Many AI leaders have turned their ire to effective altruism. Peter Thiel isn’t a fan himself, but he thinks the movement got “one big thing” right.
Thiel spoke to Walter Isaacson on his forthcoming podcast, “The Builders.” In a clip shared exclusively with Business Insider, Thiel compared effective altruism to a cult — but said that followers were right in their early AI predictions.
“It had maybe the good dimension of a cult, where there was one big thing they knew that the other people did not,” Thiel said.
Effective altruists believe in using evidence and reason to pick how best to use their money and careers to benefit humanity...
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