The Global Risks Fund works to reduce the greatest threats to humanity's future: nuclear war, catastrophic biological events, and the risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence.
Humanity has built extraordinary things over the past century. It has also built the means of its own destruction, and the institutions charged with managing those dangers have not kept pace. Nuclear arsenals are modernizing while the field working to constrain them shrinks. Biology is becoming an engineering discipline faster than our defenses against its misuse. Artificial intelligence is advancing on timelines that public oversight has yet to match.
We believe the antidote to anxiety is action. The Global Risks Fund exists to strengthen the people, organizations, and institutions standing between civilization and its worst outcomes, and to build new ones where none exist.
The danger of nuclear use is rising as arms control erodes and major philanthropy exits the field. We fund and build efforts to reduce the probability of nuclear war, strengthen non-proliferation, and renew the community of people working on these problems.
Advances in the life sciences are outpacing our ability to prevent catastrophic misuse or accident. We support biosecurity and biodefense work aimed at detecting, deterring, and defending against the most severe biological threats.
Increasingly capable AI systems are being deployed faster than society can independently evaluate them. We support work that makes the development of advanced AI safer, more transparent, and subject to meaningful checks.
Writing checks is necessary but not sufficient. The gaps in these fields are as often organizational as financial: missing institutions, missing operators, missing coordination among funders. Our model reflects that.
We back high-leverage organizations working on the risks we care about, with an emphasis on early support that helps strong teams get started or scale.
Where the field is missing an institution, we build it. We incubate and operate programs directly rather than waiting for someone else to create them.
No single funder can carry these fields. We work to bring new philanthropic capital into risk reduction and to coordinate with co-funders so every dollar goes further.
Fields are made of people. We invest in bringing capable, entrepreneurial people into risk reduction and giving them room to do their best work.
Manik leads the Global Risks Fund's strategy, programs, and partnerships. He is a founder and executive with experience spanning technology, law, and public policy, and leads a philanthropic platform that builds as well as funds.
James leads the Fund's nuclear risk portfolio, working to reduce the danger of nuclear use and to strengthen and renew the non-proliferation field.
We are building a team and a network of partners who believe these problems are tractable. If you are a funder interested in co-funding, an organization working on these risks, or someone who wants to build a career in risk reduction, we want to hear from you.
info@globalrisksfund.org