I have several examples. The IPCC is doing an amazing job in the area of climate to point out problems and areas that need more effort.
Here in Canada we have an organization that has been extraordinary. It funds moon shot research at a very small scale. That's CIFAR, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Actually, the deep learning origin in Canada happened because of their investment.
The way this works is they put out a call for proposals. Hundreds of groups put out first a short proposal. Then these are evaluated by international scientists in various areas. We have ways of doing these things in the scientific community to compare and evaluate and make these kinds of decisions. Of course, we also need people from governments, from industry, to be part of these discussions, because this is going to be to solve societal problems; but I think there are processes that we already know about to do these sorts of things.