tldr: To celebrate our 40th anniversary, Foresight Institute is launching two AI Nodes in Berlin & the Bay Area - providing funding, office space, community and compute to open AI for science & safety projects.
We care about a future in which AI accelerates scientific progress without locking in centralized power structures or risking existential safety.
To that end, we're supporting projects working on:
1. AI for Security
Traditional security paradigms, often reactive, piecemeal and human-driven, cannot scale to match the speed, scale, and complexity of AI-supported attacks. We seek to support self-improving defense systems where AI autonomously identifies vulnerabilities, generates formal proofs, red-teams, and strengthens the world’s digital infrastructure.
2. Private AI
To ensure that AI progress occurs openly without sacrificing privacy, we want to support work that applies AI to enhance confidential compute environments, scale privacy mechanisms for handling data, and design infrastructure that distributes trust.
3. Decentralized & Cooperative AI
We fund work that builds decentralized intelligence ecosystems – where AI systems can cooperate, negotiate, and align – so societies remain resilient in a multipolar world. We are especially interested in projects that enable peaceful human–AI co-existence and create new AI-enabled mechanisms for cooperation.
4. AI for Science & Epistemics
In addition to applying AI to specific problems, we need better platforms, tools and data infrastructure to accelerate AI-guided scientific progress generally. Similarly, to get our sense-making ready for rapid change, we are interested in funding work that applies AI to improve forecasting and general epistemic preparedness.
5. AI for Neuro, Brain-Computer Interfaces & Whole Brain Emulation
We are interested in work that uses frontier models to map, simulate, and understand biological intelligence – building the foundations for hybrids between human and artificial cognition, from brain-computer interfaces to whole brain emulation. We care about this domain specifically for its potential to improve humanity’s defensive position as AI advances.
6. AI for Longevity Biotechnology
We want to fund work that applies AI to make progress on scientific frontiers in longevity biotechnology – from biostasis and replacement, to gene therapy and exosomes.
7. AI for Molecular Nanotechnology
We support work that uses AI to make progress on scientific frontiers in molecular nanotechnology – from design and simulation, to construction and assembly of nanomachines.
We provide:
Grants. Grantees get funding, office space, and invitations to relevant workshops and events, with in-house compute available to eligible projects.
Office/event space. Apply for (free) access to the nodes, without being a grantee.
Compute. Apply for (free) compute for your project, without being a grantee.
The first application round closes on December 31, followed by monthly deadlines until the nodes are at capacity:
tldr: To celebrate our 40th anniversary, Foresight Institute is launching two AI Nodes in Berlin & the Bay Area - providing funding, office space, community and compute to open AI for science & safety projects.
We care about a future in which AI accelerates scientific progress without locking in centralized power structures or risking existential safety.
To that end, we're supporting projects working on:
1. AI for Security
Traditional security paradigms, often reactive, piecemeal and human-driven, cannot scale to match the speed, scale, and complexity of AI-supported attacks. We seek to support self-improving defense systems where AI autonomously identifies vulnerabilities, generates formal proofs, red-teams, and strengthens the world’s digital infrastructure.
2. Private AI
To ensure that AI progress occurs openly without sacrificing privacy, we want to support work that applies AI to enhance confidential compute environments, scale privacy mechanisms for handling data, and design infrastructure that distributes trust.
3. Decentralized & Cooperative AI
We fund work that builds decentralized intelligence ecosystems – where AI systems can cooperate, negotiate, and align – so societies remain resilient in a multipolar world. We are especially interested in projects that enable peaceful human–AI co-existence and create new AI-enabled mechanisms for cooperation.
4. AI for Science & Epistemics
In addition to applying AI to specific problems, we need better platforms, tools and data infrastructure to accelerate AI-guided scientific progress generally. Similarly, to get our sense-making ready for rapid change, we are interested in funding work that applies AI to improve forecasting and general epistemic preparedness.
5. AI for Neuro, Brain-Computer Interfaces & Whole Brain Emulation
We are interested in work that uses frontier models to map, simulate, and understand biological intelligence – building the foundations for hybrids between human and artificial cognition, from brain-computer interfaces to whole brain emulation. We care about this domain specifically for its potential to improve humanity’s defensive position as AI advances.
6. AI for Longevity Biotechnology
We want to fund work that applies AI to make progress on scientific frontiers in longevity biotechnology – from biostasis and replacement, to gene therapy and exosomes.
7. AI for Molecular Nanotechnology
We support work that uses AI to make progress on scientific frontiers in molecular nanotechnology – from design and simulation, to construction and assembly of nanomachines.
We provide:
The first application round closes on December 31, followed by monthly deadlines until the nodes are at capacity:
You can learn more about the program: https://foresight.org/grants/grants-ai-for-science-safety