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Future of Life Institute

Funds research, public engagement, and multistakeholder projects working to make advanced AI safe, beneficial, and democratically governed.

Notable recent

$5M Multistakeholder Engagement program launched January 2025; 16 problem-solving AI grants of $15K each in 2024.

Documented grants (3)

  • AI Safety Index Winter 2025 2025-12-01 · Internal program

    Recipient: FLI internal team (third-party expert panel)

    Third installment of FLI's panel-graded AI Safety Index rating frontier labs on risk assessment, governance, current harms, safety frameworks, and existential safety strategy. Panel includes independent academics.

  • Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI program 2025-06-01 · $5M total, $100K-$500K per project

    Recipient: Multiple grantees (program-level)

    FLI grant program for projects that engage, educate, and activate stakeholder groups and the public on AI futures. Letters of intent due February 2025; decisions June 2025.

  • Problem-solving AI grants (16 awards) 2024-07-11 · $15K each, $240K total

    Recipient: 16 researchers across UN SDG and global governance tracks

    Sixteen $15K grants for research on AI applied to UN SDG topics (maternal mortality, climate education, labor, poverty) and on global governance institution design (CERN for AI, Fair Trade AI, Global AGI agency).

Process

Letter of intent then full proposal; external review.

Cadence

Annual themed RFPs

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