 What is forward looking responsibility? Forward looking responsibility, like its backward looking counterpart, refers to a collective agent’s responsibility for a particular state of affairs in the world. But, unlike its backward looking counterpart, it does not make responsibility out to be a matter of having caused an existing (morally problematic) state of affairs. Instead, it makes responsibility out to be a matter of being morally charged with—responsible for—bringing about a state of affairs which we as a community consider to be better. Hence, when we ascribe forward looking responsibility to a collective agent, we do not tell a causal story about the agent. Instead, we specify what the agent should be doing in the world.