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Future of Humanity Institute 2005-2024: Final Report — EA Forum

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Anders Sandberg has written a “final report” released simultaneously with the announcement of FHI’s closure. The abstract and an excerpt follow. Normally manifestos are written first, and then hopefully stimulate actors to implement their vision. This document is the reverse: an epitaph summarizing what the Future of Humanity Institute was, what we did and why, what we learned, and what we think comes next. It can be seen as an oral history of FHI from some of its members. It will not be unbiased, nor complete, but hopefully a useful historical source. I have received input from other people who worked at FHI, but it is my perspective and others would no doubt place somewhat different emphasis on the various strands of FHI work. One of the most important insights from the successes of FHI is to have a long-term perspective on one’s research. While working on currently fashionable and fundable topics may provide success in academia, aiming for building up fields that are needed, writing

Future of Humanity Institute 2005-2024: Final Report — EA Forum Hide table of contents Future of Humanity Institute 2005-2024: Final Report by Pablo Apr 17 2024 6 min read 89 224 Building effective altruism Future of Humanity Institute Announcements and updates Organization updates Postmortems & retrospectives History of effective altruism Frontpage Future of Humanity Institute 2005-2024: Final Report What we did well Where we failed So, you want to start another FHI? 89 comments This is a linkpost for https://static1.squarespace.com/static/660e95991cf0293c2463bcc8/t/661a3fc3cecceb2b8ffce80d/1

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