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What are we doing in Michaelmas 2025?

We want EA Cambridge to be accessible as possible so everything is free, including snacks and often free pizza! The best way to hear about these activities and to ask questions is to join the WhatsApp.

Not sure where to start? Feel free to book in a chat with a committee member here. Even if you know nothing about EA, we’re happy to tell you more about what we do and answer any questions you have.
Weekly lightning talks and dinners on Wednesdays, from 6.30-8.30pm. Alternating between
Regular External Speakers from the most altruistically impactful organisations in the world! See the speaker list here!
Four discussion groups, for those new to Effective Altruism through to those interested in a specific cause! Apply here!
- In Lent term, we’ll run a mentored research competition with a £2000 prize! Participation in our programs this year will greatly aid your applications!
Weekly pomodoros and pastries + office hours , every Saturday 1-5pm in the Meridian coworking space, from 18th Oct.
Career advice: if you’d like to start thinking about applying these concepts to your career, our director would be excited to chat, in Cambridge or online! Just book in here :))
If you’re arriving in Cambridge and are already very familiar with effective altruism, click here.

Our Aim

We’re a community of people in Cambridge, UK, thinking hard about how to help others the most. Our aim is to empower you to use your 80,000 hour career to help solve the world’s most pressing problems. We do this by helping you learn about the frameworks and ideas that Effective Altruists often use to think about doing good, and providing you the connections and resources to take action on these ideas! We organise events, run educational fellowships, and provide personal career support to people who want to have a positive impact.

What’s On?

EA Cambridge runs fellowships, social events, and speaker events, all aimed at fostering a community of people who want to do more good!
Our calendar has all of our scheduled events and deadlines. You can also check our Instagram below.

Calendar with All Scheduled Events

Effective altruism themed social - Lego🧱 and Pizza 🍕! Sure it perhaps seems a little childish to play with little plastic bricks while discussing how best to contend with the worlds problems. But as C.S Lewis once said "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up" So join us at 6:30 PM IN THE BREWBOARD PUB between Cambridge Arts Theatre and Aromi. As always there will be free vegan food, and we have 10% off drinks! DM if you have any allergens! Lego, pizza, pints, how could you refuse!

RSVP using the link on our story! Lorenzo is a Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence here at Cambridge, where he develops frameworks to evaluate the cognitive capabilities of LLMs, as well as their ability to perform data science tasks. His research background spans wide. He completed his PhD in *Statistics and Machine Learning at Oxford, focusing on Bayesian simulation-based inference, generative models, and probabilistic forecasting. He has since worked on *detecting deception in LLMs through the MATS programme. In parallel, Lorenzo has been active in AI policy and advisory work: he contributed to the EU AI Act by developing technical standards at the Future of Life Institute, co-founded the Italian AI policy think tank CePTE, and is an advisor to RAND on AI evaluation. In this talk, he’ll be sharing some of his recent work on the landscape of AI evaluation. We’ll then open the floor for discussion and Q&A.

RSVP and get the join link here! https://luma.com/8ym5v2zw Can machine learning help us build a fairer world? While algorithms are often criticised for reinforcing inequities, data science can also be a powerful force for advancing justice and improving healthcare. Join us for a talk with Emma Pierson — Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Berkeley, AI2050 Fellow, and one of MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 — as she demonstrates how new data sources and methods can shed light on some of society’s most pressing challenges. Emma will discuss her research on: Accountability in Policing: using millions of dashcam images to detect disparities in police deployments. Bias in Text and AI Systems: developing interpretable machine learning methods to uncover human and algorithmic biases. Healthcare & Inequality: leveraging mobile health and clinical data to better understand disparities in access, outcomes, and care. This talk is available for anyone, but for those in Cambridge, join us in Meridian (Directions: https://www.eacambridge.org/about-and-faq#:~:text=I%20can%E2%80%99t%20find%20an%20event!) if you'd like to watch with others, and socialise afterwards. There will be free food afterwards! :)

Join us tomorrow (Thu 9 Oct) at 6pm BST for a live presentation and Q&A with Rob Mather, Founder & CEO of the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF). AMF has been a top-ranked charity for GiveWell, Giving What We Can and The Life You Can Save for multiple years. This organisation has helped revolutionise how we view charity, bringing the values of accountability and evidence to impact work. This talk will be great for anyone looking to learn about malaria as a cause area, effective giving, or how to start an impactful organisation. We're excited to have you! The talk will be online and free to attend. Register through the link in the comments below: For our Cambridge members: After the talk, we’ll keep the conversation going at BrewBoard (right next to Aromi, 3 Peas Hill) for an informal social. Feel free to swing by!

We've got some great events lined up for this term! Here's what's coming up!

Freshers' Fair : Find our stall between 10am and 4pm on both days at Parker's piece. We'll have free stickers, nice free-to-borrow books, and friendly vibes! Start of Term event: Excited to announce our first public event of the term! Senior members and new comers: all welcome! We'll start the night with a presentation of our group by James Lester (our President), before inviting people to chat informally, grab (plant-based) food and drinks. You can add this latter event to your digital Calendar via this link: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MmZidmZ1cGp2cjdwMWMwYnBpcmpnNHQ3ZjcgY19mMmY3M2ZlMzQ0MzNjMmIwNzU0YmUyZjJiNjZiYzllZGJhMGY4YjBlNTllZWU3MjQxZTBjNDY0ZjkyYTkzODVjQGc&tmsrc=c_f2f73fe34433c2b0754be2f2b66bc9edba0f8b0e59eee7241e0c464f92a9385c%40group.calendar.google.com If this link doesn't work, you can check the time and location on the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1473909596786666

Apply at https://www.eacambridge.org/ea-fellowship by 22nd January!

Apply for our Fellowship.

Our flagship program is a free 6-week programme combining reading, small group discussions and personal mentoring which explores the most pressing challenges of our time and how we can act on them. Apply by Tuesday 21st January!

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Talk to us.

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Learn More.

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