Macroscopic Ventures is a nonprofit focused on reducing s-risks (suffering), including by reducing catastrophic AI misuse by malevolent or fanatical actors (e.g., via compute governance or information security), avoiding conflict (e.g., via cooperative AI) and improving AI welfare. It gave around $10 million in grants in 2024.

Past grants include to the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program, the Center on Long-Term Risk, the Cooperative AI Foundation, and the Institute for Law and AI. Past investments include Anthropic’s Series A and Series B.

Macroscopic Ventures was founded in 2019 under the name Center for Emerging Risk Research (CERR) and adopted its current name in February 2025.

Further reading

Macroscopic Ventures (2025). Focus areas, Macroscopic Ventures.

Althaus, David, & Baumann, Tobias (2020). Reducing long-term risks from malevolent actors, Effective Altruism Forum, April 29 2020.

External links

Macroscopic Ventures. Official website.

Related links

S-risks | AI governance| Reducing long-term risks from malevolent actors | Cooperative AI | Artificial sentience | Cause prioritization | Longtermism