Centre for Future Generations (CFG) is a Brussels-based nonprofit think-and-do tank founded in 2022 by tech entrepreneur Steven Schuurman and social entrepreneur Laurens de Groot. CFG works to ensure that powerful emerging technologies — including advanced AI, synthetic biology, geoengineering, and neurotechnology — are governed in ways that protect human life, autonomy, rights, and freedoms. The organization operates through three interconnected approaches: anticipating future technology scenarios using foresight methods, informing policymakers about emerging risks and opportunities, and influencing policy through concrete proposals and advocacy. CFG is entirely philanthropy-funded and explicitly rejects primary support from governments, corporations, or political parties to preserve its independence.
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CFG believes that many of the worst outcomes from emerging technologies — including catastrophic misuse of AI, engineered pandemics, or ungoverned geoengineering — result from governance gaps: policymakers lack the foresight, knowledge, and policy tools to act before risks materialize. CFG works to close these gaps by anticipating technology trajectories before they become crises, educating and informing key decision-makers with independent and rigorous analysis, and then actively advocating for specific governance frameworks and policy interventions. By operating at the intersection of technical expertise and policy influence — particularly in Brussels, a global regulatory hub — CFG aims to shift how governments and institutions approach powerful technologies, making responsible governance the default rather than the exception.
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC
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- Mar 19, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC