Effective Altruism (EA) mainstream movement
Mainstream Effective Altruism movement (2009+, William MacAskill, Toby Ord). Substantial controversy after the 2022 Sam Bankman-Fried / FTX collapse exposed EA-aligned governance failures.
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BITE breakdown
0 — mainstream EA movement; substantial recent controversies after 2022 SBF/FTX collapse.
Profile facts
In context
EA was founded as a mainstream ethics movement focused on evidence-based altruism. The 2022 collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX (which EA leaders had endorsed and benefited from) prompted serious internal reckoning. Documented patterns include intense ideological commitment in some sub-currents and concerns about epistemic insularity.
Legal cases & controversies
- SBF/FTX collapse and EA reckoning
This profile is in progress — history, deeper BITE evidence and survivor voices are still being added. Contributions welcome via GitHub.
Timeline
- 2009EA crystallises around Giving What We Can
- 2022SBF/FTX collapse
Sources
- Various press coverage including New York Times Magazine 2022 search ↗
We cite sources by name and outlet rather than fabricating links. The search ↗ link runs a Google Scholar query for the cited title — useful for verifying academic sources. For news outlets, search the outlet's own archive.
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