EAG Talks

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Watch on Youtube The final session of the conference includes some closing words, followed by an update from Marcus & Peter on what they're doing at Rethink Priorities and what they're excited about.

Watch on Youtube This session is exploring how effective altruism can uncover high impact but neglected solutions and organizations, using the case study of the Clean Air Task Force (CATF), a global climate organization. Prior to 2018, CATF was effective but small, relatively unnoticed and underfunded. Founders Pledge scrutinized and validated CATF's work ithrough EA methodology and recommended it as a worthy charity; this endorsement and FP networking has allowed CATF to scale rapidly to global impact. This talk is exploring what we can learn from this, for climate and beyond, about impactfully engaging in causes that are not meeting typical neglectedness criteria.

Beth Barnes discusses the importance of safety evaluations and standards for AI, their potential in reducing existential risk. Evaluating models for dangerous things, downsides of using humans in AI safety evaluations, importance of regulations and standards for AI, and alignment in AI models and evaluating safety.

Watch on Youtube In this session, Carolina is presenting the importance of the work of animal protection NGOs in low and middle-income countries and the challenges and successes of the NGO Sinergia Animal and partner entities in Latin American and Southeast Asian countries in efforts directed at helping farmed animals.

Watch on Youtube In this talk, Jessica is dicussing some of the pitfalls and risks associated with community building at universities. She is discussing how some community building might be net negative and why she doesn't think community building should be the default option for university students interested in EA. While she claims that university groups can be highly impactful, she also claims that it should be done carefully. This talk is focusing on universities but contains some points that may generalize to other types of community building. Jessica graduated from Yale in 2021 with a BS in Cognitive Science. There, she helped organize Yale EA for over four years including a gap semester where she worked on it full-time. She had been volunteering with CEA since 2018 and started working full time in December 2021 on increasing broad support for uni groups. She created and scaled the university group accelerator program which has helped around 75 groups. She is now leading the uni groups team at CEA and is setting the strategy and plans for the coming year.

Buck Shlegeris, CTO at Redwood Research, discusses the current alignment plan for AGI and proposes improvements. He explores priorities, plans for alignment research, and potential uses of AI in addressing alignment research. The podcast also dives into speculations on AI takeover timeline and the need for a trillion person years of labor. Additionally, it touches on the coordination and reliability of AI systems, controversial perspectives, maintaining power, preventing coups, and trade-offs and options for AI alignment.

Watch on Youtube Neartermist EA has historically focused on a fairly narrow range of interventions, evaluating causes solely on their effects on physical health or income. However, this risks excluding a broad range of interventions that improve lives through other avenues. In this talk, Joy Bittner (Vida Plena) and Ben Williamson (Maternal Health Initiative) are situating their work in broader conversations about the direction of the movement more broadly and are sharing lessons they’ve learned from launching evidence-based organizations. Maternal Health Initiative is an evidence-based organization committed to expanding access to family planning. Vida Plena is a non-profit which provides evidence-based depression treatment to local communities and refugees. Both organisations are former Charity Entrepreneurship incubatees.

Watch on Youtube In this talk, Caleb is giving an overview of funding opportunities for projects within global health and wellbeing, animal welfare, EA infrastructure and existential security. He then talks about projects that he and other grantmakers are particularly excited about funding and what he looks for when assessing applications. Caleb Parikh is the interim project lead at EA Funds. Caleb previously worked on epistemic community health at the Centre for Effective Altruism. He also worked on EA community building and global health policy and occasionally assists researchers and the Global Priorities Institute with mathematical modelling.