Past Events

Whether you’re serenading your sweetheart, belting out breakup anthems, or simply in love with the sound of your own voice, join us for Live Band Karaoke™ this Valentine’s Day weekend The basic setup: tell us the song you want to sing, we'll look up the chords/lyrics on a big screen and play it, you sing it. And/or sing along in the crowd :) There’s also space in the back to chill out.

Sentient Futures Summit is the meeting place of AI experts, welfare researchers, animal advocates, and passionate thinkers seeking to have an impact. We’ll spend 3 days networking and learning how to steer AI and other technologies for the welfare of animals and potentially sentient artificial minds.

Claude Code can now automate substantial portions of research documentation, generating mini-textbooks, interactive wikis, and structured knowledge bases from your research questions. This workshop teaches you how. Participants will work on creating their own research mini-website during the session, focusing on topics in prioritization research, EA cause areas, or related domains.

At different times soothsayer, naysayer, and doomsayer, Clifford Stoll has lived through every wave of the internet era and all of Silicon Valley's cycles. Now an old mad scientist emeritus, he's here to answer any questions you have about where the hell we are and where the hell we're going. Seems like a good time to me!

​What would it take to build models that actually predict which drugs will work in humans, before we run expensive, years long trials that mostly fail? ​We're missing the datasets needed to capture the complexity of human biology, the tacit knowledge locked in failed experiments, and the clinical signals that disappear between the patient and the database. ​Join Tacit Machines and 1Day Sooner for a fireside chat where Ruxandra Teslo interviews special guests on how to create faster feedback loops in biology: what datasets are missing, why do lab results so often fail to translate to patients, and could unlocking data from failed trials and FDA submissions help us learn faster? ​Guests will include a curated group of biotech founders, ex-FDA, policy leaders, scientific progress writers, and deep tech investors.

"The best documentary ever made", claims Michael.

​Harrison Lin builds high-intensity sunlight generators by hand in San Francisco. He'll walk through the engineering challenges of recreating natural daylight indoors: LED selection, thermal design, heat transfer, and mechanical fabrication.

From the days of Holden Karnofsky's Power Smoothie (https://powersmoothie.org/), Effective Altruism has been obsessed with meal replacements and protein shakes. Have you wanted to try Huel or Soylent powder, but never wanted to spend money on a big bag of it? EA SF, will be hosting a Meal Replacement / Protein Powder potluck! If you can, please bring a protein powder or meal replacement of your choice. The more variety the better! At a bare minimum we'll have: * Huel * Huel Black * Soylent (Chocolate, Vanilla, Strawberry) * Orgain We'll start at 6 pm in the 3rd floor kitchen!

​Join us for an evening with Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, New York Times bestselling author, and one of the most provocative voices in contemporary economic thought.

​California is setting the national agenda on AI regulation—and Senator Scott Wiener is at the center of it all. ​As the author of the landmark AI bill SB-53, Sen. Wiener has a front-row seat to the collision between cutting-edge technology and public policy. He's navigating pressure from AI labs, civil liberties advocates, safety researchers, and Silicon Valley—all while shaping rules that will affect how AI is built and deployed.

​Judy Shen and Daniel Zhu of Anthropic are visiting Mox to present a preview of their upcoming paper, "Agents, Inc. Misalignment in AI Organizations of Aligned Agents."

The basic setup: tell us the song you want to sing, we'll play it, you sing it. If you want us to do a good job playing your song, please post your karaoke song with your RSVP! If not, just ask for it live. If you want inspiration, you could check out these two lists of songs we like to play: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uGabSv1H5dXyNgt7FyT1ehmhBsSk5XLDRT-XAQK8YrU/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2dNpbF_yYGS7XoIcRmfg2wlTwu_sBFDZ_iSmfWXa0Y/edit Doors at 7, we'll probably start playing at like 7:30.

​We’re hosting a live challenge inspired by METR’s latest evals paper to test the real-world impact of AI coding agents. Half of participants will be randomly assigned to build without AI; the other half will use leading tools like Factory. It’s a head-to-head showdown measuring speed, quality, and productivity.

​Join us for dinner, drinks, and a fireside chat about METR's latest paper! Doors open at 6pm, and the presentation will start at 7pm. ​METR's study found via RCT that experienced software developers were 19% less productive when using AI tools vs without. This was wildly different from their own assessments and the predictions of expert forecasters, who expected a 20-40% productivity boost. ​Steve Newman will lead a conversation with the primary authors of the paper — Joel Becker and Nate Rush — about what they found, whether their results generalize, and how to square this result with other AI evaluations and forecasts, including those performed by METR.