News relevant to effective altruism

TagLast edit: Oct 11, 2023, 11:40 AM 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.

What happens on the average day?

rosehadsharAug 17, 2022, 10:09 AM

361 points

33 comments6 min readEA link

William Shatner joins Pacific Wild in message against fish farms.

Nathan CashionJun 24, 2024, 9:33 PM

6 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(x.com)

Netherlands plans 2.4 billion euro aid spending cut

freedomandutilityMay 16, 2024, 5:53 PM

70 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

We can protect millions of kids from a global killer — without billions of dollars (Washington Post)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Sep 23, 2024, 7:16 PM

181 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(www.washingtonpost.com)

[Link Post] Russia and North Korea sign partnership deal that appears to be the strongest since the Cold War

RockwellJun 20, 2024, 2:40 AM

26 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(apnews.com)

Disappointing Update on the UK’s International Development Committee Consultation

leecrawfurdMar 21, 2025, 2:59 PM

26 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

xAI raises $6B

andzuckJun 5, 2024, 3:26 PM

18 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(x.ai)

UK moves toward mandatory animal welfare labelling

AdamCMar 29, 2024, 4:50 PM

152 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

New Zealand proposes regulatory requirements for nucleic acid synthesis screening

Policy AotearoaFeb 6, 2025, 1:30 PM

13 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

White House publishes framework for Nucleic Acid Screening

Agustín Covarrubias 🔸Apr 30, 2024, 12:44 AM

30 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.whitehouse.gov)

Animal Welfare is now enshrined in the Belgian Constitution

Bob JacobsMay 3, 2024, 10:26 PM

95 points

9 comments10 min readEA link

Warren Buffett changes giving plans (for the worse)

katrielJul 15, 2024, 10:02 PM

151 points

14 comments1 min readEA link

(mailchi.mp)

Malaria vaccine R21 is pre-qualified

JoshuaBlakeDec 22, 2023, 8:49 AM

59 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Sam Altman returning as OpenAI CEO “in principle”

Fermi–Dirac DistributionNov 22, 2023, 6:15 AM

55 points

37 comments1 min readEA link

Farming groups and veterinarians submit amicus briefs against cruelty to chickens

Sage MaxSep 11, 2024, 10:32 PM

50 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

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

SiebeRozendalMar 20, 2024, 9:43 AM

16 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

(thezvi.substack.com)

EU policymakers reach an agreement on the AI Act

tlevinDec 15, 2023, 6:03 AM

109 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

“Denmark will be first to impose CO2 tax on farms, government says”

defun 🔸Jun 26, 2024, 7:27 PM

22 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

(www.reuters.com)

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

Pawel RawickiDec 27, 2023, 5:47 PM

50 points

5 comments13 min readEA link

(animainternational.org)

Merger of DeepMind and Google Brain

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ Apr 20, 2023, 8:16 PM

11 points

12 comments1 min readEA link

(blog.google)

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

christianMar 28, 2024, 10:27 PM

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 HuangJan 22, 2023, 2:13 AM

173 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

(www.nytimes.com)

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

teddyschleiferMar 20, 2024, 8:32 PM

19 points

15 comments2 min readEA link

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Speech on AI

Tobias HäberliOct 26, 2023, 10:34 AM

112 points

6 comments8 min readEA link

(www.gov.uk)

‘Open to Debate’ Singer/Crary EA debate—July 10

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jul 8, 2024, 7:54 PM

113 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

Claude Doesn’t Want to Die

GarrisonMar 5, 2024, 6:00 AM

22 points

14 comments10 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

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

AkashApr 5, 2023, 1:26 AM

143 points

34 comments1 min readEA link

African Heads of States Ban Donkey Skin Trade

Daniel AbilibaFeb 22, 2024, 7:20 PM

17 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.animalwelfareleague.org)

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

LizkaMay 31, 2022, 8:37 AM

39 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

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

SiebeRozendalNov 7, 2023, 10:39 AM

96 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

(archive.ph)

My article in The Nation — California’s AI Safety Bill Is a Mask-Off Moment for the Industry

GarrisonAug 15, 2024, 7:25 PM

134 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.thenation.com)

Upcoming speaker series on emerging tech, national security & US policy careers

ESJul 10, 2024, 7:59 PM

16 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

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

kierangreig🔸Nov 29, 2023, 1:44 PM

57 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

This is why we can’t have nice laws

LewisBollardFeb 28, 2024, 6:44 PM

241 points

25 comments5 min readEA link

Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047

LarksSep 30, 2024, 12:06 AM

39 points

14 comments1 min readEA link

(www.wsj.com)

In DC, a new wave of AI lobbyists gains the upper hand

Chris LeongMay 13, 2024, 7:31 AM

97 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

(www.politico.com)

It is now 89 seconds to midnight

Sarah ChengJan 28, 2025, 9:06 PM

14 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(thebulletin.org)

NYT article on challenge trials

OscarD🔸Jan 29, 2025, 10:52 AM

44 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.nytimes.com)

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

BurnydelicNov 23, 2023, 7:02 AM

13 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

Presenting nine new charities—a record for the AIM (CE) Incubation Program

CEMay 14, 2024, 10:12 AM

208 points

2 comments16 min readEA link

Monkeypox: Is it worth worrying about?

Marcus Abramovitch 🔸Aug 17, 2022, 5:59 AM

27 points

11 comments4 min readEA link

Is Deep Learning Actually Hitting a Wall? Evaluating Ilya Sutskever’s Recent Claims

GarrisonNov 13, 2024, 5:00 PM

114 points

7 comments8 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Top OpenAI Catastrophic Risk Official Steps Down Abruptly

GarrisonApr 16, 2025, 4:04 PM

29 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

New voluntary commitments (AI Seoul Summit)

Zach Stein-PerlmanMay 21, 2024, 11:00 AM

12 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.gov.uk)

World’s first major law for artificial intelligence gets final EU green light

Dane ValerieMay 24, 2024, 2:57 PM

3 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

(www.cnbc.com)

What the Headlines Miss About the Latest Decision in the Musk vs. OpenAI Lawsuit

GarrisonMar 6, 2025, 7:49 PM

87 points

9 comments6 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

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

Rethink PrioritiesNov 10, 2023, 8:35 PM

38 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

X-risk discussion in a college commencement speech

SWKMay 22, 2023, 11:01 AM

37 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

First FDA Cultured Meat Safety Approval

Ben_West🔸Nov 19, 2022, 12:09 AM

131 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(techcrunch.com)

 Jan Leike: “I’m excited to join @AnthropicAI to continue the superalignment mission!”

defun 🔸May 28, 2024, 6:08 PM

35 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

(x.com)

Helen Toner (ex-OpenAI board member): “We learned about ChatGPT on Twitter.”

defun 🔸May 29, 2024, 7:40 AM

123 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

(x.com)

Florida and Alabama ban cultivated meat

Ben Millwood🔸May 30, 2024, 2:51 PM

94 points

12 comments1 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

Announcing the 2025 Effective Altruism Donor Lottery: A Monumental Opportunity

Milan GriffesApr 1, 2025, 5:49 PM

13 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Pressing News Front Page

AndreFerrettiAug 24, 2022, 9:54 AM

80 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Announcing a $6,000,000 endowment for NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy

Sofia_FogelMay 31, 2024, 10:45 PM

134 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

China Hawks are Manufacturing an AI Arms Race

GarrisonNov 20, 2024, 6:17 PM

103 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

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

Giving What We Can🔸Jan 25, 2024, 9:33 PM

156 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Will AldredJan 20, 2023, 8:37 PM

93 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(time.com)

Is the AI Doomsday Narrative the Product of a Big Tech Conspiracy?

GarrisonDec 4, 2024, 7:20 PM

28 points

5 comments11 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

AIxBio Newsletter #3 - At the Nexus

Andy Morgan 🔸Dec 7, 2024, 9:00 PM

7 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(atthenexus.substack.com)

GiveDirectly to Administer Cash Grants Pilot in Chicago

LizkaJun 20, 2022, 12:46 PM

20 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(marginalrevolution.com)

The Tech Industry is the Biggest Blocker to Meaningful AI Safety Regulations

GarrisonAug 16, 2024, 7:37 PM

139 points

8 comments8 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

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

TynerAug 15, 2022, 8:55 PM

15 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.nature.com)

Fruit flies act depressed, AI regulation might pass in California, and more. [EA Newsletter]

Toby Tremlett🔹Sep 19, 2024, 9:52 AM

10 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

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

Heramb PodarMar 24, 2024, 12:03 PM

17 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

Zach Robinson will be CEA’s next CEO

Ben_West🔸Dec 28, 2023, 3:57 PM

182 points

51 comments1 min readEA link

Dean Karlan is now Chief Economist of USAID

Henry Howard🔸Jan 24, 2023, 9:19 AM

222 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Miles Brundage resigned from OpenAI, and his AGI readiness team was disbanded

GarrisonOct 23, 2024, 11:42 PM

57 points

4 comments7 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Announcing the Q1 2025 Long-Term Future Fund grant round

LinchDec 20, 2024, 2:17 AM

53 points

12 comments2 min readEA link

EA Wins 2023

Shakeel HashimDec 31, 2023, 2:07 PM

358 points

9 comments3 min readEA link

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

LizkaJan 5, 2024, 9:57 PM

54 points

1 comment12 min readEA link

2023: highlights from the year, from the EA Newsletter

LizkaJan 5, 2024, 9:57 PM

68 points

2 comments33 min readEA link

OpenAI’s new structure

AnonymousTurtleDec 27, 2024, 2:53 PM

30 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

Malaria ‘breaking’ news, quick commenting Call To Action, influence opportunity

Ariadne SkovgaardeJul 29, 2024, 9:24 AM

5 points

0 comments1 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. FoulkesMar 29, 2024, 6:37 AM

17 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

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

Jonathan YanNov 22, 2023, 1:01 AM

25 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.nytimes.com)

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

LizkaJul 7, 2022, 3:09 PM

29 points

5 comments5 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy

Jonathan YanNov 22, 2023, 12:11 AM

14 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.semafor.com)

Potentially effective career highlighted by UK Public Spending Audit

Joe WJul 30, 2024, 11:57 AM

1 point

1 comment1 min readEA link

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

rileyharrisNov 20, 2023, 1:35 AM

10 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Major update to EA Giving Tuesday

Giving What We Can🔸Nov 4, 2022, 3:10 AM

51 points

11 comments2 min readEA link

Planning ‘resistance’ to illiberalism and authoritarianism

david_reinsteinJun 16, 2024, 5:21 PM

29 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

(www.nytimes.com)

Data Insights by Our World in Data

Vasco Grilo🔸Jul 10, 2024, 3:54 PM

12 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(ourworldindata.org)

“Climate at the Crossroads? Robust philanthropic strategies amid political uncertainty in the US and beyond” [New report]

jackvaOct 31, 2024, 11:22 AM

22 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(dkqj4hmn5mktp.cloudfront.net)

Sam Altman / Open AI Discussion Thread

John SalterNov 20, 2023, 9:21 AM

40 points

36 comments1 min readEA link

How the Open Wing Alliance has helped free hundreds of millions of chickens from cages

Open PhilanthropyJul 31, 2024, 5:38 PM

78 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Egregious Cruelty: Humboldt Farm Sued for Putting Salt in Cows’ Eyes, Starving Cattle

Sage MaxOct 1, 2024, 10:38 PM

86 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Launching the AI Forecasting Benchmark Series Q3 | $30k in Prizes

christianJul 8, 2024, 5:20 PM

17 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

“Voluntary Energy—Together for Animals” brought together more than 100 defenders of the animal cause

Leo ArrudaSep 6, 2024, 9:19 PM

10 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

Bloomberg: FTX Has Billions More Than Needed to Pay Bankruptcy Victims

AnonymousTurtleMay 8, 2024, 10:43 AM

50 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.bloomberg.com)

Apply now to EAGxVirtual 2024 | 15–17 November

AllisonAOct 7, 2024, 7:17 PM

44 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Last days to apply to EAGxLATAM 2024

Daniela TiznadoJan 17, 2024, 8:24 PM

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Where to Give Locally? Lack of National Evaluators and the Case of Baby Lasagna

Adrian Satja KurdijaMay 16, 2024, 12:29 PM

10 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Exciting News: My New Role and the Path Forward for Research and Innovation at Plateau State University

emmannaemekaSep 26, 2024, 3:20 AM

53 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

The (UK) General Election is on 4th July

RasoolMay 26, 2024, 3:49 PM

2 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Submit Your Toughest Questions for Humanity’s Last Exam

Matrice JacobineSep 18, 2024, 8:03 AM

6 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.safe.ai)

The Giving Green Fund is evolving

Giving GreenJul 16, 2024, 11:48 PM

46 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Update on the wild animal welfare funding landscape

Cameron Meyer Shorb 🔸Oct 2, 2024, 11:56 PM

116 points

6 comments4 min readEA link

DC Butcher Shop Sued for Deceptively Advertising the “Fatty Liver” as Humane

Sage MaxOct 15, 2024, 3:24 PM

23 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

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

Noah Varley🔸Jan 26, 2024, 2:50 PM

27 points

27 comments1 min readEA link

(theconversation.com)

Musk’s Questionable Existential Risk Rhetoric Amidst Legal Challenges

MJan 31, 2024, 7:40 AM

5 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

GWWC Newsletter: January 2024

Giving What We Can🔸Jan 25, 2024, 9:28 PM

23 points

0 comments8 min readEA link

(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Launching the Respiratory Outlook 2024/25 Forecasting Series

christianJul 17, 2024, 7:51 PM

8 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

Poultry giant Foster Farms caught driving forklifts over chickens, throwing them, and kicking them; DA contacted

aleneOct 8, 2024, 3:24 AM

19 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

The most shareable PEPFAR piece I’ve seen

Toby Tremlett🔹Feb 6, 2025, 10:25 AM

96 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(foreignpolicy.com)

Giv Effektivt (DK) need ~110 more members to be able to offer tax deductions of around $66.000)

Ulrik JohnsenSep 11, 2024, 5:07 PM

92 points

16 comments1 min readEA link

New Book: ‘Nexus’ by Yuval Noah Harari

timfarkasOct 3, 2024, 1:54 PM

15 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

The need for a central repository of OH biosafety and biosecurity surveillance data including data aggregation, collation and visualization

Pamela KajumbaDec 17, 2024, 5:58 PM

9 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

Our first half year at Farmed Animal Protection Hungary—wins, fails and lessons learned

Tamás DrexlerDec 19, 2024, 3:23 PM

20 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

MHFC Update and RFP

wtroyFeb 6, 2025, 9:34 PM

64 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Adjacent News—Articles driven by forecasting platforms

Lucas KohorstOct 18, 2024, 1:19 PM

3 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Our fight for the future of one billion chickens.

Molly Archer-ZeffOct 22, 2024, 1:29 PM

241 points

18 comments4 min readEA link

Forecast With GiveWell

christianOct 23, 2024, 7:50 PM

35 points

6 comments2 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

How do you make a 250x better vaccine at 1/10 the cost? Develop it in India.

AbhishaikeFeb 9, 2025, 3:54 AM

3 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.owlposting.com)

EAGxCDMX Applications Now Open!

cescorzaDec 23, 2024, 4:46 PM

34 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

NestFresh expects to sell US eggs free of chick-culling by August 2025

Tyler KolotaDec 26, 2024, 5:15 AM

11 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.wdsu.com)

EA North is happening in Sheffield on Saturday 26 April

matthesFeb 12, 2025, 9:57 PM

82 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds?

Matrice JacobineMar 24, 2025, 2:48 PM

32 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.nytimes.com)

Launching Screwworm-Free Future – Funding and Support Request

lrobertsDec 31, 2024, 6:34 PM

216 points

29 comments6 min readEA link

Australian politician posts about shrimp welfare

Henry Howard🔸Jan 4, 2025, 8:24 AM

40 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Applications to EAGxCDMX close in a week!

cescorzaFeb 17, 2025, 8:42 PM

15 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

USA Today Highlights Profit for Good

Brad West🔸Feb 18, 2025, 2:40 PM

25 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Winners of the Forecast With GiveWell Series

christianFeb 19, 2025, 7:41 PM

24 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

The economic gap between Africa and the rest of the world is growing

Daniel AbilibaJan 8, 2025, 9:27 AM

19 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.economist.com)

USAID Aid Freeze—Bridge Fund established—Donate now for immediate relief

James&JoeFeb 24, 2025, 1:53 PM

113 points

15 comments1 min readEA link

Bridgewater x Metaculus Forecasting Contest Goes Global — Feb 3, $25k, Opportunities

christianJan 7, 2025, 9:40 PM

6 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

The Life You Can Save and Founders Pledge Launch Rapid Response Fund to Sustain Critical Global Health and Development Programs

Patrick Gruban 🔸Feb 20, 2025, 7:52 PM

116 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.prnewswire.com)

US AI Safety Institute will be ‘gutted,’ Axios reports

Matrice JacobineFeb 20, 2025, 2:40 PM

12 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.zdnet.com)

ARC-AGI-2 Overview With François Chollet

Yarrow🔸Apr 10, 2025, 6:54 PM

7 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(youtu.be)

Is AI Hitting a Wall or Moving Faster Than Ever?

GarrisonJan 9, 2025, 10:18 PM

35 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

New TIME magazine article on the UK AI Safety Institute (AISI)

RasoolJan 16, 2025, 10:51 PM

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(time.com)

Open Philanthropy: Economic Growth in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Ian TurnerJan 19, 2025, 1:07 PM

20 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Longview is now offering AI grant recommendations to donors giving >$100k / year

Longview PhilanthropyApr 11, 2025, 4:01 PM

72 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

New Aquaculture Law in Chile: Now is the time!

Marysabel DyDAnimalFeb 25, 2025, 4:31 PM

14 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Updates for EAGxVirtual 2024: Speakers, programs, etc

AllisonANov 6, 2024, 7:27 AM

58 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Should There Be Insect Farming In The UK? (Deadline April 1st)

Dorsal HeartMar 30, 2025, 1:33 PM

70 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

UK to cut its international aid budget 40% from 2027

RasoolFeb 26, 2025, 8:36 AM

40 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Fish farming: the invisible crisis we can no longer ignore

zoenewtonMar 29, 2025, 6:59 PM

34 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday

Siobhan_MFeb 26, 2025, 11:04 PM

30 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

(www.npr.org)

Sonoma County’s Measure J: Echoes of Switzerland’s Factory Farming Vote

zoenewtonNov 8, 2024, 12:17 PM

19 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers

Matrice JacobineNov 9, 2024, 11:47 AM

28 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

(techcrunch.com)

The Upcoming PEPFAR Cut Will Kill Millions, Many of Them Children

Bentham's BulldogJan 27, 2025, 4:03 PM

179 points

38 comments4 min readEA link

The catastrophic situation with USAID just got worse—why the EA community should care

Dorothy M.Feb 27, 2025, 10:11 PM

158 points

23 comments4 min readEA link

The African Movement to Keep Hens Out of Cages

Aurelia AdhiamboMar 31, 2025, 6:27 AM

26 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

“Direct cash looks 3-4x more cost-effective in a new GiveWell assessment”

defun 🔸Nov 12, 2024, 5:05 PM

109 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

(www.givedirectly.org)

Common Genetic Variants Linked to Drug-Resistant Epilepsy

Connor WoodApr 16, 2025, 3:55 AM

2 points

0 comments8 min readEA link

Human and HPV Genes Combine to Form Extrachromosomal DNA that Promotes Oropharyngeal Tumor Growth

Connor WoodApr 18, 2025, 2:09 AM

−1 points

1 comment6 min readEA link

China Vegan Society’s V-March results

Rakefet Cohen Ben-AryeApr 20, 2025, 7:44 AM

35 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

A common antiparasitic drug shows promise in halting the growth of aggressive skin cancer

Connor WoodApr 21, 2025, 1:53 AM

−7 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Supermarket Meat Reduction in Europe

ASuchyJan 30, 2025, 7:51 PM

19 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

FT article on potential charity regulation change in the US

LearnerApr 21, 2025, 5:26 AM

69 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Apolitical global health protection and making an impact

SofiiaFFeb 1, 2025, 9:34 AM

4 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Why the current mass science data deletion should be a key priority according to the INT framework

SofiiaFFeb 2, 2025, 11:02 PM

45 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

AISN #44: The Trump Circle on AI Safety Plus, Chinese researchers used Llama to create a military tool for the PLA, a Google AI system discovered a zero-day cybersecurity vulnerability, and Complex Systems

Center for AI SafetyNov 19, 2024, 4:36 PM

11 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

The U.S. National Security State is Here to Make AI Even Less Transparent and Accountable

Matrice JacobineNov 24, 2024, 9:34 AM

7 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.eff.org)

INTELLECT-1 Release: The First Globally Trained 10B Parameter Model

Matrice JacobineNov 29, 2024, 11:03 PM

2 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.primeintellect.ai)

Insect farming: New media coverage on the hidden challenges of the sector

Corentin D. Biteau 🔸Dec 2, 2024, 3:21 PM

69 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Will MacAskill coauthors new book titled “An Introduction to Utilitarianism”, with Richard Chappell and Darius Meissner

Rían O'M Dec 2, 2024, 5:48 PM

24 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(x.com)

New Frontiers in AI Safety

Hans GundlachApr 2, 2025, 2:00 AM

6 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(drive.google.com)

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

zdgroffDec 17, 2018, 5:50 PM

19 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Launching a petition to END preprogrammed suffering in broiler chickens in Switzerland

Zoe NewtonSep 2, 2024, 6:58 AM

55 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

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

mike_mclarenJan 4, 2021, 7:04 PM

18 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

2023 Future Perfect 50

Toby Tremlett🔹Nov 29, 2023, 3:12 PM

10 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

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

ShayBenMosheJan 15, 2021, 5:50 PM

17 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.nature.com)

USAID Outlook: A Metaculus Forecasting Series

christianMar 12, 2025, 8:34 PM

13 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

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

Hayley MartinDec 19, 2023, 2:12 PM

110 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

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

Franziska FischerOct 29, 2022, 8:56 AM

10 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

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

imp4rtial 🔸May 1, 2021, 7:34 AM

10 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

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

KarolinaSarek🔸Apr 6, 2021, 12:29 PM

78 points

5 comments12 min readEA link

Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Warming

Matrice JacobineApr 2, 2025, 4:10 PM

5 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.scientificamerican.com)

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

Sean EricsonJan 21, 2023, 6:36 PM

32 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

(www.bbc.com)

“This might be the first large-scale application of AI technology to geopolitics.. 4o, o3 high, Gemini 2.5 pro, Claude 3.7, Grok all give the same answer to the question on how to impose tariffs easily.”

Matrice JacobineApr 3, 2025, 10:50 AM

3 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(x.com)

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

Nathan YoungFeb 17, 2023, 4:31 PM

21 points

14 comments1 min readEA link

Peter Singer joins BOAS as an investor and you can too

Vincent van der HolstJan 8, 2024, 2:59 PM

3 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

California AI Bill, SB 1047, covered in today’s WSJ.

EmersonAug 8, 2024, 12:27 PM

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.wsj.com)

Feedback wanted: EA-aligned news curation service

OdinMB 🔸Jun 10, 2024, 2:06 AM

12 points

7 comments3 min readEA link

Anthropic is being sued for copying books to train Claude

RemmeltAug 31, 2024, 2:57 AM

3 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(fingfx.thomsonreuters.com)

EA Organization Updates: August 2023

JP Addison🔸Aug 14, 2023, 8:55 PM

36 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

New Princeton course on longtermism

Calvin_BakerSep 1, 2023, 8:31 PM

88 points

6 comments6 min readEA link

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

christianOct 3, 2023, 4:44 PM

21 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

Metaculus Launches Conditional Cup to Explore Linked Forecasts

christianOct 18, 2023, 8:41 PM

11 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

Douglas Hoftstadter concerned about AI xrisk

Eli RoseJul 3, 2023, 3:30 AM

64 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

The Plant-Based Universities open letter has now gone public

Oisín ConsidineSep 4, 2023, 8:12 PM

113 points

13 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Thoughts on consequentialism?

Noah BirnbaumNov 3, 2023, 2:41 AM

3 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Sam Altman fired from OpenAI

LarksNov 17, 2023, 9:07 PM

133 points

89 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

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

Jacob SteinitzSep 7, 2023, 7:51 AM

4 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

I’m a Former Israeli Officer. AMA

Yovel RomOct 10, 2023, 10:35 AM

64 points

33 comments1 min readEA link

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

AkashMar 23, 2023, 5:10 PM

112 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

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

WilliamKielyMar 23, 2023, 3:45 AM

47 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Is Bill Gates overly optomistic about AI?

DovMar 22, 2023, 12:29 PM

11 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

NickLaingOct 10, 2023, 2:30 PM

64 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

(www.bbc.com)

Investigative Journalists are more effective altruists than most

AlanGreenspanSep 27, 2023, 12:26 PM

2 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

DeepMind and Google Brain are merging [Linkpost]

AkashApr 20, 2023, 6:47 PM

32 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

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

Angelina LiApr 24, 2023, 11:57 AM

33 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

(www.ft.com)

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

Rakefet Cohen Ben-AryeOct 12, 2023, 11:39 AM

2 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

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

Daniel AbilibaSep 13, 2023, 7:24 PM

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 SafetyAug 8, 2023, 3:52 PM

12 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Israeli Prime Minister, Musk and Tegmark on AI Safety

Michaël TrazziSep 18, 2023, 11:21 PM

23 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

(twitter.com)

OpenAI board received letter warning of powerful AI

JordanStoneNov 23, 2023, 12:16 AM

26 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.reuters.com)

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

MNov 22, 2023, 8:21 PM

6 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

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

Arjun PanicksseryMay 24, 2023, 9:06 PM

44 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Your Chance to Save Lives. Today.

LiaHOct 13, 2023, 11:48 PM

−6 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

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

AlanGreenspanAug 28, 2023, 5:29 AM

−15 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

doebem: Charity Evaluation and Effective Giving in Brazil

Bruno SterenbergOct 30, 2023, 4:14 PM

61 points

6 comments4 min readEA link

Metaculus’s New Sidebar Helps You Find Forecasts Faster

christianNov 8, 2023, 8:56 PM

8 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

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

GarrisonFeb 10, 2024, 7:52 PM

286 points

20 comments3 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

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

ben.smithFeb 9, 2024, 6:40 AM

15 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.nist.gov)

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

GarrisonFeb 12, 2024, 11:34 PM

154 points

10 comments6 min readEA link

(jacobin.com)

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

MikhailSaminFeb 14, 2024, 3:43 AM

38 points

23 comments1 min readEA link

(www.nytimes.com)

Trump talking about AI risks

defun 🔸Jun 14, 2024, 12:24 PM

43 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(x.com)

Help Fund Insect Welfare Science

Bob FischerJun 14, 2024, 9:11 PM

235 points

31 comments2 min readEA link

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

Brad West🔸Feb 15, 2024, 1:55 PM

16 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

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

Agustín Covarrubias 🔸Feb 14, 2024, 9:28 PM

22 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

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

Ian TurnerFeb 24, 2024, 9:13 PM

77 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

(www.bloomberg.com)

Mr Beast is now officially engaged in effective giving!

Dave Cortright 🔸Jun 16, 2024, 12:29 PM

91 points

29 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

[Linkpost] Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties. FTX wants its $5m back

Pancakes4allJun 17, 2024, 4:47 PM

5 points

21 comments1 min readEA link

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

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

96 points

11 comments3 min readEA link

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

AnimalAdvocacyAfricaMar 1, 2024, 6:30 AM

37 points

1 comment10 min readEA link

Progress Studies Vs EA

Noah BirnbaumJun 18, 2024, 6:00 PM

8 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(asteriskmag.com)

Ilya Sutskever is starting Safe Superintelligence Inc.

defun 🔸Jun 19, 2024, 7:11 PM

26 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

(ssi.inc)

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

PhibMar 8, 2024, 5:47 PM

39 points

16 comments1 min readEA link

(venturebeat.com)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Zach Stein-PerlmanJun 20, 2024, 6:00 PM

31 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.anthropic.com)

We Did It! - Victory for Octopus in Washington State

Tessa @ ALIMar 15, 2024, 2:28 PM

212 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

Japanese organization for atomic bomb survivors Nihon Hidankyo has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Jonny Spicer 🔸Oct 11, 2024, 11:31 AM

6 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Understanding problems with U.S.-China hotlines

christian.rJun 24, 2024, 1:39 PM

11 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(thebulletin.org)

Metaculus Launches Question Series With Bryan Caplan

christianMar 21, 2024, 7:18 PM

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

How to be an effective science funder

rSanti97Dec 12, 2023, 11:09 AM

2 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Alex StrasserSep 26, 2023, 7:21 AM

37 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(gospeldemands.com)

Can AI power the Global Mapping and Quantification of Animal Suffering? The Pain Atlas Project

Wladimir J. AlonsoJun 25, 2024, 9:48 PM

33 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(welfarefootprint.org)

To Be Born in a Bag

Niko McCartyOct 7, 2024, 12:39 PM

18 points

1 comment16 min readEA link

(www.asimov.press)

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

Dave Cortright 🔸Jan 10, 2024, 4:16 PM

12 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.bbc.com)

ACE’s New Application Process for Our 2024 Charity Evaluations

Animal Charity EvaluatorsApr 3, 2024, 12:00 AM

39 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Random adversarial threshold search enables automated DNA screening

MetacelsusApr 2, 2024, 7:49 PM

12 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.biorxiv.org)

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

ShinApr 2, 2024, 8:56 PM

9 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com)

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

Valerie_MoncktonApr 3, 2024, 10:43 PM

15 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Metaculus: Q2 Cup Kickoff + Q1 Winners

christianApr 10, 2024, 9:30 PM

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

News from THL UK: Judge rules on our historic Frankenchicken case

Molly Archer-ZeffDec 16, 2024, 11:50 AM

59 points

30 comments1 min readEA link

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