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Rhys retweeted
After a decade leading @foresightinst, I am transitioning out of the role as president and CEO and joining the Board of Directors. Foresight is in the strongest shape of its forty years, with our co-founder @lifeext as interim President. It’s hard to overstate how proud I am of our team’s impact, how grateful I am for our collaborators and supporters along the way and how excited I am for what’s next for this beacon of light of an organization. More about what’s next for me soon. In the meantime, join us at Vision Weekend in November to celebrate and kick off the next decade!
After ten years leading Foresight, Allison Duettmann is joining our Board of Directors as she transitions out of her role as President and CEO. Co-founder Christine Peterson will serve as interim President while our board has begun the search for Foresight’s next CEO.
Under Allison’s leadership, Foresight became the organization you know today: six focus areas, a fellowship that has supported 266 researchers, a multi-million-dollar grants program, Vision Weekends on three continents, and AI for Science and Safety Nodes in San Francisco and Berlin, built on her conviction that open science needs open compute.
And the team she built: 12 people across San Francisco and Berlin, running grants, fellowships, seminars, AI Nodes, Vision Weekends, and shaping what comes next – Karolina Eklöw, Lydia La Roux, Amber Duettmann, Madeleine Sarah, Beatrice Erkers, Martina Pepiciello, Bradley Clark Royes, Rachel Farley, Tara Padovan-Hickman, Madeleine Ahlström, Lisa Stenvinkel.
So thank you, Allison, for making Foresight what it is today. We look forward to seeing you, and all of you, at Vision Weekend in November, where you’ll meet the team and we’ll unveil what the future holds!
Interesting to think about neglectedness for Earth Stabilization.
Only $50M/yr spent today for a massive 500M DALY problem.
Good to see folks like @deepsciventures @RethinkPriors @RenPhilanthropy tackle this.
Tipping points continue to be underrated!
Just got my tickets for @aiDotEngineer Code Summit Nov 10-12 in SF. You should too!
High talent density & great talks like previous ones from @dexhorthy @mattpocockuk @zachlloydtweets @geoffreylitt etc.
I'm reminded of AI Engineer 2023, chatting with @FireworksAI_HQ when they were 30 people, etc.
Expecting a preview for 2027. @swyx is a curatorial beast.
Apply here: ai.engineer/code/2026
I wrote about this in AINews last night but basically aie.codes is gathering the top 1000 AI Engineers to 1) accurately represent the 2026 SOTA in AI x Code, 2) preview 2027.
So proud to have gathered the best collection of invited attendees, speakers and sponsors to reflect the three themes that have defined this year:
Cool essay from @deepfates on Pace Layers in the AI era.
Layer speed is a function of attention. As more AI attention percolates down the layers, the whole wheel turns faster.
Nature moving at the speed of fashion. 👀
I'm absolutely thrilled to have written this article for Long Now. It's about AI and time: how we got here, and what we can do now, when all of the pace layers are disrupted at once by an influx of new minds.
I wrote this over the summer. At the time, it seemed maybe too weird, like people wouldn't believe or understand what I was saying. And of course, everything changes so fast that it's hard to imagine writing something about AI that far in advance and have it still make sense. But I think the events of the last few months have only made it more relevant.
The Long Now Foundation has been an inspiration to me for a decade now, and has changed my life in countless ways. I'm incredibly grateful and honored to be among so many of my heroes and friends and colleagues represented in this issue of Pace Layers and Long Now Ideas. I wouldn't be here in San Francisco, here on Twitter, or here in the field of artificial intelligence if not for this community.
The conversation about AI has been fractious. It's very hard to think about how to fit this sudden, disruptive, technological change into the 10,000-year view. I hope I provide some insights, or at least some new angles for the conversation. It's scary to go on the record, especially about something that will affect everyone, and affect the rest of history. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong forever!
Please read and enjoy, and post quotes and screenshots, and buy Pace Layers Issue 3 so you can have a permanent hard copy. I have always wanted to be a part of the 10,000-year library, so I have to be serious for once and try to stand for something. Let me know what you think.
James C. Scott has such a great definition of domestication—control over reproduction.
Very important right now imo.
Rhys retweeted
One underrated dynamic in the politics of AI -- expectations of future political salience can affect political positioning today.
E.g., Gov. Newsom seems to be running far and fast away from his previous veto of SB1047, in part because he expects AI to be a top-3 political issue when he's campaigning in 2027/28.
Even though AI is not a top-10 issue today, I'd expect other politicians to start "updating all the way" on political salience post-midterms and realize that positions they take on AI over the next 6-12 months will be the basis of political judgment in 2028.
