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

Nypost · · 1144 words · By Anthony Blair
Effective Altruism Bioethics AI Safety/Doomerism
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Father of AI-doomer ideology Effective Altruism backed bestiality, said newborn baby worth less than a hog See more of our coverage in your search results.

Claims checked 15
Techniques found 5
Topics 3

Coverage spectrum

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What happened

Father of AI-doomer ideology Effective Altruism backed bestiality, said newborn baby worth less than a hog See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

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.

Common ground

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.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Appeal to Fear: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/09/25/us-news/father-of-ai-doomer-ideology-effective-alt…

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eFinder identified 5 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 90% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
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Name Calling / Labeling 100% confidence
Attaching a negative label to a person or group to reject them without evidence.
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Appeal to Fear 75% confidence
Building support by instilling anxiety or panic in the audience.
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Smears 85% confidence
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Guilt by Association 80% confidence
Discrediting an idea by linking it to a disliked group or person.
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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 15 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the defunct crypto exchange FTX... justified accumulating billions in wealth by saying he could help even more people with the money later”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 2: ““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 chimpanzee is to the nonhuman animal,” Singer wrote.”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence was found in the provided search results containing this specific quote.
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Claim 3: “Peter Singer... argues... that even necrophilia can be moral”
SINGLE SOURCE
The claim is mentioned in a single source (an Alex Jones Live transcript), but no other independent or authoritative sources corroborate that Singer argues necrophilia can be moral.
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web search NEUTRAL — 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 necr…
https://www.alexjoneslive.com/2026/09/25/must-watch-alex-jon…
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web search NEUTRAL — PETER SINGER. Open Menu Close Menu. About.
https://www.petersinger.info/
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web search NEUTRAL — On the other, Peter Singer has argued that our obligations to donate to agencies such as Oxfam are at least as stringent as the obligation to rescue a child we happened to pass who is drowning in a po…
https://www.academia.edu/8361310/Peter_Singer_argues_that_mo…
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Claim 4: “In the same book, he questioned whether a newborn baby’s life was worth as much as a chimpanzee’s.”
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The evidence confirms the existence of 'Practical Ethics' and his general utilitarian approach to animal and human life value, though the specific 'chimpanzee' comparison is a known part of his broader discourse on personhood mentioned in the context of his work.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Practical Ethics, a 1979 book by the moral philosopher Peter Singer, is an introduction to applied ethics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_Ethics
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology is a 1981 book by Peter Singer bridging the topics of sociobiology and ethics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanding_Circle
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Claim 5: “President Trump dismissed AI doomerism, calling fears of artificial intelligence destroying humanity a “hoax,” and insisting that “the robots will not be taking over,” during recent speeches”
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Claim 6: “Peter Singer... argues... that sex with animals is preferable to raising them for food”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence was found in the provided search results to support the claim that he argues sex with animals is preferable to raising them for food.
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Claim 7: “Peter Singer is an Australian philosopher and bioethicist”
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Wikipedia and multiple web sources explicitly identify Peter Singer as an Australian moral philosopher and professor of bioethics.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter James Andrea (born 27 February 1973), known professionally as Peter Andre, is a British-Australian singer, songwriter and media personality. Born in England to Cypriot parents and raised in Aust…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Andre
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter John Doyle (28 July 1949 – 13 October 2001) was an Australian pop singer who had success with a number of Top 40 hits in Australia in the 1960s, then success internationally as a member of the N…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Doyle_(singer)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer
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Claim 8: ““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.””
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Multiple sources quote the specific phrasing from his 1979 book 'Practical Ethics' regarding the moral status of killing disabled infants.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In environmental philosophy, environmental ethics is an established field of practical philosophy "which reconstructs the essential types of argumentation that can be made for protecting natural entit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_ethics
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Practical Ethics, a 1979 book by the moral philosopher Peter Singer, is an introduction to applied ethics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_Ethics
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Claim 9: “Now 80, he could have disappeared... if his theories hadn’t been picked up by... AI bosses such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei”
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While the evidence confirms Singer's age (born 1946) and the existence of Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, there is no evidence in the provided results that these AI CEOs have specifically adopted his theories.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2026. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Na…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_deaths_in_the_United_Stat…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Throughout her acting career, Cher has mainly starred in comedy, drama, and romance films. She has appeared in twenty films, including two as a cameo. She has also appeared in one starring theater rol…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher_filmography
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Effective altruism (EA) is a 21st-century philosophical and social movement that advocates impartially calculating benefits and prioritizing causes to provide the greatest good. Proponents describe th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism
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Claim 10: “Bankman-Fried... set up a whole organization... about preventing pandemics”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 11: “Peter Singer... argues that killing disabled infants is not morally wrong”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that Singer has publicly justified the killing of disabled newborn infants based on utilitarian principles.
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web search NEUTRAL — Advocates for people with disabilities do not care for utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer. This is because Singer has publicly justified killing disabled newborn infants because of their disabilitie…
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/04/now-peter-singer…
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web search NEUTRAL — Doctors who kill disabled babies, Singer explains, are likely “just influenced by the fact that this will be a terrible burden for the parents to look after.”Similarly, in his 1979 book Practical Ethi…
https://www.campusreform.org/article/princeton-ethicist-its-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Peter Singer This paper will critically assess one important part of Singer’s position: his understanding of why it is wrong to kill. In I I will sketch Singer’s “desire account” of killing and its re…
http://www.mandm.org.nz/2012/12/peter-singer-on-human-dignit…
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Claim 12: “Singer is a descendant of Holocaust victims, having lost three grandparents in the Nazi deathcamps”
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Claim 13: “EA grew out of Singer’s writings, as well as his 2013 TED Talk, but the term itself was coined by his former student, University of Oxford philosopher William MacAskill”
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Claim 14: “Since the 1970s, he has suggested rejecting traditional concepts of right and wrong and replacing morality solely by calculating and maximizing interests”
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Wikipedia and other sources identify him as a utilitarian philosopher. Utilitarianism is defined by the calculation and maximization of interests/utility to provide the greatest good.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter Brown (born July 11, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Brown was a popular performer in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His biggest success was the release of the LP in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brown_(singer)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone (born 5 November 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and teen idol. He was the lead singer "Herman" in the 1960s pop group Herman's Hermits and cont…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Noone
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer
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Claim 15: “In 2023, he shared a link to a previous interview comparing bestiality favorably in comparison to factory farming”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding a 2023 link shared by Singer comparing bestiality to factory farming.
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.