The Archimedes Network is a group of security minded professionals who are concerned about existential and global catastrophic risk arising in conjunction with technology development. The Archimedes Network grew out of The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) at Oxford (2005-2024). As such it is meant to both extend and transcend FHI's mission and purpose.
The purpose of The Future of Humanity Institute was the study of humanity's future, Does it have one? Is extinction inevitable? What possible fates could befall humanity? Trans-humanism? Space colonization? Technological regression? Singularities? Singletons? Simulations? Other even stranger fates?
The preposition "of" in FHI's name implied a neutral unbiased examination of humanity's possible futures. That is where we, of the Archimedes Network wish to transcend the original mission of FHI. We are not unbiased; we most definitely want a future for humanity, and we want it to be a good one, even a grand one! Further, we acknowledge and accept that noone will provide humanity with that future; if it is to happen, then it must be a future by humanity... one we build ourselves.
Finally, we recognize that the defining property of humanity is the development of new technologies, and that any future humanity possesses must be invented rather than merely discovered. This is ultimately why we names ourselves "The Archimedes Network"... Archimedes is the first person in the historical record to implicitly recognize the existential nature of invention and technology when he, slightly paraphrased, wrote "Give me a big enough lever and a place to stand and I shall move the world". Technology development has always been a matter of Security.