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There are many resources for those who wish to contribute to AI Safety, such as courses, communities, projects, jobs, events and training programs, funders and organizations. However, we often hear from people that they have trouble finding the right resources. To address this, we've built AISafety.com as a central hub—a list-of-lists—where community members maintain and curat

I am a lawyer. I am not licensed in California, or Delaware, or any of the states that likely govern OpenAI's employment contracts. So take what I am about to say with a grain of salt, as commentary rather than legal advice. But I am begging any California-licensed attorneys reading this to look into it in more detail. California may have idiosyncratic laws that completely destroy

This is a link post. This is the fourth in a sequence of posts taken from my recent report: Why Did Environmentalism Become Partisan? This post has more of my personal opinions than previous posts or the report itself. Other movements should try to avoid becoming as partisan as the environmental movement. Partisanship did not make environmentalism more popular, it made legislation

(Apologies for errors or sloppiness in this post, it was written quickly and emotionally.) Marisa committed suicide earlier this month. She suffered for years from a cruel mental illness, but that will not be legacy–her legacy will be the enormous amount of suffering she alleviated for others. In her short life she worked with Rethink Charity, the Legal Priorities Project, co-fo

This is a link post. A brief overview of recent OpenAI departures (Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, Daniel Kokotajlo, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Pavel Izmailov, William Saunders, Ryan Lowe Cullen O'Keefe[1]). Will add other relevant media pieces below as I come across them. Some quotes perhaps worth highlighting: Even when the team was functioning at full capacity, that “dedicated investm

We are pleased to announce the publication of La bisagra de la historia (in English, The Hinge of History), a podcast where we interview Spanish-speaking experts working on some of the most important problems of the century. The podcast is hosted by Laura González Salmerón and Pablo Stafforini, with occasional contributions by Pablo Melchor. Our first two episodes are now out:

This is a link post. I've previously suggested a constraint on warranted hostility: the target must be ill-willed and/or unreasonable. Common hostility towards either utilitarianism or effective altruism seems to violate this constraint. I could see someone reasonably disagreeing with the former view, and at least abstaining from the latter project, but I don’t think either could

Below is a summary of our theory of change. We've been working with this theory for well over a year now, but it hasn't been widely shared. To develop it, we followed Charity Entrepreneurship's advice and used these three sources as a guide. However, we mostly used this, which is an updated version of one of the aforementioned sources. It isn't complete. We have a 35-page intern

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-new-right-wing-dutch-government-plans-do-2024-05-16/ I sometimes feel that international development advocates are too focused on academia, philanthropies and multilateral organisations. I think advocates should be more aware of how vulnerable aid budgets are to cuts. For governments looking to reduce budgets, cuts to foreign aid are ofte

The AEBr Summit, the first major event of Effective Altruism Brazil, will take place on June 29, 2024, in the city of São Paulo, at the Innovation Center of the University of São Paulo (INOVA USP). Our main objective is to expand and strengthen the Brazilian EA community by inviting both newcomers and experienced members to join us for a day of inspiring talks, workshops, and ne