Dear Foresight friend,

Thanks to supporters like you, 2024 has been a year of accelerating technological progress at Foresight. In 2024 we:

• Distributed ~$1.5M in AI Safety grant funding

• Supported 43 fellows working on frontier technologies

• Hosted Eric Drexler’s Molecular Systems Engineering Platform Launch

• Hosted six technology workshops to break through bottlenecks in bio, nano, neuro, space, and AI 

• Hosted 50+ seminars to field-build in frontier technologies

• Awarded the Feynman Prizes for Nano and Norm Hardy Prize for security progress – (and prior Feynman Prize awardee David Baker received the Nobel Prize!)

• Convened 60+ leading experts over 3 days at Vision Weekend Europe to explore paths to progress across bio, nano, neuro, and AI.

But critical technology areas remain undervalued. We are gearing up to accelerate them in 2025. Given your shared interest in advancing high-impact technologies for the benefit of life, we would love to see if you might be open to becoming a donor. 

Next year, we’re continuing our technology frontier workshops, prizes, AI grants program, and virtual seminars. But we’re also launching a new initiative we’re excited to share with you:

The Foresight Grants in Bio, Nano, Neuro

We have found that there is no shortage in talent with new ideas about how to advance bio, nano, and neuro progress forward. They often don’t require more than $10k to get going but neither academia, nor industry is equipped to provide seed-funding in these niche and interdisciplinary areas. 

Next year, Foresight Institute is launching a grants program, providing fast-turnaround grants to exceptional scientists working on:

• AI for automating scientific discovery

• Personalized longevity medicine

• Biostasis

• Brain-computer interfaces and emulations 

• Molecular simulation techniques

• Protein-engineering

• Privacy-preserving ML

• AI security

• And more!

Our track record speaks for itself: David Baker, 2024 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, is our second Feynman Prize recipient to receive this honor, next to Fraser Stoddart, who received the 2016 Nobel Prize.

If you would like to see our deck, or jump on a call to explore avenues for collaboration, please reach out to [email protected]. You can also directly support us here. 

We have a $45k matching grant – so any donation up to that amount will get doubled!

As a donor, you’re invited to join curated gatherings, such as Foresight’s Vision Weekends, Dec 6-8, to meet exceptional scientists and bold funders interested in advancing flourishing futures enabled by technology.

On behalf of everyone at Foresight, thank you for helping accelerate critical technologies for flourishing futures. 

Upward!

Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute