Anthropic employees say they’ll give away billions. Where will it go?

March 12, 2026

Transformer News: Although the Amodeis have distanced themselves from effective altruism, their very public entanglement with it matters. Effective altruism, or EA, is a philanthropic movement that urges people to donate to causes that seem to mathematically “maximize good” per dollar. It is also a social and ideological movement that values empiricism, impartiality, and in some cases, technocracy…