April 2024
We’re gearing up to host you in Bückeburg Palace, Germany, for our very first summer Vision Weekend! Have you got your tickets yet? This year, we have taken on your feedback, and made it super easy, by offering two tiers of tickets that cover accomodation for the event. So make sure you secure your place to join, and share your visions with us as we discuss ‘Paths to Progress’ this July 12-14th. We all look forward to seeing you there!
Speakers include:
Alex Gilbert, Foresight Fellow
Anders Sandberg, University of Oxford: The Path to Grand Futures
Catalin Mitelut, NYU: Scale-dependent WBE: an experimental driven research program
Chiara Herzog, University of Edinburgh: The Path to Biomarker Standardization
Esben Kran, Apart Research: Systematic Evaluation of Offensive Cyber Capabilities of Large Language Models
Hendrik Dietz, Dietz Lab: The Path to Bionanotech Progress
HP Braam, Ramatak Inc. : Path to Progress on MSEP
Joao Pedro De Magalhaes, University of Birmingham: The Path to Making Cryo Progress
Joel Pyykkö, Aintelope: AI safety research project, Aintelope
Kristian Rönn, Normative: The Path to Intelligent Cooperation
Michael Florea, Foresight Fellow
Muriel Richard-Noca, ClearSpace: The Path to Removing Space Debris
Nika Pintar, Ani Biome: Personalized for YOUth
Nikolina Lauc, GlycanAge: The Path to Reliable Aging Clocks
Samo Burja, Bismark Analysis
Sara LaHue, Foresight Fellow
Toby Pilditch, Transformative Futures Institute: Cutting through the complexity of multi-agent AI scenarios: A computational tool
Trent McConaghy, Ocean Protocol
Viraj Cz, Foresight Fellow
Get your Early Bird Tickets to Vision Weekend US today.
Speakers for Vision Weekend USA include: Adam Gleave far.ai, Ben Reinhardt Speculative Technologies, Bradley Love University College London, Danielle Strachman 1517, Lulu Quian Caltech, Sonia Arrison 100 Plus Capital, and Zac Hatfield-Dodds Anthropic. Check out the full program on our website.
We recently hosted a five day seminar series in collaboration with Protocol Labs; “Paths to Progress”. Thank you to all who attended and shared their ideas.
This month on the Existential Hope podcast, we’re joined by Hannu Rajaniemi. We’ll discuss his ideas on the impact of sci-fi on the real world and explore the upcoming biotechnology wave, including gene editing and biohacking. We then address an idea that is, at present, only in sci-fi: the immune-computer interface.
SaferAI, doing standardization work in CEN CENELEC in Europe and in the NIST US AI Safety Consortium, is fundraising in order to develop an LLM risk assessment methodology. The goal of this methodology is to be able to capture the fact that we don’t know how to measure most of the risk and still need to account for it. If you’re interested in contributing, you can take a call slot here. – Siméon Campus.
Tommy Sebastian, engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, gave a talk at the MIT Museum for Space Day, discussing why it’s hard to fly on Mars. He gave a demo with a small drone in a vacuum chamber –to simulate the Martian atmosphere – and a few slides to explain the physics of it all!
Amanda Ngo is starting an emotional healing program to support people to learn effective healing modalities, parts work, focusing, and ideal parent work, alongside building an AI tool to make effective healing accessible. If you’re interested in 1-1 coaching, joining a month-long group cohort (beginning May 6), or accessing the AI healing tool, email [email protected] or check out more info here.
Instigated by Protocol Labs and curated by Foresight Institute, LabWeek | Field Building assembles leading individuals and teams from frontier science to drive progress. This edition will be set within Edge City Esmeralda, a temporary city built in Healdsburg, CA.
The program focuses on 4 main tracks: Neurotech, WBE, BCI, Biotech & Longevity, Human-AI Cooperation, AR/VR/Mixed Reality + transversal topics such as Robotics, Nanotechnology, Governance, Decentralized Science (DeSci), Biodiversity, and Space Exploration– with room for unconference-style sessions.
Apply to join this unordinary experience and container, designed with purpose to create valuable human and intellectual connection.
The first-ever Global Cryonics Summit will be held in Miami, Florida, July 20 -21, in collaboration with the Cryosphere team.
Tickets are on sale. Use code “ForesightGCS” for 10% off. Contact [email protected] or join the Cryosphere Discord Server.
Next Week in San Jose, we’ll be diving into the world of synthetic biology at SynBioBeta 2024. With 18 different tracks, including Digital Bio, Automation, Human Health, Planetary Health, and Tools & Technology. Download the agenda now and get a sneak peek of what to expect. Tickets on sale now!
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