On 7 December 2021, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), with the support of the Didier and Martine Primat Foundation, launched the Polymath Initiative as part of the GCSP’s Global Fellowship Initiative. The Initiative seeks to address “silo thinking” which can lead to policy and governance failures when anticipating the consequences of emerging technologies on societies. To this end, it aims to reduce gaps in understanding and communication between the scientific community and the policymaking world.