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FLI’s President and CEO on Trump’s support for an AI ‘kill switch’
President Trump said during an interview aired yesterday by Fox Business that “there should be” when asked if AI needs […]
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FLI CEO’s statement on the attack against Sam Altman’s home
Anthony Aguirre, President and CEO of the Future of Life Institute, issued the following statement in response to the attack […]
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Prominent Scientists, Faith Leaders, Policymakers and Artists Call for a Prohibition on Superintelligence, as Poll Shows Americans Don’t Want It
Initial signatories include AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, leading media voices Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck, Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice, business…
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Statement: Head of US Policy on the White House AI legislative recommendations
The White House published it’s long-awaited AI legislative recommendations on Friday, and it still includes a call for Congress to […]
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Governor DeSantis Directs Florida State Agencies to Partner with Future of Life Institute to Shield Families from AI Harm
The collaboration will produce a Crisis Counselor Training Curriculum and a statewide AI Harms Reporting Form targeting dangerous AI companion applications
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“This is What it Means to be Pro-Human” Declares Broad Coalition of Conservative, Progressive, and Civil Society Groups in Statement of Shared Principles on AI
Amid a rising backlash to Silicon Valley overreach, a remarkably diverse group from across the political spectrum announced a set of AI principles to clearly…
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Statement from Max Tegmark on the Department of War’s ultimatum
"Our safety and basic rights must not be at the mercy of a company's internal policy; lawmakers must work to codify these overwhelmingly popular red…
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Future of Life Institute Launches Multimillion Dollar Nationwide AI Regulation Campaign
The Protect What’s Human campaign will push for commonsense AI safety rules at federal and state level
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AI Company Safety Practices Fall Short of Public Commitments and Show Structural Weaknesses, as Top Performers Widen the Gap
But in a win for transparency, five leading companies participated in the scorecard's survey for the first time, providing critical new information to the public.
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The U.S. Public Wants Regulation (or Prohibition) of Expert‑Level and Superhuman AI
Three‑quarters of U.S. adults want strong regulations on AI development, preferring oversight akin to pharmaceuticals rather than industry "self‑regulation."
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Michael Kleinman reacts to breakthrough AI safety legislation
FLI celebrates a landmark moment for the AI safety movement and highlights its growing momentum
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Google DeepMind Falls Behind OpenAI in Latest Safety Review; All AI Companies Still Falling Short, Say Experts
The Future of Life Institute’s 2025 summer update to its AI Safety Index shows some companies making incremental progress, but dangerous gaps remain in key…
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Are we close to an intelligence explosion?
AIs are inching ever-closer to a critical threshold. Beyond this threshold lie great risks—but crossing it is not inevitable.
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The Impact of AI in Education: Navigating the Imminent Future
What must be considered to build a safe but effective future for AI in education, and for children to be safe online?
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Context and Agenda for the 2025 AI Action Summit
The AI Action Summit will take place in Paris from 10-11 February 2025. Here we list the agenda and key deliverables.
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A Buddhist Perspective on AI: Cultivating freedom of attention and true diversity in an AI future
The AI-facilitated intelligence revolution is claimed by some to be setting humanity on a glidepath into utopian futures of nearly effortless satisfaction and frictionless choice.…
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Could we switch off a dangerous AI?
New research validates age-old concerns about the difficulty of constraining powerful AI systems.
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Paris AI Safety Breakfast #4: Rumman Chowdhury
The fourth of our 'AI Safety Breakfasts' event series, featuring Dr. Rumman Chowdhury on algorithmic auditing, "right to repair" AI systems, and the AI Safety…
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AI Safety Index Released
The Future of Life Institute has released its first safety scorecard of leading AI companies, finding many are not addressing safety concerns while some have…
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Why You Should Care About AI Agents
Powerful AI agents are about to hit the market. Here we explore the implications.