Rethink Priorities

Cross-Cause Fund: our first dis­tri­bu­tion round

Help needed: sur­vey­ing non-EAs

The Ex­pan­sion of Fac­tory Farm­ing in Africa

[Linkpost] How I would ex­plain to oth­ers why I give to global health causes

RP is look­ing for pro­ject founders in ne­glected an­i­mal areas

How AI is Affect­ing Farmed Aquatic An­i­mals. Part 2: Deployment

Re­think Pri­ori­ties is hiring.

An­nounc­ing the Re­think Pri­ori­ties Cross-Cause Fund

Can AI be Con­scious? Biolog­i­cal Nat­u­ral­ism as a Re­search Program

A Database of Near-Term In­ter­ven­tions for Wild Animals

• Rethink Priorities 13 Mar 2026 13:24 UTC

  8 points

  1 ∶ 0

  on: EA Or­gani­sa­tion Up­dates thread: March 2026

  Rethink Priorities—Updates

  • Digital Minds Fellowship

    • Rethink Priorities is partnering with the University of Cambridge and PRISM to organize a seven-day, all-expenses-paid fellowship program on digital minds, August 3–9, 2026. Learn more and apply here by March 27.

  • Animal Welfare Talent Program

    • We are piloting the Animal Welfare Talent Program, created for promising researchers who want to work on farmed invertebrates and wild animals. Just this week, we welcomed the first of two fellows who will work with us for the next 4–6 months. While we are not currently seeking applications for this program, you can sign up for our newsletter to get notified if and when we do.

  • Monthly research roundup

    • Cause Prioritization

      • Which charitable causes do U.S. adults care most about?

      • Which cause areas do Effective Altruism community members prioritize?.

    • Global Health and Development

      • AI for Health: Where can frontier AI make the biggest difference in global health? and What does AI progress mean for health systems in low- and middle-income countries?

      • The impacts of maternal mortality

      • Landscape of water programs in low- and middle-income countries

    • Animal Welfare

      • Electrical stunning does not yet ensure prolonged insensibility in several European finfish species

      • Can investment into alternative protein innovation have unintended consequences for animals?

      • Contrary to popular belief, adult black soldier flies can eat

Elec­tri­cal stun­ning does not yet en­sure pro­longed in­sen­si­bil­ity in sev­eral Euro­pean fin­fish species

• Rethink Priorities 16 Feb 2026 10:10 UTC

  2 points

  0 ∶ 0

  on: EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates thread: Fe­bru­ary 2026

  We’ve launched the Digital Consciousness Model (DCM)

  The DCM produces probability estimates for consciousness across four systems: 2024 AI systems, the 1960s AI chatbot ELIZA, humans, and chickens. We assessed these systems by scoring 200 specific indicators drawn from 13 diverse perspectives on consciousness.

  Learn about the model and the results:

  • Read the non-technical summary

  • Download the full paper

  • Watch the presentation we gave at the launch event with NYU’s Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy

  New research

  • Cause Prioritization: We wrote summaries of cause prioritization surveys in the US adult population and in the EA community.

  • Global Health and Development: We’ve publicly released three reports, on AI for health, the impacts of maternal mortality, and the landscape of water programs in LMICs, respectively.

  • Animal Welfare: We published two new blog posts, the first summarizing message-testing research on de-emphasizing diet change in donation appeals, and the second investigating dual-use alternative protein R&D.

AI for Health: Land­scape re­view to iden­tify promis­ing ar­eas for impact

Digi­tal Con­scious­ness Model Re­sults and Key Takeaways

Assess­ing AI Con­scious­ness: Deep dive into RP Digi­tal Con­scious­ness Model

How AI is af­fect­ing farmed aquatic an­i­mals. Part 1: Innovation

How to nav­i­gate giv­ing to ne­glected an­i­mals: guides and net­work for donors

EA Sur­vey 2024: Cause prioritization

Re­think Pri­ori­ties: 2025 Re­sults, 2026 Plans and Fund­ing Needs