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April 13, 2020

COVID-19 & Catastrophic Risk

December 11, 2019

The FLI Book Guide

December 5, 2019

Gene Drives: Assessing the Benefits & Risks

Co-author Stefan Schubert on the newly published report "Psychology of Existential Risk: Moral Judgments about Human Extinction"

October 30, 2019

The Psychology of Existential Risk: Moral Judgments about Human Extinction

August 19, 2019

New Report: Don’t Be Evil – A Survey of the Tech Sector’s Stance on Lethal Autonomous Weapons

Podcasts

January 21, 2021

Beatrice Fihn on the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Future of Life Institute · Beatrice Fihn on the Total Elimination…

January 8, 2021

Max Tegmark and the FLI Team on 2020 and Existential Risk Reduction in the New Year

December 11, 2020

Future of Life Award 2020: Saving 200,000,000 Lives by Eradicating Smallpox

December 1, 2020

Sean Carroll on Consciousness, Physicalism, and the History of Intellectual Progress

November 17, 2020

Mohamed Abdalla on Big Tech, Ethics-washing, and the Threat on Academic Integrity

Artificial Intelligence News

September 15, 2020

Andrew Critch on AI Research Considerations for Human Existential Safety

Future of Life Institute · Andrew Critch on AI Research Considerations…

September 3, 2020

Iason Gabriel on Foundational Philosophical Questions in AI Alignment

August 18, 2020

Peter Railton on Moral Learning and Metaethics in AI Systems

July 1, 2020

Evan Hubinger on Inner Alignment, Outer Alignment, and Proposals for Building Safe Advanced AI

Biotechnology News

April 9, 2019

Dr. Matthew Meselson Wins 2019 Future of Life Award

On April 9th, Dr. Matthew Meselson received the $50,000 Future…

February 28, 2019

FLI Podcast (Part 2): Anthrax, Agent Orange, and Yellow Rain: Verification Stories with Matthew Meselson and Max Tegmark

February 28, 2019

FLI Podcast (Part 1): From DNA to Banning Biological Weapons With Matthew Meselson and Max Tegmark

November 30, 2018

Podcast: Governing Biotechnology, From Avian Flu to Genetically-Modified Babies with Catherine Rhodes

June 28, 2019

FLI Podcast: Is Nuclear Weapons Testing Back on the Horizon? With Jeffrey Lewis and Alex Bell

Nuclear weapons testing is mostly a thing of the past: The…

June 6, 2019

New Report Calls Out Banks that Make Nuclear Weapons Investments

February 5, 2019

The Breakdown of the INF: Who’s to Blame for the Collapse of the Landmark Nuclear Treaty?

October 23, 2018

Trump to Pull US Out of Nuclear Treaty

Ellen Quigley and Natalie Jones explain what you can do to help defund the fossil fuel industry.

November 19, 2019

Not Cool Ep 24: Ellen Quigley and Natalie Jones on defunding the fossil fuel industry

Defunding the fossil fuel industry is one of the biggest…

October 3, 2019

Not Cool Ep 11: Jakob Zscheischler on climate-driven compound weather events

September 24, 2019

Not Cool Ep 8: Suzanne Jones on climate policy and government responsibility

September 19, 2019

Not Cool: A Climate Podcast

Congratulations to the 2018 AGI Project Grant Recipients!

Congratulations to all the researchers who were awarded grants to further the science behind AGI safety. Click on the award icon to learn more about their research.

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