EA Forum Digest #244
Exploring tradeoffs, transparency, and new directions
Hello!
The CEA events team just launched two South American events: EA Summit: Santiago (July 19), and EAGxSãoPaulo (August 22-24).
— Toby (for the Forum team)
We recommend:
“Technical Support Units” - A Dubious GiveWell Grant? (NickLaing, 6 min)
Don't Panic About Democracy in EA (James Herbert, Maria Bækkelie, 3 min)
AI companies' eval reports mostly don't support their claims (Zach Stein-Perlman, 4 min, link-post)
When is it important that open-weight models aren't released? (Ryan Greenblatt, 11 min, link-post)
One of the Highest-Impact Things You Can Do As A Student? Run an EA Group - Now Accepting Applications (Juan Benzo🔸, Uni Groups Team, 2 min)
Lessons learned from two years supporting high-impact nonprofits (Josh Axford, Impact Ops, Sara Recktenwald, Eric Byram, andrewleeke, 11 min, link-post)
Community
The Unparalleled Awesomeness of Effective Altruism Conferences (Bentham's Bulldog, 7 min)
How I approach EAG(x) conferences (gergo, 5 min)
More Everything Forever - a new book critique of EA (Manuel Del Río Rodríguez 🔹, 8 min)
Gabrielle Young: 1995-2025 (Rowan Clements 🔸, EA NZ, 2 min, link-post)
Announcements:
Updates from organisations
Announcing SparkWell (andrewleeke, Jeffrey Poche, 3 min)
LIC proves in court that SPCAs can sue to stop cruelty!! (alene, 1 min)
Introducing: Meridian Cambridge's new online lecture series covering frontier AI and AI safety (Meridian, 1 min)
Job listings
GiveWell is hiring up to two Strategic Communications Managers (GiveWell, 1 min)
Other opportunities to take action
RFP for Charity Evaluations and Recommendations Feasibility Study (Animal Charity Evaluators, 1 min)
Introducing Freelancing For Good: a community, directory and job board for impact-driven freelancers (Maja Nenadov Webster, Freelancing For Good, 4 min)
ARENA 6.0 - Call for applicants (James Hindmarch, 7 min)
Classic Forum post:
Efficient charity: do unto others… (Scott Alexander, 7 min)