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[Question] What pre­dic­tions from the­o­ret­i­cal AI Safety re­search have been con­firmed by em­piri­cal work?

NIMBYism as an AI gov­er­nance tool?

Nether­lands plans 2.4 billion euro aid spend­ing cut

Is im­prov­ing crop farm­ing effi­ciency in HICs bad for farmed an­i­mal welfare?

Guardrails vs Goal-di­rect­ed­ness in AI Alignment

Pri­ori­tis­ing be­tween ex­tinc­tion risks: Ev­i­dence Quality

Best free we­bi­nars /​ videos for stu­dents to learn to con­duct cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis?

Still no strong ev­i­dence that LLMs in­crease bioter­ror­ism risk

In­creas­ing remittances

Eng­ineered plant pan­demics and so­cietal col­lapse risk

ProMED, plat­form which alerted the world to Covid, might col­lapse—can EA donors fund it?

Cul­ti­vated meat for wild an­i­mal welfare

PR risks come from the extremes

De­cen­tral­is­ing EA: Allow EAG at­ten­dees to ap­ply to be speakers

Start­ing the sec­ond Green Revolution

De­tails on how an IAEA-style AI reg­u­la­tor would func­tion?

Can EA fund PPE stock­piles in some small, low in­come coun­tries now?

Should global health donors fo­cus on R&D?

Don’t op­ti­mise for so­cial sta­tus within the EA community

Economists can help with biose­cu­rity via ROI models