Longview Philanthropy – Grantmaking
webLongview Philanthropy's grantmaking page outlines their principles and process for funding work on existential risks including AI safety, using an evidence-based, hits-based giving approach focused on long-term future generations.
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Longview Philanthropy describes their grantmaking philosophy and process for funding high-impact work on global challenges including AI safety and other existential risks. They apply principles of radical impartiality, intellectual honesty, and hits-based giving inspired by venture capital. Their process involves mapping neglected high-impact areas, rigorous grant investigation, and counterfactual reasoning.
Key Points
- •Focuses on neglected, high-impact, tractable problems including safe AI and nuclear risk that threaten both current and future generations.
- •Uses 'hits-based giving' inspired by venture capital, seeking high-reward philanthropic opportunities in underserved areas.
- •Applies radical impartiality, counting future generations equally to present ones in grant prioritization.
- •Grant investigation process includes counterfactual analysis, cost-effectiveness assessment, and evaluation of key personnel competence.
- •Advised by experts from major foundations, government, and cutting-edge science to identify promising funding opportunities.
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Grantmaking
Principles
Our process
Grantmaking areas
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Grantmaking to positively influence the long-term future.
We focus on global challenges that could transform our future for many generations to come, including safely navigating emerging technologies.
Our Grantmaking Principles
Our goal is for every grant we recommend to help as many individuals as possible, as much as possible, counting everyone equally—including future generations. We are truth-seeking, far-sighted, risk-neutral, and informed by the best available evidence.
The following principles motivate our work:
Radical impartiality: We believe that every individual counts equally—including members of future generations. If we act wisely today, future generations will contain the lives of almost everyone who will ever live. And yet future generations are systematically disenfranchised in our world today. This is why they are the focus of our work.
Intellectual honesty: We are transparent in our reasoning and communicate our assumptions, evidence, and uncertainties clearly. We never tell our donors simply what we think they want to hear.
Hits-based giving: Inspired by venture capital, we seek to uncover neglected opportunities with high-reward potential. Over the long run, if we can match even one of the biggest philanthropic success stories of the twentieth century, our efforts will have paid off.
Win-win scenarios: Many of the issues we aim to tackle, from safe AI to nuclear war, pose a serious threat to the world today. Work to protect future generations often benefits the current generation as well.
A scientific mindset: We are informed by the latest research from the natural and social sciences. We work to quantify our impact insofar as wisdom allows, and act on the best available balance of evidence.
Our Process
Mapping promising areas
We begin with high-level research into which fields might hold the most promising opportunities for doing good. We prioritize problems that:
1. Would have a huge impact if solved
2. We’re able to make progress on quickly, and
3. Are currently neglected .
Then we identify sub-fields in which further funding can make the most substantial progress towards solving the problem. For example, even before COVID-19, we sought out immunization technology projects working on faster approaches to vaccine production, due to their unusual tractability for stopping pandemics.
Our work to identify promising areas is done by our in-house team in conjunction with experts in relevant fields. We are advised by experts who lead some of the largest foundations, hold high government office, and publish cutting-edge science.
Grant investigation
Our grant investigation process begins with a longlist of especially high-impact projects from our in-house research team and our expert network. We take the most promising of these
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