Allison Duettmann

PRESIDENT & CEO

Allison Duettmann is the president and CEO of Foresight Institute. She directs the Intelligent Cooperation, Molecular Machines, Biotech & Health Extension, Neurotech, and Space Programs, Fellowships, Prizes, and Tech Trees, and shares this work with the public. She founded Existentialhope.com, co-edited Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy, co-authored Gaming the Future, and co-initiated The Longevity Prize. She advises companies and projects, such as Cosmica, and The Roots of Progress Fellowship, and is on the Executive Committee of the Biomarker Consortium. She holds an MS in Philosophy & Public Policy from the London School of Economics, focusing on AI Safety.

Selected appearances:

Conferences and Seminars

SPRIND SciencePreneurship: Next-Generation Innovation Policies to Effectuate Scientific Change
Falling Walls Plenary Table: How GenAI can Revolutionize Therapy Development
Chainlink: Combining Cryptography and AI
Chainlink AI: Symposium Chair Summary by Laurence Moroney and Allison Duettmann
Breakthrough Computing: How Computing Speeds Up Tech Development
VitaDAO Longevity Symposium: The Longevity Prize: Areas & Mechanism Design
TEDx: Existential Hope
SXSW: AI Philosophy
O’Reilly AI: Executive Briefing on AI Safety
The Partnership on AI: Planning for “The Future”
Effective Altruism Global: Evaluating Hard-to-Measure Projects
Ethereum Global: Crypto Tools for X-risk Prevention
Protocol Labs Funding the Commons: Tech Trees for Progress on Ambitious SciTech
Vision Weekend: Existential Hope
Internet Archive: Civilization as Superintelligence
World Economic Forum (off the record): AI Briefing with Jaan Tallinn, Luke Nosek, and Allison Duettmann
MIT DeSci Boston (off the record): Tech Tree for Mapping Nano, Bio, Neuro
Wall Street Journal (off the record): AI Safety Panel
Future Forum (off the record): Existential Hope Closing Ceremony
EthDenver: Crypto-economic Approaches to Addressing X-Risks
OpenAI (off the record): On Foresight Institute
Consensus: Decentralizing AI (off the record)
Coindesk TV: Hi, AI
SynbioBeta: DeSci & Biotech Panel
DWeb: AI ThinkTank sponsored by OpenAI
DWeb: Ownership in a Digital World
AI @Internet Archive: Exotic AI Safety Ideas
Gray Area Festival: Creators and AI in a Digital World
Longevity Summit Dublin: Crowdfunding Prizes for Longevity
The Future of Science Seminar: Bio, Neuro, AI: Opportunities & Challenges
World Forum: Homo Digital: Being Human in the Age of AI
SXSW: The Path to Conscious AI

Written Media

Latecomer Magazine: What Happened to Molecular Manufacturing?
Forbes: A Weekend with the Foresight Institute
Fintech News: The Long-term Potential of Crypto
Cointelegraph: DeSci: Tech Trees for Funding Long-term Progress
Quartz: Existential Hope is the Website the World Needs
Clearerthinking: Feeling Grim About the Future?
Lesswrong: The Human AI Reflective Equilibrium
Freethink: Visionary neurotech advances that could change everything
Lesswrong: AI infosec: first strikes, zero-day markets, hardware supply chains
Lesswrong: AI safety and the security mindset: user interface design, red-teams, formal verification
Lesswrong: Boundaries-based security and AI safety approaches
Lesswrong: Specific cryptographic and auxiliary approaches to consider for AI
Lesswrong: Upskilling, bridge-building, research on security/cryptography and AI safety
Foresight Institute: AGI & Great Powers
Foresight Institute: AGI: Toward Cooperation
Foresight Institute: AI Timelines & Policy
Gaming the Future: Technologies for Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation
Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy
Free Press: The Tech Messiahs Who Want to Deliver Us From Death
Progress Forum: AMA with Allison Duettmann
Coindesk: How Crypto Can Help Secure AI
Le Monde: The Return of Technological Utopias
Effektiver Altruismus: Portrait of Allison Duettmann

Podcasts

Austin Next: The Future of Discovery
The Future of Science Podcast: Predicting Progress, Interdisciplinarity and the Biggest Risks for Humanity
DeSci Podcast: A Futurist’s Take on Longevity, Cryonics, Optimism & DeSci
Future of Life Institute: Planning for Existential Hope
UltraRare: The Foresight Institute & 50 Years: How To Advance DeSci
LifeSpan: The Future of Rejuvenation Biotechnologies
Simulation: Existential Hope
Better Futures: Existential Hope & Foresight Institute
The Future Hour: Longevity, Existential Hope & The Future
The Stoa: Existential Hope with Foresight
Pod of Jake: Allison Duettmann
FuturePod: Existential Hope with Allison Duettmann
Journeys with Jesse: Allison Duettman on Existential Hope, Talent, and Funding
What What Means: Molecular Nanotechnology & Molecular Manufacturing
Intel’s What That Means: Nanotechnology & Neurotechnology
Bronic: Allison Duettmann on Utopia of Utopias

Gaming the Future: The Book!

Allison Duettmann

PRESIDENT & CEO

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