AI Fortunes Fuel Effective Altruism’s Quiet Return After FTX Scandal

AI Fortunes Fuel Effective Altruism’s Quiet Return After FTX Scandal

Sam Bankman-Fried’s dramatic fall once looked like it might bury the effective altruism movement for good. His 2023 fraud conviction. The collapse of FTX. The torrent of negative coverage that painted the philosophy as naive at best and a dangerous cult at worst. Yet here we are in 2026. And the movement finds fresh energy. Not from renewed interest in global poverty or bed nets. But from the very technology its adherents long warned could end h…