Nick Beckstead is an American philosopher and former head of the [[Open Philanthropy]] AI team, whose 2013 doctoral thesis *On the Overwhelming Importance of Shaping the Far Future* was a foundational text for the [[Longtermism]] movement. He later led AI grantmaking at Open Philanthropy before moving to a senior role at the FTX Foundation, which collapsed with [[Sam Bankman-Fried]]'s fraud conviction. Beckstead's intellectual work and institutional roles make him a key connector in the [[Effective Altruism]] movement's evolution from global poverty to AI-focused priorities.