We are excited to announce Future Forum, an experimental 4-day conference taking place Aug 4-7 in San Francisco. We want to gather promising people from across communities interested in the long-term future of humanity, introduce them to one another, reflect on transformative technologies and their far-reaching consequences (upside and downside risks), and then generate new promising and thoughtful projects across this cross-community ecosystem. We expect around 250 attendees.

We’re putting special emphasis on mingling EA and Silicon Valley tech. We think that Silicon Valley contains promising talent that does or could work on pressing problems with agency and ambition, but that it could also benefit from EA-inspired thoughtfulness about impact and about downside risks of working on transformative technologies. On the flip side, we believe that EA could generally benefit from more agency and ambition (judicious ambition). We think agency and ambition are best fostered by curated exposure to high-agency individuals, ideally resulting in not just acute inspiration but also more long-term influences on personal trajectories, such as inspiring friends or mentors.

Other communities which will be represented or somewhat involved include Emergent Ventures, Rationality, Longevity, Crypto, and Space among others.

Generally, Future Forum will be an in-person-only event, with no virtual component and no talks being recorded.

The Event

While the vast majority of the event is explicitly focused on 1-1s and small group conversations, we have a few speakers who will hold brief talks (~30min max) about topics they care about and give participants common topics to talk about with others. We’ve gotten strong buy-in from many of the communities we hope to bring together for Future Forum, and our current speaker line-up is:

Holden Karnofsky from Open Philanthropy
Anders Sandberg from FHI
Daniela Amodei from Anthropic
Patrick Collison from Stripe
Ed Boyden from MIT/HHMI
Tamara Winter from Stripe Press
Jason Crawford from Roots of Progress
Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown)
Allison Duettmann from Foresight Institute
Sam Altman from OpenAI
Celine Halioua from Loyal

(Please be aware that this line-up is likely to evolve further, with more additions from across communities.)

Future Forum runs from August 4th-7th, which is the weekend after EAG San Francisco (EAG’s applications close on Jul...

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