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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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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 reaction of the U.S. Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group (SSG) to meeting with experts from the Lifeboat Foundation.

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Latest News

Jul 14, 2018

Michael Greve, Founder of the Forever Healthy Foundation, joins our Life Extension Board.

Jul 13, 2018

Alida Draudt, coauthor of What the Foresight: Your personal futures explored. Defy the expected and define the preferred, joins our Futurists Board.

Jul 13, 2018

Alexandre Maurer, Vice President and Spokesperson of the French Transhumanist Association, joins our Futurists Board.

Jul 13, 2018

Ramón Risco Delgado, Founder of SafePreservation, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Jul 12, 2018

Blackbox is a group of PhDs, executives, and technologists formerly from Google, Apple, Intel, and other companies building the future of work. The cornerstone of their model is the unification of labor and capital to build a better system of work for all. Read more about their approach at http://blackboxfoundation.org.

Jul 10, 2018

Blue Frontiers, the company building the world’s first sustainable floating islands in French Polynesia, in collaboration with the Startup Societies Foundation, is holding a competition to encourage the creation of Special Economic Zones in different parts of the world that are interested in economic growth.
 
The winner will be awarded with $100,000 USD plus the possibility to become a partner in building a seastead in their home country. Nine additional proposals will win an all-expenses paid trip to the fully-operational floating pavilion in the Netherlands, built by Blue21, the architects of Blue Frontiers Floating Island Project.
 
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Jul 9, 2018

Alexandria Black joins our blog team with the post 2018 Drive to Stay Alive organized.

Jul 8, 2018

TransVision Madrid 2018 will be held October 19–21 in Madrid, Spain. Our Didier Coeurnelle, José Luis Cordeiro, Felipe Debasa, Rodolfo Goya, Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de Magalhães, Ben Goertzel, Charlie Kam, Jim Mellon, David Pearce, Anders Sandberg, Natasha Vita-More, and Ibon Zugasti will be speaking/participating.
 
This conference will cover concepts such as longevity extension, artificial inteliligence, human enhancement, and other technologies and future trends. Learn more!

Jul 7, 2018

31st Clinical Neuroscience and Neurogenetics Conference: Mobilizing Neurons to Rehabilitate will be held August 13–14, 2018 in Dubai, UAE. Our Howard Federoff and George Perry will be speaking. We are partners of this conference. Learn more!

Jul 7, 2018

Henrique Jorge, CEO of ETER9, joins our Robotics/AI Board. ETER9 is a social network that relies on artificial intelligence to create a virtual self that will publish, comment, and interact with you intelligently.

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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.
 
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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, Natasha Vita-More, and Jean Weidmann will be speaking/participating.
 
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TransVision Madrid 2018 will be held October 19–21 in Madrid, Spain. Our Didier Coeurnelle, José Luis Cordeiro, Felipe Debasa, Rodolfo Goya, Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de Magalhães, Ben Goertzel, Michael Greve, Charlie Kam, Alexandre Maurer, David Pearce, Ramón Risco Delgado, Anders Sandberg, Natasha Vita-More, and Ibon Zugasti will be speaking/participating.
 
This conference will cover concepts such as longevity extension, artificial inteliligence, human enhancement, and other technologies and future trends. Learn more!

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Featured Stories

  • 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”.

  • 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.

  • Read SHOUTING AT THE COSMOS…Or How SETI has Taken a Worrisome Turn Into Dangerous Territory by David Brin.

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

  • Read Human Body Version 2.0 by Ray Kurzweil.

  • Diana J. Muir, founder of the Hawking Institute and of the Personal Learning Center, International, joins our Education Board. With more than 14 years in online learning, Diana is considered one of the pioneers in the field of online education.

  • Sarah Marr, cofounder of the SENS Foundation, joins our Policy Board. Sarah’s extensive background includes everything from a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics to spending several years as a business and IT consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).

  • IBM, Microsoft, and Sun employees — learn how you can get your membership fees and donations to Lifeboat Foundation matched by your employer! (This includes retired IBM employees as well!)

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

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

  • Help us design Ark I — our fallback position in case programs such as our BioShield and NanoShield fail.

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

  • Courtney Boyd Myers, who put together a massive report for Forbes on the state of artificial intelligence, joins our Futurists Board.

  • Our LifeShield Bunkers program is a compliment to our Space Habitats program. It is a fallback position in case programs such as our BioShield and NanoShield fail globally or locally.

  • Bindeshwar Pathak, the great humanist and social reformer of contemporary India, joins our Sustainability Board. After Gandhi, Dr. Pathak is the man, more than any other in India, who has championed sanitation and upliftment of the untouchables as the mission of his life. For the last three decades he has been working relentlessly to keep the ecosystem clean and bring the marginalized sections of society in the mainstream.