About Us
Mission
Our mission is to guide humanity toward vibrant and flourishing futures through the application of underutilized foresight techniques.
Vision
Our vision is to be an organization associated with rigorous research that is practically useful for policymakers and decision makers with the power to influence government policy on mitigating catastrophic and existential risk.
Why We Exist
TFI was formed to explore the use of underutilized foresight methods and tools in order to better anticipate societal-scale risks from transformative technologies. While we perceive there to be many risks to humanity’s long-term prosperity, the rapid advancements in AI appear to be the most pressing of these.
Our Role
In contrast to many organizations working to address catastrophic and existential risk from advanced AI, TFI specializes in foresight techniques. Through the use of these techniques, we can enable more comprehensive assessments of AI risks. Such assessments are critical in supporting decision making for stakeholders in positions to shape the future societal impact of AI, thus ensuring that we maximize the potential for a positive future for humanity as AI technology rapidly progresses.
What We Do
At TFI we focus our energy on creating high-quality research related to societal-scale AI risk, which falls under our three key focus areas:
- Crisis management planning and wargaming
- Agent based modeling of AI futures
- Existential resilience (resilience planning for an AI catastrophe)
Our Impact
Disseminating our relevant research among key stakeholders is key to our impact. We do this by disseminating our work directly to organizations and policymakers in DC, as well as through academic publishing.
Our Values
TFI seeks for humanity to follow a trajectory toward vibrant and prosperous futures, and we believe that identifying and addressing neglected areas of research in foresight is the most valuable way to advance this objective. We highly value rigorous and robust academic quality research, whether or not it is published in academic outlets, and we hope that our research can contribute to high standards for others working in the space.
Mission
Our mission is to guide humanity toward vibrant and flourishing futures through the application of underutilized foresight techniques.
Vision
Our vision is to be an organization associated with rigorous research that is practically useful for policymakers and decision makers with the power to influence government policy on mitigating catastrophic and existential risk.
Why We Exist
TFI was formed to explore the use of underutilized foresight methods and tools in order to better anticipate societal-scale risks from transformative technologies. While we perceive there to be many risks to humanity’s long-term prosperity, the rapid advancements in AI appear to be the most pressing of these.
What We Do
In contrast to many organizations working to address catastrophic and existential risk from advanced AI, TFI specializes in foresight techniques. Through the use of these techniques, we can enable more comprehensive assessments of AI risks. Such assessments are critical in supporting decision making for stakeholders in positions to shape the future societal impact of AI, thus ensuring that we maximize the potential for a positive future for humanity as AI technology rapidly progresses.
At TFI we focus our energy on creating high-quality research related to societal-scale AI risk, which falls under our three key focus areas:
- Crisis management planning and wargaming
- Agent-based modeling of AI futures
- Existential resilience (resilience planning for an AI catastrophe
Our Impact
Disseminating our relevant research among key stakeholders is key to our impact. We do this by disseminating our work directly to organizations and policymakers in DC, as well as through academic publishing.
Our Values
TFI seeks for humanity to follow a trajectory toward vibrant and prosperous futures, and we believe that identifying and addressing neglected areas of research in foresight is the most valuable way to advance this objective. We highly value rigorous and robust academic quality research, whether or not it is published in academic outlets, and we hope that our research can contribute to high standards for others working in the space.