person

Nick Beckstead

Future Fund co-founder; FHI alumnus

Philosopher and former Future Fund co-founder. Author of 'On the Overwhelming Importance of Shaping the Far Future' (2013), one of the foundational texts of academic longtermism.

current Researcher, Independent

past Co-founder, FTX Future Fund; Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute

Strategy positions

EA framingendorses

Explicitly EA-grounded prioritisation of existential risk

Argues the long-run effects of present choices on the trajectory of civilization carry overwhelming moral weight, and that this implies existential-risk reduction, including from AI, is a top priority.

If we have any positive credence that civilization could last very long and reach a very high level of value, the expected value of shaping the far future dominates expected value calculations for our near-term actions.

§ paperOn the Overwhelming Importance of Shaping the Far Future· Rutgers University Dissertation· 2013· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

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Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Nick Beckstead's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

Benjamin Todd
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Founder of 80,000 Hours
Hilary Greaves
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Oxford GPI; longtermist moral philosopher

Record last updated 2026-04-25.