If it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything morally significant, ...

The downfall of crypto exchange FTX and its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, has thrown a spotlight on “effective altruism,” the philanthropic movement that Bankman-Fried championed as he amassed a fortune ...

Tech billionaire Dustin Mosovitz is one of the world's wealthiest effective altruists. Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images Effective altruism is an intellectual and charitable movement that ...

When I told friends and family I was working on a book about the science of heroism and altruism, some sounded skeptical. “There’s no such thing as true altruism,” they would say. “Don’t people ...

Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement concerned with finding the most effective ways to make the world a better place, according to Graeme McDonough, a junior on the Effective ...

The multibillion-dollar rise and catastrophic fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX stemmed from an idea taken to an absurd — yet predictable — extreme. In recent years, Silicon Valley has become ...

Episode 67: The philosophical and social movement called effective altruism has received lots of attention over the past month after the collapse of the user-friendly crypto exchange FTX. The founder ...

Among the wealthiest proponents of effective altruism is Dustin Moskovitz, who co-founded Facebook and makes charitable giving decisions with his wife, Cari Tuna. Effective altruism is an intellectual ...