Why the Trump administration’s new playbook on AI is bound to go poorly.

So it has proved with effective altruism (EA), an ethical doctrine cooked up by philosophers in Oxford that has gone from the ivory tower to the corridors of power with remarkable speed. Effective ...

What is effective altruism, and why is the Trump administration targeting it? We looked at the philosophy's rise, fall, and ...

Imagine that your commute to work every day takes you past a shallow pond. One morning, you notice that a child has fallen into the pond and appears to be drowning. To rescue the child would require ...

After briefly fading into the background following the spectacular collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX under the weight of ...

When you join a company, you hear phrases like "the spirit of altruism is important" and "let's act for the sake of the ...

Effective altruism’s prophecy of AI risk could be self-fulfilling. Marginal ideologies have a way of breaking into the center of American politics awfully quickly these days. “The United States will ...

The movement has evolved from a research agenda into a cause. The debate will determine the future of AI, and, perhaps, of ...

The only way to spark discussion of the future’s big issues is to entertain strange ideas, argues one of the movement’s ...

Effective altruism focuses on doing the most good possible with donations. Despite US Department of War attacks, Australian ...

The contemporary effective altruism movement seeks to transform philanthropy in two ways: 1) by directing philanthropy to the most important objectives, and 2) by ensuring that philanthropic dollars ...