Brad Templeton

Foresight Institute is a private company that focuses on the intersection of cryptography, security, and AI. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and was founded by Christine L. Peterson. The company explores areas based on technologies highlighted in Gaming the Future, such as how tools can help civilization cooperate and defend itself better, and how they can do both in light of AI. The company also has a Nanotechnology Roadmap that charts a path beginning with current nanotechnology capabilities. Foresight Institute holds an annual member festival called Vision Weekend, where they invite top talent across different fields. The company also holds a Crypto, Security, AI Workshop that explores opportunities for progress on beneficial futures. The CEO is Allison Duettmann.

Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc. provides legal and advocacy services. It offers free speech online, fight illegal surveillance, advocate for users and innovators, and support freedom-enhancing technologies. The company was founded by John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore in July 1990 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

BitTorrent, Inc. provides peer to peer file sharing platform. It offers digital content distribution solutions over the internet for peer-assisted content delivery platform to publish and download digital content quickly, easily and securely. The company was founded by Bram Cohen, Ashwin Navin, Ross Cohen and David Harrison in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.