Today is Giving Tuesday
As we observe Giving Tuesday, we want to remind you of the significant role your support plays in shaping the future of science and technology. Your commitment to fostering beneficial futures is what drives our community of researchers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and leaders forward. 

As we enter 2024, your ongoing support will be instrumental in sustaining and enhancing our current projects.

Our 2024 Goals

• Our Foresight Fellowship, now in its sixth year, supported 78 fellows working to overcome crucial scientific bottlenecks in 2023. For 2024, we accepted 30% of applications, even though we felt more applicants were deserving of the fellowship. Next year, when we review our potential 2025 cohort, we would like to be able to accommodate more highly talented fellows in the face of an exploding application count and massive oversubscription of the program.
• Expanding upon the support we currently offer our fellows, it would be great to present small in-house seed support to develop their projects, rather than just matchmaking our fellows with external funders.
• We hosted six 2023 workshops: Longevity Frontiers, Cryptography and Security Applications for AI Safety, Whole Brain Emulation, Molecular Machine Systems Design, Space Frontiers, and Existential Hope Day. To host follow-on workshops in 2024, we seek funding for travel grants for junior participants and for development grants to incentivize working groups to collaborate on their project proposals post-workshop. 
• Now that our seminars have become a major virtual Schelling Point for our existing communities, enabling practitioners across the globe to stay up to date on new advances, find collaborators, and present their successes; we need to update our seminar quality. This includes the entire pipeline, from onboarding leading presenters to seminar production and promotion.
• In 2023, we facilitated four prizes. We celebrated our prestigious Feynman Prizes, which recognize outstanding achievements that contribute meaningfully to the field of Nanotechnology. Our Computation program successfully launched the Norm Hardy Prize for Usable Security. We partnered on The Longevity Prize which we awarded for the first time at our Longevity Frontiers Workshop. We partnered with 2023 Foresight Fellow Patrick Finley on the Lander Challenge to accelerate potential launch progress for our Space program. In the future, it would be wonderful to be able to launch additional prize proposals across all focus areas. 
• In August 2023, we successfully launched The AI Safety Grant Program in three underexplored categories – Neurotechnology for AI, AI Security, and Multipolar AI. We would like to grow the existing AI Safety Grant to be able to fund more worthy applicants, as well as offer grants within our other focus areas. 

This Giving Tuesday, please support us in supporting our special community.

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