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Toby David Godfrey Ord (born July 1979) is an Australian philosopher. In 2009 he founded Giving What We Can , an international society whose members pledge to donate at least 10% of their income to effective charities, and is a key figure in the effective altruism movement, which promotes using reason and evidence to help the lives of others as ...
Toby Ord is a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Oxford University. His work focuses on the big picture questions facing humanity. What are the most important issues of our time? How can we best address them?
Toby Ord. Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford. Verified email at philosophy.ox.ac.uk - Homepage. ... DT Jamison, P Jha, R Laxminarayan, T Ord. Global Problems, Smart Solutions, 390-426, 2013. 23: 2013: The system can't perform the operation now. Try again later. Articles 1–20.
Toby Ord, University of Oxford, Philosophy Department, Faculty Member. Studies Ethics, Applied Ethics, and Utilitarianism. I am a research fellow at Oxford University with an interest in ethics at the largest scale.
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity is a 2020 non-fiction book by the Australian philosopher Toby Ord, a senior research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford. It argues that humanity faces unprecedented risks over the next few centuries and examines the moral significance of safeguarding humanity's future.
Mar 7, 2020 · Dr Toby Ord. This week Oxford academic and advisor to 80,000 Hours Toby Ord released his new book The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. It’s about how our long-term future could be better than almost anyone believes, but also how humanity’s recklessness is putting that future at grave risk, in Toby’s reckoning a 1 in ...
Nov 21, 2020 · Toby Ord, a philosopher who studies our species’s “existential risk,” has been both frightened and encouraged by our response to the pandemic. By Corinne Purtill. November 21, 2020.
