Existential Hope Worldbuilding Course
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💸 Grantmakers
Supports work reducing existential risk from AI, biotech, and making great futures more likely.
Funds social entrepreneurs tackling urgent global challenges.
Invests in responsible tech, digital governance, and civic empowerment.
Strategic philanthropy backing exceptional people solving hard problems.
Supports ethical AI, data equity, and human-centered technology.
Funds AI safety, biosecurity, global health, and long-term impact.
Advocates for trustworthy AI, internet health, and abundance and growth.
Supports equitable, rights-based approaches to technology development.
Funds civic tech, digital rights, and inclusive governance.
Supports early-stage, high-impact projects focused on existential risk reduction.
Launches global competitions to incentivize radical breakthroughs.
🧠 Futures thinking & strategic imagination
Nonprofit pioneer in foresight, future-casting, and trend analysis.
Global development foresight hub within the United Nations.
Promotes longtermist research in philosophy, economics, and public policy.
Student-led research on existential risk and long-term futures.
Strategic foresight consultancy for navigating long-term trajectories.
Maps emerging signals of change in sustainability and global systems.
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk – Interdisciplinary research center studying global catastrophic risks.
Fosters speculative and participatory futures through design.
Encourages long-term thinking through cultural and technological projects.
Conducts foundational research to inform effective long-term decision-making.
🏛️ Policy & governance
Research and field-building for global AI governance.
Policy-focused research on AI and tech for national security.
Policy think tank advancing science, innovation, and prosperity.
Works to prevent nuclear and biological catastrophes.
Communicates extreme risks like unaligned AI to broader audiences.
Innovates civic tech and governance through public sector experimentation.
Policy org advancing science and innovation for long-term good.
Reduces nuclear and bio-threats through global cooperation
Justice-driven research on the societal impacts of AI systems.
Promotes AI safety through research, awareness, and field-building.
🌱 Communities, fellowships & ecosystems
Supports innovators building transformative futures.
Youth-led movement advocating for ethical, inclusive AI policy.
Global community of social entrepreneurs driving systems-level change.
Helps people align their work with meaningful global impact.
Explores and advocates for a philosophy of progress.
Movement redesigning democracy, identity, and markets for collective flourishing.
Global community advancing speculative and participatory design.
Explores tech infrastructure, power, and digital design ethics.
Inspires long-term thinking through projects like the 10,000-year clock.
Hosts events and conversations about technology, progress, and the future.
Storytelling platform sharing real projects building a better world.
Works to realign technology with human and societal well-being.
Builds infrastructure and theory for governing digital spaces and communities.
Works to realign tech with human well-being.
Community exploring new governance and market mechanisms.