Opening session | Frances Lorenz, Arden Koehler, Lizka Vaintrob, Kuhan Jeyapragasan | EAG Boston 23

Join the organizers for a brief welcome and a group photo of attendees, followed by three short talks from key community members. We will hear remarks from: Lizka Vaintrob Kuhan Jeyapragasan Arden Koehler Lizka runs the EA Newsletter, the EA Forum Digest, and the non-engineering side of the EA Forum at the Centre for Effective Altruism. Kuhan currently runs the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative, which runs AI technical safety and governance programming primarily at MIT and Harvard, and previously co-founded and ran the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative. Arden manages the 80,000 Hours website, with a particular focus on the advice they give their readers about how to use their careers to tackle the world’s most pressing problems. She has a PhD in philosophy from New York University (2020), where she specialised in ethics and attitudes toward time.