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#49 - Richard Ngo | The Case For Virtue Ethics In The Age of AGI
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- The Metagame
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- Apr 28, 2026
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Summary
Richard Ngo is one of a handful of people who've worked on AGI safety at both DeepMind and OpenAI. After three years as a futurist on OpenAI's Governance team, he left to pursue independent research on coalitions, virtue ethics, and the foundations of cooperation. He’s also a science fiction author ( The Gentle Romance: Stories of AI and Humanity ) and writes at Mind the Future. We talk about virtue ethics, egregores, academic fraud, memeplexes, cooperation, parts-work, and what it was like to work with Sam Altman. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themetagame.substack.com