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Our Mission
Steering transformative
technology towards benefiting life and away from extreme large-scale risks.
technology towards benefiting life and away from extreme large-scale risks.
We believe that the way powerful technology is developed and used will be the most important factor in determining the prospects for the future of life. This is why we have made it our mission to ensure that technology continues to improve those prospects.
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Focus Areas
Artificial Intelligence
AI can be an incredible tool that solves real problems and accelerates human flourishing, or a runaway uncontrollable force which destabilizes society, disempowers most people, enables terrorism, and replaces us.
Biotechnology
Advances in biotechnology can revolutionize medicine, manufacturing, and agriculture, but without proper safeguards, they also raise the risk of engineered pandemics and novel biological weapons.
Nuclear Weapons
Peaceful use of nuclear technology can help power a sustainable future, but nuclear weapons risk mass catastrophe, escalation of conflict, the potential for nuclear winter, global famine and state collapse.
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Creative Contest: Keep The Future Human
$100,000+ in prizes for creative digital media that engages with the essay's key ideas, helps them to reach a wider range of people, and motivates action in the real world.
Policy & Research
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FLI AI Safety Index: Summer 2025 Edition
Seven AI and governance experts evaluate the safety practices of six leading general-purpose AI companies.
Recommendations for the U.S. AI Action Plan
The Future of Life Institute proposal for President Trump’s AI Action Plan. Our recommendations aim to protect the presidency from AI loss-of-control, promote the development of AI systems free from ideological or social agendas, protect American workers from job loss and replacement, and more.
AI Safety Summits
Governments are exploring collaboration on navigating a world with advanced AI. FLI provides them with advice and support.
FLI AI Safety Index: Summer 2025 Edition
Seven AI and governance experts evaluate the safety practices of six leading general-purpose AI companies.
Recommendations for the U.S. AI Action Plan
The Future of Life Institute proposal for President Trump’s AI Action Plan. Our recommendations aim to protect the presidency from AI loss-of-control, promote the development of AI systems free from ideological or social agendas, protect American workers from job loss and replacement, and more.
AI Safety Summits
Governments are exploring collaboration on navigating a world with advanced AI. FLI provides them with advice and support.
Futures
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AI’s Role in Reshaping Power Distribution
Advanced AI systems are set to reshape the economy and power structures in society. They offer enormous potential for progress and innovation, but also pose risks of concentrated control, unprecedented inequality, and disempowerment. To ensure AI serves the public good, we must build resilient institutions, competitive markets, and systems that widely share the benefits.
Envisioning Positive Futures with Technology
Storytelling has a significant impact on informing people's beliefs and ideas about humanity's potential future with technology. While there are many narratives warning of dystopia, positive visions of the future are in short supply. We seek to incentivize the creation of plausible, aspirational, hopeful visions of a future we want to steer towards.
Perspectives of Traditional Religions on Positive AI Futures
Most of the global population participates in a traditional religion. Yet the perspectives of these religions are largely absent from strategic AI discussions. This initiative aims to support religious groups to voice their faith-specific concerns and hopes for a world with AI, and work with them to resist the harms and realise the benefits.
AI’s Role in Reshaping Power Distribution
Advanced AI systems are set to reshape the economy and power structures in society. They offer enormous potential for progress and innovation, but also pose risks of concentrated control, unprecedented inequality, and disempowerment. To ensure AI serves the public good, we must build resilient institutions, competitive markets, and systems that widely share the benefits.
Envisioning Positive Futures with Technology
Storytelling has a significant impact on informing people's beliefs and ideas about humanity's potential future with technology. While there are many narratives warning of dystopia, positive visions of the future are in short supply. We seek to incentivize the creation of plausible, aspirational, hopeful visions of a future we want to steer towards.
Perspectives of Traditional Religions on Positive AI Futures
Most of the global population participates in a traditional religion. Yet the perspectives of these religions are largely absent from strategic AI discussions. This initiative aims to support religious groups to voice their faith-specific concerns and hopes for a world with AI, and work with them to resist the harms and realise the benefits.
Communications
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Digital Media Accelerator
The Digital Media Accelerator supports digital content from creators raising awareness and understanding about ongoing AI developments and issues.
Keep The Future Human
Why and how we should close the gates to AGI and superintelligence, and what we should build instead | A new essay by Anthony Aguirre, Executive Director of FLI.
Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI
FLI is launching new grants to educate and engage stakeholder groups, as well as the general public, in the movement for safe, secure and beneficial AI.
Digital Media Accelerator
The Digital Media Accelerator supports digital content from creators raising awareness and understanding about ongoing AI developments and issues.
Keep The Future Human
Why and how we should close the gates to AGI and superintelligence, and what we should build instead | A new essay by Anthony Aguirre, Executive Director of FLI.
Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI
FLI is launching new grants to educate and engage stakeholder groups, as well as the general public, in the movement for safe, secure and beneficial AI.
Grantmaking
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AI Existential Safety Community
A community dedicated to ensuring AI is developed safely, including both faculty and AI researchers. Members are invited to attend meetings, participate in an online community, and apply for travel support.
Fellowships
Since 2021 we have offered PhD and Postdoctoral fellowships in Technical AI Existential Safety. In 2024, we launched a PhD fellowship in US-China AI Governance.
RFPs, Contests, and Collaborations
Requests for Proposals (RFPs), public contests, and collaborative grants in direct support of FLI internal projects and initiatives.
AI Existential Safety Community
A community dedicated to ensuring AI is developed safely, including both faculty and AI researchers. Members are invited to attend meetings, participate in an online community, and apply for travel support.
Fellowships
Since 2021 we have offered PhD and Postdoctoral fellowships in Technical AI Existential Safety. In 2024, we launched a PhD fellowship in US-China AI Governance.
RFPs, Contests, and Collaborations
Requests for Proposals (RFPs), public contests, and collaborative grants in direct support of FLI internal projects and initiatives.
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Regular updates about the technologies shaping our world
Every month, we bring 40,000+ subscribers the latest news on how emerging technologies are transforming our world. It includes a summary of major developments in our focus areas, and key updates on the work we do.
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Recent editions
Plus: Facing public scrutiny, AI billionaires back new super PAC; our new $100K Keep the Future Human creative contest; Tomorrow's AI; and more.
4 September, 2025
Plus: Update on EU guidelines; the recent AI Security Forum; how AI increases nuclear risk; and more.
1 August, 2025
Plus: The OpenAI Files; creepy new InsideAI video; and more.
3 July, 2025
Plus: Updates on the EU AI Act Code of Practice; the Singapore Consensus; open letter from Evangelical leaders; and more.
31 May, 2025
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We must not build AI to replace humans.
A new essay by Anthony Aguirre, Executive Director of the Future of Life Institute
Humanity is on the brink of developing artificial general intelligence that exceeds our own. It's time to close the gates on AGI and superintelligence... before we lose control of our future.
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Are we close to an intelligence explosion?
AIs are inching ever-closer to a critical threshold. Beyond this threshold lie great risks—but crossing it is not inevitable.
21 March, 2025
The Impact of AI in Education: Navigating the Imminent Future
What must be considered to build a safe but effective future for AI in education, and for children to be safe online?
13 February, 2025
Context and Agenda for the 2025 AI Action Summit
The AI Action Summit will take place in Paris from 10-11 February 2025. Here we list the agenda and key deliverables.
31 January, 2025
A Buddhist Perspective on AI: Cultivating freedom of attention and true diversity in an AI future
The AI-facilitated intelligence revolution is claimed by some to be setting humanity on a glidepath into utopian futures of nearly effortless satisfaction and frictionless choice. We should beware.
20 January, 2025
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1 September, 2025
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A team committed to the future of life.
Our staff represents a diverse range of expertise, having worked in academia, for government and in industry. Their background range from machine learning to medicine and everything in between.
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Our History
We’ve been working to safeguard humanity’s future since 2014.
Learn about FLI’s work and achievements since its founding, including historic conferences, grant programs, and open letters that have shaped the course of technology.
