Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“What 27 AI Safety Generalists Are Building This Summer” by Jesse Gilbert🔸, Helena Tran
This summer, 27 residents came to Berkeley for the first cohort of the Generator Residency, a three-month program for AI safety generalists run by K…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
“Mental health challenges in the AI safety ecosystem seem like a big problem” by JulianHazell
A tough lesson I learned over the past few years is that it's pretty stressful to work in the “Please Don’t Build the Torment Nexus” ecosystem, espe…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
“What would make us scale or stop? NOVAH’s pre-commitment before seeing the RCT results” by I.J.J., AlexisAt
TL;DR
NOVAH (No Violence At Home) was incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship (now Ambitious Impact) in 2024 to test a promising idea: preventing inti…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
“Closing the LTFF, Spending Down Funds, and a New AI Fund at EA Funds” by calebp
The current Long Term Future Fund (LTFF) fund managers and I have decided to step back from our work on the LTFF. Because we believe LTFF donors tru…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
“The Acuity Problem: Maybe we can’t infer how intensely a being can feel from the number of different intensity levels it can go through” by Jim Buhler
Summary
A lot of scientific evidence has been gestured at to show how wide an organism's welfare range (i.e., the absolute intensity at the end of t…1 month, 2 weeks ago
“EA Funds is launching the Transformative AI Fund” by Lowe Lundin
TL;DR
The Long-Term Future Fund is closing down, and EA Funds is launching the Transformative AI Fund with a new full-time team. The fund's primary…1 month, 2 weeks ago
“EA Animal Welfare Fund: Request for Proposals for Cage-Free Laying Hen Welfare” by Zoë Sigle 🔹, eleanor mcaree
Priority deadline: October 15, 2026. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and we encourage earlier submission for time-sensitive work. Appl…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
“Most donors get risk wrong” by Jack Lewars
Linkpost for my Substack piece, lightly adapted.
Donors are holding AI wealth at enormous risk. Their giving is often extremely risk-averse.
“What …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
“UK Voters for Animals is running our 2nd mass lobby day! Tuesday 10th November.” by JamesÖz 🔸, Hugh P, Eleanor McAree 🔸, Billy Nicholles, vicky_cox
Last year, around 100 pro-animal voters came to the UK Parliament for a mass lobby day, run by UK Voters for Animals, to call for an end to cages an…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
“Why You Should Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive” by Erich_Grunewald 🔸
I think you should almost never use AI to write -- that is, to do the thing you're doing when you type words on a page -- whether for a blog post, a…
1 month, 3 weeks ago