“How I hope the EA community will respond to the AI bubble popping” by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸

Keep this post on ice and uncork it when the bubble pops. It may mean nothing to you now; I hope it means something when the time comes. This post is written with an anguished heart, from love, which is the only good reason to do anything.Blue Bay by Jack Mancino I hope that the AI bubble popping is like the FTX collapse 2.0 for effective altruism. Not because it will make funding dry up — it won't. And not because it will have any relation to moral scandal — it won't. But it will be a financial wreck — orders of magnitude larger than the FTX collapse — that could lead to soul-searching for many people in effective altruism, if they choose to respond that way. (It may also have indirect reputational damage for EA by diminishing the credibility of the imminent AGI narrative — too early to tell.) In the wake of the FTX collapse, one of the positive signs was the eagerness of people to do soul-searching. It was difficult, and it's still difficult, how to make sense of EA's role in FTX. Did powerful people in the EA movement somehow contribute to the scam? [...] --- First published: December 5th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/F2m2AWAk8PuWnCak8/how-i-hope-the-ea-community-will-respond-to-the-ai-bubble --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

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