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Cognisom
Pioneering multi-scale cellular digital twins to understand and simulate the foundational building blocks of life — from protein folding to whole-cell dynamics.
Read the brief →Three programs.
One charter.
The Foundation’s Research arm works at the convergence of biological systems and artificial intelligence — and orients all of it toward the people that work is meant to reach.
Research is one of the Foundation’s two arms. The other is Programs — direct work in the world, led by the Catch-22 Project, which draws on this research without directing it.
The three
lines of inquiry.
Each program is led by an independent principal investigator, publishes open-access on a defined cadence, and operates under an ethics review with the authority to halt research.
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Cogs
Developing emotional-learning frameworks for humanoid robotics — empathy treated as a system property to design for — and the assistive, affect-aware tools that follow when machines built to read people are turned toward those most often misread.
Read the brief →III
AI Watch Lab
Building the liability tests and certification frameworks for the secure adoption of enterprise and agentic AI — and studying how those systems enter the workforce, so the people whose work they change are protected, not displaced.
Read the brief →If your research belongs in this charter, we want to hear from you.
The Foundation accepts proposals from independent investigators, academic labs, and consortia. Review cycles run twice yearly.