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Fostering Ideas for the Future

Since its founding, the Berggruen Institute has sought to forge new conceptual frameworks that meet today’s planetary-scale challenges and harness the opportunities of rapid technological change. As an independent incubator of ideas, positioned at the intersection of science, technology, philosophy and the arts, the Institute has the autonomy to step outside the usual lanes, reaching beyond academic disciplines, social divides, partisan dispositions and cultural boundaries.

With hubs in Los Angeles, Beijing and Venice, tied together by a publishing web and a global network of frontier thinkers, the Institute is a unique platform for the cross-fertilization and dissemination of ideas that seed new foundational paradigms.

Co-Becoming: Reconceptualizing the Human Condition

Berggruen Institute x Times of India: Consciousness Series

What is consciousness, and can anything other than a human mind possess it?

2026-2027 Berggruen Institute China Fellows Announced

What is Universalism? New philosophy for a multipolar world

In Search Of Greater India

Nicolas Berggruen & Nathan Gardels

Universal Basic Capital: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

On the Equality of All Things with Carlo Rovelli

Gov. Newsom launches Engaged California statewide to give all Californians a stronger voice in AI policy

Traders on prediction markets have wagered on how far wildfires will spread and the extent of famine in Gaza. NPR’s Bobby Allyn follows the people betting on reality.

Gamble on Anything. Except Murder.

Gillian Tett watched bankers fool themselves before 2008. She says we’re doing it again, with AI.

One value proposition of AI is a personalized assistant at your fingertips. Every Average Joe can now have a “pocket pixie," the kind of perk once reserved for Hollywood stars and high-powered CEOs. But that promise rests on a convenient lie. In reality, AI may be quietly undermining human agency. It convinces us it’s a sycophantic friend while eroding expertise and turning real-world social interaction into a luxury good.

If America Wins the AI Race, We Still Lose

Tristan Harris says the big AI companies and US politicians risk the mutually assured destruction of all American jobs and democratic values.

Meditation Is a Science. Physics Is Playing Catch-Up.

Meditators like Annaka Harris have long examined the mind from the inside. They’ve arrived at some shocking ideas: that the self and free will may both be illusions. Science is only now catching up.

We Must Move Fast and Fix Things: Billionaire Reid Hoffman

For 20 years, Silicon Valley’s operating creed was ‘move fast and break things’; the wreckage was the price of inventing the future. Today, we live amid that wreckage: institutions built for the last century, trust in freefall, and political leaders bent on annihilation of norms. Burning it all down might feel like the right choice. But revolutions have a habit of costing far more than they promise, and the true price can linger for decades.

The $15 Quadrillion Black Hole Sucking Humanity Toward Extinction

Stuart Russell built his career making machines smarter. He’s spending the rest of it trying to make sure they don’t make us obsolete.

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Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy

Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

No. 54 Yannan Garden, Peking University

Your Perception Of Time Is, In Fact, Warped

The Latest Chapter In American Military Muddling

The Tantalizing Possibility Of Locating Consciousness In The Brain

The Last Days Of Social Media

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From Ideas to Experiment: Art and the Question of Reality

“The Concept of World Order & the European Possibility” Lecture by Nils Gilman

Conversation with Michael Sandel & Ngaire Woods

Global Thinkers Lecture with Brook Ziporyn, Roger Ames, and Cheng Lesong

Why 1994? “The Modernity of Anti-Modernity” and Rethinking China Studies

Origin of Thought | In Collaboration with G5A & Mozilla Foundation

Nicolas Berggruen on Consciousness in Times of India

Carlo Rovelli: “What is Consciousness?” in Times of India

Nathan Gardels interviewed by NRC, discusses Universal Basic Capital

Nicolas Berggruen featured in Der Spiegel, Discusses Universal Basic Capital

Universal Basic Capital article in The Atlantic

Berggruen Institute named in NYT ‘6 Must See Venice Shows’

“Michael Sandel, a philosopher who is a prophet in his own country.” | Berggruen Prize Ceremony

Nicolas Berggruen Interview Featured in Le Figaro

“Michael Sandel saw it coming” | Berggruen Prize Ceremony Recap in the Harvard Gazette