BY JEFF PADILLACompassion Through ActionEspanola I learned something recently and I’m overwhelmingly impelled to share it ...

We conducted a large-scale field experiment in Granada, Spain, to assess the motivating effect on blood donation of matching each attempt to donate with a charitable contribution pledge for children ...

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Another reason that it can be hard to be altruistic right now is because people’s basic needs aren’t being met. So people don ...

Caring for others can improve our well-being, build resilience, and foster lasting community—during moments of collective crisis, and beyond.

Altruism is actually a fantastic survival strategy Primate and neuroscience studies tell us a lot about how evolution rewards kindness and cooperation ...

Only about 300 to 400 people a year give a kidney to someone they never met. It's an act of generosity so unusual, a neuroscientist studies the people who do this.

Altruism, such as volunteering and donating, has been shown to improve happiness and well-being, and may be fundamental to being human.

Nine months after effective altruism advocate Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of fraud, Peter Singer and Alice Crary debated its merits.

In a series of posts around that time, Musk accused Altman and OpenAI of lying and criticized their connection to Microsoft, which had signed a multi-billion dollar investment deal with OpenAI. At one ...

A Facebook billionaire is using a government loophole to quietly place followers of the controversial “effective altruism” movement in key national security roles in the Biden administration ...

A follow up on a VentureBeat story last week adds context about the web of effective altruism connections in AI security circles.