Yascha Mounk and William MacAskill also discuss artificial intelligence.

William MacAskill is a moral philosopher and cofounder of the effective altruism movement.  

He's the author of Doing Good Better and What We Owe the Future. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Forethought Research and works on preparing society for rapid AI-driven technological change.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and William MacAskill discuss the arguments for effective altruism, the motivations of Sam Bankman-Fried, and whether AI is a risk to humanity.

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