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Against the Rules with Michael Lewis cover image

On Background: Effective Altruism Still Has Friends

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

CHAPTER

The Uncertainty of AI Death

The difficulty and maybe the lack of clarity on an exact number of people that might be killed by AI in the future is not a counter argument to the fact that this could be a really big problem. The characters in my book did this bank shot that effective altruism kind of dreamed up. A lot of early EA stuff was kind of focused on, hey, we're just a very small movement. Maybe we should figure out ways to more effectively direct philanthropic funds towards more impactful organizations.

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