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# Future of Life Institute
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/future-of-life-institute/
- Published: 1999-01-02T16:29:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-02T21:15:06.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization

The **Future of Life Institute (FLI)** is an American non-profit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

## Personnel

| Name          | Position                      | Notes                                                                                                              |
| ------------- | ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| George Church | External advisor[\[1\]](#fn1) | Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Human Genome Project, Personal Genome Project |

## Funding

Donors to the FLI include:[\[2\]](#fn2)[\[3\]](#fn3)[\[4\]](#fn4)

- Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
- EA Giving Group
- Elon Musk
- Founders Pledge
- George Godula
- Jaan Tallinn
- Jacob Trefethen
- Jed Tallinn
- Matt Wage
- Nisan Stiennon
- [Open Philanthropy](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Open-Philanthropy)
- [Prime Trust](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Prime-Trust)
- Sam Harris
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation
- Surviving and Flourishing Fund
- Vitalik Buterin

## Activities

FLI has provided funding to the [Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Center-for-Long-Term-Cybersecurity) (CLTC)[\[5\]](#fn5) and the [Future of Humanity Institute](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Future-of-Humanity-Institute) (FHI).[\[6\]](#fn6)

## External links

- [Campfire Wiki](https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=future%5Fof%5Flife%5Finstitute)
- [Website](https://futureoflife.org/)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future%5Fof%5FLife%5FInstitute)

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1. *George Church.* Future of Life Institute. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from <http://archive.today/2023.01.13-015035/https://futureoflife.org/person/george-church/> [↩︎](#fnref1)
2. *Future of Life Institute.* (2022, January 20). Europa Transparency Register. <http://archive.today/2022.12.10-070114/https://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/consultation/displaylobbyist.do?id=787064543128-10> [↩︎](#fnref2)
3. *Future of Life Institute donations received.* Vipul Naik. Retrieved December 10, 2022, from  
<http://archive.today/2022.12.10-071503/https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donee.php?donee=Future+of+Life+Institute%23doneeDonationAmountsByDonorAndYear> [↩︎](#fnref3)
4. *Top Donors.* Future of Life Institute. Retrieved December 10, 2022, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20221210073211/https://archive.futureoflife.org/team/top-donors/> [↩︎](#fnref4)
5. *Our Funders.* Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. Retrieved May 20, 2024, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20240520224953/https://cltc.berkeley.edu/our-funders/> [↩︎](#fnref5)
6. *Support FHI.* Future of Humanity Institute. Retrieved October 20, 2021, from <http://archive.today/2021.10.20-171440/https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/support-fhi/> [↩︎](#fnref6)