Father of AI-doomer ideology Effective Altruism backed bestiality, said newborn baby worth less than a hog

The nutty professor dubbed the “father” of effective altruism (EA), the theory beloved by AI doomers who want the power to police the technology, expressed support for bestiality and said the life of a newborn baby is worth less than a chimp’s or a hog’s.Peter Singer is an Australian philosopher and bioethicist who argues that killing disabled infants is not morally wrong, that sex with animals is preferable to raising them for food and that even necrophilia can be moral.Since the 1970s, he has suggested rejecting traditional concepts of right and wrong and replacing morality solely by calculating and maximizing interests.Now 80, he could have disappeared like many other new-age 20th-century philosophers, if his theories hadn’t been picked up by the wealthy Silicon Valley masters of the universe, including AI bosses such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.But these apocalyptic theories have less to do with stopping Skynet and more to do with tech bosses seizing power and tightening ranks around their doomsday cult, critics warn.“In Peter Singer’s universe, there are no rights for anyone,” Scott Walter, former Special Assistant for Domestic Policy to President George W.Bush, told The Post.“In fact, there is no right and wrong.

There are only the interests that are claimed or the goals that we set,” said Walter, who is now president of the think tank, Capital Research Center.Taken to its logical extremes, this view has brought Singer to dark places.“Killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person.Very often, it is not wrong at all,” Singer once wrote in his 1979 book, “Practical Ethics.”In the same book, he questioned whether a newborn baby’s life was worth as much as a chimpanzee’s.“If the fetus does not have the same claim to life as a person, it appears that the newborn baby does not either, and the life of a newborn baby is of less value to it than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chim...