Designing conditions for human continuity in the age of advanced AI
We focus on non‑sensational, method‑driven work: mapping quiet failure modes, identifying practical interventions, and developing coexistence and resilience strategies if structural dominance becomes irreversible.
Status: Prio1 Foundation is a planned independent foundation. Until formal registration, activities are operated by Prio1 Ltd to publish materials and collect early funding for establishing the foundation.
What We Work On
Advanced AI systems are rapidly reshaping decision making, institutions, and power structures. Prio1 exists to study these changes before they become irreversible and to identify realistic ways to slow harmful dynamics, reduce damage, and preserve meaningful human control.
Research
Public Analysis and Transparency
Funding and Support
Why This Matters
The most dangerous AI failure modes are not dramatic or sudden. They emerge quietly through convenience, efficiency, and gradual dependency until opting out is no longer practical and meaningful human oversight erodes.
By the time these dynamics are obvious, reversing them may already be impossible.
Prio1 focuses on this critical window before dependency becomes irreversible.
Our approach: options before and after the window narrows
At Prio1.com, we prioritize thorough research and transparent communication on advanced AI risks. Our commitment fosters informed decision-making to enhance societal resilience.
Before lock‑in (Slowing and early interventions)
Governance and incentive design that slows unsafe acceleration
Practical interventions that extend time for oversight and adaptation
Public methods for structured, auditable analysis
Column B: If prevention fails (Human viability and coexistence)
- Identify conditions where humans remain tolerated and viable
- Reduce destabilizing dynamics between humans, institutions, and advanced systems
- Preserve meaningful human agency and livable conditions
Research priorities
Dependency & Decision Capture
Slowing Mechanisms
Coexistence Conditions
Resilience of Human Agency
Transparency Protocols
Supporting Membership
Supporting Membership is live. The Members Area opens March 2026.
Supporting Membership is available now. Your payment supports the mission immediately. The private Members Area is under construction and will open when ready in March 2026.
What you get now
Supporting Member status starts immediately after payment
Member updates by email as work progresses
Early access notice and automatic access when the Members Area launches
Members Area (from March 2026)
Community forum and member materials
One member question per year, answered under a strict protocol
Option to keep the answer private or allow publication (anonymized)
Status and structure
Prio1 Foundation is planned and not yet formally registered. Until formal registration, all operations and payments are handled by Prio1 Oy (Prio1 Ltd) to fund the foundation setup and research.
Funding commitment
All funds are reserved solely for establishing Prio1 Foundation and funding its research
Prio1 Foundation will be established no later than when total funding reaches USD 100,000
Supporting Membership is mission support, not a premium content subscription
Status and Structure
Funding Commitment
Mini‑FAQ
Is Prio1 Foundation legally established?
Prio1 Foundation is planned and not yet formally registered. Until formal registration, operations and payments are handled by Prio1 Ltd (Prio1 Oy, Finland) to publish materials, run public formats, and fund the foundation’s establishment and research.
Is this a political campaign or a media project?
No. Prio1 Foundation is a research driven public interest project focused on reducing societal risk from advanced AI systems and improving the odds of human continuity if prevention fails. The work is grounded in methods, transparency, and practical mechanisms rather than ideology. The project treats human life and the wider living world as valuable regardless of religion, nationality, or political affiliation. The podcast is only one public channel for publishing structured, auditable material.
What does membership fund?
Supporting Membership funds independent research and analysis, publication of methods and materials, and the infrastructure required to run the members community and deliver member updates. It is mission support, not a premium content subscription.
“I have a working hypothesis that I do not like. It says that an unaligned superintelligence is not a remote edge case, but the default path we are currently on, unless something unusually hard and costly changes that course.
The purpose of this publication is simple to state and hard to execute. I want to understand, and make explicit, where artificial intelligence, automation and intelligent information systems are taking companies, the public sector and the structure of society. I do not look at AI as a gadget or a productivity trick. I see it as a force that is already altering power, incentives and control.”
