There’s a particular kind of unease that settles over a conference when platitudes give way to stark realities. Such was the ...

Can ‘effective altruism’ change the world? It already has. How to achieve the most good in the world is a question that should occupy all our imaginations: a response to Lisa Herzog.

Effective altruism has suffered a blow, but the extreme ideas surrounding it have infiltrated some of our most powerful organisations On 5 October, a month before the US presidential election, Elon ...

The effective altruism movement has been on a wild ride over the past decade. EA started – in the popular consciousness, at least – as a forum for mindful questions about where best to put ...

But in a video debate published on Aug. 28 by the nonprofit organization Open to Debate, philosopher Peter Singer defended effective altruism, claiming that Bankman-Fried was an advocate of the ...

Last October, on an effective altruism forum, Christiano wrote that regulations would be needed to keep AI companies in check.

A charity tied to effective altruism—a movement that preaches doing the most good with as much money as you can get—has listed a $20 million mansion for sale, just months after being ordered ...

Effective Ventures CEO Rob Gledhill announced on an effective altruism forum last week the sale of a 15th-century manor the charity had purchased with a £17 million ($21.5 million) grant in 2021.

The Centre for Effective Altruism (cea), a think-tank, runs conferences and online forums that still buzz with chatter. 80,000 Hours, a recruitment website run by the cea recommending “high ...

In the year to June 2022, Effective Ventures lost £5.2mn on cryptocurrencies, according to its annual accounts, and just this month announced it had to repay the FTX bankruptcy estate $27mn and ...

Effective altruism wants people to consider information security as a career: According to 80,000 Hours, a project started by EA leader William McCaskill, “securing the most advanced AI systems ...

The trouble with Effective Altruism Unlike causes that tug at the heartstrings to make an appeal, EA looks only at the most efficient ways to improve the world. It all makes perfect, rational sense.