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Executive summary: Funding circles are collaborative networks of philanthropists that improve donor coordination and grantmaking efficiency by sharing information, streamlining applications, and ensuring comprehensive coverage of cause areas.
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Executive summary: David Baker and Neil King are revolutionizing vaccine development through computational protein design, creating more effective vaccines by using AI to precisely engineer proteins that better trigger immune responses.
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Executive summary: As AI capabilities progress, the peak period for existential safety risks likely occurs during mild-to-moderate superintelligence, when capabilities research automation might significantly outpace safety research automation, requiring careful attention to safety investments and coordination.
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Executive summary: The CEO of CEA outlines three key journeys for effective altruism: combining individual and institutional strengths, improving internal and external communications, and continuing to engage with core EA principles.
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Executive summary: The concept of AI concentration needs to be clarified by distinguishing between three dimensions: development, service provisioning, and control, each of which can vary independently and has different implications for AI risks and governance.
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Executive summary: The Humane League UK is challenging the legality of fast-growing chicken breeds ("Frankenchickens") in the UK High Court, aiming to improve the lives of one billion chickens raised for food annually.
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Executive summary: Worldview diversification in effective altruism can lead to complex bargaining dynamics between worldviews, potentially resulting in resource allocations that differ significantly from initial credence-based distributions.
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Executive summary: Our fundamental moral beliefs about good and bad may arise from motivated reasoning rather than evidence, with implications for how we view moral judgments and the potential for AI systems to have good or bad experiences.
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Executive summary: The concept of a "safety tax function" provides a framework for analyzing the relationship between technological capability and safety investment requirements, reconciling the ideas of "solving" safety problems and paying ongoing safety costs.
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Executive summary: Miles Brundage's resignation from OpenAI and the disbanding of its AGI readiness team signals a continued shift away from the company's original safety-focused mission, amid broader organizational changes and departures of safety-minded staff.
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