First Effective Altruism AI Uplift Meetup

By Joey Bream🔸 @ 2026-02-05T14:13 (+36)

Running the first meetup for people hoping to accelerate Effective Altruism with AI tools.

Why now?

AI is accelerating productivity across industries.

People who invest learning to use AI tools are able to work much faster and more productively.

As a result, we can accelerate our favourite impactful organisations by helping them adopt these tools.

What will we discuss?

We will discuss

visibility, e.g. building personal sites and blogs - useful for growing luck surface area, raising awareness about productivity gains from these tools
workflow comparisons, e.g. claude skills, plugins, productivity hacks - who's got the best setup, what can we learn from eachother?
implementation e.g. how to network, volunteer well, and scale impact - how can we get plugged in to the right opportunities quicker?

Come along

Here's the Luma invite. This is an hour long meet-up aimed at any EA actively working to learn to use AI tools.

Can't make it?

If you'd like to advertise a problem you want tech help on, send me a DM

NickLaing @ 2026-02-12T11:43 (+3)

Thanks for the meeting, appreciate it a lot! One observation I have is there seemed to be 2 groups of people in the meeting, that could speak the same language with each other but not so well in between. I still gained a bit from

1. AI Coders: People who were focused on coding and building applications. They use Codex and Claude code (maybe down Clawdbot...), have multiple windows open and use words like "skills". They utilise AI to the max 25 hours a day.

2: Everyday optimisers People who use mainly the browser AI for a wide range of research / writing / image / organisation tasks. Maybe they a $20 a month subscription, and might use it a little every day or a few times a week.

I'm very much in group 2, and I still gained a bit from talking to group 1 but I think the use cases are as much of a difference as ability here.

Thanks again for organising if theres more I will come again :)

Joey Bream🔸 @ 2026-02-24T13:27 (+1)

This seems like a good analysis. Was great to see so many people and understand the different ways people are engaging with these tools. If you haven't already, would be great to see you join the Slack!

NickLaing @ 2026-02-05T16:39 (+2)

love this idea I'm in, see you next week.

Joey Bream🔸 @ 2026-02-10T17:54 (+1)

Awesome, see you soon!

Clara Torres Latorre 🔸 @ 2026-02-06T17:10 (+1)

Cool (:

I'm specifically interested in automating filtering EA-related opportunities and events to write our weekly announcements.

I think with a bit of tweaking that would be a public good for EA community building and might be re used by many groups.

Joey Bream🔸 @ 2026-02-10T17:54 (+1)

That sounds like a great idea. Hope to see you tomo!