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Steering transformative technology towards benefiting life and away from extreme large-scale risks.
We believe that the way powerful technology is developed and used will be the most important factor in determining the prospects for the future of life. This is why we have made it our mission to ensure that technology continues to improve those prospects.
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Summer 2026 edition
AI Safety Index
How safe are the companies building the most powerful AI?
Independent AI experts rate leading AI companies on key safety and security domains. Nine companies graded across six domains, updated with every edition.
C+
2.66
Anthropic
C
2.28
OpenAI
C
2.01
Google DeepMind
D+
1.32
Meta
D-
0.88
Z.ai
D-
0.87
Alibaba Cloud
F
0.65
xAI
F
0.47
DeepSeek
F
0.33
Mistral
Overall grade and score (US GPA scale, 4.0 = A)
Summer 2026 edition · published July 2026
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5 November, 2026
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1 October, 2026
Including: Our new AI litigation hub; Meta settles historic child safety lawsuit; EU enforces the AI Act; and more.
1 September, 2026
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The Pro-Human Assembly 2026
Building on The Prohuman AI Declaration, this 1-day convening brought together 650+ leaders & advocates in Washington DC.
Policy & Research
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Promoting a Global AI Agreement
We need international coordination so that AI's benefits reach across the globe, not just concentrate in a few places. The risks of advanced AI won't stay within borders, but will spread globally and affect everyone. We should work towards an international governance framework that prevents the concentration of benefits in a few places and mitigates global risks of advanced AI.
Recommendations for the U.S. AI Action Plan
The Future of Life Institute proposal for President Trump’s AI Action Plan. Our recommendations aim to protect the presidency from AI loss-of-control, promote the development of AI systems free from ideological or social agendas, protect American workers from job loss and replacement, and more.
AI Convergence: Risks at the Intersection of AI and Nuclear, Biological and Cyber Threats
The dual-use nature of AI systems can amplify the dual-use nature of other technologies—this is known as AI convergence. We provide policy expertise to policymakers in the United States in three key convergence areas: biological, nuclear, and cyber.
Promoting a Global AI Agreement
We need international coordination so that AI's benefits reach across the globe, not just concentrate in a few places. The risks of advanced AI won't stay within borders, but will spread globally and affect everyone. We should work towards an international governance framework that prevents the concentration of benefits in a few places and mitigates global risks of advanced AI.
Recommendations for the U.S. AI Action Plan
The Future of Life Institute proposal for President Trump’s AI Action Plan. Our recommendations aim to protect the presidency from AI loss-of-control, promote the development of AI systems free from ideological or social agendas, protect American workers from job loss and replacement, and more.
AI Convergence: Risks at the Intersection of AI and Nuclear, Biological and Cyber Threats
The dual-use nature of AI systems can amplify the dual-use nature of other technologies—this is known as AI convergence. We provide policy expertise to policymakers in the United States in three key convergence areas: biological, nuclear, and cyber.
Futures
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AI’s Role in Reshaping Power Distribution
Advanced AI systems are set to reshape the economy and power structures in society. They offer enormous potential for progress and innovation, but also pose risks of concentrated control, unprecedented inequality, and disempowerment. To ensure AI serves the public good, we must build resilient institutions, competitive markets, and systems that widely share the benefits.
Envisioning Positive Futures with Technology
Storytelling has a significant impact on informing people's beliefs and ideas about humanity's potential future with technology. While there are many narratives warning of dystopia, positive visions of the future are in short supply. We seek to incentivize the creation of plausible, aspirational, hopeful visions of a future we want to steer towards.
Perspectives of Traditional Religions on Positive AI Futures
Most of the global population participates in a traditional religion. Yet the perspectives of these religions are largely absent from strategic AI discussions. This initiative aims to support religious groups to voice their faith-specific concerns and hopes for a world with AI, and work with them to resist the harms and realise the benefits.
AI’s Role in Reshaping Power Distribution
Advanced AI systems are set to reshape the economy and power structures in society. They offer enormous potential for progress and innovation, but also pose risks of concentrated control, unprecedented inequality, and disempowerment. To ensure AI serves the public good, we must build resilient institutions, competitive markets, and systems that widely share the benefits.
Envisioning Positive Futures with Technology
Storytelling has a significant impact on informing people's beliefs and ideas about humanity's potential future with technology. While there are many narratives warning of dystopia, positive visions of the future are in short supply. We seek to incentivize the creation of plausible, aspirational, hopeful visions of a future we want to steer towards.
Perspectives of Traditional Religions on Positive AI Futures
Most of the global population participates in a traditional religion. Yet the perspectives of these religions are largely absent from strategic AI discussions. This initiative aims to support religious groups to voice their faith-specific concerns and hopes for a world with AI, and work with them to resist the harms and realise the benefits.
Communications
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Protect What’s Human
We’re building a pro-human movement for commonsense regulation to keep AI safe and under our control, kicking off with a national ad campaign airing in the US.
Control Inversion
Why the superintelligent AI agents we are racing to create would absorb power, not grant it | The latest study from Anthony Aguirre.
Digital Media Accelerator
The Digital Media Accelerator supports digital content from creators raising awareness and understanding about ongoing AI developments and issues.
Protect What’s Human
We’re building a pro-human movement for commonsense regulation to keep AI safe and under our control, kicking off with a national ad campaign airing in the US.
Control Inversion
Why the superintelligent AI agents we are racing to create would absorb power, not grant it | The latest study from Anthony Aguirre.
Digital Media Accelerator
The Digital Media Accelerator supports digital content from creators raising awareness and understanding about ongoing AI developments and issues.
Grantmaking
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AI Existential Safety Community
A community dedicated to ensuring AI is developed safely, including both faculty and AI researchers. Members are invited to attend meetings, participate in an online community, and apply for travel support.
Fellowships
Since 2021 we have offered PhD and Postdoctoral fellowships in Technical AI Existential Safety. In 2024, we launched a PhD fellowship in US-China AI Governance.
RFPs, Contests, and Collaborations
Requests for Proposals (RFPs), public contests, and collaborative grants in direct support of FLI internal projects and initiatives.
AI Existential Safety Community
A community dedicated to ensuring AI is developed safely, including both faculty and AI researchers. Members are invited to attend meetings, participate in an online community, and apply for travel support.
Fellowships
Since 2021 we have offered PhD and Postdoctoral fellowships in Technical AI Existential Safety. In 2024, we launched a PhD fellowship in US-China AI Governance.
RFPs, Contests, and Collaborations
Requests for Proposals (RFPs), public contests, and collaborative grants in direct support of FLI internal projects and initiatives.
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Regular updates about the technologies shaping our world
Every month, we bring 70,000+ subscribers the latest news on how emerging technologies are transforming our world. It includes a summary of major developments in our focus areas, and key updates on the work we do.
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Recent editions
Including: Our visit with Pope Leo XIV; cybersecurity 'black October'; we filed an amicus brief re: NYT v. OpenAI; and more.
5 November, 2026
All about The Pro-Human Assembly, the historic gathering we held in Washington, D.C.
1 October, 2026
Including: Our new AI litigation hub; Meta settles historic child safety lawsuit; EU enforces the AI Act; and more.
1 September, 2026
Including: a loss-of-control incident at OpenAI; our latest AI Safety Index; 1,000+ AI company employees ask for a slowdown option; and more.
1 August, 2026
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A Better Path for AI
A comprehensive roadmap for a pro-human future with AI.
The current trajectory of AI development treats human replacement as the goal and safety as an afterthought. This trajectory is not inevitable. This framework describes a different path: AI systems designed from the start to be controllable, beneficial, and trustworthy.
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Statement: The pro-human movement is winning
FLI's Head of U.S. Policy Michael Kleinman issues a statement on the U.S. Senate Midterm Election results.
5 November, 2026
Statement: We must pressure AI companies to immediately limit the use of recursive self improvement
FLI's Director of Policy Mark Brakel responds to "A Call for Control of Frontier AI Models", joint statement by heads of states.
28 September, 2026
Government leaders call for treaty negotiations on autonomous weapons to begin in November
At a New York forum cosponsored by six governments, OHCHR, the ICRC, The Elders and FLI, ministers and UN officials called on states to begin negotiating a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons at the CCW Review Conference in November.
28 September, 2026
Statement: World leaders at the UN call to rein in superintelligence race
Calls for pacing, coordination, and capacity-building are welcome, but the urgency of our shared situation requires practical solutions.
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Podcasts
Available on all podcast platforms:
27 October, 2026
The Trillion-Dollar AI Race to Replace Us (with Garrison Lovely)
13 October, 2026
Visualizing Moloch: A Short Film About the AI Race (with Tom Cozens)
29 September, 2026
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Our History
We’ve been working to safeguard humanity’s future since 2014.
Learn about FLI’s work and achievements since its founding, including historic conferences, grant programs, and open letters that have shaped the course of technology.
