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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · 18d
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Creative Contest - Keep The Future Human
$100,000+ in prizes for creative digital media that engages with the essay's key ideas, helps them to reach a wider range of people, and motivates action in the real world.
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · 18d
🎨 New Keep the Future Human creative contest!

💰 We're offering $100K+ for creative digital media that brings the key ideas in Executive Director Anthony Aguirre's
Keep the Future Human essay to life, to reach wider audiences and inspire real-world action.

🔗 Learn more and enter by Nov. 30!
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Aug 12
🚨 New AI systems.

❓ Growing uncertainty.

🤝 One shared future, for us all to shape.

"Tomorrow’s AI", our new scrollytelling site, visualizes 13 interactive, expert-forecast scenarios showing how advanced AI could transform our world - for better, or for worse: www.tomorrows-ai.org
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Jul 18
👉 As reviewer Stuart Russell put it, “Some companies are making token efforts, but none are doing enough… This is not a problem for the distant future; it’s a problem for today.”

🔗 Read the full report now: futureoflife.org/ai-safety-in...
2025 AI Safety Index - Future of Life Institute
The Summer 2025 edition of our AI Safety Index, in which AI experts rate leading AI companies on key safety and security domains.
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Jul 18
6️⃣ OpenAI secured second place, ahead of Google DeepMind.

7️⃣ Chinese AI firms Zhipu AI and DeepSeek received failing overall grades.

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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Jul 18
3️⃣ Only 3 out of 7 firms report substantive testing for dangerous capabilities linked to large-scale risks such as bio- or cyber-terrorism (Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind).

4️⃣ Whistleblowing policy transparency remains a weak spot.

5️⃣ Anthropic received the best overall grade (C+).

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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Jul 18
Key takeaways:
1️⃣ The AI industry is fundamentally unprepared for its own stated goals.

2️⃣ Capabilities are accelerating faster than risk-management practice, and the gap between firms is widening.

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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Jul 18
‼️📝 Our new AI Safety Index is out!

➡️ Following our 2024 index, 6 independent AI experts rated leading AI companies - OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google DeepMind, xAI, DeepSeek, and Zhipu AI - across critical safety and security domains.

So what were the results? 🧵👇
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Jun 12
‼️ Congress is considering a 10-year ban on state AI laws, blocking action on risks like job loss, surveillance, disinformation, and loss of control.

It’s a huge win for Big Tech - and a big risk for families.

✍️ Add your name and say no to the federal block on AI safeguards: FutureOfLife.org/Action
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · May 9
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Understanding AI Agents: Time Horizons, Sycophancy, and Future Risks (with Zvi Mowshowitz)
On this episode, Zvi Mowshowitz joins me to discuss sycophantic AIs, bottlenecks limiting autonomous AI agents, and the true utility of benchmarks in measuring progress. We then turn to time horizons of AI agents, the impact of automating scientific research, and constraints on scaling inference compute. Zvi also addresses humanity’s uncertain AI-driven future, the unique features setting AI apart from other technologies, and AI’s growing influence in financial trading. You can follow Zvi's excellent blog here: https://thezvi.substack.com Timestamps: 00:00:00 Preview and introduction 00:02:01 Sycophantic AIs 00:07:28 Bottlenecks for AI agents 00:21:26 Are benchmarks useful? 00:32:39 AI agent time horizons 00:44:18 Impact of automating research 00:53:00 Limits to scaling inference compute 01:02:51 Will the future go well for humanity? 01:12:22 A good plan for safe AI 01:26:03 What makes AI different? 01:31:29 AI in trading
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · May 9
🆕 📻 New on the FLI podcast, Zvi Mowshowitz (@thezvi.bsky.social) joins to discuss:

-The recent hot topic of sycophantic AI
-Time horizons of AI agents
-AI in finance and scientific research
-How AI differs from other technology
And more.

🔗 Tune in to the full episode now at the link below:
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · May 8
🔗 Read more about these AI safety research priorities: aisafetypriorities.org
The Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities
Building a Trustworthy, Reliable and Secure AI Ecosystem. Read the full report online, or download the PDF.
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · May 8
➡️ The Singapore Consensus, building on the International AI Safety Report backed by 33 countries, aims to enable more impactful R&D to quickly create safety and evaluation mechanisms, fostering a trustworthy, reliable, secure ecosystem where AI is used for the public good.
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · May 8
‼️ On April 26, 100+ AI scientists convened at the Singapore Conference on AI to produce the just-released Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities. 🧵⬇️
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Apr 4
➕ Be sure to check out @asterainstitute.bsky.social's Residency program, now accepting applications for the Oct. 2025 cohort! The program supports "creative, high-agency scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs" in future-focused, high-impact, open-first innovation.

Learn more: astera.org/residency
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Apr 4
🔗 Listen to the episode now on your favourite podcast player, or here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ0K...
Brain-like AGI and why it's Dangerous (with Steven Byrnes)
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Apr 4
📺 📻 New on the FLI Podcast: @asterainstitute.bsky.social artificial general intelligence (AGI) safety researcher @stevebyrnes.bsky.social joins for a discussion diving into the hot topic of AGI, including different paths to it - and why brain-like AGI would be dangerous. 🧵👇
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Mar 18
🔗 Read our proposal in full: futureoflife.org/document/rec...
Recommendations for the U.S. AI Action Plan - Future of Life Institute
The Future of Life Institute proposal for President Trump’s AI Action Plan.
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Mar 18
💪 Foster transparent development through an AI industry whistleblower program and mandatory security incident reporting.
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Mar 18
🧰 Protect American workers and critical infrastructure from AI-related threats by tracking labor displacement and placing export controls on advanced AI models.
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Mar 18
🚫 Ensure AI systems are free from ideological agendas, and ban models with superhuman persuasive abilities.
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Mar 18
🚨 Protect the presidency from loss of control by mandating “off-switches"; a targeted moratorium on developing uncontrollable AI systems; and enforcing strong antitrust measures.
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Mar 18
🇺🇸 We're sharing our recommendations for President Trump's AI Action Plan, focused on protecting U.S. interests in the era of rapidly advancing AI.

🧵 An overview of the measures we recommend 👇
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Mar 13
🔗 And be sure to read Keep the Future Human, available here: keepthefuturehuman.ai
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Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org · Mar 13
🔗 Tune in now at the link, or on your favourite podcast player, to hear how Anthony proposes we change course to secure a safe future with AI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqzB...
Keep the Future Human (with Anthony Aguirre)
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