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Future of Humanity

The best minds, on one problem: a future people will actually want to live in. Individuals. Families. Communities.

Space

Exploration and settlement. A return to the Moon and Mars on terms free people can live with.

Intelligence

AI that leaves a person, a family, and a town freer. Not a surveillance state as the price of progress.

Life

Food, water, and power that hold when deserts, hunger, and failed systems do not.

Pillar 01 · Space

Free people, exploring the Moon, Mars, and the stars.

Exploration and settlement. A return to the Moon and Mars on terms free people can live with, and a future people will actually want to live in.

Brain trustOne hundred scientists in the field. Names on the work.
PrizesFor testable work in space and settlement.
The workResearch, infrastructure, prototypes, and deployments beyond Earth.
The founding gift
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Pillar 02 · Intelligence

The ethical use of artificial intelligence.

Intelligence that augments people, not replaces them. AI that leaves a person, a family, and a town freer, and keeps human agency, wellbeing, and dignity at the center.

Brain trustOne hundred scientists in the field. Names on the work.
PrizesFor testable work in ethical AI.
The workResearch, prototypes, and deployments that uplift humanity.
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Pillar 03 · Life

Longer, healthier, freer lives.

So that every generation lives longer, healthier, freer, and wealthier lives. The life systems a community depends on: water, food, energy, and the science of longevity.

WaterSafe water that holds when systems fail.
Food and powerHarvests and grids that hold when deserts, hunger, and failed systems do not.
LongevityMore healthy years, for every generation.
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Active projects

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Projects nominated through the Foundation and being supported today. One is active. More will come from the First 100 Fellows.

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Lunar Grove

A working farm built the way a lunar habitat is built: modular habitat pods that grow fresh crops and recycle water and nutrients in a closed loop, the problem a crew on the Moon would solve every day.

Director
Dr. D. Marshall Porterfield
Pillars
Life · Space
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Nominations coming from the First 100 Fellows.

Open slot

Nominations coming from the First 100 Fellows.

Open slot

Nominations coming from the First 100 Fellows.

The founding gift

$1,000,000

One gift opens the scientific work. It does not buy a building. It buys the brain trust, the first prizes, and the closed room.

$400,000One hundred scientists in each field. Names on the work.
$300,000Prizes for testable work in space, ethical AI, and life systems.
$200,000The invitation-only summit. Closed doors. Real projects.
$100,000The public record, and the next generation of engineers.
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The line

Wherever humanity goes, freedom goes with it.

Settlement is not an escape from the obligations of a free people. It is the same obligation, carried farther.

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