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title: "Future of Life Institute: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit organization which advocates against large-scale risks from technology, with a focus on existential risk from artificial general intelligence (AI). FLI's work includes grantmaking, educational outreach, and advocacy within the United Nations, United States government, and European Union institutions."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-future-of-life-institute
type: Organization
wikidata: Q18356657
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Life_Institute
website: https://futureoflife.org/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Future of Life Institute

> The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit organization which advocates against large-scale risks from technology, with a focus on existential risk from artificial general intelligence (AI). FLI's work includes grantmaking, educational outreach, and advocacy within the United Nations, United States government, and European Union institutions.

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## Facts

- Category: Research lab
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2014-03-01
- Headquarters: Brussels
- Status: private
- Website: https://futureoflife.org/
- Also known as: FLI
- Industries: research

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/fli_org
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/future-of-life-institute
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-rCCy3FQ-GItDimSR9lhzw
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/futureoflifeinstitute
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futureoflifeinstitute

## Key people

- Max Tegmark, founder (Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist)
- Jaan Tallinn, founder (Estonian investor and programmer (born 1972))
- Anthony Aguirre, founder (American cosmologist)
- Meia Chita-Tegmark, founder (researcher (ORCID 0000-0003-3514-8737))
- Max Tegmark, chair (Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist)
- Meia Chita-Tegmark, board member (researcher (ORCID 0000-0003-3514-8737))

## Revenue

- 2014-01-01: USD 201.3 thousand (Wikidata)
- 2015-01-01: USD 2.1 million (Wikidata)
- 2016-01-01: USD 3.3 million (Wikidata)
- 2017-01-01: USD 2.3 million (Wikidata)
- 2018-01-01: USD 2.7 million (Wikidata)
- 2019-01-01: USD 2.4 million (Wikidata)
- 2020-01-01: USD 482.5 thousand (Wikidata)
- 2021-01-01: USD 549.5 million (Wikidata)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Future of Life Institute, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-future-of-life-institute#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18356657, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Life_Institute

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