05/27/2026
Here's what you may have missed last week in AI news.
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The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working on reducing extreme risks and steering transformative technologies to benefit humanity.
The Institute's work is made up of three main strands: grantmaking for risk reduction, educational outreach, and advocacy within the United Nations, US government and European Union institutions. FLI has become one of the world's leading voices on the governance of AI having created one of the earliest and most influential sets of governance principles: the Asilomar AI Principles. Want to know more about who we are? Visit www.futureoflife.org
05/27/2026
Is this the highest-stakes gamble in human history?
A handful of the world's richest companies are racing to build artificial general intelligence - advanced AI that could outperform humans at almost every cognitive task. So why are even those building this technology predicting potential disaster... and what happens if they succeed?
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05/23/2026
"In a time when AI presently risks diminishing our personal agency, and opens up further risks to humanity as a whole, it is helpful to be reminded of the distinctive goodness of being human."
🔗 What to expect from Pope Leo's encyclical on AI, to be released Monday: https://futureoflife.org/religion/magnificent-humanity-the-popes-first-encyclical-concerns-ai/
05/21/2026
"The draft has been underway for months, with inputs from dozens of scholars and clerics, and represents the considered judgment of the billion-member-strong Catholic Church. More importantly, that Church is speaking from a two thousand year tradition of reflection upon the meaning of human life. Advanced AI is compelling us to ask what it means to be human..."
Ahead of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI, coming out May 25, FLI's Brian Boyd outlines everything you need to know about it - and what to expect:
Magnificent Humanity - The Pope's First Encyclical Concerns AI - Future of Life Institute Everything you need to know about the upcoming encyclical on AI.
05/20/2026
Here's what you may have missed last week in AI:
05/13/2026
Despite what AI companies want you to believe, AGI is not inevitable.
The race-to-the-bottom to build it is not inevitable.
Losing control of our future is not inevitable.
We can build AI that works for humanity, instead of replacing us.
This is how 👉 BetterPathFor.ai
05/05/2026
Here's what you may have missed last week in AI news:
04/30/2026
"[AI] models are doubling in their time horizon every approximately 104 days... Mythos will just be the beginning. I think this will only get more and more of a national security concern."
-Peter Wildeford, Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network, on the latest FLI Podcast episode.
Watch the full episode here, or on your favourite podcast player: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2x639ist6s
04/28/2026
Here's what you may have missed last week in AI news:
04/22/2026
Military uses of AI are in the news now more than ever before. But what does AI in modern warfare *actually* look like?
🔗 Learn more: aw.news
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