When we try to improve wild animal welfare, we want the effects of our efforts to persist long into the future, rather than to wash out. However, we also want to maintain the ability to undo our actions if they turn out to be harmful. In this talk,

If we knew that human-level AI was implausible within the next 20 years, we would take different actions to improve the long-term future. Asya talks about her investigations into reasons people say we won’t have human-level AI soon,

In this talk, Noah Taylor explores the importance of bridging the fields of peace and conflict studies with existential risk and proposes a preliminary research agenda. Original Video

In order to be effective at any job, particularly one where you make many high-stakes decisions such as founding or leading a charity, you must be a good decision-maker. A good decision-maker needs to implement a number of strategies and decision-makin...

Animal suffering is a global problem that requires action on a global level. How can we think about effectiveness across geographical and cultural contexts? How can North American and European advocates support advocacy in other parts of the world,

This is a recording of a video-chat Q&A session with Peter Singer, hosted by the Effective Altruism University of Melbourne club. Topics covered include animal welfare, extreme poverty, and Effective Altruism and its critics,

William MacAskill is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Oxford University. He was educated at Cambridge, Princeton, and Oxford and is one of the progenitors of the effective altruism movement. His book on the topic, Doing Good Better,

Animal suffering is a global problem that requires action on a global level. How can we think about effectiveness across geographical and cultural contexts? How can North American and European advocates support advocacy in other parts of the world in r...

Elie, the CEO and co-founder of GiveWell, discusses his organization’s latest research, his views on economic growth, and what he’s changed his mind on lately (among other topics). Elie co-founded GiveWell in 2007 alongside Holden Karnofsky.

Markus Anderljung and Ben Garfinkel discuss how they got into the field of AI governance and how the field has developed over the past few years. They discuss the question, “How sure are we about this AI stuff?”,