effective altruism

A source and a doc show that RAND Corporation, backed by $15M+ from Dustin Moskovitz's effective altruism-focused Open Philanthropy, helped craft Biden's AI EO

Brendan Bordelon / Politico :

Sam Altman's return at OpenAI, partly formed on effective altruism principles, revealed hard limits and caps a bruising year for the divisive social movement

Sam Altman's firing showed the influence of effective altruism and its view that AI development must slow down; his return marked its limits

Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, one of the most prominent backers of “effective altruism”, now questions the merits of running companies based on the philosophy

Going Infinite excerpt: how effective altruism pushed Caroline Ellison to Alameda, which would lose its management team and half its employees in 2018, and more

Michael Lewis / Wall Street Journal :

Interviews with executives and staff at Anthropic reveal how an obsession with AI safety and ties to effective altruism influence the startup's decisions

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Sources: in January 2018, Alameda got a $110M loan from Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn and a $6M loan from philanthropist Luke Ding, who back Effective Altruism

The big money behind Alameda Research, the sister trading firm of crypto exchange FTX, came from two influential backers … Tweets: @lizrhoffman , @mikekoob , @timnitgebru , @woodhull , @timnitgebru , ...