Fireside chat: Rear Admiral John Gower | John Gower | EAG London 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWY9V0q12jE
Jun 17, 2023•54 min
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Panel on nuclear risk | Rear Admiral John Gower, Patricia Lewis, Paul Ingram | EAG London 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GablQxDqoTQ&list=PLwp9xeoX5p8MbksBvu_R_IOz6kD4H7ytC&index=12
Jun 17, 2023•57 min
Charity evaluation and its future | GiveWell, ACE, Founders Pledge, GWWC | EAG London 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiPUBkDPyUQ
Jun 17, 2023•56 min
Caged hen campaigns in Europe | Kirsty Henderson, Sean Gifford, Sophie de Jonckheere | EAG London 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYrsQTwxdZE
Jun 17, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Fireside chat with Matt Clifford | Matt Clifford | EAG London 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJDlE3-IKNc
Jun 17, 2023•44 min
Workshop How to prioritize Renan Araujo Marie Buhl Jam Kraprayoon EAG London 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-_ucImfS4c
Jun 17, 2023•28 min
Workshop Becoming our best selves S Schmidt P Rohde D Pourtahmaseb-Sasi EAG London 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDA4Ue_3S90
Jun 17, 2023•11 min
Lightning talks Thinking outside the EA cause area box EAG London 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVB63ktLt10
Jun 17, 2023•40 min
First timers at EA Global Anubhuti Jain EAG London 23.mp3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BPhLz_U4iQ
Jun 17, 2023•10 min
Getting traction on great power risks Adam Thomson EAG London 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0VsAN1SnAg
Jun 17, 2023•49 min
Opening session Karolina Sarek EAG London 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_LpUDTiGuk
Jun 17, 2023•33 min
Longtermism and alternative proteins Bruce Friedrich EAG London 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nIDy6tiR7o
Jun 17, 2023•49 min
Closing session | Marcus Davis and Peter Wildeford | EAG Bay Area 23
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.
May 26, 2023•40 min
How EA can impactfully engage in climate | Johannes Ackva & Armond Cohen | EAG Bay Area 23
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 recommended it as a worthy charity; this endorsement and FP networking has allowed CATF to scale rapidly to global...
May 26, 2023•55 min
Safety evaluations and standards for AI | Beth Barnes | EAG Bay Area 23
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 computer science, and worked on AI safety at DeepMind and OpenAI. She now leads the Evaluations team at t...
May 26, 2023•32 min
Reducing animal suffering in countries of the Global South | Carolina Galvani | EAG Bay Area 23
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.
May 26, 2023•42 min
Potential pitfalls in university EA community building | Jessica McCurdy | EAG Bay Area 23
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 claims that it should be done carefully. This talk is focusing on universities but contains some points tha...
May 26, 2023•54 min
The current alignment plan, and how we might improve it | Buck Shlegeris | EAG Bay Area 23
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 Berkeley which does technical alignment research. He spent most of the last year researching mechani...
May 26, 2023•50 min
Beyond the bednets: Vida Plena and MHI | Joy Bittner & Ben Williamson | EAG Bay Area 23
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 conversations about the direction of the movement more broadly and are sharing lessons they’ve learned...
May 26, 2023•53 min
An overview of EA funding opportunities | Caleb Parikh | EAG Bay Area 23
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. Caleb previously worked on epistemic community health at the Centre for Effective Altruism. He also work...
May 26, 2023•54 min
How to compare welfare across species | Bob Fischer | EAG Bay Area 23
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 estimates of animals’ welfare ranges to compare how much good different interventions can accomplish. He a...
May 26, 2023•52 min
Discovering AI Risks with AIs | Ethan Perez | EAG Bay Area 23
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 learning systems. He also spend some time at New York University (NYU) collaborating with Sam Bowman's grou...
May 26, 2023•54 min
Preventing State Bioweapons Development & Use: Shaping Intentions | Jaime Yassif | EAG Bay Area 23
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 systems for preventing and constraining state bioweapons programs are weak. This session is focusing ...
May 26, 2023•51 min
Fireside chat: Russia, Ukraine and NATO | Rose Gottemoeller | EAG Bay Area 23
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.
May 26, 2023•56 min
Will AI end everything? A guide to guessing | Katja Grace | EAG Bay Area 23
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.
May 26, 2023•39 min
What's new in Open Philanthropy's GH&W work? | James Snowden & Norma Altshuler | EAG Bay Area 23
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 takeaways about pursuing high-impact careers and contributing to policy change...
May 26, 2023•55 min
Nuclear weapons: ethics, law, and the limits of safety | Scott D. Sagan | EAG Bay Area 23
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
May 26, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Opening session: Toby Ord | Toby Ord | EAG Bay Area 23
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
May 26, 2023•38 min
Workshop: Impostor syndrome | Kat Woods | EAG Bay Area 23
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 effective altruism at: www.effectivealtruism.org...
May 26, 2023•41 min
Workshop: Improve your decision-making | Spencer Greenberg | EAG Bay Area 23
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 with a focus on improving human well-being through social science. He's the founder of ClearerThinking.or...
May 26, 2023•21 min
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