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Founded in 2005 and lauded by Silicon Valley, the Nick Bostrom’s centre for studying existential risk warned about AI but also gave rise to cultish ideas such as effective altruism

In an era when technological progress shows no signs of stopping, we need scientists and technocrats whose capabilities are not limited to their worksheets, but who possess the capacity and intuition to think critically about the moral and societal implications of their developments.

Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was ‘death by bureaucracy’

Effective altruism has fallen on hard times.

A so-called effective altruism charity backed by the jailed cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried is to shut down following the collapse of FTX.

The philosopher explained why something like effective altruism was fatally flawed.