EA Pub

Let’s meet up and chat about topics and news from the world of effective altruism, AI, existential risks, and rationality. This is a place to think about how to have the greatest positive impact on the world, along with related questions.

To start up the discussion, anyone will be able to suggest a topic, and we will form a few groups. After that, the evening will stay informal and open-ended.

This month, we might talk about:

— The first moment when a government caused a retraction of an AI model out of security concerns

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/american-government-takes-down-claude

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-once-and-future-fable-2

— Recent 80,000 Hours videos on their new career guide updated for AI, also arguing that world-changing AI might come sooner than large-scale job automation

30m version: https://youtu.be/z2OSAVwmrTs

1h version: https://youtu.be/YrEMun5nenU

— Also their summary of research on what we can guess about the dynamics of space war (15m) https://youtu.be/UDA8wNFfuhA?si=wVF9NsjAHuta6NbC

— Europe 2031: An imagination of geopolitical dynamics on the brink of superintelligence https://europe2031.ai/summary/

— Andy Masley on a tension between liberal and „democratic“ AI values https://blog.andymasley.com/p/what-does-it-mean-for-ai-to-be-democratic

— Some new articles from EA Forum Digest

https://eaforumdigest.substack.com/

— Anything else you read or thought about this month!

Everyone is welcome! Don’t worry if you’re not very familiar with effective altruism or if you’re critical of some approaches that are popular within EA – that makes discussions only more interesting!

If you’d first like to read a bit more about EA ideas: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/introduction-to-effective-altruism