Scale
How many lives or how much well-being could an effort affect?
Caltech Effective Altruism
Think clearly.
Do more good.
A student community exploring where our time, skills, and resources can do the most good.
Registration forthcoming
We are preparing to register with Caltech for the 2026-27 academic year.
Think clearly.
Good intentions deserve good methods.
Effective altruism asks how evidence, open inquiry, and moral concern can guide real choices. It is a question to investigate, not a conclusion you must accept.
Neglectedness
Where might additional attention or resources matter most?
Tractability
What evidence suggests that progress is possible?
Broader than one cause.
AI matters, but an EA community can examine many ways to improve the world.
Global health
Compare interventions that can improve health and reduce preventable suffering across the world.
Animal welfare
Examine neglected ways to improve the lives of farmed and wild animals.
Biosecurity
Study practical ways to reduce biological risks and strengthen preparedness.
AI and emerging technology
Explore governance, technical safety, and the social effects of powerful technologies.
Climate and resilience
Investigate underused approaches to climate risk, energy, and adaptation.
Evidence-based giving
Learn how research can inform charitable choices without reducing values to a single score.
A complementary space for broad inquiry.
Caltech already has students focused on AI alignment. CITEA can connect that conversation with global health, animal welfare, biosecurity, philanthropy, careers, and other cause areas.
The aim is not to prescribe a cause or ideology. It is to make important questions easier to examine together.
What we are building
Start with a small, serious group.
Registration is forthcoming. We are assembling interested students, officers, an eligible advisor, and the materials needed for Caltech review.
Learn together
Reading groups and discussions that welcome disagreement and changing one's mind.
Choose deliberately
Career and giving workshops grounded in evidence, uncertainty, and personal fit.
Build usefully
Student-led research, projects, and collaborations shaped by member interest.
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