# #49 - Richard Ngo | The Case For Virtue Ethics In The Age of AGI

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Podcast: [The Metagame](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-metagame-5326696)
Published: 2026-04-28T13:55:36+00:00
Episode link: https://themetagame.substack.com/p/49-richard-ngo-the-case-for-virtue
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## Resource

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

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