At Animal Charity Evaluators, our focus is on identifying the most effective ways to help animals. To follow through with this mandate, we believe it is necessary for the animal advocacy movement to engage larger portions of the population and to embrace diversity, … Read more
Philosophy
How to Conduct Studies That Will Encourage More Effective Altruists to Care about Animals
Note: This post has been edited to fix an incorrect attribution of a leafleting study to Humane League Labs. While THL helped gather data for the study, it was actually run by Farm Sanctuary.
Over the next 3 years, $1 million dollars will be committed to empirical studies within animal advocacy. … Read more
Our Thinking on Only Publishing Approved Reviews
Many people approach us with concerns about our policy of not publishing information about a charity without their permission. Doesn’t that impede our ability to be a watchdog? Does that mean that we only report on positive accomplishments? Aren’t we being partial? … Read more
Why Digital Sentience is Relevant to Animal Activists
Guest post by Brian Tomasik
Summary
When aiming to reduce animal suffering, we often focus on the short-term, tangible impacts of our work, but longer-term spillover effects on the far future are also very relevant in expectation. As machine intelligence becomes increasingly dominant in coming decades and centuries, … Read more
Our Thinking on Charity Rating Systems
When we table at conferences, we are often asked why we don’t rate charities. Many people have one specific charity that they care about and want our opinion in a letter grade or equivalent rating. For instance, they might prefer a system in which we assigned every group we consider a rating on a scale from 1 to 10, … Read more