Hello!

Applications are closing soon for EA Global: London 2023 (19-21 May)! Apply here by 5 May (11:59 pm UTC). You can find more info here.

You’re also invited to:

• Apply or nominate someone to join the boards of Effective Ventures Foundation (UK and US)
• Suggest candidates for CEA's next Executive Director

— Lizka (for the Forum team)

We recommend:

1. Leaked EU Draft Proposes Substantial Animal Welfare Improvements (Ben_West, linkpost)
2. World Malaria Day: Reflecting on Past Victories and Envisioning a Malaria-Free Future (2ndRichter, GraceAdams, 6 min) and a post on "the malaria vaccination era"
3. David Edmonds's biography of Parfit is out (Pablo, 5 min)
4. 500 Million, But Not A Single One More - The Animation (Writer, video)
5. US Policy Master's Degrees: Top Programs, Applications, & Funding (US Policy Careers, 43 min)
6. Animal welfare
   1. What will insect farming look like and actually mean for animal welfare? (Karthik Palakodeti, 12 min)
   2. Overview of Shrimp Farming and Questions Surrounding it (ishankhire, 9 min)
   3. Growing the Animal Advocacy Community in China - Engaging Stakeholders in Research for Improved Effectiveness  (Jack_S, jahying, 23 min)
7. AI progress and risk
   1. Power laws in Speedrunning and Machine Learning (Jaime Sevilla, 2 min)
   2. If your AGI x-risk estimates are low, what scenarios make up the bulk of your expectations for an OK outcome? (Greg_Colbourn, thread) (consider also exploring the recent all-AGI-safety-questions thread)
   3. No, the EMH does not imply that markets have long AGI timelines (Jakob, 9 min) and this discussion
   4. AI - public communication on AI risk
      1. Talking publicly about AI risk (Jan_Kulveit, 7 min)
      2. Reasons to have hope (jwpieters, 1 min)
      3. Also: a Wired article on AI-driven unemployment, the Financial Times on slowing down the AI race, Max Tegmark in TIME on AI and “Don’t Look Up”, The Economist on LLMs, and notes on "the hot mess theory of AI misalignment" by a researcher in Google Brain.
8. Community
   1. EA-related episode of In Pursuit of Development (podcast) on SBF, the capability approach, and more (ryancbriggs, linkpost)
   2. Two things about CEA that I think could improve the EA community (Kaleem, 14 min)
   3. GWWC Reporting Attrition Visualization (Jeff Kaufman, 1 min)
   4. Org Proposal: Effective Foundations (Kyle Smith, 3 min)
   5. Impartiality is not baked into to Christianity (Luke Eure, 2 min)
   6. But what has EA done? (Nathan Young, thread)
9. Notes and works in progress: an update on questions on genetic sequencing of wastewater, a pre-publication notice on a project exploring the shape of distributions of impact, a suggestion that “accuracy agreements” might be a useful alternative to prediction markets, and a note that AI progress might soon speed up biological research. 

Announcements:

1. Time-sensitive
   1. Apply or nominate someone to join the boards of Effective Ventures Foundation (UK and US) (Zachary Robinson)
   2. Suggest candidates for CEA's next Executive Director (MaxDalton, Michelle_Hutchinson, ClaireZabel)
   3. High schoolers can apply to the Atlas Fellowship: $10k scholarship + 11-day program (ashleylin)
2. Talent Directory for EA Hiring Managers/Recruiters and Job Seekers (High Impact Professionals)
3. Animal Charity Evaluators Is Seeking Intervention Effectiveness Research (Animal Charity Evaluators)
4. Current plans as the incoming director of the Global Priorities Institute (Eva)
5. Now You Can Submit Conditional Pair Questions on Metaculus (christian) 
6. Join a ‘learning by writing' group (jwpieters)

• On "fringe" ideas (Kelsey Piper)