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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: State of the East and Southeast Asian EAcosystem, published by Elmerei Cuevas on November 6, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This write-up is a compilation of organisations and projects aligned / adjacent to the effective altruism movement in East Asia and Southeast Asia and was written around the EAGxPhilippines conference. Some organisations, projects, and contributors also prefer to not be public and hence removed from this write-up. While this is not an exhaustive list of projects and organisations per country in the region, it is a good baseline of the progress of the effective altruism movement for this side of the globe.Feel free to click the links to the organisations/projects themselves to dive deeper into their works.Contributors: Saad Siddiqui; Anthony Lau; Anthony Obeyesekere; Masayuki "Moon" Nagai; Yi-Yang Chua; Elmerei Cuevas, Alethea Faye Cedaña, Jaynell Ehren Chang, Brian Tan, Nastassja "Tanya" Quijano; Dion Tan, Jia Yang Li; Saeyoung Kim; Nguyen Tran; Alvin LauForum Post Graphic credits to Jaynell Ehren ChangEAGxPhotos credits to CS CreativesMainland ChinaChina Global Priorities GroupAims to foster a community of ambitious, careful and committed thinkers and builders focused on effectively tackling some of the world's most pressing problems through a focus on China's role in the world.We currently do this by facilitating action-guiding discussions, identifying talent and community infrastructure gaps and developing new programmes to support impactful China-focused work.Hong KongCity Group:EAHKStarted in 2015 based in University of Hong Kong.5 core organisers, of which 2 receive EAIF funding from 2023 to work part-time (Anthony and Kenneth)Organises theHorizon Fellowship Program(In-person EA introductory program). There are 107 fellows since 2020.Around 200+ on Slack channelBi-lingual social mediaaccountwith 350 followersBi - weekly socials with 8 to 20 attendees and around 8 speakers meetup a year.Registered as a legal entity (limited company) in July 2023 in order to register as a charity in Hong Kong. Aims of facilitate effective giving.Opportunities:High concentration of family office/ corporate funders/ philanthropic organisations. To explore fundraising and effective giving potential.Influx of mainland/ international university in coming years due to recent policy change (40% non-local, 60% local). A diverse talent pool.Looking into translating EA materials to local language (Chinese) to reach out to more locals.University Group:EAHKUA new team formed in June 2023. Running independently from EAHK.Organises bi-weekly dinner to connect and introduce EA to students on campusPlanned to run multipleGiving Gamesfrom Nov 2023 onwardsAims to run an introductory program within 2023-2024 academic yearAcademia (AI):A couple of researchers and professors interested in AI x-risk and alignment.AI&Humanity-Lab@University of Hong KongNate Sharadin(CAIS fellow, normative alignment and evaluations),Frank Hong(CAIS fellow, AI extreme risks),Brian Wong(AI x-risk and China-US)2023 Sep launchedMA in AI, Ethics and Societywith AI safety, security and governance. Around 90 students in the course.Organises public seminars, seeevents pageThe first annual AI Impacts workshop in March 2024, focused on evaluationsHong Kong Global Catastrophic Risk Center at Lingnan UniversitySee link forResearch focus and outputsrelated to AI safety and governanceHong Kong University of Science and Technology UniversityDr. Fu Jieis a visiting scholar working on safe and scalable system-2 LLM.Research Centre for Sustainable HK at City University of Hong KongPublished a report on theEthics and Governance of AI in HKAcademia (Psychology):Dr. Gilad FeldmanPromote 'Doing more good, doing good better' through some of his teachi...
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