Foresight February News: Xhope Launch, New Seminar Summaries, Vision Weekend Videos, and more! - Foresight Institute
HAPPENING AT FORESIGHT INSTITUTE
February is coming to an end, and we would like to share with you some of what we have been working on in the past month!
All the videos from Vision Weekend 2022 are now available to watch!
We re-launched our existentialhope.com website and filled it with bounties, science-funding NFTs, and a new podcast on how we can coordinate towards beautiful long-term future.
New podcast episodes on topics such as De(Sci), longevity investing, game theory with aliens and cosmology.
New seminar summaries have been produced in our groups on Biotech & Health Extension, Intelligent Cooperation, Molecular Machines and Neurotech. Teaser: we will also be sharing summaries from our Space group soon!
VISION WEEKEND VIDEOS NOW AVAILABLE
Vision Weekend US 2021
Vision Weekend France 2021
Starting in San Francisco and culminating at a castle outside of Paris, last year’s Vision Weekend was an amazing experience. If you were unable to join, or perhaps just would like to revisit some of the talks they are now all available to watch online!
Enjoy talks by speakers in fields such as bio, nano, AI, crypto, neurotech, space, including Peter Norvig (Google), Jaan Tallinn (Skype) Dina Radenkovic (SALT), Trent McConaghy (Ocean Protocol), Anders Sandberg (Future of Humanity Institute), Primavera de Filippi (Coala), and many more.
Find all videos here.
EXISTENTIAL HOPE RE-LAUNCHED FEATURING NEW PODCAST, NFT’S & BOUNTIES
Existentialhope.com is a project created to help us all discover, imagine and fund research to accelerate progress in transformative science/tech for the long-term flourishing of life.
Each month you can follow & participate in the existential hope mission via our “Monthly Hope Drops”. Every drop includes a new podcast episode on existential hope, NFT artworks and X-Hope bounties and a newsletter with a digest of what is currently happening the X-hope space.
NEW PODCAST EPISODES WITH ANDERS SANDBERG, SERGEY YOUNG & ADAM BROWN
Listen to new episodes of the podcast with recent guests including Anders Sandberg on Game Theory with Aliens, Sergey Young on Longevity Investing and Adam Brown on Cosmology, Inflation & Black Holes. New episodes are released every Friday.
COMMUNITY UPDATES
ALIGNED AI IS HIRING
Aligned AI is an Oxford based startup focused on applied alignment research. Their goal is to implement scalable solutions to the alignment problem, and distribute these solutions to actors developing powerful transformative artificial intelligence.
They are lead by Stuart Armstrong and Rebecca Gorman, and advised by Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Adam Gleave, Justin Shovelain, Charles Pattison, and Anders Sandberg.
Read more about available roles here.
RETRO BIOSCIENCES IS HIRING
Retro Biosciences is looking for exceptional, interdisciplinary scientists to join in our mission to extend human healthspan by 10 years. These will be people extraordinarily skilled in bioinformatics, assay development, immunology, proteomics, and the execution of experiments. If this might be you, see https://jobs.lever.co/retro for open positions.
If you’re not sure you fit one of these exact roles, but feel you may fit in at Retro, contact@retro.bio for a chat!
FLI IS HOSTING A WORLDBUILDING CONTEST
The Future of Life Institute invites teams across the globe, to compete for a prize purse of up to $100,000 by designing visions of a plausible, aspirational future that includes strong artificial intelligence. Learn more at:
https://worldbuild.ai/
NEW BIOTECH & HEALTH EXTENSION SEMINAR SUMMARIES
Kristen Fortney, Bioage | Building a pipeline of clinical-stage therapies to target aging
Dylan Livingston, Alliance for Longevity Initiatives -| Longevity Policy FocusVittorio Sebastiano | Epigenetic Reprogramming of Aging
Progress on Health Extension in 2021 with Sonia Arrison, 100 Plus Capital
David Furman, Buck Inst. | Systems Immunology of Aging to Enable Precision Preventative Medicine
NEW MOLECULAR MACHINES SEMINAR SUMMARIES
Tom Schroeder | Polymer-Controlled Crystal Growth and Heat Release
Job Boekhoven, Tech. Universität München | Regulating Molecular Assemblies with Chemical Reactions
Adam Marblestone & Ben Reinhardt | FRO & PARPA: Innovating in Scientific Innovation
Yunyan Qiu and Liang Feng | Artificial Molecular Pumps from Solution to Surface
David Leigh, University of Manchester | Q&A on Molecular Machines
William Shih | Fully addressable microstructures self-assembled from crisscrossed DNA-origami slats
NEW INTELLIGENT COOPERATION SEMINARS SUMMARIES
David Friedman, James Bennett | Space Development Property Rights & Legal Considerations
David Ernst, Eduardo Beltraine, Tom W Bell | New Sovereignties Focus
Progress on Intelligent Cooperation in 2021 with Mark Miller, Agoric | Christine Peterson, Foresight
Richard Mallah, FLI & Georgios Kaissis, OpenMined | Q&A on AI & Privacy Preserving Machine Learning
Christine Lemmer-Webber | Randy Farmer | Re-Decentralizing Networked Communities
Zhu Xiaohu, Center for Safe AGI | Ontological anti-crisis and AI safety
Anders Sandberg | Game Theory of Cooperating w. Extraterrestrial Intelligence & Future Civilizations
Gernot Heiser | SeL4: Formal Proofs for Real-World Cybersecurity
NEW NEUROTECH SEMINAR SUMMARIES
Neurotech: BCI & WBE Q&A with Randal Koene, Carbon Copies
Do you want to join a thriving global community around advancing bio, nano, neurotech, computing and space technologies for futures of existential hope?
Become a supporting member (also accepting crypto, find more coins on our donation page) to set bounties, fund fellows, and co-design the program with us. All info on our website.