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October 4

2023 Molecular Systems Design

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Norm Hardy Prize

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1986

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1987

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1988

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1989

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1990

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1995

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Biologically and Economically Aligned Multi-objective Multi-agent AI Safety Benchmarks

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I will be talking about why we should consider fundamental principles from biology and economics when thinking about AI alignment, and how these considerations will help with AI safety as well.

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Healthy longevity medicine in the clinical practice

Presented by Evelyn Yehudit Bischof

Within the last century, humans’ average lifespan has elongated by about 30 years. However, this created an exponential increase in age-related diseases, resulting in the healthspan-lifespan gap.   Longevity medicine is an AI and data-driven field evolving from precision medicine, lifestyle medicine, and geroscience that aims to elongate patients’ healthy lifespan.

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Why AI’s Fail

Presented by Stuart Armstrong

Current LLMs and other generative models display most impressive abilities along with some astounding examples of stupidity and inability to generalise. This talk will look into why this is, and whether we can expect these models to improve in the near future.

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Healthy longevity medicine in the clinical practice

Presented by Evelyn Yehudit Bischof

Within the last century, humans’ average lifespan has elongated by about 30 years. However, this created an exponential increase in age-related diseases, resulting in the healthspan-lifespan gap.   Longevity medicine is an AI and data-driven field evolving from precision medicine, lifestyle medicine, and geroscience that aims to elongate patients’ healthy lifespan.

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Why AI’s Fail

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An unrestricted donation gives us the flexibility to invest where support is needed most. It allows us to respond quickly to emerging opportunities, provide early support for promising researchers and builders, strengthen our educational and community programs, and expand the initiatives that have the greatest potential for long-term impact. Rather than being limited to a single program, your contribution helps sustain the entire ecosystem that makes Foresight’s work possible.

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Donations can be configured in the dedicated CPT. To create a new donation, add a new entry, modify the automatically pre-filled content, set a post thumbnail that is used for the progress bar, and fill settings at the bottom of the screen. You’ll need a campaign ID and URL to a page that hosts a payment form for a specific donation on events.foresight.org. You can leave the Raised, Goal, and Last Sync fields empty, since they will be synced.

The module implements a mechanism that automatically synchronizes the current donation goal and status using the GiveWP plugin available on events.foresight.org twice a day. It queries the API using the Campaign ID set in the configuration, retrieves the current Progress and Goal when available, and sets it in the donation config. The system automatically handles synchronization, so any manual changes made to the Goal or Raised fields on foresight.org will be overwritten with data from events.foresight.org.

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Rather than defaulting to doom-and-gloom narratives, our Existential Hope production studio produces podcasts, newsletters, world-building projects, and video content to make the public case for accelerating beneficial science and safe AI. 

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  • Strengthen early-stage research ecosystems by creating mission-aligned communities

Since 2020, we have hosted small and pointy seminars to welcome our community to take part of first-hand science  The recordings are reaching 100,000+ YouTube views, the seminars have become a hub for ambitious STEM communities, ensuring open access to cutting-edge science and technology.

By supporting our seminars, you can help remove key bottlenecks in early science and technology R&D. Funding directly covers the coordination, speaker outreach, and production costs that make the seminars possible. 

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Since August 2023, our Foresight AI Safety Grants have awarded between $2M – $5M per year across projects that could make a significant difference for AI safety within short timelines.  We focus on early, neglected, and high-upside research that legacy funders overlook. Grants range from $10,000 to $100,000, and can support work  within:

  • Secure AI: Secure, sovereign, and private AI — advancing cooperation across humans and AIs
  • Longevity Biotechnology: Reversing aging and extending healthspan through frontier biotech, biostasis, and replacement
  • Neurotechnology: Brain-computer interfaces, whole brain emulation, and neuro-inspired AI safety
  • Nanotechnology: Molecular machines and atomic precision manufacturing for energy, medicine, and space
  • Space: Advancing progress from near-term applications to long-term exploration

Our grants are designed to get funding into the hands of ambitious researchers quickly, before an idea has proven itself to legacy institutions – because that’s exactly the stage where Foresight has always been willing to bet early.

Recent grantees include:

  • Herbie Bradley, University of Cambridge: The Great Refactor FRO — C/C++ Translation to Rust at Scale
  • Dawn Song, UC Berkeley: Benchmarking AI Agents on Real-World Vulnerability Reproduction
  • Ed Boyden (MIT) and Konrad Kording (University of Pennsylvania): The complete neuronal input-output functions project, to simulate a first complete brain in C. elegans

By supporting our general grants fund, you help us back the next generation of frontier research across every field we work in.

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The Foresight Fellowship is a one-year program for outstanding talent. With a 6% acceptance rate, it is among the most selective programs in its field, a reflection of its impact and reputation. While the current program delivers strong support, many Fellows report that early project funding remains their biggest bottleneck. Since 2017, our Foresight Fellowship has supported a total of 272 fellows with match-making with possible funders and mentors, career counseling, travel-paid speaking invitations to relevant conferences, visa support through J-1 visas, and tailored support.

We are fundraising to be able to provide Fellows with project stipends. The fund endowment would give them the freedom to move quicker from idea to experimentation, prototyping, and first builds. By supporting the Fellowship, you directly empower the next generation of innovators shaping our shared future.

Fellow alumni include:

  • Jeff Ladish: Executive Director of Palisade Research, previously built Anthropic’s information-security program; studies offensive AI capabilities and the risk of humanity permanently losing control of AI systems.
  • Lisa Thiergart: got a US visa and structural support, now leads the Security Level 5 (SL5) Task Force at the Institute for Security and Technology, coordinating 50+ participants, including AI lab decision-makers, national security leaders, and chip providers, on standards for securing AI infrastructure against nation-state threats.
  • Fin Moorhouse:Research Fellow at Forethought; co-authored Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion (with Will MacAskill), which directly analyzes “power-concentrating mechanisms” from advanced AI and how to reduce human concentration-of-power risk.
  • Scott Emmons:AI safety research scientist at Anthropic (prev. Google DeepMind); PhD at UC Berkeley’s Center for Human-Compatible AI under Stuart Russell; co-founder of FAR.AI; researches how AI systems can deceive or manipulate human oversight.
  • Nora Ammann:Program Director at the UK’s ARIA, running the Safeguarded AI program and co-founder of PIBBSS; works on AI alignment and governance grounded in complex-systems and political-philosophy approaches to keeping AI safe and accountable.
  • Morgan Livingston: AI and national-security policy researcher, TechCongress alum who supported federal/White House AI policy; writes on how AI security narratives entrench existing power dynamics and the private sector’s outsized role as a security actor.
  • Lewis Hammond:Co-director of the Cooperative AI Foundation and an Oxford DPhil researcher; works on safety and cooperation in multi-agent AI systems, and contributed to the International AI Safety Report.
  • Ben Garfinkel:Director of the Centre for the Governance of AI; researches AI governance, the security implications of AI, and the causes of war.
  • Joshua Tan:Co-founder and research director of Metagov; building digital-democracy and deliberation infrastructure so AI isn’t dominated by any single platform.
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Our technical workshops gather carefully curated groups of leading researchers, builders, and funders to solve the bottlenecks at the frontiers of science and technology. By supporting the workshops, you enable an important forum for leading experts to collaborate on the most pressing bottlenecks in AI for science and safety. You also subsidize attendance for exceptional emerging talent who otherwise wouldn’t be able to join. Additionally, you contribute to the prize we award at the workshop – funding for the most promising project the participants come up with to advance the field.

  • 2026 AI for Frontier & Meta Science (San Francisco, September 28–30 2026): a select gathering of ~60 researchers, engineers, and funders at the frontier of AI-first science, across neuro/BCIs, longevity & molecular nano, energy & climate and scientific infrastructure. Participants include Ben Reinhardt (Speculative Technologies), Martin Borch Jensen (Gordian Bio), Mikhail Shapiro (Merge Labs), Tom Oxley (Synchron), Vivek Natarajan (Google DeepMind), Sam Rodriques (Future House), Becca Carlson (Deliverome) and many others.
  • 2026 Supercooperation: The Future of AI for Democracy (Seoul, July 2026), co-hosted with the Cooperative AI Foundation. 50 participants from the UK AI Security Institute, RAND/Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, Collective Intelligence Project, DemocracyNext, South Korea’s Presidential Council on National AI Strategy, Google DeepMind, Meta, Stanford, MIT, ETH Zurich, and Cambridge.
  • 2026 Secure & Sovereign AI Workshop (Berlin, July 2026), bringing together researchers on AI security and distributed/sovereign AI infrastructure. Speakers included David Dao (Protocol Labs), Davide Crapis (Ethereum Foundation), and Mateo Petel (Google DeepMind), among many others.
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  • 2024 – hosting 3 Workshops: Foresight ran three workshops in San Francisco on secure and beneficial AI: a Secure Multipolar AI Workshop on peaceful power-sharing in AGI scenarios, a Neuro for Safe AI Workshop on AGI and whole-brain-emulation timelines and risk, and an AI Institution Design Hackathon on the governance structures needed to sustain democracy under strong AI. Speakers and participants came from Anthropic, DeepMind, Palisade Research, the Future of Humanity Institute, Stanford Medicine, the Future of Life Institute, Schmidt Futures, and the US Department of Homeland Security.Anything from 2023? 
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As a sponsor, you gain exposure to top-tier talent through branding and access to these highly curated events, along with the opportunity to give a presentation. For questions, reach out to [email protected].

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The Vision Weekend conferences are our flagship events. They gather leading researchers, builders, and funders to explore cutting-edge science and tech, and enjoy immersive social and cultural experiences like cypherpunk evenings, art installations, and lab tours. These events have a strong track record of matching researchers for collaborations, early-stage entrepreneurs with their first investors, and startups with early employees. By supporting our Vision Weekends, you help catalyze new collaborations in frontier science and tech, and subsidize attendance for exceptional emerging talent who otherwise wouldn’t be able to join.

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We have three Vision Weekends available for sponsorship:

As a sponsor, you gain visibility and access to VIP events with world-class scientists and technologists, and the opportunity to co-create the Vision Weekend program with us. For questions, reach out to [email protected].

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2026 marks our 40th anniversary, and we are celebrating by launching our biggest initiative to date – two physical AI Nodes in San Francisco and Berlin! The nodes will provide grant funding, local compute, project support, and office space for ambitious teams advancing decentralized, AI-powered science and safety. We support work in the following areas:

  • AI for Security
  • Private AI
  • Decentralized & Cooperative AI
  • AI for Science & Epistemics
  • AI for Longevity Biotechnology
  • AI for Molecular Nanotechnology
  • AI for Neuro, Brain-Computer Interfaces & Whole Brain Emulation

A large share of future scientific progress will be driven by AI. Most of that work happens inside closed academic or commercial containers: the labs building frontier models crowd out compute access for open science, and research agendas are shaped by what legacy academic institutions or shorter-sighted commercial funders will back. That structure is poorly suited to the applications that matter most for civilizational progress, which deserve an independent container where a molecular biologist, a cryptographer, and an AI researcher can work together, powered by local compute and funding to design the tooling that scales impact across the sciences. The AI Node is where the required AI tooling gets built, talent gets upskilled, and progress gets translated and incubated into a thriving R&D community.

By funding our AI Nodes, you support a future in which AI progress is developed openly in pursuit of freedom and flourishing.

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For nearly four decades, Foresight Institute has worked to identify, accelerate, and connect the people and ideas that have the potential to shape a better future. From AI safety and frontier science to biotechnology, nanotechnology, and emerging technologies, our mission has always been to support transformative work long before it becomes widely recognized.

An unrestricted donation gives us the flexibility to invest where support is needed most. It allows us to respond quickly to emerging opportunities, provide early support for promising researchers and builders, strengthen our educational and community programs, and expand the initiatives that have the greatest potential for long-term impact. Rather than being limited to a single program, your contribution helps sustain the entire ecosystem that makes Foresight’s work possible.

By supporting Foresight’s General Fund, you enable us to back ambitious ideas, empower exceptional talent, and build the collaborations that drive scientific and technological progress. Your donation helps ensure that breakthrough innovations are developed openly, responsibly, and for the benefit of humanity.

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Day 1, Friday – VIP Event at Altos Labs (Speakers, Grantees, Fellows, All Access Tickets and Sponsors Only)

5:00 pm

Welcome

Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute: Welcome from Allison Duettmann

Ravi Pandya, Altos Labs: Intro to Altos Labs

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Lightning Talks by Foresight's Grantees & Fellows

Akash Kulgod, Diagnosis: Unleashing Dog Olfactory Superpowers with Wearable BCI and NeuroAI

Daniel Burger, EightSix Science: Generative Neural Tissue Engineering

Felix Sosa, Harvard University: Predicting, Understanding, and Steering People and Machines

Gavin Leech, Arb Research: Do Semantic Duplicates Undermine AI Progress?

Nhat Thai Nguyen, Space Machines Company: Space MAITRI – Advancing Space Sustainability through Bi-national Innovation

Raghav Sehgal, Yale University: LLMs for Longevity

Sehr Zeb, University of Glasgow: Ancestral Peptide Sequence Generation: Extrapolating into Evolutionary Pathways to Train VAE Models in Order to Predict Novel Antimicrobials

Zihao Ou, The University of Texas at Dallas: Achieving Optical Transparency in Live Animals with Absorbing Molecules

Mariëlle van Kooten, Stanford University: Reboot the human powerplant

Arushi Nath, MonitorMyPlanet: Citizen-Scientist Approach to Planetary Defense and Exoplanet Characterization

Gustavs Zilgalvis, Stanford University, AGI and the Fourth Offset

Jake Toth, University of Oxfor: Targeted Non-Invasive Ultrasound for Parkinson's Disease

Maxx Yung, University of Pennsylvania

Saheb Gulati, Stanford University

Yasmeen Hmaidan, Draper Associates

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Lab Tour

8:00 pm

Event ends

Day 2, Saturday – Internet Archive, San Francisco

9:00 am

Arrival and Breakfast

9:40 – 10:00 am

Introduction & Welcome

Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute

10:00 – 11:00 am

AI for Better AI Track

Adam Goldstein, Softmax: A New Paradigm for AI

Andrew Trask, OpenMined: Privacy-preserving AI

Gwern Branwen, Gwern.net: Fireside chat on AI

11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Meet Up: AI for Better AI

11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Community Partner Office Hours

Katherine Jones, Edge City

11:00 am – 12:00 pm

AI for Bio Track

John Hallman, OpenAI: Accelerating Life Sciences Research

Erika Alden DeBenedictis, Pioneer Labs: Automating Life Science Experiments

Laura Deming, Until

Haleh Fotowat, Wyss Institute: Neurobots

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Meet Up: AI for Bio

1:00 – 2:00 pm

AI for Neuro Track

Andrew Payne, E11: Scaling up PRISM Optical Connectomics Towards Whole Mammalian Brains

Ed Boyden, MIT: The Path Towards Computer Simulations of the Human Brain

Viren Jain, Google: Simulating the Brain with Connectomics and AI

Alan Mardinly, Science: Towards Whole Brain Biohybrid Neural Interfaces

Diana Saville, BrainMind: Neuroethics

Catalin Mitelut, Netholabs: Scalable Whole-Brain Emulation – Paradigm and Progress

2:00 – 3:00 pm

Meet Up: AI for Neuro

2:00 – 3:00 pm

AI for Space & Physics

Adam Brown, Google DeepMind: AI & Physics: What Do They Mean for Each Other

Ariel Ekblaw, Aurelia Institute: Self-assembling Space Structures to Expand Humanity's Horizons

Chiara Marletto, University of Oxford: The Quantum Gravity Experiment

Creon Levit, Planet Labs: AI for Satellite Imaging

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Break

3:30 – 4:30 pm

AI for Space & Physics Social – Meet speakers and other participants interested in leveraging AI for Space and Physics

3:30 – 4:30 pm

Existential Hope

David Eagleman, Stanford University: How might AI build us into better humans?

Beatrice Erkers, Foresight Institute

Jason Clinton, Anthropic: AI Security Primer

Richard Ngo, Independent: Identity and Meaning in Science Fiction Futures

4:30 – 5:00 pm

Nerdy Speed Friending – Facilitated nerdy speed-friending to make new friends and colleagues in and outside of your domain

5:00 – 6:00 pm

Social Time

6:00 pm

Main Event Ends

6:30 – 11:00 pm

VIP Event: Cypherpunk Party & Dinner at Frontier Tower (Speakers, Grantees, Fellows, All Access Tickets and Sponsors Only) – Foresight Prize Award Ceremonies

Day 3, Sunday – Lighthaven, Berkeley

9:00 – 10:00 am

VIP Event: Breakfast & Lab Tour at Science Corp (All Access Tickets and Sponsors Only)

10:50 – 11:00 am

Introduction of Community Partners Office Hours

11:00 – 12:00 pm

Non-profit Funding sponsored by Astera Institute

Anastasia Gamick, Convergent Research

Eli Dourado, Astera Institute

Molly MacKinlay, Protocol Labs

Matthew Cullinen, Tertiary Impact Capital: Accelerating Private Investment in Technology Deployment With Loan Guarantees

Joshua Elliott, Renaissance Philanthropy: The Hail-Mary Phase of Climate Change

11:00 – 12:00 pm

Community Partner Office Hours

Adam Gries, Vitalism

Austin Chen, Manifund

Brenda Eap, A4LI

Brooke Bowman, VibeCamp

Cecilia Elena Tilli, Cooperative AI Foundation

Daniel Barcay, Center for Humane Technology

Deger Turan, Metaculus

Andrea Cipriano, Biomarkers of Aging Consortium

Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute

Jason Crawford, Roots of Progress Institue

Rachel Shu, Mox

Sam Rowe, Aethos

11:00 – 12:00 pm

Participant Lightning Talks

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 pm

For-profit Funding

Steve Jurvetson, Future Fund: Investing for Accelerating Technological Progress

Juan Benet, Sean Escola, Protocol Labs

Brandon Goldman, Lionheart Ventures

Ela Madej, 50 Years: 5050 AI

Luke Nosek, Gigafund: AI Investing: My Biggest Mistake & What You can Learn from It

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Community Partner Office Hours

Karl Berzins, FAR AI

Mark Lutter, Charter Cities Institute

Rose Bloomin, Plurality Institute

Joscha Bach, CIMC

Lou Viquerat de Kerhuelvez, Shift Grants

Dylan Livingston, A4LI

Niko McCarty, Asimov Press

Rachel Altman, Foundation for American Innovation

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Participant Lightning Talks

2:00 – 2:30 pm

Break

2:30 – 3:30 pm

Government & Policy

Jim O’Neill, United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services

Ant Rowstron, Ilan Gur, ARIA: Fireside Chat

Sonia Arrison, 100 Plus: Lobbying for Longevity Progress

3:30 – 4:30 pm

Pitch Competition & Closing Ceremony

Liv Boeree, Win-Win Podcast: Win-Win in the Age of AI Closing Remarks

4:30 – 8:00 pm

After Party

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10K Grant Sponsored by Protocol Labs @ Vision Weekend Europe 2024

Space Bottlenecks

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10K Grant Sponsored by Protocol Labs @ Vision Weekend Europe 2024

Neurotech Academy

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10K Grant Sponsored by Protocol Labs @ Vision Weekend Europe 2024

Solving Aging FRO

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2016 Atomic Precision for Medicine

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Molecular Machine Design: Space Exploration Approach @ 2024 Nanomachines Workshop

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Reading Gaming the Future is essential! It is a masterpiece of modern philosophy, and its lessons are crucial for our civilization’s survival and flourishing. Unlike most works of philosophy in history, Gaming the Future is firmly grounded in science and economics, it is a delightful and accessible read, and it paints a deeply inspiring vision for our future. This book should be a required read for everyone, especially those in government, economics, science, and positions of power.

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As Wendell Berry has pointed out, academia has splintered into fragmented, one-eyed specialties; Gaming the Future does not make this same error. By integrating economics, law, cryptography, political science, blockchain technology, and artificial intelligence, Gaming the Future is a fascinating look at what we might be able to accomplish if human cooperation is designed for and allowed to flourish.

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Gaming the Future raises important questions about how – and whether – it is possible to avoid future dystopias by leveraging the power of diverse and competing citizens to plan, to predict, and evade the pitfalls ahead.

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Peter Norvig

In light of the existential crisis about the future of humanity, this book focuses on how the combination of computer science, law, economics, cryptography and artificial intelligence can contribute to building a more cooperative society and unlocking more desirable futures.

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References

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  1. [arXiv:2412.16075] Formal Mathematical Reasoning: A New Frontier in AI | Yang et al.
  2. Security without Dystopia: Structured Transparency | Drexler
  3. Securing AI Model Weights | Nevo et al.
  4. Infosec Considerations for AI and the Long-term Future | Ladish & Heim
  5. AI Infosec: First Strikes, Zero-Day Markets, Hardware Supply Chains, Adoption Barriers | Duettmann
  6. Defend Against Cyber Threats | Foresight Institute
  7. 2024 Cryptography & Security AGI Workshop | Foresight Institute [Various Contributors] 
  8. A Tour of Emerging Cryptographic Technologies | Garfinkel
  9. My Techno-Optimism | Vitalik

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We seek passionate, driven individuals committed to advancing transformative science and technology. Our ideal candidates demonstrate a strong track record in their domain, intellectual curiosity, and the ambition to create meaningful societal impact.

Alignment with Foresight Institute: Within our focus-areas, we are particularly eager to support advancements in the following areas:

  • Secure AI: computer security, automating alignment, secure multiagent systems
  • Longevity Biotechnology: research and lab automation, reversible biostasis, healthcare 3.0
  • Nanotechnology: molecular 3D printing, molecular simulation and modeling software
  • Neurotechnology: brain computer interfaces, whole brain emulation, neuro-informed AI
  • Existential Hope: existential opportunity and security, technological alignment, radical progress, worldbuilding, and strategic foresight.

Domain Expertise: We welcome applicants who are deeply involved in their field, with a history of academic or professional success, whether through publications, lab placements, or notable projects.

Technical Excellence: Applicant’s work should be technically feasible and demonstrate clear potential to change the world for the better. We prioritize excellence in execution and a solid foundation for turning ideas into reality.

Ambitious Vision: Applicants should possess a bold, futuristic mindset. We look for moonshots who aim to challenge the status quo, take on ambitious projects, and bring new, innovative ideas to life.

Commitment to Growth: Applicants should have a passion for continuous learning and a drive to expand their capabilities. We seek individuals who are excited about exploration, overcoming challenges, and pushing commonly accepted boundaries.

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