• What’s wrong with effective altruism? With Martin Sandbu

  • Oct 14 2024
  • Length: 31 mins
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What’s wrong with effective altruism? With Martin Sandbu

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  • The effective altruism movement has been on a wild ride over the past decade. EA started – in the popular consciousness, at least – as a forum for mindful questions about where best to put charitable dollars. Think bed nets and de-worming pills. But, since then, EA seems to have devolved into rationalisations for making tons of money, freak-outs about AI and the end of humanity. Today, on the show, Soumaya and guest Martin Sandbu, the FT economics editorial writer, discuss EA’s evolution, its future and whether it even makes any sense.


    Soumaya Keynes writes a column each week for the Financial Times. You can find it here


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