This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future from existential catastrophes is the central challenge of our time.

A cofounder of the effective altruism movement explains the flaws in many common ideas about how to make a difference and presents a counterintuitive vision of how we can do the most good possible.

Humans often defend the ideas they most want to believe, rather than striving to form beliefs that are as accurate as possible. In this book, Julia Galef introduces the “scout mindset,” a better way to combat knee-jerk biases and make smarter decisions.

A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement to fix them.

Find a fulfilling career that tackles the world's most pressing problems, using this guide based on five years of research alongside academics at Oxford.

Poor Economics offers a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty and an intimate view of life on 99 cents a day, showing that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor.

Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism," inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them.

Command and Control depicts the urgent effort to ensure that nuclear weapons can't be stolen, sabotaged, used without permission, or detonated inadvertently.