Latest posts from the EA Forum

We’re funding events to help people make sense of AI risk
by Harry Waterman @ 2026-10-03 | +21 | 2 comments
Behind the Research: How Our Team Tackles Hard Questions
by GiveWell @ 2026-10-01 | +18 | 0 comments
Effective Altruism on cover of The Economist
by Ian Turner @ 2026-10-01 | +20 | 0 comments
Become a Grantmaker: The Fieldshaper Program
by Joey🔸 @ 2026-10-01 | +38 | 0 comments
Mapping the AI IPO Windfall
by Metaculus Comms @ 2026-09-30 | +24 | 4 comments
Metaculus forecast giving of only $25.7B over 4 years from the IPO windfall
by Rasool @ 2026-09-30 | +16 | 3 comments
A reply to Austin Chen on his “keen debt” to FTX when hiring Caroline Ellison at...
by Bland Garlic @ 2026-09-30 | +34 | 7 comments
Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
by Elizabeth @ 2026-09-30 | +27 | 0 comments
CCF: Our ambitions for the most rigorous model allocating charitable dollars...
by Rethink Priorities @ 2026-09-30 | +55 | 3 comments
Will AI Agents Pay to Avoid Killing Animals?
by Jonah Woodward @ 2026-09-30 | +33 | 1 comment
Fast grants for AI x animals
by Carol N @ 2026-09-29 | +23 | 3 comments
What will it take to deliver billions a year to the world’s poorest?
by GiveDirectly @ 2026-09-29 | +37 | 4 comments
Bryan Caplan vs Effective Altruism
by Walter Veit @ 2026-09-29 | +18 | 2 comments
Thank you to the AI safety people
by Julia_Wise🔸 @ 2026-09-29 | +63 | 2 comments
9 reasons against a near-term AI slow-down
by Jordan Arel @ 2026-09-28 | +21 | 4 comments
Our Community Often Overestimates Pangram's Accuracy
by SoniaAlbrecht 🔸 @ 2026-09-27 | +38 | 5 comments
Existential Risk Is An Extraordinary Claim
by James Brobin @ 2026-09-26 | +15 | 10 comments
The cooperative silence hypothesis
by Magnus Vinding @ 2026-09-25 | +41 | 2 comments
CCF: Billions are coming. Still no plan to give well?
by Rethink Priorities @ 2026-09-25 | +67 | 16 comments
GiveWell fundraising up 49% in 2025, driven overwhelmingly by 39 donors giving...
by Rasool @ 2026-10-02 | +17 | 0 comments
What I have learnt from community building in Nigeria
by Daniel Elabi @ 2026-09-28 | +34 | 0 comments
Why I’m optimistic about cultivated meat (and a suggestion for the frontier...
by Bruce Friedrich 🔸 @ 2026-09-24 | +30 | 3 comments
State of Pandemic Early Warning
by Jeff Kaufman 🔸 @ 2026-09-24 | +24 | 1 comment
Scoop: Trump allies open new front against Anthropic CEO over AI "doomerism"
by Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️‍⚧️ @ 2026-09-24 | +25 | 0 comments
Make your own model of the AI windfall
by Jack Lewars @ 2026-09-24 | +23 | 2 comments
The vegan trap: are we making animal advocacy harder than it needs to be?
by tobiasleenaert @ 2026-09-24 | +71 | 14 comments
Middle Powers and Transformative AI: A request for proposals
by OscarD🔸 @ 2026-09-23 | +31 | 1 comment
Why is the Department of War Against Effective Altruism?
by Walter Veit @ 2026-09-23 | +15 | 0 comments
Why I'm scared of RL
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2026-09-23 | +57 | 0 comments
More founders should move to their country of operations
by Naveeth Basheer @ 2026-09-22 | +35 | 0 comments
Ten Bets Worth Making: Bolder Ambition for Animal Advocacy's New Philanthropic...
by Barbara Buril @ 2026-09-22 | +17 | 3 comments
Initial DIY Cleanroom Experimentation
by Jeff Kaufman 🔸 @ 2026-09-22 | +50 | 3 comments
Community Health: A Call for Transparency
by LauraC @ 2026-09-22 | +50 | 35 comments
Total Safety Transparency?
by Austin @ 2026-09-22 | +21 | 3 comments
Reasons why far-future civilizations may still greatly value biodiversity
by Tandena Wagner @ 2026-09-28 | +27 | 3 comments
Campaign spending limits would reduce extinction risk (but spending limits might...
by MichaelDickens @ 2026-09-21 | +24 | 3 comments
Swarm Scaling
by Toby_Ord @ 2026-09-21 | +103 | 8 comments
Targeting High-Risk Pregnancies: A Cost-Effectiveness Case for Low-Dose Aspirin
by Marshall @ 2026-09-22 | +44 | 2 comments
Introducing Effective Altruism at UC San Diego!
by Brittney Nial @ 2026-10-01 | +19 | 1 comment
We’re not ready for the e/Acc × Longevity preference cascade
by Jackson Wagner @ 2026-09-21 | +23 | 3 comments
Grantmakers: Consider sharing rough probabilities & brief feedback with...
by david_reinstein @ 2026-09-19 | +28 | 10 comments
The J-Space Debate, Agent Swarms, and Pacing Frontier AI — Digital Minds...
by Lucius Caviola @ 2026-09-18 | +19 | 0 comments
Advice for prospective incubators
by Aidan Alexander @ 2026-09-21 | +49 | 1 comment
What even is an incubator?
by Aidan Alexander @ 2026-09-18 | +49 | 1 comment
Pacing the Frontier: A Framework & Research Agenda
by Charles Dillon 🔸 @ 2026-09-18 | +43 | 1 comment
YCombinator companies still aren’t growing much faster due to AI
by Ben_West🔸 @ 2026-09-17 | +62 | 7 comments
New weighted factor model tool for career planning
by Sam Roth 🔸 @ 2026-09-17 | +15 | 0 comments
You can't join the secret inner circle of cool effective altruists
by ozymandias @ 2026-09-17 | +76 | 10 comments
Max Nadeau on recruiting founders for a new wave of AI safety nonprofits
by 80000_Hours @ 2026-09-17 | +15 | 0 comments
Magnify Mentoring Update: Mentee applications are now open!
by Belle Koh @ 2026-09-17 | +15 | 0 comments