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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute

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‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

Founded in 2005 and lauded by Silicon Valley, the Nick Bostrom’s centre for studying existential risk warned about AI but also gave rise to cultish ideas such as effective altruism

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Sam Bankman-Fried

To be fair they seem to admit that promoting him as a positive example was a mistake.

https://80000hours.org/articles/earning-to-give/#doing-harm

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