New interview with Will MacAskill by @MHR🔸 Almost a year after the 2024 holiday season Twitter fundraiser, we managed to score a very exciting "Mystery EA Guest" to interview: Will MacAskill himself. * @MHR🔸 was the very talented interviewer and shrimptastic fashion icon * Thanks to @AbsurdlyMax🔹 for help behind the scenes * And of course huge thanks to Will for agreeing to do this Summary, highlights, and transcript below video!     Summary and Highlights (summary AI-generated)  Effective Altruism has changed significantly since its inception. With the arrival of "mega donors" and major institutional changes, does individual effective giving still matter in 2025? Will MacAskill—co-founder of the Centre for Effective Altruism and Giving What We Can, and currently a senior research fellow at the Forethought Institute—says the answer is a resounding yes. In fact, he argues that despite the resources currently available, individuals are "systematically not ambitious enough" relative to the scale of the problems the world faces. In this special interview for the 2025 EA Twitter Fundraiser, Will joins host Matt to discuss the evolution of the movement’s focus. They discuss why animal welfare—specifically the fight against factory farming—has risen in prominence relative to global health, and why Will believes those working on it are "on the right side of history." Will also shares updates from his current work at the Forethought Institute, where he is moving beyond standard AI safety concerns to focus on "model character"—the idea that as AI agents become more autonomous, their embedded ethics and personality will determine how our economy and society function. Matt and Will discuss: * Why "mega donors" haven't made individual giving obsolete * The "founder effect" that initially prioritized global health over animal welfare * The funniest moment from the What We Owe the Future media tour (involving Tyler Cowen) * Why Forethought is focused on th

EA Global NYC will be taking place 16-18 Oct 2026 at the Sheraton Times Square. Applications for NYC, and all 2026 EAGs, are open now! After the success of last year's event, our first EAG in NYC and our largest US EAG in years, we're excited to return and build on last year. For more information visit our website and contact hello@eaglobal.org with any questions.

Question: Has anyone here applied to a role they found on the EA Opportunities board? (Attaching an image of what it used to look like + what it looks like now). I’m curious if you ended up getting the role or not, and would really appreciate hearing either way. I’m trying to get a sense of how many applications and placements the board is leading to. Happy to DM if that’s easier!

For Inkhaven, I wrote 30 posts in 30 days. Most of them are not particularly related to EA, though a few of them were. I recently wrote some reflections. @Vasco Grilo🔸 thought it might be a good idea to share on the EA Forum; I don't want to be too self-promotional so I'm splitting the difference and posting just a shortform link here: https://linch.substack.com/p/30-posts-in-30-days  The most EA-relevant posts are probably https://inchpin.substack.com/p/skip-phase-3 https://inchpin.substack.com/p/aging-has-no-root-cause https://inchpin.substack.com/p/legible-ai-safety-problems-that-dont 

Incidentally, ‘flipping non-EA jobs into EA jobs’ and ‘creating EA jobs’ both seem much more impactful than ‘taking EA jobs’. That could be e.g. taking an academic position that otherwise wouldn’t have been doing much and using it to do awesome research / outreach that others can build on, or starting an EA-aligned org with funding from non-EA sources, like VCs. (excerpt from https://lydianottingham.substack.com/p/a-rapid-response-to-celeste-re-e2g)