I encourage funders who have been supporting efforts to decrease nuclear risk (improving prevention, response or resilience) to do the following. If they aim to:
Decrease the risk of human extinction, or improve the longterm future, support interventions to decrease AI risk by donating to the Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF), as I personally do with my donations.
Continue in the nuclear space, support Longview’s Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund, which “directs funding to under-resourced and high-leverage opportunities to reduce the threat of large-scale nuclear warfare”. It is the only fund solely focussed on nuclear risk, and aligned with effective altruism I am aware of, and I like the 4 components of their grantmaking strategy:
Understanding the new nuclear risk landscape.
Reduce the likelihood of accidental and inadvertent nuclear war.
Educate policymakers on these issues.
Strengthen fieldwide capacity.
These are my personal recommendations at the margin. I am not arguing for interventions decreasing nuclear risk to receive zero resources, nor for all these to be funded via Longview’s Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund.
I agree with Giving What We Can’s recommendation for most people to donate to expert-managed funds, and have not recommended any specific organisations above.
Hi Luke,
Note Carl Robichaud is a fund manager of the Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund, which you can donate to. You may want to check Global Catastrophic Nuclear Risk: A Guide for Philanthropists. Personally: