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This is a timeline of the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI).

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Before 2005 This is the period leading up to FHI's existence. Transhumanism, various mailing lists, Bostrom developing his early ideas, etc.
2005–?? FHI is founded
2014–?? Superintelligence is published

Full timeline

Year Month and date Event type Details
1973 March 10 Nick Bostrom is born.
1998 August 30 Website The domain name for the Anthropic Principle website, anthropic-principle.com, is registered.[1] The first Internet Archive snapshot of the website is from January 25, 1999.[2]
2001 October 31 Website The Simulation Argument website's domain name, simulation-argument.com, is registered.[3] The first Internet Archive snapshot of the website would be on December 5, 2001.[4] The website hosts information about the simulation hypothesis, especially as articulated by Bostrom. In the FHI Achievements Report for 2008–2010, the Simulation Argument website is listed under websites maintained by FHI members.[5]
2003 Publication Nick Bostrom's "Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development" is published in the journal Utilitas.[6] This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2005 June 1 or November 29 The Future of Humanity Institute is established.[8][9][10]
2005 December 18 Publication "How Unlikely is a Doomsday Catastrophe?" by Max Tegmark and Nick Bostrom is published.[11] This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2006 Publication "What is a Singleton?" by Nick Bostrom is published in the journal Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations. The paper introduces the idea of a singleton, a hypothetical "world order in which there is a single decision-making agency at the highest level".[12]
2006 March 2 Website The ENHANCE project website is created[13] by Anders Sandberg.[14]
2006 July Publication "The Reversal Test: Eliminating Status Quo Bias in Applied Ethics" by Nick Bostrom and Toby Ord is published.[15] The paper introduces the reversal test in the context of bioethics of human enhancement. This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2006 July 19 Website The domain name for the existential risk website, existential-risk.org, is registered on this day.[16]
2006 November 20 Website Robin Hanson starts Overcoming Bias.[17] The first post on the blog seems to be from November 20.[18] On one of the earliest snapshots of the blog, the listed contributors are: Nick Bostrom, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Robin Hanson, Eric Schliesser, Hal Finney, Nicholas Shackel, Mike Huemer, Guy Kahane, Rebecca Roache, Eric Zitzewitz, Peter McCluskey, Justin Wolfers, Erik Angner, David Pennock, Paul Gowder, Chris Hibbert, David Balan, Patri Friedman, Lee Corbin, Anders Sandberg, and Carl Shulman.[19] The blog seems to have received support from FHI in the beginning.[20][14]
2005–2007 Lighthill Risk Network is created by Peter Taylor of FHI.[14]
2007 May Workshop The Whole Brain Emulation Workshop is hosted by FHI.[14] The workshop would eventually lead to the publication of "Whole Brain Emulation: A Technical Roadmap" in 2008.[21]
2007 August 24 Publication Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker is published.[22][23]
2007 November Website Practical Ethics in the News (at www.practicalethicsnews.com) launches.[21] (I think this is the same as Practical Ethics mentioned below.) At some point the site begins redirecting to http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/ but as of March 2018 the site is "temporarily offline for maintenance" (for several years now).
2008 Website Practical Ethics, a blog about ethics by FHI's Program on Ethics of the New Biosciences and the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, launches.[24]
2008 Publication "Whole Brain Emulation: A Technical Roadmap" by Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom is published.[21] This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2008 January 22 Website The domain name for the Global Catastrophic Risks website, global-catastrophic-risks.com, is registered.[25] The first snapshot on the Internet Archive would be on May 5, 2008.[26]
2008 September 15 Publication Global Catastrophic Risks is published.[27][23]
2009 Publication "Probing the Improbable: Methodological Challenges for Risks with Low Probabilities and High Stakes" by Rafaela Hillerbrand, Toby Ord, and Anders Sandberg is published.[21] This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2009 January 1 Publication On the group blog (at the time) Overcoming Bias Nick Bostrom publishes a blog post proposing the Parliamentary Model of dealing with moral uncertainty. The blog post mentions that he is writing a paper on the topic with Toby Ord, but as of March 2018 the paper seems to never have been published. The paper title might be "Fundamental Moral Uncertainty".[5][28] Despite the idea not being published in full, it is often referenced in discussions.
2009 January 22 Publication Human Enhancement is published.[29][23][21]
2009 February Website LessWrong, the group blog about rationality, launches.[30] The blog is sponsored by FHI,[21] although it is unclear to what extent FHI is involved in the creation.[31]
2010 June 21 Publication Anthropic Bias by Nick Bostrom is published. The book covers the topic of reasoning under observation selection effects.[32][23]
2011 March 18 Publication Enhancing Human Capacities is published.[33][34]
2012 August 15 Website The first Internet Archive snapshot of the Winter Intelligence Conference website is from this day.[35] FHI hosts the conference for 2012.[36]
2012 September 5 Social media The FHI Twitter account, @FHIOxford, is registered.[37]
2013 February Publication "Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority" by Nick Bostrom is published in Global Policy.[38] This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2013 September 17 Publication "The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation?" by Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne is published.[39] This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2014 The Global Priorities Project (GPP) runs as a pilot project within the Centre for Effective Altruism. Team members of GPP include Owen Cotton-Barratt and Toby Ord of the Future of Humanity Institute.[40] GPP would also eventually become a collaboration between Centre for Effective Altruism and FHI.[41]
2014 Publication "Managing existential risk from emerging technologies" by Nick Beckstead and Toby Ord is published in the report "Innovation: Managing Risk, Not Avoiding It. Evidence and Case Studies."[42] This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2014 May 12 Social media FHI researchers Anders Sandberg and Andrew Snyder-Beattie do an AMA ("ask me anything") on Reddit.[43][44]
2014 July–September Publication Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is published.[45] In March 2017, the Open Philanthropy Project considered this book FHI's "most significant output so far and the best strategic analysis of potential risks from advanced AI to date."[46]
2014 September Publication The policy brief "Unprecedented Technological Risks" by Nick Beckstead et al. is published.[47] This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2014 September 24 Social media Nick Bostrom does an AMA ("ask me anything") on Reddit.[48]
2015 The Strategic AI Research Center starts some time after this period.[49]
2015 Publication "Learning the Preferences of Bounded Agents" is published. One of the paper's authors is Owain Evans at FHI.[50][51] This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2015 Publication "Corrigibility" by Soares et al. is published. One of the authors, Stuart Armstrong, is affiliated with FHI. This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2015 September 15 Social media Anders Sandberg does an AMA ("ask me anything") on Reddit.[52]
2015 October Publication "Moral Trade" by Toby Ord is published in the journal Ethics.[53] This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2016 Publication Stuart Armstrong's paper "Off-policy Monte Carlo agents with variable behaviour policies" is published.[54][51] This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2016 Publication "Learning the Preferences of Ignorant, Inconsistent Agents" is published. One of the paper's authors is Owain Evans at FHI.[55][51] This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2016 The Global Politics of AI Research Group is established by Carrick Flynn and Allan Dafoe (both of whom are affiliated with FHI). The group "consists of eleven research members more than thirty volunteers" and "has the mission of helping researchers and political actors to adopt the best possible strategy around the development of AI."[56] (It's not clear where the group is based or if it even meets physically.)
2016 Publication "Thompson Sampling is Asymptotically Optimal in General Environments" by Leike et al. is published.[57] This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2016 January 26 Publication "The Unilateralist's Curse and the Case for a Principle of Conformity" by Nick Bostrom, Thomas Douglas, and Anders Sandberg is published in the journal Social Epistemology.[58] This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2016 February 8–9 Workshop The Global Priorities Project (a collaboration between FHI and the Centre for Effective Altruism) hosts a policy workshop on existential risk. Attendees included "twenty leading academics and policy-makers from the UK, USA, Germany, Finland, and Sweden".[59][56]
2016 May Publication The Global Priorities Project (associated with FHI) releases the Global Catastrophic Report 2016.[60]
2016 May Workshop FHI hosts a week-long workshop in Oxford called "The Control Problem in AI", attended by ten members of Machine Intelligence Research Institute.[56]
2016 May 27 – June 17 Workshop The Colloquium Series on Robust and Beneficial AI (CSRBAI), co-hosted by the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and FHI, takes place. The program brings "together a variety of academics and professionals to address the technical challenges associated with AI robustness and reliability, with a goal of facilitating conversations between people interested in a number of different approaches." At the program, Jan Leike and Stuart Armstrong of FHI each give a talk.[61]
2016 June (approximate) FHI recruits William MacAskill and Hilary Greaves to start a new "Programme on the Philosophical Foundations of Effective Altruism" as a collaboration between FHI and the Centre for Effective Altruism.[60]
2016 June Publication The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth, a book about the implications of whole brain emulation by FHI research associate Robin Hanson, is published.[62] In October, FHI and Hanson would organize a workshop about the book.[56]
2016 June 1 Publication The paper "Safely interruptible agents" is announced on the Machine Intelligence Research Institute blog. The paper is a collaboration between Google DeepMind and FHI, and one of the paper's authors is Stuart Armstrong of FHI.[63][51] The paper is also presented at the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).[60] This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2016 September Financial The Open Philanthropy Project recommends (to Good Ventures?) a grant of $115,652 to FHI to support the hiring of Piers Millett, who will work on biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.[64]
2016 September (approximate) Financial FHI receives a funding offer from Luke Ding to fund Hilary Greaves for four years starting mid-2017 (in case a proposed new institute is unable to raise academic funds for her) and William MacAskill's full salary for five years.[65]
2016 September 16 Publication Jan Leike's paper "Exploration Potential" is first uploaded to the arXiv.[66][51][56]
2016 September 22 FHI's page on its collaboration with Google DeepMind is published. However it is unclear when the actual collaboration began.[67]
2016 November Workshop The biotech horizon scanning workshop, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and FHI, takes place. The workshop and the overall "biological engineering horizon scanning" process is intended to lead up to "a peer-reviewed publication highlighting 15–20 developments of greatest likely impact."[56][68]
2016 December Workshop FHI hosts a workshop on "AI Safety and Blockchain". Attendees include Nick Bostrom, Vitalik Buterin, Jaan Tallinn, Wei Dai, Gwern Branwen, and Allan Dafoe. "The workshop explored the potential technical overlap between AI Safety and blockchain technologies and the possibilities for using blockchain, crypto-economics, and cryptocurrencies to facilitate greater global coordination."[69][56] It is unclear whether any output resulted from this workshop.
2017 Publication Slides for an upcoming paper by FHI researchers Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler, and Toby Ord, "Dissolving the Fermi Paradox", are posted.[70][71]
2017 Publication The report "Existential Risk: Diplomacy and Governance" is published. "This work began at the Global Priorities Project, whose policy work has now joined FHI."[72] The report gives an overview of existential risks and presents three recommendations for ways to reduce existential risks (chosen out of more then 100 proposals): (1) developing governance of geoengineering research; (2) establishing scenario plans and exercises for severe engineered pandemics at the international level; and (3) building international attention and support for existential risk reduction.[73]
2017 January 15 Publication "Agent-Agnostic Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning" is uploaded to the arXiv.[74][72]
2017 January 25 Publication The FHI Annual Review 2016 is published.[56]
2017 February 9 Publication Nick Bostrom's paper "Strategic Implications of Openness in AI Development" is published in the journal Global Policy.[75][51][72] The paper "covers a breadth of areas including long-term AI development, singleton versus multipolar scenarios, race dynamics, responsible AI development, and identification of possible failure modes."[56] This is a featured FHI publication.[7]
2017 March Financial The Open Philanthropy Project recommends (to Good Ventures?) a grant of $1,995,425 to FHI for general support.[46]
2017 April 26 Publication The online book Modeling Agents with Probabilistic Programs by Owain Evans (FHI research fellow), Andreas Stuhlmüller, John Salvatier (FHI intern), and Daniel Filan (FHI intern) is published. The book is available at https://agentmodels.org/.[76][77]
2017 April 27 Publication "That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox" is uploaded to the arXiv.[78][79][80]
2017 May 24 Publication "When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts" is published on the arXiv. Three of the authors of this paper are affiliated with FHI: Katja Grace, Allan Dafoe, and Owain Evans.[81]
2017 July Financial The Open Philanthropy Project recommends (to Good Ventures?) a grant of $299,320 to Yale University to support "to support research on the global politics of advanced artificial intelligence". The work will be led by Allan Dafoe, who will conduct part of the work at FHI.[82]
2017 July 17 Publication "Trial without Error: Towards Safe Reinforcement Learning via Human Intervention" is uploaded to the arXiv.[83][79]
2017 August 25 Publication FHI announces three new forthcoming papers in the latest issue of Health Security.[84][85]
2017 September 29 Financial Effective Altruism Grants fall 2017 recipients are announced. One of the recipients is Gregory Lewis, who will use the grant for "Research into biological risk mitigation with the Future of Humanity Institute." The grant amount for Lewis is £15,000 (about $20,000).[86]
2017 October–December FHI launches its Governance of AI Program, co-directed by Nick Bostrom and Allan Dafoe.[87]
2018 February 20 Publication The report "The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation" is published. The report forecasts malicious use of artificial intelligence in the short term and makes recommendations on how to mitigate these risks from AI. The report is authored by individuals at Future of Humanity Institute, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, OpenAI, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Center for a New American Security, and other institutions.[88][89][90]

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