Great post, thanks! I had no idea you'd been so successful with MPs.

Buried the lede a bit here: "Global is able to fund PauseAI UK until the end of Q2 2026. At the time of writing we have no runway beyond this and we are actively seeking funding to help us stay afloat." Does this mean you have a month to raise £25K? How's it going? 

If you're still fundraising I'd recommend a short comment in here. 

Thanks James, that's really cool to hear :)

Me and @Fran are co-hosting a podcast, The World Can Be Better! (hosted on Substack, also on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube)

In our first co-hosted episode we interview @finm about better futures, the intelligence explosion, and Fin's underrated post 'No ghost in the machine'. 

We'll be recording more episodes soon. We're aiming to a) keep it accessible to an interested but non-specialist audience, and b) to talk to cool people who are working on making the world better. This is on top of full time jobs for both of us, so we're not promising weekly uploads or anything too fancy. 

LMK in the comments or dm if there is someone you'd love to be a guest on our podcast! The ideal guest is a) doing good effectively in an interesting way and b) is down to joke around a bit. 

I'm curating this post because a) it's interesting and worth reading, and b) I'd love to encourage more people to share slack conversations in this way. It's one of the best uses of LLMs for Forum content I've seen. 

Great use of AI-generated cartoons! Not a sentence I expected to say. The ice cream one is especially good.

That's reasonable, I have no idea. Definitely a fellow traveller though (they come to the conferences, work from the offices, etc...). 

I'm sure there are many more examples of what I'm pointing at here that are closer to 'EA'. 

Hey Madeleine! Good question. You might want to change the title to make it more descriptive, i.e. something like "Which EA organisations are working on systemic change?".

PS- the answer is lots. LEEP gets governments to enforce laws around lead in paint and food, Legal Impact for Chickens is trying to change how laws are applied (as is THL UK), Pause AI routes through a mass movement, etc... 

When you get into it, the distinction between 'systemic change' and 'measurable intervention' is a spectrum rather than a binary. There are EA interventions at most points along that spectrum. 

Just in time, Brian. Thanks so much. I'll try this. 

Wow very cool, best of luck!

Makes sense Carlos! It might be a personal thing but when I see AI writing I often struggle to read it/ understand what is the idea of the author and what is the AI-fluff.