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Useful background reference for understanding the institutional ecosystem surrounding AI safety; CEA is a key node connecting EA-aligned funders, researchers, and advocacy organizations relevant to the field.
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Wikipedia article providing an overview of the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA), a nonprofit organization that promotes the effective altruism movement and supports related organizations. CEA plays a significant role in the broader EA ecosystem, which includes major AI safety funders and organizations.
Key Points
- •CEA is a UK-based nonprofit that serves as a hub for the effective altruism community, running events like EA Global and managing the EA Forum
- •The organization incubated and spun off several influential groups including 80,000 Hours and Giving What We Can
- •CEA is closely linked to the AI safety funding ecosystem, as EA-aligned philanthropists fund major AI safety research organizations
- •Provides background on the governance structure and history of one of the key institutional actors in the AI safety space
- •Understanding CEA helps contextualize the organizational landscape and funding flows within the AI safety community
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# Centre for Effective Altruism
Centre for Effective Altruism
Non-profit effective altruist organization
| [](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CEA_logo_transparent_background.png) |
| Abbreviation | CEA |
| Formation | 2012;13years ago(2012) |
| Founders | - [Toby Ord](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Ord "Toby Ord")<br>- [William MacAskill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_MacAskill "William MacAskill") |
| Founded at | [Oxford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford "Oxford"), England |
| Type | [Charity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_organization "Charitable organization") |
| Registrationno. | 1149828 |
| Purpose | building and supporting the [effective altruism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism "Effective altruism") community |
| Headquarters | Trajan House, Mill Street, Oxford, OX2 0DJ, UK |
| CEO | Zach Robinson |
| Parent organisation | [Effective Ventures](https://www.ev.org/) |
| Website | [www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org](https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/) |
Centre for Effective Altruism
The **Centre for Effective Altruism** ( **CEA**) is an Oxford-based organisation that builds and supports the [effective altruism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism "Effective altruism") community. It was founded in 2012 by [William MacAskill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_MacAskill "William MacAskill") and [Toby Ord](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Ord "Toby Ord"), both philosophers at the [University of Oxford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford "University of Oxford").[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Effective_Altruism#cite_note-1)[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Effective_Altruism#cite_note-2) CEA is part of Effective Ventures, a federation of projects working to have a large positive impact in the world.[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Effective_Altruism#cite_note-3)
## History
CEA's founding was prompted by the need to set up an umbrella organization under which [Giving What We Can](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giving_What_We_Can "Giving What We Can") and [80,000 Hours](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80,000_Hours "80,000 Hours") could be incorporated.[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Effective_Altruism#cite_note-4) In late 2011, the members of those two organizations met to discuss how this new entity should be named, and the name "Centre for Effective Altruism" was adopted. At the time, the movement that would later be called " [effective altruism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism "Effective altruism")" did not yet have a standard name—terms common back then included "optimal philanthropy"[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Effective_Altruism#cite_note-5) and "rational altruism"[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_f
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