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Longview Philanthropy is an independent, expert-led philanthropic advisory organization that helps major donors achieve maximum positive impact with their giving. Founded in 2018 by Natalie Cargill, a former barrister who left a career in human rights and law, Longview operates on a venture capital-inspired model, seeking to uncover neglected funding opportunities with the potential for lasting impact at scale.
The organization provides bespoke donor education, grant recommendations, grant transfer facilitation, and ongoing progress reporting, all completely free of charge. Longview primarily serves donors giving over $1 million per year through its advisory services, though it also offers AI grant recommendations to donors giving over $100,000 per year through its Frontier AI Fund…
Longview believes that private markets systematically underinvest in managing catastrophic and existential risks because the dangers of advanced AI, bioweapons, and nuclear conflict affect everyone but profits are concentrated in a handful of companies and actors. Philanthropy is therefore essential for advancing the public good in these areas. By providing free, expert-led, research-driven grant recommendations to major donors, Longview channels substantial private wealth toward the most neglected and high-impact interventions for reducing existential risk. Their theory is that by identifying underfunded priority areas and catalyzing emerging fields, such as hardware-enabled AI verification mechanisms, US AI policy advocacy, and digital sentience research, they can shape the trajectory of advanced technology development and reduce the probability of catastrophic outcomes. Longview aims to ensure every grant helps as many individuals as possible, counting everyone equally including future generations.
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View on grantmaking.aiThe Emerging Challenges Fund (ECF) is a pooled, thesis-driven fund through which anyone can contribute to support outstanding organisations working on global catastrophic risks from emerging technologies, including advanced AI, biosecurity, and nuclear risks. Longview’s expert grantmaking teams direct funding to opportunities where additional resources can quickly make a major difference.
By pooling donations from thousands of donors into a professionally managed fund, the Emerging Challenges Fund can flexibly support high-impact organisations that reduce global catastrophic risks from emerging technologies, filling funding gaps and providing diversified support that many policy and research groups value.
The Digital Sentience Fund is a private philanthropic fund created by Longview Philanthropy to understand and promote a reasonable and considerate relationship between human civilisation and potential digital minds. It supports research, field-building, and applied projects on questions such as whether and when AI systems might be sentient, how to assess their moral status, and how society and institutions should respond.
By funding research, field-building, and applied work on digital sentience and the moral status of AI systems, the Digital Sentience Fund aims to develop frameworks and evidence that can guide AI developers and policymakers, helping ensure that any future digital beings flourish rather than suffer and that AI systems promote wellbeing.
The Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund (NWPF) is Longview Philanthropy’s grantmaking vehicle focused on catastrophic nuclear risk. It targets the small group of key nuclear decision-makers by funding applied research with implementation-ready proposals, international dialogues that maintain communication channels when official diplomacy is frozen, and talent development to place technically trained experts in influential government roles.
By funding targeted research, high-level dialogues, and the placement of technical experts in government, the Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund seeks to influence the small group of decision-makers who shape nuclear policy, thereby reducing the probability and potential severity of nuclear conflict.
The Frontier AI Fund (FAIF) pools capital from major donors into a discretionary fund that Longview Philanthropy uses to seed, support, and scale organisations working on research, engineering, field-building, communications, and advocacy to shape the development and regulation of frontier AI systems.
By aggregating large donations into a flexible fund, the Frontier AI Fund can rapidly deploy grants to urgent and high-leverage projects that improve frontier AI governance and safety, thereby reducing the risk that advanced AI systems are developed or deployed in ways that could lead to catastrophic outcomes.