Future of Life Institute

U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology AI Safety Institute Consortium

Partnership on AI, a nonprofit coalition committed to the responsible use of artificial intelligence.

The Future of Life Institute is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

The Institute also participates in the Forum for Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence, which is a network jointly hosted by Brookings and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).

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Does not represent commercial interests

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

5,531,210€

i) More information about our finances can be found on this webpage: https://futureoflife.org/about-us/finances/

ii) FLI only engaged in limited fundraising in 2023 and our total income amounted to 624,714 USD. One individual, Erik Otto, donated 600,000 USD to support our general operating work. All other donations were small grassroots and PayPal donations.

iii) Our budget deficit was covered entirely by our endowment, which has been provided by Vitalik Buterin in 2021. This funding has helped FLI maintain its independence. We are also using his donated funds to support a multi-year grant program: https://futureoflife.org/grantmaking/fli-announces-grants-program-for-existential-risk-reduction/

iv) FLI holds no cryptocurrency.

v) The budget figure provided is for the Future of Life Institute globally, of which our EU activities are a small part. The total budget amount does not include our external regranting (e.g. our PhD fellowships).

vi) With the exception of the Estonian Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, who has served on FLI’s Board of Directors since its 2014 founding, donors do not influence our policy positions. Our conflict of interest policy can be found on this webpage: https://futureoflife.org/conflict-of-interest-policy/

vii) The euro amounts listed have been converted from US dollars at the exchange rate for Friday December 29, 2023.

viii) Our annual audit is in process, and FLI reserves the right to modify these provisional figures once the audit has been completed.

ix) FLI makes use of the services from Dentons Global Advisors, who provide us with analysis and strategic advice. Our expenditure on these services is declared in their entry (Dentons Global Advisors Europe SA, 7028457765-59).

x) Our annual spend on EU advocacy amounts to € 273,176 EUR. This includes staff salaries and our spending on Dentons Global Advisors.

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Artificial intelligence and digital

Selected publications, full list available on our main website:
- Monthly newsletter on autonomous weapons, from March 2024 onwards
- Competition in Generative AI: Future of Life Institute’s Feedback to the European Commission’s Consultation, March 2024
- European Commission Manifesto: Recommendations for the next European Commission mandate, Future of Life Institute, March 2024
- Policymaking in the Pause. What can policymakers do now to combat risks from advanced AI systems?, Future of Life Institute, April 2023.
- FLI Position Paper on AI Liability, Future of Life Institute, November 2022.
- Call For Better Protections of People Affected at the Source of the AI Value Chain, Future of Life Institute, October 2022.
- A Proposal for a Definition of General Purpose Artificial Intelligence Systems, Future of Life Institute, October 2022.
- The EU needs to protect (more) against AI manipulation, EurActiv, February 2022.
- Position Paper on the AI Act, Future of Life Institute, August 2021.
- Lethal Autonomous Weapons Exist; They Must Be Banned, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum, June 2021.
- Open letter on Foresight in AI regulation, Future of Life Institute, 2020.

Events
- Made in Europe: Generating the ecosystem of trustworthy AI innovation, May 16 2024

Relevant websites run by FLI
- futureoflife.org, main website
- artificialintelligenceact.eu, provides analysis on the AI Act as well as a biweekly newsletter
- autonomousweapons.org, makes the case for the regulation of autonomous weapons
- autonomousweaponswatch.org, database demonstrating which weapons systems with concerning levels of autonomy have been developed globally

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3 meetings found. Download meetings

The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.

• Date	30 Nov 2023	Location	brussels
  Subject	AI Act
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Attending	Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet member)

• Date	13 Nov 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Artificial Intelligence act
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Dentons Global Advisors Europe SA

• Date	18 Jul 2023	Location	Brussels and online (hybrid)
  Subject	AI
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Liviu Stirbat (Cabinet member) Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Dentons Global Advisors Europe SA