There has not been a bad actor in history,” says Rocky Schwartz, “who hasn’t been able to couch their conduct behind some meaningful and generally positive ideology.” It’s 9 p.m. at a bar in Kips Bay.

Keerthana Gopalakrishnan once considered herself an effective altruist. As a college student in India, she immersed herself in the social movement, reading its canonical texts like Doing Good Better, ...

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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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 ...

Twitter’s implosion isn’t the only astonishing story in the tech world this week. There’s also the collapse of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange led by its 30-year-old founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, who is ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. While he ran FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried lived beneath his billionaire means. He drove a Toyota Corolla, ...

Sam Bankman-Fried and the colossal collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange — FTX. Beneath it all, there's something called the effective altruism movement. "The idea is to sort of combine the head and ...

Bankman-Fried created a virtuous image to go with his crypto activities by adhering to a do-gooder movement that stresses giving your money away. Now groups associated with the movement are tied to ...