Future of Life Institute (FLI)
- HQ / base
- Campbell CA
- Founded
- 2014
- Money
- $665.8M Buterin gift (2021); $21.3M revenue (2024)
- Status
- —
Max Tegmark (president) and Anthony Aguirre's advocacy org: 2015 Puerto Rico conference + Musk's $10M launched academic AI-safety funding; Asilomar Principles (2017); Slaughterbots; the 'Pause' letter (Mar 2023, 30k+ signatories); EU AI Act lobbying; Statement on Superintelligence (Oct 2025) demanding a conditional prohibition, signed by Hinton, Bengio, Wozniak, Branson, Bannon, Glenn Beck, Susan Rice, Prince Harry & Meghan — engineering a left-right anti-superintelligence coalition. Funds Encode, Tarbell, Collective Intelligence Project, The Elders via sponsorships; Aguirre's 'Keep the Future Human' (2025) argues for banning full AGI in favor of 'Tool AI'.
Connections
- Jaan Tallinnco-founded (2014)
- Vitalik Buterin$665.8M SHIB (2021)
- Future of Life Foundation & FLI Europe$180M EU affiliate + $25M FLF + $50M Lightcone Fdn (2022)
- Improve the News Foundation$8.3M (Tegmark-linked)
- Encodefiscal sponsor ($ via SVCF)
- Tarbell Center for AI Journalismfunder (via sponsorships)
- Collective Intelligence Projectsponsored project
- IASEAI$1.5M seed (2024)
- Federation of American Scientists$750k (2024)
- EU AI Office & AI Actlobbied to strengthen AI Act
- Max Tegmarkco-founder, president
- Anthony Aguirreco-founder, ED
- CHAI (UC Berkeley)early grants (2015 program)
- Geoffrey Hintonsigned statement (2025)
- Yoshua Bengiosigned statement (2025)
- Longview Philanthropygrantee/partner ($100k, 2024)
- Foresight Institute$247k grant (2024); elder institution
- AI Policy Institute (AIPI)polling cited in superintelligence statement
- Center for Humane TechnologyAI Dilemma amplified pause-letter moment