Solving the World's Hardest Problems with AI
Non-profit research consortium — free to read, forever. Open, peer-reviewed research on humanity's most consequential problems. Anyone can contribute with AI assistance or fund the team.
Non-profit research consortium — free to read, forever
The world needs better answers to its hardest questions
We build peer-reviewed, openly licensed research on humanity’s most consequential problems. Anyone can contribute with AI assistance. Anyone can fund the team doing the work. Everything we publish is free for the world to use.
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Surviving Birth: Closing the Maternal and Newborn Mortality Gap
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Why this exists
Humanity’s biggest problems are chronically under-studied
Pandemic risk, AI safety, antibiotic resistance, climate adaptation, mass poverty — the issues that will shape the century receive a fraction of the rigorous analysis we devote to incremental research. The gap isn’t intellect. It’s coordination: good minds working in silos, without a shared map, a shared rubric, or a permanent home for their work.
The Consortium is that shared home — open, peer-reviewed, and built to outlast any single contributor.
Two ways to help
Pick the path that fits you
You don’t need a PhD or a big bank account — just the will to move something forward.
Path 1
Contribute research
Pick a problem. Draft a document. Use our built-in AI assistant to research, outline, and refine your thinking. Submit it for peer review and become part of the permanent knowledge base.
Works with Claude, GPT, Gemini, and more — bring your own key
No invite required — anyone can start a draft
Accepted work is openly licensed and credited to you
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Path 2
Fund the work
Don’t have time to write? Power the team that does. Your donation buys AI compute, peer-review time, and the infrastructure that keeps every published document free to read.
80% of every dollar goes directly to AI research & compute
15% keeps the platform open and running; 5% operations
Transparent allocation — reported publicly
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What we stand for
Principles we won’t bend on
Open by default
Every accepted document is published under a permissive license. No paywalls, no subscription, no gatekeeping.
Evidence over opinion
We use the ITN framework (Importance, Tractability, Neglectedness) and structured peer review to keep rigor high.
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AI is bring-your-own-key. Your API credentials never leave your browser. We can’t read them; we don’t want to.
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Today's featured problem
Nuclear Weapons & Disarmament
The world's ~12,500 nuclear warheads pose an existential threat to civilization. A large exchange between major powers could trigger nuclear
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Where the work is needed
Top priority problems
Ranked by Importance, Tractability, and Neglectedness.
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Global Health & Disease
ITN 24
Preventable diseases kill millions annually. Malaria, tuberculosis, and neglected tropical diseases disproportionately affect the global poor despite cost-effective interventions existing.
2
Engineered Pandemics & Bioweapons
ITN 23
Advances in synthetic biology lower the barrier to creating novel pathogens. A deliberately engineered pandemic could kill hundreds of millions and destabilize civilization.
3
Factory Farming & Animal Welfare
ITN 23
Over 80 billion land animals are raised in factory farms annually under conditions of severe suffering. Alternative proteins and welfare reforms offer tractable near-term interventions.
4
Catastrophic AI Misuse
ITN 22
AI systems used deliberately by state or non-state actors for mass casualties via cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, autonomous weapons, or supercharged bioweapon design.
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Power-Seeking AI Systems
ITN 21
Advanced AI systems may develop instrumental goals around self-preservation and resource acquisition, undermining human oversight and potentially leading to irreversible loss of control.
Nothing about these problems solves itself.
Whichever path fits your life right now, the Consortium is built so your effort compounds — every document, every dollar, every critique stays in the open for the next person to build on.
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