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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...
With input from Vitalik Buterin, Adam Marblestone, Christine Peterson, Andrew Trask, Anthony Aguirre, and others, we’ve just published AI Pathways, a project from Foresight Institute’s Existential Hope program. It explores two detailed, plausible futures for AI by 2035: * The Tool AI Pathway: a world shaped by powerful but controllable...
Summary Foresight Institute has launched a tech tree for secure multipolar AI. It maps potential technical paths toward secure multipolar AI, and is designed to help researchers, funders, and policymakers navigate the field, identify key bottlenecks, and coordinate efforts more effectively. The tech tree maps five critical goals – building...
Foresight Institute is seeking project proposals across four AI Safety categories: 1. Automating research and forecasting 2. Security technologies for AI-relevant systems 3. Safe multi-agent scenarios 4. Neurotech for AI safety This Request for Proposals builds up on our existing AI Safety Grants in these four categories by specifying the...
Setup AGI timelines are rapidly shortening, with a growing number of predictions and scenarios suggesting something close to AGI could emerge within 2 years - 5 years. Currently, most plausible short timeline scenarios lean heavily toward centralized or “unipolar” scenarios: either via AI labs closely collaborating with or being nationalized...
Foresight Institute is launching a new Longevity Bio & Molecular Nano Grants program. The focus is on fast turnaround of small grant amounts to help frontier longevity biotechnology or molecular nanotechnology ideas and projects get off the ground quickly. Areas we fund include but are not limited to include: Longevity...
We started this book with the observation that different players of Civilization value things differently. The game of Civilization emerges from the composition of these valuations. The strategy of voluntary cooperation serves each player a great deal. We should uphold it as new AI players enter the game. If we...