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Future of Humanity Institute

The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) was a British academic research facility located in Oxford, England. It operated as a division of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford until its closure in April 2024.[1]

Organization

FHI was a research centre within the University of Oxford. It was partnered with the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, another Oxford institution.[2]

Team

Name Position Notes
Avital Balwit Research Scholar[3] Future Fund
Nick Beckstead Research Fellow[4] Open Philanthropy, FTX Foundation, Future Fund, Centre for Effective Altruism
Nick Bostrom Director[5] Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), Yale University, European Commission, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Charlie Giattino Researcher[6] Our World in Data, Centre for the Governance of AI, AI Impacts
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh Senior Academic Manager (September 2013 - April 2015)[7] Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Oxford Martin School, Wolfe Bioinformatics Laboratory, Global Shapers Cambridge
Hamish Hobbs Research Scholar[8] Longview Philanthropy, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Office for Artificial Intelligence
Luisa Rodriguez Researcher[9] 80,000 Hours, Rethink Priorities, Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research, ImpactMatters, Innovations for Poverty Action, GiveWell
Jonas Sandbrink Biosecurity Researcher[10] Nuffield Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
Toby Shevlane Researcher[11] PopShift, DeepMind
Charlotte Siegmann Researcher[12] Global Priorities Institute, Longview Philanthropy, German Institute for Economic Research
Andrew Snyder-Beattie Director of Research[13] Longview Philanthropy, Open Philanthropy

Funding

The institute received significant funding from:[14]

  1. Maiberg, E. (2024, April 17). Institute That Pioneered AI “Existential Risk” Research Shuts Down. 404 Media. http://archive.today/2024.04.18-194316/https://www.404media.co/institute-that-pioneered-ai-existential-risk-research-shuts-down/ ↩︎

  2. Home. Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Retrieved July 2, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.07.02-040021/https://www.cser.ac.uk/ ↩︎

  3. About. Future Fund. Retrieved November 11, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.11.11-095419/https://ftxfuturefund.org/about/ ↩︎

  4. About. FTX Foundation. Retrieved November 17, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.11.17-173819/https://ftxfoundation.org/about/ ↩︎

  5. Advisors. Singularity Institute. Retrieved February 11, 2010, from https://web.archive.org/web/20100211210711/http://singinst.org/aboutus/advisors ↩︎

  6. Our Team. Our World in Data. Retrieved March 17, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230317214612/https://ourworldindata.org/team ↩︎

  7. Curriculum Vitae: Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh Areas of Specialisation. Future of Humanity Institute. Retrieved June 13, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20210613012403/https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Seán-Ó-hÉigeartaigh.pdf ↩︎

  8. Hamish Hobbs. Longview Philanthropy. Retrieved March 21, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230321033954/https://www.longview.org/hamish-hobbs ↩︎

  9. About us. Forethought Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230321081801/https://www.forethought.org/about-us ↩︎

  10. Jonas Sandbrink. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved June 10, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230610143509/https://thebulletin.org/biography/jonas-sandbrink/ ↩︎

  11. EXPERTS_Future of Tech & Morality. PopShift (by Pathos Labs). Retrieved March 11, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.03.11-073945/https://popshift.org/tech_morality/ ↩︎

  12. Charlotte Siegmann. Longview Philanthropy. Retrieved March 21, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230321034057/https://www.longview.org/charlotte-siegmann ↩︎

  13. People. Longview Philanthropy. Retrieved March 21, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230321033915/https://www.longview.org/people ↩︎

  14. Support FHI. Future of Humanity Institute. Retrieved October 20, 2021, from http://archive.today/2021.10.20-171440/https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/support-fhi/ ↩︎

  15. Grants Database. Effective Altruism Funds. Retrieved December 25, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221225054148/https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/grants ↩︎