# AI Tools for Navigating Existential Risk – San Francisco 2025

- Channel: [Funding the Commons](https://streameth.org/funding_the_commons)
- Date: 2025-10-07
- Duration: 15:26
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-P2C34M_0ZCc
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2C34M_0ZCc

## Description

AI Tools for Navigating Existential Risk: What if we could use today’s AI capabilities to improve our chances of surviving tomorrow? In this fireside chat, Ben Goldhaber and Lou de Kerhuelvez explore how the Future of Life Foundation is leveraging AI for coordination, epistemics, and security. From early-stage tooling to legal infrastructure like the Windfall Trust, the conversation explores what it takes to build for a future shaped by AI—without being overtaken by it. 

Speakers: Ben Goldhaber (Future of Life Foundation), Lou de Kerhuelvez (N0des)

This session was part of the 12th edition of Funding the Commons, held March 15–16, 2025, at the Internet Archive in San Francisco.

Learn more at https://www.fundingthecommons.io