Intro to Effective Altruism Fellowship (Spring 2024)

Spring 2024 Applications are now open

Our core goal with this program is to introduce you to some of the principles and thinking tools behind effective altruism. We hope that these tools can help you as you think through how you can best help the world.

Program Summary Details

  • 8 week program, beginning mid-February

  • 1 hr of reading & 1 hr discussion per week

  • Cohorts of ~7 people

  • Applications due Saturday, February 10

  • No cost to participate

Questions we’ll explore:

  • Who should we care about helping?

  • How much better are the best options to do good?

  • How can we improve our decision-making?

  • What issues pose long-term threats to our future?

Weekly Content Overview

Discussion Format

Each session of the program has a section of Required Materials and sometimes an exercise, which you are expected to complete in advance of the weekly meeting to help you get the most out of the program and give a better experience to your peers.

We think that the Required Materials take most people about 1-2 hours to get through, and the exercise another 30-60 minutes. We have matched the readings and exercises so that, in total, we think it will take around 2-2.5 hours per session to prepare for the session. These weekly discussion group sessions help solidify the insights from the readings, and are facilitated by experienced alumni.

Application Process

Interested participants need to fill out the application, due February 10th. Please spend less than 15 minutes on the required questions, this is not meant to be a long application!

If you have questions about anything here, or about the program in general, join our slack and ask away!

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Who are we?

We are help students think about how they can use their careers to do good: This involves running discussion groups and connecting people to career/internship opportunities in the broader EA community. In the near future, we plan on providing research and project opportunities that students can be a part of here at UT.