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Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz’s ‘effective altruism’ network tied to AI regulation push
Concerns about artificial intelligence spelling doom for the human race are being linked to a «cult-like» philanthropy movement known as «effective altruism» supported by billionaire Democratic megadonor and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, according to a policy analyst.
In response to former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s resignation announcement on X, Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at Capital Research Center in Washington D.C., went viral as he raised questions about whether the resignation was part of a broader network that aims to influence lawmakers and AI policy.
«I resigned from Anthropic today,» Coxon’s post read. «I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.»
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Thayer quoted the post in a response that received interaction online with top lawmakers in Congress, including Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
«This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion,» Thayer posted. «The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting.»
Thayer echoed claims made by White House AI advisor David Sacks that AI fears are overblown and potentially based on political motives.
«I think this is becoming a panic,» Sacks told CBS News correspondent Jo Ling Kent. «We’re in an election season, and there is an incentive for political actors to try and amplify the fear. And I think this is a moment to really calm down a little bit and look at the issue rationally.»
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Coxon told Fox News’ Bret Baier last week that we are «on the doorstep of tremendous discoveries,» but are running in too quickly. He emphasized the need for moderation.
Baier asked Coxon if the issue could be figured out.
«I think definitely. I think if we actually try instead of submitting to the inevitability of a doomed race or a hubristic gamble, then we can solve it,» he said. «The problem is not unsolvable.»
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Coxon said he was acting alone when deciding to voice his concerns about the direction of AI, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Digital sat down with Thayer to ask about his theories concerning the coordination behind Coxon’s «sophisticated» resignation, which was in turn met with a slew of national television interviews and immediate notoriety. Almost overnight, Coxon’s post became a major point of policy debate spanning across political parties and politicians, including President Donald Trump and socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Thayer did not offer a theory for which individuals or groups might have coordinated with Coxon, who has denied such claims. But Thayer said the «AI doomerism movement» is associated with «effective altruism,» a philosophy he described as «cult-like.»
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According to the Centre for Effective Altruism, the movement is defined as a «project that aims to find the best ways to help others and put them into practice.»
But Thayer noted that while the philanthropic movement may sound high-minded, Silicon Valley elites and members who donate and support «effective altruism» may have much more direct political goals in mind.
Thayer did not have evidence that any individuals or groups connected to the effective altruism movement provided public relations or other support for Coxon’s post about his resignation.
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Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna have been leading financial backers of organizations associated with the «effective altruism» movement.
The couple founded Coefficient Giving, formerly known as Open Philanthropy, and remain its «main funders,» according to the organization. Tuna serves as its president.
Coefficient Giving says its artificial intelligence work has expanded rapidly, with $168 million committed to AI safety, security and field-building in 2024 and $351 million in 2025 — a combined $519 million. The organization says it is on track to commit more than $1 billion to AI policy advocacy in 2026.
In a 2021 grant application description, the organization cited that it seeks «to fund programs and events in a variety of areas of interest to Coefficient Giving — including effective altruism, global catastrophic risks, biosecurity, AI for epistemics, forecasting, and other areas.»
Moskovitz, who Forbes estimates has a net worth of roughly $10 billion, contributed more than $50 million to support the Biden-Harris campaign from 2020 to 2024, including $46.89 million to the Future Forward PAC, which served as the main fundraising vessel for the failed presidential campaign.
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On Monday, the Department of War Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering posted to X: «Americanism, not effective altruism. The United States will continue to be AI DOMINANT!»
As for the reasoning behind «effective altruism’s» commitment to the artificial intelligence policy space, Thayer said the fearmongering technique is comparable to the climate change narrative that has been traditionally peddled by the Democratic Party.
«They basically just say kind of in the same vein as climate change activists like Al Gore used to, they kind of just make bombastic doomsday projections without citing really a whole lot of easily discernible evidence and just expect us to trust their expertise,» Thayer explained.
«First, they got you scared of the data centers based on a bunch of sketchy arguments about water pollution supposedly, and supposedly raising your electric prices, which don’t seem to actually be true,» he added. «And now they’re getting you scared of the actual AI that the data centers are being used to launch.»
Thayer said that if AI critics were truly afraid of a potential doomsday scenario, they would be advocating for the extinction of artificial intelligence altogether. Instead, he says that it is a tactic to increase the government’s power over the industry while also acting in their own interest so «that they’re the only ones who are allowed to build it.»
In an opinion piece published in Medium in 2024, Moskovitz noted that he was concerned about the potential risks AI poses, saying that a potential doomsday «situation may develop extremely quickly.»
«Contrary to the popular narrative about effective altruists working in AI, my interest in mitigating the potential risks isn’t rooted in specific predictions about the far future, but rather simple concern about the next few decades, when I and the people I care about are still alive to care about what happens,» he wrote.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, said a meeting at the White House to discuss AI policy could happen before the end of this week or the next. Trump also weighed in on the AI outlook in a post to Truth Social on Monday.
«The people that say AI is going to destroy the World, and that Data Centers are bad for your neighborhood, are the same people that said, just a short time ago, that the World would be extinguished by «Climate Change.» That HOAX never worked out for them, and now they’re on to the next one.»
Digital reached out to Moskovitz, Coefficient Giving and Coxon for comment.
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Lula prepara su estrategia para enfrentar a Flávio Bolsonaro en el balotaje y apunta a aumentar la participación electoral
El presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, se enfrenta a un escenario adverso de cara a la segunda vuelta electoral, después de quedar detrás de Flávio Bolsonaro en los comicios de este domingo.
El mandatario se reunía este lunes en Brasilia con su equipo de campaña para empezar a diagramar una nueva estrategia, distinta de la que se implementó durante los últimos meses.
Lula ya anticipó el cambio de etapa frente a sus seguidores y allegados el domingo por la noche, en el hotel de San Pablo donde la dirigencia esperó los resultados. Allí reconoció que desde hoy comenzaba “una nueva campaña”.
Flávio Bolsonaro ganó la primera vuelta con 47,03% de los votos válidos, mientras que Lula obtuvo 45,16%. El balotaje está prevista para el próximo 25 de octubre.
“Las claves son dos: disputar la segunda vuelta con la premisa de cambiar para mejor y negativizar a Flávio, con foco en los cambios que hizo en el pasado su padre, Jair Bolsonaro, y la idea de un cambio para peor”, dijo a TN el analista brasileño Antonio Lavareda, presidente honorario de la Asociación Brasileña de Investigadores Electorales.
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La nueva estrategia de Lula tendrá tres ejes centrales. En primer lugar, la campaña buscará confrontar de manera directa con Flávio Bolsonaro y establecer comparaciones entre los dos espacios políticos.
El discurso del vicepresidente brasileño, Geraldo Alckmin, luego de conocerse los resultados, dio una muestra de la estrategia que podría desplegar el oficialismo durante las próximas semanas.
La intención será contrastar al lulismo con el bolsonarismo, incluso recuperando temas de la gestión del expresidente Jair Bolsonaro, como el manejo de la pandemia de coronavirus, y enfrentar esos antecedentes con las políticas implementadas por el actual Gobierno.
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As Israel marks three years since the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attacks, stories of bravery and self-sacrifice continue to emerge from within a nation grappling with recovery and rehabilitation.
For Nil Kirsht-Levi, the three years since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre have been defined by devastating personal loss, an agonizing wait for her sister who was taken hostage and brought to Gaza and an unwavering commitment to caring for fellow survivors of the cross-border terror attack.
Kirsht-Levi, a nurse with Israel’s largest healthcare provider, Clalit Southern District, who lives in Kibbutz Magen, spent the morning of Oct. 7 treating patients remotely from her safe room while trying to protect her three children as terrorists invaded the community and went from house to house. At the same time, she desperately texted her sister, Rimon Buchshtab-Kirsht, who lived with her husband in nearby Kibbutz Nirim.
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IDF forces outside Nil Kirscht’s home on the morning of Oct 8, 2023. Credit: Courtesy of the family. (Kirscht family)
«I lost more than 30 patients that day, more than 200 people I knew, and around 100 people I knew were kidnapped,» Kirsht-Levi told Fox News Digital. «I’m lucky to have a job that saves me, healthy children, a healthy husband. We work every day to recover and rehabilitate ourselves. Every day, we fall and get back up, but we are here — for ourselves, for others and we have won,» she continued.
«We should never forget, but we must move forward, live every moment and keep going. It’s a privilege to be alive,» she added.
Nil reunites with her sister Rimon upon her return from captivity, December 4, 2023. (Nil Kirsht-Levi)
On Oct. 7, Kirsht-Levi’s sister sent a message saying she could hear Arabic and that terrorists had entered her home. Weeks of agonizing uncertainty followed before Kirsht-Levi saw her sister alive in a Hamas video. She had campaigned for her release and ultimately welcomed her home 53 days later, emaciated and covered in scars, as part of a ceasefire deal in November 2023.
Her sister’s husband, her brother-in-law, Yagev Buchshtab however, had been murdered by the terrorists.
During the 2023 Palestinian terror assault, launched on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, Michaela Koretsky, a midwife with Clalit’s Southern District, improvised lifesaving treatments for wounded members of Kibbutz Alumim.
Like so many others, Koretsky was jolted awake by air raid sirens at 6:29 a.m. that fateful day, as Hamas launched thousands of rockets at Israel, providing cover for terrorists as they crossed the border in the ensuing invasion. She rushed with her husband and children to the shelter, where she received a message from Eran, a member of the kibbutz’s civil defense squad, asking if she was home. Eran then began bringing wounded kibbutz members to her for first aid.
Michaela and her daughter hide in the safe room for hours on the morning of October 7, while she was tending to the wounded in her living room—and even saving one who was in critical condition. (Courtesy of the Koretsky family)
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«When they entered the house carrying Amichai, he was covered in blood… I switched into nurse mode,» she said.
Koretsky had Amichai placed on the floor as they continued to hear gunfire outside the kitchen window. She improvised bandages and prepared an IV while staying in contact with an emergency room doctor from Soroka Medical Center who was also in the kibbutz. He confirmed that Amichai was stable.
Then Eyal was brought in. He had been shot, with one of the bullets lodged in his lung. After Koretsky placed him on an IV and administered additional oxygen, it became clear that he needed to be evacuated.
Palestinian Hamas terrorists stand guard on the day of the handover of hostages held in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack, as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 22, 2025. (Hatem Khaled/File Photo/Reuters)
«We needed to save lives, so I switched my brain into action mode and did what needed to be done. The whole time I did not think that the terrorists would enter my house. I knew one of my children was afraid they would figure out where the wounded were being taken and come after us, but I told myself, ‘I am protected. It will not happen,’» she told Fox News Digital.
Her husband, Tzviki, accompanied by members of the kibbutz’s civil defense squad, reached his car and alone he evacuated the wounded under fire to Netivot, where they were transferred to waiting ambulances. From there, both Amichai and Eyal were taken to Soroka Medical Center for further treatment.
Prof. Shlomi Codish, director of the hospital in Beersheba, said he made three lifesaving decisions early on Oct. 7 that shaped the response throughout the day.
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Prof. Shlomi Codish, the Director of Clalit-Soroka Medical Center on the day of the Iranian missile strike, June 2025. (Clalit-Soroka Medical Center)
First, he and his team decided not to send the night shift home, allowing the hospital to begin the day with twice its normal staffing level. At 7:45 a.m., they declared a mass-casualty incident, despite not yet knowing how many wounded would arrive and alerted all available staff to report to the hospital. Finally, they ordered additional blood supplies in anticipation of the surge of casualties.
«We usually start the shift with 50 units of blood in our blood bank. By the end of the day, we had given 250 units. If we hadn’t ordered additional blood early that morning, we might have run out and people may have died,» Codish told Fox News Digital.
Codish said the hospital faced several overwhelming challenges throughout the day, beginning with the sheer number of wounded being brought to the hospital.
«In the first 24 hours, we received 674 wounded people. At the peak, we received more than 80 in a single hour, with an average of just 40 seconds between wounded people arriving,» he said.
«This was one of the largest mass-casualty events resulting from terror in human history. The hospital itself was also under fire, with dozens of incoming missile warnings from the Gaza Strip, while attacks were taking place simultaneously at a very large number of sites,» he added.
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A woman reacts as the community of Kibbutz Kfar Aza commemorates their members who were killed, taken hostage and who died in captivity, following the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas terrorists, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, southern Israel, Oct. 16, 2025. (Hannah McKay/Reuters)
The second challenge was the immediate impact of the invasion on hospital staff themselves. «Everyone who came in left a family at home that was potentially under attack. They got into their cars and drove through air-raid sirens in areas that weren’t protected, at significant personal risk, to come in and save lives,» he said.
Another major challenge was maintaining care inside the hospital as the number of casualties surged. The hospital began the day at full capacity, forcing staff to quickly free up intensive care beds and operating rooms for incoming patients. With roads around the hospital unsafe, transferring patients to other facilities was not an option in the first hours of the attack, while sending ambulances into the field risked exposing them to Hamas ambushes.
«When you see babies or children with direct injuries, that is not something you typically see on a battlefield. We saw elderly people with severe wounds inflicted directly, with no protection,» Codish said, reflecting on the brutality he witnessed that day.
«As a medical professional, what we saw was beyond words. Two babies suffering from dehydration after their parents were killed, simply waiting to be rescued — I defy anyone to find a word other than ‘evil’ to describe it,» he added.
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During a Sunday street festival in a notoriously liberal Maryland hotspot just across the Washington, D.C. border, some attendees told Digital they wouldn’t mind if the government seized their property, including their homes.
«Yeah, I mean broadly,» said Maryland resident Matt Volk when asked if he would support the government taking his home. «It’s highly situational, but I definitely think that there’s a lot of privately owned land and property that would be better put to use for public use, for resources and housing and things like that for people who are in need of things like that.»
Digital took to the streets during a rainy Sunday at the Takoma Park Street Festival to interview area residents about just how much power they would be willing to cede to the government as socialism becomes increasingly popular, especially among younger Americans.
Takoma Park is a liberal bastion just outside the nation’s capital, where homes and businesses are adorned with LGBT pride paraphernalia, along with decorations marking their support for other leftist causes like the Black Lives Matter movement.
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One attendee, Karen Irwin, sported a t-shirt that said «Auntifa: Making White men uncomfortable since 1975.» She agreed with Volk’s sentiment.
«I mean, if we were all doing it, I’d be so game,» she said. «Do you know what I mean? And who’s coming to me? Is this a decision I’m making through democratic means? Then yes, yes, I would be so game. If I voted for it, sure.»
«You want to be able to keep your property. From what time are we talking? From what in the history of this country? Is it just right now, from right now moving forward, whatever it is you have?» Irwin asked. «Or, you know, 100 years ago, when someone else had it. But the government might have taken it away for whatever reason.»
A poll from March found that 38% of those asked said it was a good idea to move away from capitalism and towards socialism.
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Very liberal voters (66%) and Democrats under age 45 (66%) are those most likely to think moving to socialism would be good. More than half of all Democrats (55%), Black voters (55%) and those under age 30 (53%) also favor moving away from capitalism.
While the majority of Americans, especially Republicans and conservatives, still reject socialism, only 51% say capitalism is working well. The other 49% say it isn’t.
A third person at the Takoma Park street fair on Sunday said the government seizure of his home was a possibility.
«I don’t know that I would necessarily love it, but I mean, if it was something that was beneficial I’d at least consider it,» said Jaw Blake, a Maryland resident.
«Nobody wants what they have to be taken away from them, but there is something we said about like you can set up things so that they’re available for everybody.»
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Not everyone interviewed by Digital was entirely convinced of the idea of government seizure and redistribution of private property.
Jenny Sniderman said she doesn’t want to give up her property to the government, but that it wasn’t out of the question if she was paid to do so.
«Of course I don’t want to give up my private property,» she said. «Are they going to reimburse me fairly? That would be helpful in making my choice.»
Steve Ney isn’t in favor of his home being seized by the government, but he advocated for another socialist policy that recently was implemented in New York City by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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«I think the idea of rent stabilization, for example, is an excellent idea where you limit the rate of increase in rent in order to help people stay in their homes,» he said.
New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board voted 7-1 in July to halt increases in rent for one and two year leases on rent-stabilized apartments, enacting a core promise from socialist Mamdani’s agenda. The policy has faced legal challenges and backlash from property owners in the Big Apple.
Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) President James Whelan blasted Mamdani’s effort.
«The mayor’s report focuses on symptoms, not causes,» he told Digital in August. «New Yorkers are paying record-high rents because there is not enough housing, and many of the reported conditions are concentrated in heavily rent-stabilized buildings that are facing significant operational and financial challenges.»
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One Takoma Park Street Festival attendee, Nina Gilden Seavy, a self-identified historian, outrightly rejected the idea that the government should be involved of distributing resources.
«I think that’s a ridiculous idea. I mean, that’s, it’s a fool’s errand,» she said.
«The idea that somehow we’re gonna be better off if the government is in charge of allocating all resources that sounds not in any way desirable.»
Fox News’ Victoria Balara and Alexander Hall contributed to this report.
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