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“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…

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“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…

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“What would make us scale or stop? NOVAH’s pre-commitment before seeing the RCT results” by I.J.J., AlexisAt

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NOVAH (No Violence At Home) was incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship (now Ambitious Impact) in 2024 to test a promising idea: preventing inti…

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“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…

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“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

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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…

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“EA Funds is launching the Transformative AI Fund” by Lowe Lundin

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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…

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“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…

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“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 …

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“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…

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“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…

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