AI Safety Researcher Joshua Saxe Rips EA as Elite Privilege Recast as Saving the World
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-09-06
Joshua Saxe, a well-known figure in AI safety, publicly criticized effective altruism: its implicit subject is a community that won the IQ and zip code lottery, its implicit object is all other conscious beings upon whom they must act, and its elite projects look much like other elite projects since 1789 that framed society in the same top-down way. A notable internal critique of the EA/AGI community.
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