Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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

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  We now have a quote by Garry Kasparov on our Quotes page.

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  Theoretical physicist-cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton, author of Birth of the Universe from the Multiverse, joins our Cosmology Board. Laura is particularly interested in the possibility of generating dark energy from transplanckian physics in string theory, gravity and quantum field theory in curved space, and higher-dimension braneworlds.

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  We now have quotes by Lord Martin Rees on our Quotes page. Martin was our Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award 2004 winner and is a member of our Scientific Advisory Board.

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  Listen to I am the very model of a Singularitarian by our Charlie Kam.

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  Now that our Scientific Advisory Board has reached an acceptable size, we are ready to fill out our staff and regular Board of Directors. The pay at this time won’t be high, but neither will your workload. Learn about our openings!

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  Watch Blue Beauty: Our Beautiful Earth.

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  Watch robot quadrotors perform the James Bond theme on our Videos page.

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  Read Singularities and Nightmares by David Brin.

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  We now have quotes by Ray Kurzweil on our Quotes page. Ray Kurzweil has donated more than $10,000 to the Lifeboat Foundation.

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  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”.

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  Read The Ultimate Right to Life Debate: Synthetic biologists know the meaning of life, but do they know the meaning of synthetic biology? by Alan H. Goldstein.

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  Dante S. Lauretta joins our Space Settlement Board.
   
  Dante is Principal Investigator of OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer), a NASA asteroid study and sample return mission.

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  Jaan Tallinn, cofounder of Skype, the only major IM client that both securely authenticates conversation participants and encrypts the communication, donates over $10,000 to Lifeboat Foundation.

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  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).