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Some of the opportunities and job listings we feature in this update have (very) pressing deadlines: Senior Editor at Coefficient Giving (January 17th), Head of People at LEEP (January 18th), and Account Manager at Longview Philanthropy (January 18th).

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Opportunities and jobs

Opportunities

Consider also checking out opportunities listed on the EA Opportunities Board and the Opportunities to Take Action tag.

• Rethink Priorities is hosting Assessing AI Consciousness: Introducing the Digital Consciousness Model, a free online webinar on its Digital Consciousness Model, a probabilistic framework for assessing AI consciousness, aimed at researchers, ethicists, and AI developers. The 90-minute Zoom talk and Q&A runs February 10th (multiple time zones).

Upcoming EA conferences

• EA Global: San Francisco 2026 (February 13–15) | Applications close February 1st — apply now!
• EA Global: London 2026 (May 29–31) | Applications close May 10th — apply now!
• EA Global: East Coast USA (Oct/Nov 2026) | More details coming soon.

Job listings

​​Consider also exploring jobs listed on the Job listing (open) tag. For even more roles, see the 80,000 Hours Job Board.

Against Malaria Foundation

• Junior Operations Manager (Remote (UK/Europe time zones), GBP £28K–£35K)
• Donations Administrator (Remote (UK/Europe time zones), GBP £30K–£40K)

Coefficient Giving

• Senior Editor (Remote, USD $216.7K, apply by January 17th)
• Communications Officer, AI (Remote, USD $163.6K–$216.7K, apply by January 17th)
• Program Officer / Senior Program Officer, Strategic Communications, AI Governance and Policy (Remote, USD $193.9K–$214.9K, apply by January 19th)

Evidence Action

• Senior Program Manager, Syphilis-Free Start (Remote (US), USD $98.7K–$110K)

GiveWell

• Development Coordinator (Remote (US), USD $87.1K–$96.1K)
• Office and Events Manager (Oakland, CA (Hybrid), USD $120K)
• Program Associate (Remote (US / UK / Canada), USD $98.6K–$108.8K)
• Research Analyst (Remote (US / UK / Canada), USD $98.6K–$108.8K)
• Senior Malaria Researcher (Remote (US / International), USD $205.6K–$226.8K)
• Senior Researcher (Remote (US / International), USD $205.6K–$226.8K)

Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP)

• Head of People (Remote, USD $87.7K–$97.8K / GBP £60.2K–£67.1K / EUR €61.1K–€68.2K / KES 7,599.5K–8,473K / ZAR 1,101.3K–1,227.9K, apply by January 18th)
• Chief of Staff (Remote, SGD $89.2K–$94.8K / INR ₹4477K–₹4756.3K / PKR Rs14844K–15771.2K / THB ฿1877K–฿1994.4K, apply by January 18th)

Longview Philanthropy

• Account Manager (New York City / London / San Francisco, USD $99K–$121K / GBP £72.6K–£88.0K, apply by January 18th)
• Head of Development Operations (New York City / London / San Francisco, USD $181.5K–$220.0K / GBP £110K–£143K, apply by January 18th)

METR

• Director of Operations (Berkeley, CA, USD $296.4K–$340.9K)
• (Senior) Machine Learning RE/RS (Hybrid in Berkeley, CA, USD $250K–$450K)
• (Senior) Research Engineer / Research Scientist (Hybrid in Berkeley, CA, USD $250K–$450K)
• Research Stream Lead (Berkeley, CA, USD $250K–$450K)

Principles of Intelligence (formerly known as PIBBS)

• Event and Operations Specialist (Remote, USD $80K–$100K, apply by January 18th)

Rethink Priorities

• Analyst / Senior Analyst, AI Strategy Team (Remote, Expression of Interest)

Organization updates

The organization updates are in alphabetical order.

80,000 Hours

On The 80,000 Hours Podcast:

• Rob interviewed Dean Ball on how AI is a huge deal — but we shouldn’t regulate it yet
• Luisa interviewed Paul Scharre on how AI could transform the nature of war
• Zershaaneh interviewed Andreas Mogensen on what we owe 'philosophical Vulcans and unconscious AIs

There’s also a 2025 highlights episode with one top bit from every interview during the year.

Animal Ethics

Seantience is a short documentary released by Animal Ethics that brings together voices in science and philosophy to present evidence on the sentience of aquatic animals, including invertebrates.

Animal Ethics has announced three campaigns for 2026:

1. AI and Animals — A documentary examining the intersection of AI and animal welfare. The campaign includes 30 planned screenings across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, plus educational materials.
2. Seantience Expansion — The documentary on aquatic animals will be translated into Chinese and Portuguese, with 20 new screenings planned for Asia.
3. Helping Wild Animals — A new documentary and technical reports on interventions to reduce wild animal suffering.

In late December, it published a report in Portuguese on sentience in decapod crustaceans.

Throughout January, Aditya S. Karanam is delivering a series of talks on wild animal suffering across Delhi University colleges and at the Animal Liberation Conference India 2026.

Anima International

Anima International is continuing to hold companies accountable for cage-free commitments. In France, it is mobilizing supporters to document and report supermarkets still selling cage eggs despite the 2025 phase-out deadline. French caterer Restalliance announced that it’s now 100% cage free — a change affecting approximately 27,000 hens per year.

The European Commission published the results of its animal welfare public consultation, which received 236,520 submissions. Most responses came from people mobilized by animal advocacy groups coordinated by Eurogroup for Animals; Anima International contributed over 33,000.

Coefficient Giving

The team behind the Abundance and Growth Fund launched a blog sharing research, commentary, and reading updates.

Coefficient Giving announced $175 million in funding to GiveWells recommendations for 2026 and shared a list of giving opportunities suggested by programme staff, continuing an annual tradition.

Lewis Bollard, who leads farm animal welfare work, wrote about ten wins in 2025 for farmed animals, while 13 staff members shared how they are donating this year, and why.

Evidence Action

Evidence Action published its 2025 Year-in-Review. Despite a challenging year for global health, the organization reached more than 200 million people through programmes that make water safe to drink, improve children’s health and nutrition, and prevent mother-to-child transmission of syphilis. It also says it has laid the groundwork for what is expected to be its largest ever wave of new programme launches over the coming year.

Faunalytics

Faunalytics released a study, Globalizing The Factory Farm: International Organizations and the Spread of Industrial Animal Agriculture, examining how international organizations — including development banks, UN agencies, and major NGOs — may be contributing to the expansion of industrial animal agriculture in low- and middle-income countries.

It also released a video recap of its 2025 work.

GiveWell

In the latest GiveWell podcast episode, CEO Elie Hassenfeld and Principal Researcher Alex Cohen discuss efforts to gather local insights from people who live and work in the countries where GiveWell funds programmes.

It published a report on its 2025 experiment using AI to “red team” its research — asking AI models to critique the work and identify weaknesses.

In the final podcast episode of 2025, Hassenfeld and Director of Research Teryn Maddox reflected on GiveWell's response to foreign aid funding cuts, discussing lessons learned and preparation for 2026.

Giving Green

In December, Giving Green helped launch World Climate Relay, a global fundraiser to support the Giving Green Fund and Sport One, Carbon Zero, an athlete-led climate fund informed by research.

On Giving Tuesday, it hosted a webinar on findings from its report on clean energy in the US and was featured in The Washington Post, Vox, and Heatmap's Shift Key.

METR

METR published its GPT-5 evaluation results. It reports that OpenAI provided access to full reasoning traces for some model completions, as well as a requested list of background information, which led to a more confident risk assessment.

The Humane League

In December, eight companies reported on their cage-free commitments, covering 7 million hens in their supply chains. Based on these companies’ reported progress, THL estimates its campaigns spared 100,000 hens from suffering. It also secured a new global cage-free commitment from Pret A Manger.

THL published a 2025 Year in Review summarizing its work over the year.