{"id":16747,"date":"2015-08-29T15:46:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T22:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/ai-and-effective-altruism"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:45:00","slug":"ai-and-effective-altruism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/ai-and-effective-altruism","title":{"rendered":"AI and Effective Altruism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-and-effective-altruism.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIRI is a research nonprofit specializing in a poorly-explored set of problems in theoretical computer science. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/06\/04\/givedirectly-cash-transfers_n_7339040.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/06\/04\/givedirectly-cash-transfers_n_7339040.html', 'GiveDirectly']);\" >GiveDirectly<\/a> is a cash transfer service that gives money to poor households in East Africa. What kind of conference would bring together representatives from such disparate organizations \u2014 alongside policy analysts, philanthropists, philosophers, and many more?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eaglobal.org\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/eaglobal.org', 'Effective Altruism Global']);\" >Effective Altruism Global<\/a>, which is beginning its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaglobal.org\/oxford-livestream\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.eaglobal.org\/oxford-livestream', 'Oxford session']);\" >Oxford session<\/a> in a few hours, is that kind of conference. <em>Effective altruism<\/em> (EA) is a diverse community of do-gooders with a common interest in bringing the tools of science to bear on the world\u2019s biggest problems. EA organizations like GiveDirectly, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org\/', 'Centre for Effective Altruism']);\" >Centre for Effective Altruism<\/a>, and the charity evaluator <a href=\"http:\/\/givewell.org\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/givewell.org', 'GiveWell']);\" >GiveWell<\/a> have made a big splash by calling for new standards of transparency and humanitarian impact in the nonprofit sector.<\/p>\n<p>What is MIRI\u2019s connection to effective altruism? In what sense is safety research in artificial intelligence \u201caltruism,\u201d and why do we assign a high probability to this being a critically important area of computer science in the coming decades? I\u2019ll give quick answers to each of those questions below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/intelligence.org\/2015\/08\/28\/ai-and-effective-altruism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIRI is a research nonprofit specializing in a poorly-explored set of problems in theoretical computer science. GiveDirectly is a cash transfer service that gives money to poor households in East Africa. What kind of conference would bring together representatives from such disparate organizations \u2014 alongside policy analysts, philanthropists, philosophers, and many more? Effective Altruism Global, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64352,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747\/revisions\/64352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}