The effective altruism movement, which is closely linked to the AI community and the firms driving the artificial intelligence boom, has received widespread attention and charges of cult-like behaviour and alarmism.
The hard-to-define movement is still expanding, and it wants to better explain its beliefs in the face of harsh criticism from the Trump administration and some important Silicon Valley figures. Its founding premise is to donate money or time to big problems as efficiently as possible; critics have called its deliberately detached approach out of touch.
The New York Post described it as a “wacky cult,” the conservative Daily Caller labelled it “The AI Doomsday Cartel,” and a White House letter accused it of prioritising “shrimp over families. Effective altruism (EA), which was previously unknown outside of the tech world and some academic and political circles, has recently gained traction following a series of warnings concerning AI hazards. Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, was a prominent figure in EA’s early days, although he has since distanced himself from the movement.
Dario’s sister, Anthropic president Daniela Amodei, is married to Holden Karnofsky, an Anthropic employee and prominent EA advocate. The movement has also impacted academics and employees at other AI businesses, including OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, particularly those focusing on AI safety.
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