Philosophies & Movements
Effective Altruism (EA)
A movement using evidence and reasoning to find the most effective ways to help others, historically focused on global poverty and animal welfare, more recently including AI existential risk as a cause area.
Origin
The term was adopted in August 2011 when Giving What We Can and 80,000 Hours merged into the Centre for Effective Altruism at Oxford, founded by William MacAskill and Toby Ord; Peter Singer’s 2013 TED talk helped popularize it publicly.