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  “Thoughts on Taking OpenAI Foundation Funding” by Jeff Kaufman

  Aug 21, 20268 min

  In May 2025 I met Yo Shavit, who was working on national security policy at OpenAI and was thinking about how to prepare for a future in which models could seriously assist attackers in creating pandemics. We had a call, and when I shared notes with my team their main response was: "maybe start with not making models that can do that?" Which is, in many ways, fair: by continuing to push the frontier in biological capabilities, OpenAI's actions were making things worse on many of the problems SecureBio is trying to solve. But OpenAI stopping wouldn't have resolved the problem: other firms were pushing quickly too, and the economic incentives strongly favored rapid capability advancement. Making the world more resilient to pandemics needed to be a high priority regardless, especially in light of models' increasing ability to help people with biology. When I thought about what our initial conversations might turn into, however, my primary concerns were whether that might (a) compromise SecureBio's ability to independently assess and criticize OpenAI's work or (b) make the world less safe via reducing model developers' motivation to improve safeguards. I do think there's something to both of these, which I get [...] The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: August 20th, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/dMfgJQ2rGX8GmzdMm/thoughts-on-taking-openai-foundation-funding --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO .

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  “Effective Altruism and End-Times Fascism” by Denis

  Aug 21, 20266 min

  I just read an article from The Guardian, written in April 2025 (I'm a bit behind on my reading ...). It's a good read, but that's noy why I share it here. What I want to highlight is something I'm seeing more and more, which is very negative portrayals and stereotyping of EA. Some EA's seem ok with this, or accept that it goes with the territory. I vehemently disagree. I would argue that bringing EA thinking to the centre of the Overton window would be the single most impactful achievement of the 21st century, and that it is something we need to take very seriously, and dedicate resources to. The rise of end times fascism | Far right (US) | The Guardian This particular article is about the evil and danger of the fascist right-wing that is sweeping across the US and much of Europe. About a world in which empathy is seen as a great weakness, a world in which those opposing a climate armageddon are equated with Satan, a world of self-styled "Christian nationalism," where foreigners are enemies whom we torture to inspire the loyalty of the masses, ... well, you know, the world many [...] --- First published: August 19th, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YkXhyhjaDL9wWaCh3/effective-altruism-and-end-times-fascism --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO .

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  “Sentient Futures Summit Bay Area 2027” by Sentient Futures, Zoe L, Constance Li

  Aug 20, 20263 min

  Sentient Futures Summit (SFS) Bay Area 2027 is a three-day conference taking place on March 12 to 14, 2027 @ Mox, San Francisco, exploring the impact of AI and other emerging technologies on sentient non-humans, both biological and potentially artificial. This is the 7th conference of our series, which has served as a premier meeting place for those working to ensure that non-human sentient beings are not left behind in the long-term future. What to expect: A range of talks, workshops, and discussions across animal welfare, AI safety, philosophy of mind, and AI welfare Opportunities to network with potential collaborators and funders in a focused and intimate setting Deep, interdisciplinary conversations on future-oriented solutions that reduce non-human suffering The Call for Speakers is Now Open! We’re looking for a range of submissions spanning ethical considerations in AI systems, animal welfare in the age of transformative AI, philosophy of mind and machine consciousness, as well as AI governance and policy. We’re accepting applications from speakers (long-form and lightning talks) and facilitators (workshops and other interactive formats). If you have a compelling idea that pushes the conversation on non-human welfare forward, we'd love to hear it. Speakers and [...] --- First published: August 19th, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/TY44tu8qpqP9xdmoL/sentient-futures-summit-bay-area-2027 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO . --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts , or another podcast app.

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  “WAI is starting Phase 3 of field-building for wild animal welfare science” by Luke Hecht

  Aug 19, 202626 min

  Summary This post will summarize the trajectory of Wild Animal Initiative's field-building for wild animal welfare science so far, along with patterns and indicators we want to see more of going forward. Beginning with an initial phase focused on establishing credibility and awareness of the field, through a second phase that has placed more emphasis on the distinctiveness and broad priorities of the field, we are now moving into a third phase designed to consolidate effort and encourage more projects to build on each other, enabling the field make faster progress towards answers to key questions and potential interventions. This post also covers where our research funding has gone over the past few years and some of the field-building milestones we’re seeing. WAI's early field-building Wild Animal Initiative (WAI) launched in early 2019 with the objective of establishing a mainstream scientific field dedicated to the practical study of wild animal welfare (hereafter referred to as “wild animal welfare science” or WAWS). We chose to approach the problem of wild animal suffering through scientific field-building because there were (and remain) many critical questions requiring empirical research before we could know that any wild animal welfare intervention or policy is having [...] --- Outline: (00:12) Summary (00:55) WAI's early field-building (07:13) The foundation of WAWS laid so far (08:08) Measuring wild animal welfare (12:19) Understanding factors affecting welfare (13:26) Welfare interventions (15:41) What we haven't seen enough of (18:18) The next phase of WAI's strategy (24:48) Conclusion --- First published: August 19th, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EZumX6KDGH9YNuYFf/wai-is-starting-phase-3-of-field-building-for-wild-animal --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO . --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts , or another podcast app.

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  “Two crazy-ish charitable global poverty project ideas” by MathiasKB

  Aug 19, 20266 min

  I am writing up two crazy-ish charity ideas I’ve wanted to investigate, but haven’t been able to, in the hopes someone will investigate them further. If you end up investigating either, I'd be most interested to see what conclusions you come to! Vulture preservation as a global health intervention Since the mid 1990's the vulture population in India has been rapidly declining. The reason is due to a few chemicals which are fed to livestock, which is highly poisonous to vultures. A paper by two University of Chicago economists came to the surprising conclusion that the decline of vultures increased human mortality by 4% (!!) leading to hundreds of thousands of excess deaths. That number peaked my attention. After reading it, I reached out to the authors of the paper as well as some people working on vulture preservation in India to learn more. My takeaway (this was almost two years ago, so my memory is fuzzy) was that the chemicals responsible for the decline of vultures (particularly diclofenac) had cheap alternatives and that lethargy alongside regulation imposing minor switching costs to industry has kept regulation from being taken up and enforced. Doing LEEP style policy advocacy to adopt [...] --- Outline: (00:25) Vulture preservation as a global health intervention (02:47) Radio infotainment on responsible income planning in developing countries --- First published: August 18th, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/gqrAWHZKmGqiZeoZZ/two-crazy-ish-charitable-global-poverty-project-ideas --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO .

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