Dartmouth, birthplace of AI, is the only Ivy without an Effective Altruism club
wordgrammer · x · 2026-09-17
A fun irony making the rounds: Dartmouth — where AI was coined in 1956 — is the only Ivy League school without an Effective Altruism club, despite EA's close ties to the AI safety movement.
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