Nick Beckstead
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Oct 13, 2026
Joe BerquistHOST
That's, that's really weird, right? Uh, including the Amodi siblings, chief scientist Jared Kaplan, and Chris Olah, who, uh, recently addressed the Vatican alongside the Pope on AI policy.
Joe BerquistHOST
So did Nick Beckstead, the former head of FTX, FTX's philanthropic arm, who now runs an advocacy organization to reduce AI risks.
Joe BerquistHOST
Um, conversation in the house during these years often focused on global catastrophic risks ranging from comet strikes to supervolcanoes, according to a person who spent time there.
Joe BerquistHOST
By 2014, Karnofsky, who had been reading Yudkowsky's writings, uh, with both interest and some skepticism for years, was becoming persuaded by arguments about the importance of protecting the world from rogue AI.
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Caroline Ellison served as CEO of Alameda Research, the trading arm of FTX.
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The FTX Future Fund was a charitable arm of FTX, led by figures including Will MacAskill and Nick Beckstead.
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The fund made over a hundred million dollars of donations, primarily to long-termist causes.
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FTX collapsed after allegations of large-scale financial fraud and mismanagement.
speaker_1HOST
... uh, it sees the li- the lives of people in the Global South as less valuable than those in the Global North.
speaker_1HOST
You know, somebody, I think it was N- was it Nick Beckstead who said, like, literally the people who are living in the Global South are less valuable because they won't contribute as much to the economy, [chuckles] which i-
Emile P. TorresGUEST
Yeah.
speaker_1HOST
So it just, like, goes back to this very mathematical and deeply anti-human, which is ironic, uh, 'cause, 'cause they present themselves as pro-human viewpoint of-