EA Leaders Forum: Survey on EA priorities (data and analysis)

Abstract

Each year, the EA Leaders Forum, organized by CEA, brings together executives, researchers, and other experienced staffers from a variety of EA-aligned organizations. At the event, they share ideas and discuss the present state (and possible futures) of effective altruism. This year (during a date range centered around \textasciitilde1 July), invitees were asked to complete a “Priorities for Effective Altruism” survey, compiled by CEA and 80,000 Hours, which covered the following broad topics:. The resources and talents most needed by the communityHow EA’s resources should be allocated between different cause areasBottlenecks on the community’s progress and impactProblems the community is facing, and mistakes we could be making now. This post is a summary of the survey’s findings (N = 33; 56 people received the survey). Here’s a list of organizations respondents worked for, with the number of respondents from each organization in parentheses. Respondents included both leadership and other staff (an organization appearing on this list doesn’t mean that the org’s leader responded). 80,000 Hours (3)Animal Charity Evaluators (1)Center for Applied Rationality (1)Centre for Effective Altruism (3)Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (1)DeepMind (1)Effective Altruism Foundation (2)Effective Giving (1)Future of Humanity Institute (4)Global Priorities Institute (2)Good Food Institute (1)Machine Intelligence Research Institute (1)Open Philanthropy Project (6). Three respondents work at organizations small enough that naming the organizations would be likely to de-anonymize the respondents. Three respondents don’t work at an EA-aligned organization, but are large donors and/or advisors to one or more such organizations.