Transparency

Last updated: November 2025

The Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR) is committed to being as transparent as possible about its activities and learning from its mistakes. This page gathers relevant information related to transparency.

Organization and goals

CLR is a charity located in London, United Kingdom. Our trustees are Jonas Vollmer, Max Daniel, Stefan Torges, Linh Chi Nguyen and Tobias Baumann.

CLR's purposes according to our constitution, are:

1. the advancement of education, primarily in the field of emerging technologies (such as artificial intelligence), in particular (but not exclusively) by conducting the following activities in order to contribute to better public understanding of the potential benefits and risks of such technologies:

(a) conducting research into emerging technologies and publishing the useful results thereof to the general public;

(b) supporting individuals and organisations to carry out research into emerging technologies, through providing grants and other forms of support;

(c) hosting events such as conferences, research retreats, and workshops; to promote recent developments in, and to stimulate discussion and exchange of information about, emerging technologies; and

(d) providing coaching, mentoring and scholarships to those interested in learning about emerging technologies; and

2. to advance such other purposes which are exclusively charitable according to the law in England and Wales as the trustees may from time to time determine, in particular (but not exclusively) by grantmaking.

Please consult this page to learn more about CLR's mission and philosophy.

CLR was initially founded as a project of the Swiss charity Effective Altruism Foundation (EAF). However, our operations were transferred to an independent UK charity, the Center on Long-term Risk, at the end of 2021. Documentation below relating to 2021 and earlier therefore relates to activities carried out as part of EAF. EAF still provides support to us, including by collecting donations on our behalf. More information about EAF can be found on their transparency page.

We receive our funding from several major sources. The first is individual supporters who pledged to donate a percentage of their income to effective charities. We have also received support from several institutional donors, e.g., Open Philanthropy, the Survival and Flourishing Fund, and the Community Foundation for Ireland.