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Hawking Reddit AMA on AI

Our Scientific Advisory Board member Stephen Hawking's long-awaited Reddit…
October 11, 2015/by Max Tegmark

Future of Life Institute Summer 2015 Newsletter

TOP DEVELOPMENTS * $7M in AI research grants announced: We…
August 15, 2015/by admin

AI safety research on NPR

I just had the pleasure of discussing our new AI safety research…
July 16, 2015/by Max Tegmark

And the winners are…

After a grueling expert review of almost 300 grant proposals…
July 1, 2015/by Max Tegmark

Happy Birthday, FLI!

Today we are celebrating one year since our launch event. It's…
May 25, 2015/by Meia Chita-Tegmark

Jaan Tallinn on existential risks

An excellent piece about existential risks by FLI co-founder…
April 16, 2015/by Viktoriya Krakovna

AI grant results

We were quite curious to see how many applications we’d get…
March 30, 2015/by Max Tegmark

January 2015 Newsletter

In the News * Top AI researchers from industry and academia…
January 31, 2015/by Jesse Galef

Elon Musk donates $10M to our research program

We are delighted to report that Elon Musk has decided to donate…
January 22, 2015/by Jesse Galef

AI Conference

We organized our first conference, The Future of AI: Opportunities…
January 11, 2015/by Jesse Galef

November 2014 Newsletter

In the News * The winners of the essay contest we ran in partnership…
November 26, 2014/by Jesse Galef

FLI launch event @ MIT

The Future of Technology: Benefits and Risks FLI was officially…
May 24, 2014/by Max Tegmark