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Future of Life Institute

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is an American non-profit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Personnel

Name Position Notes
George Church External advisor[1] Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Human Genome Project, Personal Genome Project

Funding

Donors to the FLI include:[2][3][4]

  • Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
  • EA Giving Group
  • Elon Musk
  • Founders Pledge
  • George Godula
  • Jaan Tallinn
  • Jacob Trefethen
  • Jed Tallinn
  • Matt Wage
  • Nisan Stiennon
  • Open Philanthropy
  • Prime Trust
  • Sam Harris
  • Silicon Valley Community Foundation
  • Surviving and Flourishing Fund
  • Vitalik Buterin

Activities

FLI has provided funding to the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)[5] and the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI).[6]

  1. George Church. Future of Life Institute. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.01.13-015035/https://futureoflife.org/person/george-church/ ↩︎

  2. Future of Life Institute. (2022, January 20). Europa Transparency Register. http://archive.today/2022.12.10-070114/https://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/consultation/displaylobbyist.do?id=787064543128-10 ↩︎

  3. Future of Life Institute donations received. Vipul Naik. Retrieved December 10, 2022, from
    http://archive.today/2022.12.10-071503/https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donee.php?donee=Future+of+Life+Institute%23doneeDonationAmountsByDonorAndYear ↩︎

  4. Top Donors. Future of Life Institute. Retrieved December 10, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221210073211/https://archive.futureoflife.org/team/top-donors/ ↩︎

  5. Our Funders. Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. Retrieved May 20, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240520224953/https://cltc.berkeley.edu/our-funders/ ↩︎

  6. 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/ ↩︎