#013 Effective Altruism, Podcasting, Clean Air and AI Safety - Fin Moorhouse

Fin Moorhouse is a researcher at Longview Philanthropy. Before that, he was a Research Scholar and assistant to Toby Ord at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute. He co-hosts a podcast called Hear This Idea, about about ideas for solving important problems, and the people working on them ranging form AI safety, Biorisk to global development. He writes about effective altruism, existential risk, and ways to improve the (longterm) future on his writing page. 


We discussed his work an lessons from his podcast guests, his thoughts on Effective Altruism. Other key insights from podcasting. How it might be worth investing in clean air for our health and AI Safety. 

He also :

• Is a fellow on this ‘Roots of Progress’ writing fellowship
• Continues to informally work with (and learn from) Toby Ord
• Thinks about some EA project ideas I’d like to help make happen
• Researched space governance as an EA cause area (and now advise a couple groups which were since established)
• Worked on a policy brief about a UN Declaration on Future Generations
• Helped set up a contest to support EA criticism

You can find Fin at:
Twitter: @finmoorhouse
Website: https: www.finmoorhouse.com

You can find me at:
Twitter: @Dr_AlexDavidson
Website: www.alexdavidson.me