Saving Humanity from Homo Sapiens (SHfHS) is a philanthropic foundation dedicated to preventing human-caused existential risks. Rather than conducting research directly, SHfHS uses its endowment to seek out and support researchers and academics working on reducing the probability of global catastrophes including risks from advanced AI, nuclear war, catastrophic climate change, and other human-created threats. The organization was co-founded by Rick Schwall, a retired Silicon Valley professional, and Thomas Eliot, a mathematician who became involved in AI safety work after attending the Singularity Institute's Rationality Boot Camp in 2011.
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SHfHS believes that the most effective way to reduce existential risk is to identify and fund the researchers and organizations already doing the most important work in this space, rather than conducting research directly. By acting as a philanthropic intermediary, the organization can concentrate resources on the highest-impact efforts across multiple threat categories simultaneously. For AI specifically, they focus on supporting work toward 'Friendly AI' — ensuring that recursively self-improving artificial general intelligence is designed with human-compatible values from the outset, before an intelligence explosion makes course-correction impossible.
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- Apr 2, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC
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- Mar 19, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC