01 Jul 2015Safety and alignment

Future of Life Institute launches an eleven-million-dollar AI safety program

The Future of Life Institute announced an $11 million research program in July 2015 to fund work on keeping increasingly capable AI safe and beneficial. The completed launch materially increased organized AI-safety research capacity and followed the institute's earlier research-priority agenda.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1

AWAY FROM DOOM40confidence 98/100

Why it moved the index

This was a completed institutional funding decision that created additional capacity for technical and policy research on advanced-AI safety. Its magnitude is limited by the program's historical scale and uncertain downstream impact, but the launch itself is directly verified and distinct from later commentary. Max Tegmark is linked as the institute's president and a materially involved subject, not treated as the sole author of the institutional announcement.

Source: Future of Life Institute
Evidence level: primary
Published: 01 Jul 2015
Category: Safety and alignment
Companies: No company attribution
Models: No model attribution
People: Max Tegmark 🇸🇪 (subject)

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Away 40 · confidence 98
Adds a verified historical action that materially expanded organized AI safety research capacity.
04 Sept 2026

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