EA Forum Digest #290

Strategic AI debates, everyday impact, and what’s happening across EA

Hello!

No news this week, enjoy the digest.

— Toby (for the Forum team)

We recommend:

1. Open strategic questions for digital minds (Lucius Caviola, 15 min)

2. AIM’s new charity taxonomy (Aidan Alexander, Morgan Fairless, Ambitious Impact, 13 min)

3. How to actually give money away (NickAllardice, 12 min)

4. Science and speculation (Ajeya, 4 min)

5. The State of the AIxAnimals Field (Itsi Weinstock, 12 min)

6. Effective Altruism and Abundance (abiolvera, 7 min)

7. [fiction] It is the end of the world and I am here to take you home (Natalie_Cargill, 11 min)

8. A practical portfolio for wild-invertebrate welfare (Dawn Drescher, 18 min)

9. Work on macrostrategy research to help shape humanity’s future (80000_Hours, Zershaaneh Qureshi, 1 min)

10. New books

    • Book Review: All the Lives You Can Change (Bentham’s Bulldog, 8 min)

    • New Book — Compassionate Purpose: Personal Inspiration for a Better World (Magnus Vinding, 4 min)

Announcements:

• Updates from organisations

  • Celebrating 10 Years of EAGx (Niki Kesseler, 2 min)

  • Winners of the Manifund Essay Prize (Austin, 14 min, link-post)

  • We grew ~10x last year, and are now planning for the next 10x (Probably Good, 2 min)

• Job listings

  • Junior Software Engineer at AMF (apply by 30th May) (AndrewAtAMF, 1 min, link-post)

  • Research Fellows and Strategy Fellows, Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Prioritization Team at Coefficient Giving (apply by 17th May) (Miriam_Hinthorn, 1 min)

• Other opportunities to take action

  • [US only] If You Do One Thing for Animals This Year, Do This (Becca Rogers, 11 min)

Classic Forum post:

• I saved a kid’s life today (michel, 2 min)