Podcast Episodes

“What 21,000 WhatsApp messages reveal about AI utility in extreme poverty contexts” by GiveDirectly

Disclosure: I work at GiveDirectly. This is a linkpost summarizing findings from a pilot we ran in Rwanda. I used AI to assist in writing this post,…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

“How bad would it be if GPS satellites were shot down?” by Jackson Wagner

Losing GPS isn’t an X-risk, but would create a huge disaster on the scale of Covid-19 or bigger.

Hi! From 2020 - 2023 I was one of the early employe…

1 month, 4 weeks ago

“A frontier AI company should shut down” by MichaelDickens

Cross-posted from my website.

Prior discussion: niplav's shortform (2025); Planning for Extreme AI Risks (2025) by Joshua Clymer

A frontier AI com…

1 month, 4 weeks ago

“How Africa Can (and Must) Skip the 30-Year Animal Welfare EvolutionUntitled Draft” by Jacob Ayang, Cheslyn Ceaser

TLDR: The animal welfare movement in Africa has made significant progress over the last 5 years, but due to increasing commercialisation of animals o…

1 month, 4 weeks ago

“Reasons To Be Skeptical Of RP’s Moral Weights Project” by James Brobin

In Rethink Priorities' (2021-2022) Moral Weights Project, they attempted to compare the welfare ranges of different farmed animals (which basically …

1 month, 4 weeks ago

[Linkpost] “The Quest To Find The Next Big Communicators In AI Safety” by Akshyae Singh

This is a link post.

In September 2025, I'd become increasingly convinced that a fieldbuilding program for content creators could solve a long-standi…

2 months ago

[Linkpost] “Scale Scale Scale, Govt. Govt. Govt: 3 concerns” by NickLaing

This is a link post.

I was recently at “Skoll”, the biggest NGO/social entrepreneurship conference. From one conversation to the next, two topics pop…

2 months ago

“Building Ideas-First EA” by Mjreard

TLDR: Sarah Bluhm and I are funding and mentoring ideas-first (as opposed to, e.g., careers-first) EA community builders. If you’re at one of these …

2 months ago

“Call for mentors: Sentient Futures Project Incubator” by Sentient Futures, Jay Luong, Constance Li, Sam Chapman, Brody McManus

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Deadline: July 8, 2026

Tentative program dates: August 15 – October 30

Know someone doing serious work on AI, animals, or the long-term fut…

2 months ago

[Linkpost] “Are top existential risk estimates 50,000 times too high? An optimizer’s curse model and analysis” by titotal

This is a link post.

Thanks to Arepo, David Thorstadt, Zeshen, and Michael st Jules for looking over this article. Disclaimer: I am not a subject mat…

2 months ago