Curious to learn more about Effective Altruism? Want to find out more about UChicago EA and our Introductory Fellowship? Come attend our upcoming info session.

Learn more about the Fellowship: uchicagoea.org/intro-fellowship

Apply to our Intro Fellowship (IF) here: https://tinyurl.com/UChiEA-IFWQ22

Details/Motivation:

Some efforts to improve the world can be much more impactful than others. Smallpox eradication, the abolitionist movement, germ theory, and the Green Revolution demonstrate what's possible when people come together to solve pressing problems. But these opportunities to do good are few and far between. At the other end of the spectrum, many well-intended initiatives are ineffective or even counterproductive. Doing good better is one of the defining challenges of our time.

Recognizing this need, UChicago Effective Altruism is running an six-week program to equip UChicago students with the knowledge to do good in the world more effectively and the tools to think critically about their career ambitions. By the end of the quarter, Fellows will have access to in-depth coaching, career connections, and unique opportunities to help others.

What is Effective Altruism?

There are many people who want to do good in the world and an overwhelming number of ways to do so. But, both as individuals and organizations, we have limited time and resources. This raises the question that the Effective Altruism community tries to answer: how can we do the *most* good? This is, of course, an extremely complicated question. People in the Effective Altruism community, a growing movement worldwide, have poured hundreds of thousands of hours into thinking about this question, researching relevant facts about the world, and using their time and money based on these findings. This research project has necessarily produced only tentative and imperfect answers and has raised many additional questions. Nevertheless, we believe the community has made important steps in the right direction and has produced ideas that are important to engage with for anyone who is serious and excited about making the world a better place.

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