Future of Life Institute focuses on steering transformative technology towards benefitting life and mitigating large-scale risks associated with technology, specifically in areas like artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and nuclear weapons.

Future of Life Institute

Future of Life Institute (FLI) | 15,392 followers on LinkedIn. Independent global non-profit working to steer transformative technologies to benefit humanity. 
 | The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is an independent nonprofit that works to reduce extreme, large-scale risks from transformative technologies, as well as steer the development and use of these technologies to benefit life. 

The Institute&#39;s work primarily consists of grantmaking, educational outreach, and policy advocacy within the U.S. government, European Union institutions, and United Nations, but also includes running conferences and contests.

FLI has become one of the world&#39;s leading voices on the governance of AI having created one of the earliest and most influential sets of governance principles: the Asilomar AI Principles.

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We face a set of threats that put all of humanity at risk: the climate crisis, pandemics, nuclear weapons, and ungoverned AI. The ongoing harms and existential risk presented by these issues can't be tackled with short-term fixes. But with bold leadership and decisive action from world leaders, our best days can still lay ahead of us. That's why, with The Elders Foundation , we're calling on decision-makers to demonstrate the responsible governance and cooperation required to confront these shared global challenges. This #LongviewLeadership means: ⏰ Thinking beyond short-term political cycles to deliver solutions for current and future generations. 🤝 Recognising that enduring answers require compromise and collaboration for the good of the whole world. 🧍 Showing compassion for all people, designing sustainable policies which respect that everyone is born free and equal in dignity and rights. 🌍 Upholding the international rule of law and accepting that durable agreements require transparency and accountability. 🕊️ Committing to a vision of hope in humanity’s shared future, not playing to its divided past. World leaders have come together before to address catastrophic risks. We can do it again. Share and sign our open letter ⬇️ https://rb.gy/0duze1

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FLI President Max Tegmark : “An AGI race is a suicide race.” “The AGI Manhattan Project proposed by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and the fundamental misunderstanding that underpins it, represents an insidious growing threat to US national security.” “The almost inevitable result [of an AGI race] would be an intelligence far greater than our own that is not only inherently uncontrollable, but could itself be in charge of the very systems that keep the U.S. secure and prosperous.” “Our critical infrastructure – including nuclear and financial systems – would have little protection against such a system. As AI Nobel Laureate Geoffrey Hinton said last month ‘Once the artificial intelligences get smarter than we are, they will take control.’” “The U.S. should reliably strengthen national security not by losing control of AGI, but by building game-changing Tool AI that strengthens its industry, science, education, healthcare, and defense, and in doing so reinforce U.S. leadership for generations to come.” Read Max’s full statement at the link in the comments below:

🇫🇷 🥐 Tomorrow (!) in Paris: the next AI Safety Breakfast, with Imane (Ima) Bello and Dr. Rumman Chowdhury ! Thursday at 9am, join Ima and Rumman for an engaging in-person discussion and Q&A about AI safety and algorithmic audits. 🔗 RSVP at the link in the comments before spots run out, and stay tuned for the conversation recording! 👇

⌛ There's only ONE more day to apply for our PhD fellowships! New this year, we're offering two tracks: technical AI existential safety research, and US-China AI governance. 🧑🎓 With no geographic restrictions, these fellowships are an incredible 5+ year funding opportunity for current or future PhD students. 🔗 At the link in the comments, apply before November 20th at 11:59pm ET!

🇫🇷 🔜 The next Paris AI Safety Breakfast is in less than one week! 📆 Thursday, 21 November, Dr. Rumman Chowdhury will join FLI's Imane (Ima) Bello for an engaging in-person discussion and Q&A about AI safety and algorithmic audits. 🔗 In the comments below, RSVP to attend this event and stay updated about future AI Safety Breakfasts. Keep an eye out for the conversation recording to follow!

⌛ Less than ONE week remains to apply for our PhD fellowships! 📆 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 New this year: our fellowships on US-China AI governance, in addition to our technical AI safety research fellowships. 🌎 Applications are open to all, with no geographic restrictions. Apply by November 20 at the link in the comments below!

🗞️ 🇺🇸 Finding a democracy-eroding "crisis of authenticity" fueled by the spread of AI-generated content and deepfakes, ISD (Institute for Strategic Dialogue) has released an analysis of the role AI played in the recent US election: 🗣️ "The rapid increase of AI-generated content has created a fundamentally polluted information ecosystem where voters are struggling to assess content’s authenticity and increasingly beginning to assume authentic content to be AI generated, or question whether anything they see is real at all." 🗣️ "This deterioration of trust in political discourse posed significant risks during the election period, when time-sensitive events created fertile ground for the spread of AI-generated content, and voters had to make critical decisions based on increasingly unstable information foundations." 🔗 Read their full report at the link in the comments below.

"I am an optimist. We can create an amazingly inspiring future with *tool* AI, as long as we don't build AGI - which is unnecessary, undesirable, and preventable." At #WebSummit yesterday, FLI President Max Tegmark gave a talk on the "suicide race" to AGI (or smarter-than-human AI) that some big tech companies are pushing on to humanity. ⏯️ Watch Max's full talk at the link in the comments below, and stay tuned for more coverage from Web Summit ! ⬇️

📺 New on the FLI Podcast! ⬇️ Filmmaker Suzy Shepherd joins for an episode to discuss her short film "Writing Doom", which won the grand prize in our Superintelligence Imagined Creative Contest, how AI can be useful to creatives, finding meaning in an increasingly-automated world, and more. 🔗 Watch the full interview, and "Writing Doom", now at the links in the comments! ⬇️

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