The Birth of Metaculous and Its Impact

The Future of Life Institute is one of the oldest and most prominant organizations in the AI existential safety space, working on such topics as the AI pause open letter and how the EU AI Act can be improved. Metaculus is one of the premier forecasting sites on the internet. Behind both of them lie one man: Anthony Aguirre, who I talk with in this episode.

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Transcript: https://axrp.net/episode/2025/02/09/episode-38_7-anthony-aguirre-future-of-life-institute.html

FAR.AI: https://far.ai/

FAR.AI on X (aka Twitter): https://x.com/farairesearch

FAR.AI on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FARAIResearch

The Alignment Workshop: https://www.alignment-workshop.com/

Topics we discuss, and timestamps:

00:33 - Anthony, FLI, and Metaculus

06:46 - The Alignment Workshop

07:15 - FLI's current activity

11:04 - AI policy

17:09 - Work FLI funds

Links:

Future of Life Institute: https://futureoflife.org/

Metaculus: https://www.metaculus.com/

Future of Life Foundation: https://www.flf.org/

Episode art by Hamish Doodles: hamishdoodles.com