The Millennium Project is an independent 501(c)(3) global futures research think tank founded in 1996 by Jerome Glenn and Theodore Gordon under the American Council for the United Nations University. Operating through a distributed network of 72 Nodes across six continents, the organization synthesizes expert input from thousands of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers into its flagship State of the Future reports, the 15 Global Challenges framework, and the State of the Future Index (SOFI). In recent years, the organization has undertaken significant multi-phase research on governance frameworks for the transition from Artificial Narrow Intelligence to Artificial General Intelligence, engaging prominent AI researchers and advocating for UN-level AGI governance mechanisms.
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The Millennium Project's theory of change rests on the premise that better collective thinking about the future leads to better decisions today. By maintaining a global network of experts and synthesizing their insights into accessible publications like the State of the Future reports and the 15 Global Challenges framework, the organization aims to inform policymakers, business leaders, and civil society about emerging threats and opportunities. Their approach to AI existential risk specifically centers on proactive international governance: they argue that it will take approximately ten years to develop AGI governance agreements, making immediate research and advocacy essential regardless of AGI timeline uncertainty. Through multi-stakeholder foresight studies and engagement with UN bodies, they seek to establish governance frameworks before AGI capabilities outpace regulatory capacity, reducing the risk of catastrophic outcomes from misaligned or uncontrolled artificial general intelligence.
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