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webForesight Institute is a long-standing research organization (est. 1986) focused on emerging technologies including AI safety ('Secure AI'), nanotechnology, and existential risk, supporting researchers through grants, prizes, and fellowships with a track record of recognizing future Nobel laureates.
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Foresight Institute is a research nonprofit founded in 1986 that supports pioneering scientists and technologists working on transformative and potentially risky technologies. It operates across focus areas including Secure AI, neurotechnology, longevity biotechnology, nanotechnology, and space. It funds work through grants, prizes (including the Feynman Prize), fellowships, workshops, and physical AI research hubs.
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- •Founded in 1986, Foresight has a track record of supporting researchers who later won Nobel Prizes, including David Baker (2024 Nobel Chemistry) and Fraser Stoddart (2016 Nobel Chemistry).
- •Focus areas include 'Secure AI' alongside nanotechnology, neurotechnology, longevity biotech, space, and existential hope.
- •Offers grants supporting projects using AI to advance science and safety across security, privacy, decentralized cooperation, epistemics, and more.
- •Launching physical AI Nodes in San Francisco and Berlin in 2026 to provide funding, office space, and compute for safety-focused researchers.
- •Hosts annual Vision Weekend conferences and technical workshops bringing together scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers.
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Advancing frontier science and technology since 1986.
Foresight Institute is a research organization founded in 1986. With a track record of supporting Nobel Laureates decades before their acclaim, we focus on areas that are too ambitious or interdisciplinary for legacy institutions. Through grants, prizes, fellowships, and events, we back pioneering scientists and innovators advancing technologies that benefit the future of life.
Upcoming Events
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Workshop
Secure AI
Neurotechnology
Longevity Biotechnology
Nanotechnology
AI for Frontier & Meta Science
September 28-30, 2026
San Francisco, Bay Area
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Vision Weekend
Vision Weekend
USA 2026
November 13-15, 2026
San Francisco, USA
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Foresight calendar
Distinguished Awardees
David Baker
Biochemist & Computational Biologist
2004 Winner of our Feynman Prize
2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart
(1942 – 2024)
Chemist
2007 Winner of our Feynman Prize
2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Our Offerings
Conferences
Our flagship events – the Vision Weekend conferences – gather leading scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers to explore the frontiers of science and technology, and plan for flourishing futures.
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Workshops
Throughout the year, we host a handful of technical workshops – bringing together top talent to solve the bottlenecks holding back progress at the frontiers of science and technology.
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AI Nodes
Our two physical hubs – to be launched in San Francisco and Berlin in early 2026 – offer project funding, office and community spaces, and local compute for ambitious researchers and builders who use AI to advance science and safety.
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Grants
Explore our grants, which support projects that use AI to advance science and safety – across security, privacy, decentralized cooperation, epistemics, neurotechnology, longevity biotechnology, and molecular nanotechnology.
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Prizes
Honoring the scientists Richard Feynman and Norm Hardy, we award two annual prizes to exceptional con
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