What William MacAskill thinks about AI alignment

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Philosopher at Oxford who co-founded Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours and the Centre for Effective Altruism, and who named effective altruism. Author of Doing Good Better and What We Owe the Future; now writes at Forethought.

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1. 3 Aug 2025

   Our readingImproving how good the future turns out to be, given that humanity survives, is roughly as high a priority as preventing extinction.

   Their wordsThis essay series will argue that work on Flourishing is in the same ballpark of priority as work on Surviving.

   ↗Introducing Better Futuresforethought.org 2nd of 7 in this piece