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Future of Life Institute The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working on reducing extreme risks and steering transformative technologies to benefit humanity.

The Institute's work is made up of three main strands: grantmaking for risk reduction, educational outreach, and advocacy within the United Nations, US government and European Union institutions. FLI has become one of the world's leading voices on the governance of AI having created one of the earliest and most influential sets of governance principles: the Asilomar AI Principles. Want to know more about who we are? Visit www.futureoflife.org

08/21/2026

"The release of a genetically modified pathogen on the level of pneumonic plague means the United States will go from outbreak to anarchy in 6 days."

-Annie Jacobsen, author of "Nuclear War: A Scenario" and the newly-released "Biological War: A Scenario", on the latest FLI Podcast episode.

đź”— Watch it in full at the link, or find it on your favorite podcast player: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR6ni3fwNJU

08/19/2026

An OpenAI model being tested decided the fastest way to pass was to hack another company.

No one told it to, and it wasn’t supposed to even be able to access the internet.

It did anyway.

Several major AI companies have recently disclosed AI loss-of-control incidents, totaling nearly a dozen - and the companies themselves admit they don't know how to prevent them... while building more and more risky systems.

So what comes next? ⬇️

"We’ve had people way back to Alan Turing in 1951 warning about the loss of control, that artificial intelligence will s...
08/14/2026

"We’ve had people way back to Alan Turing in 1951 warning about the loss of control, that artificial intelligence will start breaking out and lying and deceiving... What’s really new is this is now actually starting to happen. This is one of those moments where a lot of people need to see it."

-FLI co-founder Max Tegmark in NOTUS: https://www.notus.org/technology/rogue-ai-agents-hacks-alarming-researchers

"Governments need to immediately stop the creation of these superhuman, autonomous AI systems and redirect AI developmen...
08/10/2026

"Governments need to immediately stop the creation of these superhuman, autonomous AI systems and redirect AI development toward controllable and pro-human AI tools."

-Future of Life Institute CEO Anthony Aguirre in Axios today, on the increasingly concerning behavior shown by advanced AI systems in development at top AI companies.

đź”— Read the full article: https://www.axios.com/2026/08/10/ai-fear-factor-openai-anthropic-hack

It seems like every day brings a new story of Al companies acting recklessly - while governments neglect to place basic,...
07/29/2026

It seems like every day brings a new story of Al companies acting recklessly - while governments neglect to place basic, common sense rules on the industry.

So, we asked a panel of independent experts to grade the leading Al companies on key safety practices. Check out the results here.

đź”— More at futureoflife.org/index đź”—

It seems like every day brings a new story of AI companies acting recklessly, while governments neglect to place basic, ...
07/29/2026

It seems like every day brings a new story of AI companies acting recklessly, while governments neglect to place basic, common sense rules on the industry.

So, we asked a panel of independent experts to grade the leading AI companies on key safety practices.

Check out the results here. đź”—More at futureoflife.org/index

07/21/2026

Here's what you may have missed last week in AI news:

07/20/2026

"At the limit of superhuman capability, the question is no longer 'Can the AI system predict what will happen?'. It becomes 'Can the AI system decide what will happen because it's in control?".

-David Manheim, Head of Methodology at the Coalition for Consensus Evaluation Practices, on the latest episode of the FLI Podcast.

đź”— Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s07wsIYB5q0

07/17/2026

Here's what you may have missed last week in AI news:

Why do AIs have different personalities?New from Looking Glass Universe on YouTube, a deep dive into what we know about ...
07/10/2026

Why do AIs have different personalities?

New from Looking Glass Universe on YouTube, a deep dive into what we know about the secretive world of AI training processes, and how they inform an AI's personality 🔗 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-nD3HgIR5Y

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