EA Forum Digest #285

From AGI and animals to grants and opportunities

Hello!

Though it’s April 1st, this Digest will be completely serious. I cannot promise the same for all the posts on the Forum frontpage.

Also, if you’re new to the EA Forum, consider introducing yourself in the quarterly open thread.

— Toby (for the Forum team)

We recommend:

1. The five best posts from AGI & Animals Debate Week

2. 300,000 lives, 100 million hens, and a world still to save (William_MacAskill, 4 min)

3. Claude’s constitution is great (OscarD🔸, 2 min)

4. What it’s like to be an AI safety grantmaker (and why we need more of them) (JulianHazell, 13 min, link-post)

5. Concrete projects to prepare for superintelligence (Forethought, William_MacAskill, finm, 13 min, link-post)

6. The $120 Million Question: How will it help animals? (Zoë Sigle 🔹, 6 min)

7. The good, the bad, and the fair cop (Toby_S, 23 min, link-post)

8. No, there are not hundreds of cloud labs in biology (ljusten, 5 min, link-post)

9. How did Leopold do? Evaluating Situational Awareness’s predictions (Jamie_Harris, 2 min)

10. AI should be a good citizen, not just a good assistant (Forethought, Tom_Davidson, William_MacAskill, 11 min, link-post)

11. Why pain in barren farming systems is worse than commonly recognized (cynthiaschuck, 2 min)

12. AI Can Already Evade DNA Synthesis Screening. Congress’s New Bill Doesn’t Address That. (Sophie Kim, 7 min, link-post)

13. Community

    • Planning 80000 Hours Before the Plausible End of the World (Carolanne Jiang, 7 min, link-post)

    • Proactively tell people/organisations when they have changed your actions/impact (TJPHutton🔸, 1 min)

Announcements:

• Updates from organisations

  • Transitioning the Community Building Grants Program (Naomi N, 5 min)

  • Launching Euzoia: Beeminder for Effective Charities (Christoph Hartmann 🔸, Cameron.K, 1 min)

  • Introducing 8 New Evidence-Based Nonprofits from Latin America (Verónica Suárez M., 5 min)

  • How the alternative protein ecosystem in Europe has evolved, and where barriers remain (Alex Mayers @GFI 🌱, 4 min)

• Job listings

  • Philanthropy Manager / Director of Philanthropy at Mobius (apply by April 12th) (JamesÖz 🔸, quick take)

• Other opportunities to take action

  • Moral Ambition Fellowships now open (ld25, 1 min)

  • Contribute to an animal-welfare forward AI training corpus ($5k USD in prizes) (Jasmine Brazilek, Miles Tidmarsh, 4 min)

Classic Forum post:

• Neither updates nor downloads (Rick_A, 4 min)