00:00Effective altruism is a philosophical movement and it's this idea that people should try and
00:04use like rational processes to try and do the most good for the most amount of people
00:08actually traces back to 2009 and these two Oxford philosophers they founded this thing
00:13called giving what you can and it was a pledge that you would donate 10% of your income to
00:17charity. The idea was to treat like charity and ethics as like a math problem and you would try
00:23and figure out what causes saved the most lives or did the most good per dollar spent. It's an
00:28older philosophical problem right if you could save 100 lives but you'd have to personally kill
00:33one person would you choose to do that? Technically EA and utilitarianism which is that this is based in
00:40would say that the moral thing to do would be to kill that person. EA technically have taken to
00:44its extremes would say it was immoral not to do. They also were very early adopters of this idea
00:50that we've been hearing about a lot that AI could potentially wipe out humanity. Stopping that becomes
00:55a moral directive right? You need to make sure AI is safe and engage in safety research and try and
01:01steer AI to be moral in order to stop it trying to murder all of us.
