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For tech CEOs, the suckers of the present come second to people of the technocratic future.

Over the past decade the philanthropic ideology of Effective Altruism has grown massively both in attracting funds and in influencing young people to try to make as much money as they can and give most of it away. But a series of catastrophic financial hustles in the world of cryptocurrency has brought EA heightened attention and started to expose its dangers.

"The podcast is about making thorny issues as accessible as possible." Indigo Editor, Samuel Lopes, chats to SciTech Editor, Paddy Stephens, about his podcast, In Our Tech Society.

The movement’s leading intellectuals told us to fear killer robots. They didn’t think to mention the crypto billionaire next door.

Will American Pols return FTX money stolen from the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, $95 million into troubled cryptocurrency exchange FTX

Uncertainty has enveloped nonprofits, researchers and academics, who were either promised money from FTX’s charitable arm that will likely never come, or fear they’ll be caught up in a complex bankruptcy.

Tech billionaires seem intent on giving away a lot of money. But are those who support ‘longtermism’ and ‘effective altruism’ ignoring the very real problems of today?

Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX's rise and fall can be explained through his controversial relationship with effective altruism, a philosophy that can breed extreme behavior.

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is a messy heap of questionable effective altruist assertions.

Like much of Bankman-Fried’s empire, the bookkeeping at the FTX Future Fund was chaotic and promises were made that weren’t kept.