Future of Life Institute Newsletter
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Future of Life Institute Newsletter: Where are the safety teams?
Plus: Online course on worldbuilding for positive futures with AI; new publications about AI; our Digital Media Accelerator; and more.
Maggie Munro
1 May, 2025
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What you can expect
At the end of every month, our 40,000+ subscribers can expect:
- Our work – An update on FLI activities and output across our cause areas.
- Policy developments – Significant governance and policy developments in the US, EU, and international institutions.
- Latest research – The latest scientific and policy research related to our cause areas.
- Top resources – A list of articles, reports, and podcasts our researchers are reading.
- Data insights – Important data and visualisations about our cause areas.
Our other newsletters
Our team also publishes a couple of issue-specific newsletters:
The Autonomous Weapons Newsletter
Stay up-to-date on the autonomous weapons space with a monthly newsletter covering policymaking efforts, weapons systems technology, and more.
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The EU AI Act Newsletter
Up-to-date developments and analyses of the proposed EU AI law – by Risto Uuk.
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AI Action Summit Newsletter
Everything you need to know about the 2025 AI Action Summit and its context, twice per month. 🇬🇧English and 🇫🇷French.
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Not Another Big Tech Stack
A monthly perspective on AI policy, unaffiliated with any of the major AI companies. By Mark Brakel.
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Newsletter archive
Future of Life Institute Newsletter: New $4 million grants program!
Mitigating AI-driven power concentration, Pindex and FLI collaboration, announcing our newest grantees and their projects, and more.
Maggie Munro
1 August, 2024
Future of Life Institute Newsletter: California Pushes for AI Legislation
A look at SB 1047, new $50,000 Superintelligence Imagined contest, recommendations to the Senate AI Working Group, and more.
Maggie Munro
5 July, 2024
Future of Life Institute Newsletter: Notes on the AI Seoul Summit
Recapping the AI Seoul Summit, OpenAI news, updates on the EU's regulation of AI, new worldbuilding projects to explore, policy updates, and more.
Maggie Munro
31 May, 2024
Future of Life Institute Newsletter: Building Momentum on Autonomous Weapons
Summarizing recent updates on the push for autonomous weapons regulation, new polling on AI regulation, progress on banning deepfakes, policy updates from around the world, and more.
Maggie Munro
3 May, 2024
Future of Life Institute Newsletter: A pause didn’t happen. So what did?
Reflections on the one-year Pause Letter anniversary, the EU AI Act passes in EU Parliament, updates from our policy team, and more.
Maggie Munro
2 April, 2024
Future of Life Institute Newsletter: FLI x The Elders, and #BanDeepfakes
Former world leaders call for action on pressing global threats, launching the campaign to #BanDeepfakes, new funding opportunities from our Futures program, and more.
Maggie Munro
4 March, 2024
Future of Life Institute Newsletter: The Year of Fake
Deepfakes are dominating headlines - with much more disruption expected, the Doomsday Clock has been set for 2024, AI governance updates, and more.
Maggie Munro
2 February, 2024
Future of Life Institute Newsletter: Wrapping Up Our Biggest Year Yet
A provisional agreement is reached on the EU AI Act, highlights from the past year, and more.
Maggie Munro
22 December, 2023
Future of Life Institute Newsletter: Save the EU AI Act 🇪🇺
Defending the EU AI Act against Big Tech lobbying, the 2023 Future of Life Award winners, our new partnership on hardware-backed AI governance, and more.
Maggie Munro
4 December, 2023
Future of Life Institute Newsletter: Everyone’s (Finally) Talking About AI Safety
Updates on AI regulation, a historic UN resolution, our new open letter on AI licensing, examining the Terms of Use of leading AI labs, and more. Also, just two weeks left to apply for FLI PhD fellowships!
Maggie Munro
1 November, 2023