Centre for Effective Altruism

A long-term Effective Altruism community member reflects on their decision to disengage from EA after 13 years of involvement, critiquing the movement's culture, priorities, and institutional failures. The post explores disillusionment with EA's trajectory, particularly around longtermism, AI safety focus, and community dynamics.

This EA Forum post questions whether 80,000 Hours' career advice framework remains appropriate given AI's potential to drastically shorten the timeline of impactful human careers. The author argues that if transformative AI arrives within a decade or two, the '80,000 hours' framing (representing a full career) may be misleading, and that effective altruists should plan for much shorter time horizons.

This EA Forum post explores the role of constructive criticism in the effective altruism community and broader efforts to improve decision-making and outcomes. It likely examines how to give, receive, and institutionalize criticism as a mechanism for epistemic improvement and error correction.

This EA Forum post argues that if humanity were genuinely on track to solve AI alignment deliberately, the world would look very different from our current one—with far more coordination, resources, and urgency devoted to the problem. The author uses this contrast to highlight how underprepared and disorganized current efforts are relative to the scale of the challenge.

A case study examining the outcomes and lessons learned when an effective altruism organization made a deliberate investment in marketing efforts. The post analyzes what worked, what didn't, and what other EA organizations might learn from the experience regarding outreach and growth strategies.

This EA Forum post argues that scaling the impact of AI or other interventions requires genuine user buy-in rather than top-down implementation. It emphasizes that sustainable, large-scale change depends on stakeholders actively embracing and participating in the solution, not just having it imposed upon them.

An EA Forum post announcing and discussing a video about the existential risks posed by advanced AI development, arguing that if any actor successfully builds transformative AI without adequate safety measures, the consequences could be catastrophic for all of humanity. The video likely covers coordination problems and the dangers of racing dynamics in AI development.

This EA Forum post argues for the importance of capacity-building efforts within the AI safety field, making the case that growing the number of skilled researchers, organizations, and institutions working on AI safety is a high-leverage intervention. It likely addresses bottlenecks in talent, funding, and organizational infrastructure that limit the field's ability to address existential risks from advanced AI.

An EA Forum post exploring the emotional and psychological dimensions of engaging with existential risk and potential civilizational collapse. The piece reflects on how individuals process, cope with, and relate to the possibility of catastrophic or terminal outcomes for humanity.

This post argues that cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) for aquaculture animal welfare interventions systematically fail to account for portfolio-level fragmentation effects, where funding is spread across many small, disconnected projects. It suggests this structural problem leads to misallocation of resources in the effective altruism space focused on farmed fish and other aquatic animals.

This EA Forum post argues that a relatively small number of highly dedicated and strategically positioned individuals—around 200 people—could have an outsized impact on existential risk reduction and civilizational trajectory. It makes the case for concentrated talent and coordination in high-leverage roles as a multiplier for positive change.

This post argues that the global AI safety discourse is heavily dominated by Western perspectives, largely excluding the 1.4 billion people in India and other underrepresented regions. It calls for broader geographic and cultural inclusion in AI safety discussions, policy development, and research communities. The author highlights the risks of building AI governance frameworks without input from a significant portion of humanity.

Dario Amodei's public statement addressing Anthropic's engagement with the U.S. Department of Defense, explaining the rationale and scope of these discussions. The statement situates military/government collaboration within Anthropic's broader AI safety mission and seeks to clarify the company's position to the EA and AI safety community.

This EA Forum post discusses historian Rutger Bregman's argument for boycotting ChatGPT, examining ethical, environmental, and societal concerns about large language models. The post engages with whether consumer-level boycotts of AI products are a meaningful form of advocacy or harm reduction in the context of AI development.

Anthropic's third iteration of its Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP) outlines commitments to evaluate AI models for dangerous capabilities and adjust deployment and development practices based on defined AI Safety Levels (ASLs). The policy establishes thresholds at which Anthropic would pause or constrain scaling based on capability evaluations, particularly around CBRN risks and autonomy. It represents a voluntary industry framework for conditional scaling commitments tied to safety evaluations.

This is an announcement for the Digital Minds Fellowship, a week-long program held at Cambridge University focused on the moral and philosophical status of digital minds, including AI systems. The fellowship aims to bring together researchers and thinkers to explore questions around AI consciousness, sentience, and welfare. It represents a growing focus on AI moral patienthood as a distinct subfield within AI safety.

This EA Forum post argues that the effective altruism community and AI safety field should scale up their ambition, resources, and approaches to match the true magnitude of the problems being addressed, particularly existential risks. It contends that incremental or cautious thinking is insufficient when the stakes involve civilizational-scale outcomes.

A February 2026 EA Forum thread experimenting with a new format for EA organization updates, allowing organizations to post directly to the forum rather than through editorial curation. Features updates from Happier Lives Institute (new fund launch, charity impact research), Ambitious Impact (new leadership, Charity Entrepreneurship Program applications), and Anima International (campaign wins, job openings).

This EA Forum post surveys practical tools and methods for improving collective reasoning and belief formation in groups, addressing how communities can aggregate knowledge and reduce epistemic failures. It explores mechanisms that help groups arrive at more accurate beliefs and better decisions together.

The USDA has committed $100 million to fund innovation in screwworm control and eradication, and the Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) is offering to help researchers and organizations apply for this funding. This represents a biosecurity and animal welfare opportunity at the intersection of agricultural pest control and strategic biological risk reduction.

This EA Forum post examines whether the computational and financial costs of deploying AI agents are scaling exponentially alongside their capabilities, drawing a parallel to the well-known exponential growth in AI training costs. The analysis considers implications for the accessibility, deployment patterns, and safety oversight of increasingly capable AI agent systems.

This EA Forum post explores how individuals should prepare for a potential future of radical material abundance, examining implications for career choices, charitable giving, and personal conduct. It likely addresses how transformative AI or other technologies might reshape economic conditions and what ethical obligations follow from such prosperity.

A discussion thread on the EA Forum featuring Toby Ord as part of a 'Scaling Series,' likely exploring the implications of AI scaling for existential risk and long-term safety. The thread provides a forum for community engagement with Ord's views on how rapid capability scaling intersects with broader concerns about catastrophic risk.

This EA Forum post argues that European Union institutions represent an underrated career path for effective altruists, particularly those interested in AI governance and existential risk policy. It highlights the EU's growing influence on global AI regulation and the relative lack of EA-aligned people within EU institutions compared to other policy venues.

A call for research proposals exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and animal welfare, seeking projects that use AI to improve conditions for animals or that address how AI development affects animals. The post outlines funding opportunities and desired research directions in this emerging area.