We’re making an impact...
...and we’re ready to grow
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. Throughout 2021-22, we addressed this challenge head-on: working collectively, we meticulously devised 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 structured, iterative model for defining, designing, and deploying new projects, represented visually below. By utilizing these methods we ensure that our funds are disbursed effectively and that our projects are geared to make a robustly positive impact.
Our institutional engineering model
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).
Achieving our 3-year plan
We are eager to scale up our impact. In fact, we have a number of projects queued up, but we require additional staff. If you find value in our work, please consider making a donation. Your support for The Future Society goes directly towards bringing more talent and expertise to our team.
You are welcome to make a donation 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 hear more about our plan for impact, please reach out to donate@thefuturesociety.org.
