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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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.
Assessment history
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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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DoomBench assesses “Future of Life Institute launches an eleven-million-dollar AI safety program” as evidence moving away from doom, with magnitude 40 and confidence 98 out of 100 in the safety and alignment category.
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DoomBench summarizes “Future of Life Institute launches an eleven-million-dollar AI safety program” as follows: The Future of Life Institute announced an $11 million research program in July 2015 to fund work on keeping increasingly...
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