General

• 2021 paper: How Effective Altruism Can Help Psychologists Maximize Their Impact 
• Meta-research

• 80000hours.org/articles/advice-by-expertise/#psychology
• EA Behavioral Scientists (public)
• EA psychology slack 
• Reddit threads Psychology areas with most benefit to people?: EffectiveAltruism
• Google Scholar search for Effective Altruism

Cognitive Science / Philosophy of Mind

• Which agents have moral weight?

• OpenPhil report on 2017 Report on Consciousness and Moral Patienthood
• Preliminary thoughts on moral weight

• What can neuroscience tell us about AGI?

• All articles that mention neuroscience on AI Impacts
• Sandberg and Bostrom (2008)- Whole Brain Emulation: A Roadmap 

• Cognitive Moral Enhancement

• The Perils of Cognitive Enhancement and the Urgent.. (Persson and Savulescu, 2008) Also see the citation trail of the paper

• Brain-computer interfaces 'Neural laces' (for AI safety)

• Neuralink launch video 
• An integrated brain-machine interface platform with thousands of channel

• Computational Neuroscience: Reskilling in ML for AI safety

• Demis Hassabis, founder of DeepMind, got his PhD in cognitive neuroscience. He sought to find inspiration in the human brain for new AI algorithms.

Psychology

• Wireheading as a Possible Contributor to Civilizational Decline 
• Psychology of GCRs and X-risks

• Research by Lucius Caviola
• Cognitive Science / Psychology as a neglected approach to AI safety by Kaj Sotala

• Animal Welfare

• Psychology of Speciesism: see Research by Lucius Caviola
• Market research for clean meat Double blind taste tests (see for instance)

• Improving institutional decision-making

• 80k problem profile 

• Improve subjective wellbeing

• HAPPIER LIVES INSTITUTE

• Psychology of (Effective Charitable) Giving

• Impediments to Effective Altruism: The Role of Subjective Preferences in Charitable Giving- 2018
• Research by Lucius Caviola

• Psychology to improve global health effectively

• Improve mental health^[1]
• Reduce smoking^[2], alcohol use
• Overeating

• 'The Hungry Brain' written by former OPP consultant,
• The Carbs-Obesity Hypothesis by Luke Muehlhauser)

• Improve sleep (to improve health- see 'Why We Sleep' by neuroscientist Matthew Walker)

Heuristics and Biases

Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgment of Global Risks 

Find new biases: Substract

Neuroscience

Basic neuroscience research

• Harvard EA philanthropy advisory fellowship report on Brain Science Research
• Open Phil grant in basic neuroscience: MIT Synthetic Neurobiology Group — Brain Mapping Research (Ed Boyden) (2016) 
• Clark 2013: Whatever next (Hauke's personal opinion on which introductory paper is most important for neuroscientists to read).

Applied neuroscience research

• Brain aging (The Longevity Research Institute possible interventions to test, The Longevity Research Institute): Sarah Constantin
• Better antidepressants (https://www.hedweb.com/, Happier Lives Institute)
• Better painkillers

• For suffering focused ethics

Forecasting

Expert Elicitation

Practical Ethics

Dominic Wilkenson

Julian Savalescu

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Notes

[1] "Mental Health Report Summary | Founders Pledge." '19 https://founderspledge.com/stories/mental-health-report-summary

[2] "The Single Best Health Policy in the World: Tobacco Taxes " '15 https://www.cgdev.org/publication/single-best-health-policy-world-tobacco-taxes