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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...
Notes on transformative Ai and Alignment:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/zqRDNChFburJMmpqK/announcing-epoch-a-research-organization-investigating-the
The best way to prove transformative AI is to create it.
“By "transformative AI," I mean "AI powerful enough to bring us into a new, qualitatively different future." The Industrial Revolution is the most recent example of a transformative event; others would include the Agricultural Revolution and the emergence of humans.”
https://www.cold-takes.com/transformative-ai-timelines-part-1-of-4-what-kind-of-ai/
Jasper $125m Raise
Dave Rogenmoser ⛳️🤖🦄 on Twitter: "Welp, Jasper just raised a $125 million Series A at a $1.5 billion valuation.From launch to unicorn in 18 months. 🦄We're one of the fastest-growing startups of all time, but our journey to this point was FAR bumpier than you may think. A thread... 🧵 pic.twitter.com/SWIFAt3zVq / Twitter"
If you had to guess who has the highest chance to create AGI, many would vote for Deepmind or OpenAI right? So why are we not trying to build companies that compete with these that we have more control over, or increase our chance of aligning ai before a totalitarian government with less regard for safety figures it out?