The Astera Institute was created to bring humanity the greatest imaginable good in the most efficient possible way. Astera seeks to activate the areas of exponential latent potential within science and technology; to create benevolent super-intelligence, live to 200, fix science, and do engineering worthy of Asimov.

Astera Institute was established by Jed McCaleb. It is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to developing high leverage technologies that can lead to massive returns for humanity. Astera focuses on longevity, artificial general intelligence, metascience, and frontier engineering.