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Some of the opportunities and job listings we feature in this update have (very) pressing deadlines: Development Officer at Longview Philanthropy (Jan 19), AI Safety Research Fellowship at Anthropic (Jan 20), Associate Director of U.S. Philanthropy at the Good Food Institute (Jan 16), Director of Government Relations at Open Philanthropy (Jan 19) and Operations associate at Giving What We Can (Jan 19).

Opportunities and jobs

Opportunities

Consider also checking opportunities listed on the EA Opportunity Board and the Opportunities to Take Action tag.

  • Anthropic has launched their inaugural Fellows Program for AI Safety Research to help engineers and researchers transition into doing frontier AI safety research full-time. Beginning in March 2025, they’ll provide funding, compute, and research mentorship to 10 –15 Fellows with strong coding and technical backgrounds. Apply by January 20th.
  • Applications are open for the Cooperative AI Summer School (9th–13th July 2025, Marlow, near London, UK). Designed for students and early-career professionals in AI and related fields, the program features lectures, networking, and opportunities to share your work. Confirmed speakers include Michael Wellman, Zarinah Agnew and Ariel Procaccia, with more to be announced. Financial assistance is available to ensure accessibility. Learn more and apply on the Cooperative AI website by March 7th.
  • Tarbell Fellowship 2025 offers funded 9-month placements for early-career journalists covering AI at major outlets like TIME and MIT Tech Review. Fellows receive up to $50k stipend and AI journalism training. Remote/various locations. Deadline: February 28th.
  • PIBBSS Summer Research Fellowship is accepting applications for their 3-month, fully-funded AI safety research program. New for 2025: dedicated Cooperative AI track. Fellows receive mentorship and attend retreats in global locations. Open to PhD/Postdoc researchers. Deadline: January 26th.

Job listings

​​Consider also exploring jobs listed on the Job listing (open) tag. For even more roles, check the 80,000 Hours Job Board.

Anthropic

Impact Ops

Evidence Action

GiveDirectly

  • Salesforce Lead (Remote with East Africa timezone overlap, USD $61.9K-$99K)

Giving What We Can

Longview

Open Philanthropy

​​The Good Food Institute

Wild Animal Initiative

  • Board Member (Remote (United States), express interest by January 26th)

Organization updates

The organization updates are in alphabetical order (0-A-Z).

80,000 Hours

80,000 Hours released a blog post covering the advances made in AI capabilities and safety research in 2024: What happened with AI in 2024?

They also published year-in-review highlights of their content:

And The 80,000 Hours Podcast also released an interview with Sam Bowman on why housing still isn't fixed and what would actually work.

Anima International

Anima International has seen progress in their policy work on drawing up the EU General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, alongside other animal advocates. While missing from the first draft, the AI risks to non-human welfare are now recognised in the second draft of the Code). The final version is scheduled to be published in April 2025.

As part of their mission to build a stronger advocacy movement in Central Asia, Anima International organized the first vegan festival in Uzbekistan – transferring organizing skills to local groups, and spreading knowledge about the modern animal welfare movement and effective altruism. The event was attended by 700 people.

The organization has published two new blog posts: A summary of their work and achievements in reducing animal suffering in 2024, and Executive Director Jakub Stencel's overview of promising organizations to support in 2025.

Evidence Action

Evidence Action shared its year-in-review highlighting the global challenges their team tackled in 2024 — and what they didn't.

Faunalytics

Faunalytics released a new study, What Vegan Advocates Can Learn From The Social Spread Of Quitting Smoking. While smoking and animal product consumption are not perfect analogies, the decreasing popularity of smoking may be a worthwhile template for animal product reduction. By examining peer influences in smoking cessation, this review explores how social connections and relationships may drive the adoption of plant-based diets, offering insights for both advocacy and future research.

In 2024, Faunalytics made significant strides, including a comprehensive website redesign, the publication of eight original studies, and the expansion of its research library with visual, practical, and translated resources. Check out Faunalytics’ 2024 Year In Review and 2025 research plans here.

Fish Welfare Initiative

Fish Welfare Initiative is seeking parties to respond to their Innovation Challenge to develop satellite imagery models to assess water quality in fish farms. Models should be submitted to the organization by February 28.

Fish Welfare Initiative (FWI) has posted various recent updates:

  • They are developing a new welfare assessment protocol to better assess the welfare of farmed Indian major carps.
  • - The estimated impact of their farm program has surpassed 1M fishes in 2024.
  • - For the sake of transparency, they also published all their recently collected water quality data, as well as their recent culture survey data.

Giving What We Can

Giving What We Can (GWWC) is looking for an Operations Associate ($35K-$65K, remote with slight preference for US or UK candidates). The Operations Associate will work closely with our Operations Manager, Zou Xinyi, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations while driving forward high-impact projects. The role offers an opportunity to develop your skills in operations and leadership within a mission-driven organisation. Watch a Q+A session with Grace and Zou from GWWC here. Apply by January 19. If you’d like to refer someone for the role, fill in this form.

GiveDirectly

GiveDirectly responded to Los Angeles wildfires by delivering cash payments to low-income families in the neighborhoods hardest-hit by the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles' history.

GiveWell

GiveWell's Cross-Cutting team wrote about their research strategy and upcoming focus areas. See other recent blog posts here.

GiveWell published their 2023 metrics report and accompanying blog post.

Impact Ops

Impact Ops is supporting the search for a hands-on and entrepreneurial Project Manager to establish a co-working hub in New York City. This hub will serve as a physical space for collaboration and community-building, bringing together individuals and organizations working on important global challenges.

Open Philanthropy

A reminder that Open Philanthropy has a newsletter, and a blog where you can find updates.

Last month, OpenPhilanthropy:

  • Wrote about five exciting grants from our Scientific Research portfolio.
  • Published a list of giving opportunities suggested by Open Phil program staff, as well as notes from program and operations staff on where they personally donated in 2024.
  • Continued their their “Day in the Life” series, Nick Ravazzolo, a People Operations Associate at Open Phil, wrote about his day-to-day work.
  • Senior Program Officer Ajeya Cotra participated in a panel discussion about artificial intelligence at the New York Times DealBook Summit. The full panel is available here.
  • Senior Research Analyst Joe Carlsmith published a response to the recent Anthropic report on alignment faking in large language models.

The Good Food Institute

Good Food Institute CEO Ilya Sheyman wrote about how GFI's 5 core values can fuel progress in 2025 and beyond.

The Humane League

Thanks to pressure from THL, last month nine global companies reported on their cage-free commitments to spare nearly 11,000,000 hens from cages, and based on the progress they have made towards their goals, THL estimates they spared 500,000 hens from cages in 2024. Notably, Grupo Bimbo, one of the largest bakeries in the world, doubled its cage-free usage, and Wagamama shortened its timeline for Asia and the Middle East, and agreed to publish roadmaps for those regions in addition to reporting progress in the US and Europe.  

THL also published a video recapping progress made in 2024.

Wild Animal Initiative

Board member positions at Wild Animal Initiative are now accepting expressions of interest. Ideal for those interested in reducing suffering of wild animals with backgrounds in nonprofit governance, financial management, or legal advising. Apply by January 26th.

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