Organization · Nonprofit
Future of Life Institute
A nonprofit working to steer transformative technology away from extreme risks; it built a secure-hardware AI governance demonstration and partners on a network-logger prototype.
futureoflife.org · also called FLI
FLI describes itself as a non-profit whose mission is to steer transformative technology towards benefiting life and away from extreme, large-scale risks. Its verification work includes:
- Secure-hardware demonstration. With Mithril Security, FLI built a proof of concept on Intel SGX and the BlindAI framework in which a model owner leases weights to an untrusted party 1. It was designed to keep the weights inaccessible to the borrower, report how much computing is done and provide an off-switch 1. FLI calls it "not necessarily deployable as is", citing performance and hardware attacks that need mitigation 1. See TEE remote attestation for AI workloads.
- Confidential network logger. The AI Futures Project's verification page lists FLI and SASH as building a confidential network logger prototype 2, and SASH names FLI as an early partner in that work 3. See SASH confidential network logger.
Implementations
- An open-source prototype that routes a facility's inference traffic through a logger and re-runs requests on a separate cluster to check it serves inference.
Mechanisms
Mechanisms this organization has designed, built, evaluated or supplied.
- Trusted execution environments (TEEs) in CPUs and GPUs sign reports of loaded software, so a remote party can check which code ran an AI workload.
Publications
Sources this organization authored or published.
- CFuture of Life Institute (2023). Exploration of secure hardware solutions for safe AI deployment. Future of Life Institute. RecordCited by TEE remote attestation for AI workloads; Future of Life Institute
Mentioned in
Sources
- CFuture of Life Institute (2023). Exploration of secure hardware solutions for safe AI deployment. Future of Life Institute. Source recordSupports: Intel SGX proof of concept with Mithril Security: design aims and stated limits
- CAI Futures Project (2026). Get Involved in Verification. AI 2040. Source recordSupports: listed with SASH as building a confidential network logger prototype
- CSingapore AI Safety Hub (SASH) (2026). Internationalising AI Verification. SASH blog. Source recordSupports: named by SASH as an early partner