Bankman-Fried’s name and story are inextricably connected to the new ethical thinking of Silicon Valley, which is ...

Most people, me included, aren’t strictly utilitarian or rights-based thinkers. One criticism of effective altruists I find ...

Utopian environments don't guarantee lives without complications, however. Human nature has not been left behind.

We need to talk about what bombs do in war. Bombs shred flesh. Bombs shatter bones. Bombs dismember. Bombs cause brains, ...

A discreet note greets visitors to the website of Wytham Abbey, a palatial 15th-century manor house just outside Oxford. “The ...

No other industry — not even Big Pharma or Big Oil — can match its power in shaping policy and dominating spending.

While he didn’t pay for the Abbey, he paid for plenty of other things, including all-expenses-paid trips to the Bahamas for ...

Anthropic is the smallest, youngest, and least well-financed of all the “frontier” AI labs. It’s also nurturing a reputation ...

In some moral situations, acts of generosity in one area entail deprivation in another. But people problematically overextend ...

The Scarlett Johansson debacle is a microcosm of AI’s raw deal: It’s happening, and you can’t stop it.

A climate philanthropy organization, Giving Green, received a $10 million anonymous donation in April and thinks that the ...