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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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Learn about our 3 books.


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.


Our David Brin's new novel Existence mentions our many programs. Watch the trailer for this book.

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Latest News

Jan 18, 2019

David Houlding joins our blog team with the post Blockchain: 6 Key Ethical Considerations.

Jan 18, 2019

Adam Ford joins our blog team with the post The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine.

Jan 18, 2019

Caycee Dee Neely joins our blog team with the post NASA’s Technosignatures Report is Out. Every Way to Find Evidence of an Intelligent Civilization.

Jan 15, 2019

Morgan E. Levine, coauthor of An epigenetic biomarker of aging for lifespan and healthspan, joins our Life Extension Board.

Jan 15, 2019

Laura Forczyk, Executive Director of the Georgia Space Alliance, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Jan 15, 2019

James Hanusa, Cofounder of Digital Raign. joins our Media & Arts Board.

Jan 15, 2019

David Warmflash, who is authoring Moon: An Illustrated History: From Ancient Myths to the Colonies of Tomorrow, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Jan 15, 2019

Mark Koops, Regional Vice President at Oracle Communications Consulting, joins our Business Board.

Jan 13, 2019

David Mathison, CEO of the CDO Club, joins our Information Sciences Board.

Jan 13, 2019

David Houlding, Principal Healthcare Lead of the Microsoft Azure Industry Experiences Team, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Jan 10, 2019

The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
 
The 2018 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Jeff Bezos in recognition of his warnings about existential risks and his work on space exploration which will eventually improve the survival chances of humanity by having humanity being based in more than one location.
 
Learn more!

Jan 7, 2019

James Christian Smith joins our blog team with the post Engineers create an inhalable form of messenger RNA.

Jan 6, 2019

Brian Koberlein, creator of One Universe at a Time, joins our Cosmology Board.

Jan 6, 2019

Mike Gleaves, CTO of Arralis, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Jan 6, 2019

Manuel Serrano joins our Life Extension Board. Manuel is Cellular Plasticity and Disease group leader at the ICREA Aging and Metabolism unit.

Jan 5, 2019

Soodeh Farokhi, CTO of C2RO Cloud Robotics, joins our Robotics/AI Board.

Jan 5, 2019

Antonella Chadha Santuccione, CEO of the Women’s Brain Project, joins our Neuroscience Board.

Jan 5, 2019

William Grassie, founding executive director of the Metanexus Institute, joins our Philosophy Board.

Jan 5, 2019

Pete Bonasso joins our Robotics/AI Board. Read This HAL 9000-Inspired AI Simulation Kept Its Virtual Astronauts Alive.

Jan 5, 2019

Regina R. Monaco, Chief Scientific Officer at Brain Backups, joins our Neuroscience Board.

Jan 5, 2019

Nadja Bester, Marketing and Communications Specialist at Neco Finance, joins our New Money Systems Board.

Jan 5, 2019

Piero Messina, Senior Officer at European Space Agency HQ, joins our Space Settlement Board.

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Upcoming Events

The AAAI-19: Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held January 17–February 1 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
 
Our Peter Stone, Julian Togelius, Lyle Ungar, and Michael Witbrock will be speaking/participating. Learn more!

Undoing Aging 2019 will be held March 28-30 in Berlin, Germany. Our Julie K. Andersen, Dongsheng Cai, Judith Campisi, Aubrey de Grey, Michael Greve, Ruth Itzhaki, Graham Pawelec, Mikhail S. Shchepinov, and Manuel Serrano will be speaking/participating.
 
Undoing Aging 2019 is not only open to the scientific community but also welcomes all interested members of the broader rejuvenation movement. The conference will feature a student poster session showing the work of innovative undergraduate and graduate students in the field of damage repair. Learn more!

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Featured Stories

  • Become famous! Submit contributions to the Lifeboat Foundation endorsed Journals of Personal Cyberconsciousness and Geoethical Nanotechnology.

  • Read 10 Futuristic Materials by Michael Anissimov.

  • Our Scientific Advisory Board completes our BioShield program. The BioShield goals have been endorsed by U.S. Senator Bill Frist, Sun Cofounder Bill Joy, and Futurist-Inventor Ray Kurzweil!

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

  • Read our SecurityPreserver program! Learn how we can have technologically-enabled “radical reciprocal accountability” and transparency protecting us from existential risks through information!

  • Read Sir Arthur C. Clarke in 3001: Don’t Panic! which contains the Arthur C. Clarke interview by our José Luis Cordeiro.
     
    Arthur C. Clarke’s final novel, The Last Theorem, coauthored with our Frederik Pohl, was just released!

  • Having problems with suicide bombers, cyber hackers, and/or car bombs? Lifeboat Foundation has the solution! The Borg have joined our Counterterrorism Board! (This is worth a media mention!)

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

  • Read Jurisprudence of Artilects: Blueprint for a Synthetic Citizen by Frank W. Sudia, JD.

  • Jeannie Novak, founder of Indiespace — one of the first companies to promote and distribute interactive entertainment online, where she consults with creative professionals in the music, film, and television industries to help them migrate to the game industry, joins our Media & Arts Board.
     
    Jeannie was chosen as one of the 100 most influential people in high-technology by MicroTimes magazine — and she has been profiled by CNN, Billboard Magazine, Sundance Channel, Daily Variety, and the Los Angeles Times.

  • Jason Vaughn Clark, who created a monolithic comb drive nanomachine, joins our Engineering Board and Nanotechnology Board. This nanoscale motorized positioning device can be used in biological and engineering fields.

  • Aaron Balogun is one of our LinkedIn Managers. He is also Account Manager at Capitol Advantage and Director of Operations at Flanagan Consulting, LLC.

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

  • Watch Nokia Morph Concept. Morph is a concept demonstrating some of the possibilities nanotechnologies might enable in future communication devices.
     
    Morph can sense its environment, is energy harvesting, and self cleaning. Morph is a flexible two-piece device that can adapt its shape to different use modes. Nanotechnology enables us to have adaptive materials yet rigid forms on demand.

  • Watch our new Lifeboat Foundation Introduction Video!