAI

Michael Huang22 Jan 2023 2:13 UTC

173 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

(www.nytimes.com)

WHO recommends R21/Matrix-M vaccine for malaria prevention in updated advice on immunization

Ben Stevenson2 Oct 2023 17:00 UTC

18 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.who.int)

Merger of DeepMind and Google Brain

Greg_Colbourn20 Apr 2023 20:16 UTC

11 points

12 comments1 min readEA link

(blog.google)

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Speech on AI

Tobias Häberli26 Oct 2023 10:34 UTC

112 points

6 comments8 min readEA link

(www.gov.uk)

UNGA Resolution on AI: 5 Key Takeaways Looking to Future Policy

Heramb Podar24 Mar 2024 12:03 UTC

16 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

Stop scolding people for worrying about monkeypox (Vox article)

Lizka31 May 2022 8:37 UTC

39 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

Rethink Priorities: Seeking Expressions of Interest for Special Projects Next Year

kierangreig29 Nov 2023 13:44 UTC

58 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Vox on cash transfers vs “graduation programs” for fighting extreme poverty

Lizka7 Jul 2022 15:09 UTC

29 points

5 comments5 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

Major update to EA Giving Tuesday

Giving What We Can4 Nov 2022 3:10 UTC

51 points

11 comments2 min readEA link

Monkeypox: Is it worth worrying about?

MarcusAbramovitch17 Aug 2022 5:59 UTC

27 points

11 comments4 min readEA link

First FDA Cultured Meat Safety Approval

Ben_West19 Nov 2022 0:09 UTC

131 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(techcrunch.com)

Nature: Nuclear war between two nations could spark global famine

Tyner15 Aug 2022 20:55 UTC

15 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.nature.com)

Pressing News Front Page

AndreFerretti24 Aug 2022 9:54 UTC

80 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

[TIME magazine] DeepMind’s CEO Helped Take AI Mainstream. Now He’s Urging Caution (Perrigo, 2023)

Will Aldred20 Jan 2023 20:37 UTC

93 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(time.com)

Dean Karlan is now Chief Economist of USAID

Henry Howard24 Jan 2023 9:19 UTC

220 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Dengue rates drop 77-95% after release of bacteria-infected mosquitoes in Colombia

SiebeRozendal7 Nov 2023 10:39 UTC

94 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

(archive.ph)

Webinar invitation: learn how to use Rethink Priorities’ new prioritization tool

Rethink Priorities10 Nov 2023 20:35 UTC

38 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Before Altman’s Ouster, OpenAI’s Board Was Divided and Feuding

Jonathan Yan22 Nov 2023 1:01 UTC

25 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.nytimes.com)

The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy

Jonathan Yan22 Nov 2023 0:11 UTC

14 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.semafor.com)

[Link] New data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

rileyharris20 Nov 2023 1:35 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www-technologyreview-com.cdn.ampproject.org)

Sam Altman / Open AI Discussion Thread

John Salter20 Nov 2023 9:21 UTC

40 points

36 comments1 min readEA link

Possible OpenAI’s Q* breakthrough and DeepMind’s AlphaGo-type systems plus LLMs

Burnydelic23 Nov 2023 7:02 UTC

13 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

X-risk discussion in a college commencement speech

SWK22 May 2023 11:01 UTC

37 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

African Heads of States Ban Donkey Skin Trade

Daniel Abiliba22 Feb 2024 19:20 UTC

17 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.animalwelfareleague.org)

This is why we can’t have nice laws

LewisBollard28 Feb 2024 18:44 UTC

239 points

25 comments5 min readEA link

GiveDirectly to Administer Cash Grants Pilot in Chicago

Lizka20 Jun 2022 12:46 UTC

20 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(marginalrevolution.com)

Zach Robinson will be CEA’s next CEO

Ben_West28 Dec 2023 15:57 UTC

182 points

50 comments1 min readEA link

EA Wins 2023

Shakeel Hashim31 Dec 2023 14:07 UTC

346 points

9 comments3 min readEA link

2023: news on AI safety, animal welfare, global health, and more

Lizka5 Jan 2024 21:57 UTC

54 points

1 comment12 min readEA link

2023: highlights from the year, from the EA Newsletter

Lizka5 Jan 2024 21:57 UTC

68 points

2 comments33 min readEA link

Have your say on the future of AI regulation: Deadline approaching for your feedback on UN High-Level Advisory Body on AI Interim Report ‘Governing AI for Humanity’

Deborah W.A. Foulkes29 Mar 2024 6:37 UTC

17 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

GWWC Pledge featured in new book from Head of TED, Chris Anderson

Giving What We Can25 Jan 2024 21:33 UTC

156 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Investigative Journalists are more effective altruists than most

AlanGreenspan27 Sep 2023 12:26 UTC

2 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

DeepMind and Google Brain are merging [Linkpost]

Akash20 Apr 2023 18:47 UTC

32 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Peter Singer joins BOAS as an investor and you can too

Vincent van der Holst8 Jan 2024 14:59 UTC

3 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Non-itemizing US taxpayers can deduct $300 of their 2020 donations

mike_mclaren4 Jan 2021 19:04 UTC

18 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

FT: We must slow down the race to God-like AI

Angelina Li24 Apr 2023 11:57 UTC

33 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

(www.ft.com)

[Link] “Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?”

zdgroff17 Dec 2018 17:50 UTC

19 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

UPDATE: Critical Failures in the World Happiness Report’s Model of National Satisfaction

Alexander Loewi24 Feb 2024 4:54 UTC

119 points

26 comments2 min readEA link

The Abstinence Violation Effect and the project of plant-based meals for soldiers

Rakefet Cohen Ben-Arye12 Oct 2023 11:39 UTC

2 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Over 350,000 laying hens committed to cage-free housing in Ghana

Daniel Abiliba13 Sep 2023 19:24 UTC

69 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(www.animalwelfareleague.org)

AISN #18: Challenges of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, Microsoft’s Security Breach, and Conceptual Research on AI Safety

Center for AI Safety8 Aug 2023 15:52 UTC

12 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

ACE’s New Application Process for Our 2024 Charity Evaluations

Animal Charity Evaluators3 Apr 2024 0:00 UTC

36 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Israeli Prime Minister, Musk and Tegmark on AI Safety

Michaël Trazzi18 Sep 2023 23:21 UTC

23 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

(twitter.com)

Random adversarial threshold search enables automated DNA screening

Metacelsus2 Apr 2024 19:49 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.biorxiv.org)

OpenAI board received letter warning of powerful AI

JordanStone23 Nov 2023 0:16 UTC

26 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.reuters.com)

[Question] Would an Anthropic/OpenAI merger be good for AI safety?

M22 Nov 2023 20:21 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Avian flu: Birds, cows, and now a human

Shin2 Apr 2024 20:56 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com)

Rishi Sunak mentions “existential threats” in talk with OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic CEOs

Arjun Panickssery24 May 2023 21:06 UTC

44 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Your Chance to Save Lives. Today.

LiaH13 Oct 2023 23:48 UTC

−7 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

Most effective solution to get 100millions of people out of poverty

AlanGreenspan28 Aug 2023 5:29 UTC

−15 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

doebem: Charity Evaluation and Effective Giving in Brazil

Bruno Sterenberg30 Oct 2023 16:14 UTC

60 points

6 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] How good/bad is the new Bing AI for the world?

Nathan Young17 Feb 2023 16:31 UTC

21 points

14 comments1 min readEA link

Metaculus’s New Sidebar Helps You Find Forecasts Faster

christian8 Nov 2023 20:56 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: why animal advocates should help slaughterhouse workers

Valerie_Monckton3 Apr 2024 22:43 UTC

12 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Sam Altman’s Chip Ambitions Undercut OpenAI’s Safety Strategy

Garrison Lovely10 Feb 2024 19:52 UTC

275 points

19 comments3 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

[BBC News] Postpartum haemorrhage: Niger halves blood-loss deaths at clinics

Sean Ericson21 Jan 2023 18:36 UTC

32 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

(www.bbc.com)

Biden-Harris Administration Announces First-Ever Consortium Dedicated to AI Safety

ben.smith9 Feb 2024 6:40 UTC

15 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.nist.gov)

My cover story in Jacobin on AI capitalism and the x-risk debates

Garrison Lovely12 Feb 2024 23:34 UTC

153 points

10 comments6 min readEA link

(jacobin.com)

FTX expects to return all customer money; clawbacks may go away

MikhailSamin14 Feb 2024 3:43 UTC

38 points

23 comments1 min readEA link

(www.nytimes.com)

Peter Singer’s Recent Article on Profit for Good Businesses, and a Response to His Call to Action

Brad West15 Feb 2024 13:55 UTC

16 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors

Agustín Covarrubias14 Feb 2024 21:28 UTC

22 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

Metaculus: Q2 Cup Kickoff + Q1 Winners

christian10 Apr 2024 21:30 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

Bloomberg: Unacknowledged problems with LLINs are causing a rise in malaria.

Ian Turner24 Feb 2024 21:13 UTC

77 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

(www.bloomberg.com)

Get the latest version of Chat-GPT for your institution or personal work.

wes R14 Jan 2024 13:42 UTC

−13 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Creative video ads significantly increase GWWC’s social media engagement and web traffic to pledge page

James Odene [User-Friendly]29 Feb 2024 8:28 UTC

96 points

7 comments3 min readEA link

Running Cage-Free Projects in Africa: Case Studies of Three African Animal Advocacy Organisations

AnimalAdvocacyAfrica1 Mar 2024 6:30 UTC

30 points

1 comment10 min readEA link

RCTs in Development Economics, Their Critics and Their Evolution (Ogden, 2020) [linkpost]

KarolinaSarek6 Apr 2021 12:29 UTC

78 points

5 comments12 min readEA link

NIST staffers revolt against expected appointment of ‘effective altruist’ AI researcher to US AI Safety Institute

Phib8 Mar 2024 17:47 UTC

40 points

15 comments1 min readEA link

(venturebeat.com)

We Did It! - Victory for Octopus in Washington State

Tessa @ ALI15 Mar 2024 14:28 UTC

207 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

[Linkpost] How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life—NYT

DM1 May 2021 7:34 UTC

10 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Is there a news-tracker about GPT-4? Why has everything become so silent about it?

Franziska Fischer29 Oct 2022 8:56 UTC

10 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Metaculus Launches Question Series With Bryan Caplan

christian21 Mar 2024 19:18 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

Last days to apply to EAGxLATAM 2024

Daniela Tiznado17 Jan 2024 20:24 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

How to be an effective science funder

rSanti9712 Dec 2023 11:09 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

A Systematic Response to FTX/SBF-Based Criticisms of EA

Alex Strasser26 Sep 2023 7:21 UTC

36 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(gospeldemands.com)

EA events in Africa Interest Form: Exploring EA events on the continent

Hayley Martin19 Dec 2023 14:12 UTC

107 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Nature Aging: A new Nature journal dedicated to aging research

ShayBenMoshe15 Jan 2021 17:50 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.nature.com)

GWWC Newsletter: January 2024

Giving What We Can25 Jan 2024 21:28 UTC

23 points

0 comments8 min readEA link

(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

2023 Future Perfect 50

tobytrem29 Nov 2023 15:12 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

Veganuary’s impact has been huge – here are the stats to prove it

Nicholas Kruus26 Jan 2024 14:50 UTC

25 points

22 comments1 min readEA link

(theconversation.com)

New Princeton course on longtermism

Calvin_Baker1 Sep 2023 20:31 UTC

88 points

7 comments6 min readEA link

Metaculus Announces Forecasting Tournament to Evaluate Focused Research Organizations, in Partnership With the Federation of American Scientists

christian3 Oct 2023 16:44 UTC

21 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

Metaculus Launches Conditional Cup to Explore Linked Forecasts

christian18 Oct 2023 20:41 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

Douglas Hoftstadter concerned about AI xrisk

Eli Rose3 Jul 2023 3:30 UTC

64 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

The Plant-Based Universities open letter has now gone public

Oisín Considine4 Sep 2023 20:12 UTC

109 points

13 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Thoughts on consequentialism?

Daniel Birnbaum3 Nov 2023 2:41 UTC

3 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Musk’s Questionable Existential Risk Rhetoric Amidst Legal Challenges

M31 Jan 2024 7:40 UTC

5 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Sam Altman fired from OpenAI

Larks17 Nov 2023 21:07 UTC

133 points

91 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

Austrian heiress Marlene Engelhorn announces plan for €25m giveaway

Dave Cortright10 Jan 2024 16:16 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.bbc.com)

Support “Do Good Movement” NGO: A Call for Members in EU/EEA Countries

Jacob Steinitz7 Sep 2023 7:51 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

I’m a Former Israeli Officer. AMA

Yovel Rom10 Oct 2023 10:35 UTC

65 points

33 comments1 min readEA link

The Overton Window widens: Examples of AI risk in the media

Akash23 Mar 2023 17:10 UTC

112 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

Transcript: NBC Nightly News: AI ‘race to recklessness’ w/ Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin

WilliamKiely23 Mar 2023 3:45 UTC

47 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Is Bill Gates overly optomistic about AI?

Dov22 Mar 2023 12:29 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

EA and SBF on the front page of BBC… and its OK!

NickLaing10 Oct 2023 14:30 UTC

64 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

(www.bbc.com)

EA Organization Updates: August 2023

JP Addison14 Aug 2023 20:55 UTC

36 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

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