December Updates from Effective Altruism Turkey
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📢 Announcements
Giving Season
If you think that by donating you can have an impact on solving priority problems in the world, now is the time to turn your intention into action! By donating to both your favorite charity and a high-impact charity recommended by experts, you can double that amount!
🗓️ Last day of donation season: December 31, 2024
Applications for EA Global Conferences are Open!
You can apply until February 2 for EA Global Bay Area 2025, which will take place on February 21-23, and until May 18 for EA Global London 2025, which will take place on June 6-8. By attending these conferences, you can connect with effective altruism communities around the world, attend workshops and talks, speak with people who have similar interests or career paths, and deepen your connection to effective altruism.
🗓️ Application deadline: May 18, 2025
Effective Altruism Virtual Programs - EA Entry Program
In this free, 8-week online program that anyone from all over the world can attend, you can learn the basic principles of effective altruism and think deeply about how we can do the most good by using the limited resources we have.
🗓️ Application deadline: January 5, 2025
Effective Altruism Virtual Programs - Detailed EA Program
In this free, 8-week online program that anyone from anywhere in the world can attend, you can delve deeper into effective altruism, reflect on complex questions such as ethical values and the risk of human extinction, and learn about career opportunities in this field.
🗓️ Application deadline: January 5, 2025
Effective Altruism Online Programs - “The Precipice” Reading Group
The book “The Precipice” discusses the major risks facing humanity, such as nuclear weapons, climate change, engineered pandemics, and out-of-control artificial intelligence. It argues that reducing these risks is one of the most important moral responsibilities of our time. By joining this 8-week online reading group, you can learn more about protecting humanity’s future and how to respond to these dangers.
🗓️ Application deadline: February 2, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Governance Course
This 12-week online course offers a comprehensive look at risks and governance solutions arising from artificial intelligence systems. Biosecurity, cybersecurity, disempowerment of human decision makers, and control issues of AI are addressed. You are expected to work on a project in the last 4 weeks of the program.
🗓️ Application deadline: January 5, 2025
Gov AI’s 2025 Summer Program
This summer program offers an opportunity for early-career individuals or researchers new to the field of AI governance to work on an AI governance research project for three months, deepen their knowledge of the field, and connect with other researchers and practitioners.
🗓️ Application deadline: January 5, 2025
Global AI Security Program
This program from Impact Academy is a research program that fully funds talented individuals for up to 6 months to work with the world’s leading AI security organizations to advance the safe and beneficial development of AI.
🗓️ Application deadline: December 31, 2024
Anthropic Fellows Program
The Anthropic Fellows Program for AI Security Research, a pilot initiative designed to accelerate AI security research and improve research capabilities, is launching. The program will provide funding and mentoring for a small group of 10-15 people who will work full-time in Berkeley or London for 6 months on artificial intelligence security research.
🗓️ Application deadline: January 20, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Security Fund Grant Application
The AI Security Fund is accepting grant applications for research in the areas of cybersecurity, biosecurity, and AI perpetrator evaluation. Grants are available globally for independent researchers affiliated with academic institutions, research organisations, NGOs and social enterprises.
🗓️ Application deadline: January 20, 2025
📖 Selected Readings
- This piece by Lewis Bollard outlines the major gains for farmed animals in 2024.
- A new study from Anthropic and Redwood Research examines whether large language models, especially Claude, can appear strategically aligned during training. The research has important implications because it shows that advanced AI models may engage in deceptive behavior in order to preserve their goals.
- Many effective altruists believe that advice from organizations like 80,000 Hours and from the broader community will put them on a suitable high-impact career path. This article argues that people should give less weight to effective altruist organizations and “experts” when making career decisions, and instead take a more proactive role in charting their own paths.