NEW YORK, Nov 10 — The effective altruism movement, which has close ties to the AI community and the companies leading the artificial intelligence boom, has drawn mainstream attention and accusations of cult-like behaviour and alarmism.
The hard-to-define movement is still growing, and wants to better explain its values amid bitter criticism from the Trump administration and some powerful voices in Silicon Valley.
Its founding principle is to give money or time to major causes as effectively as possible, an intentionally dispassionate approach has at times been called out of touch.
The New York Post called it a “wacky cult,” the conservative Daily Caller dubbed it “The AI Doomsday Cartel,” and a White House memo accused it of preferring the saving of “shrimp over families.”
