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Forbes Daily Briefing

Inside A Billionaire Couple’s Plan To Give Away A $20 Billion Facebook Fortune

Forbes Daily Briefing

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🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Influenced by effective altruist ideas, former journalist and wife of Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz, Cari Tuna funded pandemic preparedness efforts long before Covid-19 and steered millions into AI safety research years before the launch of ChatGPT. Here’s what’s next.

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0:00.0

Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Wednesday, November 19th.

0:05.4

Today on Forbes, Inside a Billionaire Couples plan to give away a $20 billion

0:11.1

Facebook fortune.

0:14.2

Carrie Tuna, along with her husband, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskowitz, is one of the most

0:19.7

generous philanthropists in the world.

0:22.2

She says that artificial intelligence is like nuclear energy. She explains that early accidents

0:27.4

led to nuclear being, quote, essentially regulated out of existence in the U.S., stalling the industry

0:33.7

for decades. If there had been more thoughtful regulation earlier, those accidents

0:38.6

could have been avoided, and there might have been more room for innovation, and more progress

0:43.5

towards mitigating climate change. That's where philanthropy can step in. A decade ago, the

0:50.3

young couple, tuna is now 40 years old and Moskowitz is 41, helped donate $1 million to the

0:57.1

Future of Life Institute to reduce AI risk. Then they poured $30 million into OpenAI's

1:03.6

nonprofit in 2017 through their foundation, and Moskowitz invested in Anthropics $124 million funding

1:10.6

round in 2021.

1:12.7

Back then, both labs preached a laser focus on AI safety.

1:17.6

Neither the couple nor their foundation own a stake in OpenAI.

1:21.9

Their anthropic stake, worth an estimated $500 million,

1:25.7

was moved into a non-profit vehicle in early 2025, so she says

1:30.0

they could invest any, quote, significant financial return back into philanthropy, and, quote,

1:36.3

dispel any perception of conflict of interest. Their early focus on AI stems from the powerhouse

1:42.8

tech couple's embrace of effective altruism,

1:45.9

although Tuna prefers to, quote, emphasize the ideas over the label.

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