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Open source hardware, AI governance, and digital infrastructure for a resilient future. From emergency communication satellites to AI safety research to policy frameworks for responsible AI development.

Frontier models disagree with frontier model CEOs.

Technology & AI

Frontier models disagree with frontier model CEOs.

PolymerOS - Operating System Proposal

Security & Privacy

PolymerOS - Operating System Proposal

Good Ancestor has reviewed design proposals from several projects and individuals to build new experimental models of practical high security operating systems fit to operate in the AI era, as well as trusted hardware (see for example BAOChip), and formal verification of software. In particular operating systems with the security

Open-Source DIY Satellite Ground Stations

Technology & AI

Open-Source DIY Satellite Ground Stations

We are working on making it somewhat easier to contact a satellite from home, as we progress our own satellite base station design and instructions for contacting our experimental Emergency Communication Satellite Launched June 23, 2025 @ 2:19pm PST designed to broadcast when cell networks are down on LTE channel

Agriculture in the AI Era

Agriculture & Environment

Agriculture in the AI Era

As climate change, soil degradation, and fertilizer inputs challenge global food systems, the future of agriculture depends on scalable, efficient, and sustainable solutions. At the same time during periods of change and conflict, we need food systems are resilient, local, and robust for humans to stay free, autonomous and independent.

Can you imagine celebrating the upcoming end of the biosphere?

Technology & AI

Can you imagine celebrating the upcoming end of the biosphere?

Imagine contemplating the destruction of all the plants, animals, people, and things that we care about – And after that, still being self excited about your book launch? It doesn't make a lot of sense right? Ray Kurzweil correctly predicted and warned of the ascendence of thinking machines decades

AI Supply Chain Observatory Hackathon

Technology & AI

AI Supply Chain Observatory Hackathon

We participated in grantee AI Objective Institute's Supply Chain Observatory and it's extreme weather hackathon. Participating in this initiative is part of our AI and Critical Infrastructure project. We offered hackathon participants the opportunity to apply for small grants or collaborate with our related project: Emergency

Open 2 Debate plans AI debate

Democracy & Governance

Open 2 Debate plans AI debate

Grantee Open2Debate has an amazing set of public debates online on many topics, and they are expanding their debate focus on incoming AI topics. Their tagline is "Expert moderation. Good-faith arguments. Reasoned analysis." and we believe this is absolutely essential to a functioning democracy and society. We support

AI Insurance might be more important than you think

Technology & AI

AI Insurance might be more important than you think

Two of our board members are veterans in both AI and Insurance. A topic often not appreciated by the public and sometimes by regulators themselves is the power of the insurance industry to create helpful or harmful defacto regulation. For the last two years we have been researching the application

Where is our solar punk future?

Agriculture & Environment

Open Source Ecology and Open Building Institute - Open Solar

Many countries are in a housing costs crisis, which is rightly viewed as a building and permitting crisis. In regions like Tokyo, housing costs have fallen to match building costs. Open Source Ecology and the Open Building Institute have designed modular eco-compatible housing tools, including software, cad libraries, and designs

Open Source Hybrid Electric Vehicle Drivetrain

Technology & AI

Open Source Hybrid Electric Vehicle Drivetrain

Design goals Create, and assist in productizing open designs that reduce the cost and increases ease and desirability of retrofitting older vehicles with a plug-in electric vehicle with hybrid range extender compatible with the car's existing gas tank. This implementation will allow for the creation of a multi-fuel

"Talk to the City" achieves milestone

Democracy & Governance

"Talk to the City" achieves milestone

The best way to understand Talk to the city is to see it in use. It is an open source library that pulls a set of public conversations (from tweets to private surveys) and then analyzes, groups and digests them using LLMs to create a better form of comprehensible constituency

Human Rights Foundation - AI Program - 4th year and hiring

Rights & Reform

Human Rights Foundation - AI Program - 4th year and hiring

Good Ancestor is proud to announce it's 4th year of funding a group of AI fellows to attend the Oslo Freedom Forum in support of developing an AI program at the Human Rights Foundation. If you are an AI practitioner interested in attending please Contact us, our fellowship

Open Source Urban Housing for the Caribbean using Roman inspired design

Technology & AI Featured

Open Source Urban Housing for the Caribbean using Roman inspired design

The Roman empire in its peak glory had figured out a few things that modernity is still catching up on. Monuments such as the colliseum still stand because of special concrete that we only just now re-discovered how to make. They had also figured out a number of important important

The Archive - Digital Sovereignty Tools

Security & Privacy

The Archive - Digital Sovereignty Tools

AI and Critical Infrastructure

Technology & AI

AI and Critical Infrastructure

Emergency Communication Satellite Project

Paid-members only

Technology & AI

Emergency Communication Satellite Project

Leading AI Blog - 3rd year - 3.3m views

Technology & AI

Leading AI Blog - 3rd year - 3.3m views

Good Ancestor is proud to conclude its second year of full funding for the prominent blog "Don't worry about the vase" and announce its intent to fund the 3rd year, thanks to our generous donors. We believe Zvi's writing on current events and the

Emergency Communication Satellite Launched June 23, 2025 @ 2:19pm PST

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Emergency Communication Satellite Launched June 23, 2025 @ 2:19pm PST

Update: The satellite successfully Launched at ~2pm Monday June 23rd from Vandenburg Space Force Base via SpaceX on Transporter 14. You can find more details and watch it live here. See also wikipedia. Update 2: You can now track the satellite here. Good Ancestor is proud to announce the launch

Legacy Project Access

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Technology & AI

Legacy Project Access

Legacy Project - Send messages to the future

Technology & AI

Legacy Project - Send messages to the future

We are nearing the alpha release of the legacy project and seeking just a couple of friendly testers to give preliminary feedback for our roadmap. This project will allow you to send email, letters, and digital files to yourself and loved ones across time, or triggered on certain events and

Al Newsletter Alpha - Our Personal AI News Reader

Technology & AI

Al Newsletter Alpha - Our Personal AI News Reader

The Good Ancestor team has created a custom AI-based newsletter system which we hope to make available to others in our ecosystem, and we could use your help testing this tool. You must be signed up for our (free) newsletter here to get access in the coming weeks. The AI