Published on October 3, 2025 8:20 PM GMT The Open Philanthropy Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness (BPP) team is hiring and is also looking for promising new grantees! The BPP team's focus is on reducing catastrophic and existential risks from biology -- work that we think is currently neglected by the EA community and requires substantially more effort. While AI risks may be larger, the strategy for mitigating biological risks is both much clearer and likely more tractable, though the ca...| Progress Forum
Metaphors and short explanations have a large influence on how we think and talk about the future. Some examples are: AGI is like nukes, out-of-control race dynamics, LLMs as stochastic parrots. …| progressforum.org
Seeking a freelance project manager to help me publish and launch my book, The Techno-Humanist Manifesto. …| progressforum.org
We're excited to announce our July book discussion featuring Pieces of the Actionby Vannevar Bush with a foreword from Ben Reinhardt. …| progressforum.org
Published on June 23, 2025 7:07 PM GMT Note: this is a crosspost from my Substack, Positive Sum. I'm spending the next six months reading 30+ books about innovation policy, trying to understand a perspective I've been disregarding my whole career. Our tech policy debates are stuck because we're talking past each other. Arguments continually circle back to one thing: whether regulation will harm innovation. Usually, us leftists see “protecting innovation” as a weak, catch-all excuse used...| Progress Forum
This is a linkpost for https://rootsofprogress.org/more-great-speakers-join-progress-conference-2025/ …| progressforum.org
Published on June 6, 2025 10:53 PM GMT The Roots of Progress Institute is seeking to commission stories for a new article series, “Intelligence Age,” on future applications of AI. These will be reported essays, not science fiction. We want to understand how AI might change individual sectors of the economy and the working lives of the people within them. What happens to traditional filmmaking when AI can make good movies? What will it be like to date with an emotionally intelligent AI vet...| Progress Forum
Published on May 31, 2025 3:21 PM GMT It’s been way too long since the last links digest, which means I have way too much to catch up on. I had to cut many interesting bits to get this one out the door. Much of this content originated on social media. To follow news and announcements in a more timely fashion, follow me on Twitter, Notes, Farcaster, Bluesky, or Threads. Contents Apply to the Roots of Progress Fellowship by June 1st (tomorrow!) Edge Esmeralda next week! My writing (ICYM...| Progress Forum
Social media exploded with pent-up frustrations, swirling like an inexhaustible tornado, after the UnitedHealthcare tragedy. Why does health insurance produce such a wellspring of anger? In other mar…| progressforum.org
Published on May 19, 2025 1:39 PM GMT Movement alone isn’t progress, and there are dangers in ignoring dimensions and directions of acceleration. Note: This is cross-posted from my Substack on Exploring Cooperation, responding to a recent post by Helen Toner, and I think that post, and hopefully my long-form reply, will be of interest to the progress studies community. Progress, Acceleration, and the Fragility of Civilizational Defaults In debates about progress, societies seem trapped be...| Progress Forum
