An exclusive, one-day convening in Washington DC to chart a better path for AI.

A string of hacks is fueling a new sense of urgency to regulate the technology. “I have never seen so much concern,” one former industry consultant said.

Randi Weingarten discusses AI in education, including concerns about screens, student-facing chatbots, attention and learning, and how teachers can use AI with guardrails that protect privacy and thin...

How AI Can, And Can't, Cure Cancer

The Pro-Human AI Declaration

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is hiring a Communications Associate to join our fast-paced and dynamic team! Our outreach projects currently include (but are not limited to) top-tier press outreac...

“We call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is (1) broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably, and (2) strong public bu...

$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.

The Summer 2025 edition of our AI Safety Index, in which AI experts rate leading AI companies on key safety and security domains.

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

Building a Trustworthy, Reliable and Secure AI Ecosystem. Read the full report online, or download the PDF.

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The Future of Life Institute proposal for President Trump’s AI Action Plan.

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