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  1. 6h 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 joining 80,000 Hours. Turns out AI progress is a good train to hook yourself onto and AI has gotten pretty good at career advice. It has some advantages compared to a human advisor: The AI will spend as much time with you as you need It can start now, without a delay It can know about all the jobs and opportunities on the Job Board, even the niche ones It can work with you over time to build up knowledge of what jobs you’re thinking about and what skills you have Telling it more about yourself can, if you choose, add data to our headhunting database. 80,000 Hours has a team that searches this database for hiring managers, including for non-public roles. We’ll say more in a forthcoming post. (Humans still have their own advantages and you should still apply to advising or talk to your friends.) Introducing the 80,000 Hours AI advisor Chat with the AI advisor What you’re getting is similar in some ways to a regular chatbot. It's currently powered [...] --- Outline: (01:17) Introducing the 80,000 Hours AI advisor (03:45) The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (04:38) FAQs (04:41) Why not use [my favorite way to talk to a generic AI]? (06:08) Will it push me towards AI safety? (06:26) How's it made? (07:20) Feedback, etc. --- First published: September 3rd, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/n8hatzAuoicJxJP4q/ai-uplift-for-careers-free-80-000-hours-career-advising --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

  2. 7h 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 zero to ~500 Instagram followers, got 100+ tabling sign-ups, 59 people in our GroupMe, and ~40 people at our first general interest meeting. Our Instagram is now larger than the established EA groups at Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell, and NYU. This post is primarily about the factors we think led to our success. James C. Scott's has this idea called legibility. Essentially, the part relevant to recruiting is the reversal of Scott's idea. Scott's idea is essentially that institutions have to be able to abstract a complicated social reality into discrete categories that it can analyze and act upon. So, for example, an institution can't remember “Micah, who is sort of like this in this context but actually completely different when he is around these people and has this weird specific relationship to these three other people.” It needs to have information like: Micah Zarin, age 18, resident of X, income Y, student, etc. In doing so, it removes important particular details of individuals. After all, the word abstract [...] --- First published: September 2nd, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Hw4vNeW6RgvtutSAm/the-case-against-acting-professional-when-starting-an-ea --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

  3. 20h 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 on how lonely the AI situation sometimes feels to me. It's more personal than what I’d usually share publicly, but I thought I’d post it here in case it resonates with anyone else. I’m very grateful to the many readers of this forum who dedicate so much of their time and energy to these problems. — When I was 12 years old, I found out that many people in other parts of the world died of easily preventable diseases, and it was possible for wealthy people to donate relatively small amounts of money in order to stop that from happening. As one example, it costs a few dollars to buy a malaria net, and on average around 5,000 dollars can prevent a death which would otherwise have happened. As a 12-year-old, I saw the world in black and white, and I didn’t like what I saw. As far as I could tell, people's decisions about how much and where to donate would literally determine whether some real humans [...] The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: September 3rd, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/oicth6zSSP5B6vpMH/alone-again-facing-the-possibility-of-ai-takeover-as-the --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

  4. 1d 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 included the godfather of impact markets Paul Christiano himself, and noted supporters like Scott Alexander, Oli Habryka, and Andrew Critch — so I was hopeful that there would be some interest. … Zero people signed up for my session. Before everyone writes these off as some EA fad of the early 2020s, or a pie-in-the-sky dream requiring impossible levels of funder buy-in: I’d like to give my account of what we’ve learned about impact markets, and where we can go next. A brief oral history of Manifund Our 501c3 entity “Manifold for Charity Inc.” was originally started with a narrow thesis: it’d be good to let Manifold prediction market traders donate winnings to a charity of their choice. See our original grant proposal to the FTX Future Fund, which they approved with a 500 thousand dollar grant around April 2022. But at the time, this was just a side project of Manifold. Manifund proper was made with the explicit mandate of “make impact markets happen”. Scott Alexander was interested in trying out new mechanisms for funding projects [...] --- Outline: (00:56) A brief oral history of Manifund (03:34) Wait, so, what do you think about impact markets now? --- First published: September 1st, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/m84eEGu3t2jgMBNmC/what-happened-to-impact-markets --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

  5. 1d ago

    “Meet the Fellows: Frame Fellowship Cohort 2.0” by Akshyae Singh

    The Frame Fellowship is back for round two! In just about 10 days we'll have a brand-new cohort of 14 awesome content creators, storytellers, marketers, YouTubers, tiktokers- educating the world on AI safety through social media. Frame 2.0 received hundreds of applications from award-winning filmmakers, investigative video journalists, AI Safety professors, former UN staff, Adobe professionals- all transitioning to make compelling content that reaches millions of people. Somethings we looked for included exceptional communication ability, agency and passion for content, strong backgrounds/expertise, past AI safety engagement, distinct content styles, and how much they'd benefit from being part of the fellowship in San Francisco- all of which are important factors in determining the next big communicators for the space. Fellows will be participating in a 10-week intensive in-person program in San Francisco- going through mentor workshops, optimized structure for making better content, networking with relevant creators, researchers, and funders, while having access to funding and other production resources. The goal of the program is to build capacity for credible communicators that use social media to educate people about relevant AI topics. Each fellow participates in one of two tracks- Independent Track- Fellows work on building their own audiences, while [...] --- Outline: (02:35) Meet the Cohort. (02:38) Reaa Puri (03:21) Lauren Mushro (04:05) William Lee (04:49) Taeyong Kim (05:31) Ernestine Siu (06:11) Aaron Nev (07:02) Amina Green (07:46) Jeremy Ornstein (08:25) Martin Lee (09:11) Sara Landi Tortoli (09:49) Strad Slater (10:30) Stuart Harmon (11:10) Reuben Adams (11:44) Jeroen Willems --- First published: August 27th, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bQDBB8L9RjPmfGLiB/meet-the-fellows-frame-fellowship-cohort-2-0 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

  6. 1d ago

    “Kairos has raised $50M to build talent infrastructure for AI safety (and we’re hiring!)” by Agustín Covarrubias 🔸, Topaz, Kairos Team

    TL;DR: Kairos has raised 50 million dollars from Coefficient Giving for two years of funding, one of the largest commitments they’ve made towards AI safety fieldbuilding to date. We’re using this to make an ambitious push for growing Kairos, broadening our portfolio of talent infrastructure projects and incubating new organizations. We’ve doubled in size in the last six months, and we plan to double again in the next six. We now have open hiring rounds for ten roles on our team across events, group support, incubation, and special projects. Two years in Kairos was founded mid-2024 with the goal of creating infrastructure to get more strong talent into the field of AI safety. Our portfolio has grown over time: we started with a focus on seeding and supporting university groups through Pathfinder, then took over SPAR, the largest research training program in the ecosystem. Since then, we’ve launched the Generator Residency, a program supporting generalist talent, in partnership with Constellation, and taken over the Global Challenges Project (GCP), a series of workshops to accelerate people's transition into careers in AI safety and biosecurity. Through most of Kairos's history, we’ve had a very small team: in January 2026 we were [...] --- Outline: (00:50) Two years in (03:10) How the field has changed (06:24) Our new bets (12:32) We're hiring (a lot!) The original text contained 4 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: September 2nd, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/6ucKLAbrnbESYguyL/kairos-has-raised-usd50m-to-build-talent-infrastructure-for --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

  7. 1d ago

    “Launching Efektif Berbagi, an Effective Giving Organization in Indonesia” by Fawwaz Anvilen🔸, RakeanRed, Guntur I.K. Suryadi, Mohammad Dzaky Zaidan, Sydney Tjandra, Allan Handoyo 🔹, Abdurrazzaq Luthan, YudhistiraGowo, Chiquitha Sedjati

    TL;DR We’re launching Efektif Berbagi, an organization dedicated to introducing and advancing effective giving in Indonesia. Despite ranking several years in a row as the “most generous country in the world”, Indonesia currently has virtually no public advocacy or infrastructure directed towards cost-effective & high-impact giving. We’re working to be the bridge between Indonesia's vast philanthropic energy and the world's most pressing problems. Why Indonesia? For several years, Indonesia has placed #1 on the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) World Giving Index, having an estimated ~90% donation rate and a ~65% volunteering rate. While the World Giving Index measures participation, rather than absolute funds moved, the underlying pool for philanthropy is quite large: Religious giving - Domestic religious giving, particularly Islamic (ZISWAF, which stands for zakat, infaq, sadaqah, and wakaf), is estimated by national bodies (like BAZNAS) to exceed 2 billion dollars annually. The theoretical TAM (total addressable market) for Islamic religious giving has been estimated to reach 20 billion dollars annually. Expanding UHNWI base - Knight Frank estimates ~8,000 HNWIs (10 million dollars+) and ~4,000 UHNWIs (30 million dollars+) in Indonesia, with UHNWI growth projected among the fastest globally. Retail crowdfunding - Platforms like Kitabisa have popularized micro-donations across millions of users across Indonesia, moving 280 million [...] --- Outline: (00:15) TL;DR (00:44) Why Indonesia? (02:56) The 'effectiveness premium' (04:23) What we're building (08:34) Key uncertainties (10:37) How you can support us (11:26) Get in touch --- First published: August 27th, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/MKcPycExdmJ7KDgdt/launching-efektif-berbagi-an-effective-giving-organization --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

  8. 2d ago

    “Population ethics is a big deal, which is why I made this population ethics quiz” by MichaelDickens

    TLDR: Take the population ethics quiz here: https://mdickens.me/pop-ethics/ Population ethics is an oft-overlooked subfield within ethics. Many people hold views that they don't realize contradict each other, or that have strange implications that they wouldn't endorse if they thought about it more. Not just that—population ethics is a BIG DEAL. A lot of ethical decisions hinge on how you think about changes in future populations. I'll give concrete examples below, but reading the examples might change your answers, so you should take the quiz first. It has 13 to 17 short questions. (Questions are skipped when they can't affect the results.) Cross-posted from my website. Nobody gets to ignore population ethics There is no version of population ethics where you can just say, "Whatever feels intuitively right is what's right." Common-sense views on population ethics cannot all be true. The quiz illustrates that fact. It asks you some questions about how you judge different situations involving varying populations. Then, based on your answers, it figures out: Do your views contradict each other? Do your views have counterintuitive implications that most people would dislike? Answers are always contradictory [...] --- Outline: (00:56) Nobody gets to ignore population ethics (02:07) Concrete scenarios where population ethics matters (02:19) Example 1: Child mortality vs. family planning (04:14) Example 2: Environmentalism (05:52) About the quiz (07:24) AI usage disclosure (07:56) Source code The original text contained 26 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: August 31st, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/gH8aecYWJFBksHi9d/population-ethics-is-a-big-deal-which-is-why-i-made-this --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts, posts with 30 karma, and other great writing. If you'd like fewer episodes, subscribe to the "EA Forum (Curated & Popular)" podcast instead.

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