William MacAskill
- HQ / base
- Oxford
Oxford philosopher; co-founded GWWC (2009), 80k, CEA; coined 'effective altruism' (2011–12); 'Doing Good Better' (2015), 'What We Owe the Future' (Aug 2022 — peak-EA media blitz weeks before FTX died); recruited SBF at that 2012 lunch and vouched for him (texted Musk during the Twitter deal); post-FTX mea culpas; now at Forethought on intelligence-explosion ethics. The movement's founder-philosopher and its most burned reputation.
Connections
- Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)recruited to earning-to-give (2012); vouched to Musk
- FTX Future Fundadvisor
- Giving What We Canco-founded (2009)
- Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA)co-founded (2012)
- 80,000 Hoursco-founded (2011)
- Forethought (Centre for AI Strategy)senior researcher
- Global Priorities Institute (closed)co-lineage (strong longtermism paper)
- Peter Singerphilosophical taproot
- FTX Future Fundfounding adviser