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The Future of Life Foundation is an organization focused on incubating new AI safety organizations by identifying gaps, selecting promising ideas, recruiting founders, and providing startup support — aiming to launch 3-5 new organizations per year.
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The Future of Life Foundation is an organization whose mission is to steer transformative technology toward benefiting life and away from extreme large-scale risks. Its primary approach involves researching gaps in the AI safety landscape, identifying what new organizations should exist, headhunting founders, and supporting the launch of new organizations. It aims to incubate 3-5 new AI safety organizations per year.
Key Points
- •Mission: steer transformative technology toward benefiting life and away from extreme large-scale risks.
- •Approach: research landscape gaps, identify needed organizations, recruit founders, and provide startup support.
- •Goal of launching 3-5 new AI safety organizations per year.
- •Led by Anthony Aguirre (also Executive Director of Future of Life Institute) and staffed by veterans of Anthropic, ARC Evals, FAR AI, UK AI Safety Institute, and Oxford.
- •Distinct from the Future of Life Institute; focused on organizational incubation rather than direct research or advocacy.
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Our mission is to steer transformative technology towards benefiting life and away from extreme large-scale risks.
Our Main Approach
First, perform research to identify gaps in the landscape of efforts to fulfill our mission.
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Second, determine what new organizations should exist to address these challenges.
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Third, targeted headhunting to identify people to found the specific ideas we select.
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Finally, provide various forms of support to ease the process of starting the new organization and increase the likelihood of success.
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→ We aim to help start 3 to 5 new organizations per year.
Full-Time Staff Members & Board
Anthony Aguirre
President
Anthony Aguirre is the President of the Future of Life Foundation. He is also the Executive Director at the Future of Life Institute and the Faggin Presidential Professor for the Physics of Information at UC Santa Cruz. He has done research in an array of topics in theoretical cosmology, gravitation, statistical mechanics, and other fields of physics. He also has strong interest in science outreach, and has appeared in numerous science documentaries. He is a creator of the science and technology prediction platform Metaculus.com , and is co-founder and President of the Foundational Questions Institute .
Josh Jacobson
Chief Operating Officer
Josh Jacobson is the Chief Operating Officer at the Future of Life Foundation. He has worked across organizational leadership, operations, and/or research for ARC Evals , FAR AI , Anthropic, on a research grant, for the Future for Humanity Institute (EpiFor), the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative , the World Bank, SocialCops, Innovations for Poverty Action , the Centre for Effective Altruism , a tech startup, and PepsiCo. Josh is a Board Member at MATS and the Windfall Trust. Josh ho
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