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Foresight Institute

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Foresight Institute

@foresightinst

Advancing frontier science and technology since 1986.

San Francisco, CA

Joined March 2011

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Foresight Institute
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Jun 23
One week left to get early bird tickets for Vision Weekend USA. Ticket prices increase after June 30. November 13-15 in San Francisco, join us for our main 40th anniversary celebration in the US: talks on frontier science and tech, expert office hours, 1:1 connections, tech
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Sep 3, 2025
What are the best strategies for addressing risks from artificial superintelligence? In this 4-hour conversation, @ESYudkowsky and @marksammiller discuss their cruxes for disagreement. While Eliezer advocates an international treaty that bans anyone from building it, Mark argues
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Apr 14, 2025
Upcoming seminar with @microbeminded2 in our longevity biotech group this Wednesday, on how common viruses accumulated by humans over the course of a lifetime (the human virome) contribute to diseases of aging and inflammaging. Apply to join:
Amy Proal | The Human Virome: a Driver of Aging · Luma
From luma.com
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Foresight Institute
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Oct 12, 2025
Thank you to everyone who joined the Neurotechnology Workshop – BCI, WBE & AGI with us, this weekend! @eboyden3, @patrickmineault, @Andrew_C_Payne, @mardinly, @michaelandregg, @stardazed0, @EscolaSean70058, @JacquesCarolan, @halehf, @AToliasLab, @BobbyKasthuri, @gkreiman,
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Foresight Institute
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Jan 18, 2022
Thank you, @protocollabs for doubling our MapsMap Prize to $60k! Help us build an app for crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding maps of problems, technologies, or scientific fields. Submission deadline March 1: mapsmap.devpost.com Office hour January 25: discord.gg/nVcHH2a9
mapsmap.devpost.com
MapsMap
Build an app for open source collaboration on maps of problems through crowdsourcing and crowdfunding.
Foresight Institute
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Feb 18, 2025
How can we use AI to accelerate research in biology and longevity? AlphaFold2’s ability to predict protein structures points at the potential, now we are inviting leading thinkers in AI and longevity research to explore the next leaps in areas like discovering new drugs and
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Foresight Institute
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Aug 2, 2021
Zero-knowledge-enabled Cooperation We hear from @Zooko of @zcash & @1HowardWu of @AleoHQ about Zero-Knowledge Proofs, cryptographic techniques that can be employed to bring provable privacy and scalability. With full seminar summary!
Zero-knowledge-enabled Cooperation: Halo 2 & Aleo
From foresight.org
Foresight Institute
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Nov 11, 2025
New AI Nodes + important grant updates! Exciting new chapter: we are launching two physical hubs – one in Berlin and one in San Francisco! With these nodes, we want to support ambitious researchers and builders who use AI to advance science and safety. The hubs combine grant
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Foresight Institute
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Jun 8, 2023
Lou and Joscha Bach held a very successful Foresight Salon in Berlin last Thursday! Thank you to all who attended ⚡ @Plinz @louviq
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Foresight Institute
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Mar 25, 2025
How can we use AI to bring new scientific breakthroughs in biology and longevity? Together with @vitalismorg and @LBF_org, we are inviting experts in AI, biology and longevity research for a two-day workshop. Join us to explore how AI can accelerate progress in areas like drug
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Foresight Institute
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Sep 30, 2021
Foresight Institute Announces 2021 Feynman Prize Winners - mailchi.mp/foresight/fore… The prestigious nanotechnology award goes to Anne-Sophie Duwez (UL) & Kendall N. Houk (UCLA). The student award goes to Yuanning Feng (NU). @uclachem @YuanningFeng @UniversiteLiege @NUChemistry
Foresight Institute
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Dec 16, 2023
Casey Handmer explores the scientific, technological, and logistical hurdles that make Mars such a challenging destination; and offers an insider's perspective on our journey towards making human life sustainable on Mars. youtu.be/-RTF26JIG88 @CJHandmer
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Foresight Institute
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Aug 17, 2023
Apply to Foresight’s AI Safety Grant Program covering the following categories: Neurotechnology and Whole Brain Emulation for AI safety Security and cryptography approaches for AI security Safe and beneficial multipolar AI scenarios Apply here: foresight.org/ai-safety
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Foresight Institute
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Jan 10, 2024
Giulio Ragazzon, @giuliosflask– Driven Chemical Processes. He is the principal investigator of the Laboratory of Driven Chemical Processes. His interests involve photochemistry to molecular machines, self-assembling systems and nanomaterials. youtu.be/wgZeDeb4Eao
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