# Topos Institute Link: [The Topos Lab](https://topos.site/) Led by [[Brendan Fong]], [[David Spivak]], Tish Tanski ## About us > [!quote] The Topos Institute works to shape technology for public benefit by advancing sciences of connection and integration. Our goal is a world where the systems that surround us benefit us all. Our approach is two-fold: ## The plan of the institute for 2021-2024 [Strategic Plan // Topos Institute](https://topos.site/strategic-plan/) 1. Create a new mathematical systems science that rigorously addresses fundamental questions about the nature of communication, cooperation, and integrated cognition. 2. Deploy this science through building publicly-oriented tools including software and user interfaces, to create long-term, sustainable technology and social structures that provide a foundation for solving global problems such as safe AI or coordination around climate change. 3. Ensure public benefit from this new technology through anticipation and analysis of its societal impacts and through public engagement.