PRISM is a non-profit helping to build the field of digital minds
We support research and educational initiatives preparing society for the challenges posed by AI consciousness, digital minds, and AI moral status.
Raising awareness. We communicate digital minds topics to non-expert audiences, encouraging thoughtful public engagement with the questions the field raises.
Developing talent. We help the field grow by identifying and developing exceptional people.
Convening the field. We create the spaces (events, workshops, and shared resources) where researchers and practitioners can connect and do their best work.
Exploring Machine Consciousness
Our podcast brings leading thinkers in philosophy, cognitive science, and AI to a curious general audience. Each episode explores pressing issues in digital minds and AI consciousness.
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Our work
We create the infrastructure a young field needs: helping newcomers orient themselves, and keeping researchers and practitioners connected and collaborating.
Beginner's Guide to Digital Minds
An accessible, in-depth guide for newcomers to the field of digital minds. It sets out structured reading across many of the key questions, alongside regularly updated lists of events and opportunities.
Digital Minds Newsletter
A quarterly newsletter following developments in digital minds research, policy, and public debate.
Digital Minds Fellowship
An intensive residential programme, run by Cambridge Digital Minds with Rethink Priorities and PRISM, for people who want to work on the technical and governance aspects of digital minds research. Participants work through the field's central debates and develop their own high-impact projects.
Neuromatch AI Sentience Scholarship
A six-month, part-time, remote programme supporting early-career researchers working on the science and ethics of AI minds. Run by Neuromatch with PRISM and partners, it pairs each scholar with a mentor for a funded research project alongside interdisciplinary training.
Digital Minds Online Course
A facilitated introductory course, running over eight weeks for a quarterly cohort of 100 participants, that provides an overview of the core concepts and debates in digital minds. The content can also be followed independently at any time on BlueDot Impact's website.
Expert Workshops
Regular workshops that bring the field's researchers together to sharpen thinking and seed new collaborations.
Partnerships
We build the field together, collaborating with researchers, institutes, and organisations advancing the science and ethics of digital minds.
The commitments that guide how we work.
Rigour. We promote the highest standards of inquiry and debate.
Humility. We hold our own views loosely, and take seriously the people who think we are wrong.
Compassion. We consider the wellbeing of every entity our work touches.
Moral seriousness. We treat the potential importance of our work with the gravity it requires.
Collaboration. We work to encourage conversation between diverse communities and perspectives.
Who we are
Meet the people behind our work.
Opportunities
If this resonates with you, there are several ways to take part in our work and join the community.
Trustee vacancy
We're seeking trustees to help steer PRISM's mission and growth. We're especially keen to hear from people with governance, research, or non-profit leadership experience who share our commitment to taking digital minds seriously.
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We're a small, growing non-profit scaling our research, operations, and communications. If you want to help build the field of digital minds research, we'd love to hear from you, whether or not there's a role currently advertised.
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