5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American AI safety researcher and forecaster — Research Associate at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute — who is considered the most analytically rigorous thinker in the effective altruism and AI safety community — whose interview with Dwarkesh became one of the most discussed AI podcasts ever recorded.
American-British economist — DPhil student at Oxford — associated with the Global Priorities Institute — who works on the economics of long-run welfare and patient philanthropy.
Toby Ord's 2020 analysis of existential risks facing humanity — cataloguing threats (AI misalignment, engineered pandemics, nuclear weapons, climate change, asteroids) by probability and arguing that avoiding existential catastrophe is the highest moral priority.
Scottish philosopher at Oxford — co-founder of the effective altruism movement and 80,000 Hours — author of Doing Good Better and What We Owe the Future — who has directed hundreds of millions in charitable giving through his ideas and has been both the primary builder and a primary cause of the FTX/EA reputational crisis.
William MacAskill's popular defense of longtermism — arguing that future people matter morally, that the future could be astronomically large, and that we should therefore prioritize reducing existential risks.