World Economic Forum
Founded in 1971 by Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swiss-based international organization whose mission is to improve the state of the world through multistakeholder engagement. It is best known for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which brings together approximately 3,000 leaders across industries and governments. On AI, the WEF operates the AI Governance Alliance — launched in 2023 with over 250 members from 200+ organizations — and its global Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) network, which focuses on responsible adoption of AI and frontier technologies across 24 countries.
Funding Details
- Annual Budget
- $469,000,000
- Monthly Burn Rate
- $39,083,333
- Current Runway
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- Funding Goal
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- Funding Raised to Date
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- Fiscal Sponsor
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Theory of Change
The WEF's theory of change for AI safety and governance is based on high-level multistakeholder convening and norm-setting. By gathering the world's most powerful business, government, and institutional leaders at forums like Davos and through bodies like the AI Governance Alliance, the WEF aims to build global consensus on responsible AI principles, governance frameworks, and standards before harms materialize at scale. The causal chain runs from elite dialogue and framework co-development, to adoption of shared standards by influential member organizations, to cascading policy and corporate adoption worldwide. On existential and catastrophic risk specifically, the WEF elevates these concerns in its Global Risks Report and through research on frontier AI governance, seeking to ensure that regulatory and industry frameworks anticipate systemic risks rather than responding after the fact.
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 9:51 PM UTC
- Created
- Mar 20, 2026, 2:35 AM UTC