Upcoming events.
We regularly run social events, focused discussions and impactful workshops on submissions to government.
Giving Significantly, Effectively and Openly
Join us to discuss giving significantly, effectively and openly with Giving What We Can.
Book Discussion: ‘Doing Good Better’
Join EA Perth to discuss Doing Good Better - the best introduction to effective altruism.
Rationality Reading Group
‘The Sequences’ are very influential essays on rationality, let's read them!
Book Discussion: Superforecasting
Join effective altruism Perth to discuss superforecasting: the art and science of prediction. Can we see into the future? How? Will it be good or bad?
Book Discussion: Uncontrollable
Meet the EA Perth community to discuss the new book: uncontrollable by darren mckee. This will be our first open discussion on the risks of advanced AI.
How You Can Save The Most Animals
Some of us want to save as many animals as possible. In this presentation at the Perth Vegan Expo, Jordan will show how you can.
POSTPONED: AI Risk Evening
Join effective altruism perth and curtin machine learning club for an evening to learn about risks from advanced artificial intelligence, and what can be done to improve safety.
Lightning Talks
⚡⚡ LIGHTNING TALKS ⚡⚡
We are collaborating with EA-UWA to host an evening of 5-minute talks. Come to get a short, sharp hit of fascinating ideas! And did we mention FREE Ⓥ PIZZA?
Social Dinner at Formosa Garden
Come join the EA Perth community for some delicious food.
Submission Workshop: Help Reform Australia's Charity Laws
Help secure tax-deductible status for charities supporting animal welfare and disaster prevention! The submission process will be easy with our provided materials - just copy, paste and edit. This is a once-in-a-generation review of Australia's charity laws so it might be the most impactful thing you can do with your evening.
Introduction to Effective Altruism
Have you wanted to help others, and wondered about the best way to do it? Are you new to effective altruism? No idea what it means? This is the event for you. We will discuss some of the very surprising and empowering ways to think about helping others.
Submission Workshop: Pig Welfare Inquiry
At this workshop, you will be supported to write an evidence-based and impactful submission to a public inquiry into pig welfare in Victoria. This could be a rare opportunity to influence government policy on animal welfare.
Book Discussion: The Precipice
We will meet to discuss the ideas in The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord.
Submission Workshop: Covid Inquiry and Pandemic Prevention
The Australian government is currently inquiring into COVID-19 and asking how we could do better in the future. We’re worried that they’re focused only on preparing for the next pandemic, not stopping it from happening. This means we have a huge opportunity to shape Australia’s pandemic prevention policy for the next decade.
Melbourne Trip: EAGx Australia 2023
Some of our most engaged members are going on a trip to Melbourne for the annual effective altruism conference.
Submission Workshop: Preventing The Worst Disasters
Good Ancestors is running an online workshop to help you draft submissions to a Government consultation on disaster prevention and preparedness. They are currently ignoring catastrophic risks.
Book Discussion: Animal Liberation Now
We will meet to discuss animal liberation now by peter singer. Singer's book, first written almost 50 years ago, is the biggest landmark in animal ethics, exposing the horrendous treatment of animals in farms and labs, and showing why it is morally unjustified to disregard the suffering of animals. It has just been fully revised and updated.
Oppenheimer in Cinema
Join EA Perth for lunch and seeing the new Oppenheimer movie together, which is about the team of scientists that developed nuclear weapons, giving the human race the ability to completely destroy ourselves
An Evening With Peter Singer
EA Perth members are getting dinner before seeing Peter Singer at the Perth Concert Hall.
Peter Singer is a philosopher who has been extremely influential in modern ethics and effective altruism.
Submission Workshop: AI Policy
The Australian government is asking what it can do to mitigate any potential risks from AI. We are preparing submissions to help mitigate the worst outcomes.
Social Lunch - Leaf Indian Restaurant
An EA social event, join us for lunch at The Leaf Indian restaurant in Leederville.
Book Discussion: The Alignment Problem
A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement to fix them.
"Fascinating, provocative, and insightful. Essential reading if you want to understand where our world is heading" Stuart Russel (author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach)
Book Discussion: What We Owe The Future
"This book will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better." -Ezra Klein
Submission Workshop: Review of WA's Covid Response
The Western Australian government’s review of its COVID-19 response is a chance for us to give government ideas about how it could do better at pandemic prevention and preparedness. Your voice can urge WA to be ambitious in the recommendations of this review.