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Foresight 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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Foresight Institute	Description	Nonprofit research organization and think tank focused on nanotechnology, secure AI, neurotechnology, longevity biotechnology, space, and existential hope. Operates through grants, prizes, fellowships, and conferences rather than direct laboratory research. Known for the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (since 1993) and recent expansion into AI safety grantmaking.	2025
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# Advancing frontier science and technology since 1986.

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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

[All upcoming events](https://foresight.org/engage/)

Vision Weekend

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## Vision Weekend   United Kingdom 2026

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June 5-7, 2026

London, United Kingdom


[Register](https://foresight.org/events/vision-weekend-uk-2026/)

Workshop

[Secure AI](https://foresight.org/focus-areas/secure-ai/)

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## Secure & Sovereign AI Workshop

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July 18-19, 2026

Berlin, Germany


[Register](https://foresight.org/events/2026-secure-sovereign-ai-workshop/)

## Distinguished Awardees

### David Baker

Biochemist & Computational Biologist

2004 Winner of our Feynman Prize


2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry


![](https://foresight.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/David-Baker-in-lab_social-1260x1147-copy-1.png)

### Sir J. Fraser Stoddart

(1942 – 2024)

Chemist

2007 Winner of our Feynman Prize


2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry


![](https://foresight.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Prof-Stoddart-2-1.png)

## 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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[Explore conferences](https://foresight.org/engage/vision-weekend/)

## 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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[Explore workshops](https://foresight.org/engage/workshops/)

## 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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[Explore AI Nodes](https://foresight.org/grants/grants-ai-for-science-safety/)

## 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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[Explore grants](https://foresight.org/engage/grants/)

## Prizes

Honoring the scientists Richard Feynman and Norm Hardy, we award two an

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