Foresight Institute

Join us for our first ever Vision Weekend in the UK! ​2026 marks 40 years of Foresight. Over three days, we will gather leading researchers, builders, and funders to look forward: exploring what scientific and technological frontiers will shape the coming decades, and how to make them reality. June 5–7 | London Confirmed speakers include: • ​Ed Boyden (MIT) on biologically accurate brain simulation • ​​Greg Wayne (Google DeepMind) on universal AI assistants • ​Jano Costard (SPRIND) on challenges as a tool for breakthrough innovation • ​Christine Peterson (Foresight Institute) on Foresight, 40 years later • ​Dorothy Chou (Google DeepMind) on capital for the long game: financing durable innovation in an age of hype • ​Irina Rish (Mila) on beyond scaling: toward continual and adaptive intelligence • ​Chris Rozell (Georgia Tech) on closed-loop neuroengineering: algorithms that learn from the brain in real time • ​Lee Cronin (University of Glasgow) • ​Mehmet Fisek (Meridial) on Focused Research Organisation mission and setup • ​Zoë Brammer (Google DeepMind) on AI for science 2030 • ​João Pedro de Magalhães (University of Birmingham) on hacking aging biology and many more. Get your tickets: foresight.org/events/vision-… Powered by: @apolloaievals @ARIA_research @e184media @CUHPartners @RenPhilanthropy @SPRIND @andnowstudio

How should we govern frontier AI, and what does it mean for AGI safety to be distributional? Next week, Sébastien Krier, Frontier Policy Development Lead at @GoogleDeepMind, joins our San Francisco AI Node for a fireside chat on distributional AGI safety, frontier policy, AI ethics, and more. May 20, 6pm in SF | Chatham House Rule applies. Request to join: luma.com/6z0fm82k

The Norm Hardy Prize is a $10,000 award that honors work which helps people make wise security decisions. Last year's winners, Dr. Emami-Naeini, Dr. Cranor, and Dr. Agarwal, developed a layered, easy-to-read cybersecurity label for smart home devices, directly influencing the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark labeling initiative. If users are safer because of something you built or researched, we want to hear from you. Apply by July 31st: foresight.org/norm-hardy-pri…

How do we build AI agents that can be trusted and verified? CTO of @inversed_tech and AI security researcher Aurélien Nicolas will speak at our Berlin AI Node next week on the architecture of trustable agents: identity, verifiable trust, and secure multi-agent coordination. May 20th, 6pm, Berlin | Chatham House Rule applies. Request to join: luma.com/7kzxj0uw

Phenomenal hearing from @RaianyRomanni at the @foresightinst salon about the economic impacts of aging via her brilliant work at silverlinings.bio

A stunning location, don't you agree? Join us on Saturday for the #LifeUnlimited track, and hear from experts pushing the boundaries of what life can accomplish.

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Want to work for Foresight? We're hiring across San Francisco and Berlin. • Compute Support (Berlin, part-time): keep our Node's GPU infrastructure running for AI researchers on the ground. • Partnerships Manager (SF/Berlin): grow funder relationships, run our prizes program, own impact data and fundraising numbers. • Internship (CSN, Sweden): join us for Fall 2026. This is an opportunity to work across communications, grants, programs, events, fellowships, operations and more. Details and application link in comments.

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Vision Weekend UK is just around the corner! And for our 40th anniversary, we may have landed our best venue yet: the Barbican greenhouse. A Brutalist landmark filled with 1,500 species of tropical plants, it's a surreal setting to come nerd out about new AI modalities, longevity interventions, neuroengineering, AI for science, and novel funding mechanisms. What else is on the program at Vision Weekend UK? –– FRIDAY JUNE 5 –– VIP pre-party at @fiftyyears London HQ with speakers, sponsors, Foresight Fellows and grantees. Make sure to get your All Access ticket to join. –– SATURDAY JUNE 6 –– Looking Ahead: main summit at @BarbicanCentre: • Talks across emerging AI paradigms, neurotech, longevity, nanotech, and energy • Speaker meet-and-greets • Community office hours with leading experts • Speed friending & book swap • 1:1s with fellow futurists Evening: a VIP Cypherpunk Gala inside the Barbican greenhouse: dinner, drinks and dancing in a central London tropical rainforest. –– SUNDAY JUNE 7 –– Flourishing Futures: main summit at Bankside London: • Talks on Funding X, Pathways to Implementation, and Existential Hope in the age of AI • Participant lightning talks • Speaker meet-and-greets • $10,000 pitch contest: pitch your project for ambitious futures in AI for X • Closing ceremony The weekend ends with an after party. All Access Pass holders join speakers, Fellows, and grantees for private dinners across all days. Tickets in comments. Powered by: @apolloaievals, @ARIA_research, @e184media, @CUHPartners, @RenPhilanthropy, @SPRIND, and @andnowstudio.

Current AI systems are surprisingly uneven in their abilities, displaying superhuman competence in some tasks but puzzling limitations in others. This Friday, Tom Griffiths from @Princeton joins our seminar series to argue that the tools we need for understanding this heterogeneity can be found in cognitive science. Tom will present two strategies for mapping the jagged edges of AI: identifying general properties of neural networks that translate into limitations, and using cases where human minds provide a guide to problems that challenge AI. Request to join: luma.com/8l9ny0vd

Can aging be solved, and if so, what are the implications? Researcher and author @RaianyRomanni joins our AI Node Salon in San Francisco this Thursday to discuss the ethics, economics, and emerging science of redesigning the human lifespan. May 14th at The Fold, SF | Chatham House Rule applies. Join the waitlist: luma.com/i02tdpl5

Berlin friends, May 21 we're co-hosting an evening at our local AI Node with DWeb, in the lead up to DWeb Camp 2026. DWeb Camp is a five-day gathering in July, dedicated to building a web that's private, resilient, and decentralized. Join this lead-up event to learn more, and meet practitioners, builders, and researchers dedicated to decentralized technologies. May 21, 18:00 at our Berlin AI Node. Register: luma.com/uel0qmqz

How can conscious systems be built? Machine Consciousness 0001 is the first conference dedicated to investigating how artificial conscious systems could be constructed under a computational paradigm, and what it would mean to succeed. Hosted by @CIMCAI, May 29-31st 2026 at Lighthaven, Berkeley, CA. Info: machine-consciousness.ai Tickets: luma.com/mc0001

Who's doing the most exciting work in nanotechnology right now? Our Feynman Prizes recognize exceptional contributions to nanotechnology. The prizes are awarded in three categories: Theory ($5,000), Experiment ($5,000), and Student ($1,000). Previous winners include Nobel Laureates David Baker and Sir Fraser Stoddart. Nominate someone deserving by July 31st: foresight.org/foresight-feyn…

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"Each conversation I have at the Foresight Institute feels like the start of the next 100 years. It's a concentration of people thinking a couple of decades (and sometimes centuries) ahead of the rest of the world." — @WoodingtonBen In just a month, the Foresight community gathers again for Vision Weekend: three days of frontier work in longevity, neurotech, nanotech, and AI, all happening for the first time in the UK. Our All Access ticket opens the rooms where conversations go deeper and connections actually form. Join speakers, sponsors, Foresight Fellows and grantees for dinners, drinks and a Cyberpunk Gala (!) at the Barbican. June 5–7, London. Tickets in comments.

45 million deaths a year are caused by biological aging. We treat most of them as inevitable. Tomorrow, @RaianyRomanni joins our seminar series to challenge that assumption. Drawing on interviews with 102 scientists and original economic modeling, she makes the case that advancing the science of aging may offer the highest social return of any investment in biomedical research. Request to join: luma.com/uxt39mla