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210 research institutes
Research InstituteCentre for Research Ethics and Bioethics (CRB), Uppsala University
Uppsala neuroethics center, formerly the Human Brain Project's neuroethics and philosophy team, that publishes on whether artificial consciousness is achievable.
Research InstituteCitadel Analytics (UK) Ltd.
Advanced research in air and missile defense.
Research InstituteColorado Center for Biorefining & Biofuels (C2B2)
Research InstituteConsciousness, Cognition and Computation Group (CO3), ULB
Axel Cleeremans' lab at the Universite libre de Bruxelles studying consciousness with neural network models, including the idea that systems learn to be conscious.
Research InstituteD.A.D.A. Research & Development Foundation
Ethical research and technology validation for societal impact.
Research InstituteEPFL Neuro X Institute
An interdisciplinary EPFL institute spanning neuroscience, neural engineering, neurotechnology, and neuroprosthetics.
Research InstituteFITT - Fondazione Innovazione e Trasferimento Tecnologico
Research InstituteForethought
Nonprofit research group studying how to navigate the transition to superintelligence, including moral questions about digital beings worthy of moral consideration.
Research InstituteFuture of Life Institute (AI personhood position)
AI risk nonprofit that argues against AI legal personhood and for treating AI as a product so accountability stays with developers.
Research InstituteFutureHouse
Builds AI systems for scientific discovery.
Research InstituteGalicia Biotechnology
Advancing biotechnology through innovative research.
Research InstituteGlobal Priorities Institute (GPI)
Former Oxford research institute that produced foundational work on digital minds, AI welfare, and the social science of digital minds.
Research InstituteGoogle DeepMind machine consciousness research
Research work at Google DeepMind on machine consciousness, human-AI relationships, and AGI readiness, including a dedicated philosopher role held by Henry Shevlin.
Research InstituteINS Labserve Co., Ltd.
Research InstituteIUK e.V. Mannheim
Research InstituteIdaho National Laboratory
United States national laboratory conducting power-grid research.
Research InstituteInstitut d'Innovations Politiques & Stratégiques en Afrique
Empowering African talent through research and innovation.
Research InstituteInstitute for Economic Innovation
Rewriting the rules of economics.
Research InstituteInstitute for Family Studies (AI personhood brief)
Family policy think tank that published an April 2026 brief arguing against extending personhood to AI systems.
Research InstituteInstitute for Law & AI (LawAI)
AI law and policy think tank with a Personhood and Sentience research focus area, including work on AI rights and legal duties for AI agents.
Research InstituteInstitute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)
Consciousness research nonprofit that dedicated its 2025 research prize to frameworks for conceiving of and assessing conscious AI.
Research InstituteInternational Center for Consciousness Studies (ICCS)
Italy-based center founded by Dmitry Volkov that runs annual conferences on mind, AI, and sentience and awards the Dennett Prize.
Research Institute
Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience (LSE)
LSE center on animal sentience whose director researches precaution for sentience candidates including AI, and which is developing an AI industry code of practice on animal welfare.
Research InstituteKI-Bewusstsein (Karsten Wendland)
German research and outreach project investigating the suspicion of emerging consciousness in artificial intelligence, with lectures, publications, and a podcast.
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