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| 2018 || {{dts|September 21}} || Brent Dill controversy || In response to the controversy surrounding allegations of sexual harassment and other manipulative behavior by community member Brent Dill, CFAR disbands the Alumni Community Disputes Council (ACDC) because of poor decisionmaking by ACDC related to the controversy. CFAR Executive Director Timothy Telleen-Lawton contritely states: "To the extent that CFAR did not provide ACDC with sufficient resources and oversight to properly execute its larger mission, that is our fault and not the fault of the volunteer council members. We want to understand the details of what went wrong and how to do better going forward. We have only just started that process and will provide updates to the community once we have them. In the meantime, in addition to the actions above, we offer our apologies to the involved parties, and to all in our alumni network and in the broader community who needed better leadership in this situation."<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2018/acdc|title = ACDC Update and Apology|date = September 21, 2018|accessdate = September 14, 2019|last = Telleen-Lawton|first = Timothy|publisher = Center for Applied Rationality}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|October}}{{snd}}{{dts|November}} || Leadership || Around this time, Duncan Sabien transitions from his full-time and key role in CFAR to a part-time role. His involvement would reduce to zero by Aprril 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien/posts/2483881418313227|title = Hey, everyone, just a quick status update: my part-time professional involvement with CFAR has now gone to zero.|date = April 21, 2019|accessdate = September 14, 2019|last = Sabien|first = Duncan}}</ref> In May 2019, Sabien would say that the CFAR of 2019 and 2020, under Telleen-Lawton, would look quite different from the CFAR shaped by Sabien in the last few years.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien/posts/2519421394759229|title = I predict that the Center for Applied Rationality of 2019 and 2020 and beyond will be not-at-all "Duncan shaped."|last = Sabien|first = Duncan|date = May 12, 2019|accessdate = September 14, 2019}}</ref> Sabien's departure is also linked to the Brent Dill controversy, as the CFAR leadership believed that he underestimated the risks posed by Brent Dill and gave him more access to the CFAR community.<ref name=cfars-mistakes-regarding-brent>{{cite web|url = https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2019/cfars-mistakes-regarding-brent|title = CFAR's Mistakes Regarding Brent|date = March 21, 2019|accessdate = September 14, 2019|publisher = Center for Applied Rationality|last = Telleen-Lawton|first = Timothy}}</ref><efref>{{cite web|url = https://jbeshir.tumblr.com/post/178335220773/responses-to-the-brent-dill-affair|title = Responses To The Brent Dill Affair|last = Beshir|first = John|date = September 22, 2018|accessdate = September 14, 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{dts|March 21}} || Brent Dill controversy || CFAR Executive Director Timothy Telleen-Lawton publishes a postmortem of the controversy from the previous year surrrounding Brent Dill.
| 2019 || {{w|May}} (announcement), {{w|August 13}}{{snd}}{{w|August 23}} (first example) || ESPR || CFAR announces that the European Summer Program on Rationality (ESPR) is being spun off into a separate organization run by Jan Kulveit, with the ESPR for 2019 (August 13 to August 23) being managed by that organization.<ref name=cfar-may-2019-newsletter>{{cite web|url = https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2019/may-newsletter|title = CFAR Newsletter (May 2019)|date = May 30, 2019|accessdate = September 14, 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{w|July 24}}{{snd}}{{w|August 2}} || SPARC || SPARC 2019 takes place.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sparc-camp.org/ |title=What is SPARC? {{!}} SPARC on WordPress.com |publisher=SPARC |accessdate=July 4, 2019 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20190704031208/https://sparc-camp.org/ |archivedate=July 4, 2019 |dead-url=no}}</ref>
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