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“Minor updates to EA Global Code of Conduct” by Charlotte Darnell, RobertHarling


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We've made some minor updates to the EA Global Code of Conduct for 2026. These changes will be effective immediately. The core remains the same: we expect professional, respectful behavior at all EA Global and EAGx events.

Anyone already signed up for an event in 2026 will receive an email letting them know about the change.

What we changed:

We added some further behaviours that we don’t want at our events:

  • Not recording people without permission, 
  • Not excessively promoting your own services or products, 
  • Not misrepresenting your credentials or professional ties. 

We made the consequences more legible (i.e. we might give you a warning, or remove you from the event). We also made some light edits for clarity.

We made these changes for a few reasons:

  • Bringing together expectations we were setting elsewhere in our communications.
  • Responding to things we’ve observed at conferences or that we think may become more common (e.g. people using AI recording devices).

We’re aiming to keep the code of conduct itself fairly concise, but will include some more detail and examples in the attendee guides (e.g. what ‘excessive’ means).

You can email [email protected] or fill in the Community Health [...]

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Outline:

(00:35) What we changed:

(01:03) We made these changes for a few reasons:

(01:40) Updated Code of Conduct

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First published:

January 21st, 2026

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bpqJ9qWJmwyMFoYHx/minor-updates-to-ea-global-code-of-conduct

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