Future of Life Institute Newsletter
The Future of Life Institute is a US-based non-profit focused on steering transformative technology towards benefitting life and away from extreme large-scale risks.
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A disappointing outcome for the AI safety bill, updates from UNGA, our $1.5 million grant for global risk convergence research, and more.
Latest policymaking updates, OpenAI safety team reportedly halved, moving towards an AWS treaty, and more.
Mitigating AI-driven power concentration, Pindex and FLI collaboration, announcing our newest grantees and their projects, and more.
A look at SB 1047; new $50,000 Superintelligence Imagined contest; recommendations to the Senate AI Working Group; and more.
Recapping the AI Seoul Summit, OpenAI news, updates on the EU's regulation of AI, new worldbuilding projects to explore, policy updates, and more.
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.
Reflections on the one-year Pause Letter anniversary, the EU AI Act passes in EU Parliament, updates from our policy team, and more.
Former world leaders call for action on pressing global threats; launching the campaign to #BanDeepfakes; new funding opportunities from our Futures program; and more.
Deepfakes are dominating headlines - with much more disruption expected, the Doomsday Clock has been set for 2024, AI governance updates, and more.
A provisional agreement is reached on the EU AI Act, highlights from the past year, and more.
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.
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!