Yarrow Bouchard 🔸

Pronouns: she/her or they/them. 

Parody of Stewart Brand’s whole Earth button.

I got interested in effective altruism back before it was called effective altruism, back before Giving What We Can had a website. Later on, I got involved in my university EA group and helped run it for a few years. Now I’m trying to figure out where effective altruism can fit into my life these days and what it means to me.

I write on Substack, and used to write on Medium.

Posts

Self-driving cars aren’t nearly a solved problem
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-12-28 | +39 | 0 comments
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on what's still needed for AGI
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-12-19 | +9 | 0 comments
Why haven’t we seen a promising longtermist intervention yet?
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-12-18 | +14 | 0 comments
Two arguments against patient philanthropy
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-12-11 | +8 | 0 comments
How I hope the EA community will respond to the AI bubble popping
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-12-05 | +35 | 0 comments
Roboticist Rodney Brooks on generative AI hype
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-12-04 | +14 | 0 comments
Highlights from Ilya Sutskever’s November 2025 interview with Dwarkesh Patel
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-11-25 | +21 | 0 comments
Unsolved research problems on the road to AGI
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-11-22 | +11 | 0 comments
Is the AI Industry in a Bubble?
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-11-16 | +33 | 0 comments
A major flaw in the Forecasting Research Institute's "Longitudinal Expert AI...
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-11-14 | +39 | 0 comments
Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella says he doesn't believe in AGI
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-11-12 | +12 | 0 comments
Is "AI as Normal Technology" a misnomer?
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-11-12 | +17 | 0 comments
Frozen skills aren't general intelligence
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-11-08 | +8 | 0 comments
Prudential longtermism is defanged by the strategy of procrastination — and...
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-11-06 | +13 | 0 comments
Disciplined iconoclasm
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-11-03 | +25 | 0 comments
Even after GPT-4, AI researchers forecasted a 50% chance of AGI by 2047 or 2116,...
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-10-28 | +18 | 0 comments
If an AI financial bubble popped, how much would that change your mind about...
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-10-21 | +19 | 0 comments
Irrecoverable collapse
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-10-21 | +12 | 0 comments
AGI by 2032 is extremely unlikely
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-10-16 | +24 | 0 comments
OpenAI's o3 model scores 3% on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, compared to 60% for the...
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-05-01 | +14 | 0 comments
François Chollet on why LLMs won't scale to AGI
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-04-15 | +6 | 0 comments
ARC-AGI-2 Overview With François Chollet
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-04-10 | +7 | 0 comments
On January 1, 2030, there will be no AGI (and AGI will still not be imminent)
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2025-04-06 | +46 | 0 comments
What novel, actionable advice does longtermism offer?
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2024-04-19 | +14 | 0 comments
Why won’t nanotech kill us all?
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2023-12-16 | +21 | 0 comments
If AGI is imminent, why can’t I hail a robotaxi?
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2023-12-09 | +24 | 0 comments
Yarrow's Quick takes
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2023-12-07 | +2 | 0 comments
Google DeepMind releases Gemini
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2023-12-06 | +21 | 0 comments
Biological superintelligence: a solution to AI safety
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2023-12-04 | +4 | 0 comments
Aging should be effective altruism's 5th cause area
by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸 @ 2023-12-02 | +20 | 0 comments