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 recommende...

Watch on Youtube Beth is describing the work of the Evaluations team at the Alignment Research Center (ARC) on developing evaluations of safety for cutting edge models, and on developing standards for scaling or deploying models conditional on the results of those evaluations. Beth got into EA via Givewell and Giving What We Can around 2014. After realizing AI might be a big deal she studied compu...

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 cla...

Watch on Youtube In this session, Buck is discussing how he thinks we should try to align artificial general intelligence (AGI) if we made no more fundamental progress on alignment, and then talks about how he thinks alignment researchers should try to improve this plan and ensure that whatever plans are available are executed competently. Buck is the CTO at Redwood Research, a nonprofit based in...

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 co...

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. Cale...

Watch on Youtube People farm a lot of pigs. They farm even more chickens. And if they don’t already, they’re soon to farm even more black soldier flies. How should EAs distribute their resources to address these problems? And how should EAs compare benefits to animals with benefits to humans? This talk outlines a framework for answering these questions. Bob Fischer argues that we should use estima...

Watch on Youtube In this talk Ethan presents on how AI systems like ChatGPT can be used to help uncover potential risks in other AI systems, such as tendencies towards power-seeking, self-preservation, and sycophancy. Ethan is a research scientist and team lead at Anthropic working on large language models, and his work aims to reduce the risk of catastrophic outcomes from advanced machine learnin...

Watch on Youtube To prevent severe biological events that could rise to the level of a global catastrophic biological risk (GCBR), it will be critical to prevent pandemics that could result from accidental or deliberate misuse of the tools of modern bioscience and biotechnology. State development and use of biological weapons is among the most likely potential sources of GCBRs, but international s...

Watch on Youtube A fireside chat with Rose Gottemoeller, the Steven Hazy Lecturer at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and former Deputy Secretary General of NATO. Moderated by Carl Robichaud, the nuclear weapons policy programme officer at Longview Philanthropy, this conversation is exploring the topics of Russia, Ukraine, NATO, and the future of arms control.

Watch on Youtube Katja gathers arguments, counterarguments, and counter-counterarguments into an educated estimate of AI risk. Katja Grace co-founded AI Impacts, where she is the Lead Researcher. She co-wrote purportedly the 16th most discussed paper in the world in 2017, about a big survey of ML researchers, and blogs at worldspiritsockpuppet.com.

Watch on Youtube James Snowden and Norma Altshuler give an overview of some of the exciting new work by Open Philanthropy’s global health and wellbeing team, including the launch of several new grantmaking programs. We’ll then dive deep on one of those programs — Global Aid Policy. Norma Altshuler, who leads that work, outlines things she’s been learning about how to create change, and discuss tak...

Watch on Youtube A talk by Scott D. Sagan, the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University The talk is titled nuclear weapons: ethics, law, and the limits of safety in the 21st century

Watch on Youtube Join the organizers for a brief welcome, followed by a talk with Toby Ord, a philosopher at Oxford University. Find out more about EA Global conferences at: www.eaglobal.org Learn more about effective altruism at: www.effectivealtruism.org

Watch on Youtube A hands-on workshop to help you with your impostor syndrome. In this session, you’ll: - Investigate the potential causes of your impostor syndrome - Experiment with different techniques to eliminate your impostor syndrome - Come up with a practical plan to implement these strategies in your life Find out more about EA Global conferences at: www.eaglobal.org Learn more about effect...

Watch on Youtube Bring a decision you're grappling with to this interactive decision-making workshop. Spencer is teaching elements of good decision-making and have you apply them to a real decision you need to make. You can download the decision-making worksheet here ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oI47... ) and follow along with this workshop. Spencer is an entrepreneur and mathematician w...

Watch on Youtube In 2022, GiveWell allocated over $80 million to 18 new interventions, including an RCT of footbridges in Rwanda, Kangaroo Mother Care, and in-line chlorination. In this talk, Olivia Larsen, GiveWell Philanthropy Advisor, is sharing about some of the more experimental grants that GiveWell is currently excited about–including funding RCTs, programs to build and scale future giving o...

Watch on YouTube In this workshop about online communication (on the EA Forum and elsewhere), we’re brainstorming and developing thoughts on the following questions: What can online communication and discussions achieve? What’s the point? Given the goals we have, what makes discussions or communication more useful? What norms do we want to support to encourage that? Practical tips: What tools can...