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 organizations, such as the Consortium for Space Health, 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.

Interviews

Speaking

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
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

Media

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
AGI & Great Powers
AGI: Toward Cooperation
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
Coindesk: How Crypto Can Help Secure AI

Podcasts