Toby Ord
Philosopher who co-founded effective altruism and wrote The Precipice on long-term risk
An Oxford philosopher who founded Giving What We Can and helped shape both effective altruism and longtermism. His book The Precipice (2020) sets out the case that this century’s risks deserve more attention than they get.
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Realtime Techpocalypse Newsletter
Émile P. Torres's weekly newsletter examining the ideologies driving Silicon Valley — effective altruism, longtermism, TESCREAL, and the race to build artificial superintelligence — from a critical, insider-turned-skeptic perspective.
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Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
A long-form critical essay by Émile P. Torres arguing that the effective altruism movement has become a cult-like ideology with its own doctrines, charismatic leaders, jargon and social controls — and that this matters for how AI is being developed.
Why this: Covers effective altruism and longtermism 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: Covers effective altruism and longtermism too
Andrew Critch
Personal site of Andrew Critch, mathematician and AI safety researcher, collecting his papers, talks and writing on multi-agent risk and existential safety.
Why this: Also about existential risk