Focus Areas / Existential Hope

Existential Hope

Much of today’s attention is focused on the threats, risks, and generally bad outcomes to humanity. Existential Hope aims to empower coordination towards flourishing futures.

Podcasts

The Existential Hope Podcast invites leading experts in various fields to share what a positive future looks like to them, and how their work contributes to that vision.

Jason Crawford on How Technology Expands Human Choice and Control

Jason Crawford


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Elle Griffin on Researching the Ideal Society, From Utopian Books to Real-World Examples

Elle Griffin


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Andrew Critch on How AI Learns from Culture (and Why It Matters)

Andrew Critch


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Anna Gát on How to Create Communities That Connect, Even When People Disagree

Anna Gát


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Isabelle Boemeke on What Everyone Gets Wrong About Nuclear Energy

Isabelle Boemeke


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Sam Bowman on What’s Holding Back Progress (And How to Fix It)

Samuel Bowman


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Jacques Carolan On The future of brain health

Jacques Carolan


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Amy Proal On Rethinking chronic disease

Amy Proal


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Foresight Fellowship

The Foresight Fellowship is a one-year program supporting early-career scientists, engineers, and innovators to supercharge their ability to advance technological progress.

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Fellows

We support seven brilliant Existential Hope Fellows each year – early-career scientists and entrepreneurs working to shape positive futures.

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Ruairidh Battleday

Peggy Yin

Ninon Lizé Masclef

Mahlaqua Mila Noor

Fin Moorhouse

Abigail Olvera

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