• Impartiality: All sentient beings matter morally, including future generations and those unlike us.

  • Cause Prioritisation: Allocate resources where they do the most good, based on scale, neglectedness, and tractability.

  • Thinking Long-Term: We prioritise actions that safeguard and shape the long-term future, on the premise that future lives matter and are likely to be numerous, and matter morally.

  • Cost-Effectiveness: We must do as much good as we can with the limited resources available to us.

  • Data, Evidence and Reason: We ground decisions in reason, data, and counterfactual analysis - not just intuition, emotion, or tradition.

  • Moral Circle Expansion: We should include non-human animals, future people, and other sentient entities in our circle of ethical concern.

  • Continuous Reassessment: We will update priorities regularly as knowledge, technologies, and global conditions change.

Our Strategic Principles