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 ...

Singer, in this book, doesn’t shy away from that implication—not a strategy likely to win friends and influence people. These problems are practical, rather than moral, in nature. But for a movement ...

Effective altruism has captivated Silicon Valley personalities like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, ... In an interview with The Guardian in December 2022, the movement's forefather, Peter Singer, ...

Effective altruism, which Singer’s work helped inspire, “makes students in places like Princeton feel like they’re the heroic rescuers of the world,” says philosopher Alice Crary.

Effective altruism holds that one of our aims should be to do as much good as we can. In pursuing this goal, ... and to the effective altruism movement itself. By Peter Singer.

Australian philosopher Peter Singer says that the effective altruism (EA) movement is "alive and well" after FTX founder and EA supporter Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall, a new piece from Big Think ...

For Australian philosopher Peter Singer, the fraud charges laid against Sam Bankman-Fried will not trigger a death blow for "effective altruism," a philanthropic movement championed by the FTX ...

It's been a decade since Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values, gave his seminal TED Talk, "The why and how of effective altruism." Now, more and ...

Nine months after effective altruism advocate Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of fraud, Peter Singer and Alice Crary debated its merits.

In the wake of the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and amid reports that FTX’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, diverted billions of dollars of clients’ funds, some observers have ...