What sounds like sci-fi today but could win a Nobel Prize in 20 years? In 2004, David Baker won our Feynman Prize for his work on protein design – research he says seemed “lunatic fringe” at the time. Two decades later, he won the Nobel Prize.
Our focus is on supporting work with tremendous potential, but that might seem too much of a moonshot, too interdisciplinary, or sometimes frankly just too weird for legacy institutions.
In 2025, this has meant:
Funding 40 high-potential projects with grants, for example, Dawn Song’s security benchmark for evaluating frontier AI systems.
All of this has been possible thanks to the generous support of our donors. This Giving Tuesday, we invite you to support us in advancing frontier science and tech. All donations up to $40,000 will be matched. You can make a general donation or choose a specific project to support. We accept credit card, crypto, check, wire, and stock. If you’d like to discuss options, please contact niamh@foresight.org.
If you donate at least $240, you get access to one of our technical seminar groups, where some of the world’s leading scientists and builders share their latest work. Large donors are also invited to one of our workshops, and our Personal Longevity Group – where you can learn from the very best how you might extend your own lifespan.
What your donation will enable
We have a big year ahead as 2026 marks our 40th anniversary! To celebrate, we will host no less than three Vision Weekends and launch our biggest initiative to date: two physical AI Nodes in the Bay Area and Berlin. The nodes will provide grant funding, compute, and office space for teams who use AI to advance science and safety. Other projects you can support:
Whole brain emulation endowment –to accelerate progress towards what could become one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of the century.
Workshops – we are gathering top talent for two workshops focused on AI-powered science and safety.
Fellowship endowment – to provide our Fellows with project funding and allow them to quickly test promising ideas, like using synthetic biology to extend human physiological limits, or creating novel materials that use molecular machinery for macroscale mechanical function.
Seminars – our online seminars invite researchers and builders to share their latest work, making them an important forum for spreading new breakthroughs, connecting projects with collaborators, and strengthening early-stage research ecosystems.
Pick a project, or make a general donation. Let’s support the next Nobel Prize winners.
Giving Tuesday: donations are matched up to $40,000!
Support the science and technology of the future – donate to Foresight Institute this Giving Tuesday. All donations up to $40,000 will be matched.
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Support future Nobel laureates
What sounds like sci-fi today but could win a Nobel Prize in 20 years? In 2004, David Baker won our Feynman Prize for his work on protein design – research he says seemed “lunatic fringe” at the time. Two decades later, he won the Nobel Prize.
Our focus is on supporting work with tremendous potential, but that might seem too much of a moonshot, too interdisciplinary, or sometimes frankly just too weird for legacy institutions.
In 2025, this has meant:
Funding 40 high-potential projects with grants, for example, Dawn Song’s security benchmark for evaluating frontier AI systems.
Organizing two big technical workshops on AI x longevity biotech, and neuroAI, brain-computer interfaces and whole brain emulation.
Bringing our flagship event Vision Weekend to Puerto Rico and gearing up for our biggest event of the year, the U.S. edition, this weekend.
Supporting 39 Fellows working on frontier science and tech.
Hosting almost 50 online seminars on cutting-edge research.
Running three major prizes for nanotechnology, computer security, and memes that convey scientifically grounded, positive futures.
Publishing a tech tree for secure AI.
Speaking at 50+ external conferences.
Launching a free online course on designing and shaping positive futures with AI.
Hosting Salons focused on longevity biotech, neurotech, AI, privacy, and security.
Publishing in-depth reports, with consolidated expert opinions, on what hopeful futures with AI could look like.
Releasing a 4-hour conversation between Eliezer Yudkowsky and Mark Miller on their cruxes in the ASI risks debate.
All of this has been possible thanks to the generous support of our donors. This Giving Tuesday, we invite you to support us in advancing frontier science and tech. All donations up to $40,000 will be matched. You can make a general donation or choose a specific project to support. We accept credit card, crypto, check, wire, and stock. If you’d like to discuss options, please contact niamh@foresight.org.
Donate now
Donor benefits
If you donate at least $240, you get access to one of our technical seminar groups, where some of the world’s leading scientists and builders share their latest work. Large donors are also invited to one of our workshops, and our Personal Longevity Group – where you can learn from the very best how you might extend your own lifespan.
What your donation will enable
We have a big year ahead as 2026 marks our 40th anniversary! To celebrate, we will host no less than three Vision Weekends and launch our biggest initiative to date: two physical AI Nodes in the Bay Area and Berlin. The nodes will provide grant funding, compute, and office space for teams who use AI to advance science and safety. Other projects you can support:
Whole brain emulation endowment – to accelerate progress towards what could become one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of the century.
Workshops – we are gathering top talent for two workshops focused on AI-powered science and safety.
Fellowship endowment – to provide our Fellows with project funding and allow them to quickly test promising ideas, like using synthetic biology to extend human physiological limits, or creating novel materials that use molecular machinery for macroscale mechanical function.
Seminars – our online seminars invite researchers and builders to share their latest work, making them an important forum for spreading new breakthroughs, connecting projects with collaborators, and strengthening early-stage research ecosystems.
Pick a project, or make a general donation. Let’s support the next Nobel Prize winners.
Donate now