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Useful background reference for understanding the institutional ecosystem surrounding AI safety; CEA is a key node connecting EA-aligned funders, researchers, and advocacy organizations relevant to the field.
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Wikipedia article providing an overview of the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA), a nonprofit organization that promotes the effective altruism movement and supports related organizations. CEA plays a significant role in the broader EA ecosystem, which includes major AI safety funders and organizations.
Key Points
- •CEA is a UK-based nonprofit that serves as a hub for the effective altruism community, running events like EA Global and managing the EA Forum
- •The organization incubated and spun off several influential groups including 80,000 Hours and Giving What We Can
- •CEA is closely linked to the AI safety funding ecosystem, as EA-aligned philanthropists fund major AI safety research organizations
- •Provides background on the governance structure and history of one of the key institutional actors in the AI safety space
- •Understanding CEA helps contextualize the organizational landscape and funding flows within the AI safety community
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Non-profit effective altruist organization
Centre for Effective Altruism Abbreviation CEA Formation 2012 ; 14 years ago  ( 2012 ) Founders
Toby Ord
William MacAskill
Founded at Oxford , England Type Charity Registration no. 1149828 Purpose building and supporting the effective altruism community Headquarters Trajan House, Mill Street, Oxford, OX2 0DJ, UK CEO Zach Robinson Parent organisation Effective Ventures Website www .centreforeffectivealtruism .org
The Centre for Effective Altruism ( CEA ) is an Oxford-based organisation that builds and supports the effective altruism community. It was founded in 2012 by William MacAskill and Toby Ord , both philosophers at the University of Oxford . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] CEA is part of Effective Ventures, a federation of projects working to have a large positive impact in the world. [ 3 ]
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CEA's founding was prompted by the need to set up an umbrella organization under which Giving What We Can and 80,000 Hours could be incorporated. [ 4 ] In late 2011, the members of those two organizations met to discuss how this new entity should be named, and the name "Centre for Effective Altruism" was adopted. At the time, the movement that would later be called " effective altruism " did not yet have a standard name—terms common back then included "optimal philanthropy" [ 5 ] and "rational altruism" [ 6 ] —and this was the first time the term "effective altruism" was used in its current sense. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] CEA was registered as a charity the following year. [ 10 ]
William MacAskill and Toby Ord founded the Centre for Effective Altruism in 2012
In 2015 and 2016, CEA incorporated several projects, including Effective Altruism Global and Giving What We Can, and began to function as a centralized organization, rather than merely as an umbrella. Sam Bankman-Fried joined CEA as director of development in late 2017, leaving shortly thereafter to fund Alameda Research. [ 11 ] In 2018, CEA launched a new version of the Effective Altruism Forum, based on the LessWrong codebase. [ 12 ]
In 2022, the division of CEA providing operations support and fiscal sponsorship to several projects changed its name to "Effective Ventures". [ 13 ] The rest of CEA now operates as one of Effective Ventures’ many projects, which besides Giving What We Can and 80,000 Hours, include EA Funds, the Forethought Foundation, the Centre for the Governance of AI, Longview Philanthropy, Asterisk, Atlas Fellowship, and Non-trivial. [ 14 ] CEA continues to pursue its mission to build and nurture a global community of people who are thinki
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