The coming years will be critical for establishing rules for the development and deployment of AI. In these momentous times, independent civil society organizations like ours are doubling down on efforts to provide policymakers with better advice and research.
By funding our work, you can make a difference in advancing AI governance. Read our case statement to learn more about our impact and other reasons for supporting our work.
Donations can be made through the Every platform by clicking on the green button below. We accept donations via credit/debit cards, bank transfers, PayPal, Venmo, cryptocurrencies, stocks, and Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs). If you are interested in making a large contribution, or would like to learn more about us, please reach out to donate@thefuturesociety.org.
Our institutional engineering model
We take our tenets to heart and strive to use our resources effectively. We acknowledge that—due to the rapidly-evolving nature of our field—it can be difficult to forecast which avenues of work have the greatest potential for positive impact. We have addressed this challenge head-on: we developed a prioritization method to help us determine how to allocate our resources, taking into consideration projects' potential impact, risks, uncertainties, and the degree to which they match the capabilities of our team. We also designed a iterative model for defining, designing, and deploying new projects, represented visually below. By utilizing these methods we ensure that our projects are geared to make a robustly positive impact.
The Athens Roundtable is The Future Society’s flagship forum, at which thousands of attendees convene to discuss contemporary topics at the intersection of AI and the rule of law.
Ideas are solutions for identified gaps, opportunities and challenges, such as a Code of Conduct for the R&D of foundation models or an AI Office for the enforcement of AI policy.
Blueprints are plans for implementing institutional solutions, such as our step-by-step plan for EU Regulatory sandboxes for AI or our memo on institutionalized industry-regulators dialogue for joint governance of general-purpose AI.
Vessels are existing institutions which we use to turn our Blueprints in reality, such as draft legislations, standard-setting organizations, multilateral organizations, industry-wide alliances or bilateral agreements (e.g. TTC).
