
EA Talks
Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways you can best help others, whether through your charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Talks features presentations and discussions that can help you find something you're excited about. Lately, we've been focusing a lot on new opportunities in pandemic prevention, charity entrepreneurship, and AI safety. But we also have talks on other important topics like animal welfare, global health, nuclear security, climate change, and cause prioritization research. Most of the content is from EA Global videos, packaged for easy listening on the go. If you have feedback or would like to suggest an episode, please reach out.
Latest episodes

Oct 16, 2022 • 58min
Starting a new organisation | Andres J Zorrilla, Lauren Mee, Anna C Thorsheim | EA Global: SF 2022
Though all the Charity Entrepreneurship incubatees start with the same two months program, the next steps can look very different. In this session, you will hear the stories of three Charity Entrepreneurs who have started organisations in the animal welfare, global health and meta space. You will learn how the program has benefited them on the journey and what you can expect after taking part in it.View the original talk and video here.Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.

Oct 15, 2022 • 55min
Farmed animal advocacy: Where are we, and what’s next? | Zoë Sigle | EA Global: SF 22
Over the last decade, advocates have achieved major progress impacting the lives of billions of farmed animals. In this session, Zoë from Mercy For Animals reviews high impact interventions, how this work is evolving, and emerging opportunities for impact. View the original talk and video here.Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. Learn more about effective altruism at: www.effectivealtruism.orgFind out more about EA Global conferences at: www.eaglobal.orgEffective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.

Sep 30, 2022 • 31min
High impact careers | Habiba Islam | EA Global: SF 22
A careers workshop for people who already have some ideas about what they want to work on but have some uncertainties. It will probably not be as useful for people who've done a lot of career planning or already had 80,000 Hours advising. View the original talk and video here.Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.

Sep 23, 2022 • 46min
Forming your own views on AI safety (without stress!) | Neel Nanda | EA Global: SF 22
In this workshop, Neel outlines why you might care about forming your own views about AI safety, common traps, pitfalls and misconceptions, and concrete first steps for trying to do this. Attendees will then pick a concrete question about AI, and practice forming their own views on it. This is aimed at attendees with some prior knowledge of AI safety, but who feel that they often defer to people on the topic. View the original talk and video here.Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.

Sep 16, 2022 • 54min
Making high impact decisions | Anna Edmonds | EA Global: SF 22
View the original talk and video here.Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.

Sep 9, 2022 • 30min
Level Up: Expectations at different stages of your career | Jungwon Byun | EA Global: SF 22
View the original talk and video here. This session starts with an introduction to leveling frameworks and how they can help people manage their careers, as well as give helpful feedback to others. The introduction walks through Ought's operations and product levels. Break out discussions follow, facilitating more intimate reflections on individual careers and development goals. This talk is primarily focused on operations and product career trajectories, but the leveling frameworks are broad enough to apply to most roles.Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.

Sep 3, 2022 • 1h 16min
Big needs in longtermism and how to help with them | Holden Karnofsky | EA Global: SF 22
Holden talks about what he most wishes more people were doing today (career-wise), from a longtermist perspective, and then take questions on that topic or any others people want to ask about. View the original talk and video here. Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.

Sep 1, 2022 • 1h 26min
EA Talks Exclusive: Could treating depression be a top intervention? | Convo with StrongMinds CEO Sean Mayberry
We discuss how Sean got into mental health, StrongMinds’ work-life balance, the benefits and cost effectiveness of group interpersonal psychotherapy, how treating depression can improve other interventions, what it takes to found a charity and change the world, the number one thing Sean wants people to know, and more! StrongMinds is a social enterprise founded in 2013 that provides life-changing mental health services to impoverished African women. Since many African women cannot even begin to tackle issues like poverty and economic development until they overcome depression, StrongMinds provides treatment for women who suffer from this pervasive and debilitating mental illness. By providing group talk therapy delivered by community health workers, StrongMinds is the only organization scaling a cost-effective solution to the depression epidemic in Africa.Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.

Aug 31, 2022 • 1min
What is an Effective Altruist? EARadio Trailer
Should we spend money on guide dogs for the blind or bed nets to protect kids from disease carrying mosquitoes? Life is full of choices like this. So how can we help others best? And what happens when we fall short? This trailer was adapted from Ajeya Cotra's Introduction to EA. You can find the original talk here. To suggest an episode or interview, please e-mail us at contact@earad.io If you're new to effective altruism, you can learn more about it by listening to the podcast or reading this.Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.

Aug 14, 2022 • 23min
Facing the risk of nuclear war in the 21st century | Carl Robichaud | EA Global: Virtual 2020
Nuclear weapons pose a grave threat to civilization. Public awareness of this threat has faded, but the weapons have not gone away. In fact, recent technological and geopolitical trends make nuclear war more likely than it has been in decades. Carl Robichaud discusses these developments and assesses the options for effective altruists seeking to contribute to nuclear risk reduction.As program officer in International Peace and Security at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carl manages a portfolio of grants to strengthen nuclear security. In this capacity, he heads the Corporation’s work on strengthening nuclear governance and investing in the next generation of nuclear experts.This talk was taken from EA Global: Virtual 2020. Click here to watch the talk with the video.Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.