{"id":187983,"date":"2024-04-23T20:23:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T01:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/oxford-shuts-down-institute-run-by-elon-musk-backed-philosopher"},"modified":"2024-04-23T20:23:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T01:23:03","slug":"oxford-shuts-down-institute-run-by-elon-musk-backed-philosopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/oxford-shuts-down-institute-run-by-elon-musk-backed-philosopher","title":{"rendered":"Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oxford-shuts-down-institute-run-by-elon-musk-backed-philosopher2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bostrom\u2019s email from the 1990s resurfaced last year and resulted in him issuing a statement repudiating his racist remarks and clarifying his views on subjects such as eugenics. Some of his answers \u2013 \u201cDo I support eugenics? No, not as the term is commonly understood\u201d \u2013 led to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emilymbender\/status\/1613343181743194112?lang=en\">further criticism<\/a> from fellow academics that he was being evasive.<\/p>\n<p>The university launched an investigation into Bostrom\u2019s conduct following the discovery of his racist email, while other major effective altruism groups distanced themselves from him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe unequivocally condemn Nick Bostrom\u2019s recklessly flawed and reprehensible words,\u201d the Centre for Effective Altruism, which was founded by fellow Oxford philosophers and financially backed by Bankman-Fried, said in a statement at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, Bostrom\u2019s email from the 1990s resurfaced last year and resulted in him issuing a statement repudiating his racist remarks and clarifying his views on subjects such as eugenics. Some of his answers \u2013 \u201cDo I support eugenics? No, not as the term is commonly understood\u201d \u2013 led to further criticism from fellow academics that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187983","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\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}