CFG's Advanced AI programme finds a new home

The Centre for Future Generations exists to help policymakers anticipate and govern rapid technological change. Over the past two years, we have built a substantial team and portfolio of work focused on Advanced AI, with a strong focus on European policy, digital sovereignty and institutional capacity for governing AI safely.

We are proud of what the team has achieved. In the last two years, CFG has become one of the leading voices on tech governance in Europe: with research cited in official EU strategies, regular private briefings to senior policymakers across European institutions and national governments, and high-level convenings.

AGI preparedness has moved from a niche concern to a mainstream priority across the European institutions — and a field that evolves at such incredible speed warrants its own dedicated institutional home. That’s why the CFG Board has decided to spin out the current Advanced AI portfolio of work into a new independent foundation – Arq – that will be led by Max Reddel.

Arq will be financially and operationally independent from CFG, but will continue the work begun here, expanding into new areas where the challenges posed by the most advanced AI systems meet broader questions of institutional readiness and societal resilience.

We wish them every success in their next chapter.

CFG will continue to work across the full range of emerging technologies – including AI, neurotech, biotech and climate interventions – ensuring that the tech we are building is used to meet the challenges of our time while protecting human life, autonomy rights and freedoms.