About this episode

Sam Harris speaks with William MacAskill about effective altruism, AI, and the future of humanity.

Sam Harris speaks with William MacAskill about effective altruism, AI, and the future of humanity. They discuss the post-FTX recovery of the EA movement, global health and pandemic preparedness, the limits of quantifiable ethics, the intelligence explosion, risks of concentrated AI power, what a post-scarcity world might look like, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe .

People in this episode

Host: Sam Harris

Guest: William MacAskill

Topics covered

• effective altruism
• artificial intelligence
• future of work
• global health
• pandemic preparedness
• quantifiable ethics
• post-scarcity

Keywords

• effective altruism
• AI
• future of humanity
• global health
• pandemic preparedness
• intelligence explosion
• concentrated AI power
• post-scarcity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: EA movement, FTX, samharris.org

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