WHAT’S HAPPENING

Effective Altruism (EA), the billionaire-backed movement that claims to use data and reason to solve humanity's biggest problems, has steadily embedded itself at the highest levels of AI development.

However, its most zealous adherents now occupy the commanding heights of artificial intelligence, convinced they are building something god-like.

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