[alephnerd]

He's EA funded.

He's funded by the Centre for Study in Existential Risk, which is one of the main organizations the EA community has been funding.

This article itself is published during an EA supported AI Safety Conference cosponsored by the British and Korean governments, and Sunak is a 2nd and 1st degree connect with most people in the space well before he became politically prominent (Stanford GSB is top BSchool for a reason)

[ripjaygn]

What's EA? Electronic Arts?

[alephnerd]

It's in the game! /s

No, Effective Altruism.

It's a social movement with a cult-like vibe among a subset of AI/ML enthusiasts that became popular after an infusion of funding from SBF, Tallinn (of Skype fame), Dustin Moskovitz, and a couple other techies.

I know a lot of people in the scene who think it's dumb as well, but remain for the professional aspect.