Effective Altruism Funded the “AI Existential Risk” Ecosystem with Half a Billion Dollars

Linking pages

California Lawmakers Face Backlash Over Doomsday-Driven AI Bill https://reason.com/2024/08/16/california-lawmakers-face-backlash-over-doomsday-driven-ai-bill/ 2 comments
Why are the elites suddenly so terrified about AI? - spiked https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/12/28/why-are-the-elites-suddenly-so-terrified-about-ai/ 0 comments
🔥 Top AI Newsletters of 2024 on Substack https://aisupremacy.substack.com/p/top-ai-newsletters-of-2024-on-substack 0 comments

Linked pages

The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down | Time https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/ 542 comments
Effective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-03-07/effective-altruism-s-problems-go-beyond-sam-bankman-fried 312 comments
Silicon Valley Boardroom Coup Leads to Ouster of an AI Champion - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-18/openai-altman-ouster-followed-debates-between-altman-board 201 comments
#13: A Timeline of the OpenAI Board - by John Loeber https://loeber.substack.com/p/a-timeline-of-the-openai-board 144 comments
The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy, effective altruism | Semafor https://www.semafor.com/article/11/21/2023/how-effective-altruism-led-to-a-crisis-at-openai 80 comments
In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruism https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-continued-defense-of-effective 49 comments
Elon Musk Donates $10M To Make Sure AI Doesn't Go The Way Of Skynet • TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/15/elon-musk-donates-10m-to-make-sure-ai-doesnt-go-the-way-of-skynet/ 44 comments
What Ilya Sutskever Really Wants - by Nirit Weiss-Blatt https://www.aipanic.news/p/what-ilya-sutskever-really-wants 26 comments
Debate over whether AI poses existential risk is dividing tech - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/20/ai-existential-risk-debate/ 20 comments
Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’ | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/effective-altruism-artificial-intelligence-sam-bankman-fried/ 12 comments
What is artificial intelligence? Your AI questions, answered. - Vox https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/12/21/18126576/ai-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-safety-alignment 8 comments
The Princeton researchers calling out âAI snake oilâ | Semafor https://www.semafor.com/article/09/15/2023/the-princeton-researchers-calling-out-ai-snake-oil 8 comments
How a Fervent Belief Split Silicon Valley—and Fueled the Blowup at OpenAI - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-blowup-effective-altruism-disaster-f46a55e8 3 comments
What are the most pressing world problems? https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/ 2 comments
Sam Bankman-Fried trial: FTX founder convicted of fraud | AP News https://apnews.com/article/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-crypto-bitcoin-baa4c94f2c4237c860475ff92e6bcf42 2 comments
What is effective altruism? | Effective Altruism https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/introduction-to-effective-altruism/ 1 comment
How the Collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Has Disrupted A.I. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/technology/sam-bankman-fried-crypto-artificial-intelligence.html 1 comment
Sam Altman's Return as OpenAI CEO: A Full Timeline of Events - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-22/inside-the-coups-and-concessions-that-brought-altman-back-to-openai 1 comment
https://twitter.com/hlntnr/status/1730034017435586920 1 comment
Helen Toner joins OpenAI’s board of directors https://openai.com/blog/helen-toner-joins/ 0 comments