Toronto · Established 2010
The future is innovated, not predicted.
A strategy innovation lab working to ensure the forces remaking human life are built on purpose rather than inherited.
The Center's current research
The First AI-Native Generation
A generation is coming of age inside a technology nobody has finished understanding. The Center is asking what sustained interaction with conversational AI does to cognition, identity, and agency, and publishing what it finds.
The report
Thirty to fifty pages on what the evidence supports, what it does not, and where the open questions are.
The policy brief
Six to ten pages for the people who write rules, written so they can act on it.
The framework
A developmentally responsible AI framework organizations can apply without a research team.
Our organization turns long-term questions into institutions that can carry them.
At CIF, we believe the forces remaking human life deserve more than commentary. Artificial intelligence and geopolitics move faster than the institutions meant to examine them. Most of the analysis that does exist is written for the people building the technology, not the people living with it. The Center builds and owns institutions that close that gap. It keeps them independent enough to say what they find.
Co-Existing with AI
The Center's program on what changes for people and organizations when the work starts being done alongside a machine. Convenings, published assessments, and private briefings for the people who have to act.
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The Center's press. An imprint for long-form arguments on the technologies and ideas changing what it means to be human.
Visit Mantic ›The Ayush Prakash Podcast
Long-form conversations with researchers, critics, and builders working at the edge of what is understood. The Center's public channel, and the origin of much of its other work.
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