Hi everyone! We're running a free online two-hour workshop called AI Basics: Thrills or Chills?, an interactive film-based crash course/discussion about AI for non-technical people. It's been run for Cornell, Cambridge, the World Bank, the UK Cabinet Office etc.
Feedback on session for civil servants at the UK Home Office The UK Home Office is roughly equivalent in the US to the Department of Homeland Security, plus the Department of Justice, plus the Department of the Interior.
An anonymous post-session survey conducted by the UK Home Office found that:
89% of participants said they were “extremely likely” to recommend the session to a friend or colleague; 11% said they were “very likely” to recommend it.
67% said it made a very great/extreme change to their feeling of the importance of the AI revolution
89% said it made a very great/extreme change to their understanding of the social implications of AI
100% said the interactive, discussion-based format is better/much better than traditional e-Learning
100% said it was valuable/very valuable to hear other participants' feelings and opinions; and to express their own feelings and opinions - rather than just passively listen to experts / watch video
Opinion change: at the start of the session, the majority of participants said the AI revolution was only as important as “the internet”; at the end of the session, the majority of participants said the AI revolution was as important as “the industrial revolution” or “the evolution of humans”
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NOVAH (No Violence At Home) was incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship (now Ambitious Impact) in 2024 to test a promising idea: preventing intimate partner violence through edutainment, in our case a serialised radio drama. Over the past two years we have produced and aired two seasons in Rwanda.
We are currently evaluating our second season through a randomized controlled trial with 2,400 couples in Rwanda in partnership wi...
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* The Long-Term Future Fund is closing down, and EA Funds is launching the Transformative AI Fund with a new full-time team.
* The fund's primary focus is technical AI safety and AI governance (including post-AGI governance), as well as supporting fields such as field-building and forecasting. We'll also consider non-GCR implications of transformative AI such as flourishing futures and digital...
The current Long Term Future Fund (LTFF) fund managers and I have decided to step back from our work on the LTFF. Because we believe LTFF donors trusted the fund managers to ensure that the funds would be used in line with the purposes of their donation, we've decided the right move is to close the fund.
While LTFF is closing, note that EA Funds has launched a new fund...
