Here's our update for September 2016. It was a great month for growth at CEA. In September, we got 106 new Giving What We Can members and 1,748 new EA Newsletter signups; in both cases that’s nearly double the previous three month average.  If anyone has questions, comment below and... Read More

In order to allow the community to get more of an insight into the ongoing activities of CEA, we're going to publish brief monthly reports on the organisation as a whole. (These reports were already going out to donors and other supporters.) If you'd like to get these as e-mails... Read More

Hi, all! The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) is answering questions here tomorrow, October 12 at 10am PDT. You can post questions below in the interim. MIRI is a Berkeley-based research nonprofit that does basic research on key technical questions related to smarter-than-human artificial intelligence systems. Our research is largely aimed at developing... Read More

I failed to meet my pledge this year due to poor budgeting. In this post, I explain what I think happened and how I plan to avoid similar problems in the future. I wrote this post because I felt like I owed the community something for missing my pledge, and I thought... Read More

The Machine Intelligence Research Institute is running its annual fundraiser, and we're using the opportunity to explain why we think MIRI's work is useful from an EA perspective . To that end, we'll be answering questions on a new "Ask MIRI Anything" EA Forum thread on Wednesday, October 12th. MIRI is... Read More

From Georgie Mallett:   .impact have successfully supported and developed multiple projects: the EA Forum, the EA Hub, the EA Newsletter, LEAN and so on. Our collaborative values have allowed these projects to flourish.   Having observed the impressive progress of Students for High-Impact Charity (SHIC) since its beginnings in... Read More

The map of x-risk-preventing organizations, people and internet resources   Three known attempts to make a map of x-risks prevention in the field of science exist. First is the list from the Global Catastrophic Risks Institute in 2012-2013, and many links there are  already not working: http://gcrinstitute.org/organization-directory/   The second... Read More

Views expressed here are solely my own, and not of my employer (I’ve always wanted to say that) Not to brag (but probably to brag a little bit) I work at a pretty awesome place for those that want to be involved in national security policy. Just Security (JS), where... Read More

As part of my plan to earn to give this year, I spoke with Tee Barnett about Students for High Impact Charity , an organization that brings a specific curriculum to teach effective altruism to high school students. I also spoke to several other people who have worked with Tee... Read More

I believe we need a charity app! I know what you’re thinking: “Not another app!”. But hear me out...    Short introduction: Brief thoughts and background I think that a lot of people find it “too difficult” or “too much of a hassle" to access reliable data on charities; to... Read More