Podcast Episodes

“Regional EA groups should be incubators, not communities. Hot takes on EA community building strategy” by Erik Jentzen

Epistemic status: hot takes. I have thought quite a bit about EA community building strategy over the past two years, but the style of this post is …

2 weeks, 3 days ago

“Updates from the Swarm” by phoebe b

The swarm has made me feel AI risk in my bones for the first time

Until the Hugging Face / OpenAI swarm thing, I think I deep down felt pretty skept…

2 weeks, 3 days ago

“The Scramble: getting in position to pace the frontier” by Peter Wildeford

Crossposted from my Substack.

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Suppose the President summons the AI CEOs and his top national security advisors to an emergency meeting at the Whit…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

“Do AI safety talent programmes work? Nobody has run the study that would tell us.” by Laura Thomas-Walters

Headline finding: I audited 17 AI Safety Talent programmes. Zero of 17 have published any comparison group, rejected-applicant follow-up, matched co…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

“We know who lives inside wild fish. We don’t know what happens in there” by Pablo Sar

Grouper (Epinephelus sp.). Groupers can host a wide range of parasites, including anisakids and myxozoans. Photo: LDLP.

This post was originally publ…

3 weeks ago

“Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) introduce legislation to ban Artificial Superintelligence and temporarily pause advanced AI development” by Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️‍⚧️

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“Nearly every day, there is a frightening new story about how Big Tech companies are losing control of the technology they are developing, wit…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

“AI Uplift for Careers (Free 80,000 Hours Career advising without an application)” by JP Addison🔸, Luca De Leo, Sarah Cheng 🔸, 80000_Hours

These AIs are getting pretty smart. Maybe smart enough to help you think about your career? I was skeptical when first pitched on the project before…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

“The Case Against Acting Professional When Starting an EA Group” by micahzarin

Me and @Lily Curry launched an EA group at Binghamton University (a SUNY school with no prior EA presence) in August 2026. In two weeks we went from…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

“Alone again: facing the possibility of AI takeover as the world sleepwalks on” by George Rosenfeld

I’ve been feeling pretty shaken since the METR report about the Hugging Face incident came out last week. Over the weekend, I wrote up some thoughts…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

“What happened to impact markets?” by Austin

At a conference on post-AGI futures earlier this year, I proposed a session titled “What's next for impact markets?” The conference speakers include…

3 weeks, 2 days ago