Disclaimer: This blog post focuses on a new piece of research from Rethink Priorities. I was not involved with the funding or execution of this research, and therefore write this piece merely as a consumer. However, I am the Executive Director of Giving Green and a board member of Rethink Priorities, and acknowledge that these affiliations may bias my...
I am writing up two charity ideas I’ve wanted to investigate, but haven’t been able to, in the hopes someone will investigate them further. If you end up investigating either, I'd be most interested to see what conclusions you come to!
Vulture preservation as a global health intervention
Since the mid 1990's the vulture population in India has been rapidly declining. The reason is due to a few chemicals which are fed to livestock, which is highly poisonous to vultures.
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Summary
This post will summarize the trajectory of Wild Animal Initiative’s field-building for wild animal welfare science so far, along with patterns and indicators we want to see more of going forward. Beginning with an initial phase focused on establishing credibility and awareness of the field, through a second phase that has placed more emphasis on the distinctiveness and broad priorities of the field, we are now moving into a third phase designed to co...
I've increasingly become concerned about a rise in people (especially teens) frequently using AI to get advice on how to engage in important interpersonal conflicts.
I've seen lots of discussion (primarily in mainstream media) about AI Psychosis, and the more obvious fear of people/kids outsourcing their thinking to chatbots and getting dumber. Both of these things matter, but specifically the outsourcing of interpersonal conflict resolution seems possibly quite bad and feels under discussed.
I'd estimate something like ~40-60% of young Americans have put a screenshot of a text exchange into ChatGPT and asked if the other person was wrong / crazy / etc... I know people who I'd consider to have high eq/iq using ChatGPT to weigh in on if their parent or partner is gaslighting them, and consequently severely damaging that relationship when they eventually get the yes.
I'm curious who is working on this, or if people think this is just an obvious issue that is super low priority?
Even my daughter uses gpt after our arguments and I'm very much aware of this. She even praises gpt for calming her down in her discussions with her mom. If the stuff if calming her down- i guess it's a good as well as a bad thing. Good as she's not stressing herself and bad since she's probably hiding her thoughts now.