She’s the executive director of Effective Altruism NYC, which is funded by the Centre for Effective Altruism, which is in turn supported by a $14 million grant from Bankman-Fried’s foundation.

Effective altruism took off in 2011 when Scottish-born philosopher William MacAskill was inspired by a 1972 essay called “Famine, Affluence and Morality,” by Australian bioethicist Peter ...

Zach Robinson is the chief executive of the Centre for Effective Altruism in Oxford, England. Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for fraud, money laundering and ...

The idea behind effective altruism is to try to have the greatest impact by carefully spending money to solve problems. Bankman-Fried, 30, embarked this year on bailouts of flailing crypto ...

The term effective altruism was coined in 2011 when a group of Oxford philosophers, including Toby Ord and William MacAskill, started The Centre For Effective Altruism—an umbrella company ...

Because it's an individual pursuit, estimating the number of EA adherents is difficult, but according to the Centre for Effective Altruism, there are more than 200 EA groups in dozens of countries.

Julia Wise, the longest-serving employee of the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA), an Oxford, England-based charity responsible for growing and maintaining the EA community, acknowledges that ...

Just a year before that conversation, MacAskill had helped give effective altruism its name and home in the Centre for Effective Altruism. In 2015, he’d publish Doing Good Better , the book that ...

During college, Bankman-Fried met with one of the other “stars” of the E.A. movement, Oxford philosopher William MacAskill, co-founder of the Centre for Effective Altruism, who sold the future ...

Kelsey Piper is a senior writer at Future Perfect, Vox’s effective altruism-inspired section on the world’s biggest challenges. She explores wide-ranging topics like climate change, artificial ...

I went to effective altruism’s first post-Sam Bankman-Fried conference. Here’s what I saw. EA faces a reckoning after the fall of a major donor, but its rank-and-file members haven’t given up.

During college, Bankman-Fried met with one of the other “stars” of the E.A. movement, Oxford philosopher William MacAskill, co-founder of the Centre for Effective Altruism, who sold the future ...