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HQ Supervisor

The Lifeboat Foundation is looking to hire an HQ Supervisor. This individual will be trained by our president in Reno, Nevada USA and will be in charge of everything from financial paperwork to keeping our HQ (headquarters) clean.
 
The two main qualities that are being looked for are: 1) follow through 2) and a strong interest in “Safeguarding Humanity”.


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Lifeboat Foundation has launched the world’s FIRST bitcoin endowment fund. Learn more!


Our LifeShield Bunkers program now enables you to participate in a local LifeShield Bunker.


Read the Popular Science feature (that features the Lifeboat Foundation) After Earth: Why, Where, How, and When We Might Leave Our Home Planet.

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Latest News

Jun 10, 2018

Ankur Bargotra joins our blog team with the post What Is Cognitive Computing (How AI Will Think).

Jun 10, 2018

Juliian C’estMoi joins our blog team with the post Study proposes a new way to reverse the aging process.

Jun 9, 2018

Takayuki Sugano joins our blog team with the post MIT fed an AI data from Reddit, and now it thinks of nothing but murder.

Jun 9, 2018

Adriano Autino joins our blog team with the post Elon Musk responds to Boeing’s claim it will beat SpaceX to Mars: ‘Do it’.

Jun 5, 2018

René von Schomberg, who helped develop the current concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), joins our Ethics Board.

Jun 4, 2018

Dmitry Kaminskiy, Managing Partner at Deep Knowledge Ventures, joins our Business Board.

Jun 4, 2018

Adam Alonzi, Producer of Genius: The Series, joins our Media & Arts Board.

Jun 4, 2018

David Naor joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Read One drug could treat Alzheimer’s, MS, Crohn’s, and more.

Jun 4, 2018

Susan Oh, governing member of Blockchain For Impact at UN General Assembly, joins our New Money Systems Board.

Jun 4, 2018

Loïc Bardon, Cofounder of Paris Singularity, joins our Futurists Board.

Jun 2, 2018

Lorena Zapata, CEO of Infinity Media Marketing, joins our Media & Arts Board.

Jun 2, 2018

NASA-trained commercial astronaut Christopher Altman joins our Space Settlement Board.

Jun 2, 2018

Carol Rosin, Founder of Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space, joins our Ethics Board.

Jun 2, 2018

Sofiane Delloue, founder of New Life, joins our Business Board.

Jun 2, 2018

Tamsin Woolley-Barker, author of Teeming: How Superorganisms Work Together to Build Infinite Wealth on a Finite Planet, joins our Business Board.

May 31, 2018

Narenda Har joins our blog team with the post Pig brains kept alive without a body.

May 25, 2018

Read issue #190 of Lifeboat News!

May 18, 2018

Jonathan Nolan, co-creator of Westworld, says an interesting quote for our quotes page!

May 17, 2018

Sam Spencer, founder of Etiam Engineering, joins our Space Settlement Board.

May 17, 2018

Matt Kaeberlein, President of the American Aging Association, joins our Life Extension Board.

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Upcoming Events

AGI-18 will be held August 22–25 in Prague, Czech Republic. This conference gathers an international group of leading academic and industry researchers involved in scientific and engineering work aimed directly toward the goal of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
 
Our Joscha Bach, Antonio Chella, Haris Dindo, Stan Franklin, Ben Goertzel, Bill Hibbard, Marcus Hutter, Matthew Iklé, Garrett Katz, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, John Licato, Alexey Potapov, Rafal Rzepka, Ricardo Sanz, Leslie Smith, Bas Steunebrink, Claes Strannegård, Julian Togelius, Viktoras Veitas, Pei Wang, Roman Yampolskiy, and Byoung-Tak Zhang will be speaking/participating.
 
Learn more!

RAADfest 2018 will be held September 20–23 in San Diego, California. This is the largest event in the world where practical and cutting-edge methods to reverse aging are presented for all interest levels, from beginner to expert.
 
Our Bill Andrews, Michael Borkin, José Cordeiro, Greg Fahy, Bill Faloon, Aubrey de Grey, Terry Grossman, David Kekich, Randal Koene, Ray Kurzweil, Jim Mellon, Liz Parrish, Marco Ruggiero, Brad Thompson, Neal Van De Ree, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.
 
Learn more!

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Featured Stories

  • Watch some dancing robots (worth about $4 million in total) on our Videos page.

  • Philippe Van Nedervelde joins the Lifeboat 500, becoming one of a few special individuals and organizations to make a meaningful, but affordable commitment of the price of a cup of coffee a day, in order to help us grow!

  • Eiman Kanjo, who has developed a method for cyclists’ cellphones to be used to monitor air pollution, joins our Sustainability Board.

  • Our AIShield program is designed to protect against unfriendly AI (Artificial Intelligence).
     
    Why the first AGI is unlikely to be Friendly AI: Even if it was somehow possible with our primitive tools to design self-awareness into an AI, it is worth noting that the vast majority of AI under development is not being designed to be Friendly AI so we need to be prepared for the first AGI to not be inherently “friendly”.

  • Tyrone Steels II joins the Lifeboat 500, becoming one of a few special individuals and organizations to make a meaningful, but affordable commitment of the price of a cup of coffee a day, in order to help us grow!

  • Ebrima Ceesay of Booz Allen Hamilton, who consults on information security, forensics, data mining, and machine learning, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board.

  • Our Scientific Advisory Board completes our NanoShield program which provides solutions to ecophages and nonreplicating nanoweapons.

  • GREAT NEWS! We have raised our grant limit from $10,000 to $25,000.

  • Watch a Japanese simulation of what a large meteorite collision would look like.

  • We have launched a triple partnership that includes the Lifeboat Foundation, Nanotech-Now, and The American Journal of Bioethics.
     
    The column editor for this partnership is Summer Johnson, executive editor of The American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB).

  • Read 10 Futuristic Materials by Michael Anissimov.

  • Vera Mulyani, CEO of Mars City Design, joins our Space Settlement Board.

  • Steven J. Rose, who has discovered a method to turn light into matter, joins our Physics Board.

  • We have College classroom tested coursework available which was developed by Gary Scott Danford, Ph.D., University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

  • Learn that Moore’s Law has been replaced by a Virtual Moore’s Law that is accelerating and bringing the Singularity with it!