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Tl;dr - This is a curated and useful list of farmed animal advocacy resources that came out in 2024. We sent this compilation out in our free bi-weekly newsletter Hive Highlights.

The farmed animal advocacy movement made some significant strides forward, but challenges remain in the fight against factory farming. So, to prepare ourselves and fellow advocates for whatever 2025 brings, we put together the top resources and updates from the 2024 Hive Highlights newsletter editions. If you missed last year's version, here's our 2023 Resource Roundup. 🔖

2024 was a big year for us at Hive: it was the first full calendar year of working on the org full-time. We rebranded and continued to scale our Slack space. Here are 15 lessons we’ve learned and there are more Hive updates below. 🧡

Enjoy and here is to more meaningful change for the animals in 2025!🎉

Themes

🤑 Finding [...]

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(01:09) Themes

(01:13) 🤑 Finding more funding

(08:26) 📏 Global capacity building

(12:35) Updates we found helpful

(12:39) 🧐 Looking back at 2024

(13:17) 🧠 Some lessons learned

(13:58) Resources

(14:03) 📣 Advocacy resources

(18:18) 📚 Research resources

(21:00) 💼 Continuing education

(23:15) 🎧 Media Resources

(26:12) Hive Updates

(26:16) 🚀 Hive had a transformative 2024!

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First published:

January 21st, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4wwEKgKjAHGgzJxEN/resources-for-farmed-animal-advocacy-2024-roundup

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Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise is 922 pages of US governing proposals from the Heritage Foundation, with ideas for multiple departments. From the recent executive orders it seems like parts of Project 2025 are already or in the process of being implemented.

They have a 30 page section on the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and I thought it would be useful to go through and see what the new US government may be attempting to do in the next few years. I’ve given a brief summary of most of the topics without much comment.

 

Key Issues

Aligning U.S. Foreign Aid to U.S. Foreign Policy

• U.S. foreign aid currently suffers from fragmentation across approximately 20 different government offices, agencies, and departments, resulting in poor alignment with broader foreign policy strategy.
• The proposed solution is to authorise the USAID Administrator [...]

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Outline:

(00:45) Key Issues

(00:49) Aligning U.S. Foreign Aid to U.S. Foreign Policy

(01:21) Countering China's Development Challenge

(02:08) Climate Change

(02:49) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Agenda

(03:18) Refocusing Gender Equality on Women, Children, and Families

(03:58) Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance

(04:36) International Religious Freedom

(05:27) Streamlining Procurement and Localizing the Partner Base

(06:14) Global Health

(08:31) Holding Multilateral Organizations Accountable

(08:49) Global Humanitarian Assistance

(10:05) Leveraging Foreign Aid to Unleash the Power of America's Private Sector

(10:28) Branding

(10:47) Regions

(10:50) Asia

(11:45) Middle East

(12:47) Africa

(13:54) Latin America

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First published:

January 22nd, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/rPzcjdfTaDHYi7jMr/looking-into-project-2025-usaid

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A unique opportunity to be in the room where it happens

Please submit your application by 11:59pm Pacific Time on Sunday, February 9th to be considered.

Apply now!

About CEA

The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) is an organization dedicated to building and stewarding a global community of people who are thinking carefully about the world's most pressing problems and taking action to solve them. Our strategic priorities include growing the effective altruism community, improving the EA brand, and diversifying EA funding sources.

Join us in building and stewarding a community dedicated to doing good. We want to help build a radically better world, which will take the best effort of many people. We want to contribute to humanity solving a range of pressing global problems — like poverty, factory farming, and existential risk — and being prepared to face the challenges of tomorrow.

About the role

We are hiring an [...]

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Outline:

(00:20) About CEA

(01:07) About the role

(04:30) Responsibilities

(06:35) What we are looking for

(09:00) Other information

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First published:

January 22nd, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/MqTZYjDGtsKT9EW6n/apply-now-to-join-us-in-cea-s-executive-office

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In recent years, many in the Effective Altruism community have shifted to working on AI risks, reflecting the growing consensus that AI will profoundly shape our future.

In response to this significant shift, there have been efforts to preserve a "principles-first EA" approach, or to give special thought into how to support non-AI causes. This has often led to discussions being framed around "AI Safety vs. everything else". And it feels like the community is somewhat divided along the following lines:

1. Those working on AI Safety, because they believe that transformative AI is coming.
2. Those focusing on other causes, implicitly acting as if transformative AI is not coming.[1]

Instead of framing priorities this way, I believe it would be valuable for more people to adopt a mindset that assumes transformative AI is likely coming and asks: What should we work on in light of that?

If we [...]

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First published:

January 22nd, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/psNGNSoJpXRodmDSg/preparing-effective-altruism-for-an-ai-transformed-world

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This paper was published as a GPI working paper in January 2025.

Abstract

I argue for a pluralist theory of moral standing, on which both welfare subjectivity and autonomy can confer moral status. I argue that autonomy doesn’t entail welfare subjectivity, but can ground moral standing in its absence. Although I highlight the existence of plausible views on which autonomy entails phenomenal consciousness, I primarily emphasize the need for philosophical debates about the relationship between phenomenal consciousness and moral standing to engage with neglected questions about the nature of autonomy and its possible links to consciousness, especially if we’re to face up to the ethical challenges future AI systems may pose.

Introduction

Some things matter morally in their own right and for their own sake. That includes you and me. We aren’t mere things. We merit concern and respect. If you prick us, not only [...]

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(00:17) Abstract

(00:56) Introduction

(04:37) Read the rest of the paper

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First published:

January 21st, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qBvP3mFQoKJyRqkoN/once-more-without-feeling-andreas-mogensen

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Crossposted on The Field Building Blog.

Epistemic status: I don't have experience in grantmaking so take all this with a grain of salt. I don’t claim that I’m saying anything that AI Safety Camp's organisers haven’t considered before, or that there aren’t other reasons why it's hard to fundraise for AISC. I tried to put myself in the shoes of (potential) donors and think about what their concerns might be. I also asked a few knowledgeable people to weigh in.

AI Safety Camp is the project that everyone knows, almost everyone loves, yet it remains underfunded. Why is that?

I have written up my thoughts about this situation, hopefully, it's going to start a useful conversation in the community. I also share some easy and not-so-easy fixes that I think would make their case easier.

Subscribe to The Field Building BlogWhat fundraising for AI Safety Camp looks like.

To get [...]

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(01:42) 1. Organisational structure

(04:00) 2. Leadership's image

(04:44) 3. Nonessential stipends

(07:00) 4. The bar is likely too low for project leads

(08:45) 5. External communications

(09:37) A word of caution for funders

(10:50) Closing thoughts

The original text contained 22 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:

January 21st, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Ew4eSPucggJSFxuFY/why-ai-safety-camp-struggles-with-fundraising-fbb-2

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Want to skip directly to the tool? Find it here.

TLDR;

• As a co-organizer of EA Delft, I developed the Impact Workbook to address the challenge of supporting members beyond the Introduction Fellowship. 
• The workbook provides structured, tailored tracks—Introduction, Topic/Cause Area, Impact Action/Career, and a customizable option—to help members align their interests and goals with impactful exploration and action. Resources include templates, goal-setting guides, and activity libraries.
• Initial feedback has been positive, and by mid-2025 we aim to further reflect on the impact of this tool and expand its use across other EA groups. Interested? Access the workbook or reach out at [email protected]!

Introduction

As a co-organizer of Effective Altruism Delft (EA Delft), I’ve often grappled with a crucial question: What do we offer after the Introduction Fellowship? Our broader goal as a community is to support our members’ journeys toward impactful action, but the responsibility of defining [...]

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(00:12) TLDR;

(01:00) Introduction

(02:07) Seeking a Potential Solution

(03:27) Introducing the Impact Workbook

(04:52) Why This Workbook Matters for Organizers

(06:47) What's Next? Try It and Share Feedback!

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First published:

January 20th, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ieXHYjHFqJqiz6KYo/what-comes-after-the-introduction-fellowship-a-tool-and

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Below is the executive summary of our new paper, The Manhattan Trap. Please visit the link above to see the full paper. We also encourage discussion and feedback in the comments here.

This paper examines the strategic dynamics of international competition to develop Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). We argue that the same assumptions that might motivate the US to race to develop ASI also imply that such a race is extremely dangerous.

A race to develop ASI is motivated by two assumptions: that ASI provides a decisive military advantage (DMA) to the first state that develops it, and that states are rational actors aware of ASI's strategic implications.

However, these same assumptions make racing catastrophically dangerous for three reasons.

First, an ASI race creates a threat to strategic stability that could trigger a war between the US and its adversaries, particularly China. If ASI could [...]

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First published:

January 21st, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/QxRLBuQcvv6sdKkCg/the-manhattan-trap-why-a-race-to-artificial

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We still need more funding to be able to run another edition. Our fundraiser raised $6k as of now, and will end if it doesn't reach the $15k minimum, on February 1st. We need proactive donors.

If we don't get funded for this time, there is a good chance we will move on to different work in AI Safety and new commitments. This would make it much harder to reassemble the team to run future AISCs, even if the funding situation improves.

You can take a look at the track record section and see if it's worth it:

• ≥ $1.4 million granted to projects started at AI Safety Camp
• ≥ 43 jobs in AI Safety taken by alumni

• ≥ 10 organisations started by alumni

You can donate through our Manifund page

You can also read more about our plans there.

If [...]

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(00:58) You can donate through our Manifund page

(01:10) Suggested budget for the next AISC

(01:32) Testimonials (screenshots from Manifund page)

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First published:

January 21st, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8BNshfjjeM9qBFeGN/we-don-t-want-to-post-again-this-might-be-the-last-ai-safety

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Summary

• Global Horizons SGO is a charitable scholarship granting organization (SGO) that awards scholarships to talented U.S. high school students who seek to positively impact the world.
• With each scholarship awarded, we also make a direct donation to a high-impact organization - i.e. organizations recommended by GiveWell, Animal Charity Evaluators, or Giving What We Can.
• Our unique offer to donors: We fundraise primarily from individual donors in the state of Ohio. As a certified SGO in Ohio, individual Ohio taxpayers can donate up to $750 each and receive a 100%, dollar-for-dollar tax credit when filing their Ohio state income taxes. That's right, Ohio donors can receive 100% of their donation back as a tax credit when they file their Ohio state taxes (give $750, pay $750 less in taxes).
  • We expect our spending on scholarships vs. donations to be roughly 2:1, though this could change. So, for each $750 donation [...]

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Outline:

(00:06) Summary

(03:08) Key Activities and Theory of Change

(05:38) About the SGO Tax Credit

(07:27) Plans for 2025 and Beyond

(08:25) How You Can Support our Work

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First published:

January 20th, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/PwAdrDePYkfMzQcBQ/announcing-global-horizons-sgo-and-why-we-only-want-ohio

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