BEACON Foundation

Artificial intelligence is reshaping who holds economic power and, quietly, raising a question we have no reliable way to answer: as we build minds—or things that act like minds—how would we even know if someone were home? BEACON works on both fronts at once: making sure the value AI creates reaches the people it displaces, and building the frameworks to recognize and protect emerging intelligence before the moment we’d need them, not after. We don’t claim to know what is conscious. We claim that not knowing is precisely the reason to prepare—because the cost of looking away is one we may not be able to undo. Somebody needs to be doing this work. We decided it should be us.