Foresight Institute

Private personal AI. Reversing cellular age. Brain-computer interfaces. Universal fabricators. Funding human agency. New life on Mars. Whether AI can be conscious, and whether it matters.

Nov 13-15, Vision Weekend returns to San Francisco!

Three days of expert talks, curated 1-on-1s, tech demos, a $10K pitch grant, and our main 40th anniversary celebration in the US.

Speakers include:

• Wojciech Zaremba (OpenAI Foundation)
• Matthew MacDougall (Neuralink)
• Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol)
• Max Hodak (Science Corporation)
• Matthew Botvinick (Anthropic)
• Nan Ransohoff (Frontier Climate)
• Séb Krier (Google DeepMind)
• Seemay Chou (Astera Institute)
• Robin Hanson (George Mason University)
• Alex Gladstein (Human Rights Foundation)

+ many more. Full lineup in thread.

Join us across iconic Bay Area locations, including Lighthaven, @internetarchive, USS Hornet aircraft carrier, and lab tours at @E11BIO, @LongshotSpace, @calwave_energy, @DolphinLabs, @ScienceCorp_ , plus a cypherpunk party at our AI node.

Get tickets before prices increase Oct 1. Link in thread.

Ahead of Vision Weekend USA, our Foresight Fellows will join a leadership workshop run in partnership with the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership.

@FungInstitute trains engineers and technologists to lead, combining technical depth with leadership, communication, and entrepreneurship.

This is a vision that maps closely to our own: to support the people advancing frontier science not only in the lab, but also how they lead and tell the story of their work.

We’re excited to be opening up this collaboration for our Foresight Fellows, and grateful to the Fung Institute for supporting them not just as researchers and builders, but as communicators and leaders.

Founders raising for frontier science, researchers ready to leave the lab, and investors ready to back them: meet each other at our Founder & Funder Mixer on Sunday, Nov 15, in Berkeley.

For people building and funding at the frontier of science and technology, with curated intros across:

• Secure and sovereign AI
• Molecular manufacturing and nanotech
• Neurotech and neuro AI
• Space and energy
• Longevity biotech

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and researchers can request a subsidized ticket: luma.com/foresight-vq9z

Powered by: @protocollabs Capital, @Convergent_FROs, @frachtisvc, and @RenPhilanthropy.

Community partners: @JoinEdgeCity, @LBF_org, @SynBioBeta, and @theresidency.

Our 40th Year Impact Report is live.

Forty years ago, Foresight was incorporated to take seriously the technologies that could transform the human condition, and back the people building them before anyone else would.

Here’s what this work looks like four decades in: foresight.org/impact2026

Story in thread.

We are currently seeking technical grant advisors with expertise in one of our focus areas.

Our grants support projects that use AI to advance science and safety across AI security, privacy, decentralized cooperation, human empowerment,neurotechnology, longevity biotechnology, and molecular nanotechnology.

Find out more and apply: airtable.com/appyVXc5SMPAvI…