Michael Noetel šŸ”ø

Associate Professor @ UQ // Chair and Director @ EA Australia
672 karmaJoined Working (15+ years)Brisbane QLD, Australia
noetel.com.au

Bio

Participation
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I’m an academic working at the intersection of psychology, evidence synthesis, and AI governance. My mission is to reduce the worst risks from advanced AI and help people do the most good they can.

  • Research & policy: Track record of highly cited research that influences policy; expert in systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and Delphi studies.
  • Teaching & mentorship: 3,000+ learners including 50+ postgraduate researchers, eight teaching awards, average rating 4.8 / 5.
  • Impact: Chair and Director of Effective Altruism Australia, Cited in Australia’s Safe & Responsible AI report, the 2024 International AI Safety Report, and WHO guidelines.

Originally from Sydney but fell in love with a Queenslander. Proud dad of three gorgeous boys.

How others can help me

I am looking to expand my team of researchers, so interested in PhD candidates and funding for early-career researchers.

How I can help others

I have strong methodological expertise in a few areas that might be valuable:

  • Rapid and comprehensive systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Synthesising expert judgement via delphi studies
  • Effectively and faithfully scaling up behaviour change with online educational intervention

Comments
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Where did this project end up? Any public results?

Yes all data and code are on the osf, but to my chagrin they’re in spss. Yes good observation re the strawberry, and the imprecision around the outcome.

Our project took approximately 2 weeks FTE for 3 people (most was parallelisable). Probably the best reference class.

Richard I really love your writing, but as a parent I find it so hard to just sit and read stuff. 95% of the forum's content I get via the podcast feeds. Now, I don't expect everyone to go full Experimental History or Joe Carlsmith and audio narrate each post, but unless you're wanting to keep things on Substack turf, you might consider cross-posting the full thing here (like Bentham's Bulldog did for the critique of the wired article). I don't ask this of everyone, so please consider this a compliment: I love your work and want it in my ears.[1] 

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    That sounded weirder than I meant it to

One lens to look at this is less through the ā€˜we’re all similarly qualified’ like the AMA but more through the ā€˜we’re working with the same values’ or ā€˜we’re working on similar problems’ like the Institute of Public Administration Australia. These have no qualification requirements. Still they offer similar things to what ea communities try to do https://qld.ipaa.org.au/for-individuals/

These examples at the end are interesting and worth me mulling over. I do get the sense that Greenpeace or the NAACP would do many of the things you do

That’s a good point. All AMA members have to meet certain criteria. I can see how ā€˜ā€™8 week reading groupā€ pales in comparison to a medical degree.

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