Vision & Strategy
The Future Holds Hope for a World Without Suffering
The Compassionate Future Initiative (CFI) is advocating and mobilising for high-impact initiatives to reduce suffering in the near and distant future.
A future in which technologies, institutions, and social norms protect the wellbeing of all sentient beings, remain resilient against corruption, and are competitively advantageous relative to exploitative, exclusionary, or hostile systems.
The Pillars of our Mission
We study the conceptual, biological, and psychosocial mechanisms underlying sentient experience. On that basis, we identify, develop, prioritise, and advocate for ambitious initiatives with significant potential to prevent large amounts of future suffering.
We advocate and mobilise for high-impact interventions aimed at suffering prevention across cause areas, target groups, and long timelines.
We build a thriving community of resourceful, compassionate individuals with diverse backgrounds, eager to help get thoughtful and ambitious projects off the ground — building a better future for all sentient beings.
We foster collaborative networks across adjacent communities, initiatives, and fields to propagate compassionate care and accelerate impact — connecting people and ideas where they can do the most good.
Start Your Impact Journey With Us
The following impact-oriented questions may help you to reflect on how you could best contribute and reduce suffering potentially along multiple cause areas and target groups.
What are Crucial Considerations for impact of your project, donations or career plans?
What are your considerations in regard to near-term impact, including importance, tractability, neglectedness (ITN), risk-benefit trade-offs, and counterfactuals?
What is your SMART Theory of Change for your involvement? Please include consideration in regard to outcome robustness and implementation robustness.
What are plausible long-term trajectories (evolution, obstacles, risks, benefits, and counterfactuals) over 10, 50, and 200 years?
And what are your personal fit, motivation and development plans?
Reach out to work through those questions together.
Why Care About Suffering the Most?
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This page was first published on 04 Mar 2022. Latest significant update was on 25 Apr 2026.