New article by me! Cardiovascular disease mortality rates have declined by around three-quarters since 1950, but we rarely hear about it. I explore some of the reasons behind the decline.

People in rich countries often underestimate how wealthy they are globally. A new study finds that a simple nudge correcting this misperception increases generosity. Research by Glen Spiteri, Maximilian Maier 🔍, Harry Coulson, & Falk Lieder: escholarship.org/uc/item/0wm7t7…

Anthropic is one of the fastest-growing businesses of all time. Dario Amodei and I chatted about flying past $5b in ARR, Anthropic's focus on B2B, payback economics of individual models, talent wars, AI market structure, and lots more. And you all said that you all want longer

Before I interviewed Lewis Bollard, I had assumed that factory farming was on its way out (especially given new tech like cultivated meat around the corner). Unfortunately this is far from inevitable: factory farms are already incredibly efficient machines for making meat (the

Just $1 can help avert 10 years of farmed animal suffering. I decided to give $250,000 as a donation match to FarmKind after learning about the outsized opportunities to help. FarmKind directs your contributions to the most effective charities in this area. Please

THE LAUNCH SEQUENCE A new collection of 16 essays on how to accelerate AI for science & security: ifp.org/launch The AI revolution is already delivering enormous consumer benefits. But AI progress won't automatically solve humanity's most important problems first. To

If you've read our book, we'd be grateful if you'd review it on Goodreads. (And if you haven't, it's open access via OUP.) (Links in next tweet.)

Mustafa Suleyman Thanks for this thoughtful post, Mustafa Suleyman. I share your concern that it would be harmful if society came to falsely believe AIs are conscious. I also value your analysis of the factors that drive these perceptions. (I’ve done a similar analysis here, esp. Sections 4–6:

We’ve raised $2,027,084 for FarmKind (with matching). This will improve the lives of over 20 million animals. We’ve increased the global funding for farmed animal welfare by 1%. That’s crazy - the world is really big place! Thank you all so much for the incredible

NEW: J.Greene interviewed on the award-winning podcast Ologies is on blooski with Alie Ward. In this "Trolleyology" episode, Josh discusses moral dilemmas, effective charitable giving (Giving Multiplier), building bridges across political divides, and more. 🎧 Listen: pod.link/1278815517/epi…

If you forecast an outcome, people will think you want it to occur. (To an extent rational, since people's forecasts are in fact often influenced by their preferences.)

Actions often involve a mix of personal benefit and social cost. People struggle with how to think about such morally-mixed actions, either committing the rounding to zero fallacy or (at the opposite extreme) the total-cost fallacy. This post charts a better course.

"Futures with digital minds: Expert forecasts in 2025" by Lucius Caviola (Lucius Caviola), Bradford Saad

We now have the first accuracy results from the largest-ever existential risk forecasting tournament. In 2022, we convened 80 experts and 89 superforecasters for the Existential Risk Persuasion Tournament (XPT), which collected thousands of forecasts in 172 questions across

1/ Our paper "AI Alignment: The Case for Including Animals" with Peter Singer, Yip Fai Tse and Soenke Ziesche, has been accepted for publication at Philosophy & Technology! We argue that frontier AIs should be aligned with basic concern for animal welfare and propose how🧵

OpenAI just released the largest-ever report on how consumers are using ChatGPT. It looks at millions of (anonymized) messages over the last 3 years to analyze usage evolution over time. Key takeaways 👇

Important new TED talk by @jeffsebo on why we need to take AI sentience seriously -- and how our choices today could shape the future of digital minds. Fortunate to work with him on projects like our analysis of how society might view AI consciousness (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…)

I get lots of emails from people who believe they've awoken consciousness within ChatGPT. If you come across anyone in that situation, please share this guide I wrote with them. There's something more interesting going on here than just "delusion"... vox.com/future-perfect…