Effective Altruism at Georgia Tech

10/18/2022

Interested in effective altruism and having a high-impact career? Make sure to join our mailing list and Slack group at https://eagatech.org/! You'll hear all about our latest events as well as internships, research fellowships, and more!

We’re a student group at Georgia Tech aiming to help students to multiply their positive impact on the world, informed by evidence and analysis.

05/08/2022

Thank you everyone for an amazing semester! Have a wonderful summer!

04/21/2022

On Saturday from 9am to 7pm, we'll have an AI policy writing hackathon, in collaboration with Columbia Effective Altruism and Roosevelt at Columbia University! No prior experience with AI governance or policy writing is expected. We'll have speakers, mentors, and workshops to help you work on one of the most important issues for safeguarding the future.

⌚ Time: Saturday, April 23 from 9am to 7pm EDT*
🗺 Location: In-person (Exhibition Hall, Highlands room) or on Zoom or at Columbia University
🍕 Free breakfast, lunch, dinner, and pizza for participants!
💸 Up to $3,000 in prizes
*Don't worry if you can't be there the entire day! Hackathon sessions are optional, you just need to submit your

03/09/2022

New guest speaker event on Thursday at 5pm! RSVP with our bio link to get free Chipotle 😋

03/04/2022

Join us for a Q&A with JJ Balisanyuka-Smith about AI safety and getting into machine learning engineering straight out of undergrad! It's on Friday, March 4th at 6:30pm–8pm. JJ is a machine learning engineer at Cohere, a $125M+ AI startup focused on democratizing access to natural language processing services, powered by large language models. JJ's current work focuses on aligning multi-billion parameter language models to perform tasks. He previously founded Swarthmore Effective Altruism.

RSVP and get a free Chipotle dinner at the event!
https://airtable.com/shr6MJRWiFkFlMChQ?prefill_Event=Fireside%20Chat%20with%20JJ%20Balisanyuka-Smith

03/03/2022

Holden Karnofsky, co-CEO of Open Philanthropy, will be speaking at 5pm EST about why this might be an especially pivotal century! RSVP here and get a free plant-based meal from Chipotle: https://airtable.com/shr6MJRWiFkFlMChQ?prefill_Event=Are%20we%20in%20the%20most%20important%20century?%20(AI%20Alignment%20Speaker%20Series)

01/24/2022

Are you interested in learning about problems that pose a threat to humanity in the long-term? Then apply for The Precipice Reading Group today! You’ll get a free copy of The Precipice by Toby Ord and have weekly reading discussions.

Learn more about the program here: https://eagatech.org/precipice.

01/20/2022

If you're interested in helping others and learning how you can do the most good, join us tomorrow for our Introductory Seminar Info Session from 11am-12pm in Room 154 at Skiles!

01/01/2022

We're so proud of our 25 graduates of the Fall 2021 Effective Altruism Fellowship! Over the course of a semester, they've learned about, discussed, and reflected on ideas about how we can maximize our positive impact on the world, based on evidence and reason. If this sounds interesting to you, check out https://eagatech.org/fellowship (link also in our bio)!

12/13/2021

Effective Altruism at Georgia Tech is now presenting the Winter Effective Altruism Fellowship!

The Winter Introductory Effective Altruism Program helps students examine how we can do the most good with our lives and careers — by introducing the ideas and applications of effective altruism: combining compassion, evidence, and reason to find the best opportunities for improving the world. We will also discuss critiques and uncertainties about effective altruism. The three-week fellowship, which will run from mid-December to the beginning of January, will also give an opportunity for us to connect with professionals in the Effective Altruism community and start thinking about our careers so we can think through how we can increase our positive impact with our time, donations, and other resources. Topics include global public health, climate change, pandemic preparedness, AI safety, and farmed animal welfare. The program will involve an investment of 4-5 hours per week for readings, exercises and discussion meetings.

If you are interested in the Winter Introductory Fellowship, please fill out the application form and specify your available times so that we can move the selection process forward and add people to cohorts for the break. If you were unable to complete the Introductory Fellowship in the fall, or do not have time to complete the fellowship in the spring, then the winter fellowship is an excellent way to catch up with the material if you have the time!

Link to the application form: Here's the application: https://airtable.com/shrCR7JC0SxDfIJhI