Blog Posts

By John Halstead,[^1] Stefan Schubert,[^2] Joseph Millum,[^3] Mark Engelbert,[^4] Hayden Wilkinson,[^5] and James Snowden[^6] 

Summary: Some strategic decisions available to the effective altruism movement may be difficult to reverse. One example is making the movement’s brand explicitly political. Another is growing large. Under high uncertainty, there is often reason to avoid or delay such hard-to-reverse decisions.

Executive summary[^1]

This blog post is part of our series of monthly strategic updates so that those that want to can stay up to date with what we are working on and why. Previously Will MacAskill has posted these updates on the Effective Altruism Forum. I (Tara) am taking over writing the updates moving forward and will post them here on our blog.

Will MacAskill announces a set of guiding principles for organizations, including CEA, to endorse.

CEA has put together a small advisory panel to help us think through decisions we make. We want to get input from people who have different viewpoints from our staff and can provide us with an outside view.

This post is a follow-up to Will’s post introducing a project we’re calling the Effective Altruism Funds (EA Funds). This post provides a more detailed explanation of the project and why we think it may be among the highest impact donation options for many individual donors.

This post introduces a new project that CEA is working on, which we’re calling the Effective Altruism Funds.

This email was sent to CEA's supporters in February 2017.

The field of AI Safety has been growing quickly over the last three years, since the publication of “Superintelligence”. One of the things that shapes what the community invests in is an impression of what the composition of the field currently is, and how it has changed. Here, I give an overview of the composition of the field as measured by its funding.