EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

Introduction

In 2026, the Open Wing Alliance awarded ~$1.9M to 28 organizations globally. This post gives background on our grant program, strategy, and highlights some grants we are particularly excited about this year. It also gives some info on how you can become a member and apply to receive a grant.

Background

The Open Wing Alliance (OWA) is a coalition of over 80 member organizations located across more than 70 countries, focused on cage-free and broiler welfare corporate work. It is a program of The Humane League (THL). You can find out more about THL and the OWA in this post, and the OWA's approach to maximizing impact through supported regranting strategy here.

The OWA has two main goals:

• End the abuse of chickens worldwide.
• Strengthen the global farm animal welfare movement.

One of the ways in which we work towards achieving our goals is through our grant program.

The OWA provides 1-2 year grants of up to $100,000 per year for corporate cage-free and broiler welfare campaign work to our member organizations. Our funds primarily cover campaign and corporate relations staff positions, but also cover other costs associated with corporate campaigns such as travel, campaign [...]

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Outline:

(00:12) Introduction

(00:36) Background

(03:25) 2026. funding

(04:20) Highlighted grants

(11:54) All grants

(12:14) If youre interested in learning more

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First published:

April 14th, 2026

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LxWmmvij4dcDe5ins/open-wing-alliance-grants-2026-recommendations

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This post is an update on some great and perhaps surprising progress in China that feels worth sharing, and a sincere thank-you to the people I have gotten to know through EAG SF (recap at the end).

Why China, and Why Now

Approximately 75% of the world's farmed animals are raised in Asia, yet the region receives a disproportionately small fraction of global animal welfare funding. Within that, China represents an enormous concentration of both suffering and—increasingly—tractable opportunity.

Securing corporate commitments in China is genuinely challenging. The regulatory environment, business culture, and the sheer scale of the supply chains involved mean that this work requires patience, relationship-building, and careful engagement. Lever China has been doing that work for nearly seven years. The progress going on has not been publicized much outside of China, and that's partly by design - the work often requires discretion to be effective.

But as both the pace of progress and the size of the opportunity have grown, we (and I) wanted to share more, as I think they collectively tell an important story about the road ahead.

A Notable Milestone: Yurun Group's Cage-Free Commitment

A recent commitment Lever China generated that was announced last [...]

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Outline:

(00:25) Why China, and Why Now

(01:26) A Notable Milestone: Yurun Groups Cage-Free Commitment

(03:02) Emerging Progress on Ducks (An Often Overlooked Issue)

(06:21) What This Adds Up To

(08:17) Reflection from EAG SF

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First published:

April 9th, 2026

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7C2wrjXAQJdjQ4bs5/china-s-major-meat-supplier-just-set-a-cage-free-policy-why

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This is a link post.

Note: I was told by a friend to cross-post this from Substack. Let me know if I'm violating any community norms!

“Here is one common failure mode for EAs. You look at 80k's list of the most important cause areas, pick the first one as the thing you want to work on, then end up doing that.”

Oh. This sounds like a familiar story.

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It's summer before college, and I’m staring blankly at the worksheet in front of me. I’m a Non-Trivial Finalist — not a Fellow yet, though I intensely want to be — and this worksheet is my last barrier to entry. The topic of last week, Week 1, was “Clarify your mission.” The topic for this week is “Choose a pressing problem to address.” Easy peasy.

All I have to do is pick a cause area and a project I want to work on in that area. I’m more interested in brainstorming a project idea, so I rush through the cause areas. AI safety is the first thing listed on the 80k website, and I kind of like math (even if I know nothing about AI), so it seems [...]

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First published:

April 14th, 2026

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/smuzXisKkeGuTRfEQ/imprinting-my-mistake-in-cause-prioritization

Linkpost URL:
https://elianadu.substack.com/p/imprinting

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I thought it might be useful to share over here!

Please see my (very new) blog --

Part 1 - https://nataliercargill.substack.com/p/how-to-fundraise-one-million-million

Part 2 - https://nataliercargill.substack.com/p/how-to-fundraise-one-million-million-0cb

Part 3 - https://nataliercargill.substack.com/p/how-to-prepare-for-a-donor-call-actually

Questions welcome! :)

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First published:

April 13th, 2026

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/c4ATxQSoixgFxoCxg/i-founded-longview-and-have-written-down-some-thoughts-on

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I'm Shreya, a junior at Dartmouth College, where I lead our animal advocacy group. I'm currently starting a Dartmouth EA group and would love to see if there's interest from other Dartmouth EAs in either helping run the club or coming to events!

I genuinely believe that organizing a university EA group — especially at a top school — is one of the most impactful things a person can do (even under short timelines!). Dartmouth is a world-class university with no EA presence, and that should change, especially because there is tons of institutional knowledge and people that want to help!

If you're at Dartmouth, please reach out me at [email protected]. I'd love to get on a call to talk about why this matters and how we can make it happen.

Don't take it from me. Take it from this shrimp (inspired from this post) :

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First published:

April 13th, 2026

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/NwJ3kpYgSYxE8KqAq/hit-me-up-if-you-go-to-dartmouth-university

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This post was cross posted to LessWrong

TL;DR: One of the largest talent gaps in AI safety is competent generalists: program managers, fieldbuilders, operators, org leaders, chiefs of staff, founders. Ambitious, competent junior people could develop the skills to fill these roles, but there are no good pathways for them to gain skills, experience, and credentials. Instead, they're incentivized to pursue legible technical and policy fellowships and then become full-time researchers, even if that's not a good fit for their skills. The ecosystem needs to make generalist careers more legible and accessible.

Kairos and Constellation are announcing the Generator Residency as a first step. Apply here by April 27.

Epistemic status: Fairly confident, based on 2 years running AI safety talent programs, direct hiring experience, and conversations with ~30 senior org leaders across the ecosystem in the past 6 months.

The problem

Over the past few years, AI safety has moved from niche concern toward a more mainstream issue, driven by pieces like Situational Awareness, AI 2027, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, and the rapidly increasing capabilities of the models themselves.

During this period, over 20 research fellowships have launched, collectively training thousands of fellows, with 2,000-2,500 fellows [...]

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Outline:

(01:18) The problem

(03:41) Why the pipeline is broken

(05:59) Why this matters now

(07:31) Counter-Arguments

(10:11) The Generator Residency

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First published:

April 13th, 2026

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/k3nq7FxBCsrNFmAYi/ai-safety-s-biggest-talent-gap-isn-t-researchers-it-s-2

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Apply to build one specific, research-backed charity.

Looking for mid-career professionals in public health policy and foreign aid spending.

You know how the system works. Now build something that changes it.

You've accumulated expertise that most people in the world simply don't have. Real relationships. Valuable networks. Professional credibility. An understanding of how decisions are actually made. That career capital is extraordinarily valuable, and there's a specific way to deploy it that could affect millions of lives.

We've identified two extraordinarily cost-effective charity ideas that need founders with specific backgrounds to succeed.

If you've built a career in policy or advocacy — think government aid agencies, health ministries, food regulatory bodies, or the organizations that work closely alongside them — this is for you.

Submit an Expression of Interest form before April 29th.

Program starts in September 2026.

What is the Specialist Founder Track?

Our incubation program typically recruits talented generalists and matches them with ideas during the program. But a small number of our ideas don't work that way. They need founders who already have the relationships, the institutional knowledge, and the credibility to open doors from day one.

The Specialist Founder Track is straightforward: you apply [...]

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Outline:

(00:33) You know how the system works. Now build something that changes it.

(01:29) What is the Specialist Founder Track?

(02:22) Effective Foreign Aid Advocacy

(03:11) Why this idea needs a specialist

(03:51) Who are we looking for?

(04:46) Salt Intake Reduction Advocacy

(06:01) Why this idea needs a specialist

(06:36) Who are we looking for?

(07:35) Are you the specialist founder we are looking for?

(08:23) Know someone who fits the bill?

(08:42) What youll get: full program support

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First published:

April 13th, 2026

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8nGab2Lgziv8WkvSz/introducing-the-specialist-founder-track-of-charity

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More money is coming than AI safety has ever seen. The capacity to deploy it doesn't exist yet.

Image Source: Fortune.com

This week, Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview– a model so capable at finding software vulnerabilities that the company decided to wait to release it publicly. Last month, Bloomberg reported that Anthropic's annualized revenue had hit $19 billion, doubling in under four months, and by some accounts surpassing OpenAI. It is currently one of the most valuable private companies on the planet.

Anthropic is also going to IPO, possibly as soon as October 2026. When it does, a few thousand people, including some of the wealthiest people on the planet, will become liquid, and a meaningful fraction of those people will want to give to AI safety.

Tech liquidity events have created major philanthropists before. Dustin Moskovitz's Facebook shares became Good Ventures, which became Coefficient Giving, which became the single largest funder of AI safety. Vitalik Buterin donated $665 million to a fledgling FLI. Jed McCaleb's crypto wealth became a billion-dollar endowment to the Navigation Fund, which went from $4 million in grants its first year to over $60 million by 2025.

None of these come [...]

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Outline:

(00:13) More money is coming than AI safety has ever seen. The capacity to deploy it doesnt exist yet.

(03:36) The constraint is talent, not funding

(05:47) We dont just need more bets- we need decorrelated ones

(08:39) Different structural positions

(09:17) Independent grantmakers with different worldviews

(10:12) The Pitch: Consider becoming a grantmaker or founding something new

(12:52) The window is brief

(13:48) Next Steps

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First published:

April 12th, 2026

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ychu2LAw54sNcocKH/the-anthropic-ipo-is-coming-we-aren-t-ready-for-it

Linkpost URL:
https://thecounterfactual.substack.com/p/the-anthropic-ipo-is-coming-we-arent

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As we now know, Anthropic has built an AI that can break into almost any computer on Earth. That AI has already found thousands of unknown security vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major browser. And Anthropic has decided it's too dangerous to release to the public; it would just cause too much harm.

Here are just a few of the things that AI accomplished during testing:

• It found a 27-year-old flaw in the world's most security-hardened operating system that would in effect let it crash all kinds of essential infrastructure.
• Engineers at the company with no particular security training asked it to find vulnerabilities overnight and woke up to working exploits of critical security flaws that could be used to cause real harm.
• It managed to figure out how to build web pages that, when visited by fully updated, fully patched computers, would allow it to write to the operating system kernel — the most important and protected layer of any computer.

We know all this because Anthropic has released hundreds of pages of documentation about this model, which they’ve called Claude Mythos.

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Outline:

(01:35) Why people are panicking about computer security

(05:12) Mythos could break out of containment

(07:22) Anthropic is losing billions in revenue by not releasing Mythos

(09:09) Mythos is actually the most aligned model to date, except...

(11:44) Mythos knows when its being tested

(13:50) Mythos can hide its thoughts

(16:24) Mythos cant be trusted about whether its untrustworthy

(20:00) Does Mythos advance automated AI R&D?

(22:28) Mythos scares Anthropic

(24:53) Learn more

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First published:

April 10th, 2026

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SyJx8Mbvi2ft78esn/how-scary-is-claude-mythos-303-pages-in-21-minutes

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Crosspost of a blog post.

A recent investigation uncovered that the leading insect farming company, Ynsect, was a horrifying disaster. While company leadership soaked up millions in subsidies with sunny rhetoric about their commercial success, the dark reality inside the farm was like nothing anyone imagined.

Investigators found filth clogging the machines, endangering workers. Larval bins would routinely break open, leading to repeated showers of larvae. Insects crawled all over the place, wholly uncontained. Airborne larval food floated haphazardly through the air, making workers sick. Birds wandered freely throughout the facility, their feces coating the machines. The whole area was a deluge of filth, feces, disease, and pollution.

The photos above show what the place looked like. In person, it was even more of a horror show. Investigators described1:

And here, in the photos and videos, you don't have the smells. In reality, it makes you dizzy. It's impossible to breathe. Even with a mask, it makes you feel sick.

The accounts from workers were even more harrowing.

There was no dust extraction, nothing at all. I started having a runny nose, itchy eyes, a scratchy throat, my nose running, my eyes burning, and difficulty breathing. Rashes on [...]

The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration.

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First published:

April 10th, 2026

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/m22GCyaKGd8gKBwFX/leading-insect-farm-took-millions-in-subsidies-then

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