Philanthropy for a good future, through and beyond AGI.

We are preparing for a world in which human labour may no longer be the foundation of economic life.

Artificial intelligence could create extraordinary wealth and make capabilities once reserved for a few available to billions. It could also unsettle the arrangements through which people earn a living, find belonging, contribute to society and make sense of their lives.

A good future requires us to take both possibilities seriously.

Longscale Giving begins with the philanthropic work of Chris Strobl. Its purpose is to help people flourish through this transition and in the world that follows.

For generations, employment has connected economic production to income, identity, community and influence. Our institutions have grown around that connection. As increasingly capable systems take on more of the work, we will need to reconsider how people share in prosperity, participate in decisions and find meaningful ways to contribute.

Human dignity endures regardless of the market value of human labour. Everyone deserves the opportunity to live well, belong to a community and help shape the future.

We believe the transition to advanced AI creates a profound responsibility to explore what could make that possible. The economic and social arrangements that follow will emerge from choices about ownership, institutions, culture and the purposes to which powerful technologies are put. Philanthropy can help investigate those choices, support promising responses and preserve possibilities that might otherwise be lost.

Our approach is guided by effective altruism: a commitment to using our resources to help others as much as we can.

That commitment requires us to compare opportunities, examine consequences and take evidence seriously. It requires intellectual humility, especially when working on questions whose answers are still unclear. We will explain our assumptions, seek out disagreement and change direction when we have reason to do so.

It also requires us to think carefully about time.

Some opportunities deserve support today. Others may become far more valuable as technology advances and society’s needs change. Some of the most important work we can do now is to prepare: developing understanding, building relationships and creating the capacity to act well when consequential opportunities arise.

The timing of a contribution belongs alongside its purpose and its expected impact.

AI changes the means available to philanthropy as profoundly as it changes the world philanthropy serves. Research, analysis, coordination and implementation could become dramatically more capable and less costly. Used well, these capabilities could help each dollar, each hour and each act of generosity accomplish more.

Longscale Giving will explore this through practical work, education and training. We bring the ability to build and operate systems into our philanthropic commitment, using AI to improve how questions are investigated, decisions are made and work gets done. We intend to make useful capabilities available to others pursuing philanthropic goals, and to learn with them through their use.

Over time, shared work can create lasting relationships among people who bring different resources, knowledge and responsibilities. Those relationships may become an important part of what Longscale Giving contributes.

We begin with a direction and a willingness to learn. Our priorities will develop through research, experience and engagement with the people whose lives are affected. We will share what we learn, including where our expectations fail.

Our ambition is a future in which extraordinary technical capability expands the possibilities of an ordinary human life: the freedom to learn, create, care for others, belong and pursue something worth doing.

A future in which people share in prosperity and retain a meaningful role in deciding what comes next.