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

344 points

32 comments5 min readEA link

Sam Altman returning as OpenAI CEO “in principle”

Fermi–Dirac Distribution22 Nov 2023 6:15 UTC

55 points

38 comments1 min readEA link

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)

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

Alex Strasser26 Sep 2023 7:21 UTC

29 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(gospeldemands.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)

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)

Pressing News Front Page

AndreFerretti24 Aug 2022 9:54 UTC

76 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

[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)

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

SiebeRozendal7 Nov 2023 10:39 UTC

93 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

(archive.ph)

[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)

Sam Altman / Open AI Discussion Thread

John Salter20 Nov 2023 9:21 UTC

40 points

36 comments1 min readEA link

First FDA Cultured Meat Safety Approval

Ben_West19 Nov 2022 0:09 UTC

130 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(techcrunch.com)

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

GiveDirectly to Administer Cash Grants Pilot in Chicago

Lizka20 Jun 2022 12:46 UTC

20 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(marginalrevolution.com)

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

X-risk discussion in a college commencement speech

SWK22 May 2023 11:01 UTC

37 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

Dean Karlan is now Chief Economist of USAID

Henry Howard24 Jan 2023 9:19 UTC

215 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

The Odyssean Process

Odyssean Institute24 Nov 2023 13:48 UTC

27 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

(www.odysseaninstitute.org)

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)

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)

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

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

kierangreig29 Nov 2023 13:44 UTC

56 points

0 comments5 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)

Monkeypox: Is it worth worrying about?

MarcusAbramovitch17 Aug 2022 5:59 UTC

27 points

11 comments4 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)

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

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)

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)

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

68 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)

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)

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

M22 Nov 2023 20:21 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

59 points

6 comments4 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)

OpenAI board received letter warning of powerful AI

JordanStone23 Nov 2023 0:16 UTC

26 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.reuters.com)

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

zdgroff17 Dec 2018 17:50 UTC

19 points

3 comments1 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

2023 Future Perfect 50

tobytrem29 Nov 2023 15:12 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

[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)

[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

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

DM1 May 2021 7:34 UTC

10 points

0 comments3 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

[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)

[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

EA Organization Updates: August 2023

JP Addison14 Aug 2023 20:55 UTC

36 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

New Princeton course on longtermism

Calvin_Baker1 Sep 2023 20:31 UTC

86 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

105 points

13 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Thoughts on consequentialism?

Daniel Birnbaum3 Nov 2023 2:41 UTC

3 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)

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

66 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

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

142 points

34 comments1 min readEA link

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