Focus Areas / Existential Hope

Existential Hope

Much of today’s attention is focused on the threats, risks, and generally bad outcomes to humanity. Existential Hope aims to empower coordination towards flourishing futures.

Podcasts

The Existential Hope Podcast invites leading experts in various fields to share what a positive future looks like to them, and how their work contributes to that vision.

Fin Moorhouse on Why We Need to Aim Higher Than Survival

Fin Moorhouse


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Sam Arbesman On Vibe Coding, AI, and the Magic of Code

Sam Arbesman


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Pablos Holman On Creating Technology That Actually Matters

Pablos Holman


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Andrew White on Building an AI Scientist to Automate Discovery

Andrew White


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Anthony Aguirre on Tools or Agents? Choosing Our AI Future

Anthony Aguirre


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Autonomous Vehicles Special: Andrew Miller on Self-Driving Futures

Andrew Miller


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Michael Nielsen on Hyper-entities, Tools for Thought, and Wise Optimism

Michael Nielsen


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Jim O’Shaughnessy on Investing in Infinite Human Potential

Jim O’Shaughnessy


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Foresight Fellowship

The Foresight Fellowship is a one-year program supporting early-career scientists, engineers, and innovators to supercharge their ability to advance technological progress.

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Fellows

We support seven brilliant Existential Hope Fellows each year – early-career scientists and entrepreneurs working to shape positive futures.

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Saheb Gulati

Nicolas Krink

Natasha Karner

Moritz von Knebel

Jasper Götting

Janika Schmitt

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