People / Beatrice Erkers

Beatrice Erkers

Program Director, Existential Hope

Beatrice is the Director of the Existential Hope program at the Foresight Institute, where she leads work on imagining the kinds of futures we want to build with the technologies we develop. She co-hosts the Existential Hope Podcast, featuring conversations with thinkers such as David Deutsch, Steven Pinker, Kevin Kelly, and David Baker.

Her work has been featured in BBC Future, Big Think, The SF Standard, The Beautiful Truth, and the Future of Life Institute Podcast.

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Existential Hope Worldbuilding for AI and Beyond @ VW 2025, Puerto Rico

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Existential Hope World building @ Vision Weekend US 2024

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A Vision of Existential Hope for the New Year


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Existential Hope @ Vision Weekend France

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