Effective Altruism Perth

06/04/2025

High Impact Professionals is excited to announce that applications are open for the next round of its Impact Accelerator Program (IAP). The IAP is a free, 6-week program starting the week of June 16, 2025, and is designed to help experienced (mid-career/senior) professionals not currently working in a high-impact role to: identify paths to impact; take concrete, impactful actions; and join a network of like-minded, experienced, and supportive impact-focused professionals. More information is available here, including links to register for informational webinars on April 23 that will provide an introduction to the IAP and a Q&A session. Apply to the IAP here by April 27 and share with your network.

https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org/

https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org/impact-accelerator-program

04/04/2025

Greg Sadler from Good Ancestors has reached out to me personally about an online town hall event on AI safety happening on 9 April, 4:30-5:30PM AWST. He's emphasised how important attendance is—it’s their best chance to influence politicians and media during the election. I’ll be there, and it’d mean a lot if you could join too.

More details here:

Join our Virtual Town Hall to discuss how Australia can contribute to future AI systems being safe and the economic benefits that could follow.

31/03/2025

Huge updates!

In 2025, Effective Altruism Perth will focus on hosting monthly social events (e.g. dinners) for the benefit of its existing, engaged members, and supporting local EA university groups*.

Due to limited and changing organiser capacity, we do not have plans to run a large number of once-off workshops or reading groups.

We will cease promotions to reach new potential members on meetup, instagram and our website. Events will be shared through facebook only.

We encourage engaged members to attend our monthly social events, initiate discussions on our group page, follow Effective Altruism UWA, join our discord server for open-ended, in-depth discussions, and reach out to organisers for 1:1 discussions.

For those who are new to effective altruism, we strongly recommend reading this nutshell (1), exploring giving what we can (2), exploring the 80,000 Hours Career Guide (3), their fantastic podcast (4), applying to the online introduction program (5) or AI Safety Fundamentals (6).

We are very much looking forward to hosting EA Perth in 2025

(1) https://80000hours.org/2021/10/effective-altruism-in-a-nutshell/
(2) https://80000hours.org/career-guide/
(3) https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/
(4) https://80000hours.org/podcast/
(5) https://www.effectivealtruism.org/virtual-programs/introductory-program
(6) https://aisafetyfundamentals.com/

*Please contact us if you are interested in starting, helping, or running an EA uni group with our support.

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07/11/2024

There are only 3 days left to apply for the next round of the Introduction to EA Program! (Running early December to late January). The program is perfect for ambitious beginners.

Through this online course, you'll learn the core ideas of effective altruism with a small group of like-minded people. Guided by a facilitator, you'll gain access to curated materials and practical exercises to help you have a greater impact in your career, donations and other projects.

Our members have found the course highly valuable. Check it out to learn more.

Guided by a facilitator, you'll gain access to curated materials and practical exercises to help you have a greater impact.

02/11/2024

If you weren’t able to come to our event today, check out this incredible video!

Most of us don't really know how rich we are compared to the rest of the world, so let's find out together - and explore some other surprising facts along th...