The future is innovated, not predicted.
The Center for Innovating the Future is a Toronto strategy innovation lab, established in 2010, working to ensure that the forces remaking human life, such as artificial intelligence and geopolitics, are built on purpose rather than inherited. We build the institutions that examine those forces in order to widen who gets a say in what they become.
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, and most of the analysis that does exist is written for the people building the technology rather than the people living with it. The Center builds and owns institutions that close that gap, and keeps them independent enough to say what they find.
Co-existing with AI
The Center's convening program, and its research and advocacy work. It brings together the people and institutions rethinking artificial intelligence and public life, and publishes scorecards, playbooks, and policy research. Canada is Edition One.
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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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