The Nonlinear Library EA - State of the East and Southeast Asian EAcosystem by Elmerei Cuevas
Nov 6, 2023
13:23
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 Lau
Forum Post Graphic credits to Jaynell Ehren Chang
EAGxPhotos credits to CS Creatives
Mainland China
China Global Priorities Group
Aims 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 Kong
City Group:
EAHK
Started 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 the
Horizon Fellowship Program
(In-person EA introductory program). There are 107 fellows since 2020.
Around 200+ on Slack channel
Bi-lingual social media
account
with 350 followers
Bi - 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:
EAHKU
A new team formed in June 2023. Running independently from EAHK.
Organises bi-weekly dinner to connect and introduce EA to students on campus
Planned to run multiple
Giving Games
from Nov 2023 onwards
Aims to run an introductory program within 2023-2024 academic year
Academia (AI):
A couple of researchers and professors interested in AI x-risk and alignment.
AI&Humanity-Lab@University of Hong Kong
Nate Sharadin
(CAIS fellow, normative alignment and evaluations),
Frank Hong
(CAIS fellow, AI extreme risks),
Brian Wong
(AI x-risk and China-US)
2023 Sep launched
MA in AI, Ethics and Society
with AI safety, security and governance. Around 90 students in the course.
Organises public seminars, see
events page
The first annual AI Impacts workshop in March 2024, focused on evaluations
Hong Kong Global Catastrophic Risk Center at Lingnan University
See link for
R
esearch focus and outputs
related to AI safety and governance
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology University
Dr. Fu Jie
is a visiting scholar working on safe and scalable system-2 LLM.
Research Centre for Sustainable HK at City University of Hong Kong
Published a report on the
Ethics and Governance of AI in HK
Academia (Psychology):
Dr. Gilad Feldman
Promote 'Doing more good, doing good better' through some of his teachi...
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 Lau
Forum Post Graphic credits to Jaynell Ehren Chang
EAGxPhotos credits to CS Creatives
Mainland China
China Global Priorities Group
Aims 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 Kong
City Group:
EAHK
Started 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 the
Horizon Fellowship Program
(In-person EA introductory program). There are 107 fellows since 2020.
Around 200+ on Slack channel
Bi-lingual social media
account
with 350 followers
Bi - 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:
EAHKU
A new team formed in June 2023. Running independently from EAHK.
Organises bi-weekly dinner to connect and introduce EA to students on campus
Planned to run multiple
Giving Games
from Nov 2023 onwards
Aims to run an introductory program within 2023-2024 academic year
Academia (AI):
A couple of researchers and professors interested in AI x-risk and alignment.
AI&Humanity-Lab@University of Hong Kong
Nate Sharadin
(CAIS fellow, normative alignment and evaluations),
Frank Hong
(CAIS fellow, AI extreme risks),
Brian Wong
(AI x-risk and China-US)
2023 Sep launched
MA in AI, Ethics and Society
with AI safety, security and governance. Around 90 students in the course.
Organises public seminars, see
events page
The first annual AI Impacts workshop in March 2024, focused on evaluations
Hong Kong Global Catastrophic Risk Center at Lingnan University
See link for
R
esearch focus and outputs
related to AI safety and governance
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology University
Dr. Fu Jie
is a visiting scholar working on safe and scalable system-2 LLM.
Research Centre for Sustainable HK at City University of Hong Kong
Published a report on the
Ethics and Governance of AI in HK
Academia (Psychology):
Dr. Gilad Feldman
Promote 'Doing more good, doing good better' through some of his teachi...