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How might we do the most good?
What is Effective Altruism?
Effective altruism is a philosophy and community focused on maximising the good you can do through your career, projects, and donations.
At Effective Altruism at UT Austin, our mission revolves around the question: how can we use our resources to help others and do the most good?
We are driven to solve the largest problems that humanity faces today—whether it be global health, extreme poverty, animal welfare, engineered pandemics, AI Risk, nuclear security, climate change, or other existential and global catastrophic risks—through research, public policy, ethics, charity entrepreneurship, philanthropy, direct work, and the many other resources, opportunities and privileges at our disposal.
We help students think about how they can use their careers to do good. We run discussion groups and connect people to career/internship opportunities in the broader EA community. In the near future, we plan on providing research and project opportunities that students can be a part of here at UT.