“My disagreements with CEA’s approach to stewarding EA” by hbesceli
[Cross posted from my substack] In their EA Forum post last year, CEA described their ‘principles-first approach to stewardship of the EA community’. I'm a big fan of principles-first stewardship in ...
29 Touko 27min
“Donating 80% While It Still Counts” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸
Julia and I had been giving half since 2014, but in 2025 we drew on our savings to donate 81%. It looks to us like we're in a critical window for keeping the introduction of very powerful AI systems f...
27 Touko 11min
“Why now might be the best time ever to start an animal charity” by Aidan Alexander, Aaron Boddy🔸, Ambitious Impact
TL;DR: AIM is running its first incubation round focused exclusively on animal welfare, in partnership with Aaron Boddy (co-founder of Shrimp Welfare Project). It'll run in early 2027, and we’re on th...
26 Touko 7min
“Announcing the Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Fund” by Rethink Priorities
TL;DR Today, based on our multi-year prioritization research, we launch the Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Fund (CCF). The fund pools donors’ contributions and allocates them to high-impact giving fun...
22 Touko 33min
“The AIs seem like EAs — a quick look at two prompts” by trammell
Overview When asked about how they would give away money, or about how to have a moral career, the leading LLMs typically give answers in an EA spirit, and informed by thinking from people and organiz...
17 Touko 8min
“My Dad Worked in a Slaughterhouse. I Made a Documentary About It.” by Jack Hancock-Fairs
I’m an EA who has been trying to find ways to make animal suffering more salient. I’ve been working on a feature-length documentary called ‘The Dying Trade’ for the last 5 years and I’ve just released...
14 Touko 3min
“Save Our Pigs!” by LewisBollard
Note: This post was crossposted from the Coefficient Giving Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on th...
11 Touko 10min
“Reflections on Anthropic and EA” by abrahamrowe
LLM disclosure: I wrote this post myself, then asked an LLM to copy-edit it before posting. I manually made any edits I liked and copy-pasted no text from the LLM (my current practice for using LLMs i...
11 Touko 9min
