Anteater Effective Altruism at UC Irvine 📘 Intro Program 🤖 AI Alignment 🤝 Join 👥 Team

The Introductory EA Program follows an 8-week syllabus introducing the key ideas behind Effective Altruism.

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  1. Learn how to increase your positive impact in the world
  2. Engage with others in intellectual discussions
  3. Challenge your ethical intuitions
  4. Become part of a supportive group of students motivated to doing good

We’ll explore why it's important to think carefully about how you spend your time and money to help others, and why a "scout mindset" is critical to finding the best opportunities.

Some efforts to help appear to be much more effective than others. We'll share a tool for estimating impact, and look into one promising focus area: reducing global poverty.

Should we care about the suffering of non-human animals, as well as humans? Alongside this question, we'll explain the ideas of expected value and impartial altruism.

Humanity appears to face existential risks: the chance of a catastrophe that destroys our long-run potential. One such risk is from a future pandemic that is worse than COVID-19.

What would the world look like if we took the interests of our grandkids' grandkids as seriously as our own? This week, we'll focus on longtermism, and look at a set of forecasting tools that might help us to predict the future.

Expert views and several different lines of argument suggest that transformative artificial intelligence may be developed this century. How might this change our future, and should we be worried?

This is a chance to read and discuss critiques of the ideas introduced so far, to form your own view on these important and difficult topics.

We’ll discuss ways to apply the principles of effective altruism to your own life, particularly through your career.