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This post provides a summary mapping of the EA / EA-adjacent career advising ecosystem as well as a list of various career resources, developed by the Career Advising Meta Forum.

What is the Career Advising Meta Forum?

EA and EA-adjacent organisations offer, in aggregate, dozens of incredible resources and thousands of career advising sessions per a year.

However, in early 2025, we realised that there existed seemingly few collaborations across the career advising sector. In late spring 2025, we began a working group of EA and EA adjacent organisations offering career advice and advising services to advance cooperation and collaboration in this space.

So far the forum has met three times to discuss challenges and opportunities in the impact-focused career advising space. We have a Slack group and met in-person at EAG London 2025 (as well as a smaller meeting a month before at EAGxNordics). We expect to meet [...]

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(00:22) What is the Career Advising Meta Forum?

(01:58) EA Career Advising Ecosystem Mapping

(02:03) How we made this list

(02:49) Organisations

(02:52) 80,000 Hours

(03:31) Probably Good

(04:21) Consultants for Impact

(05:06) Magnify Mentoring

(05:41) Animal Advocacy Careers

(06:24) Successif

(07:07) EA Germany

(07:38) High Impact Professionals

(08:17) EA Norway

(09:16) EA DC

(09:49) EA Sweden

(10:33) Christians for Impact / EA for Christians

(11:35) High Impact Medicine

(12:31) Effective Thesis

(13:13) EA France

(14:01) Effective Environmentalism

(14:44) EA Switzerland

(15:20) Other Career Advisories

(16:36) Job Boards

(20:02) Directories

(21:59) Courses / Fellowships

(25:02) Conferences

(26:16) Other resources people from EA career organisations recommend

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My paper, "Price-, taste-, and convenience-competitive plant-based meat analogues would not currently replace the majority of meat consumption: A narrative review", first posted as a pre-print here on the EA Forum, is now published in the peer-reviewed journal Appetite.

The work has undergone many improvements since it was first posted, so it may be worthwhile taking another look now, although the overall conclusion hasn't changed. In particular:

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Summary: this year the Survival and Flourishing Fund allocated $34.33 million to organizations working to secure humanity's future, with the vast majority going to AI (~$29MM), followed by biosecurity (~$2.5MM), and the rest going to various other causes as diverse as fertility, longevity, forecasting, memetics, math research, EA community building, and non-AI/bio global catastrophic risk (GCR) work.

Context

The Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) is a philanthropic organization that funds projects and organizations working to reduce global catastrophic risks, strengthen humanity's long-term resilience, and promote flourishing, often through regranting and expert panels to allocate resources efficiently.

This year I took a particularly in depth look at where SFF allocated its funds and broke down the results down by cause area. I figured I would share here the results through a brief post as I think it can be of general interest to others working on organizations that the [...]

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In Fall 2023, EA Purdue barely existed. In fall 2024, EA Purdue had 35 people attend its intro meeting. In Fall 2025, EA Purdue had 33 new members attend its intro meeting despite doing dramatically more outreach.

Below, outreach method and scale is specified. It is followed by a discussion of the implications for university group organizers, community builders, and a request for help. If you’re not an organizer, feel free to skip to the “Why I think this happened” section of this post, as it should be more relevant.

Club Fairs: Purdue has an all-club tabling fair and a computer science tabling fair. EA Purdue attended both of these in both years. These fairs yielded 100 and 32 mailing list signups respectively in fall 25. In fall 24, the fairs yielded 64 and 16 signups.

Side note: At Purdue, the freshmen tabling [...]

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(01:06) Background on Purdue

(02:08) Why I think this happened

(03:27) Implications

(04:14) Request to you

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TL;DR: After our spring pilot with 4 local communities, 35 participants, and valuable learnings, we're launching an improved version of Scaling Altruism for Fall 2025. We're seeking representatives of local communities who want to run introductory courses with reduced operational burden through centralized coordination.

Scaling Altruism helps local effective altruism communities organize high-quality introductory courses while dramatically reducing operational costs through centralized coordination. Instead of each group reinventing the wheel, we handle the complex logistics so local contacts can focus on what they do best: community building and outreach.

We (course coordinators) will take on most of the tasks of organizing a course, so you (local contacts) can focus on other aspects of community building.

You won't have to worry about managing applications, scheduling groups, and creating the online infrastructure for the program. We take care of coordinating and supporting mentors and [...]

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Outline:

(00:37) What is Scaling Altruism?

(01:01) What to expect?

(02:16) Ideal Partner Groups

(02:58) Timeline and Next Steps

(03:26) Spring 2025 Pilot Results

(03:42) Key Metrics

(04:20) Key Learnings and Improvements for 2.0

(04:52) Interested in becoming a local contact?

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This is a linkpost for Positive Wild Animal Welfare by Heather Browning and Walter Veit, which was originally published on Biology & Philosophy on 12 March 2023. The abstract and last paragraph of the introduction are below. I am still guessing soil animals have negative lives, but I have been very uncertain.

Abstract

With increasing attention given to wild animal welfare and ethics, it has become common to depict animals in the wild as existing in a state dominated by suffering. This assumption is now taken on board by many and frames much of the current discussion; but needs a more critical assessment, both theoretically and empirically. In this paper, we challenge the primary lines of evidence employed in support of wild animal suffering, to provide an alternative picture in which wild animals may often have lives that are far more positive than is commonly [...]

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(00:32) Abstract

(01:37) Introduction

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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10539-023-09901-5

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I listened to "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" today.

I think the first two parts of the book are the best available explanation of the basic case for AI misalignment risk for a general audience. I thought the last part was pretty bad, and probably recommend skipping it. Even though the authors fail to address counterarguments that I think are crucial, and as a result I am not persuaded of the book's thesis and think the book neglects to discuss crucial aspects of the situation and makes poor recommendations, I would happily recommend the book to a lay audience and I hope that more people read it.

I can't give an overall assessment of how well this book will achieve its goals. The point of the book is to be well-received by people who don't know much about AI, and I’m not very good at predicting how laypeople [...]

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(01:15) Synopsis

(05:21) My big disagreement

(10:53) I tentatively support this book

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My write-up as of September 2025 - feel free to ask me for a more updated Source of Truth if you're interested in this space

Key Players Making Video:

Organization

• Palisade Research:
  • Does research on AI for policymakers and communicators.
  • Has started its own video program - check out their videos! Run by Petr Lebedev, an ex-producer/scriptwriter for Veritasium
• Future of Life Institute (FLI): Has an accelerator program to fund creators making AI-related videos.
• AI Digest: Produces explainers on AI and as far as I know might be interested in someone running a video program for them
• Control AI is getting great clips from podcasts and putting them up on Twitter. I've suggested that they should create a spreadsheet of these so everyone can use them in their videos. 
• "Fancier Crowd" that I’m going to be vague about: People with experience in Netflix pitches and successful political social [...]

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(00:20) Key Players Making Video:

(00:24) Organization

(02:13) Organizations that might be interested in doing more video

(02:20) Youtubers / Tiktokkers

(03:37) Filmmakers

(03:52) Lots of people are interested in working on this / helping out:

(04:41) Links where you can find more information

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A few days ago, Austin Chen and Marcus Abramovitch published How cost-effective are AI safety YouTubers?, an "Early work on ”GiveWell for AI Safety”, ranking different interventions in the AI Safety Video space, using a framework that measured impact by basically multiplying watchtime by three quality factors (Quality of Audience, Fidelity of Message and Alignment of Message).

Quality-adjusted viewer minute = Views × Video length × Watch % × Qa × Qf × Qm

The goal of this post is to explain to what extent I think this framework is useful, things I think it got wrong, and provide some additional criteria that I would personally want to see in a more comprehensive "AI Safety Givewell for video work".

tl;dr:

1. I think Austin's and Marcus' framework has a lot of good elements, especially the three factors Quality, Fidelity and Alignment of message.
2. Viewer Minutes is the wrong proxy [...]

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(00:58) tl;dr:

(01:45) What The Framework Gets Right

(02:50) Limitation: Viewer Minutes

(04:55) Siliconversations And The Art of Call to Action

(07:51) Moving Talent Through The Video Pipeline

(09:46) Categorizing The Video Pipeline

(12:18) Original Video Content

(14:21) Conclusion

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The Center for AI Policy (CAIP) is no more. CAIP was an advocacy organization that worked to raise policymakers’ awareness of the catastrophic risks from AI and to promote ambitious legislative solutions. Such advocacy is necessary because good governance ideas don’t spread on their own, and to meaningfully reduce AI risk, they must reach the U.S. federal government.

Why did CAIP shut down? The reasons are mixed. Some were internal, such as hiring missteps. But others reflect the broader ecosystem: funders setting the bar for advocacy projects at an unreasonably high level, structural biases in the funding space that privilege research over advocacy. While CAIP's mistakes played a role, a full account also needs to reckon with these systemic factors.

I focus on CAIP, as I think it filled a particular niche and was impactful, but there are many [...]

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(00:10) And the need for more AIS advocacy work

(00:15) Executive Summary

(02:25) Why Advocacy?

(07:26) What was CAIP up to?

(09:56) Was the Work Impactful?

(13:26) Why did CAIP Shut Down?

(13:58) CAIP's Failures

(15:37) Funders Have Set the Bar Too High for Advocacy

(18:16) Biases in the Funding Space

(20:29) What can we do?

(21:14) Donate Yourself

(24:01) Start an Organization

(26:33) In Conclusion

(27:03) Appendix

(27:06) A1: What is Advocacy?

(28:25) A2: Responses to General Opposition to Advocacy

(30:09) A3: AIS Grantmakers' Positions on AIS Advocacy

(31:41) A4: The Estimate of Funds Spent on AIS Advocacy

(33:00) A5: Donation Options in the AIS Advocacy Space

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