William MacAskill | Forethought

William MacAskill

 Senior Research Fellow

 Before joining Forethought, William MacAskill was an Associate Professor of moral philosophy at the University of Oxford. He wrote the books Doing Good Better , Moral Uncertainty , and What We Owe The Future . Will is also the cofounder of Giving What We Can , 80,000 Hours , Centre for Effective Altruism and the Global Priorities Institute . Read articles by William MacAskill Contact Articles by William MacAskill

 23rd June 2026 Risk-Averse AIs

 with Elliott Thornley 24th April 2026 The Saturation View

 29th March 2026 AI should (sometimes) be proactively prosocial

 with Tom Davidson 26th March 2026 Concrete Projects in AGI Preparedness

 with Fin Moorhouse 23rd March 2026 The importance of AI character

 with Tom Davidson 23rd February 2026 Moral public goods are a big deal for whether we get a good future

 with Tom Davidson, Mia Taylor 26th January 2026 The International AGI Project Series

 26th January 2026 What an international project to develop AGI should look like

 26th January 2026 AGI and World Government

 with Rose Hadshar 26th January 2026 International AI projects and differential AI development

 26th January 2026 A global convention to govern the intelligence explosion

 22nd January 2026 Short Timelines Aren't Obviously Higher-Leverage

 with Mia Taylor 21st January 2026 Beyond Existential Risk

 with Guive Assadi 7th January 2026 Viatopia

 3rd August 2025 Better Futures

 3rd August 2025 Introducing Better Futures

 3rd August 2025 No Easy Eutopia

 with Fin Moorhouse 3rd August 2025 Convergence and Compromise

 with Fin Moorhouse 3rd August 2025 How to Make the Future Better

 3rd August 2025 Persistent Path-Dependence