ORGANIZATION
Future of Life Institute
The nonprofit Tegmark co-founded in 2014 to conduct research and advocacy on existential risks from advanced technology—AI above all—and the principal institutional vehicle for his policy work.
The Future of Life Institute is the nonprofit research and advocacy organization Tegmark co-founded in 2014 with Jaan Tallinn, Meia Chita-Tegmark, Anthony Aguirre, and Viktoriya Krakovna. FLI's mission is to steward transformative technologies—particularly AI—toward benefit and away from catastrophic risk. The Institute has become the principal institutional vehicle for Tegmark's public advocacy: organizing the 2017 Asilomar conference that produced the Asilomar AI Principles, issuing the 2023 Pause Letter, publishing the 2025 Statement on Superintelligence, and funding alignment research through grants. FLI operates as one of the most prominent voices for AI safety policy in public discourse, distinguished by its willingness to advocate specific, controversial positions rather than remain safely academic.
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FLI's strategy combines research funding, policy advocacy, and public communication. The research arm has supported foundational work on technical alignment, interpretability, and governance. The advocacy arm has produced high-profile letters and statements that translate technical concerns into positions legible to policymakers and the public. The