Foresight Institute
@foresightinst
Advancing bio, nano, neuro, ai, and space tech for flourishing futures through grants, prizes, fellowships, and gatherings.
$1,000 Prize – Deadline June 30th Take our free online course on shaping positive futures with AI, and share your ideas to win prizes! The best “Overall World” wins $1,000. We also give out four $500 prizes for “Best Institution” and “Best Image or Video”.
Just one week left to apply for our next Fellowship cohort!
Become a 2026 Foresight Fellow! Our year-long program supports early-career scientists, engineers and innovators advancing beneficial technologies. Fellows are invited to our events and seminar groups alongside senior scientists and field leaders – with opportunities to present…
What work in usable security deserves recognition? Our $10,000 Norm Hardy Prize awards work that makes the secure way the easy way. We welcome both academic and practical contributions. Apply by July 31st.
In 2004, David Baker won our Feynman Prize for his early work on protein design. Twenty years later, that research earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. What work of today holds enormous promise and deserves recognition? Our Feynman Prizes award outstanding contributions to…
💭 What would you do if you had £50-100M to advance our civilisation's technological and scientific capabilities, without having to think about social returns for investors or academic citations? Applications to the Big if True Science Accelerator (BiTS) now open👇
New piece by our Fellow Gustavs Zilgalvis!
AI is changing the nature of strategic competition. I wrote a piece @FSIStanford on the geopolitics of artificial general intelligence: from the race to automate ML R&D and hyperscale manufacturing to counter-proliferation and nuclear deterrence. AGI and the The Fourth Offset
NEW: No technology currently exists to repair damaged brain tissue and fully restore lost function. FRONT aims to enable millions with what is considered permanent brain damage to regain lost functions, including motor control, vision, and speech. arpa-h.gov/news-and-event…
Big news: we’re kicking off the search for ARIA’s next CEO. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead one of the most ambitious orgs in science and tech. 1/8
we made a map! gap-map.org is a tool we built to help you explore the landscape of R&D gaps holding back science - and the bridge-scale fundamental development efforts that might allow humanity to solve them, across almost two dozen fields