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FTX Community Response Survey Results
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Willem Sleegers·David_Moss
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Published in the aftermath of the FTX collapse (November 2022), this survey documents EA community reactions and is relevant to understanding how funding crises affect AI safety organizations and philanthropic ecosystems tied to longtermist causes.
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CommunityBuilding effective altruismRethink PrioritiesData on the EA communityEffective Altruism SurveyFTX collapse
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Summary
This EA Forum post presents survey results capturing how the effective altruism community responded to the FTX collapse and Sam Bankman-Fried fraud scandal. It documents community sentiment, trust levels, and reflections on EA's association with FTX and crypto-based funding. The results offer a snapshot of internal community reckoning with reputational and financial fallout.
Key Points
- •Survey captures EA community members' emotional and strategic reactions to the FTX/SBF collapse in late 2022.
- •Results reflect widespread concern about reputational damage to EA and associated organizations including AI safety groups.
- •Community members expressed views on whether EA's values or practices contributed to or failed to prevent the scandal.
- •Data highlights divisions within EA about longtermism, cause prioritization, and institutional trust following the crisis.
- •Provides a primary data source for understanding how a major funding scandal affected the AI safety and EA ecosystems.
Cited by 2 pages
| Page | Type | Quality |
|---|---|---|
| EA Epistemic Failures in the FTX Era | -- | 84.0 |
| EA Institutions' Response to the FTX Collapse | -- | 53.0 |
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by Willem Sleegers , David_Moss Mar 15 2023 9 min read 33 181
Community Building effective altruism Rethink Priorities Data on the EA community Effective Altruism Survey FTX collapse Frontpage FTX Community Response Survey Results Summary EA satisfaction Recalled satisfaction Satisfaction over time Concerns Other responses Trust in EA organizations Trust in EA public figures or leadership What actions would respondents like to see in the next few months? Differences between groups Satisfaction Concerns Cause prioritization Engagement Gender Age Race Other responses Cause prioritization Engagement Gender Race Trust in organizations Cause prioritization Engagement Gender 33 comments Summary
In December 2022, Rethink Priorities, in collaboration with CEA, surveyed the EA community [1] [2] in order to gather “ perspectives on how the FTX crisis has impacted the community’s views of the effective altruism movement, its organizations, and leaders .”
Our results found that the FTX crisis had decreased satisfaction with the EA community, and around half of respondents reported that the FTX crisis had given them concerns with EA meta organizations, the EA community and its norms, and the leaders of EA meta organizations.
Nevertheless, there were some encouraging results. The reduction in satisfaction with the community was significant, but small, and overall average community sentiment is still positive. In addition, respondents tended to agree that the EA community had responded well to the crisis, although roughly a third of respondents neither agreed nor disagreed with this. Majorities of respondents reported continuing to trust EA organizations, though over 30% reported they had substantially lost trust in EA public figures or leadership.
Respondents were more split in their views about how the EA community should respond. Respondents leaned slightly towards agreeing that the EA community should spend significant time reflecting and responding to this crisis, at the cost of spending less time on our other priorities, but slightly towards disagreement that the EA community should look very different as a result of this crisis.
EA satisfaction
Recalled satisfaction
Respondents were asked about their current satisfaction with the EA community (after the FTX crisis) and to recall their satisfaction with the EA community at the start of November 2022, prior to the FTX crisis.
Satisfaction with the EA community appears to be half a point (0.54) lower post-FTX compared to pre-FTX.
Note that the median satisfaction scores are somewhat higher, but similarly showing a decrease (8 pre-FTX, 7 post-FTX).
Satisfaction over time
As the 2022 EA Survey was launched before the FTX crisis, we could ass
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