Foresight Xhope Salon: Lightning Round

​Part of Foresight's salon series using an Existential Hope lens on civilization's potential, this time around with lightning talks.

​If you'd like to propose a lightning talk to present at this, or one of our upcoming salons, please apply here: https://680d4kcs6ki.typeform.com/to/iVrf7mAk

​We explore existential risk vs existential hope, small kills all risk from tech, differential tech development, top down-vs. bottom-up solutions, resilience, escape, and more.

​Lightning talks include:

• ​Joscha Bach | AI: Our most important existential hope

• ​Rachel Momperousse | Planetary Defense: planning for our future on Earth

• ​Alder Riley | Fast vs. slow mass: Supply chains in the era of interplanetary travel

• ​Anastasia Prosina | Solving an existential risk of humanity with autonomous human spaceflight

​After the lightning talks, we invite you to breakout according to topics, that may include:

• ​Utopias, Protopias, Paretotopias

• ​Solving Coordination Failures

• ​Value Evolution, Drift, Convergence

• ​Security, Computing, AI Progress

• ​Bio, Nano, Neurotech Progress

• ​Climate, Energy, Space Progress

​We'll gather in the salon for a report-out, followed by more time for connection.

​Drinks and light snacks will be served but any additions are always appreciated <3

​Foresight Institute supports the beneficial development of high-impact technology to make great futures more likely. We focus on science and technology that is too early-stage,interdisciplinary, or ambitious for legacy institutions to support, such as biotech, neurotech, nanotech, space & computing.

​More about Foresight: https://foresight.org