In 1971, the philosophy department at Oxford University was confronted with an unusual student. One of the few vegetarians on campus, Peter Singer staged alarming demonstrations with papier-mâché ...

President Joe Biden, watched over by Vice President Kamala Harris, as he signed an ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence last October that he said provides a set of guardrails for AI ...

Three undergraduate Georgetown students have founded a new club that aims to promote effective altruism, a philosophical movement that champions evidence-based approaches to philanthropy, among ...

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Hello, and welcome back to Impact Report. In 2023, one approach to impact had an Icarus-like rise and fall: effective altruism. Can the movement regain ground in 2024? Effective altruism, in the words ...

Progressives at The New Statesman recently criticized the effective-altruism movement, claiming that it provides “ideological cover for racism and sexism.” That criticism, whatever its merits, misses ...

On March 28, Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan will sentence former FTX chairman Sam Bankman-Fried on seven separate counts of fraud and conspiracy, with federal prosecutors asking for a sentence of 40 to ...

Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement concerned with finding the most effective ways to make the world a better place, according to Graeme McDonough, a junior on the Effective ...

The New York Times’ Economic View column examines the burgeoning “effective altruism” movement, which encourages donors to take a more scientific, less emotional approach to giving. The piece by Tyler ...

Every generation brings a new class of elites who claim they’ve discovered a new formula for saving humanity. Boomer elites peddled a regimen of public health, education, and science as a cure for ...

Approximately 20 Tufts students have become regular members of the newly established campus chapter of Effective Altruism, a social and philosophical movement aimed at improving the world. According ...

(The Conversation) — One of the ways tech billionaire Elon Musk attracts supporters is the vision he seems to have for the future: people driving fully autonomous electric vehicles, colonizing other ...