Holden Karnofsky
Co-founder of GiveWell and Open Philanthropy; writes Cold Takes
Co-founded the charity evaluator GiveWell and later Open Philanthropy, one of the largest funders of AI safety work. His Cold Takes blog lays out why he thinks this could be "the most important century" because of AI.
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Why this: Covers AI safety and effective altruism too
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Why this: Covers AI safety and effective altruism too
William MacAskill
Philosopher and senior research fellow at Forethought, working on AGI preparedness and longtermism. Co-founded Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours, the Centre for Effective Altruism and the Global Priorities Institute; author of Doing Good Better and What We Owe the Future.
Why this: Also about effective altruism
Peter Singer AI
An experimental AI chat version of philosopher Peter Singer created with Sankalpa Ghose. Users can converse about his views on ethics, suffering, global poverty and AI risk; the site labels it an alpha release and notes responses may contain errors.
Why this: Also about effective altruism